Unable to make something happen against Opi, Skreww remains down at 6th place for the time being. While losing to Pofke isn’t the worst thing Ryooo could’ve done this week, he still drops two spots overall thanks to Lazybear’s surge against Yeesh going forward, he’ll need to tighten up his sniper if he wants to make a run at top of the standings. During SCL5, Yeesh maintained a sniper winrate of over 90% those numbers are usually good enough to take any set the distance, but so far he’s been unable to replicate that past success, and it shows against Lazybear in Week 2. What’s more surprising about this loss for Yeesh than the result is the margin by which it comes at. In a pretty shocking loss, Yeesh drops a couple spots on the power ranking.
Able to make his spy work for him in this set, Pofke ran away with it despite bending just a bit on the sniper side to Ryooo’s spy. While last week’s rankings would have told you that Ryooo was the favorite in this matchup, the reality ended up being fairly different. Pofke’s win over Ryooo this week was just what he needed to get back into the game, power rankings-wise. That’s all flipped on its head though, Lazybear storming his way up the rankings as a result. Not without precedent, either Yeesh is a two time Summer Cup champion, and Lazybear’s previous excursions against him have ended rather badly for the bear. Lazybear surprised everyone this week, taking an absolutely dominating win over Yeesh, who was expected to be the strongest player in the division in the preseason rankings. Look out for next week though, as he has a match against… The only player in Platinum with a spotless record thus far, Opi is going to stay at the top in Week 2. Opi continues to handle the top spot, taking down Skrewwl00se in fairly convincing fashion. It’s also far more clear cut in individual match results than the razor thin margins of Week 1 no match went past 10 games with a 7-3 scoreline. While Platinum didn’t dissolve into pure chaos this week, the division still experienced a shakeup that’s going to change how the power rankings look from here on out. Two relatively expected results, one wildly unexpected one. Falcon’s going to need some impressive wins quick if he wants to recover from this early deficit. While this doesn’t outright drop him any further in the standings, it is a pretty significant loss for someone expected to be relatively safe from the demotion possibilities of 5th and 6th place. It’s enough to push him above Pwndnoob Though partially it’s because Pwndnoob hasn’t played his Week 2 match against Slappydavis as of this writing, and since these power rankings are the Most Important Thing, they deserve a slap on the wrist for it.Ĥ: Pwndnoob (-1) 5: FalconHit įalconHit felt the fury of a Diamond player scorned this week, unable to keep up with Magician’s breakneck spy.
With lots of strong spy play out of the old guard of Diamond, this is the best start to an SCL season Magician has had since Season 2 where he made the finals. Magician comes off hot on a win against FalconHit. Given that this blow comes against our previous number 2 spot, Track won’t be dropping too much in the standings, and has plenty of room to recover later on. His choices in drafting against YerAnd nearly handed him the win outright before the insane comeback streak. This didn’t look so likely halfway through the match however- being down 5-3 coming out of the doubled picks, YerAnd made a blistering 4 game win streak to come back and steal away the set in the back half, proving that he’s a threat to take this whole division.ĭon’t let the loss fool you Track is still a formidable contender in Diamond.
Second place of SCL5 Platinum shoots up to the top of the rankings with a razor thin win over divisional favorite, WarningTrack. Diamond saw some very interesting results this past week that are going to shake up the power rankings I wish I could characterize it as either the old guard holding off the new, or the new assaulting the old, but in reality nothing is so clear cut.