1 PKs With average points per player 33% higher than the next one, its clear that PKs houses top of the food chain players. Their ability to go all in, every time, every day, will keep them at #1. At least until someone discovers the secret rule of PKs (which shall not be given to outsiders) that explicitly forbids owning any defensive units.
2 DFB got there by merging with dfb, bush, bush2, bush3, bush-a...they have a strong grip on 2nd place, and mergers with LotD and D.A. will keep them there. Capable of organizing wild-eyed maneuvers such as dodow and first days of BarBarBarBar-war. However it doesn't matter what you can do in one day out of fifty, what matters is what you do on the remaining 49. Lacks ability to wade through day-to-day carnage.
Edit: One thing I forgot: Parmenions abilities as duke. He seems to be well in control of his tribe and everybody is willing to follow his commands. He even managed to stop Machoneys tribemate-nobling spree, a feat that bush duke couldn't.
3 LotD LotD 7 to 10 very, very talented members in this tribe, however ranks 10-50 have left a lot of room to improve. Dep5**, Gvond and Roddiablo, you absolutely have to be able to rim someone with 3 villages in 12 hours or less, no matter how skilled that player (or his sitter :lol: ) might be. Tsk tsk, giggle giggle. <Add a smiley here too>
Back to LotD; While other top-10 tribes have been warring, or at least trying, LotD has not yet proven its skill on the battlefield. Inevitably will run into member shortage as more and more players move somewhere else. Those 7-10 top players will find a happy home at DFB.
4 Ori Ori is like reality series. "Who is the last ori alive in the core?" With the help of PKs consultation agency, they've finally selected the 150 individuals that make their tribe out of the initial group of 450. Now at the second phase of elimination that 150 will be trimmed down to 50. After that, you may even get to vote for your favorite candidate to get ejected from the core! Splashing!
5 E.T. Sneaked through backdoor into top-10. With time will become a container tribe for all high-end Turkish players. Might be the black horse of world five. Unless disbanded by admins, of course.
6 GLORY
Award for most noblings goes to these tribes. Too bad that it goes both ways. They might be at the top-5 of ennoblement winners, but they're on top-5 of ennoblement losers as well. Lack of coordination and absolutely no recruitment control has spanned these into dozen or so sister tribes. Will keep a somewhat steady spot in top-10 by pumping top players from their sister tribes into these 2. However once they've milked those dry, they will fall. No skills = No show.
7 D.A. Everyone stacked so high hopes and unrealistic expectations on Ender, that to meet those he would have to be Jesus handing free pancakes. Doesn't happen. One third of the tribe will merge with DFB, one third will switch to newer worlds and one third will try to live a happy life until they get nobled.
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8 RFG Most likely 90% of stuff that I said about glory fits here too.
9 GoF54 Neverheard. But if they collapse even half as fast as their sister tribe GoF_P, I'd except you to be gone by next Monday.
10 THEMOB: Neverheard. Duh. I can't even be bothered to bold their tag.