Top Three Armagetron Players of All-Time

Marrow · Post by **Marrow** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:29 pm

I think the only way we can ever know the great players from the above-average players is through tournaments. That would prove a player's consistency in scoring as well as in other areas.

The match wins and ladder scores during single players games clearly mean nothing. A person can have many match wins b/c they have played a long time and play all the time. Even if the worst player plays long enough, they'll accumiliate match wins. A person can have a high ladder score through stat-whoring.

Tournament play minimizes these problems. During one large match, you clearly see one player standing out in the group. We held one tournament with very established players in it, and so far n54 stood out from the group.

Post by **Tank Program** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:28 pm

Yes, but many players must know about it! http://www.armagetrontournament.tk/ to signup! Once we get a lot of people, we'll build real teams...

locutus · Post by **locutus** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:33 pm

many thanks to both of you for all your hard work on this...it's getting interesting now...

like the new url's tank

RUDEBOY! · Post by **RUDEBOY!** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:55 am

ya most of us only play on goshdarn and goshdarnish or marrows when its up. plus theres teh time zone thing. if there were any incredibly good german players none of us would know exet teh insomniacs in the group

n54 · Post by **n54** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:12 am

RUDEBOY! wrote:ya most of us only play on goshdarn and goshdarnish or marrows when its up. plus theres teh time zone thing. if there were any incredibly good german players none of us would know exet teh insomniacs in the group

hehe, since i qualify to that description ("insomniac") i can testify that i haven't seen any such so far. not that i often play elsewhere, but the few times i do (sometimes one just feels like getting lower ping you know) i usually see "shockwaves" from armagoshdarn tactics... i think armagoshdarn probably has reached another level of gameplay compared to most other servers (but maybe all players think that of their favourite server

)

btw, at least in my case, changing playing style/reaction times to suit the settings of another server can take as much as a day of playing (at worst), and usually less time back to armagoshdarn.

RUDEBOY! · Post by **RUDEBOY!** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:35 am

ive been spending alot of time in 2.6 lately and so i cant play goshdarn as well becaus the rubber is less and im not used to it

Road Kill · Post by **Road Kill** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:13 am

Not in any certain order

Toad - semi retired?, don't see em too often any more, he got bit by the big ping bug.
war monkey - when he's not choppen wood
Blind Man - well he's the Blind Man, LOL

I listed these cause I'm a sedimental bastard, (who can't spell).

There are several skilled players, whom I've ground my hub caps down to the nubs, on their walls. Someone (not necessarily someone) win the lottery, fly us all in, play on a lan and serve us beer, then we will see.

Play for fun and you will win every time.

n54 · Post by **n54** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:58 am

lol that would be fun RK

subby · Post by **subby** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:44 am

My Pick for the best 3 are, in no particular order are these 5 hehe

N54
Commie
War Monkey
RAM (hasn't been around much)
hqqns ---- hehe

And yes anybody (well almost) on their day can be a lot better than most.....

And yes fly me over to a lan game in the usa, im would be Glad to come and drink your beer ;) :wink:

Prey4Me · Post by **Prey4Me** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:12 pm

i got to says its:

n54, subby, and commie

subby and commie are the worst to play against cause they use so many nicknames you can never tell if you are playing against them until its too late

Marrow · Post by **Marrow** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:16 pm

subby wrote:My Pick for the best 3 are, in no particular order are these 5 hehe

N54
Commie
War Monkey
RAM (hasn't been around much)
hqqns ---- hehe

And yes anybody (well almost) on their day can be a lot better than most.....

And yes fly me over to a lan game in the usa, im would be Glad to come and drink your beer

Just a heads up people - there may be random "crocatiel" sightings.

Don't ask...lol. If you really want to know, do a search on the forums for crocatiel.

Lackadaisical · Post by **Lackadaisical** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:51 pm

Marrow wrote:
I think the only way we can ever know the great players from the above-average players is through tournaments. That would prove a player's consistency in scoring as well as in other areas.

is it coincidence that you just scored the most points in the tournament game?

i dunno what my top three at the moment is.. but in my all time top three i do think Digital Logic would be in it, even though he might not be up to par with the likes of n54 and commie nowadays.

Marrow · Post by **Marrow** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:59 pm

is it coincidence that you just scored the most points in the tournament game?

Maybe...

Yaza Yamagotchi · Post by **Yaza Yamagotchi** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:45 pm

Top 3 or so:

N54
Very consistant, also one of the few players not to have changed his name in 6 months

TMR (if he still plays (?))
Great personality, seems like he stopped playing though - or switched names and has yet to reveal his true identity

Subby
Crazy guy - very hard to predict where he plans on going because of his oft erratic behaviour!

Sel
Friendly - despite being extremely good - he does not take the game too seriously and encourages people to have fun!

Marrow
I am pretty sure that this guy is just trying to be someone he was never born to be! I look foward to exposing him as the invalid he really is at some point!

chills · Post by **chills** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 12:24 am

I don't know about top 3 players. Comparing players between servers is hard, since different servers have different rules. A top player on nixda won't necessarily be great on goshdarn and vice versa. Also, some people play better depending on who else is (or isn't) on the server at the time.

On Armagoshdarn, where I play the most, the 3 players who I most respect and fear (meaning, they seem to kill me a lot) are:

Commie
Yaza
Froot

-chills