"Rnz, I'm more than a little bit offended that you put me in tier II,"
And that is my issue with this, really.
On one hand, we have tier 1 is the best "10-30 players in this game" (OP). We have a numerical value for what consitutes a tier 1 player but no qualitative way of determining if someone is tier 1. Just "Are you one of the best 10-30 players?". An issue of course is that players 1,2,3 maybe close in skill but players' 1 and 28's skill level may be more distant than 28 and a tier 2 player.
Plus, in my opinion, single games don't prove anything. Best out of 9 over the course of multiple days with different demigods/maps? Sure, that proves things. But one single game "oh yeah. I beat you 2 months ago in that pug!" really don't prove anything to me at all and that's one of the reasons I loath replays. Plus who the fuck cares about 2 months ago?
Quite frankly, I really don't think 10 people qualify for tier 1 because I really just hold it in such a high opinion. Maybe five.
On that list as SINGLE PLAYERS only (no teams. Which in some ways is stupid in my opinion because this is a team game but I understand where Pacov is coming from, you can't just fall apart without your partner) the people who I would consider that are active would be Dice, Orcun, Janook. But even then, I've beaten them. Does that make me better than them? Not really :-/ I just think that Dice, Orcun just play with whoever and still manage to make it a good game. Janook less so but he is still an excellent player (he avoids playing with people he doesn't know against good players, rather. This isn't something that is to be ashamed of, that is just something that is held against you in this list) and he does a lot of premade v premade, which is more important anyway in my opinion so...
Numerically speaking, obviously some players need to be moved up. Since the criteria seems to be based on just being adaptive and knowing how to play with whoever against whatever well. Those aren't the criteria I would pick since everyone has bad days. I do prefer Krestal's tiers at the same time (they were similar to mine) but even then... people play better when on their team than otherwise which is something the OP disqualifies from this list.
Anyway, I think that the tier 2 list should, can and will swell. This just means we have good players in this game and ffs that's a good thing! Tier 1 however... :-/ I dunno if that'll ever exist except for the numerical sense.
Eg, I really don't consider myself an awesome player. However, I can beat people who are awesome players. (really don't like to brag about it though >.< don't even like typing this out honestly). However, NUMERICALLY speaking I probably would sit in the top 100 players ( I know I do according to broken stats ). Dunno about 10-30 I think that's pushing it xP
I dunno. I really just think we need a fully established definition of tier 1 because it's very sloppy and ... misdirected in my opinion.
