Posted by Natso

Actually tbh I barely see most of their cores spar until maybe a week or two before gst

Well let's be honest, who needs to practice spar when you've been doing it for a long while?  

Posted by Thallen

anyone who has a poor attitude towards other members or anyone who isn't active enough during the month of the GST

should be losing any time now just based on the fact that our team remains unchanged while other teams have the option of recruiting more or better players together to compete against us

I'm skeptical of a team not made up of a majority of PC players winning 3+ times in a row.

Also, I think not changing members helps you more. You've had the top 5 or 6 players on the server, but if MK and Dante really retire, this could be a slightly harder GST for Alumni, offset by the fact that the other teams don't have their act together.  

Posted by Aaron

Well let's be honest, who needs to practice spar when you've been doing it for a long while?

Practice makes perfect no matter how good you already are you can probably improve in some way... However I don't mean to shame mixed gst but there is usually only 2-3 good good guild ( usually )  

steroids  

Posted by rickclops

Also, I think not changing members helps you more. You've had the top 5 or 6 players on the server, but if MK and Dante really retire, this could be a slightly harder GST for Alumni, offset by the fact that the other teams don't have their act together.

I kinda feel like it works both ways

If you keep a guild in tact, you improve just through knowing how to spar together
If you have no obligation to reward loyalty or you just feel like recruiting the 5 people who you think give you the absolute best chance, then I feel like that's a pretty significant advantage

Original team was:

• Thallen (had 1 win, 6 now)
• Eko (had 1 win, 6 now)
• Dante (had 2 wins, 7 now)
• MK (had 0 wins, 5 now)
• Hikaru (had 0, 3 now)

Went from a combined 4 total wins to a combined 17
When people say that we took the top GSers and put them together on a team, I don't really agree just based on that alone  

implying that they can work as a 'team' if you can spar together
but its just a bunch of pro sparrers in one team doing random **** in guild battling  

Posted by Ash Ketchum

implying that they can work as a 'team' if you can spar together
but its just a bunch of pro sparrers in one team doing random **** in guild battling

I have to disagree. I'll use a different example of this. Deity, when we won/were legit contenders for winning, did not have a team of sparrers that were top tier. We won through cohesion and not neccesarily strategy/planning but knowing what we all liked to do in a guild spar. I think that elemt is pretty underrated and one of the primary attributing factors to Deity's success.

Just an example.  

Posted by Thallen

I kinda feel like it works both ways

If you keep a guild in tact, you improve just through knowing how to spar together
If you have no obligation to reward loyalty or you just feel like recruiting the 5 people who you think give you the absolute best chance, then I feel like that's a pretty significant advantage

Original team was:

• Thallen (had 1 win, 6 now)
• Eko (had 1 win, 6 now)
• Dante (had 2 wins, 7 now)
• MK (had 0 wins, 5 now)
• Hikaru (had 0, 3 now)

Went from a combined 4 total wins to a combined 17
When people say that we took the top GSers and put them together on a team, I don't really agree just based on that alone

Huh? Counting David and excluding Hikaru/Aguzo, everyone on the team were former GST winners and top 2 on their winning teams.

5 random best sparrers thrown together nets you 2nd place. I've experienced that with baddies and blackout.  

MK never won a GST before Alumni
can't really say winning 1 GST proves much considering Doublelift has won a GST
so really our only experienced member was Dante at the start

Posted by rickclops

5 random best sparrers thrown together nets you 2nd place.

this is basically my point though
I feel much more comfortable on a team like this instead of something like Thallen, Brett, Ares, Dante, Jack, or whatever it'd be  

Posted by Thallen

instead of something like Thallen, Brett, Ares, Dante, Jack, or whatever it'd be

lol i think that's what's gonna happen after alunmi streak breaks or at least something similar.