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Post by ExDeath on Apr 16, 2008 0:22:04 GMT -5
Does anybody know what his Elo was at its peak? Is 2106 the highest it's been? My thirst for blood is becoming renewed.
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Post by toyotami on Apr 16, 2008 6:56:11 GMT -5
Almost positive it is his/the alltime highest.
I do seem to recall being a contributor to his last streak...though i am curious to know who was the last person he beat before retiring from Friendly/Ladder games. Slucker may know.
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Post by BioLogIn on Apr 16, 2008 7:04:42 GMT -5
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Post by Slartucker on Apr 16, 2008 8:51:13 GMT -5
That definitely wasn't Taliesin's last battle, in fact it is at least half a year early. The archive did not update consistently and so there are large periods of time not represented in it. The last number I have for him is 42571, when he and Spacca killed each other at the top of the ladder, but that was about half a year before he reached 2100 and retired.
There's a good chance the last game was against me, as we played a lot when he was that high and he still won about two-thirds of our games. It also might have been Yaron. Actually, his last game *must* have been against either me or Yaron, as he stopped once he hit 2100 which means his last game earned him at least 7 points. I don't think the last game was a kill, so that requires a 2000+ opponent ELO.
And yes, 2106 was as high as he got. The most impressive part, IMHO, was getting nearly 100 points over all the other tier one players.
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Post by Dubber on Apr 16, 2008 8:55:07 GMT -5
My notes (and an old version of my hall of fame page) say the peak score was 2106 (by Taliesin, of course) as I recall it took him quite a long time to get from first breaking 2000 to 2106. Of course, there were significantly fewer 1900+ players at the time, too...
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taliesin
Ronin Warlock
Grand Master
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Post by taliesin on Apr 16, 2008 12:18:52 GMT -5
Wow, I don't swing by in a while, and then when I do I have my own thread... Yes, 2106 ELO was my peak. I actually expected it to be surpassed long before now. I think I actually have all my career highs listed in my profile. *goes to look* The 29 ladder points were held for a fairly brief period; I had 28 for a while, and won one against Tchichi before dying in the second battle and plunging back to zero. The 32 melee points were secured through bloody war, fighting high-melee point battles. There's a good chance the last game was against me, as we played a lot when he was that high and he still won about two-thirds of our games. A lot of my points in that final run to 2100 came from Slarty, because he was the only person to offer me a semi-reasonable reward for winning. I'm surprised you don't remember our last game, though, Slarty - it was the one that left the tag in your profile about "the pity of Taliesin may rule the fate of many". The game was relatively even, then Slarty slipped up on gesture entry and submitted just one by accident. I didn't want to break 2100 because of that piece of bad luck, so we blanked hands and restarted. However, the kerfuffle had thrown Slarty off enough that he lost anyway. I got my 2106 and decided to call time on my competitive career while I was still at the top. Good luck with the climb, ExDeath. Don't think anyone's seriously attempted to surpass me in a while, and it should be interesting to see what new tactics come out of this.
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Post by Slartucker on Apr 16, 2008 15:29:31 GMT -5
That was the last game? I had thought that was one of the ones running up to it. You may be right about that though...
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taliesin
Ronin Warlock
Grand Master
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Post by taliesin on Apr 16, 2008 18:01:23 GMT -5
Don't you remember my self-important rhetoric about it being my swansong? I didn't want to have a last match that was memorable for all the wrong reasons...
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Post by Slartucker on Apr 16, 2008 22:35:04 GMT -5
Yes, yes. Too bad it didn't end up being so memorable after all
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Post by Rycchus on May 6, 2008 15:31:24 GMT -5
I remember playing you at the time you finished (although of course it was a VF and didn't have anything to do with your actual scores) because you sent me a VF as your new alt and I was like, "I don't really play VFs, can we make it a friendly or Ladder?" and then you explained as Taliesin who you were, so it was a bit more, "Um, yeah, in that case a VF is fine!"
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