GG.net rankings September 2007

New month - new ranking!

We are proud to present our world ranking, based on our result database, for September 2007. Since our last report in June several new players have taken a spot in our top 30 ranking. From now on, we will present the ranking in the beginning of every month with a clear overview of all the changes.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new leader

During the summer lots of events has been taking place - NGL, WC3L ESWC and CEG just to name a few. All of them have been added to our database and they have changed the positions in our ranking significantly. The biggest news is that a new player has taken over the throne - Xiaofeng Li, better known as Sky from World Elite. He passed the previous number one, Moon, with only two points giving him a total of 1439 points. The big reason for his advancement is PGL 2007, where he went through the tournament with an excellent record of 14 wins and 4 losses. The best European player this month is ToD, taking the third place with 1436 points, which means only 3 points differs first place from third place.

Five new players have managed to get into top 30; three from China and two from South Korea. Most impressive of them is FoCuS, who is residing at 13th place, much because of his great performance in the NGL-One playoffs. The biggest drop during the summer was made by Sweet. Five straight losses and a 6-6 record in PGL made him decrease from 18th place to a mediocre, by his standards, 36th place. Deadman, who recently joined Defining Stars after being released from SK-Gaming, also made a big drop by 12 spots. Even though he's the best Russian player, he is now ranked as 23rd.

GosuGamers Rankings Top 30 09
#	Player	Team	Pts	Change
#1	Sky (Xiaofeng Li)	World Elite	1439	+3
#2	Moon (Jang JaeHo)	MeetYourMakers	1437	-1
#3	ToD (Yoan Merlo)	4Kings	1436	-1
#4	ReMinD (Kim Sung Sik)	SK-Gaming	1431	+1
#5	Creolophus (Olav Undheim)	4Kings	1409	-2
#6	Soju (Lee Sung Duk)		1403	+1
#7	Lyn (June Park)	SK-Gaming	1353	-1
#8	Grubby (Manuel Schenkhuizen)	4Kings	1339	-
#9	FoV (Dae Hui Cho)	BeT	1330	-
#10	Lucifer (Jae Wook Noh)	MeetYourMakers	1293	+3
#11	Susiria (Jung-Ki Oh)	MeetYourMakers	1291	-1
#12	Lyc ()	Colorful	1267	+7
#13	FoCuS (Eom Hyo Sub)	MeetYourMakers	1255	New!
#14	Satiini (Juha-Matti Bäckström)	fnatic	1249	+6
#15	TH000 ()	wNv	1248	New!
#16	LiiLD.C (Daniel Claesson)	4Kings	1240	-
#17	Shy. (Park Chul Woo)	Team NoA	1232	-2
#18	HoT (Mykhaylo Novopashyn)	SK-Gaming	1231	-6
#19	Infi ()		1228	+5
#20	ReiGn (Seo Woo Kang)	World Elite	1220	-6
#21	Fly100% (Wei Liang Lu)	mouz	1214	-4
#22	suHo ()	WE.IGE	1203	New!
#23	Deadman (Andrey Sobolev)	Defining Stars	1200	-12
#24	Sai ()	wNv	1197	New!
#25	Neytpoh ()	srs	1194	+2
#26	SaSe (Kim Hammar)	Mousesports	1176	-1
#27	Nilknarf (Franklin Pearsall)	mTw	1174	-4
#28	Fire (Andrew James Regendantz)		1158	-7
#29	WinnerS ()	BeT	1148	New!
#30	Insomnia (Zdravko Georgiev)	SK-Gaming	1145	-8

South Korea dominating and 50% Night Elf players in top 30

Yes, you read right! Of the 30 players half of them are playing as Night Elf and four of them reside in the top ten spots. Orc and Undead are the least represented races with four players each and Human comes in second place with seven players. If one looks at the nationality of the players it becomes clear that the majority comes from Asia. South Korea tops the list with 11 players where six of them are in the top 10, followed by China with seven. The only one representing North America is Nilknarf and the remaining players all come from Europe where Sweden and Russia has two players each - the rest are they only ones from their country to be in the top 30. When looking at what team the players are playing for one can see that MYM, SK and 4Kings are sharing the first place with four players each, closely followed by World Elite with three. A rather surprising fact is that two players without any team, Fire and Soju, are in the top 30.

Top 30 breakdown by country # Country Players Highest rank #1 South Korea 11 Moon #2 China 7 Sky #3 Sweden 2 LiiLD.C #3 Russia 2 Deadman #5 France 1 ToD #5 Norway 1 Creolophus #5 Netherlands 1 Grubby #5 Finland 1 Satiini #5 Ukraine 1 HoT #5 United States 1 Nilknarf #5 Germany 1 Fire #5 Bulgaria 1 Insomnia

Top 30 breakdown by team # Team Players Highest rank #1 MeetYourMakers 4 Moon #1 4Kings 4 ToD #1 SK-Gaming 4 ReMinD #4 World Elite 3 Sky #5 Beijing E-sports Team 2 FoV #5 No team 2 Soju #5 wNv 2 TH000 #5 Mousesports 2 Fly100% #9 Colorful 1 Lyc #9 fnatic 1 Satiini #9 NoA 1 Shy #9 Defining Stars 1 Deadman #9 Serious Gaming 1 Neytpoh #9 Mortal Teamwork 1 Nilknarf