Umi already does this in the FDC clan chat. The guy has faithfully done this, as far as I know, for several months, lol.

CW Summary (S31 - Day 4):

Prime bounce back! Opti washed? Harmony, awesome as ever.

268 players today. For the top 5 clans, participation dropped off a tad. 12 players less than yesterday. But the other clans actually picked up their slack. They had 12 more participants, which brings the total participants to the exact same as yesterday.

Mythbusters vs Optimum
MB - 23 wins.
Opti - 15 wins.

Opti have another amazing start to the day. Winning 9 out of 11 games on the first slot! But then… disaster. Just 6 wins from the next 22 attempts. Oooof! With such a horrific ending, they fall back into 2nd place. After a single day of a below par performance, whispers are circling… is it over for Opti? Are their glory days just a distant memory? Should these old men hang up their boots and retire? …Actually, nope! No one’s saying that. No one is underestimating these giants. The gap is still just 3 wins. The buffer they made the day before limits the damage. MB are still feeling the pressure. The most they’ve felt for a long, long time.

MB bridge the gap, but 23 wins isn’t much higher than average for them. Last season they had 6 days with more wins than this. Their rating only went up by 15 points. Still, a happy day for them. The gap in rating to Opti was 80 points, but they start day 5 with a higher rating.
MB vs Opti games:
MB win 9.
Opti win 4.

Knyte vs Prime
Knyte - 13 wins.
Prime - 21 wins.

Prime are eager. They threw 18 members at the first slot. 13 of them at SEAD. So many that 6 of them got no-games. 2 of whom couldn’t return for a later slot. Hmm… maybe they’re too eager? Nevertheless, it was a truly outstanding day for Prime. 21 wins was only topped by a single day last season when they had 23 wins on Day 5. I did some fun trash talk about them yesterday, but today they shut me up real good. Well done Froggies. Their CW rating jumped up by 60 points today.

13 wins for Knyte would be a good day for them last season, but after migrating to an uncapped clan their participation has shot up. So I think they’ll be slightly disappointed with winning 13 out of 29 games. They shouldn’t be, though. They still outperformed last season… and for the 4th day in a row! Much like Opti, their 5 win gap has cushioned the damage of the 8 point swing. They lost 14 rating points today.
Knyte vs Prime games:
Knyte win 5.
Prim win 8.

Harmony had a great day today, picking up 16 wins from 26 games. Like Prime, their day today was only topped once last season. From them that was on Day 8. They rating jumped by 44 points, putting them above 400 rating for the first time… ever, I think?

8 wins for M’Hunters, extending their lead in the midfield battle for 6th. Their rating increased by 22.

Fancy Dot clan had a bad start today winning 1 out of their first 9 games, but a late day rally stops them losing 7th to Le Furie Azzure.

Mothership lose 8 out of 8 today, dropping them from 7th to 9th.

FTW and Good News collectively hunted 5 free wins today. Check out this amazing game between their two leaders:
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34300664
Brilliantly played by good news. He pulled the best scary face and got NONO to run away… and focus on his other accounts. :P

Mylo didn’t show up today.

Jack Norris tried to work with Platinum today, but they ran into Plat’s Python overlords, Alex and Gak. Python go for big stack destruction over income and double team Jack in South America.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34298584

Old Nick lost again, again to another Opti player. This time to to Jache, the #1 ranked player on the 1v1 ladder.

I kinda regret picking them out on the first edition now, but they are our protagonists this season, and every great protagonist has a setback they need to overcome. I believe in them. Anyway, no pressure mates. *shines spotlight on them*

There were 37 yesterday, now only 22 remain. It’s time for everyone’s favourite segment…
Perfection Inspection!
8 - Opti
5 - MB
3 - Knyte
3 - Harmony
1 - MH (VeraVari)
1 - Prime (Matutake)
1 - Polish Eagles (Maths Empire)

Top 5 Rankings
Myth Busters - 94
Optimum - 91
Prime - 66
knyte club - 63
Harmony - 54

Edited 5/4/2023 03:56:17

Texx, fantastic work.

I am only sorry I couldn't be as consistent with my content.
Next season, we should work together on this!

Keep up the great content and thanks for the update!

For sure mate. Let’s do it. I didn’t know you had something like this before. Might you have a link to it?

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*subscribed*

fun reads, thanks, Texx

CW Summary (S31 - Day 5):



The Bomb Gods slayed. MB extend lead. Shocker for MH. M’Ship reversal.

283 players today. +15 from yesterday. 165 for the top 5 clans, matching the incredible participation on Day 3.

Opti start the day with a Combomb swarm. It might be their playground, but not today. They win just 3 out of 7. The swarm included Stonewall, AJ and Andreas.

Stonewall has 417 CW Combomb wins. That’s 130 more than the next guy. That next guy is…
AJ Chiller. He’s played 334 games with a 86% winrate. That’s the best of anyone with over 62 games, because…
Andreas has played 62 games with a 90% win-rate.

These Opti Bomb Gods are unmatched. They are the best ever… and they all lost. lol.
Stonewall gets a shock when his opponent, “William Griffin” from LFA, went for Asia.
AJ send his commander the wrong way and loses to “EternalQ” from Knyte.
Andreas forgets to count the reinforcement card and gets his commander sniped by “King Ace” from KEA.

Myth Busters vs Optimum
MB - 22 wins (-13 rating)
Opti - 19 wins (-40 rating)

Opti start with 3 bad slots and continuous declines in rating, winning 10 from 24 attempts. With a perfect 4th slot, winning 6 out of 6 and defeating 3 ‘Busters in the process, they manage to salvage the day, though still not enough to erase the earlier damage. Their rating drops by another 40 points. From 700 to 590 in 2 days. It really shows how bad they’ve played recently… well, for their high standards at least.

MB extend their lead by 3 wins, but if we isolate their performance, we can see that this was their worst day this season and their rating dropped by 13 points. For MB this was a good day, but they still played below average. Opti won’t keep losing, and if they miss chances like this to twist the dagger, I feel they will come to regret it later.

MB vs Opti games:
MB win 7.
Opti win 6.

Knyte vs Prime
Knyte - 17 wins (+5 rating)
Prime - 16 wins (+6 rating)

Knyte keep pace with Prime for the 5th day in a row and throw more players at slots for the second time this season. I think we can seriously think of them as challengers to Prime now. Prime, eager as ever, charge the first half of the day, with 60% of their players playing the first 2 slots. Knyte stay patient and play the later slots. Might this be an intentional strategy to avoid playing Prime?

Knyte vs Prime games:
Knyte win 3.
Prim win 7.

Harmony’s rating drops by 21 points today. Winning 11/28 games. Considering where they were 3 seasons ago, 11 wins being a below average day for them is something to be very proud of.

Midfield Battle
As the title alludes to, it really was a shocker for MH today. They went 1-11 and their undefeated player, “VERAVARI”, lost because he was too busy chasing free coin lotto tournaments instead of playing CW and forgot where the wasteland was lmao. They fall down to 7th, their 8 win lead totally evaporated. They lost 50 rating today.

LFA overtake them. 10-4 today. +47 rating.

Mothership bounce back. 0-8 yesterday. 11-2 today. Brilliant! +51 rating.

Mylo gets his first win today, slaying a Dragon on CommLD. Both he and his opponent, DH, are top 10 CommLD players and very evenly matched. DH was in Python last season. I believe this is his first season in MB.
Mylo is 70% from 173 games.
DH is 70% from 172 games.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34308404

Jack Norris teamed up with SB and beat some Knytes on S2v2
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34310393

Old Nick lost again, again to another Opti player. This time to to Bonsai. That’s 5 losses now. All to Opti. All on Strat 1v1.

There were 22 yesterday, now only 10 remain. It’s time for everyone’s favourite segment…
Perfection Inspection!
3 - Opti
2 - MB
2 - Knyte
2 - Harmony
1 - Prime (Matutake)

With 10 remaining now, tomorrow we will focus on who they are and if they lose.

Top 5 Rankings
Myth Busters - 116
Optimum - 110
Prime - 83
knyte club - 79
Harmony - 65

Edited 5/5/2023 00:34:36

Keep up the good work! Love the stats and analysis!

Might this be an intentional strategy to avoid playing Prime?

It is not, if I had to guess it's due to the different timezones distribution of the membership of the two clans. But that is speculation on my part. I do believe playing earlier slots gives Prime two advantages, 1) more participation end of season if it ends in one of the first two slots of the day(maybe even three/four since we usually catch up with the last slot) 2) avoids getting no games on the last slot and missing a day.

Love the Bugle! Well done!

Edited 5/5/2023 05:46:13

Day 6
MB and OP must be either bipolar or purposely creating juicy fodder for Texx's articles because there is more swinging going on than a pack of polyamorous perverts at a playground party!

After the first 2 slots OP bats 89% going 16/18 while MB lags behind (as per usual[suspects]) with a paltry 33%WR going 2/6.

OP back in front 126/118
Prime and knyte sit at 93/80

Can MB mitigate this early damage with a strong back half or will OP "twist the dagger" as Texx put it, a little deeper into the belly of brawny beast?

I really LOVE this daily bugle.

It is not only full of tons of information (that must really be some piece of hard work collecting all this) and enjoyable to read, too.

Keep it up!

You are really good at writing these Texx, I can see the amount of work you put into each of these CW newspaper articles and really appreciate it. I hope you can keep it up for a long time

CW Summary (S31 - Day 6):



Opti answer the call. Prime extend lead. Old Nick’s woes continue.

275 players today. 8 less than yesterday. 153 for the Top 5. That’s a drop of 12. Optimum is the only one to match yesterday. This is their 3rd day in a row with the most participation.

Myth Busters vs Optimum
MB - 20 wins (-17 rating)
Opti - 26 wins (+34 rating)

Opti launch out the starting blocks. They hit the new day like they had a point to prove, and prove it they did, as they threw half their forces at the first two slots and only lost 2 games out of 18, taking the lead by 8 wins, though they had sent 12 more warriors into battle than MB.

MB slowly catch back up, but Opti were fighting with a hand tied as their higher CW rating meant they had to fight elites from Python and Master. It’s really not that much worse than fighting the elites in MB, the issue is when they get matched with elites, it pushes MB further down the matchup list and they fight weaker opponents. A good example is S1v1 in the 4th slot. There were 2 Opti, 2 MB, 2 Python, 6 average players. Opti faced off against the elites from Python, whereas MB got easier matchups from the pool of average players.

Opti win 10 out of their last 18 and end the day tied with MB, closing the 6 win gap with their 2nd best performance this season.

Despite a very nice 3rd slot, where they won 6 out of 7 games, MB tie Day 3 for their worst performance this season, but that just goes to show how well they have been playing, as today was only 1 win less than their median last season.

MB vs Opti games:
MB win 4
Opti win 6

Knyte vs Prime
Knyte - 13 wins (-6 rating)
Prime - 19 wins (+26 rating)

Prime’s frog army hits SEAD hard on the first slot, leaving carnage in their wake. 8 wins out of 8. On the third slot Prime and Knyte clash. 6 games on SEAD that ended in a 3-3 draw and both leaders, FiveSmith and Stefano, defeated. One Frog gets a no-game on the last slot. Only 2 days better than this for them last season. A great performance them.

Knyte had a great day for them! … if it were last season. This season they need to perform better to keep up with Prime. The gap widens from 4 to 10 wins.

Knyte vs Prime games:
Knyte win 3.
Prim win 6.

Harmony have a poor performance. Only 9 wins, -30 rating and 2 played games less than their daily average.

Midfield Battle
Le Furie and M’Hunters go tit for tat. 8 wins each. LFA +13 rating. MH +24.

TLA took home 8 W’s too, their squad isn’t as deep as the others, so less losses mean more rating gain. +33. They jump up to 9th.

Protagonist Update
Mylo faced off with DH again! On CommLD, again! And beat him, again! He wreaks havoc with his commander on DH’s cluster pick and spends the next 36 turns cementing his advantage.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34317844

Jack Norris faced Alexclusive on the aforementioned 4th slot S1v1. Alexclusive, Regent of Python, has the 11th all time best rating on the MTL. He’s pretty good. But so is Jackie Boy! He beats him decisively. He had the lead from start to finish.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34317838

Old Nick lost again. Again to another Opti player. This time to to forksandwich. This is the 3rd time he’s lost to him this season. That’s 6 losses now. All to Opti.

There were 10 yesterday, now only 6 remain. It’s time for everyone’s favourite segment…
Perfection Inspection!
Opti:
Drizzy Drake (Octane)
forksandwich
blobblob

MB:
UsualSuspect

Prime:
Matutake

Knyte:
Karlstadt

FleXUS (MB), Stefano (Knyte), Texx & Geforce (Harmony) were our perfect players that lost today.

Top 5 Rankings
Myth Busters - 136
Optimum - 136
Prime - 102
knyte club - 92
Harmony - 74

Edited 5/6/2023 00:29:46

Can’t wait to hear how old nick broke his losing streak :D

Or the gift heard round the world huh tacky 😂

as we all wait texx is writing up the latest cw day’s summery. some care about top 5 some about awesome players. like the news papers of old we each read what we like and texx provides it all for us.

CW Summary (S31 - Day 7):



MB slaughter the challengers! Can Nick break the curse? New graphs!

258 participants. 17 less than yesterday. 150 for the Top 5. 3 less than yesterday. Prime and Harmony have their worst day this season for participation.

Myth Busters vs Optimum
MB - 25 wins (+18 rating)
Opti - 18 wins (-40 rating)

Opti lose two 2v2’s against MB. The second quite comically when SB gifts a territory to his enemy instead of his teammate.

The Champions SMASH Opti! They’d already crushed them 6-1 going into the final slot. Then they crushed them 6-1 again in a single slot. A fantastic end to the day for MB. Will they be able to take this momentum and run with it, or will Opti rise from this more motivated than ever?

MB vs Opti games:
MB win 12.
Opti win 2.

Knyte vs Prime
Knyte - 17 wins (+27 rating)
Prime - 16 wins (+25 rating)

Knyte with 2 more wins than their daily average.
Prime with 1 less win than their daily average.

The gap is 9 wins. If Knyte can close it by 1 per day, it’ll be very close by the end of the season. So due to the gap to Prime, they’ll need better than this to call it a win. A boring draw today.

Knyte vs Prime games:
Knyte win 3.
Prim win 3.

Low participation from Harmony sees them fall 25 wins behind Knyte. 10-11 today. No rating change.

Midfield Battle

After 2 days in 7th, M’Hunters retake 6th with 9 wins today. +13 rating.

FDC go 8-3, overtaking M’ship and TLA to jump up into 8th. They also raise their rating by 13 points.

Protagonist Update
Mylo beat Andrtych from Harmony on CommLD.

Jackie slayed a Vietnamese Dragon with some beautiful defensive play.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34326545

Old Nick WON!!! He played Orcus, another Opti, on S1v1. Nick won a coin flip on T2 to give him the advantage. Both players had delayed a 3 army attack on Scott in Antarctica. Whoever attacked last would win. Luckily for Nick, Orcus was the one who had order priority, so he managed to counter attack and win the +3 Antarctica bonus. Orcus then gambled that Nick would deploy troops to Scott to defend it, allowing him to defend Florida more weakly and use half his income to complete the Southeast Asia +3 bonus. Nick chose to deploy 10 to Cuba, 1 to Scott, smash Florida before the crucial 1 army reinforcement arrived, and sneakily take away Orcus’ Tasmania counter. Thus, with a little bit of luck on T2 and a lot of skill on T3, Nick wins his first game of the season, breaking his 7 game losing streak.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34324620

And with Jack and Mylo officially out of their slump winning 3 in a row and Nick breaking his losing streak, we will stop focusing on these guys and focus more on the perfect players. With that being said, it’s time for everyone’s favourite segment…

Perfection Inspection!
Opti:
Drizzy Drake (Octane)
blobblob

Prime:
Matutake

Knyte:
Karlstadt

2 perfect players lost today.

Forksandwich from Opti lost to Rinnosuke from Prime. Rinno played the defensive expansion game, Fork played the aggressive disruption game. It was all over when Fork’s disruptor stack got chased down in China.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34324623

UsualSuspect from MB lost too. He played Dom365 on MME MA LD (aka, Cancer. This is what Harmony call it. This is what I’ll call it from now on). Dom is the most winningest Cancer player in CW with 270ish wins. 100 more than the next guy. He and Sussy have played each other on Cancer 5 times before. Sussy winning 3 of them.

Sussy eliminates Dom from Russia, allowing him room to expand, but Dom uses that opportunity to take another bonus in Africa. Sussy tries to get sneaky and counter Dom via a 4 army neutral. Dom reads his mind and stops the counter. It takes another 7 turns for Sussy Boy to raise the white flag. UsualSuspect was MB’s last perfect Dragon.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34326534

Top 5 Rankings
Myth Busters - 161
Optimum - 154
Prime - 118
knyte club - 109
Harmony - 84





Edited 5/7/2023 02:06:09

Fancy graphs! Blue is my favorite color too

after super strong starts to the day op fails to show up in last 2 slots and myth buster take advantage by opening up a double digit lead

CW Summary (S31 - Day 8):



Both Challengers go AWOL. MB answer all questions. A perfect player gives up.

256 participants. 2 less than yesterday. 145 for the Top 5. 5 less than yesterday.

Myth Busters vs Optimum
MB - 30 wins (+50 rating)
Opti - 20 wins (+3 rating)

MB stun everyone with a 30 win performance. Breaking both last season and this season’s best by a staggering 4 wins. A 4 win improvement may not seem like much, but think about it this way, they have nearly halved the amount of losses… from their best! Insane!

They had two huge slots today. They played 10 games on the 4th slot and won 9. They played 11 on the final slot and won 10.

Opti started strong. With 19 in by halftime and 15 wins. They’d tied it up at the top again and MB had only 8 games in hand. It seemed like when the dust settled, the gap would be much smaller. But a quiet second half sees Opti have their worst day this season for participation. Just 30 games. 5 less than their average. They played as many games as their rivals won. In terms of wins, they’ve had 3 worse days this season, but in terms of wins compared to MB, this is the biggest disparity between the two since Day 2 last season. The gap to MB more than doubles.

My question from yesterday has been answered,
As MB use momentum to seize chances.
My worries from 3 days ago are allayed,
As MB plunge the dagger and twist the blade.

MB vs Opti games:
MB win 7.
Opti win 4.

Knyte vs Prime
Knyte - 9 wins (-14 rating)
Prime - 18 wins (+44 rating)

Knyte have an awful day. 8 games less than their average. 7 wins less than their average. They allow the gap to Prime to double, despite an average day for Prime.

Prime’s rating soars, but only because they also had low participation. 4 games less than average and 1 win more than average.

Knyte vs Prime games:
Knyte win 2.
Prime win 5.

Harmony have average participation, but only 9 wins. They’re averaging single digits for the last 4 days. -58 rating today. The second biggest rating drop this season.

Midfield Battle

Only one change as The Fancy Dot (FDC) drop down two places to 10th. They had the most participants today with 12, but could only get 2 wins.

The leaders of the midfield battle, M’Hunters, had a sub-par day too, winning just 3 out of 12 games. Their 5 win lead to LFA has shrunk by 2.

Perfection Inspection!
Opti had 1 victor and 1 loser today.

blobblob was the victor. He played MrPotato from Harmony on Strat 1v1. MrPotato, usually a mercenary for MB under the alias of “StealthFalcon”, has an 80% win rate in CW, a specialist in light fog templates. Not an easy opponent. The game started off as a real brawl. Taters with the ftb, immediately broken by Blob from China. Taters manoeuvres in a position to take East China, but Blob manoeuvres to take South America 1 turn earlier and uses the advantage to yoink Central America whilst Taters completes China.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34335092

Drizzy Drake (Octane) lost today. Octane is a Top 5 player in WZ. He is a member of Python. He lost to Castel Gandolfo from Grandmaster Clan. Gandalf is currently ranked 3rd on the MTL. He has finished the last 4 seasonal ladders in the top 15. Both players expand to even income, but Gandalf puts a little bit of pressure on Octane’s weak points with a flank, and although he’s threatening his own break, Octane raises the white flag. It seems like Octane’s heart is somewhere else. Perhaps he doesn’t have the time for Real Time games and is just hunting quick and easy wins. Perhaps he lacks motivation because he is just a mercenary. Either way, he surrenders early and loses his chance at a perfect season.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34333213

Prime’s Japanese ace, Matutake, faced itsnkotb from Knyte, a 25% w/r player, on SE1W. ‘Take lost the coin flip for Peru, but Knobby, in an odd twist, didn’t take the SA ftb. ‘Take guesses Knobby’s second spawn wrong and stacks towards NA. Knobby starts taking Europe from Africa and ‘Take has to block Europe with a flimsy skeleton stack. He gets lucky when Knobby decides to split stacks and annihilate his entire army in two seperate small attacks. From there it was a routine cleanup.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34336460

Two seasons ago ‘Take almost had a perfect season, but an excruciating loss on the very last day meant he missed the chance to have the first ever perfect season, but still became part of an exclusive 8 player club that have had a 1 off perfect season.

Knyte’s “Karlstadt” won a Guiroma game vs Native from Harmony. Native, an 11% w/r beginner, expanded inefficiently and Karl was able to capitalise.
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=34335087

Top 5 Rankings
Myth Busters - 191
Optimum - 174
Prime - 136
knyte club - 118
Harmony - 93

Edited 5/8/2023 00:08:22