I don't know if it's new or I just missed it before, but for pro accounts, including silver/gold crowns (which means national/international champion) there's the name and rank in Chinese on the middle left of the user info. This post is to collect pro account names:
Uberdude wrote:I don't know if it's new or I just missed it before, but for pro accounts, including silver/gold crowns (which means national/international champion) there's the name and rank in Chinese on the middle left of the user info. This post is to collect pro account names:
This has always been a feature of Fox Go Server (most pro accounts chose to disclose their real names). It is one of the reasons that I prefer it over other servers. I can collect some more usernames if you want.
wolfking has collected hundreds more pro's usernames in this Excel spreadsheet. I've not yet incorporated them into my first post here, tbh the formatting is not great and a spreadsheet is logically better though not as easy to browse directly from the internet. Anyway, I just wanted to share his generous work for now.
Adding another interesting account to follow:
庄子秋水 = Lyu Liyan 1p, Chinese player at KPMC last year, now 10d on Fox and beaten several top pros to qualify for LG and Mlily cups.
NB 10d on Fox is a tough rank to get as it requires a high win % against the silver/gold crown users (national/international champions). Not many top 9p can manage, Ke Jie, Fan Tingyu and Lian Xiao have but most are 'just' 9d. Bots like FineArt and BensonDarr are 10d. Looks like Lyu may have gamed the system a bit as a lot of his wins were vs Seo Bongsu who has a gold crown but as an older international champion from 25 years ago is not as strong as more recent ones.
Ooh, I just came across this while checking Google to see if my Reddit thread is in search results. It was a poorly named thread .
I just finished updating my spreadsheet of professionals on Fox. It's now automatically updating and sorting. It would be neat to add more up-and-coming pros to track. Do you have any to add?
edit: just put Lyu Liyan in, wow, he's climbed fast. Even faster than Moon Minjong. Wonder why he isn't playing on Fox so much anymore.
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wolfking wrote:Here is my latest list. There are more than 600 ids.
Nice. I tried finding some of the EU/NA players myself but came up empty. I'm trying to keep to the top players, youngsters, and foreigners who are active on Fox. So I copied some of those over from your list, probably missed some interesting ones though. A lot of names there
I didn't know there was a thread about this. But thanks to the holidays, I installed the Fox client and I am taking a look.
Here's the list I was using:
I have noticed that most pros lose more than they win. Ichiriki and Shibano don't, they win more. But Iyama, for example, is on the losing side. I guess they try to play Chinese and Korean players.
They all include their real name and rank in the profile.