Despite its ubiquity in Japan, it took a long time for the S rank to circulate around the world. According to a list on Giant Bomb , the first western-produced games to use the S rank came out in , an unlikely trio consisting of The Red Star a Playstation 2 game based on a graphic novel, osu! Although developers from outside Japan may have been reluctant to include the S rank in their games, the concept was already recognizable to western audiences thanks in part to its inclusion in hyper-popular arcade games like House of the Dead and Dance Dance Revolution.
We were primed. By now, the S tier has become vital to video games, and esports especially, as character rosters expand and developers try their best to keep their games at least relatively balanced. Every character-based competitive game out there goes through dozens if not hundreds, in the case of long-active games of patches meant to flatten the balance curve, making low-tier characters more powerful and nerfing characters in the S tier.
Just look at what happened to Bayonetta between Super Smash Bros. This tracks for tiers above the S tier as well. Hegstrom noted to me that the SS for Super Special or Superior rank is becoming more common in schools not as a codified grade to give students, but as a rank to give students who excel at learning games.
Becoming A Hou s ehold Name Despite its ubiquity in Japan, it took a long time for the S rank to circulate around the world. Your ranking has a lot to do with those objectives. A good way to improve yourself here would be to remind yourself to touch the tower when another player is getting one, even if they can do it on their own — the same thing goes for the dragon. As long as you can toss an ability in the dragon pit so you can get that assist, go ahead and do it because it will count towards that S.
Game time means a lot when it comes to getting a rank. The longer the game is, the less your KDA matters. That game, I recall placing around 30 wards and had a total of 2. Itemization, kill participation, and the amount of gold you get all factor into that score. Also read: 7 Best Hot-Swappable Keyboards. I noticed this system seems to judge players against other players playing on the same champion and the same role. For example, playing on Urgot of Galio would be easier to get an S than I would be to play on a champion like Fizz.
Oh yes, those wards are important. Placing both the control ward and regular vision ward will help bring you closer to the S rank. What people forget is that killing wards is also a major part of it. In every game you play, ward kill is a recorded stat. The role you choose will have a lot to do with your score. S as a ranking above A originates from Japanese games.
While the origin is universally acknowledged as Japanese, apparently, no one really knows what it actually stands for. It's been speculated that it stands for anything from Super to Special , but there's no confirmation that I can find of any sort of "official" meaning. Giant Bomb's S-rank article states that because C was the lowest passing grade in the Japanese school system, "S" was used to allow for a wider range of grades.
See the following excerpt:. If the player is flawless or achieves perfection in something, it qualifies as an S. Many people have wondered what the S stands for… Special? No one knows for sure. The Rank Inflation article on TVTropes mentions the S-ranking as well, however, without any speculation on the origin:.
But then what about the players who are really looking for a challenge for whom mere golds aren't enough? The solution — give them platinum medals to aim for. A-grade not good enough for you? Sometimes, even these inflated ranks are subject to inflation, with A being about average and the real goal being a more different S rank: SS or even SSS. Something that is so superlative that it cannot be described by any traditional ranking system.
Many people have wondered what the S stands for. Comes from Japanese video games, like the Devil May Cry series, where A-rank just wasn't good enough. In addition, all 3 of these sites are editable by anyone on in the Internet, so I'm not sure that any of these can be considered concretely reliable, and the assertion on the Giant Bomb article that it's related to the Japanese grading system has no source and isn't one I can confirm because I am not familiar with the system.
Basically, as the TVTropes article stated, it's just a way for there to be a ranking that is better than the "best", similar to how some games have Platinum medals on top of Gold. I comes from the usual Japanese grading. The rebellion is quelled when the government revises the scale so that an "average" size is now far wider, meaning that pretty much everyone now has an at-least average penis size In one episode of The Simpsons , Homer became a restaurant critic for a newspaper.
The editor eventually complained that all of his reviews were over-the-top gushing praise, and as an example pointed out a recent article he'd written where he gave a restaurant "9 thumbs up". This prompted Homer to get mean and snarky, and one of his later reviews to Marge said "I give this meal my lowest rating ever: 7 thumbs up. She wasn't able to read a book she's supposed from class for a test because she got addicted to a video game. With Bart's help, she receives the answers from Nelson and cheats the test.
She's gets summoned by Skinner due to her test bumping up the school's GPA qualifying for a grant which trigger's the plot of this episode. A variation in one episode of Futurama : after Professor Farnsworth 's latest invention is ridiculed by the scientific community, Wernstrom gives it "the worst grade imaginable The worst part?
He only got an A- because penmanship counted. Real Life. CERO has five ratings from all ages to adults only. They are; A all ages B ages 12 and up C ages 15 and up D ages 17 and up Z ages 18 and up only When was the last time you saw a pizza advertised as "small"?
At at least one local pizzeria the advertised sizes are "large, extra-large, and party-size" Ditto for canned olive sizes Ah, Starbucks. Coffee sizes start at Tall, then Grande, then Venti , because apparently no one just wants a small goddamn coffee note There is a Short size 8 oz. Then they came out with a Trenta size, which is even larger than the Venti size, for cold drinks. It holds 31 oz mL of liquid, or two-and-a-half the capacity of a typical human bladder.
For true caffeine addicts! A certain squirrel has taken a notice to the same problem. It's been noted that a Frappucino or other similar drink in a Trenta size contains the average person's entire daily recommended caloric intake and several days' worth of sugar and caffeine. At the height of the Cold War , both pro- and anti-nuclear campaigners were fond of pointing out "overkill factors" how many times over the world's nuclear arsenal could kill all the people on Earth. The number peaked at around ninety.
A theoretical war that actually used all this firepower was apparently referred to in strategic circles as a "Bounce the Rubble" exchange. One notable one still used to this day is the Doomsday Clock , where midnight represents all out nuclear war. How close civilization approaches to nuclear war is represented by how many minutes away from midnight the minute hand sits. We're at seconds right now , which has caused some pundits to think the Clock is no longer useful. Particularly notable in that the clock was originally intended to have "fifteen minutes to midnight" as the safest possible setting, so its being set to seventeen minutes to midnight from to is the most direct application of this trope.
The U. Department of Agriculture food quality ratings can go up to grade AA. And this is all below the Major Leagues. The professional English football leagues used to simply be named Division One through Division Four. The creation of the Premier League in , and the Championship in , mean that "League One", as it's now known, is actually equivalent to the original Division Three.
When Formula One switched to Pirelli tyres in , the different compounds were labelled hard, medium, soft, and supersoft. In a new ultrasoft tyre was added, followed in by an even faster hypersoft tyre and a slower superhard tyre. The superhard was never used, and everyone agreed that things were just getting silly, so in the FIA inverted the trope: while there are still several different compounds, the three brought to each race are just called soft, medium, and hard to make things simpler.
Martial artists often want to stay a rank ahead of their students in order to maintain "master" status, leading to ranks as high as 15th dan becoming commonplace in more popular styles. Some Freemasons have added an additional thirty degrees on top of the original three. Some even have ninety, altogether.
However the thirty-three ranks go back over two hundred years. In many US states' high school sports, the schools are grouped into classes based on size, since most often the big schools with deep benches have a significant advantage over smaller ones with smaller talent pools. ESPN lists this year's high school football champions here map still not filled in for all states.
Many use D1, D2, D3, etc. Many states go up to 5A, apparently. Illinois starts at 1A and goes up to 8A. If it's about size, shouldn't a school large enough to field a team two full divisions better than a 9-man B team be large enough to field an man team? Colorado, Iowa, and Idaho all top out at 5A, but have more than five divisions and nothing below A.
Colorado has "A-8" and "A-6" as the two below 1A A-6? D2 schools are small enough, for example, that football is played with six players on a side, instead of eleven. Meanwhile, Texas goes to 6A. The "A-6" and "A-8" in Colorado's schools refer to the number of players on the football team by each side at a given time.
Interestingly, they inverted the trend of more A's being better, since until , the higher subdivision was called Division I-A and the lower one was called Division I-AA. Since this distinction only applies to football,the subdivisions were renamed before the season, though the lower subdivision still has the more prestigious-sounding name. These also have plus and minus grades for a total of twenty-two different ratings, and the accepted "passing grade" for investments is BBB.
Of course, the revelation that these triple letter rankings were created to make bad debtors look better by moving the curve and allow some companies the opportunity to manipulate their value for profit at the cost of the debtor's credit value without suspicion and be the major cause of the Global Financial Crisis makes one wonder if that sort of thing should be allowed.
Over its lifetime, its lowest two levels were never used, making "Elevated" the system's current default level. Eagle Scouts can wear combinations of Bronze, Gold and Silver palms by earning merit badges beyond the twenty-one required for Eagle Scout although gaining palms doesn't mean much as compared to becoming Eagle.
Originally this was intended to indicate exceptional performance by an A-grade candidate, but is now universally considered the top grade. This perpetuates a fascinating annual cycle when the results are released in which the media will initially deplore grade inflation and the "dumbing-down" of British education, then castigate itself for doing so, thus providing a never-ending news story until something more interesting comes along.
U is fail standing for "ungraded". British university degrees are awarded with one of the following honours classifications: first class, upper second, lower second, third, and ordinary. The "ordinary" class is now considered worthless enough that Cambridge has abolished it; you either graduate with honours or fail.
In practice, it's common in many professions for job postings to demand at least an upper second. Rampant in the auto industry; the usual practice is to introduce a new top-of-the-line trim level every few years to much fanfare and quietly drop base models that become unpopular- the Chevy Bel Air was the most extravagant car Chevy made that year; by The '70s the Bel Air was a bare-bones fleet model.
The United States military has added on higher ranks for generals and admirals as the need has arisen. George Washington himself only ever wore three stars. Ulysses S. Grant was the first to have four stars, but the title was such that would have made it five stars. The rank was retired after the last of the three generals died, reducing the max rank down to major general.
World War II required creation of five-star ranks to be standardized. In , the US government created, but never awarded, what would have been a six-star rank for Douglas MacArthur in anticipation of the invasion of Japan. George Washington was later awarded that rank posthumously and retroactive to July 4, , meaning that no officer ever has or ever will outrank Washington. The United States Navy has had considerable rank inflation.
The titles of "Lieutenant, Commanding" and "Commodore" for Lieutenants in command of small ships and Captains in command of multiple ships, respectively were added during the War of The former became the rank of Lieutenant Commander after the American Civil War Master Commandant had become Commander in , 20 years after the Royal Navy had done so with its equivalent rank, " Master and Commander ".
As the war progressed, the Iron Cross itself got awarded by the millions and the Knight's Cross by the thousands. So to set apart the people who qualifed for them again and again, the Knight's Cross got the Oakleaves, then Oakleaves and Swords, above which came the Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds and so on. By late war, soldiers were outraged to get only an Iron Cross or a German Cross in Gold, which they derided as "the fried egg".
In certain schools, certain teachers don't give out "D" grades; fall below the cutoff for a C - and you fail. Credit cards have added new prestige ranks gold, platinum as the old ranks became commonplace.
Right now the biggest difference between a silver, gold, and platinum card is the color, with titanium looking to be the next level. Also both Visa and Mastercard have a level over Platinum the Signature and World cards - guess they ran out of metals This satirical article is about the new Diners' Club "Plutonium" and American Express "Kryptonite" cards.
Likewise, in some companies, "Gold" is the lowest rank of a customer. Higher ranks might be Platinum or Diamond. But if your customer rating does not have one of these snazzy, expensive sounding designations The final exams of Finnish high schools have gone through multiple iterations of this. Initially, there were three passing grades and maximum of six exams.
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