I don't see how "A tiers losing at the right time" is considered criteria to not place Eric. All players on the tournament day must play through as many matches as their skill takes them to get further into the tournament, which means Eric had played just as many matches as SD, perhaps even more depending on how many friendlies each played. Fatigue also isn't quantifiable nor provable, are the panelists going to claim "bad day" every time an A tier player loses a tournament match to someone not in A tier? If you aren't playing at your best at the biggest major in Australia, perhaps you need to improve your mindset or stamina, but in no way does that reflect on other players who manage to beat you at that tournament. Eric played lots of friendlies with good players that day, and as much as friendlies have no bearing on the PR all of them would agree that he isn't a B tier player. One of those people was Dekar.
I know someone will also make the "travelling interstate, stayed in ****ty hotel etc etc." argument too, in which case I point out to you that Eric and I placed well at ACL despite not eating, sleeping and barely drinking for more than two days, and the tournament began 30 minutes after we got off our flight and bus ride to the venue with no rest inbetween. Does that mean we have an excuse if we lost matches we were "supposed" to win? Is there some convenient fine print I'm missing here? I can easily argue that Eric would have taken 1st at ACL if he wasn't so fatigued, and I've seen him play for more hours than many have ever played this game. Does my opinion now hold as much weight in regards to Eric's placement as Redact's (or anyone else's for that matter) of SD? No, it's ****ing irrelevant because that's not what Eric placed at ACL so it doesn't ****ing matter, and so neither does Redact's matter.
Redact said:
add cao in there and I placed 5th at tpoo despite that lineup
atticus placed 5th at ACL with again cao in that lineup
Have you or Atticus placed that highly at majors on three separate occasions, with no bad placements in between? You don't have a leg to stand on here.
Overall, all that needs to be done is either place Eric in a transitional tier or A tier. This "SD playing badly" bull**** is both irrelevant and unquantifiable, and Eric has placed highly and consistently at three major tournaments (his entire Australian smash experience), which is impossible to say about any of the other B tiers.
