This thread is aimed towards the players who playedservers that used the sword-based spar like I classic does. So who are they? The most badass mother****er to ever spar

Me.

^not that guy ;)

brett or crono

spar is not based on skill, its based on technique and you cn gain technique by sparring 24/7

I thnk we al kno gr8est sparer evr is tha spring 2015 gst champin Nathan

lucifer
carried sage gst with graal city noobs like tae, yurhomi, and blake holding him back.

The ones who spar and are unemployed.

oracle has potential

Elder triple is fun to spar with
comyt pretty much can rek me any time

lol

flamewar was a pretty bad ass sparer

Greatest sparred ever?
 

1998-1999: Clops, Killermech, Entrancer
2000-2008: Brett, Highlander, Thallen, Ares, Halo, Neo, Deophite, Quick Strike
2009-2011: Prado, Zeross, David

No particular order and I know a very limited amount about the 1998-1999 period
There are tons of others worth mentioning but I think this is top tier in terms of tournament wins and overall success in sparring on PC

The mighty player of Classic...Mighty!

Jet was a good sparrer

Yeah, but he wasn't anywhere close to the people in that list
Lots of players were server-specific sparrers, especially when playerworlds were still popular

For example, Classic: Exodus, Clel, Jet, Rob, a bunch of others
Doomsday: Sliq, InZane
Babylon: David, Stella, Sephiroth
Delteria: Evenglare, Listless
Atlantis: Fuma, XStorm, Destroyer
UN: Neo, Magnus, NoMaD, a bunch of others

People like Ares, Halo, myself, etc. in the list I mentioned kind of hopped from playerworld to playerworld and just won whatever weekly tournament was going on at the time, would just spar everywhere and show up 30 minutes before a tournament and annoy everyone

Anyway, if I had to narrow it down to "best ever" from those time periods, I don't have enough knowledge of 1998-1999 to really say, but I'd say Brett for 2000+ onward just based on sparring style, overall wins, how often he played, etc.
I think the majority would probably say Neo though

Offtopic but what was doomsday?
also mind telling me where some of these guys are nowadays?