Oh please.
Let us get this straight here, I understand Stephen thinks that he is the shit. I've seen him around a few worlds now. Yes he was on W87, but he's also been on W89, W90 and W85 I think to give a few examples.
All of his worlds start the same way. Stephen uses a lot of premium points early to get an advantage by abusing either the market or one of the other TW exploits. It all goes well for about a month since his PP gives him an advantage, then people in his tribe realise he isn't very good at the game, a shitty leader and a generally shitty person and it all goes downhill. I say this as someone who has been in one of Stephen's tribes.
Stephen has consistently had issues with being on the right side of the law when it comes to playing this game. Stephen will use bots to farm and accept offers off the market and then brag about how far ahead he and his tribe is only to eventually get caught by TW and banned (this has happened in multiple world), attempt to access other players accounts using an exploit that leaked player's forum passwords about a year and a half ago and disband their tribe or give him control of their account. In the forementioned particular instance, Stephen and Lee aka Lord Eastwood were able to continue to play Tribal Wars because they snitched out on their own friends as well as the methodology of the exploits that were allowing them access to top accounts. Stephen was forced to do this because he further attempted, afterwards, to compromise the entire TW system and accessed files on developers including their personal information. Stephen in September of last year was unable to play Tribal Wars without using an alias because TW was threatening Stephen, whom they know who he is and where he lives, with legal action and jail time because of the above.
Stephen tells others these things because Stephen has no idea when to shut up.
Now whilst Stephen exploits the game consistently, Stephen has never gotten very far in a world. Let me tell everyone about the two worlds I have played with Stephen on and how they went. On World 87 for example, Stephen was rank one at startup and bragged that him and his buddies in P.T.G were going to win the world. Stephen got on the wrong side of his leader Boris of the then rank one tribe Rage because of his attitude, selfishness and disruptiveness within the tribe. This led to Stephen being force internalled, surviving with only two villages thanks to his friends in P.T.G. Stephen then rebuilt up in P.T.G, confident that his friends in P.T.G were going to win, to the point of bragging on the forums that all the best players were in P.T.G. P.T.G, with Stephen in, got demolished by STD in what I can only call a one sided massacre when the latter tribe wasn't even trying. The war stats were 2405-265 in STD's favour which excludes the members of P.T.G that left and broke off to make new tribes.
I understand this, as well as some events that happened earlier in the world between Stephen and Lord Ike is why Stephen has a grudge against Inc.
After failing in W87, Stephen decided to make a tribe Push! in W89. Push! started very similarly to Screw. Push! was rank 1 in the early game, with Stephen naturally bragging on the forums. Stephen had begged particular top players to help him in his tribe. This is something Stephen consistently does by joining worlds just to CM and harass top players from the rank 1 tribe there to join his silly premades. Quite soon after early game, Stephen was banned by Tribal Wars twice for cheating, mainly through the usage of bots. This resulted in the final straw for his tribe, which disbanded soon after Stephen's Ghio1 account got deleted by TW for cheating. Stephen's tribe was at the time already failing though due to his lack of leadership.
Realistically, Stephen should not be able to play Tribal Wars under his own name, but I understand the nature of the deal that he cut with the moderators that allows him and a few other toxic individuals to play the game.
In World 93, I expect Stephen to follow the same trajectory that he has in past worlds. Comes out blazing but eventually gets blown back when PP stops talking and skill and dedication and teamwork starts to. From what I have heard, Stephen has already been making highly sexist inflammatory comments about another player on his internal forums and encouraged players from his tribe to make slurs towards a certain player. I wish him however the best of luck, I don't know whether to bet on Inc. but I would sure not bet on Screw. Anyone who is in Stephen's tribe, endorses Stephen as a leader. I'd keep your dignity and self respect intact and leave if I was there.
always nice to be in the spotlight and recognised who knows what the future may bring we have so many great tribes here in 93 I'm really enjoying seeing the progress everyone's making 