EPTI'm watching a lot of GSL and recently they are talking about players reaching S class status. Can someone explain to me what is the deal? Is it when they reach Ro8 or has it another meaning?
What's the meaning of 'S class'?
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ThirtyFive
Canada31 Posts
I'm watching a lot of GSL and recently they are talking about players reaching S class status. Can someone explain to me what is the deal? Is it when they reach Ro8 or has it another meaning? | ||
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Belligerent
United States46 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Lascero
United States59 Posts
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mprs
Canada2933 Posts
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Jakalo
Latvia2350 Posts
Basically that means you are really really good. | ||
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Azzur
Australia6267 Posts
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R0YAL
United States1768 Posts
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Adeeler
United Kingdom764 Posts
On October 30 2010 13:26 skyR wrote: Means they're going to be seeded for the 2011 tournaments. 99% its this otherwise there would be no point. The open qualifications mean top players will get cheesed out allowing weak players through for all of 1 or 2 rounds. Also if the top koreans want corporate sponsership and eventual leagues and so they don't want to play in the open qualifications(cos they can lose like scrubs to scrubs) which is in tune with what blizz/gretech wants in the longer term in terms of revenue opportunities for them. BTW, season 1 & 2 Gretech made a killing on subscriptions about $2 million in season 1 alone I heard already so they are completely secure for the longer term as they are minting money now. | ||
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Niick
Australia426 Posts
GSL 1 - 3 are seeding tournaments to place players into groups (class S, class A) and in 2011, these players will play in the GSL tournaments (with more oppurtunities for the class S players and so on, thus more money / stability (hence why players reaching the top 8 (which gets you a spot in Class S) are saying things like "I'm just glad to reach class S" as they know they have a career in sc2! | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
From what I understand, rankings of SABCDE are pretty common in East Asia (Japan more so than the other 2?). BW isn't the only one to use it. To my knowledge, that's where the special S-rank that is higher than A-rank comes from. What's the story on it? | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On October 30 2010 13:26 skyR wrote: Means they're going to be seeded for the 2011 tournaments. yup that is correct. Idra only has 1 more chance to get Code S hope he can do it in GSL 3  | ||
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KiLL_ORdeR
United States1518 Posts
On October 30 2010 13:55 andrewlt wrote: I'm curious to where and how this ranking system originated. I tried searching it on Google, but it's pretty hard to search for one letter terms. From what I understand, rankings of SABCDE are pretty common in East Asia. BW isn't the only one to use it. To my knowledge, that's where the special S-rank that is higher than A-rank comes from. What's the story on it? It just comes from BW. B-class were the bottom 75% or so of progamers, A-class were the 4/5 starters per team, S-class were the superstars, top 16 or so in the world, give or take, who were their teams aces and had the chance to win starleagues and a shitload of money. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On October 30 2010 13:57 blade55555 wrote: yup that is correct. Idra only has 1 more chance to get Code S hope he can do it in GSL 3 That's incorrect. There's a very high chance that he has secured his spot as a Code S player. Everyone that has reached quarter finals will be Code S players meaning a total of 24 players from the three tournaments. So that leaves 8 (or more due to people getting to quarter finals more than once) spots that goes to players with the highest points. See this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=164582 | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On October 30 2010 14:01 KiLL_ORdeR wrote: It just comes from BW. B-class were the bottom 75% or so of progamers, A-class were the 4/5 starters per team, S-class were the superstars, top 16 or so in the world, give or take, who were their teams aces and had the chance to win starleagues and a shitload of money. No, this ranking system is used all the time in anime, console videogames and even some Japanese universities. It's really SABCDF, like the US grading system except they have an additional S-rank. BW isn't the only one to use it. I'm really curious where the "S"-rank that is higher than "A" came from. | ||
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kirbynator
Canada503 Posts
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
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MiyaviTeddy
Canada697 Posts
basically | ||
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Ocedic
United States1808 Posts
On October 30 2010 14:17 andrewlt wrote: Even in Japanese? Especially in Japanese. I play SSF4 and S rank is commonly superior to A rank in fighting games. When people talk about character tiers S tier is above A tier as well. | ||
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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
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