EPTSC2 Power Rank - December 2013 - Page 11
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eurTsItniH
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45923 Posts
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LongShot27
United States2084 Posts
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Qwerty85
Croatia5536 Posts
I mean, we had Inno as #1 even when Soulkey beat him in the finals, so I think JD deserves to be #3 and sOs #4. | ||
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
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NicksonReyes
Philippines4431 Posts
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LongShot27
United States2084 Posts
On December 04 2013 17:18 NicksonReyes wrote: I agree to those who say Dear > Taeja. If Dear takes the Hot6ix cup I think he'll be #1 without argument | ||
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Rascandrius
Denmark32 Posts
Taeja is great, he won stuff but he hasn't won a single WCS tournament this year, Dear won back to back WCS tournaments and at the same time was a royal roader, how is he not #1 ? Besides you can discount DH bucharest and HSC as "tournaments" since they do not have NEARLY the same representation of skill as a WCS Korea. I give up on this PowerRanking.... I had my hopes up but this is just silly !!! | ||
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Nightwishone
Italy391 Posts
On December 04 2013 06:56 Grovbolle wrote: To be fair, with the inflation in ratings naturally occuring (just look at chess) it becomes hard to compare ratings over long periods of time. Not saying that TaeJa isn't dominating, just that you can't necessarily say that 2013 TaeJa is better than 2011-someone I agree with you, but at the present moment we're not comparing him to MVP's peak or MMA's days of glory. It would be interesting to have an accurate rating for these things though. | ||
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Nightwishone
Italy391 Posts
On December 04 2013 17:30 Rascandrius wrote: I can't tell if TL is biased or if they're just trolling with this PowerRanking.... Taeja is great, he won stuff but he hasn't won a single WCS tournament this year, Dear won back to back WCS tournaments and at the same time was a royal roader, how is he not #1 ? Besides you can discount DH bucharest and HSC as "tournaments" since they do not have NEARLY the same representation of skill as a WCS Korea. I give up on this PowerRanking.... I had my hopes up but this is just silly !!! DH Bucharest was called one of the most stacked tournaments ever at the time. I didn't think it was accurate, but still, you can't discount it as a secondary tournament. Also, WCS Korea lacked TaeJa, Jaedong, HerO, Polt, MVP, and duckdeok (he's not the best but still good enough to beat Innovation). | ||
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Deleted User 137586
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Kasaraki
Denmark7115 Posts
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Daswollvieh
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xAdra
Singapore1858 Posts
On December 04 2013 17:30 Rascandrius wrote: I give up on this PowerRanking.... I had my hopes up but this is just silly !!! I don't understand this kind of attitude- the power rank is written with lots of effort by TL writers as a means of showing how they would rank Sc2 players, not as some sort of community magazine piece meant to appease readers. In short, it's not here to please you and satisfy and fanboyism/anti-fanboyism you may have. It's just a rough approximation of who is the best at the given moment. If you don't like it you are free to write your own monthly power ranks and post them in the blogs section. I think the #1 and #2 spots can be interchanged but otherwise good power rank. | ||
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Mirrikh
Romania105 Posts
I would argue that winning foreign weekend events doesn't make you best player in the world. | ||
fronkschnonk
Germany622 Posts
But WCS events weren't that meaningful apart from the season and global finals. In the season finals he didn't take part due to his short "slump" in octobre. And at Blizzcon he couldn't show anything after losing to the absolute favourite in the first round: Dear (who would've won Blizzcon imo if Jaedong weren't so hysterically pushed by the audience). Taeja clearly wasn't in best state in octobre as we could see from his emotionless win of HSC, his depressing interview and his timid statements at Dreamhack Winter. But with the win of HSC he seems to have gotten fresh motivation which lead into very much skill at Dreamhack. To call the Dreamhack Bucharest and Winter not comparable to high korean competition can be read as an insult to following players who were beaten by Taeja: Avenge, Symbol, sOs(x2), Life(x3), Innovation(x2), HerO and MMA One can imagine Dear or perhaps soulkey being in first place of the power rank instead of Taeja but Taeja is clearly a contender for this honour. But I can't understand why someone would see them so insistent in that place before Taeja. Soulkey stomped Naniwa before getting stomped by Bomber at Blizzcon and ripped only through foreigners at WCG but he was impressive at WCS Season 3 Finals and did pretty ok at WCS Korea (for his standards). Dear dominated WCS Korea and the Season Final but where beaten by a still struggeling Jaedong. Apart from that we didn't see anything of dear but his disappointing performance in GSTL. Also we should blame Blizzard for the single elimination Bracket at Blizzcon  | ||
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elderamy
Portugal17 Posts
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Aeroplaneoverthesea
United Kingdom1977 Posts
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Aeroplaneoverthesea
United Kingdom1977 Posts
On December 04 2013 09:50 Darkhoarse wrote: 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? Yes because Blizzcon is fucking Blizzcon. It doesn't mean shit than Zidane could never be arsed to play away games against Osasuna or Real Sociedad because he was the best player in the world by miles in world and european finals. | ||
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Dundron2000
Sweden1140 Posts
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