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Jun 23, 2008 at 12:26 PM CDT
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CGS '08 Power Rankings - Week 3
Posted by: MarkDolven
The entire staff of the Carolina Core has come together to do the third edition of a new series on the site, called “Weekly Power Rankings.” Throughout the season, every Sunday night we will each do our own respective divisions and combine them in one article. Not much has changed in the rankings because the action has stayed fairly consistent. Vanessa did lose her first match ever, but this wasn't enough to knock her off the #1 throne in DOA Female. Without further ado, check out the weekly power rankings now!
The opinions in this article do not represent the Carolina Core or its parent companies, but only of the author himself.
Written by Clancy Tate
FIFA 08 | CGS '08 Week 1 Power Rankings (as of June 22nd, 2008) | |||
| RANK | PREV | TEAM | |
| 1 | 2 |
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Wizakor Record: 6-3 Last year's CGS World Champion FIFA player regains our top spot this week. Wizakor has really found his groove in his last three games as he has defeated Barmoa, Stermy and Eafra. Although Anomaly seems to be his kryptonite, Wizakor is 6-1 against the rest of the league. It was a tough choice for the current top spot, but 3D's striker and franchise player has just been playing too well lately to ignore. |
| 2 | 4 |
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Stermy Record: 7-3 The biggest surprise to me so far this season isn't Eafra, but rather Stermy's latest charge. He was won five out of his last six matches and is finally showing the world why Kat Hunter not only kept him on the team, but protected him. Stermy played really well against Anomaly last Friday despite the shootout victory. He has been producing a lot of scoring opportunities in every game he plays and this has been the key to his victories. He is definitely one of the more aggressive players in the league and if he keeps this up, he could make a run at the individual title in FIFA. |
| 3 | 1 |
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Eafra Record: 7-2 The likely rookie of the year in the CGS, Eafra has made his fall from grace in my power rankings. This isn't because he has been playing horrible, but more a product of Wizakor and Stermy's strong play. Eafra shocked a lot of people when he won his television debut against he veteran Anomaly, but let's be real here, he's been shocking us in a good way all year. Eafra has been one of the few areas of consistency for Chicago and he will need to keep this up for the sake of the franchise. Eafra still has the best FIFA record in the league at 7-2, so he is in control of the individual title race. This should make him commit a lot of time and energy towards his game, so don't expect this rookie to slip any further in the rankings. |
| 4 | -- | 
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Anomaly Record: 3-6 Anomaly falls to the fourth spot this week behind more shootout losses. He has now has an incredible five shootout losses, with no victories. He did lose in regulation to Eafra for the first time all season, but is this really a positive thing? Anomaly has a match remaining against Wizakor, which could be a good thing because two of Brock's three wins are against the New York player. The Core need Anomaly to step up as they try and make a run at the playoffs, so look for this professional to step it up. |
| 5 | 6 |
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KreeganBG Record: 2-6 Stop the presses, Kreegan is starting to step up his game. He entered the season as my favorite for the top spot in FIFA, but behind some poor play and weird team choices, he appeared as last on my first power ranking. This week he moves up a spot from a surprising two out of three victories. This included a victory over the Chimera's Eafra. Kreegan seems to be showing signs of life, but it is too little too late. The damage has already been done to his 2-6 record. Felipe plays with a tremendous amount of personal pride, so I honestly expect him to finish strong. |
| 6 | 5 |
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Barmoa Record: 2-7 Barmoa falls to our last place this week behind a four game losing streak. He has won a plethora of games by one single goal, but a loss is a loss. Barmoa is the owner of the league's worst record at 2-7, but he still isn't hurting his franchise that bad. He averages less than a point lost per game for the Venom, so things are okay. Bardia would love to get something going before the playoffs, but at this rate it doesn't look like this is realistic. |
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MarkDolven
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2020rob
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To say the OPTX are struggling is a bit much. The truth of the matter is that Sackamonjaro and Miximup have been *very much* in every race typically even leading the majority of laps. They should have (and I think would have) won the first match against Venom (June 3rd) if Muffin didn't get lucky and bounce off the wall. Second, their most recent lost to a great 3D team was a toss up (Nothing agaist CBD and Darkstorm...they are great racers), Miximup lead the entire race...it was luck of the draw who came out of the final pile up. Lastly, they have the 3rd highest number of points scored for their team. If it wasn't for an all-or-nothing scramble for the finish line during the last race with 3D their PD would be 3rd highest as well. OPTX's record could easily be 6 and 4 right now.
Last modified on 6/23/2008 at 1:13 pm EST
Last modified on 6/23/2008 at 1:13 pm EST
MarkDolven
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Forza is a lot about "if's" and "should'ves", but reality is all we have to go off of. I strongly agree with Optx's placing in the rankings.
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2020rob
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#3 Placement..yes Struggling...no
sapphiRe
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edit: ty #9 for correction 
confused me there ;p
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* 3D.NY - Taxi - Dead or Alive 4 Female *
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confused me there ;p
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* 3D.NY - Taxi - Dead or Alive 4 Female *
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Funshine
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Normally the team with the best record has the top spot in the power rankings especially when that team has beaten the team you placed above them twice but I guess thats just me (talking about forza)
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2020rob
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3D FM2 has also earned their team one more point than Core and has a greater point differential.
ncasolo
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I may have mis-read a result somewhere with the core placing, but I believe they lost to 3d earlier in the week. As far as the comments go... not sure where that came from. I intend to edit it when I get home from work.
MarkDolven
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I had the wrong portion of writing in for the Core.Forza blurb on the site.. That was the week 1 blurb lol..
Solo: No, the core is currently 2-0 against the 3D Racers..
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Solo: No, the core is currently 2-0 against the 3D Racers..
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Funshine
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Core beat 3D forza 5-2 on June 5th and 4-3 on June 11th. Play for the 3rd and final time tonight.
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Forza: Core should be #1 in forza no ?'s asked. They have proven to be the top duo in the league with their 7-2 to 3D's 6-3. So they are not tied in the overall standings, which shouldnt put 3D at the top (not trying to sound like a fanboy. But its crap to put core in 2nd when they have the better record overall, and they beat 3D twice already.)
My 2 cents on that subject.
DoaM: if we are going by performace > w/'s/l's, DC should be above PerfectLegend. dc has 24 pf and carl has 26, yeah thats not a typo. yes the pd is on a larger scale, BUT dc almost always gets the point job done when its needed, while carl hasnt done **** for a clutch. I think he was a waste of a first round pick as well. All that hype and then NOTHING! Carl, I respect u as a player, but your record speaks for itself. You could have clutched the w for col last week against blackmamba, you've beaten the #2 and #3 male in the league so u have the talent, but it seems the choke factor is in effect.
DoaF: WOW! Did phoenix fall hard and fast or what? 2 to 4. i would have at least kept her at 3 cause she has been a great asset to venoms W's, only hardcore loss she had was against cools on friday.
CS:S- How could venom be #1 when they have a 1-1 franchise match record. Yes, Dallas has started to pull it together. But for the time being, 3D needs to be at the top due to their consistancy in the league. (alot of tonights matches should point out who should be #1 by next week)
Fifa: Eafra has fallen a little far imo. but its a good ranking overall.
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My 2 cents on that subject.
DoaM: if we are going by performace > w/'s/l's, DC should be above PerfectLegend. dc has 24 pf and carl has 26, yeah thats not a typo. yes the pd is on a larger scale, BUT dc almost always gets the point job done when its needed, while carl hasnt done **** for a clutch. I think he was a waste of a first round pick as well. All that hype and then NOTHING! Carl, I respect u as a player, but your record speaks for itself. You could have clutched the w for col last week against blackmamba, you've beaten the #2 and #3 male in the league so u have the talent, but it seems the choke factor is in effect.
DoaF: WOW! Did phoenix fall hard and fast or what? 2 to 4. i would have at least kept her at 3 cause she has been a great asset to venoms W's, only hardcore loss she had was against cools on friday.
CS:S- How could venom be #1 when they have a 1-1 franchise match record. Yes, Dallas has started to pull it together. But for the time being, 3D needs to be at the top due to their consistancy in the league. (alot of tonights matches should point out who should be #1 by next week)
Fifa: Eafra has fallen a little far imo. but its a good ranking overall.
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blazasaurus
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Carolina Core Forza is still # 1
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da_bears
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seriously if you are going to write a full in depth article about cs you should proly watch the matches before saying anything. You have absolutely no idea what your saying but just blowing smoke up every one's asses. Watch some demos before making stupid comments. Hey, heres a good prediction. I think we are first because I'm a fanboy of myself. Thats what it sounds like to me.
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seriously if you are going to write a full in depth article about cs you should proly watch the matches before saying anything. You have absolutely no idea what your saying but just blowing smoke up every one's asses. Watch some demos before making stupid comments. Hey, heres a good prediction. I think we are first because I'm a fanboy of myself. Thats what it sounds like to me.
#13 Not exactly sure what you're talking about. All the teams are ranked in order of their current CSS record, not by who is favored over who.
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exactly my point, watch some demos instead of looking on the paper. if you would watch the cs matches you would know that everyone has done a solid job in 1 half or another. But you wouldn't know that because you don't watch the cs matches. what you are doing here is watching a stream or something and thinking you know what you are talking about. If you want to become a cs review writer then you need to watch every match in depth, not this half ass write up.
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Nice Write up, I enjoy its format
IMO Perfect Legend needs to focus on one character :
IMO Perfect Legend needs to focus on one character :
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#15 its not like this is an official thing, its just someones point of view. dont have to get mad
ncasolo
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I edited the comments for the 3d Forza team. I misread the result of the core/3d 2nd match. Either way 3dNY has the best point differential so far this year so a case can still be made albiet a weak one.
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Referenced post #1 by MarkDolven
I *strongly* disagree with the opinion in Forza and don't understand the logic, but these articles truly are the opinion of the writers. We'll find out tonight for sure who the top racing team is.Guess you found out....
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Wow! No doubt, 3D Forza is number one.
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#15
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#19
im not understanding this at all. we played 3 times this year, we beat them twice, even by the same points dif. if we are tied for records it should come down to who holds the match wins. i could really care less about any rankings but people are grasping at straws over this *****.
it is what it is
im not understanding this at all. we played 3 times this year, we beat them twice, even by the same points dif. if we are tied for records it should come down to who holds the match wins. i could really care less about any rankings but people are grasping at straws over this *****.
it is what it is
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To say the OPTX are struggling is a bit much. The truth of the matter is that Sackamonjaro and Miximup have been *very much* in every race typically even leading the majority of laps. They should have (and I think would have) won the first match against Venom (June 3rd) if Muffin didn't get lucky and bounce off the wall. Second, their most recent lost to a great 3D team was a toss up (Nothing agaist CBD and Darkstorm...they are great racers), Miximup lead the entire race...it was luck of... the draw who came out of the final pile up. Lastly, they have the 3rd highest number of points scored for their team. If it wasn't for an all-or-nothing scramble for the finish line during the last race with 3D their PD would be 3rd highest as well. OPTX's record could easily be 6 and 4 right now.
#2Our ranking is spot on since we haven't been winning much lately. Yeah, those 2 matches you've mentioned could've gone either way and we were just a bit unlucky. Friday's untelevised race against Core was even closer than both of those matches, but Phantom recovered nicely after my takeout on the final turn.
SF OPTX
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Referenced post #22 by R1R-Phantom
[quote|19]im not understanding this at all. we played 3 times this year, we beat them twice, even by the same points dif. if we are tied for records it should come down to who holds the match wins. i could really care less about any rankings but people are grasping at straws over this *****.
You're not gasping the fact your gm said "we will find out TONIGHT FOR SURE who the top racing team is"
Whats so hard to understand? i quoted what #1 said and told him he found out who it was last night.
I know it sucks to lose, but you core guys are a bunch of babies when it comes to anyone criticizing any of you and it's really not professional.
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[quote|22]
You're not gasping the fact your gm said "we will find out TONIGHT FOR SURE who the top racing team is"
Whats so hard to understand? i quoted what #1 said and told him he found out who it was last night.
I know it sucks to lose, but you core guys are a bunch of babies when it comes to anyone criticizing any of you and it's really not professional.
#24 The only crying I see in any of the threads on this site are from 3D fanboys such as yourself.
You're not gasping the fact your gm said "we will find out TONIGHT FOR SURE who the top racing team is"
Whats so hard to understand? i quoted what #1 said and told him he found out who it was last night.
I know it sucks to lose, but you core guys are a bunch of babies when it comes to anyone criticizing any of you and it's really not professional.
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