OK, the way I see it, Tibs and Earl are both extremely talanted players and very close in skill level.
If this ranking was a representation of performances between last update (pre-Robocop) and now, Earl would more than likely be #2.
However, at this point in time Tibs has shown to be in currently better form than Earl. Tibs has placed second at the last two tournaments he attended, in that time beating Attila x1, Earl x2, Tedeth x1, Zxv x1, Afropony x1 I think and Splice x2, while losing to Jei x1, Attila x2 and Tedeth x1.
Compared to Earl, who unfortunately did not get to play Tedeth (who he has a strong record against) or Zxv (who he has an... indifferent record against) at ACL, he has beaten Splice and Afropony in that time for notable players, while losing to Attila x2 and Tibs x2.
I don't really involve the EBGames tournament nor the February tournament (where Earl's strongest competition was Toshi) as part of my mindset when trying to differentiate these two players. If we feel the need and Earl clearly proves himself a strong claim for #2, we can update the list after next CouchWarriors (assuming both can attend DGJ and CW). It's definitely close, don't get us mistaken.
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I'm not well judged to comment on positions #4 and #5, as I was not in attendance last CouchWarriors. Before that point, Jei and I were confident in having Splice at #4 and Afropony at #5, but Afropony beating Splice twice seems to have changed this. Without being there firsthand, I'm not going to blindly believe Afropony's "I 2-stocked or JV-2ed him nearly every game" or Splice's "there was no one there so I couldn't be bothered trying" (paraphrasing) so I trust Jei, Splice and Afropony settled this.
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Positions #9 and #10 were discussed quite a bit. Before CouchWarriors, we had settled on Viva being #9 and Dekar being #10. Leish did well at EBGames (it seems, I was not in attendance there either) which seems to have lifted there over Viva, in combination with her decently strong out-of-state performances. However, I am not sure about this... Viva did not do too well at last CouchWarriors, but in the end, neither did Leisha... and Viva has recent winning form vs. Leish, Dekar, Nicks I think, as well as Nova and S.D and ACL, whereas Leish does/used to beat Dekar (Dekar has won the most recent set between the two, however) but lost to players around her position like Nicks at CW, Viva at the CW before that, etc. I'll try to rediscuss this.
Whatever the result, on this current list you can consider ViVa and Nicks the honourable mentions.
Really, the main things that were discussed kinda were me vs. Jei (unusually, it was Jei that thought I was above him, and me that thought Jei was above me), Splice vs. Afropony, the players/positions of #9 and #10 and briefly Jei vs. Toshi (Jei has outplaced Toshi at the past three "official" tournaments and beaten him head2head in that time, but was not enough for Jei to overpass him!). I don't think this is a bad result.
We do have a image (courtesy of Splice), but it is of the outdated version. If Splice makes an image for Leish and edits it/sends it to me to edit, we can upload.
Edit: the amount of games won in a losing set against a top player is very occasionally useful if the two players being compared are extremely close in positioning, but I'd rather not use it much. The gap between barely losing a game/set and actually winning it is suprisingly large: top players more often than not rise to the occasion and still manage to win. Like seriously, there have been a bunch of people who "nearly" beat Mew2King in the United States, but that number is in direct contrast to the number of people who actually have beaten him. To use an example closer to home, no-one really cares if I took a game off Zxv, he's still the one advancing in the tournament, not me ^_^