So have not seen a top 20 review in a while
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That's a pretty terrible review - you don't seem to be following the lesser tribes so welll..... So I will add what I've observed:
8. LOVE: Merged with *LS* recently to jump up the rankings. Have quite a few good players and a fairly good position in the north-northeastern corner - the only place in the east that ~MW~ is not encroaching on - but from what I hear they recently backed away from helping their ally Slava when they started coming under heavy attack from ~MW~ and HotRex which tells me they either have a weak leadership or a divided team, which doesn't bode well for the future.
9. Stunts: From what I've heard they are an ally or family tribe of TRE - and given the fact they are cross-nobling each others inactives I would think it must be true. They've recently picked up some of the best players of the now defunct WAP and seem to be forming a fairly solid rim position outside iGouge.
10. DR: A fairly solid tribe with some decent players who are getting slowly squeezed out by ~MW~. They merged with Mirin? 3 weeks ago (another tribe getting squeezed by ~MW~) to jump into the top 10, but are struggling to hold their own. Not helped by the fact their former top player Vairyn is being internally nobled (actually it looks to me like there was a planned merger with him and the tribe leader Im The Reaper that went wrong when ~MW~ and HotRex squashed him). They also haven't changed the default tribe description text which really annoys me.
12. GODS: They have actually been growing quite quickly and organically, and they have some pretty good players, but they've just started a little too late and I would be surprised if they do not start getting pressure applied from iGouge, which has been absent so far in their lives.
13. F U: A K22 rim continent tribe with 2 very good player and the rest being a bunch of rubbish who for some strange reason have recruit a couple of random players nowhere near them, such as Gears General, and as such have jumped up the rankings. Expect the two decent players to jump ship and the rest to crumble as soon as iGouge approaches.
14. NomNom: a K48 rim continent tribe who are slowly moving outwards with a push to the new rim, and north with the acquistion of some {F} members. Have done well so far to avoid the wrath of ~MW~ and have a small but solid group of players.
15. Slava: Were looking for a time like they might become a force in the north for a while. They were holding their own against ~MW~ and Hotrex for a long time, but LOVE has flanked them with the merge with *LS* and now they are shedding members and have dropped from 9th place before Christmas and look now to be no more than food.
16. {F}: Small tribe that were looking promising, but are slowly getting crushed by ~MW~ and HotRex and are starting to lose members as well.
17. DONL: A K14 rim continent tribe who looked to be doing alright for a while until a day or two ago when their top player by a long way jumped across to iGouge. Except the rest of them now to be food for iGouge.
18. $$$: Probably has one of the longest and most storied histories of all the tribes, including that of the top ones. I might actually speak to Cpt Sandwich to get him to do a short blog article about them. Started life on the K57 side of the K56/K57 border!. I think The M0B (or Gamez as he was then) is the only remaining player from that original group now that The Architect. has finally been nobled out. Is now batting the Commonwealth in K58/9 and the north of K68 whilst having their inner borders consistently nobled out by ~MW~.
19. OTS: Came from just about nothing a week ago by merging with NUTZ. They've got a decent rim position as well outside Ex in K16/17/27 and they might be lucky with Ex more focussed on the war than with taking down the rim tribes.