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In this thread, we mourn Oldgens in DWCOP
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Welcome to the Official Least To Most Ethical DWCOP Winners Ranking, or OLTMEDWCOPWR for short. This list was assembled by a panel of experts and is not up for debate whatsoever.
EXTREMELY UNETHICAL:
Mediterranean 2020
Admittedly, I wasn't around at all at this time and it has to be acknowledged that in an 8 team World Cup there are bound to be superteams, but that doesn't make this victory any more ethical. Combining prime Italy with prime Spain into one team while the rest of Europe is left fielding randoms like "BKC" and "Tony"? Definitely a lack of balancing here, EXTREMELY UNETHICAL.
UNETHICAL:
US East 2021
It pains me to put us this low... For context, US Central decided they hate each other or something and disbanded for this year. US West and US East each got half of their states and US East's carry players this tournament ended up being Paraplegic and DaWoblefet from Central, who both went 6-0. Additionally, our finals opponent was Canada who lost all of their momentum after not having to play for a month because the format was dogshit. Saved from being in bottom tier cause Canada deadass just cheated so at least we beat them.
ALMOST ETHICAL:
US West 2022
First winner to not get boosted by a crazy merger and thus our first winner with an argument to be ethical. Sadly, this was the pre-home meta that still had Annihilape and about 50% of the games were just Rain. They also employed the services of EVIL z0mOG who really did turn out to be evil, used a logo made by Crunchman, and streets said fespy lucked frania to send West to tiebreak. Overall still a little unethical, but a large step up from the first two winners.
MOSTLY ETHICAL:
US South 2025
At last, we have our first ethical winners. As a brand new team our beautiful US South roster came together and got the job done. There are definitely some asterisks here tho. Some may say that members of US South heavily influenced the inclusion of old gens, and others would say US Midwest got paid off in the semis. It also has to be mentioned that game 8 of finals was delayed by a whole fucking week. Still mostly ethical.
US West 2024
A very dominant run with nearly all of the marks against them from 2022 being erased. EVIL z0mOG is still here though and his presence combined with emforbes abusing Archaludon is what holds this run back from being fully ethical. The panel also declared larping to be unethical behavior, so West can't be all the way at the top.
FULLY ETHICAL:
Latin America 2023
Came into the tournament as underdogs, dominated pools, and defeated the reigning champion in US West in playoffs. As the cherry on top they did it in the single best metagame SV has ever provided us. Fully ethical and may never be dethroned.
EXTREMELY UNETHICAL:
Mediterranean 2020
Admittedly, I wasn't around at all at this time and it has to be acknowledged that in an 8 team World Cup there are bound to be superteams, but that doesn't make this victory any more ethical. Combining prime Italy with prime Spain into one team while the rest of Europe is left fielding randoms like "BKC" and "Tony"? Definitely a lack of balancing here, EXTREMELY UNETHICAL.
UNETHICAL:
US East 2021
It pains me to put us this low... For context, US Central decided they hate each other or something and disbanded for this year. US West and US East each got half of their states and US East's carry players this tournament ended up being Paraplegic and DaWoblefet from Central, who both went 6-0. Additionally, our finals opponent was Canada who lost all of their momentum after not having to play for a month because the format was dogshit. Saved from being in bottom tier cause Canada deadass just cheated so at least we beat them.
ALMOST ETHICAL:
US West 2022
First winner to not get boosted by a crazy merger and thus our first winner with an argument to be ethical. Sadly, this was the pre-home meta that still had Annihilape and about 50% of the games were just Rain. They also employed the services of EVIL z0mOG who really did turn out to be evil, used a logo made by Crunchman, and streets said fespy lucked frania to send West to tiebreak. Overall still a little unethical, but a large step up from the first two winners.
MOSTLY ETHICAL:
US South 2025
At last, we have our first ethical winners. As a brand new team our beautiful US South roster came together and got the job done. There are definitely some asterisks here tho. Some may say that members of US South heavily influenced the inclusion of old gens, and others would say US Midwest got paid off in the semis. It also has to be mentioned that game 8 of finals was delayed by a whole fucking week. Still mostly ethical.
US West 2024
A very dominant run with nearly all of the marks against them from 2022 being erased. EVIL z0mOG is still here though and his presence combined with emforbes abusing Archaludon is what holds this run back from being fully ethical. The panel also declared larping to be unethical behavior, so West can't be all the way at the top.
FULLY ETHICAL:
Latin America 2023
Came into the tournament as underdogs, dominated pools, and defeated the reigning champion in US West in playoffs. As the cherry on top they did it in the single best metagame SV has ever provided us. Fully ethical and may never be dethroned.
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does anyone else like subbing out players less than 24 hours after pools go up?