Power Rankings Week 5 (Lost City of Un'Goro)

Introduction

MINI-SET WHEN?! As a reminder, we use internal data calculated into a formula called PAR to create these rankings. PAR calculates data such as win/loss, game win rates, and strength of schedule. If you would like to read more about how this is calculated, read the blog that Marty wrote explaining how it all works! Each week we will be updating you on how these players and teams shift throughout their respective series, as well as highlighting individuals and their journeys

Legacy

We’re officially over halfway done with this legacy regular season, let’s see how all our teams and players are shaping up! For our teams, we are still led by the dominant BILL BILL BILL team who hold a comfortable 7 point lead over ever other team in the league currently and a massive 21 point lead in their conference. Followed up closely are two teams in the Red conference who shot up the standings after dominant wins over their conference competitors last week. I’m NOT a Legacy 3 Seed :) move into 2nd after a 23 point week and Nirilì Narilà take the bronze with a 21 point week. This kicks an actual 4-0 team, The Justining, down to 4th place despite another win last week. With only 3 weeks left, I’m excited to see if some of these playoff races come down to the wire or if the current teams only extend their lead. With 2 wild card spots on the line, I’m sure it will end up extremely close. After the cross conference week that is currently happening, we end the season with 2 weeks of in-conference matches, and I will start making prediction on who will make it into the THL postseason and who will end up at the top of the power rankings podium!

As for our players, our shakeups come purely in the form of players from my team, I’m a Legacy 3 Seed :). Supersenter, with a spectacular 4-0 season, shoots into 4th place, while TAB and yours truly, EPICat, round out the 9th and 10th place spots. Apart from that, we just see slight adjustments and an entirely new podium (as the previous one all suffered losses last week!). Nejiboston leads in 1st, followed by grumpyninja and Wildrose, all with perfect 4-0 records. Lemur and Overloaded also come in close behind with their own 4-0 records, as well as AlwaysJustinTime and TwoStarMako who didn’t quite make the top 10 list. Our perfect record list is down to only 8, so I’m looking forward to seeing that number continue to fall as these players battle for the coveted MVP title. Good luck to everyone this upcoming week, and I’ll see you all back here for post-cross-conference takeaways. Cheers!
​-EPICat

Hero

SI:7 had a huge week 4 giving Unseen OP their first loss, with freshmastafunk having a clean sweep over PROBIwan rising 4 spots in the rankings to #5. Defy Us got their 3rd loss allowing ET Y’Shaarj to take a podium spot with their nailbitting win vs Ashalon’s Mountain, much due to Vmprnighthwk flexing as the best 2 seed with the #1 spot on our list.  Aristocratic Mountain is in 2nd place in points with a bye this week, with Supersenter making an appearance in the #10 spot. Their record should read 2-2 losing to Team Name which is now in the #5 spot. Tee3cat had a dominant 3-1 win over …me securing the #4 spot on our list. F2L: Black had a huge win knocking It/She Sweaters off the list, making an appearance at #10 along with rebobson at #6. NotBamity got knocked down to #7 after losing their first match to Yachster. Defiance had a close loss to DoLA, giving DoLA a boost to the #4 spot. There is currently a 2 point difference between the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams in the Hero standings, With only 2 weeks to go after this week. Aside from SI:7 being favored many of these teams are looking strong for playoffs
-JudoChop​

Pro

Entering week 5 of the season, BrushyTuna retains their number 1 ranking with their 3 players in the top 10 continuing to win. Last week featured a rare tie for number 1 ranking individually, with Jagatari of No. 5 Hearthstone Queens making a huge win over now No. 6 Nice Jewish Owl to put herself over No. 3 RonMexico. NJO’s team, No. 2 Mid Zoom Crisis did take the team victory thanks to the efforts of No. 5 Inzi and EPICat, who made a top 10 debut with the 10th spot. Both players are still undefeated and helped Mid Zoom Crisis cement their status as the top team in the Pink Conference, both in points and in the power rankings. No. 4 Cheese Mongers United and No. 6 Washed Up made the biggest gains in the team power rankings as they won against No. 7 Opportunistic Pro Players and No. 10 ET Yogg-Saron respectively, important wins as all 4 teams were hovering around the 3rd place spot of each conference and wins like these improve their chances of locking in playoffs.
-trido2

Wild

It's time for the THL Power Rankings for Wild! ET N'Zoth Continued their dominance of the series so far, distancing themselves from the chasing pack by beating Cereal Clowns to rise to 81 points. Staff of the Five Dubs (65 points), and 😎 (65 points) both leapfrogged Cereal Clowns (53 points) to keep ET in touching distance. Greasers (41 points) and WTF (31 points) remain the cellar dwellers. Amazingly, ET N’Zoth on its own at time of writing, has 3 unbeaten players. Kleptomanic, (4-0) Ruins/Unburnt/PaHyang (5-0!) and Dory (3-0) who was replaced by a sub virtuzz (2-0) (we are gonna staple them together for fun). MartyB (rigged) remains the only non-N'zoth player still unblemished.

This week, ET N'zoth and Staff of the Five Dubs get to practice what looks like now to be a playoff dress rehearsal. 😎 looks to keep Greasers winless (and try to catch up to N'zoth), whilst WTF figure out wtf they will need to do to beat Cereal Clowns.

If I had to pick one match to watch this week, it would be Kleptomanic (4-0) vs Filtrophobe (3-1). Klepto is a Reno Slop Pile cooker who refines his slop into fine dishes (that are still slop). Filtrophe is a former Wild Rank 1 who could easily be unbeaten at this stage of the competition. Will klepto keep yellow-carding on curve? Will filtrophobe take klepto to the shadow realm (Australia)? Tune in next time on ~~Dragon Ball Z~~ the THL WILD POWER RANKINGS!
-SchmoopyDady