DE5(?) Power ranking thingy!

[dantski]

3 teams left, still lots of shit players. Whoopy doo!

1. My Team

Tirri's carrying and pep talks have really transformed this team of old timers into the GREATEST MYTH TEAM EVER. But on a more serious note, ducky (no I will not call you bone) has generally captained well and providing he doesn't give me a thrall pack again should give us some winnable trades! Will they have finals attendance issues with enculator missing, CW/Dante not showing and grim moving house?

2. NC

They put up a stronger fight vs my team than SP managed and with EW subbing they didn't come up short in direct fights. Shai seems to be active and back on his game too which bodes well. Their grudge match with SP this weekend could go down to the wire.

3. SP

After cruising through as favourites for the QR and DE2, they were put into full carebear mode after getting swept 5-0 by my team. GKG is back in charge and SP can be found teaming up on a daily basis in rabble games. Can "push don't rush" triumph over the squads of NC again? Can Ghengis get on a nice hill and get 40 kills with a dorf? Will paris post the correct match time on his team forum? I predict a 3-2 match to SP.

4. R3

Wait WTF? Didn't R3 lose to TSS? Yes but they were undermanned, they played the equal numbers earlier in the tournament and R3 came out ahead. Whatever your view these 2 teams are very closely matched but I'd give R3 the edge without seeing the TSS vs SP films just because I felt their teamwork made them a greater threat to the top 3. Ratking should be congratulated on building this team up over a number of years and making them good opponents.

5. TSS

On paper they were stronger than R3, Chron is the best player on the 2 rosters and TSS has more tournament experience. Teamwork on this team seemed poor though and combining that with regular individual mistakes (seriously spacebar your warlocks!) meant they were never going to do more than take a lone game from the top 3 teams. These problems were the main reason they lost to R3 in QR and I'm not convinced they'd corrected this by the time of the rematch.

6. TCox

Absolutely awful attendance in the DE stages and not exactly stellar play by most of those who turned up. Is putting TCox ahead of TW/Deer/AGE fair? Its questionable to be sure considering they had to rely on subs so heavily. However with subs they were better than those teams, without subs I'd put them below because thats how bad TCox were this year.

7. Deer

Yes I'm putting Deer higher than some would expect. When Drunken was there they simply played better than TW and AGE, without him they kinda ran around and died ineffectively. Yes he might have taken some stick for taking 30% fairly often but it helped deer out in those games. Without drunken they were solidly behind TW and AGE.

8. Time Wizards

This was always a rabble sink or swim team and they mostly drowned. They narrowly beat AGE (which is why they are rated 8th and not 9th and beat GRU, but they still lost to the undermanned TCox.

9. AGEHA

Biggest disappointment of the tournament, by now they should really be better than Deer/TW and be in TCox's spot in the rankings. Famed ratiochamp ape had a horrendously bad tournament regularly failing to carry his team, Aki also struggled early on but at least got better with more games. They had a real shot at beating both a weaker TSS and an undermanned R3 in the QR but were only able to snag a single game from both. Their only success came in beating deer when their captain was missing.

10. GRU

They didn't forfeit any games which is probably more than most of us expected, however I think they lost 5-0 every match and were easily the worst team in MWC2012. Would be surprised to see them signup again TBH.

[honkey]

#1- My team.. They play very well together, have good strats, and good composure. They also know their roles very well, and have good tournament experience.

#2- Sp.... couple of small turning points could have cost them the tss match, but all in all they still got the feared bc ability. They need to figure out who is going to play the 7th spot as one of their players continuously made mistake after mistake last match and allowed it to be much closer than it should have.

#3- See review on my team, but decrease the bc and playing skill a bit. Always a threat, and still are, but depth is a concern.

#4- tss- sorry dant, i know you are bitter you couldnt play, but our one loss was due to a team member suiciding (like they did against sp on 2 games). Much stronger than when we played vs r3 the first time, where we came in to the match cocky and threw 2 games right down the tubes.

#5- r3- very close to tss but had issues with attendance are a very real thing. It was a shame DP wasnt allowed to play (i was all about it) but having that smug of an ego about your own play is a bit ridiculous.

#6- T cox- Too many issue with roster size, but even if they had a full showing woulda lost to any of the teams above them. great group of guys to play w/ though.

#7- deer. They arent amazing but regardless, they are better than any of the other teams under them.

#8- TW- Anytime you have renwood thats gg for your team.

#9- Age/Gru- Really no difference.

[asmo]

just sigh, I think you wrote these without watching any films. The moment I started capping for TSS (our team was showing up to the matches without the maps downloaded including me) we became pretty organized and a far bigger threat of getting an upset over one of the top teams because our bcing ability is quite superior to r3's

[drunken]

I like dantski's T.A thingy. Its a shame and I mentioned to grim this when he wanted teams registering that a lot of us were really busy and unable to attend to field a decent attending roster. Regardless our motto is to play and win while having fun. We did this even though it was spoiled by a few players who have also been involved for the result of tcox getting disqualified.

[rodeki11]

We had SP beaten in two games.... The only reason we lost Fos was not adjusting to them running away and grabbing flags after they already lost mid/all their fetch. I believe I know which game you're talking about with the lock - that was on highlands vs your team when I was chatting with my team, not directly controlling anything. It happens. I still had a 1.3 k/l ratio all tourney. You should watch the films, they were good games.

[trololo]

Suck a dick drunken.

[dantski]

#4- tss- sorry dant, i know you are bitter you couldnt play, but our one loss was due to a team member suiciding

Volunteered to play so I could practice maps a bit (cause its not like you get much time to play maps before matches these days), TSS said no so I left wishing everyone GL. Not sure how this is bitter? Pogue suiciding is part of why your team had issues (see my power rankings above your post!).

just sigh, I think you wrote these without watching any films. The moment I started capping for TSS (our team was showing up to the matches without the maps downloaded including me) we became pretty organized and a far bigger threat of getting an upset over one of the top teams because our bcing ability is quite superior to r3's

Oh good TSS replaced Rode as cap with you (asmo), thats maybe 3 matches you capped. One versus AGE, games vs R3 (4v6 for 2 games then 6v6 with subs) where your team continually fails to save and upload all 5 films and the games vs SP which I haven't seen. Now since my team beat your team 4-1 and 4-0-1 and my team beat SP 5-0, TSS did exactly as predicted really taking a game and threatening another(?) vs SP. I don't see changing captains making any difference here but I haven't seen films vs SP so who knows.

As for TSS bc'ing ability being superior, no shit sherlock everyone knows that if the full rosters on each team show up thats the case. The point is R3's teamwork and focus on gametype was better in the even game they played vs TSS.

[myrk]

tss proved they were an inferior team to r3 when they had to force r3 to play undermanned to get a win

[honkey]

sp would disagree. still... more.... rings.... than... myrk.

[Aki]

It's a shame drunken couldn't make the age/deer match. Age had 4 players to deer's 5, yet deer is the better team for losing 1-4. Drunken must be leagues better than the rest of his team at captaining.

[drunken]

well Sasper, Vantobia and Switch are great players. You need at least 4 decent players to hold a strong 2T game together and thats where Masterchief, Myself even kirk or placid would have come handy.

lol Aki, did Ape tell you that myself and Vantobia wanted to help Sub for your team so you could beat tss but the game was already done and dusted.

[ghengis]

Jul 16, 2012 17:40:54 GMT 2 rodeki11 said:

We had SP beaten in two games.... The only reason we lost Fos was not adjusting to them running away and grabbing flags after they already lost mid/all their fetch. I believe I know which game you're talking about with the lock - that was on highlands vs your team when I was chatting with my team, not directly controlling anything. It happens. I still had a 1.3 k/l ratio all tourney. You should watch the films, they were good games.

the only reason you lost Fos was because you got flagged? Right got it.

[rodeki11]

Don't be an idiot.

[ghengis]

dumbass, if you get flagged you lose the game. Thats like saying "the only reason we lost is because we lost". Nice excuse though

[rodeki11]

Ghengis, don't you understand I gave you guys credit for saviness after your team already lost their mid, all fetch included and were down somewhere between 10-20%? You guys fleed and rightly so. It was a barrel shoot at that point. Smart play on SP's part, get it?

You should check your reading comprehension. I never said we didn't lose. I accept the loss, and am capable of showing a little humility. You should learn some humility as well, people will take you more seriously.