EPTCommunity Power Rank v2: BlizzCon Edition - Page 7
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Cricketer12
United States13996 Posts
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Excellentee
11 Posts
2. INnoVation 3. Byul 4. Classic 5. Maru 6. Zest 7. Rogue 8. Rain 9. Life 10. Dream 11. sOs 12. PartinG 13. Hydra 14. Fantasy 15. Lilbow 16. Polt | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On October 21 2015 04:42 The_Red_Viper wrote: I want MORE lists, because of this i will give you guys ONE more week to post here. On October 21 2015 04:44 Cricketer12 wrote: lol max 5 more lists will be posted I hope not, but releasing the final list close before blizzcon starts is way better regardless | ||
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Silvana
3713 Posts
And I don't want to do a joke rank like those who don't have Zest as #1  | ||
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Penev
28528 Posts
2. HerO 3. Byul 4. Maru 5. Rogue 6. Zest 7. Classic 8. sOs 9. Life 10. Rain 11. Dream 12. PartinG 13. Hydra 14. Fantasy 15. Lilbow 16. Polt | ||
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
1 -  INnoVation - 162 - Maru 153 -  herO- 144 - Classic - 135 -  ByuL - 126 - Rogue - 117 - Zest - 108 - sOs - 99 - Rain - 810 - Dream - 711 - FanTaSy 612 - Lilbow - 513 - Life - 414 - PartinG - 315 - Hydra - 216 - Polt - 1INnoVation has been the best player of the last months, possibly the best player of HotS overall. Maru probably faces his biggest challenge in the first round and may very well fall to his weak TvZ. But in the next round he would have a weaker opponent and then a Protoss, two things he should manage. Due to the bracket and his TvP power I place him second. herO won SSL. And has been a powerhouse of aggressive Protoss macro play, the kind of thing you need when you want to make it far in such a tournament. He also opens up with a weak opponent. Classic has fallen off a little bit lately, but is still a championship quality player. But he faces ByuL first, who might be the second best player in the world. ByuL might be the second best player in the world at the moment. But he doesn't win tournaments, plain and simple. Rogue is one of my favorite players with flawless macro play, probably one of the hardest opponents to take a game of. But someone is going to cheese him out I'm sure. If Zest somehow beats INnoVation he has a big chance to ride the whole thing home on his excellent PvP. But that depends a lot on how the bracket dice rolls for him. Wacky sOs is going to be wacky to predict. So I place him in the middle, like the mean value of his luckbased playstyle. Rain won a GSL. Still don't know how, given how mediocre he sometimes looks these days. But he absolutely has the championship-gen. Sadly Dream fell off towards the end of the year. He is still a good player, but I doubt he has what it takes to win that thing. This guy winning is a pure fantasy. Not gonna happen. But can take a game of anybody. Lilbow, the foreign hope. He is not going to survive in the sharktank of Tier1 Koreans blocking each and every of his strategies, but he is just brave enough to take on the one or other opponent and crazy enough to beat slumping Life. Life. And Blizzcon. Everything can happen. I wish. I really do. PartinG has looked aweful lately. But maybe he has gotten better again. To be honest, I'm not sure Hydra would make it into just one of the two Korean Premier Tournaments at the moment. But I wish him all the best, because I really like him. Polt, Captain America. But the Liberator hasn't been invented yet. | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
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kottbullar
Australia490 Posts
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The_Templar
your Country52798 Posts
On October 22 2015 08:42 kottbullar wrote: Personally wouldn't put Lilbow in top10, but people putting him dead last just because he's a foreigner reminds me of those guys who favor random no-name Korean toss vs Stephano during his prime. To be fair, nearly every korean here is world-class. | ||
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Mistakes
United States1102 Posts
On October 22 2015 09:15 The_Templar wrote: To be fair, nearly every korean here is world-class. Every Korean here IS world class. They made it to Blizzcon! | ||
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Charoisaur
Germany16065 Posts
2. herO 3. Maru 4. Zest 5. PartinG 6. sOs 7. Classic 8. Rain 9. Byul 10. Life 11. Dream 12. Rogue 13. Fantasy 14. Hydra 15. Polt 16. Lilbow | ||
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Zambrah
United States7393 Posts
herO Classic PartinG Maru Dream Zest sOs Rain Life Rogue Lilbow FanTaSy Polt Hydra | ||
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
2. sOs 3. Maru 4. Byul 5. Zest 6. Classic 7. Rogue 8. Life 9. herO 10. Dream 11. Rain 12. Parting 13. Fantasy 14. Hydra 15. Lilbow 16. Polt The top 10 players all seem like total contenders for 1st place. The bottom 6 are pretty debatable, and I'd be surprised to see any more than one of them in the Ro4. Innovation is obviously the most dominant right now. It gets pretty cloudy between 2nd and 6th though. sOs has looked really good lately, wrecking (almost) everyone in Proleague playoffs. So I'd put him as second, but he is sOs. Which means that he either looks really smart, or pretty derpy. Maru looked good minus a few matches and Byul had been pretty consistent up until real recently. Zest also has been looking very solid in the past few months. The rest of the players I have a real hard time placing where they are in terms of skill. I'm often impressed with Rogue, but he still loses to players like Maru and herO. Then there's Dream, who looked good in his latest PL match, but hasn't looked great other than that. I think Innovation will reach the semi-finals at least. | ||
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neptunusfisk
2286 Posts
classic maru herO zest rogue rain byul sos life parting | ||
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theunabletable
54 Posts
2. herO 3. Byul 4. sOs 5. Zest 6. Classic 7. Maru 8. Dream 9. Rain 10. Life 11. Rogue 12. Fantasy 13. Parting 14. Lilbow 15. Hydra 16. Polt Maybe Byul is too high? Maybe he should be below sOs and Zest? Maru maybe deserves as high as... like 4ish, but his dips always seem to last a while, and his recent form isn't as high. Classic is just solid, but, in a way, weirdly volatile. He could totally make the finals, or possibly lose early on, but I'd expect the sets to be close. I'd predict round of 4 again, but wouldn't be surprised wherever he ended up. This tier isn't particularly ordered. Rain won a starleague, Life's in a slump but could still win blizzcon, and Dream's solid and looks okay after proleague. Parting's form doesn't look that good, but he might be ahead of Fantasy. I dunno how Lilbow or Hydra should be ordered, but I think Lilbow has a better chance of winning his game vs Life I think, but idk. Polt hasn't done well vs Koreans, playing LotV, etc. Innovation, herO, sOs are favorites I think. Life could surprise and win, and I think Dream and Rogue otherwise have the best "dark horse" chances. | ||
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LoneYoShi
France1348 Posts
I'll go with (grouped by skill level at the moment) : I stand by my predictions though ! On October 07 2015 18:04 LoneYoShi wrote: Here's my ranking: It really isn't easy. I'd rate the whole "Zest/Classic/herO" group as super close. I wish I could tie them all ^^ Life's current level is hard to evaluate as well, but Life is known to have time periods where he practices less and his results drop. And when he practices 110%, he goes God Mode. I suppose (and hope) that he practices hard for Blizzcon, so I put him above the 3 protoss group. Another really close group of players are "Lilbow/FanTa/Hydra/Polt". They're the obvious lesser players at Blizzcon. But since I had to rank them (and I'm French), decisions were made ^^ Parting had a period of time where he played terrible but I believe he's training hard to regain his skill for Blizzcon, so I put him higher than what I initially thought. I haven't seen much of Rain/Dream/Rogue lately, so I kinda used them as fillers... Edit: So that was a power rank, now for the blizzcon predictions ! - Life will either go God Mode and make it to the finals or will be upset by Lilbow in ro16. - INnoVation will not win. He's good enough, but too bland. He doesn't have the spark of magic required. I'd say a ro8 exit for him. I don't see Rain going far for the same reasons (ro16 or ro8 exit, I don't know who he plays in ro16). - sOs is looking super hot and 100k$ are on the line. Top4 for him at least, probably even top2. - I don't see it happening, but it would be an incredible redemption story if Byul could win. He got the skill , but I think he's gonna get eliminated in the ro8 (maybe even a ro16 loss depending on if he managed to go past the "second place again"-trauma or not). - If we get to see TvZ's, bio will be played more than mech. - Rogue will try something incredibly risky and stupid at least once. It'll work. - Maru won't get ro4 due to his injuries preventing him from practicing/playing correctly. | ||
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[PkF] Wire
France24238 Posts
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LoneYoShi
France1348 Posts
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ZertoN
Germany214 Posts
2. sos 3. maru 4. zest 5. herO 6. classic 7. byul 8. rain 9. rogue 10. dream 11. life 12. parting 13. fantasy 14. hydra 15. lilbow 16. polt | ||
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ErrantKnight
Switzerland186 Posts
2. INnoVation 3. Byul 4. Rain 5. sOs 6. Maru 7. Classic 8. Rogue 9. herO[jOin] 10. Zest 11. Dream 12. Life 13. Parting 14. Hydra 15. Polt 16. Lilbow | ||
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