EPT Winter/Atlanta: Power Ranking - Page 2

On December 18 2023 00:08 Antithesis wrote:

HSC24 is mentioned in the first paragraph, acknowledging that Serral won it.

I think by and large the power ranking is reasonable and a really good read, thanks for the write-up. The only questionable judgment, to me, is placing Maru so much higher than Clem. Recent performances, not least the fact that Clem has been the highest-ranked Terran in the world on Aligulac for a bit now, indicate that he is currently in a better shape than Maru. And that's exactly how the tournament has turned out in actuality.


That's a really good way of putting it.

Showtime is usually strong enough to prevent other mid-level players from meeting Serral or other top-tier contenders in the final rounds of tournaments, but not strong enough to beat them himself. Like even when he is in a good position against Serral in an ultra-lategame, it often feels as if he does not believe he can actually win the game.

Just in the same way, the main question for the rest of the tournament, as so often, is whether Clem or perhaps someone else can give a performance good enough to overcome Serral.

On December 18 2023 05:34 WombaT wrote:

Yeah, the odd exceptional run aside I don’t think there’s two players more predictable and consistent than Showtime and Heromarine, they’re very skilled and play some damn good StarCraft but they tend to beat who you’d expect and hit the wall and rarely beat players on the tier above.

Whereas say a Gumiho will be all over the place, might crash and burn or might take huge scalps

Pretty solid power rank, one can quibble a little bit here and there but seems pretty on the money to me!