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Enlightenment
((From what i saw, hope theres some OG idev out there to vouch))
2009- short period, no guilds yet, mainly pking with {clans} in our names, everybody was exploring the small graal server because it was entirely new to us.
2010- new things always being released, houses, guild houses, guilds, towers, alliances, spar hats, ect.
everybody was generally so busy that they didn't have time to dwell on anything. SO much fun for us newbies. The spar life in 2010? Was to C-spar and wreck the 60+ noobs in the battle area. Back then it was all about siber, shinta, kevin91, ryo.. ect. 2010 was dominated by Japanese sparrers aswell, slight delay(not bad to rage about) + insane defensive skill. Then there was a whole different community of guild sparrers in 2010 in swamp, like frosty(fro), myself, killman, and ect. Guilds like SiB, Anubis, really dominated spar. While there were guild sparring guilds such as DoT.
2011- Age of Guild Spar and New techniques
People began advancing skills in spar, more prediction skills, a great time for spar where everybody was learning fundamental things.
2012- the Most intense period in my opinion.
2012 was a period where a **** ton of good sparrers really reached their peak at the same time, and comyt lead the leaderboards. He set an example for us, to be competitive and ruthless. SO many good sparrers had balls, and were trying to prove to everybody else that they were the best. Then PCs came which added even more frustration and the spar areana was a huge battle zone of people challenging eachother, and wanting respect. GST added to the crazyness of it all, but on the off seasons everybody still 1vs1'd alot trying to be top dog.
2013- GST became the only thing people cared about.
Many good idev sparrers quit or went inactive. Most of them only to log on for the gst, which was changed to every season, not month, which caused the spar activity to die. And the new players joining graal after 2013, did not show the same interest in the spar community as most players did in 2011/2012.
To me, I've just seen a slow decline in competitive sparrers untill GST time.
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