[NC2017] Awards, Congratulations & Thank you

[Snusmakaren]

This thread marks the end of the eight Nations Cup.

We'd first like to congratulate our winners!

	Russia: Russia played a very new-age style, of high pace and a lot of aggression. Never backing down for a fight, had them clawing themselves out of the lowerbracket after a loss to Germany in the first round of knockout stage; relying on a lot of individual skill and a lot of stability from some of the more experienced members (such as Arni, SifoN and Volshen) saw them keeping their heads together in the end. A well deserved win.

	Germany: Proving for yet another year that they're a top contender, by getting their second place. Perhaps the more favoured team to win, Germany saw to play all their active members and working hard together to earn their place. Seeing the team lack some of the previous core players such as Triari, Neathar, Vivar and Superlilli, they certainly showed that the newer blood could keep up. A hard-fought finals gave them a second place, where that fatal last round in a 3v3 ended up with them losing it. Overall, I think Germany should be satisfied with their performance, and it was great to see them come back with such a stronger team again this year.

Spain: Spain, coming in with a lot of new stars risings such as Dume, SirAlecks and Charlini looked like the underdogs throughout the tournaments, but got recognized as one of the top contenders as they got second place in their group in front of Turkey. Big congratulations to Spain for their third place, and we hope to see them take another step forward in their success next year!

[*]Thanks to all the referees who put their time into making matches go smooth; Achaner, Ascarion, Charlini, Eduard, Garde, Gasset, Krex (Namakan), Raven, Surkan and Tallie.

[*]Also a big thanks to all streamers for putting their time in; Apollo, Konshtrush, SaBo, Greed, Smiley, Kane and Oliveran!

[*]Thanks to the server providers:
- Cheshire Cats Clan (CCC) (France 1-3)
- ReneKB (Germany 1-4)
- LordMetzger (Germany 5-
- TaleWorlds (NL 1-4)
- Arys (CHI 1, NY 1 & 4)

[*]Thanks for YamiThePirate for helping with the statistics, and the match previews organised by Tardet and everyone who helped him write them! Also to all players putting in their own PoV's of the matches.

[*]Thanks to Aeronwen and Fabio for helping with re-writing some of the rules to be more clear.

[*]We'd also like to thank all players for being patient over the long course of the tournament.​

 

[ImB_Smiley]

I like rayden's one more

 

[KaneMaB]

Gratz to all the winners.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible.

 

[Kragen]

gg

 

[Golodir]

Spoiler

)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

 

[Eder]

Russia:
Russia played a very new-age style, of high pace and a lot of aggression.

Especially outside the matches and during drop testing ... 

Most retarded team won the worst NC ever, seems fitting))))

 

[Volshen]

Russia:
Russia played a very new-age style, of high pace and a lot of aggression.

Especially outside the matches and during drop testing ... 

Most retarded team won the worst NC ever, seems fitting))))

Spoiler

But you are still very proud of your 2nd place it seems.

Team with the most baby girls crying about bad NC and losing Grand Final, seems fitting)))

 

[Faebio]

Thanks for running the tournament, Oliveran 

 

[Ascarion]

Congratulation to Russia&Ukraine&Bulgaria&Belarus&Kirghizistan&Kazakhistan&Latvia&Lithuania&Estonia&Uzbekistan&Tajikistan&Moldova&Georgia&Armenia&World

&. Espania.

Thanks for hosting the tournament and everyone who put their effort into it.
Was a pleasure to participate 

 

[Rayden]

Besides all the jokes, maybe it was not the best NC but still we all played in it and there were admins who tried their best to make it good in their way. Thanks everyone involved, thanks admins for their effort and congratz RUB, Ger & Spain.

 

[Habrak]

Thanks for the NC we had this year, no matter what happened we are all one community and we spent this time together, again.

 

[Kragen]

<3

 

[PepperKP]

Besides all the jokes, maybe it was not the best NC but still we all played in it and there were admins who tried their best to make it good in their way. Thanks everyone involved, thanks admins for their effort and congratz RUB, Ger & Spain.

 

[Tardet]

As Rayden said it perfectly, this NC will surely won't go down as one of the best warband event but I know the admin team and all other people involved tried their best. Thanks for all the efforts made and time spent, congratulations to the winners, Russia, Germany and of course Spain who is without a doubt the best surprise of this tournament.