Season 35: Glory to the Great Realm Recap

Now that was an interesting season filled with many up-and-comers breaking into the top 10 for the first time and a virgin Blood Gods High Commander!

Props to Eirikr Raudi of Stable Out Dare for a very impressive 4th place finish! Eirikr came out of nowhere to emerge as a tough and gritty competitor who beat many an old established veteran as he muscled his way to the top 5. It'll be exciting to see if he can take it all the way to the top next season.

Likewise, a nearly equally impressive performance by the Slayer Nymaren Sol of Stable Eastwind. I don't even remember where he finished last season, but a 7th place finish here certainly made quite a statement.

Honorable mention goes out to Mayce Terrak of Eastwind, Knife Dancer of Flashhammer, and Pure Evil of Ghkg for solid performances that put them on the map of 'Gladiators to watch' going into next season.

Congrats to Seraph Zeta for finally winning it all after many close 2nd place finishes! He was followed right up to the finish by his brother in arms Seraph Movran making his own initial foray into the top 3.

Certainly Oedi being on vacation threw the traditional order of blood gods out of alignment - if he's still out this next season, then Rest up, Gear up, and Strat up cuz it looks like the race to the top for this next season is going to be wide open!




***** - Feel free to add your own commentary about the season - Call outs to people who owned you - Trash talk to people you owned - Thoughts about how your glads fared this season - Glads who impressed you this season - Whatever - *****

It's a global counter-attackers movement mainly, but not an Eirikr's merit: we have five (!) counter-attackers at the first ranking page. And possible, it's all STR-based-counter-theatrics which we have in the BG...
Eirikr just oldest of them excluding Arkal...
And all of these counter-attackers (excluding Arkal again) have a pieces of non-legendary equipment.

// The whole rating page has 25 rows. 20% of the first page is too much. It's possible for ancient Tanks with very good equipment, but not for half-naked young guys... But that's we have.

So, it's time for assumptions:
1. The game mechanic was changed.
2. Only top Tanks are able to hold back STR -based counter-attackers.
3. Both options.

About Eirikr exactly, and it's less interesting:
He stopped his experiments with skills and weapons for the last season. And he had set his skills almost into Arkal's choice (Excluding the Feint of 5, because i found it's enough to work fine).
But we will try to divide 5 points of Feint into 3+2. So, our stability will be less, i think.