Even I'm tiring of this, so:
OE, grats on your tournament win, but you have a long way to go before you deserve to be mentioned next to us, wK, or Balion. You remind me of HB: came along after we left, no-lifed this game for a month, saw some success because of it in a largely depleted scene, but where are they now? What did they accomplish? Nowhere near the top level, and they didn't have the ability to hold it together -- it's more than winning tournaments, it's how you win them and how long you can be undisputed at the top for. As far as I know, no one besides us have run the scene in an undisputed and undefeated fashion at all, let alone years. Furthermore, those saying Tyrian and others have come back and they haven't "impressed," you're just making my point for me. What you don't understand is that we dominated this scene because of our cohesion, and how well we played together, mixed with top level talent. Take one of us out of the group and drop them in somewhere else, have them not practice much at all, and you're surprised that the result is different? For example, Mad Dawg is excellent because he is a force multiplier when you put him into a group of his guys who trust him and play well around him, not because he's going to individually kill 8 people a round -- even if he was one of the best all-round players.
This is almost enough to make me want to come back (again) and destroy you kids (again). Happened in Darkfall, already happened here, but one thing I've learned is that no matter how good you do it, time will erode because you aren't there to forcefully remind those who haven't seen it for themselves. That's fine. However, if there were actually a population, if there was *actually* a public server left to play on and the people to fill it, I'd go right now and put together myself, Van, Tyrian, Joe, Harn, Fritigern, African, peers -- and some new additions -- because, frankly, you are reminding me of a teenager who is testing their dad because you haven't been spanked in a little too long.
Also, hello Marnid. Nice of you to stop by.