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United States12607 Posts
Close But No Cigar
 Kwanro has been on the cusp PR-dom for a few months now. He's still alive in both major leagues, but his MSL Ro32 performance was not nearly as convincing as Calm's or Kal's, and he's bombing the OSL Ro16 (where Canata crushed him). Kwanro's major attraction versus Light (individual league participation) boils down to OSL Ro36 opponents: Light could easily be a contender in this OSL Ro16 if he had faced Casy and GGPlay instead of Yarnc. Light has also put on a decidedly stronger PL performance than Kwanro, despite what must be a relatively awful practice environment.
 Hwasin is in the MSL Ro16 (surprise, surprise) and has produced some pretty nice TvTs lately (Baby, Lomo) but played horrendously in both of his most important games this month (OSL outings vs. Bisu and Zero). A game between him and Light would be a tossup, but honestly I'm sick of seeing Hwasin in low PR slots just for floundering around in the early stages of the MSL and OSL. Kicking Hiya (7-game loss streak at the time) and Luxury (blows) while they're down is not enough to trump Light's wins over Leta and Jaedong.
ZerO's series with Tempest in GOM was pretty sickening, as is losing to Kwanro in ZvZ after he destroyed him so easily just a few weeks ago. I really want to give Zero credit for beating Skyhigh and Hwasin this past month, but I feel both results were more a product of the loser's bumbling than Zero's genius. I like this guy, but 5-6 with losses to Oversky, Kwanro, and Tempest (twice) is a pretty sorry month compared to even Hwasin and Kwanro.
UpMaGiC is in the MSL Ro16 and has led eSTRO to some unlikely PL victories, but I've still got the taste of his OSL Ro36 loss to Canata in my mouth. He'll have to do better than beating Cheese2 a couple times to crack the PR.
Not Close And No Cigar
 Stork and JangBi: your performance this month makes me feel ashamed at letting you bums sneak into the June PR. I hope you learned something while sitting on KHAN's bench during its recent PL matches.
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Perfect, completely agreed on the rankings!
Great one, JWD.
Jaedong fighting. =]
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Looks good. Rankings are fine and on the top of my head I cannot think of anyone partticula missing. Good job.
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Great PR, I agree
Its a bit sad to see Flash drop down to #5 and losing 2 games on his birthday
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For a change, I don't have any issues with the Power Rank this month. I suppose that Canata is the "controversial" pick of the month, but there's a good case for him.
Nice work, JWD.
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wow excellent job with the power rank! i love the hotlinks in the descriptions
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
Hmmmmm.... I'm fully agreeing with this Power Rank, Jaedong absolutely deserved 1st place but FlaSh should be higher, instead of EffOrt I guess 
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United States12607 Posts
On July 08 2009 18:13 crucifix wrote:Hmmmmm.... I'm fully agreeing with this Power Rank, Jaedong absolutely deserved 1st place but FlaSh should be higher, instead of EffOrt I guess
Go watch his games vs. STX (blech, they're bad enough to make Flash fans vomit uncontrollably) and then decide whether you want to stand by this statement.
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United States2186 Posts
This is quite good. It's been awhile since I've had nothing to say about the placements and as usual your writeups are stellar. Fantasy's in particular was quite enjoyable to read and the readily accessible links makes it easy to catch up on missed moments/matches.
I do want to point out though that for all the hype Jaedong has gotten about his schedule Flash has had a busier summer than Jaedong. Flash played 23 games compared to Jaedong's 20 since June. Furthermore, Flash has had to play 20 of his 23 games on consecutive days with no rest in between, while Jaedong only played a mere 7 back to back.
Thus it seems rather silly to dedicate half of your description about Jaedong to his schedule then ignore it for Flash, when Flash's is worse and his performance is more negatively affected by it (showing extremely uncharacteristic weak points in defense vs Calm, Backho, and Kal and using unfinished builds vs Yarnc and Jaedong).
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Nice writeup, I love this PR.
So glad Canata got a spot there, he's been playing some really good starcraft as of late. And on top of that, he's got a good chance to advance into the MSL ro8.
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Fantasy seems a little up there. I woulda put him in 3 and Bisu in 2nd but that might only be cause I am a Bisu fanboy .
On another note, I really don't like how if Jaedong, Bisu or Flash lose one or two games in a row they are considered slumping. I mean flash has been posting fairly solid results in every other match up besides TvZ and Bisu is on the PvZ ball again after losing to Yellow. Usually the loses aren't because they lost their touch but just a cause of lack of sleep or over scheduling.
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On July 08 2009 18:16 Ver wrote:
This is quite good. It's been awhile since I've had nothing to say about the placements and as usual your writeups are stellar. Fantasy's in particular was quite enjoyable to read and the readily accessible links makes it easy to catch up on missed moments/matches.
I do want to point out though that for all the hype Jaedong has gotten about his schedule Flash has had a busier summer than Jaedong. Flash played 23 games compared to Jaedong's 20 since June. Furthermore, Flash has had to play 20 of his 23 games on consecutive days with no rest in between, while Jaedong only played a mere 7 back to back.
Thus it seems rather silly to dedicate half of your description about Jaedong to his schedule then ignore it for Flash, when Flash's is worse and his performance is more negatively affected by it (showing extremely uncharacteristic weak points in defense vs Calm, Backho, and Kal and using unfinished builds vs Yarnc and Jaedong).
Thanks for the good words, really appreciate them!
You're right to say that Flash's schedule hasn't been getting enough attention, but I don't think its difficulty affects my rank considering he, as you mention, had a much tougher time dealing with it than Jaedong did his. And while over a longer period Flash has played more games than JD, he didn't face any 10-game stretch nearly as brutal as the one Jaedong just played through (and this stretch was the focus of my "JD's tough schedule" bit).
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Completely agree with this PR!!
Good Job, Sir !
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Singapore66117 Posts
Not sure about the bottom half, but the top half are definitely spot-on. Great job!
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On July 08 2009 18:20 Dgtl wrote:
On another note, I really don't like how if Jaedong, Bisu or Flash lose one or two games in a row they are considered slumping. I mean flash has been posting fairly solid results in every other match up besides TvZ and Bisu is on the PvZ ball again after losing to Yellow. Usually the loses aren't because they lost their touch but just a cause of lack of sleep or over scheduling.
haha, I was actually expecting to catch this sort of flak for using the word "recovered" in that sentence about Bisu and Yellow. I completely agree that one or two losses does not constitute a slump, and people are too quick to jump on top players for a few bad games (prime example). However, when you're Bisu or JD, even three consecutive losses is an abnormality and does affect your confidence level. I mean, consider that when Jaedong mentioned "weakness vs. Protoss" in his recent MSL interview, he was referring to 2 games that he lost to free last MSL. Just two losses, and they're obviously still affecting his mindset months later. In this sense, it's perfectly valid to use "recovered" to describe Bisu stringing together a bunch of wins after losing to YellOw. I wasn't implying that he was ever "in a slump".
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Good ranking imo. Thanks JWD
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GW.
Fantasy sure is looking scary atm.
Hoping he will face some zergs soon, to see if he also can beat those (and in particular JD). If he can, well, we have a new best sc player.
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
On July 08 2009 18:15 JWD wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2009 18:13 crucifix wrote:Hmmmmm.... I'm fully agreeing with this Power Rank, Jaedong absolutely deserved 1st place but FlaSh should be higher, instead of EffOrt I guess Go watch his games vs. STX (blech, they're bad enough to make Flash fans vomit uncontrollably) and then decide whether you want to stand by this statement.
I've watched them life but dropping 2 games in one day, doesn't mean he is worse player overall  Nevermind sir, good writeup !
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