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United States12607 Posts
CBNC
 Calm - please see my comment here.
HoGiL is actually Thezerg's stiffest competition for the 10-spot. He's come out of nowhere to go 5-1 in PL R4 including wins over Fantasy (who played a silly game) and Thezerg himself. Unfortunately, outside of those two huge games for Hite, Hogil hasn't had any trying opponents. Unlike Thezerg, he's also had the luxury of splitting Proleague duties with another decent Zerg. If Hogil gives us a good show in the OSL Ro36, though, he may be on his way to a spot in next month's PR.
GoRush and  Casy survived OSL Offline Qualifiers and have been ACE's two most solid contributors in R4, but neither has done anything spectacular (in all fairness, GoRush did look like he was on his way to losing to BackHo in the OSL). Casy has a great shot at the OSL Ro16, but I can't credit him for matches that haven't been played yet. The funny thing about ACE is that their recent ascendance to mediocrity has truly been a team effort. Everyone's sitting at 60% winrates, and it's impossible to single out any one player who has been carrying the team (GoRush seems to me to be the secret ingredient, though). Also, for all their 3-1 wins in PL, I still just don't think ACE's players stack up against the best of the best in individual play.
by.great is Samsung's best player. W-w-w-w-whaaat? It's only too bad KHAN is playing so poorly right now, even their ace isn't good enough for PR.
BaBy has shown us some excellent games in GOM (especially against JangBi) and is beginning to make more appearances in WeMade's lineups, but he still has a whole lot of that "I'm a talented, but mechanically and strategically unrefined player" about him. If you need to know what I'm talking about, just watch the 2set of him vs. Modesty at GOM. Losing that game was pretty pathetic.
Canata beat sKyHigh to land in the OSL Ro36 and 2-1d his MST group. He's also back in T1's lineup for week 6 of R4 (over BeSt). Canata is playing pretty well lately (albeit in his "boring" style), but if a significant portion of your recent games are against RorO...you are not PR-worthy.
 Shuttle is having a quite successful spring, but, like Canata, he doesn't have enough recent games under his belt to belong here. I wish STX would send him out more often in PL — he looked on point against Bisu on Neo Medusa. YoonJoong has a nontrivial chance of upsetting Flash in his OSL Ro36 group.
JangBi, Luxury, Stork, and by.hero: what happened to these guys? They're not close, I'm just mentioning them to point out they've all fallen off the face of the earth in one way or another since their appearances in last month's PR. Luxury is 0-5 in ZvZ in R4...what the hell is going on. And I feel you by.hero fantasy owners, your boy apparently isn't good enough to play for STX in PL (or beat his helpless teammate Kal in GOM).
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Valhalla18444 Posts
YEP
mad props to JWD for stepping up to bat
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LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
KESPA LOL LOL LOL
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United States11390 Posts
The SKT fanboyism doesn't show.
At all.
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...... ya bad I don't mean to troll but I disagree with almost all of your placings, I think that a lot of these players should be on here but def switched around a bit
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While I find the Zero above Jaedong move a little ballsy I like this rank far better than last months, great job JWD!
Edit: btw Kespa needs its own tlpd page seriously its had more wins than jangbi in the past month.
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United States12607 Posts
On May 15 2009 12:14 Harem wrote:
The SKT fanboyism doesn't show.
At all.
T1 is destroying the Proleague, and this ranking is substantially based on Proleague games. What do you expect? I made a conscious effort to avoid letting my fandom sneak into this rank - if you can point out specific problems with my rank, by all means! But I think a blanket statement about "T1 bias" isn't really productive. Honestly, show me the players that are better than Bisu/Fantasy right now, or read CBNC and find someone who deserves the 10-slot more than Thezerg.
I've got to run out for a few hours, but I'll be back to defend my rank shortly!
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GAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA KESPA
I seriously laughed out loud for 15 minutes there.
You win, JWD.
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No Firefist in CBNC? He's up 1-0 on KeSPA.
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Who got that image for Kespa up there hahaha
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I approve putting Kespa in to the Power Rank.
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United States13896 Posts
Thezerg ... no. Just no. Most overrated, overhyped Zerg right now. And there's a lot of them to.
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lol at Kespa but seriously, Zero above Jaedong? What were you thinking? Zero using infested was cool, it was new, but not something difficult and definately not something the #1 Zerg cannot pull off. Ok, I admit him beating Kal, Luxury, Lomo was an achievement but beating the other scrubs is not impressive.
I agree with Bisu #1 though. He deserves it. I'm ready to call him the first Protoss bonjwa
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lol at Kespa. yeah bisu #1 again 
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I don't like the idea of Zero above Jaedong. I mean, Bisu made Zero look like a noob when he played him. Not to mention OSL finals weren't all that long ago.
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disagree with all... -.-
Bisu First its ok, but fantasy number 2???
look at JD and Fantasy last 10 games...
imo:
1 bisu
2 jd (close to bisu)
3 fantasy
4 zero
5 effort
6 leta
7 flash
8 skyhigh
9 dnt know
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I agree with mostly everything on the list. I didn't expect to see Thezerg in the 10th spot, but you're right about there not being someone who clearly fits in there.
KeSPA is a definitely a formidable opponent. I doubt that any of these players can stop KeSPA by himself alone. I mean in every game that KeSPA has claimed, the victim made a very tiny mistake which KeSPA immediately capitalized on without hesitation or mercy. I don't see anything stopping KeSPA from reaching the #1 spot next month unless it stops itself.
Great writeup
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LOL at Kespa, but I really think Great should be number 10. He's been Khan's strongest player and came up with a ingenious build to beat both Free and Bisu. I would put him at 10 just because he has had harder competition than TheZerg.
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Look how happy KeSPA looks in his photo... That's the mark of a true winner. Someone who really enjoys doing what he does.
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EPT
