Round 19
Round 19 ends with eXilition winning yet again, Ascendancy springing a galaxy win with 9 in-tag members in the galaxy.
Tis the season to be merging, fa-la-la-la-la etc. 3 Notable mergers occurred during the round. eXilition springing the fact that they were trying to win the entire way through with a merge with their puppet alliance Nihilum of 7ish members. Post|Mortum had some major internal issues and ended up merging with Vision with whom a fair chunk of the individual player bases knew each other anyways, so this sounded like it was good for the communities, and finally the one that threw everyone for a loop, Omen merging with Angels to take the top spot later in the round. They were not able to hold it however, and NewDawn eventually took over the top spot, later to be de-throned by eXilition despite a combined effort by a few of the top 10 alliances to take a chunk out of them. Too little too late comes to mind, and eXilition managed to hold onto their spot for their second consecutive win.
Notable incidents throughout the round include:
- A number of ND people being careless with their fleets and suiciding them into random people, probably a fair reason in why they didn't win.
- Mactanzu of eXilition not being able to figure out how to count to 72.
- Mactanzu of eXilition successfully convincing a lot of people that he's still 5 years old. ([1])
- Furious Omen, NewDawn, and a fair number of others not putting up enough of a fight to de-throne eXilition
- One of the closest, probably more exciting rounds of late, furthest from stagnation or blockwars politics
- aNgRyDuCk of NewDawn creates a rather amusing thread on AD which involves a choice for them of either shoving a pineapple up the rectum, or whacking them repeatedly with a crowbar.
- Merging becomes an annoyance for more players, and more speak out against this particular subject
- Some annoyances why eXilition was allowed to have a puppet alliance but the multihunters told NewDawn that NewDawn wasn't allowed.
