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Alliance of the round
Who do I think the most talented alliance was? NOMW by far. They lost because of poor leadership and strategy. I even think Asphyxia (at times) was much more talented than GC. However, they won.
GC gets the award as always.
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Best Offensive Alliance
Er, no clue.
I guess GC since they were the only attacks I ever had trouble organizing defense against, but it wasn't particularly because they were good at organizing, just because they had a massive amount of troops
Best Defensive Alliance
Hmm, I thought Medio at the time was pretty good until I lost 8k land in less than a week, each time to 100m flak. So I can't give it to them. Asphyxia I can't give it to either, most members didn't have a clue how to stop stealth rushes. GC was never challenged, so I guess
I'll go with NOMW - the most consistent.
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Honourable Mention Alliance
I'll mention several here I guess.
Asphyxia- My first alliance of the round. 19/20 people on at beginning for ages. All 20 people on for the first resistance, trying to defend well. Lots of activity for a great start, no alliance even came close to challenging us for land/value. Some poor organizing for developments left us lacking in some areas, as well as the 3 day sleep mode. I know for one I had over 500bil funds in seeds 3 days in to the round because I was an idiot and didn't think teching drive by/hax0r would slow me down to strikers. Screwed over by our leader, or I think we had the potential to win the round still.
NOMW - My third alliance. Very skilled, very dedicated. After Asphyxia hit 3 day sleep mode, within an hour of coming out they were massing us, knowing that this was their chance to win the round. Shame they didn't, they probably deserved it (at that time) more than GC did skill-wise.
Mediocrity - My second alliance of the round. I have a lot of mixed feelings for this alliance. We were about 60% Asphyxia, but our passion for organizing and activity was very low after Twigley screwed us over. We didn't secure any PoM's for ages so it was extremely hard to keep land. Overall though our attacking (random land grabbing) and
DAY time defending was better than NOMW's IMO. We had **** night cover. We also were plagued with a few cheaters AND spies from BC/Authentic which we got rid of as soon as we were aware. Would have been rank 2 alliance if we cared enough to keep going, more below.
I'd like to say a little about our disband as well. Many of you seem to be under the impression that we disbanded because the server screwed us over. Although that was part of the reason many members quit, it is not the full reason. We, in general, were sick of 24/7 defending against GC in which there was absolutely zero chance of any possible success coming from defending well. We were sick of not being able to organize a simple attack without GC either being told (Barcodes worked with GC for a short stint), or spying and sending retals when we were trying to attack. It was boring. It wasn't any fun, and we had pretty much all realized it. Now, I can't say the reason is the same for all of us - All of us had different reasons but we did disband WITH notice, and IN agreement, unlike in Asphyxia. Some of us still play, some of us don't. Most of us still hang out in our channel though.
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Worst Alliance
Idle Crew Massive - As it would appear, they are on the bottom of the alliance rankings.
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Best Leader
I can't really think of a good leader this round. The best I can come up with is the strategical and political manuvering by
Yurinal and BuBbLeS.
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Worst Leader
Twigley - My first leader. Let me clarify - My post will include other names, but Twigley here wins by far. Just like I voted JJbroandjl worst leader when he got locked, Twigley gets it for screwing me, and his alliance mates over. Between leader and player, and even between player and player, there has to be a certain amount of trust for an alliance to have success. Without any lies, bullshit, or propaganda, Twigley broke that trust. He disbanded Asphyxia with
ZERO warning to his alliance members who had trusted him, and he warned the new alliance he was joining and had each and every person who trusted him killed and land raped. Did he deserve to win from the effort he put in? Sure, but he went around it in the worst possible way. Pathetic by any standards, and anybody who defends him could very well be branded with the same word.
I promised other names:
Hero - My second leader.Sorry buddy, you kept saying you were doing stuff 'behind the curtains' blah blah blah, but you were indecisive as to the goal of the alliance which I pushed and pushed for, for weeks. You never once organized an attack, I had to be the one to finally step up. You need to set a specific goal, and tell us what we're aiming at. You weren't the worst leader of the round, but I guess I just didn't consider you a very good one.
IoF - My third leader. This is pretty easy, he rarely logs in. Haven't seen him organize attacks or defense. Don't see any pressuring of any goal whatsoever.
Silence4Leader
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Player of the Round - Allied
DeathSycthe - A super contactable PoM who has stopped a ton of inc's in 3 different alliances, has always had plenty of troops to contribute to the alliance, and did I mention contactable? Yeah, he's that. Nor does he get grumpy when you get him on.
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Player of the Round - Solo
RichardM - Never landed on him, good PNAP's, did well to be a large solo PoM for most of the round. Didn't see many ever ranked higher than him either.
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Best Offensive Player
Tough to say really.
Cheese for getting rank 1 and constantly exploiting any weakness in an alliance to get some land, and organizing most of GC's late-game attacks. I could consider many Medio players for the random attacks and gaining a ton of land and passing NOMW out of nowhere several times. Either
Cheese or
BuBbLeS I reckon. BuBbLeS did a massive amount of quality organizing during the resistances time.
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Best Defensive Player
Best player is often the same as best defensive player, unless there is a particularly good organizer.
DeathSycthe - A super contactable PoM who has stopped a ton of inc's in 3 different alliances, has always had plenty of troops to contribute to the alliance, and did I mention contactable? Yeah, he's that. Nor does he get grumpy when you get him on.
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Honourable Mention Player
Twigley - Don't respect him. Don't like what he did to win. But he's a great organizer, and a great player.
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Worst Player
Babo Violent 2 - As it would appear.
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Best Moment of Round
-Epic start the first 2 weeks, rank 1 for most of it.
-Polo mailing me a couple hours in when I was rank 1 and he was rank 2 "You Polo?"
-The 10 days I took off after Twigley disbanded the alliance. After those 10 days I stole about 15k land in 60 hours and got back in to the game.
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Worst Moment of Round
-Being betrayed by Twigley.
-Being accused by a couple members of my alliance of cheating.
-Several others I might edit back in.