The 5 players you respect the most

[Master Fenrir]

Alphabetical order:

ahunda - He takes "team communication" to a whole new level. A scary level.

beersurfer - Back when I first hit corporal first class, I thought I was really hot stuff and snuck into one of his open quad games (back before the invite feature). He took the time to teach me how to play team games.

danryan - I can't say enough nice things about him. Great clan leader, great teammate, great friend, and funny as hell. And he can constantly maintain 100+ games of every setting without losing his mind. That alone deserves respect.

laddida - It's a horrible feeling playing against him and realizing why he's kicking your ass about 2 rounds too late.

L M S - Ah, the bromance. He actually makes games FUN, and is the only person capable of calming me down as I rock back and forth in a corner mumbling "14 vs. 2 lose all." The chats with him are like no other. Just ask him.

Honorable mention: 300spartans (team play), Blitz (opponent), brian fletcher (great team play), FarangDemon (strategy), JR (opponent, no bullshit personality), King_Herpes (strategy), MNDuke (a genuinely kind guy once you get to know him), SpaceCowboy (opponent), wolfpack0530 (great team play, ability to attack a teammate for humor value), and a few of the TOFU players...they all kinda blur together in my mind.

[Chariot of Fire]

Too tough a subject to limit it to five. It's akin to being asked which 10 songs you'd take to a desert island, i.e. there are just too many one has to omit. So I'll write a ditty instead

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How this web site used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those sixes dance
And, maybe, I'd be major for a while

But freemium status made me shiver
One's true potential can't deliver
Bad news on the home page
These four games took a f***in age

I can't remember if I cried
When I found my credit card was fried,
But something touched me deep inside
The day my freemium died

So bye-bye, silver icon bye-bye
Clearwater paid my subs (yes he's a hell of a guy)
Them good old farmers sittin' way too up high
Thinking "This'll be the day that I die.
This'll be the day that I die."

Did you start the CLA
Do you have faith in JP Cloet
(If Blitzaholic tells you so)
And can you believe how those dice roll
Can two pairs save your mortal soul
And can you teach me freestyle reaaal sloooow?

I am a happy mid-aged broncin' buck
With a pink 40 stack which I know will suck
But I really don't give a f**k
The day my freemium died

(repeat chorus)

Now for two years I've been on my own
And medals grow heavy on this rollin' stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the noob he sang for King Herpes
On an account (he borrowed from Benji)
And a that came from you and me

Oh and while the King was looking down
Rabbiton stole his ignoble crown,
The scoreboard was upturned
No judgment was returned
And while freakns read a book of wit
LoW's quartet practiced (coz they are s---)
And we all laughed out loud at it
The day my freemium died

(chorus encore)

Helter skelter this Conq Cup's a belter
Bottom seeds out (no fallout shelter)
THOTA's high but falling faaaast
Dice landed foul upon the board
BW pushed his men forward
With comic boy on the sidelines, in a cast

Now the half-time air is sweet perfume
As Odd Fellows start to play the tune
(We all get up to dance)
Oh but we never get the chance
'cause another challenge takes the field
But the TOFU boys refuse to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
(The day pascalleke's icon took her T-shirt off?)

(chorus, yawn)

I met a girl who sang the blues
(amazzony, she likes to lose)
But she still smiles and says 'good game'
I looked in the CC store
I'd had some wine, my mouse had more
But the man there said it put Oxfam to shame

And in their beds the children screamed
The mothers cried (yet still we dreamed)
But not a word was spoken
Our PC's are all bespoken
And the three men I admire the most
jpeter, Seul and Benji's ghost
(he caught the last train for the coast)
The day my freemium died.

And they were singing.....

Thank you and goodnight. Special thanks to Pere Bouchard et Fils vintners without whom this waste of two hours would not have been possible

[ljex]

Too tough a subject to limit it to five. It's akin to being asked which 10 songs you'd take to a desert island, i.e. there are just too many one has to omit. So I'll write a ditty instead

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How this web site used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those sixes dance
And, maybe, I'd be major for a while

But freemium status made me shiver
One's true potential can't deliver
Bad news on the home page
These four games took a f***in age

I can't remember if I cried
When I found my credit card was fried,
But something touched me deep inside
The day my freemium died

So bye-bye, silver icon bye-bye
Clearwater paid my subs (yes he's a hell of a guy)
Them good old farmers sittin' way too up high
Thinking "This'll be the day that I die.
This'll be the day that I die."

Did you start the CLA
Do you have faith in JP Cloet
(If Blitzaholic tells you so)
And can you believe how those dice roll
Can two pairs save your mortal soul
And can you teach me freestyle reaaal sloooow?

I am a happy mid-aged broncin' buck
With a pink 40 stack which I know will suck
But I really don't give a f**k
The day my freemium died

(repeat chorus)

Now for two years I've been on my own
And medals grow heavy on this rollin' stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the noob he sang for King Herpes
On an account (he borrowed from Benji)
And a that came from you and me

Oh and while the King was looking down
Rabbiton stole his ignoble crown,
The scoreboard was upturned
No judgment was returned
And while freakns read a book of wit
LoW's quartet practiced (coz they are s---)
And we all laughed out loud at it
The day my freemium died

(chorus encore)

Helter skelter this Conq Cup's a belter
Bottom seeds out (no fallout shelter)
THOTA's high but falling faaaast
Dice landed foul upon the board
BW pushed his men forward
With comic boy on the sidelines, in a cast

Now the half-time air is sweet perfume
As Odd Fellows start to play the tune
(We all get up to dance)
Oh but we never get the chance
'cause another challenge takes the field
But the TOFU boys refuse to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
(The day pascalleke's icon took her T-shirt off?)

(chorus, yawn)

I met a girl who sang the blues
(amazzony, she likes to lose)
But she still smiles and says 'good game'
I looked in the CC store
I'd had some wine, my mouse had more
But the man there said it put Oxfam to shame

And in their beds the children screamed
The mothers cried (yet still we dreamed)
But not a word was spoken
Our PC's are all bespoken
And the three men I admire the most
jpeter, Seul and Benji's ghost
(he caught the last train for the coast)
The day my freemium died.

And they were singing.....

Thank you and goodnight. Special thanks to Pere Bouchard et Fils vintners without whom this waste of two hours would not have been possible

Encore

[clapper011]

well. ... I have not done this yet simply because there are just too many.. to limit it to just 5.. so I will put up my list.. but not stop at 5

1) All of my clan- spanking monkeys
2) thota
3)team cc
now for the names...
loudawg, 300spartans, sacket, Tisha, Fireside poet, prankcall (of course ) sbg, fruitcake,negoeien, chessplaya, neildrill, bk barunt (even if he is rough around the edges ) , maximimredline, Humrlmo, hmsps, h2su, rbelgrod, megadeath, kegler wow.. just too many.. i am sure I have forgotten many.. who I would not normally forget..

[Optimus Prime]

gameplayer, Godd, Night Strike, Bones2484, and barterer2002

[john9blue]

That was beautiful.

[freakns]

CoF

and the players i respect the most? based on gaming skills

(all equally 1st):
1. CoF- by far best team strategic mind i had pleasure to play with or against.
1. Blitzaholis- as i said long time ago, most versatile player around here.
1. Chuuuuck- brilliant and humble, something you dont see very often.
1. waseemalim- unlike others on this list, i would never put him on "humble" list, but he is maybe the only guy that scares the shit out of me when i see him in other team
1. HighlanderAttack- he mastered 1 vs 1, something i was thinking is impossible.

also, i might put HardAttack and lordnex there, but they being in my clan preserves me from doing it. and of course, Bogan, but he is just too big of an idiot to be looked seriously.

ps. thanks Luba, mentioning me in that contest means much

[Paddy The Cat]

Too tough a subject to limit it to five. It's akin to being asked which 10 songs you'd take to a desert island, i.e. there are just too many one has to omit. So I'll write a ditty instead

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How this web site used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those sixes dance
And, maybe, I'd be major for a while

But freemium status made me shiver
One's true potential can't deliver
Bad news on the home page
These four games took a f***in age

I can't remember if I cried
When I found my credit card was fried,
But something touched me deep inside
The day my freemium died

So bye-bye, silver icon bye-bye
Clearwater paid my subs (yes he's a hell of a guy)
Them good old farmers sittin' way too up high
Thinking "This'll be the day that I die.
This'll be the day that I die."

Did you start the CLA
Do you have faith in JP Cloet
(If Blitzaholic tells you so)
And can you believe how those dice roll
Can two pairs save your mortal soul
And can you teach me freestyle reaaal sloooow?

I am a happy mid-aged broncin' buck
With a pink 40 stack which I know will suck
But I really don't give a f**k
The day my freemium died

(repeat chorus)

Now for two years I've been on my own
And medals grow heavy on this rollin' stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the noob he sang for King Herpes
On an account (he borrowed from Benji)
And a that came from you and me

Oh and while the King was looking down
Rabbiton stole his ignoble crown,
The scoreboard was upturned
No judgment was returned
And while freakns read a book of wit
LoW's quartet practiced (coz they are s---)
And we all laughed out loud at it
The day my freemium died

(chorus encore)

Helter skelter this Conq Cup's a belter
Bottom seeds out (no fallout shelter)
THOTA's high but falling faaaast
Dice landed foul upon the board
BW pushed his men forward
With comic boy on the sidelines, in a cast

Now the half-time air is sweet perfume
As Odd Fellows start to play the tune
(We all get up to dance)
Oh but we never get the chance
'cause another challenge takes the field
But the TOFU boys refuse to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
(The day pascalleke's icon took her T-shirt off?)

(chorus, yawn)

I met a girl who sang the blues
(amazzony, she likes to lose)
But she still smiles and says 'good game'
I looked in the CC store
I'd had some wine, my mouse had more
But the man there said it put Oxfam to shame

And in their beds the children screamed
The mothers cried (yet still we dreamed)
But not a word was spoken
Our PC's are all bespoken
And the three men I admire the most
jpeter, Seul and Benji's ghost
(he caught the last train for the coast)
The day my freemium died.

And they were singing.....

Thank you and goodnight. Special thanks to Pere Bouchard et Fils vintners without whom this waste of two hours would not have been possible

that is incredibly amazing

[killmanic]

In my opinion 5 players stand out as the best all around players I have had the chance to play against/with.

White Moose- My normal doubles partner, but that doesnt get him on this list, its his ability to learn new maps quickly and keep a cool head when facing doing high level (not rank but skill level) players while having bad dice.

Benjikat is dead- This guy was a beast. I dont think I need to say more about him.

Waseemalim- With benjikat is dead getting so much recognition Waseemalim's skill is easy to overlook. To overlook this skill is a fatal error as he is just as good as his former teammate.

Chariot of Fire- An exceptional team player who leaves his opponents begging for mercy.

Army of Achilles- Another great player now retired from cc. He wasn't someone you wanted as your opponent.

[Gold Knight]

We should get CoF's remake of that classic stickied, that was rediculous... And a complete realization on his part that he has way too much time in reserve for CC-related jingles.

[jpeter15]

We should get CoF's remake of that classic stickied, that was rediculous... And a complete realization on his part that he has way too much time in reserve for CC-related jingles.

I just saw CF's Youtube video of him singing the song. Made it even better. I'll post a link shortly.

[Commander62890]

I just saw CF's Youtube video of him singing the song. Made it even better. I'll post a link shortly.

Wow, I am REALLY excited about this!

[Chariot of Fire]

I just saw CF's Youtube video of him singing the song. Made it even better. I'll post a link shortly.

Wow, I am REALLY excited about this!

I'm not. I was in the shower at the time

[nesterdude]

Fireside Poet
Blitzaholic
Chariot of Fire
Nikola Mikili
Highlander attack


me

[Commander62890]

Getting less excited about it by the minute

[MNDuke]

This is an easy one:

1. danrayn
2. danrayn - he's just that fucking good
3. Master Fenrir
4. HippieBroker
5. L M S

[Commander62890]

Is that your pet name for him?

[Ace Rimmer]

First, a thanks to Goldknight and trapyoung for mentioning me! You guys are great.

As far as gaming skills goes, I've not had the opportunity yet to play against many of the well known players here, or at least not often enough to count. But that doesn't mean I don't respect many.

Chariot of Fire took a chance on me in TOFU and has taught me a lot.
Lubawski always seems respectful and polite.
Freakns - his posts just crack me up every time.
Jpeter15 for being a great, underrated teammate who loves to talk and have fun about as much as I do.

I can't choose a fifth. Too many still here to list - trapyoung, Dako, Iron Maid, the great mapmakers such as cairnswk, qwert, DiM, widowmakers, pamoa, lackattack...

Jake

[King_Herpes]

Tiger Woods

Dennis Rodman

Bruce Willis

Bruce Wayne

Double O Seven

[tdans]

Tiger Woods

Dennis Rodman

Bruce Willis

Bruce Wayne

Double O Seven

ROFL, nice list KH

[DAZMCFC]

Tiger Woods

Dennis Rodman

Bruce Willis

Bruce Wayne

Double O Seven

not to sure about Bruce Willis, can be a bit of a dick attacking stacks in escalating.

[beersurfer]

wow... i dont usually post in forums ... because of all the banter ... but the top5 i would have to say ... and these or not rated in any particular order

a) Chariot of Fire ... solid teammate and most challenging opponent ... can really read the map and make best decision based on board status

b) Wild_tiger ... one of the absolute best dubs partners on the site ... if you havent played an 8 man dubs game with this guy, then you havent seen it all yet ...

c) King Herpes ... i dont know what else to say ... singles dubs trips quads freestyle sequential ...you name it .. this guy does it all with a hilarious view ...

d) ahunda ... one of the most methodical strategists i have yet to see ... he evaluates every possible scenario and then makes difficult decisions based on everything he sees ... incredible prowess

e) laddida ... i hate playing against him and his dice ... but i can think of no other player who consistently picks up the mistakes of other players and feeds it back to them all-the-while never breaking a sweat .... Respect goes a long way, even though i dont always show it

Now these 5 players (mentioned above) were the most influential in my style of play ... and i learned more from watching them and how they perceive the boards (maps) and then react ... their are at least 25 other players i have the utmost respect for and surely can dominate any game, any map, any settings, any time (dice permitting, of course)

honorable mentions: timmy1, king of gods, blitzaholic, dragon dor, just call me stupid, seulessthian, general mojo -and team, farangdemon, moonsoon7, tsioumiou, lokisgal, eaglesofgreenerth, 300 spartans, cutebastard71, dcc1220, the space cowboy, master fenrir, redfelt, demonfork, aeromate, and forza az ...

hope no one else takes offense if i didnt remember to put you in here ... and i wont mention the lost souls who have been kicked off the site who really understood how the game was meant to be played in spite of their beliefs and vocalizing them

[clapper011]

hmmm.. lots of interesting lists...

[army of nobunaga]

king herpes is pretty funny... I like him. He use to get me to team with him a lot last year when my rank really sucked but I was a decent player. We pulled out some hellacious comeback wins.. and here is the thing I remember about him the most, he was like a conqueror or a general or really high at the time, and he NEVER told me where to play, he just kind of trusted me... he cursed me when I fucked up, but never told me what to play.

I kind of always respected that about him.

[Robinette]

hmmm.. lots of interesting lists...

yes yes.. it's time...
We now have many names and can begin the executions...



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