I will try to explain why I chose these players in this order and not any other. I tried to be as objective as possibly possible, but it's hard and of course some subjective opinions will be present.
1st and 2nd place (Irregularity and Memoriola) are the no brainers, you can't put these two players anywhere else, and if you do, you've got some serious explaining to do.
Now it gets interesting. What made me interested is the fact not a single person yet included VagaNNN. He might be inactive, but he actually did play between the last voting and this one, and set some plays this year, and they are of course as good as expected from player like him.
This convert play done not more than a full year ago (so I would count it in this voting) is simply godlike, but even if you don't want to count it and love ctb diffs for life,
this play is still another level compared to other players on the list, the map is harder than other ctb farms and requires consistency. He also
choked uta in this year, if your problem is that he isn't active that much. You can also find other plays from even 4 months ago in his top ranks if you look closely, so in my opinion, this third place is absolutely deserved.
In 4th (and 5th) place I had so many problems, and I still can't decide. Here we can forget about any converts, both players play ctb diffs are seem equally good at it. On one side we see few hr plays from myle, on the other side we see a cool calamity fortune/kaiko fc from nelly. While I normally would value hr plays over these calamity fortune/genryuu kaiko plays,these hrs are the most basic maps you can possibly fc with hr, vajuranda may be a little tricky, but this play was (most likely) done in 233 playcounts so all the tricky parts were (most likely) simply memorised. Can't also forget that nelly is actually kinda good at dt. I couldn't really decide, so I just went for a random.org drawing and nelly was lucky to be higher, however, if possible, you can give both players 6.5 points as I consider them to be equal.
At 6th place I put Marfolog, and as we drift further and further away from first place, his unique ez+dt plays gain more and more value. I do believe the amount of skill required to do them, and also the amount of skill to do
this play on a old map, is worth a little more than random ctb diff plays.
7th place in my opinion belongs to Rebbel. It was starting to get hard to rate players at this point, but after doing some research, I think his dt plays are actually kinda cool, the high ar rain fcs, as dt is a mod people nowadays rarely try (because everyone plays for pp), I do think he deserves his 7th place.
At 8th place I put aoe, simply because people at these ranks play only ctb diffs, and he is simply better at doing it than some others. We can also find a few hr plays, some random image material play, a typical 8th place in my opinion.
9th place is definitely not your typical 9th place though. At first look he looks like a great player right, so many hrs, image material choke, all that. I don't give almost any weight to any of these plays however, simple due to how tryharded all of them were. Doing image material choke in 400 playcounts (this map is so long, 400 playcount is a ton of playtime), other maps played at least 200 times to get that tv size hr/dt fc, kinda reminds me of lilah, but you know, it's my subjective opinion.
10th place is FruktoLove just because someone has to be there, and there are no other better players so I think it's a fully deserved 10th place, kinda aoe/tourist level but with less unique maps and more farmy maps in their top ranks.
