Like I said, I'm sure everyone will have different opinions. These are just mine personally which doesn't mean their right. I wasn't impressed by Ribena and unknown's 3-4 games that I have looked at. I'm sure they will get better as they are a new team and both are very good 1v1 and 3v3 players. It just takes a little time to get used to the 2v2 format with a new teammate. Just my personal rankings though so it's not like they matter much. Feel free to rank them yourself. Your's would probably be more accurate as you are actually in the ladder right now and have played a lot of these teams.

Azir, there is more to 2v2 games than two really good players. Even assuming that they are both amazing at 2v2 (I don't know Ribena outside of playing with unknown), they need to play well together. That's why I talked about lob and Chris, since they are both amazing players, but had to learn how to play together.

I'm not even saying that Ribena is some kind of weak link in the team, but simply that they are still learning to work together.

Ladder is never-ending hunt, sometimes you are predator, sometimes prey. When predator have heart of hungry lion and focus of prowling tiger. When prey think like pack animal, talk like monkey and react like treed tiger springing free.

Oh dear. Two [20] veterans with a combined 3000+ team games under their belts including 300+ 2v2 games each, and still they have to learn to play together...

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but you guys are forming opinions of teams based on the results of literally a handful of games, when the players you're talking about have far more experience than that. If the ten teams on JSA's list played a 2v2 round robin right now, I couldn't imagine unknownsoldier and Ribena possibly finishing in last place, and I suspect I∂ƒ∂oggY would agree.

I don't think that is possible to make any scientific ranking on wich team is the best, and I don't think it is right to compare your own team with other ones so after these 2 things that I must say in my opinion best team is Ruthless Bastard and Grinche's one.
In fact in order to understand how to pick I've studied almost all the current top teams and I did feel that Ruthless and Grinche invented a new way to pick that allowed them to crush other teams' lack of creativity as long as they were motivated to play so intensly.
After them I would rank
2 hhh and dunga
3 luxis and frank
4 ribena and unknown (I would have ranked them second but they still have to proove themselves as a ladder team)
5 duke and superraimbow

Other teams seem to me a little step far from these ones.

my personal ranking are: (Whereas now not participate in the ladder)

1) gui-unknow
2) pwn team
3) hhh-dunga
4) idfdoggy-[WM]trilussa
5) Ruthless Bastard and Grinche

Trilussa tiger, Lion look at Ruth Bastard and Griche's picking invention. Lion then look at other teams. Lion notice that after Ruth Bastard and Griche invent new style of picking mid or late June, the Emptyman and Donkeyman copied them in late March or early April. And the Porn team was already doing the same thing in late 2011.

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=2430131
http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=1817132

Lion see Empty Donkey team was played by Emptyman at that time. And the Porns are brothers. Making picks that way need great focus. Porn brothers think like one. Empty Donkey same person. Greasy Bastard team must spend long time talking about picks. Maybe they live together. Or they are same person.

My personal rankings (All time)
1. Gui - unknownsoldier
2. HHH - dunga
3. idfdoggy - [WM] Trilussa
4. HHH - Monsenhor Chachina
5. Ruthless Bastard - Grinche
6. zaeban - Oliebol
7. pwn mortin - pwn trokerz
8. Denzyman - Gui
9. Luxis - Frankdeslimste
10. Chaos - V

Well actually Lion you may be good in trolling and making funny names but it is better that you leave picking analysis to other animals...

Haha. I know the lion by his paw.

Lion confused. Maybe WM Tiger could analeyes picks first, to show animals lower on food chain how to analeyes picks. Saying "I studied picks. They destroy everyone. They invent new style." is commentary not analysis. Lion's talk about Empty Donkey and Porn brothers is commentary not analysis. WM Tiger, you can be first to analeyes.

Since you linked 2 very different games for picking philosphy but both mirror picked I think that you tought that what I meant for the ruthless and grinche's invention are mirror picks.
That is pretty funny because mirror picks are very usually played here.
But as you can see from the 2 games you linked, mirror picks can be used in different ways:
Gui team mirror picked trying to cover the whole map, pwn tried to cluster only the eurasia zone.
The new way in wich ruthless bastard and grinche used picks aimed to cluster a single area with 3 picks and cover the whole world with only one.
We loved this very idea and we used it in the majority of our games, but without mirror picks that I generally don't like to play.

I love this Lion guy. New form of trolling with slight usage of science and common sense.

This kittie's purring sounds strangely familiar. And I doubt that it's a flemish kittie.

Mole, Lion think you confused. You read my anal eyes and feel familiar with soft purr of other creature. Lion already say he only sex up lionnesses. Lion not the cat of you attraction.

Lion like WM Tiger's words. Now his circle of life complete.

Dear Lion,

+1 to your desire to learn about how [WM] Trilussa, who is on the team with the highest all-time rating ever on the doubles ladder, thinks about picks. Nonetheless, I think the gist of your message would be more effective if you refrained from making sexual references. I have not yet had sexual relations and my hormones are still developing. What's more, my sexual preferences are not yet fixed, and I become especially confused when watching Abercrombie commercials. Your lionness reference put wicked animalistic thoughts in my head. My psychologist suggested that I confront my urges. So I hope you don't mind this note.

Sincerely yours,

CT#!

You made this account just to comment on this thread. O_o lol

Do you really laugh when you type "lol"? Or do you use "lol" as TV-people use background laughter in a comedy sitcom, signalling to the audience that now is the time to find something funny?

Eheh you really like telenovelas uhm?:P

Let me ask you a question in return. Did you truly ask this and expect an answer or are you just trying to find reasons to comment?

Nowadays, nobody takes the "lol" literally as in the "loughing out loud" doesn't apply. It merely suggests that you found something funny. It's equivalent to a simple "haha". This is the beauty and the beast of the Internet - no emotions can be expressed easily and so we need these terms to make up for it.