The Chinese stars Sky and Infi gained some unexpected company from their countryman and teammate Zhuo "TeD" Zeng this month at the top of the rankings. The Undead player amazingly climbed 17 placements since the last monthly ranking, much thanks to a strong performance in the ROTK, and landed on a solid 3rd place. The biggest drop this month was Fly100% who, after some disappointing losses in the WC3L, fell from 13th to 26th place. Apart from this and just a couple of other drastic changes, most players have more or less managed to preserve their ranking since last month.
GosuGamers Rankings Top 30 05#PlayerTeamPtsChange#1 Sky (Xiaofeng Li)
World Elite
1494 +/- 0#2 Soju (Lee Sung Duk)
SK-Gaming
1418 + 10#3 TeD (Zhuo Zeng)
World Elite
1406 + 17#4 Infi (Haowen Wang)
World Elite
1384 +/- 0#5 Lyn (June Park)
SK-Gaming
1381 - 3#6 Grubby (Manuel Schenkhuizen)
MeetYourMakers
1380 - 3#7 WhO ()
mTw
1363 + 2#8 ToD (Yoan Merlo)
MouseSports
1352 - 3#9 Soccer (Duck Man Youn)
Wicked
1338 + 1#10 Moon (Jang JaeHo)
MeetYourMakers
1326 - 4#11 Lucifer (Jae Wook Noh)
MeetYourMakers
1325 - 4#12 Shy (Park Chul Woo)
fnatic
1315 + 5#13 xiaOt (Li Wei Sun)
wNv
1311 + 1#14 ReMinD (Kim Sung Sik)
SK-Gaming
1287 + 1#15 FoCuS (Eom Hyo Sub)
fnatic
1286 + 8#16 ReiGn (Seo Woo Kang)
SK-Gaming
1286 + 2#17 Space ()
fnatic
1277 - 9#18 Check ()
mTw
1272 + 6#19 XlorD (Daniel Spenst)
aTTaX
1271 - 8#20 Happy (Dmitriy Kostin)
MouseSports
1270 - 4#21 Sweet (Chun Jung Hee)
BeT
1261 - 2#22 TH000 (Huang Xiang)
wNv
1256 + 4#23 HoT (Mykhaylo Novopashyn)
Gravitas Gaming
1233 - 1#24 Satiini (Juha-Matti Bäckström)
PGS
1229 + 3#25 WinnerS ()
mTw
1223 NEW!#26 Fly100% (Wei Liang Lu)
MouseSports
1219 -13#27 Like (Ke Li)
World Elite
1208 NEW!#28 Creolophus (Olav Undheim)
1236 - 3#29 Susiria (Jung-Ki Oh)
MeetYourMakers
1204 - 1#30 SaSe (Kim Hammar)
MouseSports
1202 NEW!
Top 30 breakdown by race
Race Players Highest rank
Night Elf 11 SK.Soju
Undead 8 WE.TeD
Orc 7 SK.Lyn
Human 4 WE.Sky
The Elves regain dominance
After an Undead dominated period last month, the Night Elves have retaken the lead as the most represented race in the top 30 rankings. This due to WinNerS and SaSe entering the ranking while BeT's Undead star FoV dropping to 34th place after a slightly inactive amonth with very disappointing results. In a way, the Humans lost some ground but World Elite's duo Sky and Infi remain strong at the top of the rankings. Finally, the Horde gained another companion in Like, but Grubby, Lyn and especially Fly100% lost ground.
Korea dominating as always, but China holds top positions
Just like last month, South Korean players are filling up half the monthly ranking. But, with TeD's skyrocket ascension to 3rd place, the Chinese are growing strong, holding 3 of the 4 top places. With Soju racing up to second rank, he was the only Korean to disturb the dominance of the World Elite trio at the top. The "fifth race" Moon has continued to show that his form is not at it's best and has continued to lose placements. Apart from the two Asian dominants, a handful of European players are also struggling for better positioning with most of them situated on the lower half. They were joined by SaSe, who's really picked up his game the last few weeks, and thereby re-established Sweden among the ranked nations.
BeT's loss, mTw's gain
With the transfer of Check, WhO and WinNerS from Beijing E-sports Team to mTw, the latter team has taken a strong position in the clan tally. On the other hand, BeT has fallen to pieces and only the now retired Sweet remains on the rankings. As for the other team, World Elite, SK Gaming and MeetYourMakers are still the dominants along with MouseSports, who added another player to their top 30 count with SaSe. With elfittaja leaving hoorai.XQ and ending just outside the rankings this month, the team is no longer listed. Apart from that, there has been no greater changes among the clans with ranked players.
Top 30 breakdown by nation
Nation Players Highest rank
South Korea 15 SK.Soju
China 7 WE.Sky
Netherlands 1 MYM]Grubby
France 1 mouz.ToD
Germany 1 aTTaX.XlorD
Russia 1 mouz.Happy
Ukraine 1 Gravitas.HoT
Finland 1 PGS.Satiini
Norway 1 Creolophus
Sweden 1 mouz.SaSe
Top 30 breakdown by team
Team Players Highest Rank
World Elite 4 WE.Sky
SK-Gaming 4 SK.Soju
MeetYourMakers 4 MYM]Grubby
MouseSports 4 mouz.ToD
mTw.AMD 3 mTw.WhO
fnatic 3 fnatic.Shy
wisdom Nerve victory 2 wNv.xiaOt
WICKED eSports 1 wicked.Soccer
ALTERNATE aTTaX 1 aTTaX.XlorD
Beijing Esports Team 1 BeT.Sweet
Gravitas Gaming 1 Gravitas.HoT
PGS.PokerStrategy 1 PGS.Satiini
Clanless 1 Creolophus
