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SC2 Power Rank - December 2013 - Page 10

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Random_0
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1163 Posts
December 04 2013 02:09 GMT
#181
I have to think that sOs or Dear would take out Taeja in a Bo5 or Bo7 series. Somehow he always looks overwhelmed taking on the very top Protoss players.
Derez
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Netherlands6068 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-04 02:25:54
December 04 2013 02:22 GMT
#182
On December 04 2013 10:11 Darkhoarse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 10:09 Assirra wrote:
On December 04 2013 09:50 Darkhoarse wrote:
On December 04 2013 09:46 shadymmj wrote:
talk about biased, #1 was practically a no-show in the WCS finals, which is really the tournament that matters.

So sOs should be rank 1 even though he is in Code A, just lost the Red Bull Battlegrounds, and also placed 9-12 at DH Winter?

There should have been one in october or november tough With the WCS season finals and BLizzcon yet for some mysterious reason it aint there and the one before that Taeja just happened to climbed 4 spots. hmm.

What the hell is the point in doing a power rank right after a world finals? Everyone would just expect you to put the players in order of their finish in the most recent tournament.

Taking the DH championship finals as the benchmark is much better instead.

Life doesn't deserve top 5 in any way based on his play over the last year, JD should gtfo until he wins something, taeja should try to compete in a KR tournament. Can we just copy the top 8 from WCS KR into powerrank please?

(At least polt is out of the power rank now, I'll try to console myself with that)
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23580 Posts
December 04 2013 02:27 GMT
#183
We had as discussion about the top zergs in the DHW LR thread. Glad the poweranking agrees with me. Gogo Life, Soulkey, Jaedong, they are incredible!

And Taeja is just too good right now, nerf please!
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
althaz
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia1001 Posts
December 04 2013 02:30 GMT
#184
On December 04 2013 07:05 Assirra wrote:
This is so hilariously biassed.
Not by putting Taeja on number one, but for some reason power rank pops up right at the time when Taeja is number 1.
What a funny coincidence.

Agreed. It's not even getting close to the end of the year and none of the major tournaments have finished for the year.

Oh...wait...
The first rule we don't talk about race conditions. of race conditions is
Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
December 04 2013 02:31 GMT
#185
On December 04 2013 11:30 althaz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 07:05 Assirra wrote:
This is so hilariously biassed.
Not by putting Taeja on number one, but for some reason power rank pops up right at the time when Taeja is number 1.
What a funny coincidence.

Agreed. It's not even getting close to the end of the year and none of the major tournaments have finished for the year.

Oh...wait...

Lawyered.
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Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
December 04 2013 02:33 GMT
#186
On December 04 2013 11:30 althaz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2013 07:05 Assirra wrote:
This is so hilariously biassed.
Not by putting Taeja on number one, but for some reason power rank pops up right at the time when Taeja is number 1.
What a funny coincidence.

Agreed. It's not even getting close to the end of the year and none of the major tournaments have finished for the year.

Oh...wait...

well there's two more in like a day lol
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VisonKai
Profile Joined May 2012
United States2203 Posts
December 04 2013 03:10 GMT
#187
Fuck yeah, Life returns.

Everyone's just relieved that he was taking a vacation this year, otherwise he would be winning hot6ix cup.
-niL
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada1131 Posts
December 04 2013 03:16 GMT
#188
Year of TaeJa!
pure.Wasted
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada4701 Posts
December 04 2013 03:18 GMT
#189
On December 04 2013 09:46 painkilla wrote:
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On December 04 2013 09:39 Elitios wrote:
Great read!

I don't see why people are complaining though. They argue that the quantity of wins doesn't make up for the lack of quality, but everyone knows that a power rank can't be based off such a vague and subjective feeling. (and also the competition in DH was without a doubt code S level.)

This ranking is very accurate imo.


At DH, the terran lineup was kinda code S (lacking Bomber, Maru, Jakji), zerg lineup was code A, protoss lineup was code B. No foreign tournament will ever be half as stacked as code S.


And none of that actually matters because out of his 9 games, Taeja only faced one of those Code A opponents, SjoW. Code A players accidentally get into Code S all the time, see Swagger, PigBaby, Shine, the list goes on. Nothing new there.

The rest of his competition was Code S level, and he played 9 matches to the Code S equivalent of 7. The other 10 players in the tournament might as well not have existed so far as we're concerned.
INna Maru-da-FanTa, Bbaby, TY Dream that I'm Flashing you
Baadbeat
Profile Joined June 2011
France203 Posts
December 04 2013 03:53 GMT
#190
The powerrank is overall pretty good imo, but I do agree that the players that only played in korean tournaments are for the most a bit too low on the PR, since they have shown incredible skill in the most prestigious, stacked and thus the hardest tournaments in the world (WCS KR, GSL, OSL). Taeja is not the only player to have been consistent as of lately, Dear, Soulkey and Maru have been showing consistent results in Korean tournaments, which Taeja has been avoiding. Therefore I think that Taeja should not be No 1, even though I can understand it due to his regularity (aligulac regularity record).
PsyRex666
Profile Joined February 2013
United States5 Posts
December 04 2013 04:26 GMT
#191
On December 04 2013 06:19 Noam wrote:
Jaedong #1 Zerg.


You mean #2, right?
Prince_Stranger
Profile Joined November 2010
Kazakhstan762 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-04 05:34:21
December 04 2013 05:13 GMT
#192
"To all eSports fans, I want to be remembered as a progamer who can make something out of nothing, and someone who always does his best. I think that is the right way of living, and I'm always doing my best to follow that." - Jaedong
fronkschnonk
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany622 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-04 05:41:36
December 04 2013 05:39 GMT
#193
Yeah - it's back

I have to disagree at some points.
Innovation has been beaten by Supernova and Crank at DH Bucharest, and not only beaten, but stomped by Taeja.
At GSL by DRG, Jjakji and soO, he lost to duckdeock at Blizzcon (!) in the first round and at DH Winter not only to Taeja, but also to Patience, ForGG and Life. He showed good results in teamleagues but only against average korean players while losing to some Foreigners.
Despite Bombers lack of appearances lately and his repeated fall to Scarlett I value his Blizzcon performance higher than anything that Innovation has done since the last powerrank - also Bomber only lost to top10-contenders since GSL. So, I'd rather kick innovation out of the top10 and give Bomber (or someone else) 10th place.

Also I think, Jaedong got pretty lucky in Grids and is way overrated. Apart from his Blizzcon performance he didn't have impressive runs since september - it's enough for the top10 but only for the bottom of them.
His results since the last powerrank:
IEM NY: failed to qualify (out after losses against zest and first)
DH Bucharest: Ro16 (out against sOs)
WCS AM: Semifinal (out against Byul)
WCS Season 3 Finals: last in his group after losing to MMA and Genius with a 1-4 record
Red Bull NY: failed to qualify (1st try: out against apocalypse; 2nd try:out against Suhosin; 3rd try: out against Gamja...who?)
WCS global finals: impressive winning streak against MVP, Dear and Maru but stomped 1-4 by sOs in the finals (like he got stomped in almost every finals he took part this year)
Dreamhack Winter: topping his relatively weak group and then no win in the Playoffs (losses against Innovation an JYP)

As I said: Without his run at Blizzcon he couldn't be considered top10 material.

Furthermore, I consider that some kind of Code A must be reestablished.
Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
December 04 2013 06:13 GMT
#194
C'mon Flash you need to come back bro! -.- ....with a vengeance.
(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ~Keep calm and inject Larva~
LockeTazeline
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
2390 Posts
December 04 2013 06:28 GMT
#195
Yes, Power Rank! My favourite TL article.
GumBa
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United Kingdom31935 Posts
December 04 2013 06:32 GMT
#196
Inno needs to be higher and swap MMA with herO no bias
To all the haters: you deserve to witness many, many more Serral victories, worthy of the godlike player he is.
F u r u y a
Profile Joined August 2010
Brazil173 Posts
December 04 2013 06:50 GMT
#197
Just posting to say that I really liked this beautiful description of Life:
His zergling micro makes it seem like they are an extension of his body, responding directly to his brainwaves.
GreenFate
Profile Joined March 2011
France289 Posts
December 04 2013 06:57 GMT
#198
I disagree with a first place for Taeja who only won foreign events + played against few of the 9 other guys from this top rank
BlueStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Bulgaria1177 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-04 07:40:50
December 04 2013 07:10 GMT
#199
On December 04 2013 06:33 ptbl wrote:
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On December 04 2013 06:23 BlueStar wrote:
taeja... are you kidding me? lol
This boy won one tourney and now #1 - this is ridiculous. You had to set herO as 2nd...


This is either a troll post or you don't follow the sc2 scene closely. Taeja has won more than one tourney.


And what so much has Taeja won the last month? GSL? WCS? WCG? Something else competing among the Koreans in top shape?... not just fighting silly foreigners and exhausted koreans who had won more money in one tournament than what Taeja had won over his entire carrier?
Get real.

For me the best player right now with his current results is Dear, followed by the amazing play of JaeDong. And after that you can place maru, soulkey, parting, taeja, sos and the rest.
Leader of the Bulgarian National SCBW/SC2 team and team pSi.SCBW/SC2
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
December 04 2013 07:18 GMT
#200
Not agreeing on #10 and #3.
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