Kim Yoo ’sOs‘ Jin takes the lead in the Starcraft 2 World Ranking this month. But it’s a close race at the top: Four players are in a very narrow distance. Weiterlesen
New month, new ranking: The Starcraft 2 World Ranking September 2014 is once again lead by Yoon ‚TaeJa‘ Young Suh, but his margin to runner-up Kim ’sOs‘ Yoo Jin got very small and is less than 100 points now. sOs captured the second place from Choi ‚Polt‘ Seung Hun. Son ‚StarDust‘ Seok Hee is the only new player in the top 10, but others are eagerly waiting to climb up too. Weiterlesen
Kim ‚herO‘ Joon Ho is the sole (Protoss) survivor of the Red Bull Battlegrounds Online. The winner of the fourth qualifier attends the finals tonight against three south-korean Terrans who won the first qualifiers. Tonights champion will get a paid trip to the Red Bull Battlegrounds Washington in September. Weiterlesen
Seven rookies and five former champions: We now know the 32 players that will determine the new champion of this GSL Code S and follow in the big footsteps of Royal Roader Joo ‚Zest‘ Sung Wook and almost Royal Roader Kim ‚Classic‘ Doh Woo. Here they are as trading cards.
To sum some facts up:
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Lee ‚INnoVation‘ Shin Hyung is still the number one in the World Ranking of June 2014. It’s his seventh consecutive month at the top which he confirmed by winning two invitational tournaments in May. His predators remain the same: Kim ’sOs‘ Yoo Jin stays at the second place after a good performance at the Proleague Round 3 and Choi ‚Polt‘ Seong Hun is still third after losing the finals of Lone Star Clash 3 to Jaedong.
[playerbox_innovation] The only changes at the very top are [jaedong] and [hyun] switching ranks with [dear] and [mma], who didn’t play any tournament last month. [parting] and [life] moved a little closer to the Top10 due to their performances in the 2014 Proleague Round 3 which finished in May. Meanwhile, former WCS Europe champions [mvp] suffered a decline from rank 14 to 41.
Last month saw three major tournaments and naturally their winners made high jumps in the World Ranking: Best Proleague player [bbyong] moved up 26 ranks to #56 – a new career-high for the 21-year-old Korean, while the aforementioned [jaedong] and [hyun] gained one rank by winning Lone Star Clash 3 and the Fragbite Spring Masters. Fragbites runner-up [vortix] rose to #28, his best position since last August.
Norwegian Snute is meanwhile on his way to be the best foreigner in the ranking. Winning the TakeTV Ultra Invitational he is now only one rank behind inactive [naniwa] who will lose a lot of points next month due to deleted results from the last year. This is what happened to [stephano] this month already who dropped from #42 to #103. In between Snute and VortiX there is still the best female player out there, [scarlett]. The Canadian won the Believe in Sc2 Cup in May but dropped out of WCS America in the Challenger League.
As usual the World Ranking gives you an overview of the players performances of the past 12 months. Since this is a long period that includes 1.162 players from 58 countries, there are some more specialized top-rankings that show some aspects of the ranking and help you figure out who did something special this month – for example you can see the best players of the past 3 months instead of 12. I expanded the Special Rankings this month so you can see more details and have a clearer overview. If you wish to see more or other rankings, please send me an email.
Least but not last some statistics: By June 2014 our database includes: