Why is that Lynx is always so defensive about 101st?

@Great Expanse

You may choose to interpret me as being defensive.

That's besides the point - I'm sharing my prediction as to how well I think 101st will do, which is the point of this thread -> 101st between 2nd and 4th in Q2.

Edited 1/30/2017 03:00:31

Well I still have 101st better than 12 other clans but it is my prediction, yours can be different quicksilver. That is the beauty of predicting! I honestly feel that almost anything can happen on stage 2. It will be a fierce battle for promotion for sure.

Edited 1/30/2017 03:09:38

boots are going to play a huge rule once again... here goes my god predictions:

Div A
1. Masters (if they can avoid boots, LOOKING AT YOU FARAH)
2. Lynx
3. Turtles/Outlaws
4. Outlaws/Turtles
5. ONE (the dark horse, could very easily surprise everyone)
6. Blitz
7. French

Div B
1. GG
2. MH
3. WG (their roster looks much stronger this season, could very easily promote back to A)
4. VS
5. VIW
6. SNinja
7. BIA

Q1
1. FCC
2. Hydra
3. ACME
4. Olympus (imo 4-7 here is impossible to tell)
5. FBG
6. Poon Squad

Q2
1. 7th Heaven
2. CORP
3. LuFredd
4. German Warlords
5. Prude Garde
6. Dutch

Q3 (the strongest qualifier group)
1. 101st
2. Apprentice
3. TJC (could very easily promote)
4. Statisticians
5. DWF
6. Hawks

STAGE 2
1. FCC
2. 7th Heaven
3. Hydra
4. 101st
5. Apprentice
6. CORP


AND TACKY TICKLES HIS WAY TO 6-0 IN CHINA WOOOOOO

5. DWF

Why are you putting DWF so late?

I have a lot of faith in the line up I made and the players :)







swiggity swooggity totally not abusing fireices 1v1 booty

That group is gonna be super close from 1-5 tbh. Anyone but hawks (sorry hawks) could win that group.

yeah I never expected us to get such a tough group, don't know about the capability of TJC though, and well hawks but like....they're hawks :P

were Hawks ever not Last in predictions? :P

Div A
1. Masters
2. Lynx
3. Turtles
4. Outlaws
5. French
6. ONE
7. Blitz

Masters look scary. Lynx should come 2nd, 1st if masters falter. I can see Outlaws doing well and pressuring Turtles for 3rd. 3-5 will be close. ONE might be able to stay up, but it would take a lot for Blitz to stay.

Div B
1. GG
2. MH
3. VS
4. WG
5. SNinja
6. VIW
7. BIA

GG OP. Rakkleader to carry, WG not able to keep up the pace, and a close finish for MH and VS

Q1
1. Hydra
2. FCC
3. ACME
4. Poon
5. FBG
6. Olympus

ACME could do well, and I see Poon pulling a surprise run. Hydra should pull through unscathed. FCC should tip ACME.

Q2
1. 7th Heaven
2. CORP
3. LuFredd
4. German Warlords
5. Prude Garde
6. Dutch

Don't know a lot about these clans. 3-6 is a toss-up. 7the Heaven should take it easy. CORP should just about promote.

Q3
1. 101st
2. Apprentice
3. Statisticians
4. TJC
5. DWF
6. Hawks

Tough group... I think any of my top 4 can go up, but I think this is the order they'll place.

STAGE 2
1. Hydra
2. 101st
3. 7th Heaven
4. Apprentice
5. FCC
6. CORP

Obs a little hopeful, although I can't really see anyone outplaying Hydra here. Not sure if 7th Heaven has the depth here to keep up. CORP will most definitely not keep up. Nauz playing 2 in the Q round might hurt FCC in the long run.

1. Masters
2. Lynx
3. Turtles
4. One!
5. Outlaws
6. French
7. Blitz

Masters has undeniably the best roster on paper with huge talent pools. Lets see if their performance can match their expectations.

Lynx should be able to grab 2nd without much competition. Their roster is filled with solid members all about and can possibly grab 1st.

Turtles has one of the best 1v1 players set to play 1v1. Their teamplays will be lacking like last season but their 1v1s should not surprise anyone.

One! Will be 4th guys! Yes you heard me. They will surprise everyone and come in 4th. Beren with the team should be able to come in 4th if they do everything properly.

Outlaws 5th with a decent roster. And showed last year in B that they can play a team game and 1v1s as well. A will be different than B but they slightly improved their roster and should hold the last spot.

Followed by Blitz and French, whom I don't believe will hold well in cl9. But we shall see.


1. GG
4. WG
4. MH
4. Vs
5.sninja
6. Viw
7. Bia

GG will probably finish first.

The race for 2nd will be tight with wg mh and vs. Hard to predict who will take 2nd.

5th will be sninja who rakleader will have to try and carry.

6th Will be Viw who had ag carry them last split along with metatron who are both gone.

7th Will be bia sadly they will be last.

Edited 1/30/2017 17:56:56

division A

1. MASTER
2. Lynx
3. Icelandic Turtles
4. French Community
5. Outlaws
6. ONE!
7. [Blitz]

MASTER in CL8 was held back by bunch of boots. This season they have even stronger line-up, adding Timinator and Panagiotis, which makes their roster seem nearly completely flawless.

Lynx however has much more players and overally improved since last season, which means they might still vye for first.

Turtles have much tougher 1v1s than previously, and seem to balance their strength well even without Sułtan. Unfortunately there's no improvement since CL8 and it'll all still rely on performance from very few players, compared to other clans.

French won't surprise anyone. With same people playing for them for multiple seasons, they should do similarly well. Might swing few places either way.

And there are ONE!, Outlaws, Blitz. Blitz seems to have a great division B line-up, but it's actually weaker than season before since they won't have GiantFrog. Outlaws have chemistry in them, and Krzysztof on two templates. ONE! is obviously good, but not really a star line-up except Beren and the Europe team.

division B

1. GG
2. VS
3. M'Hunters
4. WG
5. Sninja
6. BIA
7. VIW

Well this division is sad, full of old dying clans.
GG is obvious number one, shattered by really dodgy line-up in CL8 that hardly shown clan's strength.
I have a moral dilemma about WG, since the clan is obviously dead, almost nothing to do with the glorious WarGods that dominated CL4, and it really should sign out like apex and AHoL did, but with addition of smiley and almosttricky, and still having better-than-most-divB players it can't fail.
M'Hunters and VS are the fresh blood in div B, I believe they can shake up things a bit.
Sninja have rakleader, but doesn't have... almosttricky. Because he plays for WG god knows why. BIA's line-up looks a bit messy, compared to previous season and they aren't exactly an elite clan anyway.
VIW... well... knowing how well thought out was this roster, and it having no AG, Metatron, Nogals like it had in CL8, I don't give him any chances. It's dead.


Now, the divisions that are real fun and spirit of Clan League: Q1, Q2, Q3. Much livelier and much better.

Q1:

1. Hydra
2. FCC
3. Acme Co.
4. Poon Squad
5. FBG
6. Olympus

I am biased to put Hydra at first, however it'll be a tough battle between the top3 clans. Acme's players don't seem to be as tough as the other two, bar ACL Tears, though. Poon Squad, FBG and Olympus already played each other in CL8 division D and they finished in same order as in my predictions. They will be free points for Hydra, FCC and Acme though.

Q2:

1. 7th Heaven
2. CORP
3. Preußen Garde
4/5/6. LuFredd/Dutch Forever/German Warlords

The easiest and most nationalist division, even if 7th Heaven defeats CORP all the way, these two still outclass their competition IMO. The German clans do have some decent players, but it's won't be enough, and I'm afraid [NL] might've planned too much for stage 2 since I don't see Matthijs here (him and surfpizza were their best in CL8). Lu Fredd has nothing left of the CL7 team.

Q3:

1. {TJC}
2. Apprentice
3. 101st
4. HAWKS
5. Divided We Fall
6. Statisticians

I am biased putting {TJC} on first (again), but I believe they can do this even in this hellish division. However anyone from them, 101st and Apprentice can be the first two, while HAWKS and DwF are able to steal some wins too. Statisticians don't have enough good players and even less of them is seen in stage 1, which in this division is suicidal.

Division A:

1. Lynx
2. Master
3. ONE!
4. Turtles
5. FrCom
6. Blitz
7. Outlaws

Division B:

1. M'Hunters
2. WG
3. GG
4. VS
5. VIW
6. SNinja
7. BIA

Interesting reads, guys! Thanks and let them keep coming!

Last season I giggled at people ranking the Master Hunters not at first place and indeed we got the highest win rate of all clans participating in the league. This season however I told my boys that gg isn't the coalition of diplo friends. We are definitely the attackers here. They might have the skillz now, but they are lacking the personalities. No more Aranka any longer, just some swots honestly working their way up on the ladders. No more farming wins against alts, they might have become good gamers in a browser game, but they lost all their #Elite.

Nobody does polls, so I made one

https://eSurv.org?u=CL9Predictions

open until 7th February

Edited 1/31/2017 05:27:00

Very cool KKND but not division C :(

but we do not have group C :P
I think its too complicated to predict who will qualify and after qualifies who will win

just add the qualifier groups instead and maybe when it come to that time add predictions for C, D1 and D2

You could just create a poll with 18 options and six slots?

^ That would be assuming that each clan is exactly the same strength between stages, whereas stage 2 will use different players and different templates.