Yoon ‚TaeJa‘ Young Suh is the new Number One in the World Ranking of August 2014. He follows Choi ‚Polt‘ Seong Hun who had a succesful month as well but nothing compared to TaeJa. The young Korean won IEM Shenzhen and succeeded in WCS America as well.
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[taeja] is the new Number One of the World Ranking. He climbed from rank 2 to 1 this month due to his success in IEM Shenzhen, which he won, and the 5th place in WCS America. He is the fourth youngest player at the top being 19 years and 211 days old. He is surpassed though by [life], who was 16 years old when he reached the top, [parting] (18) and [stephano] (19 years, 202 days).
The former leader, [polt] fell to second rank. He had a succesful month too being runner-up at Red Bull Battleground Atlanta and also 5th at WCS America. It just wasn’t enough to stay ahead of [taeja]. By the way it was the third time in two months that [polt] ended up being the runner-up in an important tournament.
Some ranks further down we got a few players who rise significantly this month: Aforemost [bomber] is back in the top 10. The runner-up of WCS America and winner of Red Bull Battlegrounds Atlanta is the third most succesful player this month in terms of points earned. He is only surpassed by WCS Europe winner [stardust] who gained 16 ranks and is on #12 now and of course [pigbaby] who beat [bomber] in the finals and jumped from #196 to #29.
Best foreigners this month: Snute, Major and Welmu
The best foreigner is [scarlett] on rank 24 though she gained only a few points in July playing team league. Just two ranks behind is [snute] who wasn’t only the best player of the Nation Wars II but also played well at Gfinity yesterday – though that doesn’t count for the current ranking. Remarkable: [major] rises to rank 38 being the second best player in the Nation Wars and #9 in WCS America. [vortix] and [welmu] however, the best foreigners in WCS Europe, both only gained one rank and stay on #28 and #34 respectively.
Shooting stars: Gamja, Cowman and Frustration
The highest jumps this month were done by [gamja], [cowman] and [frustration]. The Korean was 9th at Red Bull Battleground Atlanta as was the American, while the Australian was 5th at the Australian Cyber League Pro Circuit in Sydney. Needless to say it was their greatest success each.
Some numbers: 522 new results
Let’s end this overview with some numbers: Last month, 522 new results were added to the database which now consists of 712 tournaments with 2.819 players and 15.228 results since August 2010. Outr of the top 100 players this month, 60 are Koreans, five are from China or Germany, three from the United States. 43 of them play Protoss, 34 Zerg and 23 Terran.