Posted by Crono

Me.

You were very good.  

Posted by Kuz

You were very good.

Those motivational words at the end  

Posted by Graal Man

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

just another playerworld like the rest

no idea where Killermech and Entrancer are
Highlander, Halo, and Neo have no interest in iClassic
Prado is busy with life and other games
Zeross plays Era

and LOL @ Linkin Park  

Were people actually good in 1998-1999 or would they have been crap by today's standard?  

Posted by NM

Were people actually good in 1998-1999 or would they have been crap by today's standard?

c-styled crap by today's standards  

Who invented c-style sparring?  

who even uses c-style sparring  

Posted by Thallen

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

thor had good reflexes  

Posted by Sardon

thor had good reflexes

Thor and Mighty dominated sparring on Classic during the end of Classic. It always used to be them 2 winning the tourneys.  

Posted by Kuz

You were very good.

Yo, to be fair the hit detection was garbage and Drew was lagging like no tomorrow.

Posted by Thallen

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

Gotta agree with most of those. My best of all time is Brett or Ares. Waaay back then I mostly stuck around on the smaller servers (Xone, Enigma, Sanstrata, Babylon etc) and no noteworthy sparrers played those that you haven't mentioned so I got nothing useful to add here.

Posted by Comyt

who even uses c-style sparring

Believe it or not, c-style was the counter to circle style which I saw a lot in 2001.  

Originally DraXi and Killermech were best sparrers and Clops/Highlander were the best godlike Pk'rs.

Entrancer aka Bloodysin was sparring when I was at my best in 99 and I beat him in more tournies than he did me js I have proof thanks to clops and some old screenies from then =p

I was at my prime and confidently said "I was best in late '99 and throughout 2000" always trying to find challenges but left the sparring scene in late 2000 to make Shaded Legend and work for Graal as a brand and didn't return to sparring until 2007.  

Posted by contego

Originally DraXi and Killermech were best sparrers and Clops/Highlander were the best godlike Pk'rs.

Entrancer aka Bloodysin was sparring when I was at my best in 99 and I beat him in more tournies than he did me js I have proof thanks to clops and some old screenies from then =p

I was at my prime and confidently said "I was best in late '99 and throughout 2000" always trying to find challenges but left the sparring scene in late 2000 to make Shaded Legend and work for Graal as a brand and didn't return to sparring until 2007.

ur stil bes cantigo  

Posted by Kuz

Thor and Mighty dominated sparring on Classic during the end of Classic. It always used to be them 2 winning the tourneys.

Was always trying to kill him but I failed he would c style kill me



Were do I get graal reborn to work?  

Badass MotherF**ker?
Really? Graal sparring makes you that?
They trained me how to kill people with two fingers and how to do the damn crucible and I haven't been called that one time.  

Posted by Kendama

Badass MotherF**ker?
Really? Graal sparring makes you that?
They trained me how to kill people with two fingers and how to do the damn crucible and I haven't been called that one time.

My thoughts made me a serial killer haha.. Train me please My thoughts only go a short way. haha.