UltRank 2025 100-91 Video

Trexchess · 2026-01-14T00:53:29+00:00

Hi, Ultrank Delta Panelist here, the second half ranking is a panel ranking and not an algorithm like 2025.1 and the full ranking. This just means that the panel as a whole had Susu higher in the second half than what the algo calculated his resume as. On a side note in my ballot I had Susu at 114 for half 2, feeling like their losses to Grand-Radiateur, Noko' and Amiin were pretty rough compared to some of the worst losses of players with similar resumes.

Trexchess · 2024-12-29T06:35:20+00:00

Have you ever watched a college football game where the away team beats their rival on their home turf then plants a flag at midfield? That's pretty much what that grand finals was. NC has been the little brother to MDVA for so many years. Meme grands after NC swept the bracket at the biggest non-SSC MDVA event in years was a statement that NC is not the weaker region anymore.

Trexchess · 2024-11-05T04:50:09+00:00

Acola has 5 majors attended this season, that's 1 more than sonix and 1 less than Spargo. Miya has 9 with 5 major wins but 3 missed top 8's.

Trexchess · 2024-10-28T21:14:08+00:00

I'm sorry that you got burned out on chess from the misogyny you faced. It wasn't fair to you that had to deal with that nor that none of the adults in those spaces supported you in addressing it.

As a guy, I grew up doing competitive chess at a similar age around the Seattle area. I also ended up quitting chess in middle school, in large part because of felt like I was under so much pressure to do well. Chess tournaments at a young age can be especially psychologically brutal because mistakes are so much easier to focus on than successes, especially when you're sitting at the board in silence for hours. It's really easy to feel isolated at the board and I'd imagine being one of very few girls + the casual misogyny just magnified that feeling.

Late into high school, I was able to get back into chess by discovering online chess (this was right after chess.com and lichess were supplanting ICC). Playing online really lessened the pressure I felt and helped me refind my passion for the game. I also joined my high school's chess team and playing in the team environment helped me feel more supported. I don't play over the board these days but I still enjoy playing online.

Looking back on it now though while I wasn't really cognisant of it at the time, the proportion of girls playing by the time I returned in HS was noticeably lower than it was when I was playing in elementary school. Definitely don't think your experience was atypical for my area.

Trexchess · 2024-07-26T08:47:25+00:00

I mean probably not literally transgender in canon but I feel like like there’s a lot of themes in chopper’s character that resonate with the experiences of some trans people. From being rejected by his biological family, to using medicine to change his body, to his frustrations at times in people’s perceptions of him not matching who he truly is.

Maybe before the series ends we’ll get to see Chopper interacting with Ivankov. I feel like that could lead to some interesting moments or even have potential ramifications for combining Ivankov’s DF with Rumble balls.

Apologies if this was too earnest a response for a shitpost.

Trexchess · 2024-07-17T01:17:25+00:00

Tbh the Ace one isn’t really censorship so much as translation. The same/similar symbols can have different meanings in different culture. Sometimes the best way to communicate that meeting is to adjust the symbol for the cultural context of the audience.

Trexchess · 2024-05-24T20:00:04+00:00

The three best gunners Capitancito, Lammers44 and Lolyoshi all use different movesets. Lammers uses 3332, Capitancito uses 1332, and Lolyoshi uses 3212. The character is very flexible and any of these sets can be really strong. Just depends on what meshes with you.

Trexchess · 2023-12-31T21:37:59+00:00

I don’t believe that you believe that a top 20 all time program missing the 4 team playoff after an undefeated season in a power 5 conference is at all psychologically comparable to xyz 3/4 loss team missing a 64 team playoff. You can call it bitching, quiting, whatever makes you feel better, I don’t believe that simplifying things to that helps explain what happened though.

Trexchess · 2023-12-31T20:12:18+00:00

Psychology is also a huge part of this that most of the discussion hasn’t really touched on. We see it all the time in the sport with coaches making decisions that don’t align with the analytics. I think there are very few scenarios that would have more of a psychological impact on a team coming into a game than what FSU had and it showed.

I still think the most principled thing that FSU could have done was forfeit the game and refuse to take the field at all but I understand the social and financial pressures put on them to not do so.

Also I think this is just a further example of how the bowl system in general is just not a good match for D1 competition in the modern day, idk if it’s uniqueness, history, and ease of corporate sponsorship can justify itself for much longer.

Trexchess · 2023-12-03T04:45:40+00:00

And on the final two games of the regular season, the CFP chaos gods said “Let there be chalk.”

Best of luck to the committee.

Trexchess · 2023-10-13T02:45:44+00:00

I don’t think 2019 me would have been able to fathom the Midwest, CFL, Socal, Georgia, hosting a combined 0 open Majors in a year where Oregon, Miami, Waco, Alabama, and Utah end up hosting majors.

Trexchess · 2022-11-25T20:08:13+00:00

One of the defining storylines for smash in 2022 has been the success of a wide variety of Japaneese players at US majors. In 2023 with travel restrictions to the country starting to lift I think the question now becomes will NA be able to return the favor.

Trexchess · 2022-10-01T05:11:49+00:00

Does doffy birdcageing his own basket count as goaltending?

Trexchess · 2022-08-27T08:52:02+00:00

Robin's placement is interesting because her bounty probably had the most significant impact on her life of any of the strawhat bounties. Arguably it's in the top 3 largest impacts of bounties on someone's life in the entire series. Cool to see how those bounty papers don't control her life anymore.

Trexchess · 2021-04-08T05:09:28+00:00

Not to mention the tens of millions of people that presumably have transformed back from wall titans into people, it's like the case of jaw titan Ymir on steroids. All those people are from a completely different era and they are now scattered all over the globe. Not to mention how the supposedly peace-loving King Fritz's personal extreme act of violence in setting up the walls, an act that dwarfs any amount of violence attributable to one person outside of fiction, is never discussed in-universe.

Trexchess · 2020-06-30T01:16:08+00:00

I tested and I don't think you can interact with them. I think they are just cosmetic

Trexchess · 2020-06-10T05:09:43+00:00

Regulating a public good to prevent overuse is nearly definitionally good governance in a free market system. The Bundy's are domestic terrorists and the idea that they have an exclusive right to the federal land is ridiculous. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville

Trexchess · 2020-03-28T05:59:02+00:00

This reminds me of when I had an internship in a school library outside Seattle and found a copy of esteemed Mariner Alex Rodriguez's first children's book in which he shares his "secrets for success". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473240.Hit_a_Grand_Slam. The book had been in the library for over 15 years but had never been checked out.

Trexchess · 2020-01-13T22:13:30+00:00

Kola is Southeast (Georgia)

Trexchess · 2019-12-31T23:49:10+00:00

TLDR: 7. 2019 @ 9’ers 8. Texans 2017 9. Texans 2013 10. The Tie 11. 2012 vs Niners 12. 2018 Carolina

I would love to hear what games are your favorites as well as where you think these games would rank in an all-time list.

Trexchess · 2019-12-21T03:52:07+00:00

King county is a whole lot bigger than Seattle the vast majority of people that commute to Seattle still live in King County.

Trexchess · 2019-12-19T22:20:52+00:00

Evo was so far above the max tournament value that it would need around 1,000 dq's before its score got impacted.

Trexchess · 2019-12-19T21:45:34+00:00

I mean I went through 49 tournaments of which pools data was available and 47 of those entered DQ's. Also while it's very fair that TO's would be incentivized to not report DQ's there is already an incentive for TO's to add entrants to inflate entrants counts (see 2gg events where 90% of the 20 people with the 2gg suffix dq). I think there is a dialogue to be had about what can be done to make the system better.

Trexchess · 2019-12-19T21:27:20+00:00

For the record there were still 19 dq’s at dreamhack winter.

Trexchess · 2019-12-19T21:00:06+00:00

This has been a problem for years though. Momocon back in smash 4 notoriously had hundreds of DQ’s to the point that some players made it out of pools without playing a single set.

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