Topic moved and merged - since it's got nothin to do with the monthly tournaments, and everything to do with the Tulsa SSBB community, I merged it with that communities thread.
As far as I'm concerned - the OK Power rankings are the Norman Power rankings with Norman and those they cannot easily ignore on it
While the top 3 are often tracked from events, I don't feel the factors of the remaining 5 spots or so are really tracked well enough; also since the majority of the old norman crowd never travelled due to age, cost etc - I'm not sure how much they really can weigh in on their neighboring cities. Tulsa has some of that problem as well, but I do know some players that would happily come down for a "power rankings tournament" so to speak. Hanson and I spoke briefly about it - that it shouldn't affect it absolutely - but should heavily weigh in on that.
And it's down to Norman - not up
And why are you speaking on regret, etc? You go to tournaments - you get top placement - you deserve the spot. I'm sure Kos Mos even won alot of events held in Norman, and I know of Hanson and Josh's many wins. In the end - no one familiar with the players would say that Norman shouldn't overall own the top 5 - but the remaining spots in the top 10 seem more a result of buddy-buddy thinking that grows from Norman players being more in tune with Smash Boards than an actual Oklahoma community reading; as such it calls the results overall of such an "OKLAHOMA" power ranking into question in several players minds I've spoken with.
Oh - and when are you guys going to drag said KosMos up to Tulsa with you? I hear he's playing ZSS? I'd like to see the Great Kos Mos compete against our local ZSS player
Not to mention seeing him go against some of the other cities that show up to Tulsa's monthly gatherings. It's easy for us all to see how Josh, Hanson and Typ_Ex earn their ranking, but never seeing Kos go against anyone from OK's other cities outside of Norman makes it kinda hard to really know if he continues to truly 'ranks above', ya know? Well, and I heard after Josh's recent non-1st he was called into question - so it only makes sense apply that logic to all - to question Kos Mos, Zinth, and others. It's called rankings - as in an overall result of many events right... Thus I'd like to see how those OTHER players in the top 10, like say Zinth would currently do against other players outside of Norman before they get to maintain those higher spots so easily.
I mean, are there events held in Norman that don't get posted on OKgamers that we simply don't know about - or are you guys going off simply your weeklies, and the one or 2 HxC and MGC's that OKC had months and months ago? I would like to hope the rankings in OK come from events held in OK of the OK players - but then again I see time and time again players ranking well in SSBB events - but nothing other than Josh and Norman favored types ending up in that list? Where is the breakdown in understanding here - or is Norman truly just fashioning the list, and moving on ignoring rankings from tournaments across the state?
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