by rebelman on Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:03 pm
Blitz,
All our combatants were above 1600 at the outset. Only two Amanda1 and Sirius have gone below at any stage (I realise Sirius nosedived but this happens - not so long ago both you and jr both dropped nearly 1K in a short space of time - if it could happen to you guys, I'm not sure why you are so aghast when it happens to sirius), I have confirmed with our entire team that noone else fell below. As of now we will be continuing to pick our best possible team to win - i would never tell you or your clan who to pick / not pick as an honourable and respected clan I would expect you to have the same attitude. In triples none of our teams has a score less than 4800 and in doubles none of our teams are below 3200 this includes those games already up and running including Sirius and Amanda.
I notice a former KoE whom I always had a lot of time for, Ali has now joined your ranks, he can testify to the quality of Amanda as a team player, dropping her would weaken our team considerably (I regard her among our top 5 doubles players) and I will not as our co-ordinator pick a weakened team as i want us to win this challenge. Likewise Sirius's quality as a player is not reflected in his current rank. He is losing speed games wholesale but he seems to be addicted and will not give up even though its destroying his score. Were it not for those speed games he would easily be a lieutenant. As it is he has gained well over 200 pts since yesterday and if we could ween him off the speed im certain he would be above 1600 in the click of a finger.
Just so you are all aware when we were picking this team we looked at all 25 possible players abover 1600 and chose the best available regardless of score. If we simply picked our 10 / 12 highest rankers no offence on the players concerned - this would not have been our best team.
I could post here comments from THOTA clan members when this was originally disucssed but these can be found on earlier pages of this thread. Also on the thread specifically related to this challenge Khaz asked me to join some games as the KoE co-ordinator, I declined but as my score is 1100ish and my highest all time is 1277 this shows a serious lack of inconsistency regarding this rule.
I really hope this does not delay or interrupt this challenge any further as I said before forums is not the right battlefield for this clan challenge and in the interest of both clans we should just get on with the job in hand.
Don't now why people on here don't like being cooks, remember under siege: A former SEAL, now cook, is the only person who can stop a gang of terrorists when they sieze control of a US Navy battleship.