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Suc
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1569 Posts
November 22 2009 01:27 GMT
#21
I just want one person to get A :D
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
November 22 2009 01:39 GMT
#22
I say B+, maybe A-.
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
Mykill
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada3402 Posts
November 22 2009 01:43 GMT
#23
B+/A- ofc
over 9000!!
[~~The Impossible Leads To Invention~~] CJ Entusman #52 The problem with internet quotations is that they are hard to verify -Abraham Lincoln c.1863
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
November 22 2009 01:45 GMT
#24
slightly <9000
:)
Elemenope
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Burkina Faso1704 Posts
November 22 2009 01:46 GMT
#25
THIS IS SO SILLY
In DotA you could
foppa
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada451 Posts
November 22 2009 01:52 GMT
#26
there are currently 108 b+ non-Koreans on the ICCUP ladder + many more players capable of reaching that rank that are inactive or other players playing under a Korean flag and many other players just shy of reaching B+. you throw money on the line and its IMPOSSIBLE that the top 48 is not at least B+. I say B+ 8800 points or so for #48 with 40 A- players
i can take you
IPS.ZeRo
Profile Joined April 2003
Germany1142 Posts
November 22 2009 01:58 GMT
#27
Hm i voted B+ but after thinking about it I have to go with A-, too.
With dodging good players and things like that there should be some more people that are able to get to A-. I guess they would stop playing then, but could get there.
aka DTF-ZeRo
Shield
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bulgaria4824 Posts
November 22 2009 02:19 GMT
#28
1st poll: B
2nd one: A
I may be wrong for the former though. We'll see.
foppa
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada451 Posts
November 22 2009 02:30 GMT
#29
half way to A+ is B- soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not that one for the person coming first
i can take you
GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
November 22 2009 02:39 GMT
#30
Well considering there are quite a few A- players and a few A players participating in this TSL I'm thinking that the first place person will be ranked A.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
November 22 2009 03:54 GMT
#31
I hope that number 1 gets to A+, but its probably gonna be A
PhilGood2DaY
Profile Joined September 2005
Germany7424 Posts
November 22 2009 09:47 GMT
#32
A+ is maybe possible for ret or idra..
but I guess nr.1 will be a HIGH A
hatred outlives the hateful
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28877 Posts
November 22 2009 09:59 GMT
#33
i think foppa is correct
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Glaucus
Profile Joined June 2009
479 Posts
November 22 2009 10:49 GMT
#34
only at A- you lose 140 points. So anyone can just stop playing at A-.

With TSL it was already B+. But at A- you lose more points so you can't get to A. You can just massgame to A-. Just find a group of B guys and all massgame vs each other. Stop when you get to A-. With each game played they will get more net points.

If you have like 25 guys that are all of similar level and they mass game vs each other, most of them will get to A- regardless of how bad they are. Of course there's a rule against playing vs each other too much. So it helps if you can just crush any player of B- or lower. But if you can you can mass game vs each other.

To get to A your opponents need to lose points. You can get 1 guy to A if you collect enough points at A- or B+. But then they will have to drop to B so the A- guy can get to A.
vx70GTOJudgexv
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States3161 Posts
November 22 2009 21:02 GMT
#35
It's going to be all green and gold this season. Blue ranks just ain't gonna cut it.
(-_-) BW for ever. #1 Iris fan.
tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
November 22 2009 21:08 GMT
#36
I think the top 16 will easily clear the A's.
Very likely the top 32 will make it as well.
I think even the final 4-6 slots will be on the high B+ end of things.

I'd be very excited if the leader cleared A+. I'd suspect only IdrA could do that, ret's ZvZ will keep him from being quite that high.
ModeratorEffOrt, Snow, GuMiho, and Team Liquid
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
November 22 2009 21:17 GMT
#37
Idra couldn't quite hit A while he was laddering recently... he's probably not gonna make A+

It seems to me that if everyone were laddering solely against Koreans, we would see a bunch at the B+/A- barrier. But there's going to be a lot of inter-foreigner action, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of people at the A level.

To repeat one of my earlier posts, the difference between laddering only against Koreans and laddering against foreigners as well is what is going to keep ret and Idra off the #1 spot on the ladder.
ModeratorGood content always wins.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51683 Posts
November 23 2009 10:24 GMT
#38
for reference, last tsl;

top 48 cutoff at b+ (aprox 8400 points)
top 20 were all a-
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Orome
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland11984 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-23 10:31:54
November 23 2009 10:31 GMT
#39
Going to agree with low A- being the most likely cutoff point. As for #1, that really depends on the how much people like Ret or Idra care about getting #1, but I'd guess somewhere high A.
On a purely personal note, I'd like to show Yellow the beauty of infinitely repeating Starcraft 2 bunkers. -Boxer
Glaucus
Profile Joined June 2009
479 Posts
November 23 2009 12:53 GMT
#40
When there's tons of foreigners that have reached A- you only need to be an above average top foreigner to make A. It all depends on dodging progamers and about how many games total are played.
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