Coming to War is Coming
For the last 3 years Tyrant has been dominating aoc scene, not only in Teamgame tournaments but also in 1v1 tournaments. In Clash of Titans, top 4 spots were crabbed by Tyrant members (see below), Top expert league finals had 4/4 Tyrant members. After Clash of Titans Tyrant formed ''sister team'' that is competing as Tyrant Warlords (see below). After acquiring Theviper and Jordan_23 after WCL7 the competition for Tyrant in teamgame tournaments has been non-existed; In The medieval wars Tyrant team lost 2 games in the whole tournament (1 to CKF, 1 to RVK) and 5(?) games in The Tribal Wars. For Medieval Wars Tyrant (Legends) trained whit PoZ, for WiC they will train against their sister team and i doubt we will see recordings of those matches which makes it even harder for other teams to find weaknesses.
After we saw the creation of BAD Gaming many thought that it would be the team to challenge the Tyrant teams, however most got disappointed after the dispancion of the team. It got the players formed to go back to their old teams whit the possible players to beat Tyrant scattered around in 3-4 teams. Comparing the teams from TMW to WiC in all honesty there has been almost no changes (see below) for the teams, old RVK core roster(Chris, Dogao, Feage) stays same, trades alive and stark for miguel and wrath. For any team even whit perfect teamplay it will be hard to beat Tyrant Legends.
In a nutshell this tournament seems to be again, Tyrant vs. the world. And again we will see that Top players preferred to form teams whit their friends rather than anyone trying to form ''super team''
War is Coming teams that will compete for the top spots
(<recent major achievements>) <RM-TG, RM 1v1> Note: Ratings are dated 24th november. for live ratings look Voobly ladders
TYRANT legends
kkab (Team Leader) (#1 WCL7, TTW, TMW) 1858 , -
TheViper (#1 TTW, TMW, CoT #2 WCL7) 2014, 2406
Nv (#1TTW, TMW)
JorDan_23 (#1 TTW, TMW #2 CoT, WCL7) 1815, 2251
DauT (#1 WCL7, TTW, TMW, #3 CoT) 1803, 2000
This Tyrant team has not lost a single tournament since its creation. It's packed whit extreme skill aswell as extreme strategic genius, kkab. They have been playing together for years and their teamwork has been exceptional, mastered to perfection. The only weaklinks for this team has been the rustiness of kkab and daut, because of their lack of practise. However they have trained for every big tournament and have proven to be top players time and time again.
Rank:1-2
Tyrant Warlords
RiuT (Team Leader) (#2 SY nations cup, WCL7, #4 CoT, in TMW Riut played whit LoS, dropped out before final stage) 2131, 2378
F1Re (#2 Sy nations cup, #8 TMW, RO16 CoT) 2150, 2154
Jidba (-) 1756, 2213 (DM)
BacT (#5 SY nations cup #6 TMW, DQ CoT) 2220, 2252
slam ( #7 Sy nations cup, #8 TMW, RO16 COT) 1979, 2245
The second Tyrant team has been together a little over half a year. Packed whit extremely good skill they proved their strengths against the Tyrant Legends in Tyrant wars #2 going 6-6 against them. Their teamwork seemed to lack a little though. To compete against Tyrant legends, F1re and Bact need to step up and Slam needs to start performing in tournaments as well as he does in rated games and they need to get their team synergy to work perfectly. They will most likely be competing more for the 2nd place rather than 1st whit SY and L_CLAN.
Rank:1-3
SY
FengXin (Team Leader) (#1 SY nations cup, #2 TTW, #3 TMW, #7/8 CoT)
james__
NO_23
Air_Abu_
yinghua
_SY_
Yo__
After The medieval wars SY acquired FengXin (Paladin) and lovecheng from CKF which clearly made them a lot stronger. Whit Paladin as team leader and shot caller they wrecked all the other countries in Nations Cup, losing total of 4 games in the tournament. The question is; Can they step up little more to compete against the Tyrant teams and can they fair in DM whitout having a single DM player?
Rank:2-4
Dreamers
Fedex (Team Leader) (#3 Sy nations cup) 2071, 2213
Patin (#3 SY nations cup) (2013 1v1)
Afrodita (#3 Sy nations cup) 2008, 2155
Nicov (#3 Sy nations cup) 2139, 2348
Gary (#3 Sy nations cup)
ChriSt -
Imaginational -
In The medieval wars Dreamers played whit almost the exact same roster dropping out in the group stage losing 3-2 to PoZ and ending up 2nd in their group not making it to the final stage. After TMW they have really stepped up in individual and team skill and showed us changed argentinians in SY nations cups and taking few games from Tyrants when they were in Dubai. I still think they won't be strong enough to compete whit Tyrants or SY ending up somewhere between 4-6.
Rank:3-7
Nadyas boys's
Spaden (Team Leader) -
NorthernPike (SY nations cup #14) 2015, 2014
Zuppi (#7 WCL7 SY nations cup #14) 1928, 2277
Lavie_Head
8th_wonder 2116, 2136 (RO64 CoT)
Lojza (CoT #6, #9 SY nations cup) 2130, 2189
mentalist
Rubenstock (SY nations cup #14)
c0LoRz
L3af
This team didn't seem to come to a surprise for many 11? Nadyas boys have been actively playing together in last year, playing a ton of games and getting more popular trough Pike's stream. After Lojza and Zuppi though i don't see others in their roster being able to step up and compete in top level. Wonder has from time to time been playing really well but still seemed to stuck at his roughly 2k level and being unable to step up more and perform well in the last 1v1 or TG tournaments. Almost same could be said about Spaden, who will most likely be the 4th player for their team. At best will be competing for 3rd place, most likely 5-7 in my book. But this team could be the one surprising us all?
Rank:4-8
Poison of Zone
(hong kong)Tammy (Team Leader) 2104, 2102 (#4 WCL7, #4 TTW, #6 SY nations cup, #7 TMW, RO16 CoT)
(hong kong) Sleep
(hong kong) Mundi 1936, 2000 (#4 TTW, #6 SY nations cup, #7 TMW)
(hong kong) ratS 1767, 2000 (#4 TTW, #6 SY nations cup, #7 TMW)
(hong kong) _kyo 1798, 2000 (#6 SY nations cup, #7 TMW (??))
(hong kong) cloud
Tsunami
tobi
Constantly making it to final stages in last TG tournaments, POZ has showed us time and time again their ability to stand up against the best teams. Whit Bvirus in their team making it even stronger i believe POZ will not let us down in this tournament.
Rank: 5-10
Legion clan
dogao (Team Leader) 2091, 2234 (#2 WCL7, TMW #3 TTW, #4 SY nations cup #7/8 CoT)
Chris 2207, 2372 (#2 TMW ,#3 TTW)
Miguel 1962, 2150
FeAge 2083, 2205
Capoch
WraTh
BruH
IGs
RaGE
True
L_Clan returns whit roster almost the same that RVK had for last tournaments. We also see the return of the legend Capoch! For long playing as RVK they were long rivals whit Tyrant however never unable to really challenge the Tyrants. In my opinion L_clan lacks trained top shape Chris and Feage and better 4th player in the team. They seem to have probably the best or 2nd,3rd best DM lineup which is nice but when there is only 1 point to gain whit DM it won't be a decider, yet it can one. This lineup has a potential to compete whit SY for 3rd spot, yet it seem more likely that they'll end up between 4-6.
Rank: 3-6
KGB
Ra (Team Leader) 2291 (1v1) (#8 TMW)
Alive (#2TMW, #5 SY nations cup, )
GoKu 2038, 2000(#2 SY nations cup, #8 TMW)
Hasan 2019, 2330
Stark 1871, 2140 (#2 SY nations cup, #2 TMW)
Just_Leo
Whack
Hecto12
Praxes
Team filled whit high level players and a Top TG player whack (11). Lineup close to Team fully torqued from TMW, lost Slam and Fire to Tyrant and got Stark and Alive from RVK. When i saw TFT in TMW, i thought that this could be the team to seriously fight for 1st spot. I was terribly wrong and it seemed everyone in that team underplayed and lacked team synergy. Even whit bunch of high rated player i won't get my hopes up for KGB.
Rank: 4-8
STR8
Emin (Team Leader) (#12 SY nations cup)
Jugband (#12 SY nations cup)
Dnzdalgic (#12 SY nations cup)
(Norway)Sletten
Artras (#12 SY nations cup)
Skull
LeGeNd_RoX
BadTrip
Turkey's combined whit the legendary sletten and Skull. This team will be underrated by many but they still can surprise us big time.
Rank:5-12
Vikingos nomadas
Millo (Team Leader) 1746, 1984
VN_DarK_KnighT_ 1824, 2001
TaToH 1858, 2208
VN_HEIMDALL 1778, 1918
VN_KoNFeR
VN_MiLLeNcOlin
VN_Cervino_
Triplebless
MaJoR_Kd
VN hasn't really been able to compete in top level previously, however picking up TaToH may seriously boost their team level. Who knows maybe they will surprise us big time?
Rank: 6-12
Titanic team
Edie (Team Leader) 2009, 2384 (#5 TMW)
Eques4
_MbL_ 1720, 2023
_VM_
KuTaTaXoa
Bender 2123 (#6 TTW)
sorcK 2067 (#5 WCL7)
Jaraldo
Feanor
Melkor
Edie and Friends in the nutshell. I seriously have no idea what to expect from these guys, whit bender and sorck spamming BF for the last year and raping the BF lobbies and for a long time what seemed to be One trick pony edie, who currently sits in #1 spot in the RM 1v1-Ladder. Again they have so much skill but I'm unsure can they perform in Ara/FR style maps against top teams?
Rank: 5-32
NC&friends&arma
pedro (Team Leader) 1876, 1891
Andorin
Snyper1
ShiNe
Multani13
Sney
Nilpferd 1873, 2000 [#6 TTW]
Arma 1884, 2000 [#6 TTW]
Skittle 1926, 2000 [#6 TTW]
NC has been performing solidly throughout the last RTS-Leagues and adding Nilpferd to their team will make it even stronger. However it has seemed that Skittle and arms have been pretty inactive and i don't think they will train a lot for this tournament?
Rank:8-13
Chinese kung fu
geoffrey (Team Leader)
IamOK
PBT_Dee
Lyx
cl02
Tim
Super_XuE
CBJ_lang
CKF team is probably one of the biggest question marks in this event. Whit the return of Tim and bunch of other Chinese players you never know what to expect. However i can't see Tim putting effort to compete in such a high level he once did and whit the other players in the team being pretty inactive/unknown for me i don't think they will surprise us.
Rank:6-12
POJ
TokiwaMiao (Team Leader)
Chocobo
Andrew
Poposan
Escape
HuntingBears
dodonpa[/spoiler]
POJ has been performing well previously whit their full Japanese - lineup + Andrew playing DM . They have never really been known for their 1v1 play and they haven't really been seen in top spots in 1v1 tournaments. However their team play has time and time again proven to be exceptionally good, being 5th in TMW is a good indication of. However they seemed to fall of a bit after TMW and winning RTS-League.
Rank:5-10
MY personal ranking:
1.Tyrant Legends
2.Tyrant Warlords
3.SY
4.L_Clan
5.Dreamers
6.Nadyas boys
7.PoZ
8.KGB
9.POJ
10. STR8
Coming to War is Coming (Major recent past tournaments)
SY nations cups:
1. China A (exactly same team as SY in WiC)
2. Brazil A (Riut, Fire, St4rk, Goku)
3. Argentina A (Exact same team as in WiC + Christ&Friend playing DM)
4. Brazil B (Dogao, Feage, Miguel, Alive)
5. VNS A
6.(hong kong)Hong Kong china
7. Canada A (Chris, Slam, RA, Mentalist, Geen)
Clash of titans
1.TheViper
2.Jordan_23
3.Daut
4.Riut
5.Vns_yellow
6.(Czech)Lojza
7/8.Paladin/ Dogao
The Medieval wars
1. TYRanT (Viper, jordan, daut, kkab,NV_)
2. RVK (Chris, Dogao, Feage, Stark, Alive)
3. CKF (VG_paladin, Tim etc.)
4. SY
5. POJ
6. VNS A
7. (hong kong) POZ
8. Team Fully torqued (Whack, Hassan, Ra, Fire, Goku, Slam)
World clan league #7
#1 TYRANT (kkab, Daut, grunt, halen)
#2 RVK A (Dogao, Viper, Jordan, Riut)
#3 CSC A (Tim, Duck, goodboy, bieber)
#4 (hong kong)PoZ A (Ding, Kyo,Ralber)
#5 L_Clan (feage, hani, alive, ruso)
#6 Immortals (Hasan, ares
The Tribal wars
1. Tyrant (Jordan+Viper+Daut+kkab)
2. NFQ (paladin+LoveCheng+goodboy+PBT_Dee+CHB_Yiniaoer)
3. RVK (Chris+Tim+dogao+FeAge)
4. VNS (novalily+cool+devil+ellvt+ACCM) NOTE: BacT wasnt a top player yet
5.(hong kong) poZ (Tammy+kyo+cloud+bvirus+tobi)
6. aLc (Bender+Skittle+Arma+Nilpferd)
Majos roster changes after The medieval wars
Paladin and lovecheng from CKF to SY
RVK lost St4rk and Alive (Roster Name RVK-->L_CLAN), who moved to KGB whit roster from Team Fully torqued, who lost Fire, Slam and Riut to Tyrant Warlords
VNS A lost Bact who moved to Tyrant Warlords
1. China A (exactly same team as SY in WiC)
2. Brazil A (Riut, Fire, St4rk, Goku)
3. Argentina A (Exact same team as in WiC + Christ&Friend playing DM)
4. Brazil B (Dogao, Feage, Miguel, Alive)
5. VNS A
6.(hong kong)Hong Kong china
7. Canada A (Chris, Slam, RA, Mentalist, Geen)
Clash of titans
1.TheViper
2.Jordan_23
3.Daut
4.Riut
5.Vns_yellow
6.(Czech)Lojza
7/8.Paladin/ Dogao
The Medieval wars
1. TYRanT (Viper, jordan, daut, kkab,NV_)
2. RVK (Chris, Dogao, Feage, Stark, Alive)
3. CKF (VG_paladin, Tim etc.)
4. SY
5. POJ
6. VNS A
7. (hong kong) POZ
8. Team Fully torqued (Whack, Hassan, Ra, Fire, Goku, Slam)
World clan league #7
#1 TYRANT (kkab, Daut, grunt, halen)
#2 RVK A (Dogao, Viper, Jordan, Riut)
#3 CSC A (Tim, Duck, goodboy, bieber)
#4 (hong kong)PoZ A (Ding, Kyo,Ralber)
#5 L_Clan (feage, hani, alive, ruso)
#6 Immortals (Hasan, ares
The Tribal wars
1. Tyrant (Jordan+Viper+Daut+kkab)
2. NFQ (paladin+LoveCheng+goodboy+PBT_Dee+CHB_Yiniaoer)
3. RVK (Chris+Tim+dogao+FeAge)
4. VNS (novalily+cool+devil+ellvt+ACCM) NOTE: BacT wasnt a top player yet
5.(hong kong) poZ (Tammy+kyo+cloud+bvirus+tobi)
6. aLc (Bender+Skittle+Arma+Nilpferd)
Majos roster changes after The medieval wars
Paladin and lovecheng from CKF to SY
RVK lost St4rk and Alive (Roster Name RVK-->L_CLAN), who moved to KGB whit roster from Team Fully torqued, who lost Fire, Slam and Riut to Tyrant Warlords
VNS A lost Bact who moved to Tyrant Warlords