Round 10.5
Round Summary
Prior to the start of Round 10.5 both Eclipse and ToT announced that they would be disbanding. Despite the catastrophic events at the end of Round 10 FAnG reorganised themselves and gathering allies in MISTU, a former BG within Eclipse, and Phraktos, newly formed, primarily from the Dragons memberbase after they decided not to continue into r10.5 as a full alliance, formed FPM and prepared to fight the EET block going into this round. However with Eclipse and ToT both departing from the game Elysium were left isolated. LCH, who had previously been part of ToT, and Vision joined up with Elysium in an attempt to counter the FPM block.
Unfortunately as the round got under way it was clear that the FPM block was far superior to the opposition against it. To further this problem Elysium were playing at a lower level than the previous round and most alliances weren't initially keen on opposing FPM. Wolfpack, with the majority of their members in FPM galaxies, NAPed Phraktos, and unofficially the whole of FPM by extension. Despite determined opposition from in places within the first 3 weeks of the round almost all major hostile galaxies had been taken out by FPM. LCH merged with Howling Rain to form the FYTFO tag in an attempt to keep up activity but FPM soon dominated the top ranks. NewDawn stepped in at this point and with a few other alliances attempted to halt FPM's momentum but militarily they were not equal to the task.
With sources of roids drying up FPM dropped the NAP with Wolfpack. Outnumbered horrifically and with most of the rest of the universe already badly beaten up Wolfpack were unable to match up to FPM. A number of their biggest planets joined Phraktos in order to protect themselves and stagnation set in across the universe. Attempting to break this and seize the #1 ranking for themselves, ahead of FAnG who held it at that time, Phraktos declared war on FAnG with less than two weeks left in the round. This was nothing short of an unmitigated disaster. Large planets who had left FM to join Phraktos quit after being roided while out of tag, massive amounts of incoming went uncovered and Phraktos' roid losses were immense within a couple of days of the declaration of war. With a lack of DCs, and HCs going inactive, the members left Phraktos in droves and they plummetted down the alliance rankings. FAnG claimed a clear victory in the end, with their allies MISTU finishing in second place. The #1 planet was Sn0w of FAnG and the #1 gal was a FAnG/MISTU galaxy.
One noteworthy event that occurred towards the end of this round was the highest ranking non-FPM planet revealing himself to be Synthetic_Sid, who belittled the block for being unable to take him out and threw down a challenge to the community to play a round without blocks.
Final Rankings
Top Galaxy
22.8
- 1 :: Kefalos
- 2 :: Kamme
- 3 :: waffle
- 4 :: Sonny
- 5 :: Donkey_Punch
- 6 :: Aaranaf
- 7 :: Adam
- 8 :: Yogibear
- 9 :: Saiyan
- 10 :: [Dreamy]
