GST (Alumni)
 

What makes this team so good?
Who on this team is replaceable?
How long can their streak last?
Do they know something everyone else doesn't?

Oh God.

What makes this team so good? They practice a lot.

Who on this team is replaceable? Everyone, as long as the person replacing them practices a lot, too. It's all about just sparring many times, and in turn becoming a better sparrer.

How long can their streak last? As long as they continue practicing and being better than everyone else at sparring/guild sparring.

Do they know something everyone else doesn't? Nope.

Who on this team is replaceable? All of them, the endless possibilities thanks to their experienced members makes them hard to beat
How long can their streak last? most likely another year or two
Do they know something everyone else doesn't? no

They honed their lag
The non-laggers
69 more times
They have a special type of foil that they put over their routers

I'll give serious answers before this thread's inevitable downfall

just older/mature members who seem to want to win a lot so they all cooperate and do what's necessary

anyone who has a poor attitude towards other members or anyone who isn't active enough during the month of the GST

should be losing any time now just based on the fact that our team remains unchanged while other teams have the option of recruiting more or better players together to compete against us

not really

The alumni idev team simply has a mature / good player team who have practiced a lot in the last and know how to play together ... I don't think there is any secret to it
The only thing I've noticed they do that other teams don't is change each other's names around so people don't really know who they are sparring to confuse people slightly

Cool, you just copied what Thallen just said

alumninum now alumni 4ever

...

Aluminum is the answer.

Praise Xenu

did this with Eko twice now just as sort of a troll, not sure if it actually affects the outcome of spars but it's probably frustrating at least

I think it kinda does , because for my self I know I use different ways to spar epennding on who I'm sparring , therefore using the wrong technique for the wrong person could prove to be disadvantageous

They have people who spar the most in the game. They have people who don't join other teams.

Actually tbh I barely see most of their cores spar until maybe a week or two before gst

Well let's be honest, who needs to practice spar when you've been doing it for a long while?

I'm skeptical of a team not made up of a majority of PC players winning 3+ times in a row.

Also, I think not changing members helps you more. You've had the top 5 or 6 players on the server, but if MK and Dante really retire, this could be a slightly harder GST for Alumni, offset by the fact that the other teams don't have their act together.

Practice makes perfect no matter how good you already are you can probably improve in some way... However I don't mean to shame mixed gst but there is usually only 2-3 good good guild ( usually )

steroids

I kinda feel like it works both ways

If you keep a guild in tact, you improve just through knowing how to spar together
If you have no obligation to reward loyalty or you just feel like recruiting the 5 people who you think give you the absolute best chance, then I feel like that's a pretty significant advantage

Original team was:

• Thallen (had 1 win, 6 now)
• Eko (had 1 win, 6 now)
• Dante (had 2 wins, 7 now)
• MK (had 0 wins, 5 now)
• Hikaru (had 0, 3 now)

Went from a combined 4 total wins to a combined 17
When people say that we took the top GSers and put them together on a team, I don't really agree just based on that alone

implying that they can work as a 'team' if you can spar together
but its just a bunch of pro sparrers in one team doing random **** in guild battling

I have to disagree. I'll use a different example of this. Deity, when we won/were legit contenders for winning, did not have a team of sparrers that were top tier. We won through cohesion and not neccesarily strategy/planning but knowing what we all liked to do in a guild spar. I think that elemt is pretty underrated and one of the primary attributing factors to Deity's success.

Just an example.

Huh? Counting David and excluding Hikaru/Aguzo, everyone on the team were former GST winners and top 2 on their winning teams.

5 random best sparrers thrown together nets you 2nd place. I've experienced that with baddies and blackout.

MK never won a GST before Alumni
can't really say winning 1 GST proves much considering Doublelift has won a GST
so really our only experienced member was Dante at the start

this is basically my point though
I feel much more comfortable on a team like this instead of something like Thallen, Brett, Ares, Dante, Jack, or whatever it'd be

lol i think that's what's gonna happen after alunmi streak breaks or at least something similar.