yeah eg has a win, but they are playing like the 9th best team in the split
loud are playing better than them despite also playing like shit and not having a win
its not just durr this team has win. this team doesnt. therefore this team better. if it was id have kru first but we all know they're not playing better than the rest of the region in the split, right?

eg played just okay in their series against sen, choked lotus in abysmal fashion, and only beat sen on bind because sen thought job was done
this is the same team that got turned out by g2 lol they got like 10 rounds

eg worse than loud

icy looked good on icebox but god his duelist has been MINDNUMBINGLY underwhelming
should have picked up aproto imo
leafs owning on senti tho so maybe im high

wait you put loud twice lol

kru have had weaker opponents than nrg who get criticism for having only beaten weak opponents, not putting them over nrg just because nrg played their f game against lev lol
and g2 have not impressed me for an iota of a second tbh they look so mid

lets be real theyd beat loud rn loud look like SHIT!!!!!!!

cbaiter never misses it seems

im struggling to rate kru super highly because theyve just farmed the three weakest performers so far(eg mibr furia)
if we see a win against loud today ill agree with you on 2nd
and c9 6th really? 3-1 with some good wins notched? ik they looked like a mess against 100t but still

edit nvm lol kru 2nd

ya sen havent even looked bad or anything
the eg loss is a disaster but shit happens tbh i think they job doned too early and got a bit shellshocked, it might keep them out of playoffs which is unfortunate but i dont think it should be judged harshly, teams still gaming in a major way

sadly brazilians hate keznit
also does he speak portuguese? hes played on chilean teams his whole career hasnt he?

purely based on how theyve played during split 1 i dont want to hear shit about loud or sen being too low
only ranking the 9 tier 1 teams btw

1. LEV(played near perfect after 1st game)
2. 100T
3. C9
4. NRG(2-4 are almost equal in my mind)
5. KRU
6. SEN
7. G2
8. LOUD
9. EG

this is about to age very badly if loud beat kru lol

hes fucking owning its insane, im blown away rn
g2 has not impressed me in the remotest sense at any point this season but leaf is frying 16 ways from sunday

why the gentle mates hate man do u not want to see phoenix on every map?

as expected, hes very good at the video game
excited to see how he stacks up against us next week

PEIKO

i didnt say he was insane for it im just saying he can entry lol

didnt he go 12-2 on FBs against loud

jawgemo on top i love this man

i havent heard very many people do it ya
only one i can remember specifically is someone on nrg naming less in a callout
pretty sure ive heard a couple others tho

bro is waffling

the way nzr got dropped from lev, there was fs beef between him and at least mazino
loud were shooting mazinos body an shit

Holy shit.

wait i just rewatched ur right LMAO
he must have just picked the wrong way to go lolol thats wild

ok chill he would have died to mazinos ult if he didnt die to his own

ya theyre shit on this map tbh

you wouldnt, but hes not a "step under" any of them(beside demon1 probably when hes not playing like that game just now LMFAO) hes def on par with marved skill wise

step under?? bro he was the highest rated controller in americas last season you underestimate how good mans is

yo can we chill LMFAO

3v5 to 3v1 to losing round im dead bro LMFAOOOOOOOO

who tf let jessievash fry this hard

wait wtf i didnt even realize we were on map 2 LMAO

holy essay bruh nobodys reading all this shit

i have just always understood "power ranking" and "team ranking" to be two different things and based on the "power rankings" i see from like mls posts and people reacting to it(and people reacting to different sports pages when they post power rankings) people usually see it similar to how i do and theres the one guy in the instagram comments section that goes "what?? this sucks! X team should be above Y team because of [reason that assumes the post is a team ranking rather than a power ranking]" and then some other guy ratios the comment with "its a power ranking dumbfuck"
the idea about attachment to words is interesting and my response to that as a guy with a useless 80k english degree is that we use language as our vehicle to communicate, and that communication, that language, is built off a collective understanding of assigned meanings to words so we can all understand the same thing when dan tells the waiter he wants the steak medium rare with a side of fries or when janice and dan make plans at the dinner table to go kayaking the following day, because if we dont have that collective understanding dan gets a soup and salad and shows up to the lake to meet janice carrying a bow and arrow
point is that attachment the only thing holding together how we communicate precise information to other people, so when we use those words differently that communication falls apart
this is why we cant communicate effectively to people that dont speak the same language as us, and while that seems really obvious, the actual mechanics of it are that people that speak english have a collective understanding of how to order a medium rare steak with a side of fries, and that understanding is different to the still collective understanding that is held by people who speak spanish, and they both do not share the collective understanding that people who speak tagalog do for how to order the steak
so i think that we kind of do need to be attached to words in that sense, even though those understandings change and evolve between languages over time and in different societies, we still need some attachment to it because otherwise we are effectively all literally speaking different languages

ive written like 10 different papers on this topic this is the only thing i know.

for what its worth i think everyone else reacting to your post is also doing a ranking based on team quality and not a power ranking in their head
like, kru are 2-0, for a power ranking they should realistically be higher than the 7/8 range
but if its just ranking the teams based on how good they are, yeah they're in that spot most likely

i said "dont call it a power ranking" but im also saying its a power ranking? pick one they cant both exist
also i said if for a reason

your ranking reads more like an actual ranking of team quality adjusted with partiality to recent results
thats not what a power ranking is in my mind and i think the application of the term "power ranking" is just wrong
in a power ranking c9 specifically would be much higher after going 3-0 and beating two theoretically strong teams
but like you have 1 sen 2 nrg which i agree with if youre talking about how good the team is but thats not really what power ranking means
because like for instance, sen lost to lev and nrg havent lost a game yet. if you make a power ranking immediately after that game, sen should not be 1st because they're 1-1 and lost to a team that just took a bad loss(both on paper and in performance lol lev played like ASS against c9 ngl)
ill preface this with i know next to nothing about basketball but im just gonna assume the nuggets are really good(and for this example, im arbitrarily assuming theyre the best in the league) because you used them in your example lol:
if the nuggets lost 5 in a row while being the best in the league, a quality ranking would still put them 1st, and the standings might have them 1st, but a power ranking would not - they would drop several places in a power ranking(or should) off that

that is my issue with your ranking is your ranking is 100x closer to a quality ranking than a power ranking
hope that makes things clear

"read what you are writing" but you claimed i was attacking your "power ranking" for recency bias in my comment
you obviously cant read what im writing if you're saying this nonsense man

what does the quality of loud's play have to do with my comment man

please name one example of this

mb ill email your english teacher and see if they can save your hopeless ass

its exactly the same thing but the rankings are clearly different
you cant see what im saying either evidently

yeah but its extremely reliant on form, power rankings look significantly different to basic team standings
i dont watch basketball so i cant really access this analogy properly but lets say the league last season was 18 games instead of 9 and loud after going 8-1 won their next 4 and lost their final 5, but still finished 1st, by the end of the season they would be ranked below teams that finished slightly below them in the standings(lets say c9 lost one more game than them and finished 2nd, they would probably be above loud in this example)
its not to the extreme end where kru would ever be above loud but c9 is closer to sen than kru was to loud lol
they are literally on a 3 game winning streak against very strong teams

do none of you know what a power ranking is? is this an issue all of you have on this site? we just forget what words mean now?
again, sen are obviously better than c9 and would beat them
c9 are also obviously in better form

fam its a power ranking what is there not to understand about this shit
of course c9 are above sen c9 are literally on a 3 game winning streak
obviously sen would still put c9 in the dirt like dogs, they're the best team in the world rn but c9 are in better form than a team that got 2-0d
"if youre doing a pure ranking it would be sen 1st" lets learn to read sometime this year please!

dogshit comparison man hes leaving them open to being 2nd-4th, saying a top 1 team itw is top 100 is obviously completely different

how do you edit your comment and still not understand what im talking about... youre lost

holy shit you actually cant read thats crazy
im saying you dont know what a power ranking is??? "is this a power ranking or a recency bias ranking, two different things"
a power ranking is ranking teams' form
this is why c9 is second
again, learn what words mean sometime this year PLEASE
"youre pointing my power ranking for being recency biased" im saying u dont know what a power ranking is you braindead fuck it literally says it
hopeless

is this a power ranking or a recency biased ranking
these are two different things
because if we're doing a power ranking c9 are 3rd at minimum and probably 2nd, they're 3-0 and beat lev+loud, and similar goes for kru
if this is a recency bias ranking then dont call it a friggin power ranking, words are not hard lets learn how to use them sometime this year
also if this is a ranking then its still shit lmfao who invited loud to the top 5? they had two weeks off and got absolutely FUCKED, and were not looking remotely good doing it
anyway an actual power ranking goes like:

1. NRG
2. C9
3. LEV
4. SEN
5. KRU
6. 100T
7. LOUD
8. G2
9. EG
10. FUR
11. MIBR

but if youre doing a pure ranking it looks more like:

1. SEN
2. NRG
3. LEV
4. 100T
5. C9
6. LOUD
7. KRU
8. G2
9. EG
10. MIBR
11. FUR

LMFAOOO

any one of coms clutches that bren was casting, every one of them is just the same thing but he manages to give me goosebumps with how he calls it every time