Stop trying to compete with us in boots.

The clot is down due to a problem with a dependent library. I'll try to get it back up tonight, but I've had a long day and may not be able to fix it.

Update #14 - April 26th:

First Wednesday update.

3v3 -

• Deadman's Rise of Rome:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / MASTERs: 1-0, Outlaws: 1-0 / French: 2-1 / Turtles: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-3, ONE!: 0-3
  
  
• Europe:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 2-0, MASTERs: 2-0, ONE!: 2-0 / French: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-2, Outlaws: 0-2, Turtles: 0-2
  

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2v2 -

• China:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ Turtles: 3-0 / MASTERS: 2-0 / French: 1-1, Lynx: 1-1 / ONE!: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Guiroma:


• MASTERs grab their second win on Guiroma by beating fan-favorite Blitz. Blitz now have only one more game left to play here - against ONE! - but that game hasn't started yet.

Standings ~ French: 3-0 / MASTERs: 2-0 / ONE!: 1-0 / Lynx: 2-2 / Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-4 / Turtles: 0-2


• Final Earth:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / Turtles: 3-1 / Outlaws: 1-1 / French: 1-2, Lynx: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-3
  

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1v1 -

• Volcano Island:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 2-0 / Blitz: 1-0, French: 1-0 / Turtles: 0-1 / Outlaws: 0-3
  
  
• Guiroma:
  
  
  • master of desaster of MASTERs picks up two wins since the last update (this is the guy who's played the most games on the Multi-Day Ladder, so it isn't that surprising), against Tac(ky)tical of Outlaws and PJ017 of ONE!. Tac(ky)tical was subbed in for Clint-west-wood, and gets booted during picks. However, PJ plays well and gives MoD a run for his money. Sadly, he can't outexpand MoD due to a critical 6v4 loss and subsequently is behind for the rest of the game. With these two wins, MoD moves to tie with Buns157 of Turtles in first place.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 3-0, Turtles: 3-0 / ONE!: 2-1 / Outlaws: 2-2 / French: 1-2 / Lynx: 0-2 / Blitz: 0-4
  
  
• Strategic Greece:
  
  
  • PJ017 of ONE! continues strong in Greece, beating Turkish of Turtles who formerly shared first place with PJ. PJ increases his early lead to 3-0.
    
  • Krzysztof of Outlaws picks up his first win on Greece by defeating Marechal Lannes of French. Marechal seems to have gotten over his first two autolosses by playing through his games, but he cannot come out on top to grab a win against any of his opponents yet. He falls to 0-4, and has only two remaining games left to play.
  
  Standings ~ ONE!: 3-0 / Turtles: 2-1 / Lynx: 1-0 / MASTERs: 1-1, Outlaws: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-1 / French: 0-4
  
  
• African Elitism:
  
  
  • Hades of Lynx continues strong on AE, beating both Memele of Blitz and Muli of ONE!. This is Muli's first loss, and Memele's third loss in a row. Hades rises to an early lead of 3-0 with these two recent wins.
    
  • Wazz of French defeats master of desaster of MASTERs in a spectacular game. This is Wazz's first completed game, and MoD's first loss on AE.
    
    Here is the link to the Wazz/MoD game for those interested: https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=13295271
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / French: 1-0 / MASTERs: 1-1, ONE!: 1-1 / Turtles: 0-1 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Phobia:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE: 1-0 / Turtles: 1-1 / Lynx: 0-2
  
  
• Strat ME:
  
  
  No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  

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Current Standings:

Position     Clan                 Points     Max Points      Change In Position
1st          MASTERs              59          234            =
2nd          Lynx                 53          208            ▲
3rd          ONE!                 43          211            ▼
4th          Turtles              47          201            =
5th          French               44          200            =
6th          Outlaws              26          192            =
7th          Blitz                11          151            =

Masters (1) lose another 1v1 game, but otherwise are still going very strong. They are 3-1 this week, with a net gain of 7 points.

Lynx (2) are undefeated this week with two wins, a great improvement since their boot-fest last week. Hades picks up all their 6 gained points on African Elitism.

ONE! (3) go 1-2 this week. They have a net loss of 3 points, and consequently fall to third place.

Turtles (4) lose their only game completed at the time of this update, but it doesn't hurt their ranking significantly.

French (5) lose one game, but pick up a great win on AE to remain unchanged. They are less than 3% away from Turtles' Points Contested Percentage, so any further completed games between the two can switch each others' rankings.

Outlaws (6) both win and lose a 1v1 game, and otherwise remain at equilibrium.

Blitz (7) lose 7 points this week (a 1v1 + 2v2 game), and are one point away from going under the 150 Max Points (MP) mark.

Lynx have dug out of the hole caused by Andy's boots slightly, while ONE! lose a couple of games to swap places with Lynx. ONE!'s bulk of points come from their 1v1s so far, while the two clans above them have an equal spread in all three formats. As mentioned before, the gap between Turtles and French is almost nonexistent; expect to see much shifting in between 4th/5th place because of that fact. Outlaws and Blitz continue to fall further away from the pack.

Update #15 - April 29th:

My father taught me a lot. I remember he sat me down once, he said: “Son, don’t go to any of those really cheap, dirty, nasty, sleazy strip clubs because if you do, you’ll see something you shouldn’t.” So, of course I went. And I saw my dad.

3v3 -

• Deadman's Rise of Rome:
  
  
  • MASTERs pick up their second win on RoR, beating Outlaws. Guess Atom finally broke his vacation to do something productive. Masters move to second place shortly behind Lynx (3-0), while Outlaws lose their first game to to tie with Turtles (1-1) in fourth place.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / MASTERs: 2-0 / French: 2-1 / Outlaws: 1-1, Turtles: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-3, ONE!: 0-3
  
  
• Europe:
  
  
  • Turtles screw up the perfect rankings in Europe by defeating Blitz. Now everything is screwed up. I won't even bother commenting on this because the fun is all ruined. I hope Turtles relegate now.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 2-0, MASTERs: 2-0, ONE!: 2-0 / French: 1-1 / Turtles: 1-2 / Outlaws: 0-2 / Blitz: 0-3
  

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2v2 -

• China:
  
  
  • No games completed this week.
  
  Standings ~ Turtles: 3-0 / MASTERS: 2-0 / French: 1-1, Lynx: 1-1 / ONE!: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Guiroma:


• No games completed at the time of this update.

Standings ~ French: 3-0 / MASTERs: 2-0 / ONE!: 1-0 / Lynx: 2-2 / Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-4 / Turtles: 0-2


• Final Earth:
  
  
  • Turtles continue strong on FE by beating Outlaws. Turtles have now only one game left to play - against ONE! - and have an impressive total of 4 wins and one loss (the one loss comes from the undefeated MASTERs team, who haven't completed a single game since). Outlaws move to tie for second-to-last place alongside French and Lynx (1-2).
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / Turtles: 4-1 / French: 1-2, Lynx: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-3
  

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1v1 -

• Volcano Island:
  
  
  • No games completed this week.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 2-0 / Blitz: 1-0, French: 1-0 / Turtles: 0-1 / Outlaws: 0-3
  
  
• Guiroma:
  
  
  • PJ017 of ONE! defeats Niko of French. This is PJ's third win and Niko's third loss.
    
  • andy903 of Lynx digs out of his boot rut by beating Bananashake's replacement Memele of Blitz. Memele has only one game left against MoD of Masters, which isn't a good sign if Blitz hopes to salvage at least one win out of this tournament.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 3-0, Turtles: 3-0 / ONE!: 3-1 / Outlaws: 2-2 / Lynx: 1-2 / French: 1-3 / Blitz: 0-5
  
  
• Strategic Greece:
  
  
  • PJ017 of ONE! is going crazy here! He picks up another two wins in one of the most competitive tournaments of Division A, defeating both Marechal Lannes of French and Krzysztof of Outlaws (no small feat!). This isn't good for a certain unnamed someone, who is PJ's last opponent, as he's the only thing that stands in the way of PJ sweeping Greece.
    
  • This certain unnamed someone of Lynx also beats linberson of Blitz. This is unnamed's first non-boot win on Greece, while linberson is handed his second loss of the tournament.
  
  Standings ~ ONE!: 5-0 / Lynx: 2-0 / Turtles: 2-1 / MASTERs: 1-1 / Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 0-2 / French: 0-5
  
  
• African Elitism:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / French: 1-0 / MASTERs: 1-1, ONE!: 1-1 / Turtles: 0-1 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Phobia:
  
  
  • No games completed this week.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / Turtles: 1-1 / Lynx: 0-2
  
  
• Strat ME:
  
  
  • andy903 of Lynx defeats Master Ryiro of MASTERs due to a boot.
    
  • Grizzlis of ONE! beats Niko of French in a quick 4-turn game.
  
  Standings: Lynx: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / French: 0-1, MASTERs: 0-1
  

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Current Standings:

Position     Clan                 Points     Max Points      Change In Position
1st          MASTERs              64          231            =
2nd          Lynx                 62          208            ▲
3rd          ONE!                 55          211            ▼
4th          Turtles              56          201            =
5th          French               44          191            =
6th          Outlaws              26          180            =
7th          Blitz                11          140            =

Masters (1) finish the week strong by grabbing a nice 5-point win in Rise of Rome, while only losing one 1v1 game due to a boot.

Lynx (2) haven't dropped a game yet since andy's mass boot streak, and continue racking up 1v1 wins with 3 more completed games since Wednesday.

ONE! (3) are on fire lately. They have the highest points from 1v1s currently with 33 points (courtesy of PJ outperforming everyone in 1v1s so far), and have also remained undefeated this week. They pick up the most wins since Wednesday with a grand total of 4 1v1 wins (and in fact have the same number of wins as Lynx but two losses fewer), however, Lynx remains ahead of them due to their overall better team-game performance.

Turtles (4) also do well this week by picking up two team-game wins instead of 1v1 wins. For a clan who was supposed to dominate 1v1s but underperform on team games, they're doing pretty well in team games so far.

French (5) bear the brunt of the 1v1 losses this week, with 3 losses since Wednesday (two from losing to PJ and two from Niko) and no wins. Marechal Lannes threatens to go 0-6 in Greece unless he can beat linberson of Blitz (who also hasn't won a game yet).

Outlaws (6) fare the worst this week by losing a single game in every format (1v1, 2v2 and 3v3) for a total loss of 12 points since Wednesday.

Blitz (7) have fallen under the 150 Max Point (MP) mark and don't show any signs of slowing down.

All in all, some of the placings have started to become very prominent. Masters sit very comfortably at 1st place, and this competition is theirs to lose at this point. Lynx/ONE! are relatively equal (their Points Contested Percentage margin is less than 1%); while Lynx has 7 more points that ONE!, ONE! has a 3 point higher MP ceiling than Lynx. Turtles are not far behind 2nd/3rd; a good couple of weeks can put them in the contest for second. However, after 4th there is a noticeable dropoff as French has both a sizeably smaller Total Points score and MP ceiling compared to 4th place. Outlaws are a greater fraction away from 5th, while Blitz is even farther still from 6th place. The relegation spots seem to have been established assuming that the pattern of finished games continues the way it has been so far, but it is important to note that either clan still could (theoretically) play their way out of relegation.





Edited 4/30/2017 07:22:33

PJ017 is already 8-1 this season :O. ONE! must be regretting not maxing him out. He is by far the standout 1v1 performer. Will be interesting to see if the rest of ONE can perform to a similar level on 1v1s. Their teams look quite strong and they may even win it this season!

That 3v3 RoR against Outlaws was ugly as hell and could have gone either way. I think their position is a bit misleading as they have faced Masters/Lynx in a lot of tournaments. I'm sure they'll eventually give the French a run for their money.

Thanks for those updates AG, very interesting to read

Before anyone gets too caught up in the rankings, it bears mentioning that even at a later stage than this last season, apex was even farther behind GG than Outlaws are behind French. We all know how that turned out. There are still a lot of games to be played, and anything could happen.

Edited 4/30/2017 13:27:31

@Beren The format back then meant team games finished later on, and we all know that team games pretty much decide the rankings.

Maybe some more boots might change things up.

There are also still games where Tac(ky)tical was booted that haven't been completed. Obviously Outlaws can still win games even if he turns into an AI, but in the most competitive division where small mistakes like boots cost you, it's hard not to imagine clans capitalizing on those games.

Depends on the template , Tacky got booted on picks against Turtle. On a template as technical as EU I think boots would have a more drastic effect then boots on Guiroma. Master Turtle got booted against us in our game and the AI played very good moves in fact.

Really , When a clan gets boots there has to be a punishment for it. The trick is to avoid these situations .

However , We won't go down without a fight. For the point of a league , Contesting in all positions of a league is much more entertaining then it being established halfway through.

Edited 4/30/2017 17:09:08

Update #16 - May 3rd:

Almost time for a lame Star Wars pun, but not quite. Maybe I should update tomorrow.

3v3 -

• Deadman's Rise of Rome:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / MASTERs: 2-0 / French: 2-1 / Outlaws: 1-1, Turtles: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-3, ONE!: 0-3
  
  
• Europe:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 2-0, MASTERs: 2-0, ONE!: 2-0 / French: 1-1 / Turtles: 1-2 / Outlaws: 0-2 / Blitz: 0-3
  

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2v2 -

• China:
  
  
  • MASTERs defeat French on China. French drops to create a three way tie for second-to-last place alongside ONE! and Outlaws (1-2). Meanwhile, Masters move to tie with Turtles in first place, also undefeated with 3 wins, and are currently playing against each other.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERS: 3-0, Turtles: 3-0 / Lynx: 1-1 / French: 1-2, ONE!: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Guiroma:


• No games completed at the time of this update.

Standings ~ French: 3-0 / MASTERs: 2-0 / ONE!: 1-0 / Lynx: 2-2 / Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-4 / Turtles: 0-2


• Final Earth:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / Turtles: 4-1 / French: 1-2, Lynx: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-3
  

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1v1 -

• Volcano Island:
  
  
  • Nynwhen of Outlaws gets booted against USA Biches of Turtles on turn 1. Very hard to tell here as the game hadn't even gone through a single turn, but USA seemed to have an advantage off of picks. Nynwhen cannot afford any more losses (especially boot losses) and he now drops to 0-4. However, he still has two more games here to salvage some points for Outlaws.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 2-0 / Blitz: 1-0, French: 1-0 / Turtles: 1-1 / Outlaws: 0-4
  
  
• Guiroma:
  
  
  • Blitz becomes the first clan to complete their allotted games on a tournament, in addition to being the first clan to go completely winless in any single tournament. Memele isn't able to win Blitz's last game against master of desaster of MASTERs, who has been very strong on Guiroma so far. MoD edges past Buns157 (3-0) with this recent win for an impressive 4-0 lead. His match with Buns should be interesting to watch. Meanwhile, Blitz has secured last place in Guiroma, as all other clans have managed to win against Blitz.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 4-0 /Turtles: 3-0 / ONE!: 3-1 / Outlaws: 2-2 / Lynx: 1-2 / French: 1-3 / Blitz: 0-6
  
  
• Strategic Greece:
  
  
  • AWESOMEUGLY of Lynx defeats Master Jz of MASTERs. Everything is apparently "all gross" for him, "especially his moves." Ouch. PJ017 still dominates the group, one game away from a clean sweep, so Lynx is the only other clan that can potentially win this tournament. However, easier said than done, as to do so, GrossGuy has to defeat PJ in addition to not dropping more than one game against any opponent. Sounds doable.
  
  Standings ~ ONE!: 5-0 / Lynx: 3-0 / Turtles: 2-1 / MASTERs: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 0-2 / French: 0-5
  
  
• African Elitism:
  
  
  • Bad week for Muli of ONE!, who loses two games since Saturday; one against master of desaster of MASTERs, and the other against Buns157 of Turtles. Muli drops to second-to-last place, while Buns picks up his first win and MoD his second. Meanwhile, Outlaws have still completed no games here.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / French: 1-0 / MASTERs: 2-1 / Turtles: 1-1 / ONE!: 1-3 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Phobia:
  
  
  • Edge of Outlaws and Wini of Blitz had a nice game on Phobia. Edge's stacks were too OP for Wini to do anything in the end, and Edge snags his first completed game and win on Phobia. This was also Wini's first completed game, which puts him in an early hole, but there's still plenty of time for him to catch up.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0, Outlaws: 1-0 / Turtles: 1-1 / Blitz: 0-1 / Lynx: 0-2
  
  
• Strat ME:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings: Lynx: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / French: 0-1, MASTERs: 0-1
  

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Current Standings:

Position     Clan                 Points     Max Points      Change In Position
1st          MASTERs              74          228            =
2nd          Lynx                 65          208            =
3rd          Turtles              62          201            ▲
4th          ONE!                 55          205            ▼
5th          French               44          187            =
6th          Outlaws              29          177            =
7th          Blitz                11          134            =

Masters (1) do fine as usual with only 1v1 loss, which is negated by MoD's prolific game completion. MoD picks up two 1v1 wins singlehandedly since Saturday, which, along with their 2v2 win on China, gives them a mid-week net gain of 7 points.

Lynx (2) continue to be undefeated, although they've only picked up one win since Saturday. They have a mid-week net gain of 3 points from their only 1v1 in so far.

Turtles (3) get two 1v1 wins for a mid-week net gain of 6 points.

ONE! (4) drop back down due to their bad luck on AE. They have a mid-week net loss of 6 points. They're now only within distance of Turtles' Points Contested Percentage (a margin of less than half a percent), as opposed to last week when they were less than 1% away from Lynx's Points Contested Percentage.

French (5) lose a 2v2 game, which drops their Max Points (MP) ceiling by 4.

Outlaws (6) break even with one 1v1 win and loss.

Blitz (7) are winless yet again with a mid-week net loss of 6 points.

"Biggest" change so far has come from ONE!, which has been on a winning streak recently. Although they've dropped to 4th place due to a couple losses, this does not affect them severely in any way. They are virtually tied for 3rd place with Turtles, and less than 6% away from 2nd place's Points Contested Percentage. All the other clans have more or less performed as expected at the time of this update.

Update #17 - May 7th:

Apologies for the delay. Due to my fathers birthday I wasnt able to update yesterday.

3v3 -

• Deadman's Rise of Rome:
  
  
  • In one of the weirdest matches in Div A, Lynx beat? Turtles. I'm not really sure what to call it as Turtles sort of beat themselves here. This is Turtles' first completed game since subbing out DanWL, so it's natural they're a bit rusty as they're finding their team chemistry. Hopefully they can shape up their team in the coming games. Lynx increases their lead to 4-0 with this latest win.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 4-0 / MASTERs: 2-0 / French: 2-1 / Outlaws: 1-1 / Turtles: 1-2 / Blitz: 0-3, ONE!: 0-3
  
  
• Europe:
  
  
  • A rather bad week for Outlaws on Europe, who lose two games since Wednesday; one game against Turtles and the other against French. Both games suffered heavily from Tac(ky)tical's boots (especially the game versus French, which was quite even until Tac(ky)tical got booted). French now have a positive win ratio, while Turtles even out their score. Outlaws go down to 0-4 and have arguably their toughest and easiest game left to play.
    
  • Lynx defeat Blitz to break out of the three-way tie with ONE! and Masters and claim first place for themselves. Blitz drop to 0-4 alongside Outlaws to tie for last place.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / MASTERs: 2-0, ONE!: 2-0 / French: 2-1 / Turtles: 2-2 / Blitz: 0-4, Outlaws: 0-4
  

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2v2 -

• China:
  
  
  • French get an auto-win against ONE! due to someone from ONE! failing to join before the 3 day game expiration date. French move to break even with 2 wins and 2 losses, while ONE! gets their third loss in a row; their last win was the first completed game in Division A in February!
    
  • Another double loss for Outlaws due to Tac(ky)tical's boots; this time against Turtles once again and Lynx. Turtles move to be the undisputed first for now at 4-0, while Masters trail by one win. The game between the two clans will likely determine the winner of the tournament. Lynx has a positive win ratio with their latest win. Tac(ky)tical is also replaced by Kezzo in China Outlaws' last game against ONE!.
  
  Standings ~ Turtles: 4-0 / MASTERS: 3-0 / Lynx: 2-1 / French: 2-2 / ONE!: 1-3 / Outlaws: 1-4 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Guiroma:


• MASTERs receive a double loss on Guiroma, against Lynx and ONE!. Lynx moves to regain a positive win ratio on Guiroma, while Masters get handed their first two losses and subsequently fall behind Lynx to fourth place. ONE! move to Masters' old position at second place with a win ratio of 2-0, and are now comfortably in second place. French still dominate the tournament with a total of 3-0; however they have not completed any games since and ONE! is not far behind.

Standings ~ French: 3-0 / ONE!: 2-0 / Lynx: 3-2 / MASTERs: 2-2 / Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-4 / Turtles: 0-2


• Final Earth:
  
  
  • No games completed this week.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 1-0, ONE!: 1-0 / Turtles: 4-1 / French: 1-2, Lynx: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Blitz: 1-3
  

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1v1 -

• Volcano Island:
  
  
  • alexclusive of Lynx beats awesomeusername of Blitz. awesomeusername got booted in the end, but alexclusive had a solid enough lead that the outcome of the game would have been the same.
    Lynx picks up their first win on Volcano Island, while Blitz loses their first game to tie with Turtles in second-to-last place. ONE! has still completed no games.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 2-0 / French: 1-0, Lynx: 1-0 / Blitz: 1-1, Turtles: 1-1 / Outlaws: 0-4
  
  
• Guiroma:
  
  
  • Outlaws become the second clan to finish all their games on Guiroma, albeit not in a way they might have wished for. Tac(ky)tical gets booted in his remaining two games against Buns157 of Turtles and Niko of French. Positions 6 and 7 have now been set as even if Niko loses his last game, he has won the head-to-head vs Tac(ky)tical to ensure 5th place at least. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Buns157 moves to tie with master of desaster for first place; both have a score of 4-0. As in China, whoever wins the game between the two will also likely win the tournament.
    
    Also interesting to note: Guiroma is now the fastest completing 1v1 tournament, shortly followed by Greece.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 4-0, Turtles: 4-0 / ONE!: 3-1 / Lynx: 1-2 / French: 2-3 / Outlaws: 2-4 /Blitz: 0-6
  
  
• Strategic Greece:
  
  
  • Turkish of Turtles picks up two losses since Wednesday; one where he fails to join a game in time versus AWESOMEGUY of Lynx. The game between AG and PJ017 of ONE! is even more important as it now determines the overall winner of Greece.
    
  • In Turkish's other loss, he gets beaten by linberson of Blitz. Turkish falls to second-to-last place with these two losses, while linberson gets his first win and moves to create a three-way tie for fourth place alongside Master Jz and Krzysztof (1-2).
  
  Standings ~ ONE!: 5-0 / Lynx: 4-0 / Blitz: 1-2, MASTERs: 1-2, Outlaws: 1-2 / Turtles: 2-3 / French: 0-5
  
  
• African Elitism:
  
  
  • No games completed at the time of this update.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 3-0 / French: 1-0 / MASTERs: 2-1 / Turtles: 1-1 / ONE!: 1-3 / Blitz: 0-3
  
  
• Phobia:
  
  
  • malakkan of ONE! picks up an early 2-0 lead on Phobia by beating andy903 of Lynx. andy was booted in the last turn, however the game seemed lost to andy so the boot didn't factor in too much on the eventual outcome. This is andy's third boot in a row on Phobia.
    
  • Turkish of Turtles gets his second auto-loss this week by failing to join his Phobia game versus Wini of Blitz. Wini now receives his first win to trade places with Turkish. Turkish moves to Wini's old position at second-to-last place with a total of 1 win and 2 losses.
  
  Standings ~ ONE!: 2-0 / MASTERs: 1-0, Outlaws: 1-0 / Blitz: 1-1 / Turtles: 1-2 / Lynx: 0-3
  
  
• Strat ME:
  
  
  • Krzysztof is very prolific on Strat ME this week, beating both andy903 of Lynx and 13CHRIS37 of Blitz. andy gets booted once again, however, unlike his game with malakkan, his position against Krzysztof was even. Chris gets his first Strat ME and overall 1v1 loss, while Krzysztof jumps to first place with a total of 2-0.
    
  • In possibly another first, andy903 of Lynx beats Niko of French in 1 turn! andy compensates for his boot loss against Krzysztof to move back to a positive win ratio, while Niko sinks lower into negative territory with his second loss in a row.
  
  Standings: Outlaws: 2-0 / Lynx: 2-1 / ONE!: 1-0 / Blitz: 0-1, MASTERs: 0-1 / French: 0-2
  

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Current Standings:

Position     Clan                 Points     Max Points      Change In Position
1st          MASTERs              74          220            =
2nd          Lynx                 92          202            =
3rd          ONE!                 62          201            ▲
4th          Turtles              74          187            ▼
5th          French               56          184            =
6th          Outlaws              35          153            =
7th          Blitz                17          123            =

Masters (1) have their first bad week, not winning any games since Wednesday and instead picking up two losses of Guiroma. They finish the week with a net loss of 8 points.

Lynx (2) go crazy this week, picking up an astonishing 27 points since Wednesday. This is the biggest increase in Total Points (TP) seen so far in this season! Their impressive achievement is slightly marred by two of andy's boots which only gives them a net gain of 21 points.

ONE! (3) pick up two wins and one loss. Their 2v2 win/loss cancels out, leaving them with a net gain of 3 points since Wednesday. Coincidentally, they have the same TP score and MP ceiling that Turtles had on Wednesday.

Turtles (4) have a decent week in team-games (1-1 score in 3v3 and 1-0 in 2v2), however they only win one game to counteract one of Turkish's three losses in 1v1 games this week. They have a net loss of 2 points this week and once again trade places with ONE! to fall to 4th place.

French (5) are undefeated in team-games this week with a 2v2 and 3v3 win. Niko wins and loses a 1v1 game to even out their 1v1 score since Wednesday. They have a net gain of 9 points for their team-game wins.

Outlaws (6) suffer badly from Tac(ky)tical's boots with a loss of 24 points since Wednesday. They've received double losses in 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 tournaments, all from Tac(ky)tical booting. However Krzysztof saves this week for being a complete train-wreck for Outlaws with his two wins on Strat ME counteracting Tac(ky)tical's two boot losses on Guiroma. Tac(ky)tical has been subbed out of both 2v2 China and 3v3 Europe, however, Outlaws now have no more substitutions left. Outlaws have a net loss of 18 points this week and are close to falling under the 150 Max Point (MP) mark.

Blitz (7) get two 1v1 wins this week to increase their TP by 6, however, they lose two 1v1 games as well to negate those points, and, in addition, lose a 3v3 game to have a net loss of 5 points this week.

Link to the game we failed to join against french please.

https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=13402994

Update 07-05-2017

Apologies for the delay. Due to my fathers birthday I wasnt able to update yesterday.

AG are you brother with Min34 who is doing updates for group B ? lol

There seems to have been a problem with the system; and the game between myself and Peixoto, against French on the 2v2 China template failed to invite either me or Peixoto.

The first either of us became aware the match had even been created was Awesomeguy's score update a few posts above.

I can say with complete certainty that the game did not invite us, because during the period I was in a total of 3 games, and Peixoto 2. We were both actively taking our turns, and we were waiting for our opponents to play.

On top of this, due to playing with Peixoto; who let's face it, is one of the most unreliable players on the site with regards to boots, I have to actively check my dashboard for his next potential boot probably on average 5 times a day. I'm not just passively browsing over my games, but looking at how far away the boot times are and then nagging Peixoto over skype to make sure he actually does make his move.

As it happens during the period where the game was supposedly open, our opponents in our other 2v2 game went very close to the boot.

[04 May 2017 19:30] Peixoto: 2h23 they still haven't played
[04 May 2017 19:30] Peixoto: I hope they get booted
[04 May 2017 20:18] Peixoto: aaaaaaaaaaaa
[04 May 2017 20:18] Peixoto: almost worked perfectly our plan

I think you can agree the idea that while refreshing the dashboard to check our other game, when having only 1 other active game, no one could miss there being a new game waiting for you to join - well actually maybe I wouldn't put it past Peixoto, but certainly you couldn't have had two people both not see the game!

Clearly there is really no way we can provide evidence for this, how does anyone prove that something that never existed, didn't exist? There was nothing to take a screenshot of, and no reason to think that we needed to. However I think it is very important to make people aware that there is a problem and that it could potentially happen to any one, just like it did for me and Peixoto.

It is entirely possible that others who are less obsessive than I am about checking, double checking, triple checking, double checking the triple check etc, would just assume the system was infallible and that they somehow made a mistake. The system is not infallible. My dashboard is checked a sufficient number of times a day that it's clear I have a problem, but that problem is not forgetting to join games.

^typical Motd's clot to be rigged!

In case of a whole team not joining, or 2 people, can't rules state that the game is recreated ? It's different from a in game boot.

@Holdway, if you haven't already, talk to Beren and Master of the Dead. I'm not sure of the exact details surrounding that, but they will be able to give you a better answer regarding whether you or Peixoto failed to join or the game never allocated and/or falsely gave you a loss.

The French guys should also know about whether there was a correctly set up game.