The Top Five
Strelok has quite literally swept his opposition to the side like dust this month, after making an excellent performance at the WCG Grand Finals where he came third, losing to Practise (aka Luxury). Lying on the floor next to the throne is Mondragon, and although he has also been continuing his usual impressive play, was unable to stop the Warship from taking the #1 spot. Legend has been doing well also, getting himself up to the #3 spot behind Mondragon as IefNaij falls down to fifth place, White-Ra going up an extra spot to compensate with his good play in the ESL MS.
Not everyone has done so well this season, however. Draco, who lost out at WCG in a rather horrid group, has fallen six spots to number 10, though it is still quite something that he has remained on the rankings for so long whilst more or less inactive. NonY has fallen down four spots, most likely due to a lack of activity in the foreign scene, given his current position in eSTRO. SquaLL and Chosen, who we have seen relatively little of, have also fallen quite steeply.
GosuGamers Rankings Top 30 12#PlayerTeamPtsChange#1 Strelok (Eugin Oparyshev)MYM.
1488 +2#2 Mondragon (Christoph Semke)ToT)
1447 -1#3 Legend (Luo Xian)LooNg)
1394 +3#4 White-Ra (Oleksii Krupnyk)MYM.
1376 +1#5 IefNaij (Jian Fei Wang)MYM.
1364 -3#6 DinOt (Cristóbal Lledó)MYM.
1345 +2#7 CaStrO (Jose Castro)LRM)
1328 +3#8 loveTT (Liu Yin)
1326 NEW!#9 Arew (Vytautas Graiciunas)MYM.
1311 -#10 Draco (Krzysztof Nalepka)
1308 -6#11 NonY (Tyler Wasieleski)Liquid, ESTRO
1300 -4#12 BRAT_OK (Pavel Kuznetsov)RoX
1257 +5#13 GOsia (Rafal Kontowicz)ToT
1253 -#14 Cloud (Carlo Giannacco)ToT
1246 -3#15 DIMAGA (Dima)RoX
1240 -#16 Dreiven (Grzegorz Kordek)MYM.
1234 +2#17 F91 (Sun Yi Feng)fnatic.
1226 +5#18 SquaLL (David Saez)ToT
1215 -6#19 MIStrZZZ (Peter Jaworski)LRM), ZZZ, BVG
1194 +1#20 A2 (Dmitry Demichev)RoX
1190 +5#21 LoWeLy (Anton)F2F
1186 +2#22 HoRRoR (Marius Overhageböck)mTw
1186 +2#23 ChinaTTTT (Zhang Lei)
1176 NEW!#24 Fengzi (Zhang Chun Lei)S.C
1172 NEW!#25 Chosen (Shawn Simon)MYM
1172 -6#26 Yayba (Jarek Pociecha)MYM., BVG
1164 +1#27 Ace (Valentin Váczi)ToT
1159 +1#28 UltraLinG (Madalin Ionut Bulancea)NrT.
1154 NEW!#29 hanniGan ()LRM)
1152 -8#30 MoonShine (Tomek Grinholc)MgZ)
1148 NEW!
Top 30 Breakdown - Clan
TeamPlayersHighest rank
MeetYourMakers8 Strelok (#1)
Templars of Twilight5 Mondragon (#2)
Team RoX3 BRAT_OK (#12)
Los Reyes Del Mambo3 CaStrO (#7)
Other11 N/A
Top 30 Breakdown - Nations
NationPlayersHighest rank
Poland6 Draco (#10)
China5 Legend (#3)
Ukraine4 Strelok (#1)
Russia2 BRAT_OK (#17)
Germany2 Mondragon (#2)
United States2 NonY (#11)
MYM dominant, LRM on the rise
As usual, MYM remain the top team on the list, though they lost one spot from last month leaving them with a still-impressive eight spots out of the top 30. It should be noted that they have improved their position, with half of their spots in the top six. LRM are doing well, with CaStrO placed seventh, though Hannigan almost dropped off the rankings this month, losing eight places.
ToT are doing well as always, and with the addition of Shad, AeriALs and Naugrim to their team they are likely to become even better in the near future. Mondragon remains strong, though the others have generally lost places on the rankings.
Poland's grip threatened by the Chinese
This month, the only way to properly describe the goings-on in the rankings would be to suggest that there had been a Chinese invasion. Three Chinese players suddenly jumped onto the rankings, with LoveTT miraculously managing to enter the leaderboard at #8. Legend leads the way, having gone up three places this month to the third spot. With only one player difference between Poland and China, this will be something to watch for next month, particularly as Moonshine hangs in the balance at #30.
Peru fell off the chart this year, after Fenix disappeared from the rankings altogether. The US takes their place, with NonY on eleventh place, though this is likely to drop as he will be too busy with Korean events.
Concluding
This month has seen the Chinese invade the rankings, Mondragon lose his throne to the Warship once again, and future events are likely to make next month's rankings even more eventful than December's ones! Draco is, at long last, finally beginning to fall down the rankings, but he will remain for some time yet.
Until next month...
