Khelly wrote:
That's nice, but as a 900's player I wouldn't consider myself anywhere near pro at all.
I'd say 6,500+pp would be worthy of being called "pros" which is around top 250
I would *mostly* agree with this. I probably wouldn't agree that all 250 are but with the concept that "pro" extends down that far at the very least. It's a really subjective term to use though as a measure of skill and is far from having a commonly agreed upon meaning. If you use pp as a metric then the best you could get is that no one is "pro".
You would start off suggesting a pp to call "pro" and then a large group of players would disagree because X player doesn't meet that cutoff and is "clearly" a better player than player Y who does. This would cascade all the way up the ladder until the point where the rrtyui vs hvick argument would begin. So either you end up giving up and saying no one is pro, or you begrudgingly accept that if there is a set of "pro" players it must include hvick.
Well, we jump back into the rrtyui vs hvick debate and lower the bar to whatever pp rrtyui has and before we know it we've argued it all the way down to the point where players are so bad you can't even argue that one is better than the other. At which point most people point out that the majority of our set of pro players are garbage.
It's more or less the same thing as when league ranks were brought up and probably the same reason doublelift goes around calling everyone trash. The whole argument is pointless because no one will ever agree.