It should come as no surprise that SK Gaming's Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson has topped the March edition of the TEK9 Quake Live rankings. At CeBIT in Hannover, he took down everyone in last month's top five on the road to arguably his biggest victory.

"Has there ever been a more deserving number one? rapha truly silenced his critics this weekend with victories over Cooller, Cypher and av3k on his way to victory and can feel thouroughly deserving of the title of world #1," said TEK9 Quake editor Liam 'crow' Crowley on the American. "Right now he's the player to beat... again."

The remainder of the rankings mirror the final standings of the IEM 4 World Championships with the exception of av3k, who placed third, and Cypher, who placed fourth, being swapped around and separated by only a single point.

Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz rates "calipt and k1llsen slightly above the players outside of CeBIT's top eight," while Marcus 'djWHEAT' Graham stated "I was so underwhelmed with the 7-12th place play, that I've actually given the 10th spot to Quake 3's infamous UnnamedPlayer." The nominations failed to get the players inside the top 10, however.

Scores are collected by 10 points for a first place vote, 9 for second, 8 for third and so on.

It should be noted that this month's edition does not contain votes from the players inside last month's top 10, but will be included starting from next month.

TEK9 March Quake Live rankings:

1st: Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson - 50 points
2nd: Anton 'Cooller' Singov - 45 points
3rd: Alexei 'Cypher' Yanushevsky - 38 points
4th: Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski - 37 points
5th: Magnus 'fox' Olsson - 28 points
6th: Tim 'DaHanG' Fogarty - 27 points
7th: Kevin 'Strenx' Baeza - 18 points
8th: Alessandro 'stermy' Avallone - 14 points
9th: Zhibo 'Fan Zhibo' Fan - 7 points
10th: Thomas 'griffin' Wall - 3 points

Check out the full thoughts from the five man voting panel on TEK-9.org.

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