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Cricketer12
United States13948 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8979 Posts
On October 30 2018 01:16 virpi wrote: Whatever happens, it's another great run for Special. I really hope he at least survives one more round. His style is very entertaining and his work ethic almost unparalleled. Maru vs. Serral in the finals would ofc be a dream come true. If it happens, I predict >150k viewers. Viewer count will mostly depend of is SC get a host from HOTS/HS/WOW/OW (We need to address the glaring lack of variety in Blizzard acronym choice), but yes Maru-Serral would probably be the best final viewership wise. | ||
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Fango
United Kingdom8974 Posts
On October 30 2018 02:09 Nakajin wrote: Viewer count will mostly depend of is SC get a host from HOTS/HS/WOW/OW (We need to address the glaring lack of variety in Blizzard acronym choice), but yes Maru-Serral would probably be the best final viewership wise. Don't most of those have events running at the same time as WCS? The HotS, WoW, and OW finals are on at the same time as the WCS final I think. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23570 Posts
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
Also, sOs is playing everybody. He's going to ascend to god mode in the playoffs. It's coming... | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8979 Posts
On October 30 2018 02:13 Fango wrote: Don't most of those have events running at the same time as WCS? The HotS, WoW, and OW finals are on at the same time as the WCS final I think. Depend on how long they run, sometime one finish before the other so they host the other stream. I seem to remember last year the OW grand final was the last one to finish and they got a host from every one else. | ||
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Thomasmarkle
United States85 Posts
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IshinShishi
Japan6156 Posts
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Fango
United Kingdom8974 Posts
On October 30 2018 02:27 Nakajin wrote: Depend on how long they run, sometime one finish before the other so they host the other stream. I seem to remember last year the OW grand final was the last one to finish and they got a host from every one else. The sceduling isn't that great either. OW final should end first, but OW matches usually take longer than blizzard think. And sc2 matches are (nowadays) over in half the time. | ||
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AzAlexZ
Australia3303 Posts
All eyes were on Serral as he faced off against recent Super Tournament, and two time BlizzCon champion sOs, sOs did not win Super Tournament | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
Maru, Serral and Stats all looked pretty flawless, but just due to their opponents Serral should be first for example. And Special should be higher if you were just judging by group stage performance. | ||
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Elentos
55456 Posts
On October 30 2018 04:12 ZigguratOfUr wrote: This ranking's fine, but it does a pretty poor job of adhering to the criterion of measuring "their performance in the group stage". Maru, Serral and Stats all looked pretty flawless, but just due to their opponents Serral should be first for example. And Special should be higher if you were just judging by group stage performance. Yeah, if that was the only criterion SpeCial should be 5th as the best 2nd place finisher. | ||
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Kalera
United States338 Posts
On October 30 2018 04:12 ZigguratOfUr wrote: This ranking's fine, but it does a pretty poor job of adhering to the criterion of measuring "their performance in the group stage". Maru, Serral and Stats all looked pretty flawless, but just due to their opponents Serral should be first for example. And Special should be higher if you were just judging by group stage performance. I think that line doesn't belong. They even say in Maru's blurb: Overall, Maru has given us no reason at all to change his position from previous Power Ranks. He went into BlizzCon the favorite to win it and he will enter the quarterfinals just the same. That indicates prior rankings were taken into account. | ||
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Tempest
United States147 Posts
On October 30 2018 00:43 Olli wrote: For the record, I agree but my superior opinion was drowned out by the collective. The collective are fools, your superior opinion is correct. Special 100% deserves to be ranked higher than TY. | ||
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Dave4
494 Posts
I offered my services to improve this Power Rank multiple times to the writing team but was regrettably turned down. I knew that didn't bode well for them, but even I couldn't have predicted the shambles that is this Power Rank. The team appears to have spent too long on their preview articles to properly undertake the full 16-man Power Rank prior to the event. Although I know that the Power Ranks are now timed on a monthly basis, this specific one is clearly about BlizzCon as only BlizzCon attendees have been included. So we arrive at an 8-man Power Rank situation. The article clearly states that the rank is based on group performance. This is of course an awkward way to rank because the 'best players' may not have had the hardest route, and had I been consulted professionally I would have advised against this method. Nevertheless, going solely by group performance does make the ranking a straightforward and easy process. The players most dominant over the best opponents should clearly be ranked the highest. Unfortunately, without my guidance this also seems to have gone awry. Regardless of whether you agree that Serral is no.1 overall anyway, his 4-0 of sHy and Zest has to be more impressive than Maru's wins over Lambo and Neeb. This is near irrefutable, and given the criteria, clearly Serral should be rank 1. In a similar vein, Major's stellar play to overcome Classic and barely lose to Rogue has to be superior to TY (barely overcame Neeb after losing the first set and dropped a map to Lambo) as well as Dark. The correct Power Rank based on the given criteria is thus: 8. sHy 7. TY 6. Dark 5. Major 4. Rogue 3. Stats 2. Maru 1. Serral Were the Power Rank to have occurred with my professional input in the correct pre-BlizzCon manner, it would have appeared thus: 16. Has 15. HeroMarine 14. Nerchio 13. Lambo 12. ShowTime 11. Major 10. Zest 9. Neeb 8. Rogue 7. sHy 6. Dark 5. TY 4. Stats 3. Classic 1. Maru (joint) 1. Serral (joint) | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On October 30 2018 05:13 Dave4 wrote: In a similar vein, Major's stellar play to overcome Classic twice (4-0) and barely lose to Rogue has to be superior to TY (barely overcame Neeb after losing the first set and dropped a map to Lambo) as well as Dark. There we have it, finally proof that are you are indeed living in another plane of reality. I won't judge your serral comments anymore from now on, maybe in your dimension he actually is the obvious best player. Anyway, in my own reality special only played classic once (which could still give him the edge over TY though tbf) We should check if there are any more differences in results though, if you are interested in that procedure just pm me. | ||
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Dave4
494 Posts
I did mess up to be fair | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
Wanna make a ban bet, if a moderator can look if you changed it you get the perma ban, if you didn't i get it? edit: Apparently not, good  | ||
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Dave4
494 Posts
On October 30 2018 05:39 The_Red_Viper wrote: Wanna make a ban bet, if a moderator can look if you changed it you get the perma ban, if you didn't i get it? edit: Apparently not, good You need to bring that chilli sauce down a notch bro You're one of my best friends here and I would miss you when you lost bro | ||
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fishjie
United States1519 Posts
serral can move to #1 after he wins blizzcon then next year they can remove region locks so he can prove it at every single tournament, which naniwa and stephano did despite not being protected by region locks | ||
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