This thread is aimed towards the players who playedservers that used the sword-based spar like I classic does. So who are they? The most badass mother****er to ever spar

Me.

^not that guy ;)

brett or crono

spar is not based on skill, its based on technique and you cn gain technique by sparring 24/7

I thnk we al kno gr8est sparer evr is tha spring 2015 gst champin Nathan

lucifer
carried sage gst with graal city noobs like tae, yurhomi, and blake holding him back.

The ones who spar and are unemployed.

oracle has potential

Elder triple is fun to spar with
comyt pretty much can rek me any time

lol

flamewar was a pretty bad ass sparer

Greatest sparred ever?
 

1998-1999: Clops, Killermech, Entrancer
2000-2008: Brett, Highlander, Thallen, Ares, Halo, Neo, Deophite, Quick Strike
2009-2011: Prado, Zeross, David

No particular order and I know a very limited amount about the 1998-1999 period
There are tons of others worth mentioning but I think this is top tier in terms of tournament wins and overall success in sparring on PC

The mighty player of Classic...Mighty!

Jet was a good sparrer

Yeah, but he wasn't anywhere close to the people in that list
Lots of players were server-specific sparrers, especially when playerworlds were still popular

For example, Classic: Exodus, Clel, Jet, Rob, a bunch of others
Doomsday: Sliq, InZane
Babylon: David, Stella, Sephiroth
Delteria: Evenglare, Listless
Atlantis: Fuma, XStorm, Destroyer
UN: Neo, Magnus, NoMaD, a bunch of others

People like Ares, Halo, myself, etc. in the list I mentioned kind of hopped from playerworld to playerworld and just won whatever weekly tournament was going on at the time, would just spar everywhere and show up 30 minutes before a tournament and annoy everyone

Anyway, if I had to narrow it down to "best ever" from those time periods, I don't have enough knowledge of 1998-1999 to really say, but I'd say Brett for 2000+ onward just based on sparring style, overall wins, how often he played, etc.
I think the majority would probably say Neo though

Offtopic but what was doomsday?
also mind telling me where some of these guys are nowadays?

You were very good.

Those motivational words at the end

just another playerworld like the rest

no idea where Killermech and Entrancer are
Highlander, Halo, and Neo have no interest in iClassic
Prado is busy with life and other games
Zeross plays Era

and LOL @ Linkin Park

Were people actually good in 1998-1999 or would they have been crap by today's standard?

c-styled crap by today's standards

Who invented c-style sparring?

who even uses c-style sparring

thor had good reflexes

Thor and Mighty dominated sparring on Classic during the end of Classic. It always used to be them 2 winning the tourneys.

Yo, to be fair the hit detection was garbage and Drew was lagging like no tomorrow. :(

Gotta agree with most of those. My best of all time is Brett or Ares. Waaay back then I mostly stuck around on the smaller servers (Xone, Enigma, Sanstrata, Babylon etc) and no noteworthy sparrers played those that you haven't mentioned so I got nothing useful to add here.

Believe it or not, c-style was the counter to circle style which I saw a lot in 2001.

Originally DraXi and Killermech were best sparrers and Clops/Highlander were the best godlike Pk'rs.

Entrancer aka Bloodysin was sparring when I was at my best in 99 and I beat him in more tournies than he did me js I have proof thanks to clops and some old screenies from then =p

I was at my prime and confidently said "I was best in late '99 and throughout 2000" always trying to find challenges but left the sparring scene in late 2000 to make Shaded Legend and work for Graal as a brand and didn't return to sparring until 2007.

ur stil bes cantigo

Was always trying to kill him but I failed he would c style kill me



Were do I get graal reborn to work?

Badass MotherF**ker?
Really? Graal sparring makes you that?
They trained me how to kill people with two fingers and how to do the damn crucible and I haven't been called that one time.

My thoughts made me a serial killer haha.. Train me please My thoughts only go a short way. haha.

Neo is neo

weren't you in (Baz) at one time or another

It was a family I made in '00 and it's my last name. I have a cousin who played too when she lived with me, *Michelle (TAW). Who knows, she might be one of TAW's only true female Queens and she was legit pro sparrer too. =o

TAW = Trannies At War :-)

US= Usually Suspect

US= Uranus Sniffers

rufus runs this site u better watch out guys

oke

What? HL and I pk'd? I know at least I didn't. Cyrus (Graal Elite) and I started hosting spar tournaments early. Baddies was a pk guild before spar guild, but I didn't pk much. So random, I've never heard you call me a pker before, must have been the NBK story.

I remember you and baddies warring/PKing a lot just south of Zol's and inside Angel Clan. =o HL was an evil evil PK'r though, literally hunted ppl down warping (random warp ring) all over the map for hours.

Crono dammit...

I found this guy with a spar record that was about 605-3 I think, he is the best in the world.

Jk he was a booster.

I once tried to go 1000-10 on another acc. Too hard, plus boring. Was fun when people would call me out though, and chase me in 2014. Quit then came back a year later, I don't like that account. Makes me feel like I wasted time on main, but then I realize that my main gave me all the experience :D

Chibi: 750-50, and his 2nd acc 361-8 (2010-12)
Some girl had a huge ratio, but ended up getting reset.
Praydoh: 12.xx w/l (2011-12?, no clue)
I got 1000-65 (2015), I was planning on getting 2100-99, but was too lazy and bored to continue. When your ratio matters, I would take every spar seriously and not for fun, I hated sparring on that account. I forced myself to get at least 1,000 wins. Would be as defensive as possible, checking opponent's flag before bomb exploded.

some chick-(280-2) mood selective sparred for her

To be fair aren't you always defensive as f***k?

His spar record is pro, he's that CJ guy right?

Yes, Characters Japan. Chibi still owes a lot of people (that have quit sadly) a 10k mount, including me. He sparred when there was no mixed room, he delayed I think, since he lived in Japan, so that might have helped a lot as well.

Oh right

Xaphan. He was like the Paul Scholes of the sparring world. Most technically gifted to ever grace the arena but never got the plaudits as he never sought the limelight.

Agreed, was a crybaby and even used godmode back when The Red Bicycle was a popular trainer, but he was still one of the best on Atlantis when he played fair
There was a point in time where I won so many of the weekly tournaments on that server that they made a 200-hour requirement to enter... I idled to 200 hours, then they told me that only German-speaking players were allowed to participate

im dead at this.

I won my first ever spar tourney on Atlantis, always thought it was **** because of that.