Nicknames Prediction Thread

[Nickname]

Okay my preds are to follow. Although I would like to hear input, who you think is underrated or overrated keep the trashtalk in either of the other 2 pred threads that turned into a penis measuring contest. I want predicitons, not trashtalk about how good your squad is.

[Nickname]

On a sad note, my computer died a week or so ago (burst into flames, I think that a sock I had throw onto a lamp caught fire and fell on it, and kinda melted it) so I lost my preds, which is why these are so late. My old ones are funny, these are not – they’re just the honest to god truth.

K, I didn’t end up doing all the squads, because I don’t know all of them – but I did most of the middle type squads and all of the top squads.

-FINAL-
Leagues: Dueling / Javelins / Basing

They’re back, sorta. Back in the activeness with TWL looming, they’re shaping up (as we knew they would). Final is a solid basing squad with mitch, sika and/or pooz all capable enough terrs, throw some duelers into spiders and a couple others into sharks with domi in the jav and you’ve got yourself a solid basing team with lots of experience. They’re a little shaky and won’t finish near the top, but I’d put them top of the mid tier if they continue to try, which I believe they will. If not look for a no-show season and early exit from TWLB. TWLD and LJ are a totally different matter though. They’re going to the playoffs in both leagues and stand a decent enough chance of winning (the titles). Download and joe are the two big guns on –f- for TWLJ (assuming joe is still there when twl starts, which I can’t even make a guess to) It all goes back to the same problem though, can final get all the old vets back into form and active by the time playoffs roll around. Final made some really weak recruits for basing and dueling recently, and if those guys are the guys you’re going to be dependent on going into the playoffs, well. Better luck next year. Final will be upper-mid tier in basing (possible first or second round out of playoffs) and should be at least semis in ld and lj unless they choke, which they won’t.

ANTI-SCRUB
Leagues: Basing

A-S is back on top of there game, sorta. They’ll have no problem qualifying for TWLB, unless they do something really moronic. A solid base lineup consisting of Brookus or Melufa in terr, any one of a number of guys in shark and spids and jr5 in the jav (if he’s still there, which he probably won’t be). A-S might have some internal problems come league time, as they have a roster of a massive 36 players to play in only 1 league. That’s a lot of bench warmers. A-S will also have a problem finding someone to warbird or jav (if jr5 leaves - even though they have a great warbird in Rocket_ I haven’t seen him in years – literally) A-S has plenty of talented people who could fill the void, but no standout pre-made stars. That may or may not hurt them, depending on if with this new chance someone can step up. Watch for Holydude to really pound the living shit out of you this season. Ante-Scroob should finish midpack this season, possibly sneaking into playoffs and a first round exit.

GRAPEVINE
Leagues: Dueling / Javelins / Base

The new Melee, or rather the old Melee. GV is basically the old Melee core that went to the TWLD finals last season. GV also has a very solid basing and jav roster too though, so they’re another big time 3 league team. The old Melee you could argue got into the twld finals because it was in the far weaker conference – which is true, but look for them to be right up there again as they have further improved the wb lineup that took them there. The irony here is the “basers” were left behind on Melee when GV was created, yet GV is a far better basing squad than Melee is now, or was before. GV is def a playoff team in LD and LJ and most likely in LB if they can get there shit together. With randededededl at the helm, you can bet they will. Look for semis in ld barring a collapse, a first round exit in lj and a first round exit in lb – but if a team is going to go farther than I predict, it’s probably Rapevine.

INCURIA
Leagues: Basing

Wow, Incuria has a jav rating under 900. that’s pretty wicked. Another 1 trick pony with a roster that’s way to big (29) for a league that only requires 8 – so that could be a problem. Other than that though they’ll be solid, with several stand out basers they’ll be good enough for playoffs – even with ZeUs!! Holding them down. I’ll admit not to know a lot about them, other than they’re good and I recognize a lot of names. I haven’t seen them much, but that’s my inactivity probably, not theres. So I’ll say upper mid tier pick, first or second round exit in playoffs.

MAMBO:
Leagues: Javelins / Basing

Moot on his portion of NZL – “Mootland F> We are the only part of the country that isn't governed by sheep” Mambo is a very solid 2 league team, that’s going to do well in both. A past playoff team in Basing last season, they’ve only gotten better and we’ll be going into the playoffs as a top tier team gunning for the title. Javs they’ll be back as well, albeit for the full season this time, and not just the last little bit. With Appleseed, Lemon, M_M God, and Jason – Cripples have a strong javlineup and should do well. Woops, Mambo – not cripples. Do look for them to make playoffs with 3 really strong javs though, but look for an early exit.
HOHO – they lost lemon, and they’re chance to get into LJ playoffs, if apple fallows suit back to the Dispalogies, Mambo’s going to be a sub 500 team in javs.

PALLIES

Leagues: Dueling / Javelins / Basing

Wow, how things can change in a horribly delayed way to long off season. Lets start off with basing where Pallies are basically the same. They’ve got the most offensive terr in the world with Mythrandir, the best jav in PJ, and about 4 allstar sharks. Not to mention spiders like blood, sleepy, mattey, hellz, koan, vihta etc etc. They’ve got more depth than they know what to do with. LJ is the funnest league so I’ll go to that next. The old pallies lj roster and the new pallies lj roster are completely different. The old one was a 1 – 2 – 2 lineup (my new term) as it was scuzzy as the standout, with pj and hellz very good backups, and kinda 2 other guys outta an entire list. The NEW pallies LJ lineup has scuzzy, koan, blood, FoN, Legionair, lethe, proj, pj, hellz, vihta, mattey (who has stepped up his game to the next level) gencore (inactive) – jee, slight improvement there eh? The best part though is that no “pallie core” member is even in the lj starters, not with blood, vihta, fon, leg, lethe, scuzzy, all there anyways. Well I guess scuzzy can be called a “core” pallie, and you could throw in pj and hellz and remove fon and leg with little problem. Anyways, there going to at least semis in lj if they actually you know, show up – something they couldn’t do playoff time last year. LD they’re better than last season too, but not to the extent of LJ. With the same old ringers they brought in blood, luke*, code vihta and koan as assorted starters and backups. All in all though the pallies season may end in failure – not because they’ll lose – but because they have lives. Pallies got ousted in the playoffs in all 3 last season simply because it was summertime and nobody wanted to show up. Should these leagues continue to be delayed pallies own non-nerdish nature may be the death of them again. Should the leagues roll around in time though, Pallies will be a big time contender in all 3 leagues, and could be one of only a handful of teams in a position to be the team to walk away with all 3 titles. Actually, forget what I just said – Pallies is the only team with a chance of walking away with all 3 titles. Nobody else is good in base and in the other 2. Palliesh should go to at least semis in all 3, if not picking up at least 1 title.

DISOBLIGE

Leagues: D / J / B

How the mighty have fallen. Disoblige, our reigning TWLJ champions are going to be lucky to make the playoffs this year. They’ve lost basically half the starting lineup, (Apple, Lemon, Download – who was the best jav last season) and have made some poor recruits of recent. Although pjotter, desperate and decypha do mend the twlj slightly, they can’t fill the shoes of the guys who left. Disoblige lost mikena due to two recruits not half as good as him being brought on board – so that hurts the LD team and that brings us to the BD team. Disoblige, arguably one the best basing squad of all time, and without a doubt one of the best, is going to once again not win twlb. Last season the allstars they have always had were nowhere to be seen, being outplayed by new talent on other squads or simply being to inactive. The squad recruit some very active basers earlier in the offseason, but these guys are only solid, and not the allstars they need to be to effectively replace what is missing. With that said diso still has one of the best LB lines and could win the championship – I just think things are going to have to change for that to happen. They’ve got a great core of captains, and will turn it around, just give them a little time.
UPDATE: Lemon is back, but will that make a big difference? Nope. Download was the one that really hurt them.

MELEE

Leagues: I dunno, Basing?

Mighty have fallen Part II – Melees Revenge.
Melee got split into two squads, Grapevine (the duelers) and Melee (the basers) Well, the duelers are better basers and the basers are defiantly not duelers, even when they had nosey. Melee won’t be heading into the TWLB playoffs, and are going to have internal squad issues with 37 players but only 8 playing. They’ll live on though, as Melee tends to do, but without the randshenkov, they’re not going to be a threat. Oh, it’s Me – lay not May – lay

I have to split this into multiple posts

[Nickname]

TANKED
Leagues: Javelins / Basing

Cig Smoke and Rosstones new squad, cripples mark II (or abstract II, whatever) will be going for LJ and LB. Cig and ross know where they’re at though and are just going to try for a solid season. This squad should make TWL for both, but call it doubtful of making playoffs for either but cig and ross are trying to just make a solid squad, and take it one step at a time. Which is a great thing and I think means Tanked will be back next season, which is fantastic.

PIRATES
Leagues: Dueling / Javs / Basing?

Pirates have the talent to go places, and they might if they get more active. With an LJ lineup of Sky, herc, kim, cc and the returning exquisite, they’re no pushover. They don’t have much depth though, which may hurt them. In ld it’s the same problem with a solid first line but not a lot of depth. They’ve recently added some more javs though, so they’ll still have decent enough mid guys, and should make playoffs and possibly be the team to pull off a “big upset” The goal for them has to be playoffs as the TWLJ title is probably out of reach. LD they won’t make playoffs, probably just missing them, but again could sneak in. Awesome has said that they are going to try to base, but it’ll probably be really half assed if at all – not enough activity strikes again.

SYNDICATE
Leagues: you name it, they do it.

Obviously TWLJ title contenders due to the fact they have a stronger jav lineup than elu last season, who made it to the finals. With strike, psymorph, amp, df, rip, Mr. “Fucking” Spam, fbz, 2lagons and assorted others, they’re a threat in to walk away with the title in a big way. That talent should carry them to the finals, but the semis at the very least. Dueling isn’t as great but still solid with a lot of guys who are very capable. Basing is the new league for synd and it’s a little half assed. They recruited a new terr who isn’t as good as at least 3 terrs currently on the roster, but with a lineup with rip and fbz in sharks, 2d in a jav or terr, and assorted spiders – they’re gonna hurt you big time. Terr is the big weakness still, and is the only thing stopping me from saying they could be in all 3 title matches (ala Pallies) should they improve on a current one, or recruit a new one, synd becomes a 3 title threat.

SHRIEK
Leagues: Javs / Javs / Javs / wbs and base

A2m brought the troops home for TWLJ (you know who I’m talking about) and have a good shot at the title. With the squadowner safely in a2ms hands, shriek isn’t going to dissolve come playoff time in the standard shriek way. Annul is currently not on the squad, but he’ll probably be back. So assuming he is you’ve got a javlineup with annul, merce, cape, ruine, dark!, evasion and others – not to shabby. A very solid bird lineup (with vigilanty, who is going to shoot you) they’re going to be LD playoff bound, but probably not strong enough or with enough depth to take the title, but a solid semis baring an upset. They’re giving basing another shot too, but have significant weaknesses. They do have a2m in shark and gundam in the jav though, with solid spiders and plenty to build on. The lack of a second shark and a real terr with hurt, as either ruine or a2m will terr, which would make them short 2 sharks. Junka is a decent enough shark, but your still short a shark or terr. Need to either have someone step up or recruit one in order to make playoffs. If they don’t find one, they’ll miss playoffs, if they do, probably a 2nd round exit, but the strong potential for a very laggy upset.

SPASTIC
Leagues: Basing / javs they claim

Sucks. No actually they don’t, but it’s cool to say they do. Spastic is another 1 league team, with a very deep basing roster (hey, they did win the title you know) They’re also sitting in a position to make TWLJ, which would be a shame as they’ll be the squad that will go 2-10 during the season. The best jav they have is nockm, whos horribly rusty in both the lb and lj jav. If he doesn’t pick it up, they may not win a jav game all season, and will be seriously hurt in lb. If he does, Spastic may repeat in lj and be a decent enough team in lj, but won’t make playoffs.

REJECTED BASERS
Leagues: Just the one, I’ll let you guees.

RB is no underdog now, as they seem to be trashtalking they’re way to the top. With a very solid team, but no real terr or jav, rb will do good enough, but lack the potential to take a legit shot at the LB title. Should they find a great terr, or someone like wpe steps up, they’ll have a decent shot, but don’t bet on it. Early playoff exit team right here.

EGYPTIAN
Leagues: D and J

They’re back – AGAIN. Another nasir squad, they’re standard d and j squads, although they have tried basing they’re not even close to qualifying for twl. Cross is the underestimated star here, with some great skill and great lag. Egyptian may be able to sneak into the playoffs in either league, more likely in d than j, so don’t underestimate. I’m going with getting into D and a first round loss, and not getting into J – that’s just me though.
NOTE: Team is not actually from Egypt.

AVALONIAN
Leagues: D and B

They’re going to sneak into TWL in both D and B, and have under 500 recs in both, but I’m going with the prediction they’ll last the entire season and not drop out. They’re not dodging good squads as much as others, but they are to a semi degree. They’ve got decent starting lineups, but little depth and a roster that’s just to big (35 – the max for twl) Best of luck though guys.

INTERFACE
Leagues: Whichever one costs the least

IF is a roster of 33 squad, with only 1 league (javs). That’s a BRUTAL 28 benchwarmers. HOHOHO. They’ll be decent enough, with a sub 500 season and no playoff hopes. They’re best player is horror, who is probably getting paid to stay. What do I know..

BASINGCREW
Leagues: Dueling, obviously.

Think wr circa season 5, just not as good. A younger squad with great potential, and a squadname that doesn’t bash themselves (hey, rb can’t make that claim) and you’ve got the potential of a returning squad for twl seasons to come. This season is going to be a sub 500 season/ learning experience for them. All I can say is best of luck, hang in there, and one day you may be the top of the crop.

WHITERABBITS
Leagues:Basing, sorta javs.

I put javs because they lick it, they just suck in it. Another 1 league squad, with a roster way to big (30) for 1 league, but that seems to be the trend. They solved the long nagging problem of a real terr with PL, who isn’t as good as most of you think he is, but he’s the most solid of solid terrs, if that makes any sense. It all depends on who shows up for how well wr will do. If pl stays rocking, you get ezo and bero to show up, you’ve got one hell of a team. Throw turbo in the jav spot and they’ll be solid, even if they’re missing a second shark (bleen is all alone). WR had better make playoffs this year, but then again they should have last year too, and they let it slip. They’re the coolest squad in the spaceship game though, and that counts for something. I’m saying early playoff exit, but they could work hard and actually win the title, or not make the playoffs at all (no other squad can make that claim, kickass)

ANCIENTS
Leagues: ho ho ho, that’s a good one.

Ancients, the squad that used to be very solid in lj, has an 881 rating. Wow that’s terrible. The ld and lb ratings are good enough to get them into twl though, so they’re still up here. A very solid lineup in both leagues ancients are gonna hover around 500, but I doubt they’ll make playoffs for either league. If they do though, it’ll be Dueling for sure, as they have a lot of depth there.

SK8
Leagues: all

What is it with me and Sk8, I always forget about them, must be because they’re euro. A roster of 36 means they have to axe someone so they can play leagues, which should be good for a laugh. Everybody who left at the end of last TWL has rejoined, so Sk8 is basically the same as before, only a little better. Mikena will big time help out in dueling, so look for playoffs there. Same goes for LJ where they should make playoffs. If they manage to sneak in TWLB they’ll have a sub par season with no terr, no jav or wb, and only mediocre sharks and spiders with very little base experience. By the end of the season they’ll be solid in lb (with the exp) but by then they’ll be to far under 500 to catch back up.

DRAGONGUARD
Leagues: D and J

A solid D and J team with the possibility of making playoffs in either, they’re going to have to really gut it out to do it. They’ve shown they know how to win, and how to stay alive, and may be with us for awhile. Should Rival get active, he’s going to really help them own and with mega newbie and metalkid, could propel them well into the playoffs, but I doubt his activity as well as several others ability to not choke. We’ll see though. J playoffs = no, D playoffs = very possible, early exit if so.

[Nickname]

TARGET
Leagues: Jav

HAHAH THIS IS WICKED. I went through the ladder to make sure I didn’t miss anybody, and this squad has 1100 rating and is 16th in twdj, but has a roster of 0 players. Aim for the sky guys!

RAPID
Leagues: D and J

They have calm and jz, so they’re cooler than you. I’d like to say they’ll do well, but with Violence in command, they may have leadership issues. I mean, tw isn’t even his main zone anymore and take a look at this.
Player: ViolenceCurrent Squad: Rapid (since Feb 11, 2004)
Previous Squads: Onix (Jun 27, 2002 - Aug 07, 2002), Cripples (Jan 29, 2004 - Feb 06, 2004), Value (Feb 05, 2003 - Feb 19, 2003), Attack (Mar 13, 2003 - Apr 14, 2003), Splooge (Jun 18, 2003 - Jun 28, 2003), Tweasers (Aug 01, 2003 - Aug 25, 2003), Pirates (Aug 25, 2003 - Sep 11, 2003), Dynasty (Nov 27, 2003 - Dec 22, 2003), Divine (Sep 18, 2003 - Sep 29, 2003), Treachery (Nov 13, 2003 - Nov 27, 2003), N-I-P-S (Dec 22, 2003 - Jan 03, 2004)
That’s 10 squad (11 with rapid) in not even 2 years. Uh oh.

MYSTIKALZ-CSAha^45
Leagues: your squadname sucks.

Really, it does. You don’t play anybody good, you probably will be disqualified from twl, piss off. (even if you have a guy rostered with the name Azn Triads)

LYSSIC
Leagues: D

It’s been 6 days since this team played someone compotent, and that was DG. Matter of fact, that’s the only squad they’ve played that is compotent. They’ve even lost to squads like, Akua, Mystikalz, Menasor, and again, DG. This squad proves the system doesn’t work, time for TWL ops to step in.

BRITISH SQUAD
Leagues: The one where they ride Acidmouses coattails.

25 rostered players, when you need 5. that’s wicked. Another team that’s blatantly dodging good squads, having play’d only Shriek. They lost to a team called Double-Negative, which should be an instant kick out of twld, but sadly even if they played good squads, they’d still probably make TWLD, and currently ranked #1 they show they’re active enough, so I say let them play. They’re going to suck all season, and be sub 500, with maybe 4 wins, maybe. No playoffs for you, NEXT!
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Elenya was a squad that’s very talented but I know shit about, so I left them alone.

There you have it, I’ll actually post predicitions on where each team will finish (rather than just a vague playoff or non playoff rating) when all TWL squads are in, so I don’t waste my time.

I don’t care if you don’t agree, but this is something a lot of people wanted to see, so here it is.

HOLY CRAP THIS TOOK WAY LONGER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE.

[Escalate]

nice predictions, thnx

get some balls though and tell us who you think is going to win each league nick =P

[Nickname]

COme TWL time, i will.

[Cylor]

Good picks. One thing though, PL sort of sucks...I mean he's alright but waaaaaaaaay overrated.

[Jason]

I'd like to comment on Mambo and TWLJ for just a minute.

We all knew Lemon was going back to Diso. He really didn't help all that much in our quest for LJ qualification anyway. You could just tell he was half-assing it because he had already made up his mind about sticking around. We don't know what Apple's going to do. I think he's attached to Lemon at the hip though, so he's certainly a flight risk. We've got Vinny (B.Rabbit) to help reinforce our jav lineup though, and fizzy and Maize have been stepping up recently, as well as superstar. We've also picked up Mulkero, who will certainly help out in the jav department. I suck a fat one at the yellow ship these days. I probably won't even start. Still, B.Rabbit/MM/fizzy/Maize/Lionheart/Moridin/superstar/Mulkero/Jason, we have enough talent and depth to earn our way into LJ. And that's our main goal, simply qualify for LJ this season so we can get in a bunch of practice at the TWL level of competition. (Everyone knows TWL is an entirely different ball game as compared to TWD. It's the big boys versus the little girls with their toys.)

[Jerome Scuggs]

A-S might have some internal problems come league time, as they have a roster of a massive 36 players to play in only 1 league.

an amazing thing ive come to notice about a-s's players is everyone's pretty humble. like, its not a question of "put me in spider i pwn", its more of a question of "hey, can i spid if noone else wants too?" I think its cool as shit, and people are also willing to spec to allow others to play.

[Kim]

I'm not even in Mambo, but from the outside looking in, some good javs u failed to mention are Evul and sub_title, who are better moridin / maize / mulkero (doesn't the guy wb?)

[TajaUk]

i enojoyed reading it, thnks./

[Ekko]

I'm glad after reading this that Nickname actually looked at squads records and rosters and didn't automatically declare them newbs... <3

[Capital Knockers]

Awesome picks. I like how you provide a little summary of every squad instead of the standard..

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.. method.

[Project]

just some minor things you forgot to mention about Pallies (the only squad im familiar with lineups), but I'm sure you took into account

1) mattey in our wb lineup
2) sleepy weasel in our jav forray

otherwise nice predictions. obviously I'd like to see some 1,2,3,4 lists instead of "playoffs" or "not playoffs", as I don't even remember what the cutoff point is. One thing I'd say is that wr's roster isn't too big for one league. All those guys are awesome about playing time, and most of them simply will not play TWL (bigwig is a pure pub guy, as are some others im sure). Frankly, I don't think they'll have the drive this season. There's no chip on their shoulder, nothing to prove (like 2 seasons ago or maybe even last season). This is a more relaxed, play for fun squad. Lets just hope it doesn't turn into Paladen.

[Jason]

I'm not even in Mambo, but from the outside looking in, some good javs u failed to mention are Evul and sub_title, who are better moridin / maize / mulkero (doesn't the guy wb?)

Evul's taking a break, and I'm not sure when he's going to be back. I imagine full well he'll be back for at least some of TWL, but I left him out because of his break status. I did forget about sub_title. I just haven't seen him online lately, so he slipped my mind. I named Mulkero because he's been jd'ing with us quite a bit lately, and more often than not, he pulls his weight.