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Weekly Opinionated Post on Fortress and Armagetron

The Fortress Year in Review

Like anyone cares about this blog’s stats beside me…

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The Question Is: Can You Keep Up?

There’s no secret in the lack of activity on Play Fortress. There is also no fundamental change in me from when I enthusiastically posted four times a week to now when I write hardly at all. So one might imagine … Continue reading

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Barometer: On The Horizon

Ladle 32 came and went without a mention on this site. No power rankings, no analysis, nothing. It was not so much that I did not have time or was lazy, but rather that there just was not much to … Continue reading

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The Fortress Year has ended. Actually it ended with Ladle Twenty-Nine, so this article is a little late. The article is also a bit better, because of the results of Ladle Thirty. The year began with Ladle 18 and Your_Mom’s … Continue reading

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How would a team of Concord, 1200, sine.wav, noobsaibot, hoop and Hay-Lin perform against a team of madmax, Lackadaisical, pavelo, akira, free kill and MaZuffeR. In essence it is Plus+ vs. Kill or Die. The common wisdom is the Kill … Continue reading

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Shifts to the Right

In the rounds of the Ladle 28 final, as the Twixted Xats- pronounce and type at your own discretion- were fighting towards another crown, the first signs of a shift appeared. It did not come there defender, SageLord, who was … Continue reading

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In a particular specie of bee, there are three social divisions in the hide. There are the two genders, the male bees and the female bees, however the female population is divided further. Some female adolescents are fed a specific … Continue reading

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Well who’s to say things aren’t happening. It would seem we are overcoming a rather quiet first ten days to really get moving again on TRONIC and sixteen-to-eighteen teams, I think. Who are these teams, now. Arrow Clan is ten. … Continue reading

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So, if y0u have seen the sight in the past twelve hours, you may see a difference. I’ve switched to a more legible, though perhaps less colorful theme.  My reasons behind this are closely linked to column width. I want … Continue reading

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Its here. Here at last. The eighteenth TRONIC Ladle will be played on Sunday. Exciting. For me, this weekend is the time to withdraw for recruiting teams to play and time to return to just a player. To prepare myself … Continue reading

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