Power Rankings Week 7 (lost City of Un'Goro)

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​DOUBLE WEEK BAYBEE!!! 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

Final regular season week is here! I’ll be at the race to make playoffs; it’s especially close because of the two wild card spots left open. First off, in the gold conference! BILL BILL BILL holds a comfortable lead over their whole conference and have a spot clinched. F2L: White is also very likely to make the playoffs, but go head to head against Gold’s third place team, 7 Mile Spanking Machine. If 7 Mile can win every match and hold F2L to 6 points or less, they can snipe the spot. It’s very unlikely, however, as even a single match win clinches the 2nd seed for F2L. 

In the silver conference, these margins become much tighter. The Justining remains in first, but only 5 points over TFCAOTN. To compete with them, The Story of Scorpius and Big W Esports are also both close behind. Justins and TFCAOTN face off, and Scorpious and Big W also do, so there is real potential for some seed swaps to occur in this final week. A big win from Scorpius and a close match between the current top seeds could vault them into the conference’s top seed, one of many outcomes that could happen. 

Next, of course, is the Red Conference. I’m NOT a Legacy 3 Seed :) and Nirilì Narilà currently hold the top two spots and the 2nd and 3rd place on this PAR podium, and also face each other this week. ET C’Thun and Defias are tied at 93 points for Red’s third place spot. While the gaps here are a little larger, there still is potential for either ET C’Thun or Defias to sneak into one of Red’s playoff spots. 

Finally, of course, are the wild cards. If the season were to end at this very moment, they would both go to teams in Red (ET C’Thun and Defias). In fact, both of these teams have more points then the 2nd place team in Silver. While they currently hold the lead, there still are teams in the silver race that can catch them. Defias and ET C’Thun face each other this week, so a lopsided win from either side could flip the other team out of the race. We’ll see how it ends up after the double week!

I don’t want to forget our players, either. Overloaded has moved into the 1st place spot with their 6-0 record, and Supersenter moves up into the 3rd with the same. Lulnenko, at 5-1, also sneaks their way into the top 3. As for our MVP race, it is currently led by the 2 6-0 players. Even more impressively, these two players have lost barely any games all season, with Supersenter leading at 18-2 and Overloaded close behind at 18-4. If they were both to lose, tee3cat is our only other undefeated player currently in the running. If all 3 of them were to lose then the MVP trophy is anyone’s for the taking! Of course, we’ll have to wait for the awards show to really know who gets the prize …

Good luck to everyone in playoffs, and thanks for reading!
-EPICat​

​hero

There are currently 3 teams sitting above 60 points going into this week and only one of them managed to get a win in week 6. SI:7 was knocked off the podium by It/She Sweaters, and ET ‘ YShaarj managed to pull one point above Last Minute Team in a critical win putting them #3 in our Rankings.The three 60+ point teams have byes this week so their points are final.

APM’s top performing teams Aristocratic Mountain and Ashalon’s Mountain have climbed to the #1 and #2 spots on the rankings. They face off this week each looking to clinch a top seed for playoffs along with Unseen OP. I’m not sure if mathematically we have our top 6 but I'm bad at maths. Geranium Battle is typically my goto for playoff birth questions… ask him.

We have some new faces in the player department, LuluMK1 knocked henry off the ranking taking a spot for themselves. WalkerMan, managed to knock EpiCat down a few notches at a critical point in this season where every point matters, and CmaccoompH just made the #10 spot by winning a close match vs Saltman
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Supersenter had the biggest jump this week into the #3 spot, NotBamity continues their love affair with the PAR formula taking the #1 spot. Notable mention to freshmastafunk in the 3 seed for being the only 5-1 player going in to week 7 in the #2 spot. Not one Hero player is undefeated so we’ll see who else can achieve a 5-1 record this week in attempts to carry their team to the playoffs.  WHO ELSE IS EXCITED?!
-JudoChop​

Pro

Going into the final week of THL we are slowly starting to see standings finalize but there is still one week left to see a potential shakeup or not. The biggest shakeup this week teamwise is No. 6 CardCrafters, who handed No. 2 Mid Zoom Crisis their second loss in a row to enter at 6th place and have outside chances to make the playoffs. No. 3 and Unidentified Pet Tracking and No. 4 F2L swap spots after F2L got upsetted by No. 9 ET Yogg-Saron. Similar to Card Crafters, ET Yogg-Saron have outside chances to make playoffs as the 5th place team of their conference where the no. 3 and no. 4 of Black conferences are playing each other. Individually, No. 6 Jagatari, who has been No. 1 for 3 weeks in a row has been toppled after a 1-3 loss to No. 4 Memnarch of Cheese Mongers United. The other big upset in the top 10 is No. 10 Dagda, formerly ranked No. 6, also lost 1-3 to nedkek of ET Yogg-Saron. No. 5 EPICat makes the biggest jump in rankings defeating former top 10 Sp1n3 in a nail-biter 3-2.
-trido2​