Ireniicas Profile Joined April 2013 66 Posts Last Edited: 2013-04-22 16:58:49 #2 Terrans are going to climb higher with current meta, expect Lucifron going to number 1 and Bunny hopping up to top 20

Ireniicas Profile Joined April 2013 66 Posts Last Edited: 2013-04-22 16:58:35 #3

oberkapo Profile Joined July 2012 United States 41 Posts #4 what o.o what were stephano's last results that gratify his no.1 spot?

GTPGlitch Profile Blog Joined March 2011 4555 Posts #5 Yeah why is stephano still up there, he's done like nothing since hots oo Jo Byung Se #1 fan | CJ_Rush(reborn) fan | Liquid'Jinro(ret) fan | Liquid'Taeja fan | oGsTheSuperNada fan | Iris[gm](ret) fan |

DarkPlasmaBall Profile Blog Joined March 2010 United States 38904 Posts #6 WCS AM rounds?



The rest are fine/ close enough to what I would have guessed... or I just don't care enough about a few of them to make any comments DeMusliM's a lot lower than I would have guessed... does this take into account the + Show Spoiler + The rest are fine/ close enough to what I would have guessed... or I just don't care enough about a few of them to make any comments "There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100

MysteryMeat1 Profile Blog Joined June 2011 United States 3205 Posts #7 Bly is still the sexiest progamer out there. #1 in my heart! "Cause ya know, Style before victory." -The greatest mafia player alive

KalWarkov Profile Blog Joined December 2011 Germany 3911 Posts #8 simply put: if i had to take one foreigner to play in code S and do well, i would take stephano over anyone. simply because hes the best. thats my opinion, he didnt do anything bad enough to change that opinion. DiaBoLuS ** Sc2 - Protoss: 16x GM WoL/HotS/LotV | Dota2 - Offlane/5: peak 5.8k solo | Wc3 - Undead: 2007/2008/2016/2017/2018 ~rank 100 W3A/Bnet, ~60% winrate | Diablo 2 / Grim Dawn / PoE nerd - Melee Classes | Leffen/Ice, MCarlsen, BVB <3 | Agnostic***

Bibbit Profile Blog Joined December 2009 Canada 5098 Posts #9 Real happy to see Dayshi there, and I think he's placed well. But he will keep climbing!

lisward Profile Blog Joined March 2011 Singapore 949 Posts #10 Huks got something to say about this for sure Opinions are like phasers -- everybody ought to have one

Shellshock Profile Blog Joined March 2011 United States 95641 Posts Last Edited: 2013-04-22 17:40:31 #11

Thorzain's matches since your last blog

+ Show Spoiler + 2–1 SjoW

2-0 SaSe

2-0 avokado

2–0 LaLuSh

2–0 SjoW

0–3 herO[jOin]

3–2 Creator

0–1 jim

0–1 JonSnow ThorZaIN 2–1 ThorZaIN 2-0 ThorZaIN 2-0avokado ThorZaIN 2–0 ThorZaIN 2–0 ThorZaIN 0–3 ThorZaIN 3–2 ThorZaIN 0–1 ThorZaIN 0–1

The only result I'd consider impressive is beating Creator 3-2, which is a good result, but Creator still hasn't looked nearly in good in HoTS as he did in WoL. He beat a bunch of Swedish players, but none of them have really accomplished much recently, and the only one you/aligulac has rated decently is Sase. Then he has 0-3 loss to CJ hero and losses to Jim and JonSnow in team leagues. Just doesnt stand out as a top 10 foreigner type month to me. I guess you're just saying he won enough games and didnt really lose enough to justify dropping him?

As for Sase, I think it's pretty hard to draw any conclusions for him because he's basically only played against TW players for the last month, beating up guys that SEn has an over 90% win rate against if I remember the numbers from last season. I understand Snute stumbled a little when first switching to HoTS, but he's playing very well right now.



I like these blogs, though. They are interesting and I like to see other perspectives. I'm looking at your personal ratings like you asked and I'm curious what makes you rank Naniwa > Lucifron and Snute only at 12 when he recently beat HyuN in a bo9 as well as leads him 9-7 overall in the last month (12-7 if you go a few days before that), beat Mana in their only meeting (who you ranked 4), won ESET UK Masters, and is rated highly by the computers. Mainly I'm wondering what made you put Snute behind Ret, Thorzain, and Sase specifically, and I think you could argue him to potentially go higher although it would be close.Thorzain's matches since your last blogThe only result I'd consider impressive is beating Creator 3-2, which is a good result, but Creator still hasn't looked nearly in good in HoTS as he did in WoL. He beat a bunch of Swedish players, but none of them have really accomplished much recently, and the only one you/aligulac has rated decently is Sase. Then he has 0-3 loss to CJ hero and losses to Jim and JonSnow in team leagues. Just doesnt stand out as a top 10 foreigner type month to me. I guess you're just saying he won enough games and didnt really lose enough to justify dropping him?As for Sase, I think it's pretty hard to draw any conclusions for him because he's basically only played against TW players for the last month, beating up guys that SEn has an over 90% win rate against if I remember the numbers from last season. I understand Snute stumbled a little when first switching to HoTS, but he's playing very well right now.I like these blogs, though. They are interesting and I like to see other perspectives. Moderator http://i.imgur.com/U4xwqmD.png

Rostam Profile Blog Joined December 2008 United States 2552 Posts #12 I like how according to the current polls Huk is both the most underrated and the most overrated player in 21-30. Maybe that means he's actually right where he's supposed to be? BW forever || Thall

Fizzy Profile Joined March 2012 Sweden 373 Posts #13 I enjoy that Stephano has been your number 1 choice for every ranking so far :p Mvp - Grubby - NaNiwa - Alliance DOTA2 <3

KalWarkov Profile Blog Joined December 2011 Germany 3911 Posts #14 thanks for the feedback guys, will keep going obviously.



stephano has been close to drop to rank 2 3 times now, this month included. its just hard to call any foreigner better than him without a great major tournament result DiaBoLuS ** Sc2 - Protoss: 16x GM WoL/HotS/LotV | Dota2 - Offlane/5: peak 5.8k solo | Wc3 - Undead: 2007/2008/2016/2017/2018 ~rank 100 W3A/Bnet, ~60% winrate | Diablo 2 / Grim Dawn / PoE nerd - Melee Classes | Leffen/Ice, MCarlsen, BVB <3 | Agnostic***

FatNikE Profile Joined March 2013 United Kingdom 52 Posts Last Edited: 2013-04-22 22:03:12 #15 far, far, far, far



The rest of these are perfectly acceptable. Demuslim too low, Vortix far, far + Show Spoiler + The rest of these are perfectly acceptable.

KalWarkov Profile Blog Joined December 2011 Germany 3911 Posts #17 On April 23 2013 07:02 FatNikE wrote:

Demuslim too low, Vortix far, far far, far, far, far



The rest of these are perfectly acceptable. Demuslim too low, Vortix far, far + Show Spoiler + too high.The rest of these are perfectly acceptable.



I dont know why you hate vortix so much, it has to be some personal issue though.

He isnt #2 on aligulac for no reason, its not like he didnt have results in hots, although almost all of them are online (to be fair, there havent been many offline events yet) I dont know why you hate vortix so much, it has to be some personal issue though.He isnt #2 on aligulac for no reason, its not like he didnt have results in hots, although almost all of them are online (to be fair, there havent been many offline events yet) DiaBoLuS ** Sc2 - Protoss: 16x GM WoL/HotS/LotV | Dota2 - Offlane/5: peak 5.8k solo | Wc3 - Undead: 2007/2008/2016/2017/2018 ~rank 100 W3A/Bnet, ~60% winrate | Diablo 2 / Grim Dawn / PoE nerd - Melee Classes | Leffen/Ice, MCarlsen, BVB <3 | Agnostic***

Xoronius Profile Joined July 2011 Germany 6360 Posts Last Edited: 2013-04-28 10:55:53 #18 I don´t really see, why major is on 24 in your list. Putting him above Socke, Strelok, Welmu, Bunny, moonglade or SortOf just seems wrong, his last results were a loss against terminator (which I can not really blame him for) and some SEA online cup, where he lost to Mafia. I know he is practising with T8 but if ranks are based on teams, Fenix also could be in there.



Otherwise it is good, maybe ThorZaiN and Goswser should be a bit lower, Welmu a bit higher and Strelok/SortOf/Heromarine somewhere in there, but you can´t fit everyone in and as this was written pre-DH, rating those a bit lower can be forgiven.

virpi Profile Blog Joined August 2009 Germany 3419 Posts #19 Stephano won't be ranked first in the next one, will he? first we make expand, then we defense it.

Bunn Profile Blog Joined September 2010 Estonia 875 Posts #20 This list needs to be updated, Naniwa to #1 ! "There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level." - Bruce Lee

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