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Post by Snoop on Feb 25, 2005 17:07:14 GMT -5
You know, surprisingly, I don't recall anyone ever doing one of these.
I'm sure some people haven't even seen some of these clans but just pick what you think was the best. Also choose them as they would be in their primes.
I think minimum requirments for a top 10 clan should be the clan existing at least a year.
Here's all the clans in the running I can think of in case you can't remember all of them.
3B ACE ANARKY ARMX BLACK BTU DARK DIG DUGGAN DUKE ELITE ES GG GNUG HTK KEA KING MIB NEMESIS NEO PLU PRO RAWDAWG RAPTOR SWE SY TAG TEA TNL TOS TRP WRATH X (mastah's clan) ZERO ZS
Well there's the ones I can think of at the moment that should be worthy of qualifying. I'm sure I missed 1 or 2.
Maybe after we can compile them we'll do a poll for the #1 like Kungen did.
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Post by CanuckisH on Feb 25, 2005 18:25:14 GMT -5
Their truly is no competition in TA.. Its BTU thoo tag and sy are pretty cool... and gnug had a great gimic.
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Post by PRO_-|[Silencer]|-_ on Feb 25, 2005 19:11:47 GMT -5
well PRO are almost 8 years old..im not sure ull have to ask merl, but in our prime i think there were about 50 good - expert PROs...Correct me if im wrong merl
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Post by Mastah on Feb 25, 2005 19:19:52 GMT -5
I wouldnt be biased and vote for my clan, as Im guessing it doesnt qualify in what you would think of as a top clan. Im guessing you are going on skills and reputation. 1st - SY - Not only awesome team skills, also very geeky and has done a LOT for the community (demorecorder, maps, their new 3d game thing)
2nd - TAG - Reputation says it all.
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Post by Kungen on Feb 25, 2005 20:07:35 GMT -5
BTU SY TAG Gnug
No spec order..
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Post by Snoop on Feb 25, 2005 20:18:07 GMT -5
I think Gnug, SY, and Tag are a given. I would also add BTU (at it's prime), Nemesis (at it's prime), and Neo. Neo featured Picardoh, Soulrain, Preen, Silvertool, and... I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. Quite a potent team.
I also forgot to add the Raptor clan. Not sure how long they really existed though.
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Post by Abe on Feb 25, 2005 20:18:51 GMT -5
Ehr...
In terms of playing skills, how'd they rank on all time uberness in TA I'd say:
1. TAG 2. SY 3. BTU 4. Nemesis/n1 5. Gnugs
Honorable mention: Neo (and Raptor, pretty much the same guys), BL4CK, RawDawgs, KING, HTK
So many clans were all about one person, like ANARKY. Not to mention all the clans that hired BF, iWIN, Preen or Pic for a few months and got phat reputation only to lose it when they left.
If we're talking reputation, contributing to the game, community support etc:
1. SY 2. Gnugs 3. TAG 4. Nemesis/n1 (Long web tradition. Saint, Vaxon, Pacer...) 5. BTU (simply for being louder then anyone else)
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Post by CanuckisH on Feb 25, 2005 23:14:54 GMT -5
BTU in its prime?
I take that personally snoop... to say BTU had a prime implies that the rest of its time was unsatisfactory.
Which maybe in the world of TA can be said... but as a clan BTU has no prime. We may not have always been active in TA but we usually until recent year been active in at least one game.. usually TA or CS..
But as for TA clan.. BTU was the n umber one clan on mplayer no question. Sure mplayer has a bad rep but still.. we where top. moved to zone.. ok we where not good.. but we adapted fast and withing a year had achieved 3rd in cbl4 which was a good CBL.. and in CBL5 where a heavy favorite to win.
Alot of the best TA players have been in BTU.. many for extended periods of time.. You for example.. Cytree.. Blackflag. Ex members now perhaps.
We currently have some of the top players active.. in Jorne in Vapor...
I like to think we are doin pretty good...
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Post by CanuckisH on Feb 25, 2005 23:16:25 GMT -5
P.S that prime u speak of... from cbl5 till our win in CBL 6 till basically before cbl7 was in a range of what... 4 years? nota bad little prime vs N's 1
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Post by Snoop on Feb 26, 2005 8:15:02 GMT -5
P.S that prime u speak of... from cbl5 till our win in CBL 6 till basically before cbl7 was in a range of what... 4 years? nota bad little prime vs N's 1 I see your points. I guess that wasn't a fair comment. BTU has been good (as you said), one of the best, and the very best (as CBL proved). Anyhow, we both know BTU is in the top 5. I think Abe and I see things pretty much the same.
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Post by rick on Feb 26, 2005 10:48:40 GMT -5
Theres no doubt that as far as skills go, TAG has been dominant for the longest. Still cant figure out how they haven't won a CBL.
I'd say:
TAG GNUG BTU
I dont list SY cause i wasn't around to see them in action
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Post by Force on Feb 26, 2005 12:44:39 GMT -5
TAG BTU N KING NEO
Man i remember when i first started playing TA on TEN i thought neo was the shit, they had preen,pic,maven,soulrain,silvertool was just an awsome squad
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Post by PRO_EMACIATOR on Feb 26, 2005 22:33:13 GMT -5
now i havent been along as long as most of you guys... but i remember back when i was a noob (ok more of a noob ) TAG had the best reputation in my opinion.. the biggest WOW factor if u will... e.g. omg a TAG is it a robot?? (no i dont mean andy) etc etc as did the gnugs... they were more of a legend though really, i never played any properly as far as i can remember btw TAG does not hold this same respect / rep at all nowadays (imo) P.S. i am not rating this clan as top 10 or whatever.. but ithink isnt ARMX one of the oldest clans aswell? edit: also BTU was always held in regard too..(i can remember when BTU_Vezoz beat our mighty merly on some ancient GSA tournament ohhh the horror hehehe BTU's good rep to me didnt last long when i discovered how much of a cocky dick natas is though... but then again i guess thats what BTU is all about:) canuck always seems like a cool guy/player though, also wrote a really cool clan history, it could make a film or something, was like a lord of the rings kind of thing GJ! I will end on saying : if only PRO moved to zone sooner !
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Post by PRO_-|[Silencer]|-_ on Feb 27, 2005 9:32:31 GMT -5
i wouldve liked to see that too...gami says that because PRO were hacking rooms on gsa with over 50 expert members, the gamespy admins banned them all permanently and there were only like 10 left..or something
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Post by denimdemon on Feb 27, 2005 17:51:36 GMT -5
Yeah, EMAC nailed it.
Gnugs are TA legends for anyone that started in 99 or later. I know I started playing online after watching and being amazed at a 315 vs 115 game on PD.
Until recently, TAG were the old dogs of TA. They were always calm (well, except for dom) and always owned and were basically THE clan to strive to join. Kinda different now, but they still have the best players.
BTU were like the new school experts. I never had a problem with any of them. BF was always cool and never laid into me for losing so often and so badly to him. Jaguar had a rep for being an asshole but in my experience was a very cool guy.
I'd say
1. Gnug 2. TAG 3. BTU
Nemesis and ELITE and SY and all those other clans were great (I'm sure I'm not ranking SY cause they were generally before my time) but don't really have the same "aura" as the big three.
These days (well before Zone stopped working argh) I could hardly get a game with any experts, for whatever reason. Thank god for the weekend tourneys or I'd never play any good players. Novice is and has always been good guy, and the PRO guys are cool, but that's basically it as far as today's top tier go.
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