2015 Fall GST Results
 

Mixed

1st: Alumni
2nd: Apostles
3rd: Demon


iDevice

1st: Predation
2nd: DoT
3rd: Silver


I'd be down to do the following:

Make a stream, preferably using an official classic account on Twitch.
Have staff only let the teams be able to log on, that would reduce the player count by 4k... which would be nice for the lag.
If anyone else would want to, or if ToonSlab would want to. I would suggest getting someone like Jeffy, Zetectic, idk if I am good at it, for commentating.

3rd: rekt u

cmon we don't need another gst thread talk about the results in the one with 11,000 views lol

demon won 2-0, nice 5v3s congrats nice amount of skill.

Thanks for letting me know albie

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Thats for the rebellious members

cmon man im waiting for your reply on the other thread

I liked this GST. Thought it was interesting to watch, and I like how the staffs were giving updates of the score to the rest of the community even though there were still some faults.

i liked how i got banned in the middle of a spar for saying big booty hoes

We get it you've said it a thousand times, what were you expecting??

Next time think before you speak if it's such a big deal.

Congratulations to the winners!!!

iDev side was more interesting. All the mixed teams did bad except Alumni.

For the iDevice finals, I'd have liked to see DoT win just to see Qes/Bobby/Noss egos inflate to irresponsible levels because it'd be hilarious and entertaining, but I'm also glad to see Sarah get a win

CM and Leah did a pretty good job hosting, although that team of VPNers should have been caught way sooner

glad im not on that list

CRZ and Silver tied the first two matches. The third match mshaks (silver) disconnected, this is excessive lag and this rule needs to be properly enforced next time around, that match restarted. CRZ then lost the next round by .5 and the round was over, Silver advanced. The rule book needs to be updated and needs to clearly state that draws count as "wins for both teams." Not complaining, just requesting for simple improvements.

Is this a new official rule, or did your host screw up?.... Ties have never counted as a "win for both sides" in the past.

I only saw part of CRZ vs. Silver, but it did look like it was a "best of 1" after those ties
I can't recall that ever happening before

If Rebellious won could you imagine Comyt with an ego?

New host jumped the gun and took 'best of 3' literally.

I would be down to watch Predation vs. Alumni. Even if it isn't officially hosted, would be great if you guys got together at Belle and let it play out.

ur lookin' at him bro lol winning a 5th gst wouldn't do anything to me

congratz to predation, dot, silver.
congratz to alumni, apostles, demon/

i can imagine how mixed went, but 0 idea with idev. rebel, vis, alumni?

All 3 of us lost to silver

damn, but how are they 3rd? lost vs sarahs team?

silver lost to dot. No idea how they lost to dot but beat the guilds they did

I don't imagine irrelevant chatsparrers in any context, so no

cool willow gst lost in 1st round

I like their outfits in the video. Great song choices in that GST video too! That Justin Bieber song really sets the mood with how people r feeling after the event :love:

wtf is this? wheres everone complaining about how gst is rigged and the winners cheated?

i'm still trying to figure that out as well, must have been some crazy fluke since they lost a 4v5 to predation in the finals

you have 3,300 posts here (wtf) and did not spar all of last season either bud, don't see much difference there besides the excessive chatting on your end.

When I was sparring in the 4v5 the only people who got hits were dia and noss, was pretty much the same for the other rounds. To see silver lose to someone like Bri must of been some big ass fluke

People who actually talk to me understand my logic on things. Everybody else is just too dumb to see my sarcasm. Im nothing like comyt because i actually really cared about the spar community for a long time. But today i really lost hope in the spar community. I really think its going no where and everybody doesn't care anymore until once a season for GST.
I just want things to be the way they were when i first started sparring, when I could walk up to anybody and say, your ez. And then we would series and it would be intense asf after all the trash talking between the two of us, and the winner would be happy and the loser would almost go into a depression and end up raging. This stuff would happen everyday on graal and it was great and really drove people to be Ruthless sparers.
Now? Everybody sits around and waits for gsts and no matter how hard i try to get people to spar competitively, they all just sit around like vegetables.
Thallen, want to hear what i think you do for this spar community? I think you make great ideas, but i think when your online, you do nothing to help.
Clops has done so much for graal spar community, too bad he's not the type to tell me "Qes you suck id wreck you". He'd rather just calmly say "Im better than you, if you think otherwise okay"
Comyt, you were great to the spar community in 2012, really made it fun. But now your just irrelevant. Really sad to watch you try to butt into conversations when your just not apart of anything anymore.

People have grew up and matured since you started sparring + people are now more sensitive about there social status on graal which makes them less likely to accept a series request. No matter how hard you try I don't think your gonna change the spar community back to what it was when you started sparring

hahaha

Me logging on and sparring every day isn't going to change anything. If staff want people to spar actively, they'd have made necessary changes by now. The fact is that the sparring community is small so they probably don't care to cater to that group.

Like I've said for years, if iClassic offers a prize for leaderboard placements or brings back the hats, sparring would be more active. If there was a singles tournament that used the leaderboard for seeding, just like the GST, sparring would be a lot more competitive.
It might be too late for that now though, because the server lag that sparrers deal with in present times is just discouraging.

Why are there 200-post GST prediction threads? Why do we have people talking about GST hats for 3+ pages? Why has towering never died out? Ya, because you get little prizes for doing all of those things.

On a personal level, I've done my part. I've sparred 44k times, way more than any player that came purely from Facebook, and I wasn't even active until 2012. Sparring just gets boring after a while.

I couldn't agree more with everything on this post...the lack of incentives makes for very little focus on 1v1 sparring for sure. While the server lag just further ruins the every day experience for most people sparring. Heck I've only been here for half the time Thallen has, done 1/4 of the spars and I'm mostly inactive from 1v1 unless it's GH sparring. It's hard to justify spending much time on something that isn't much fun, and doesn't yield a reward.

When GST was once a month now that was when spar was always active. Doesn't even have to be a GST every month though, can just be a small tournement each month.

when was there ever a gst every month

Or two singles tournies in between gsts.

Either way, now that the next season is coming they should really consider not adding a new board, before re-re-re-creating it.

Also add the w/l visible in guild profiles, since after gst spar guilds don't really do much.

The hit count would be great too.

... a payout at the end of the season for the top placements would be nice.

Maybe the stories of changing the guild system are all just lost dreams by now.

2011

Bak in 2008 u flippin new fga .-.

cmon dnt hav 2 b rude -.-

you know what, i actually agree wit t-money on this one, i have literally nothing to spar for, so i'm not sparring and therefore "irrelevant" (can still murder qes anyday lol). the only reason i would actively spar is to unrust and see who is a good enough player to add to a GST team, the only big event in sparring. would be doing this and making sage every time, but i'm in college for every single GST besides this thanksgiving one, which i only have 4 days to prepare for. maybe if i had something else to spar for, you would see me online once every week instead of 2 weeks. but as of right now, all i can focus on as a sparrer is the GST, and in my current life position i don't have enough time for it.

Congrats to the winners but I need to just say that this Gst was on november 28th which is an even number and everyone relevant to the sparring community for the past few years knows I perform better on odd number days. We really had no chance to begin with because of this terrible occurrence.

Everybody knows that if SLX would have entered mixed being lead by John Rocker the results world be different.

Happy I finally placed 2nd, After watching and experiencing Alumni in a final I can tell you no mixed nor idevice guild is even close to them on skill level or teamwork.

Also towards the blackout guys; Wtf were you doing in that round against Alumni? You guys seemed to all split up and try to rush which was weird to see you all do, I'm pretty sure a couple of you died in the first like 20 seconds and left brett by himself running around like he does in singles.

Ya i started yelling "ZID WHAT R U DOING DONT RUSH" but then i realized i was zid and i was still alive and not rushing

Also just to add too our second place result; For once Primetime isn't sad about not making it to 1st but he was quite happy and likes our current team a lot because unlike past teams everyone is very positive.

(Pt with the 8th 2nd placing bb)

tego got warped at 2hp, in 2nd round. I didn't do that good at all in 1st round, but 2nd round I got more hits, and tried to stay alive with someone else for the 4v2. Either way, in the morning our team was doing bad. Didn't practice as much as the other teams, especially not during the 4k days. Alumni just had better teamwork, and was more used to the lag.

Brett told me contego was warped out also but it's hard to distinguish 9 people from 10 in the middle of a spar, so I have no idea

If contego was warped out then I just want to know who it was that yolo'd into the middle of our team and died in about 10 seconds, they went 100% Leeroy Jenkins
I know it wasn't Brett because I have him added and saw his indicator