I'm going to ignore the 2010 part, I'm not sure how right now and overall can both apply to 2010 as its barely a few months old. In the interest of fair play I won't name anybody from the almighty RAM in any category.
Best Duke Right Now:
Unfortunately I'm gonna have to say Pajuno, I have been pretty accurate when predicting how the world has unfolded thus far. However when BD declared on Phoenix I was way off the mark, I thought BD would steamroll them but I was massively wrong. Doesn't mean I like you Pajuno, but credit where credit is due! :icon_wink:
Best Duke Overall:
I would vote Badlapje, for all of his flaws and failings his pnp was intelligent and BD seems to be struggling without him.
Worst Duke Right Now:
Gicusan, the further BD fall down the more he runs his mouth. A recipe for disaster if ever I saw one. Sometimes you have to give credit where its due instead of bitching.
Worst Duke Overall:
Man this is a tough one because each duke inherits different resources and that should be taken into account and so many fallen tribes offer so many contenders.
Everyone knows Fraseryeah effectively led [CRY] into a war he couldn't win agaisnt T-W-C and that inevitably led to its demise. But his tribe was barely active and that wasn't his fault.
Some of the very worst tribes had a new duke every month and hence they were barely the cause of a tribes plummet but just an additional factor.
Gicusan took over from Badlapje and BD have never looked worse, both in game and on pnp, yet in his defence he is fighting two genuine superpowers simultaneously.
Likewise, Archon took over NADs who were top 10 and then declared on an already warring tribe in Die. It dragged their name through the mud in pnp and then everybody quit the tribe within a few weeks.
I guess I would have to say at a push Bloodhood, namely because he had a premade of skilled players in place, messed up diplomatically, ran his mouth, talked himself up and then categorically failed.
Best Tribe Right Now:
Phoenix on current performance.
Best Tribe Overall:
BD in their prime were head and shoulders above any other tribe.
Worst Tribe Right Now:
Quite a lot of them, all of the tribes that are sat pretty in the top10 but doing absoluetly nothing of note, LoEN, D2, and DRIFT.
Worst Tribe Overall:
M51, does anybody remember the tribe that basically grew villages for Conan to internal? Well its them!
Best Ally Right Now:
Pretty lame category, hugging and making friends is not real achievement but I guess I would have to say THE for sending all those nukes South on Phoenix.
Best Ally Overall:
BD and THE have been allied for as long as I care to remember and still together. It's not my style of play but it's commendable that they have stayed together for so long.
Worst Ally Right Now:
How many alliances are left in this world apart from THE and BD? If BH and THE are allied then the way BH mass-recruited all the hammer food wasn't a very nice thing to do as an ally, but both tribes claim they are not hugging so meh.
Worst Ally Overall:
I guess I would say [CRY], as they declared a war on their allies T-W-C while they were knowingly fighting a war on another front elsewhere.
Best Pnp'Er Right Now:
I've always like JPohlman's pnp, it comes across as intelligent and well written but he is not as vocal as he once was. I like Noobaxes current approach where he goes straight for the jugular but he's a RAM member and I'm remaining impartial.
It's a toss up between Raven and TSJ, both in a tribe losing ground and activity, but have the intelligence, courtesy and respect to leave the mud at home and use their brains!!
Worst Pnp'Er Right Now:
Gicusan, could learn a lot from Raven and TSJ but I think despite results going against him, he hasn't actually gotten any worse as he has always trolled these forums and if anything has gotten better!
Hybookie makes THE look like a group of giggling 12 year old girls in my eyes and damages their reputation further with every post. No disrespect to THE, cos I'm a big fan of your tribe but you guys must be reading that stuff and cringing!!
Favorite Tribe:
I guess right now I would have to say DECIDE, just because I respect the way they have performed against massively overwhelming odds in their part of the world.
Most hated Tribe:
Those guys from ~B~, I still detest the cowardly thing that they did with [DN], they also mass recruited refugees from tribes we disbanded in the East. Then they hit DECIDE from behind when they were already massively outnumbered in their current wars. The only thing I respect about them is how they can fit in all this deception around their homework :lol:
Best War:
[DN] vs -O- was pretty good a short while ago but I guess I will say BD v Phoenix, skill on both sides and some unexpected results so far. Unexpected to me anyway.
Worst War:
THE vs FREE was never a real war, just a diversion. :icon_wink:
BD vs DN, sure they were skilled and yes it was a respectful war. But no matter how good the attacks were, if the war ends after 2 operations its not much of a war.