@the WPL banter yall were missing tito and we were missing Theo, who had the highest number of kills in the tourney at that point (i think boogy points that out in the stream). Without our star inf i ended up having to change our entire closed map strat in the 5 minutes before we started.
@the general thread, gonna reiterate what some other players have said and acknowledge that while everyone appreciates banter, the level of hubris that after 3 weeks VK claims to be the best NA clan because no one has beaten you according to your own specifications (I.e. "that team of VK players wasnt our BEST team so it doesnt count"; "we had a rando that queued with 5 of us so it doesn't count"; "they had a rando with them so they didn't have an official team so it doesnt count") grates on a well entrenched community that recognizes bragging rights dont start until after the first tourney win.
Unless TW takes an active hand in running tournaments (which i doubt will occur in NA), then the tourneys will be hosted and ran by the NA community. Speaking as an ex-GK, I can assure you that its far easier to impact the community discussion by working with other clans/teams than withholding yourselves because you feel you don't mix.
In the question of unabashedly claiming to be the best NA, y'all can claim that title as long as ulyou want, but expect people to laugh at you (rightly so), because the rest of us have logically come to the conclusion that until there's an official tourney there's no universally-agreed-on metric for determining "the best".
Lastly, I'm given to understand that the majority of your clan come from NW. On one hand I sympathize, because for the longest time NW got 0 respect from the native community, since whenever an NW team would attempt to compete in a native tourney they'd typically get absolutely obliterated and often RQd out of the tourney before it even ended. Players such as Waste and Yoshie went a long way to show that NW players could compete at high levels of native comp play, but im given to understand that they are also among the best in the NW scene as well. While I'm not sure if the vocal defenders of this clan have the maturity to reverse the situation, if bannerlord was essentially a reskin of NW with better graphics and an enhanced combat system, I'm sure the NW regs would consider themselves the experts on how the competitive aspect would develop, and would laugh at a group of players that emerge from some other mod and immediately claimed to be the best in the scene.
Honestly, considering the flaming from VK idk why i bother trying to be conciliatory. Adopting this "avant garde we are the future if ur arguing ur old and washed up reeeeee" mindset amuses the hell out of me.
P.S. don't try and adopt such a progressive mindset when certain members of the group are neo-Nazi edgelords, it lessens the message.