Thoughts & Recognition
 

Throughout years of obvserving the spar community, I have noticed that the amount of respect that the winner deserves has gone down drastically. I have come to the overall conclusion that the current spar community is full of people who do not know their place. There are countless examples of people who do not comprehend where they stand but recently it has just been pathetic. I am speaking as an individual who witnessed and experienced the reign of (Alumni), which was a three year period of complete dominance over the sparring community. If any person who reads this does not recognize (Alumni) as the best sparring guild ever , then that in itself completely reinforces my argument. The aftermath of (Alumni) includes (7ives) which has completely destroyed every idevice team and backed up their winning habits by winning the mixed GST tournament previous to this one. No, I am not saying to love us, y'all can hate us for all I care, but most of you need to learn what respect truly is & recognize where you stand. I am already ready to hear things like OH YOU WERE A SUB YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING but in all honesty, I don't really care and that is not what this paragraph is written for. This paragraph is to let y'all know that things such as messaging Thallen about being in the wrong "spar tier", making status's about beating (Alumni). These are the things that reinforce our position as being the best because it clarifies how much you value our opinion.

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner". - Halle Berry

Be humble

Yea its about time u guys recognise me as the best idev sparer lol

nobody disrespects the american/canadian players in those guilds, but while alumni turned out to be a north american team doped with a few delayers from other countries, 7ives doesn't even hide that massive delay is being used purposefully since hey, everybody does it and they are absolutely skilled regardless of their delay.

certainly you guys do a better job than guilds like male which seek the same strategy but do not have the mental capacities to make any profit from their advantage, nevertheless you shouldn't expect other people to follow a morally wrong path.

Dogmatism is bad in general, try to get on an analytic base

This has nothing to do with sparring, people are generally disrespectful

This "get rekt" mentality is not really in favor of earning oneself respect

No more salt guys

I’m glad there’s finally a thread out there to give me the respect and praise I deserve as #1 sparrer.
Thank you all ~♡

You don’t just get respect from winning, you have to gain it. No point respecting a team who is disrespectful to other teams, right? Most players (not all) in Alumni mixed are humble and respectful to the other teams, Dante is a good example. Most of alumni idev are disrespectful and rude, they try so hard to get attention from others. Some people just suck up to them as if they’re trying to make them proud. If you don’t suck up to them they spend hours trying to roast you. If you’re asking people to d* ride alumni then..
Your guild place in other teams perspective represent the way you guys treat them.

What?
 

Im confused what r u trying to say? Is this about alumni or winners in general? cuz ur basically just alking abt alumni

lol Haze stop disrespecting saeed for sucking .-.

You delay so therefor don’t qualify as best idev, sorry bud. obviously Kevin is the best he has 70k wins!

I’d like to thank the academy and my mom thx

You're only saying this because you reside with Alumni/7ives whatever. Honestly, I feel like you'd change your opinions IF thallen and dante and whoever were to remove you from their gst. Everyone is so used to you people winning that no one needs to respect you any further. We've been so tired of alumni/7ives people winning that respect, to you people, is likely to be unnecessary because your whole domain doesn't need it from all the *** sparrers(in comparison to you people). Like, it's like receiving respect from sea cucumbers in the middle of Arctic ocean; will the higher person of the hierarchy care about that sort of respect? Never. So I'm EXTREMELY surprised that someone like you would even bother to write this message. Besides, why would you care? If you understand my analogy, would you expect a pile of poop to acknowledge you? NO, you just took a pile of poop! That poop, in your eyes, is completely worthless, so why talk about this??

But then I might as well agree with you because you should've mentioned the lack of respect that Northern Sign, specifically me, got when they won gst. All the people would say to Northern Sign was that "they boosted for belt". 0 respect at all and 0 acknowledgement to us, except by some from SLX and a couple of other modest people like Toich or Squiggles(though she's kinda bipolar). And I understand what kind of person I used to be, but that still doesnt deny the fact that no one even bothered to acknowledge the win by us. Despite our positions, despite who we were as people..

And I swear if you say Northern Sign and Alumni were different in terms of winning gst, this reinforces the idea that you're a hypocrite and just like 80-90% of the spar community. Although the skill levels may have been different, both teams did WIN and teams include ALL SEVEN PEOPLE despite subs or cores.

Exactly my point. Why just Alumni?

I completely agree with you. Some people in Alumni treat others like they're a huge pile of poop. People respect those who respect them back.

Throughout my years sparring, there has always been some disrespectful person in every spar room. I think it's fair to say many of today's sparrers are young and simply have a lot of pent up frustration, so they utilise the chat in-game and speak their mind because it "feels good". Young teens in this game just get mad at losing at anything. Once they win they go "yeah get rekt noob" or some other horsesh*t that can't be justified.

The problem is even more prestigious sparrers are caught to behave this way(Yuki...), and it doesn't set a good example for newer sparrers. Granted, newer sparrers are prone to behave negatively more often first, but I think it should be our job to discipline their b*tch asses instead of retaliating with similar behaviors.
I don't guild spar, never had time and I'm not keen on dealing with horsesh*t lagging and delaying in a TOURNAMENT, but I've noticed a lot of guilds to be quite negative.

Whatever. They're young; if they can't find their place then we'll put them in their place in a humble manner.

Here's my biased opinion, though. I find it dreadfully difficult to respect sparrers that consistently lag or delay. It ruins the experience for so many other people and it makes a lot of people ask themselves, "Was that actually a good spar? Was that fair?" Then ye get that statement from others saying, "Learn to fight it." Theoretically speaking, I should never have to fight someone with a poorer connection and have an unusual spar, because that just isn't fun and it just isn't right. It's been around so long in graal that it seems normal now, and we've allowed ourselves to learn to combat it since it hasn't been resolved.

Take CoD or any other FPS. How annoying is it to be in a laggy lobby? Does it ruin the experience? I bet it does.

I think the reason Alumni was able to reign for so long is because they're just older. The rest of us are just teens, Thallen is in his twenties, or so I've heard, as well as Winter, Dante, etc. Teens have a hard time staying consistent but people become more consistent and focused when they're older, and Alumni members seem older than many of us. Unless there are a certain few of you in here who are also in your twenties besides Thallen.