Warzone Newsletter #5A recap of interesting stuff of the second half of May 2023.
End of Clan Wars Season 31 – MB still top 1, Optimum – 2ndThe key questions for the season was: Can Optimum beat Myth Busters and get top 1. While there was a fierce competition for the half of the season, in the end MB saved their top-1 CW spot and Optimum ended 2nd. Halfway through the Season 32, we already see, that Optimum is not contending top-1.
Besides Prime falling to top 3-5 bracket, the other Top-5 clans are the same (Consider The Blue Devils and knyte club to be the same clan).
Changes in Top 6-9:
- With the transition to knyte club, the Devils soldiers clan effectively disbanded. All the leaders and “active” players went to knyte club or other clans. And despite there are still 10+ players technically staying in the clan, the clan is not a contender anymore.
- Mothership finally succumbed to the drama, which I was describing in the previous newsletter (and will describe more in this, but later), and finished 10th right out of the coin zone.
- The same two clans, which left the “coin zone” in season 30 are now back in Top 5-9: The Last Alliance and The Fancy Dot ●.
Links:
https://wz-clanwars.netlify.app/
3x DRAMA: TR-8R vs VERAVARI, alts in Clan Wars, M’Hunters poaching from the Mothership clanPlayer TR-8R compiled and published a document in order to expose VERAVARI’s:
- playing with 2 different accounts in Clan Wars
- recruitment practices aggressive to other clans and questionable “wording” used to describe those recruitment practices
VERAVARI responded with a series of arguments and screenshots, and now we have a more or less complete story about both of the events.
Recap of the alts in Clan Wars situation:
- Player Ziya was a real-time friend of VERAVARI and genuine player, who lost interest in Warzone.
- VERAVARI started playing with Ziya’s account in Clan Wars for Harmony clan, while still playing with his main for M’Hunters.
- The double play was exposed to Harmony’s management, and VERAVARI was asked to stop playing with 2 accounts (btw, kudos to Texx from Harmony for maintaining high standards of CW competition).
- VERAVARI stopped multi-accounting in Clan Wars immediately.
- VERAVARI (we don’t have screenshots) asked Fizzer about the situation. Fizzer imposed no punishment.
Recap of how Mothership sank:
- 2023.05.02 – VERAVARI wants to contact Romy (the leader of Mothership), finds that he was blocked and then plans to recruit (“poach”) all Mothership’s members because of that.
- 2023.05.04 – That’s when Romy got locked from Mothership. We still don’t know the reasons, but rumors say, that Romy’s younger family member got access to her device and left the clan. Anyway, judging by the dates, know that, VERAVARI’s plan to poach was not because of Mothership’s issues with manager rights. The manger rights situation was a beneficial coincidence.
- 2023.05.11 – VERAVARI contacts a player (presumably, Wismerhill) from Mothership, settles for his transfer to M’Hunters and claims that by that time “most players of Mothership are already waiting for the [CW] season to end to merge with MH”.
- 2023.05.XX – Somewhere in these dates, the information leaks to the global chat and VERAVARI claims that it was a “partial merger”, that he “didn’t bypass the leader”, “she (Romy) never gave us (M’Hunters) any disapproval”, and “both clans were already hyped for it, and everything happened smoothly”.
- 2023.05.16 – TR-8R contacts Romy, who confirms, that she “never agreed to that” (merger/poaching).
- 2023.05.19 – First day of a new CW season, and there is an exodus of players from Mothership to Mothership II, M’Hunters and knyte club.
- 2023.05.19 – It turns out that the contacted player has forgotten about the invite from M’Hunters and has joined knyte club instead.
TR-8R posted a link to the doc to an existing clan drama thread and two new threads named “Please Ban VERAVARI”. Within a day, the new threads were deleted by Warzone forum moderation as “hate threads” (due to the language used in the threads and in the doc). The thread’s text was later restored in a newly developed “leaks-and-sus” discord server, where it was saved for history purposes.
As an aftermath:
- Mid-season 32 of Clan wars M’Hunters are top-6 (with a very significant gap to top-5)
- Mothership II is 10th and fighting to get back to coin zone
- TR-8R blocked VERAVARI everywhere, where he could
- I got blocked by Romy 😦
Links to the remaining post (has link to the docs and VERAVARI’s answer):
https://www.warzone.com/Forum/693452-clan-drama-oral-typed-really-history?Offset=34
Death of The Royal Falcons clanWhile not in the scope of the previous drama, these events are quite relevant to it.
Players Tim and Word walker who were the 2 managers of The Royal Falcons clan have left the Royal falcons and later joined M’Hunters. Thus leaving the clan without any managers.
It is not confirmed, but presumable the owner of the clan is 4 yeas offline from Warzone. So that makes The Royal Falcons another lost/”dead” clan.
That situation is a little bit different to what happened to Mothership. M1’s players were poached from a clan against the clan leader’s will. In the Falcons’ case, it is the Leaders, who were invited to another clan, what does seem less questionable and aggressive. Don’t know whether is a “merger”, or “poaching” though. I guess it all depends on what will happen to the other members of the Falcons, who are currently staying in clan.
Link:
https://www.warzone.com/Clans/?ID=150
Search-Deploy-Commit episode – Interview with HangfireA great interview with a clan mate of mine about his activities to help test mods and other.
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9-KoIVAT_k
French Community clan retracting from next Clan LeagueThere has been information, that clan French Community which is currently in Div A (and 99% not relegating) of Clan League will not participate in the next Clan League.
I do not know the reasons. Maybe those were explained in the Div A channel of Clan League Discord server, but I have missed them.
The hunt for players probably has begun.
Clan League Discord:
https://discord.gg/Gm5cTtxSZ3
What is a personal “perfect" Clan Wars seasonIn the Top CW Performances Scoreboard thread by Texx there was a minor yet important discussion of whether FleXUS has had a personal perfect Clan Wars season earlier.
A personal perfect season is when a player has 100% participation and 100% winrate in a given Clan Wars season. The whole discussion and community interest about people getting personal perfect seasons was majorly inspired by Texx in his bugle.
The season in question is FleXUS’s season 28, where he had 18 games (100% participation) with 11 normal wins, 6 free wins and 1 game, which was won, but ended after the CW season completion, so it is forever shown as a pending not finished game. That last game is a reason to question whether FleXUS had a perfect season.
If anyone asked me “Has FleXUS had a perfect season” -> My answer: “Yes, he has. Having a won pending game is so much different to having an actually lost game. What he has achieved, what no one has achieved yet.” If in future anyone will make a perfect season either without pending games or without free wins, I would call that a perfect season which will override FleXUS’s achievement.
I think that this is important, because:
- Except for that event, so far no other player has ever achieved a season with 100% participation and without any actually lost game, so that is some big news.
- Now we as a CW community have a great, unique benchmark for personal achievements in Clan Wars.
Link:
https://www.warzone.com/Forum/688477-top-cw-performances-scoreboard
Other events in brief:- Clan Wars Daily Bugle is probably retired. There might be a release with some charts mid-season or after the season ends, but no more dailies. Texx feels that people underestimate the effort he had to put in the bugle, and it is a sacrifice to write the bugles daily.
- There has been no follow-up on the poll about ladder boot times from Fizzer.
That’s all for now.The 3x drama might have overshadowed some other events of this period for me, so if you think, that I have missed something, feel free to write a comment.
Edited 5/31/2023 05:04:05
