Sheep Tag Community

After playing many years now, and many different ST games, on different maps, different people, different bots, etc. I have come to see some interesting things, but these are just some of my personal opinions / thoughts and observations.

Firstly, it seems that east players and Europe players inherently seems to have quite different styles of game play, and the games generally play out in different ways than if you had a game full of east players, versus a game full of European. It's hard to tell exactly what's different, besides the massing paths and particular moves a player will use as sheep. Wolfing is generally similar for obvious reasons. This seems like almost a unconscious philosophy difference between euro/east seem to have.

Having played with both sides, it makes you wonder which side you personally play more like, but that's very hard to tell. Personality ties into game style as well, with some players being much more obvious with this. For example someone like Zak, who gets bored easily and wants the thrills, will go for more dangerous and exciting moves with runtag, while someone like madhatters who is very calm and generally almost exclusively masses and runtags very limited. It could be those outlets of game play come from the culture of the game they come from, with Zak originally playing games that would encourage runtag like the sheep tag grr map. Or mad playing the old chill east revo games.

East players these days are also like remnants of a old people that were scattered and separated, while euro was once a flourishing city has dwindled to a small village. East players for years have had this weird cycle of disappearing and showing up, all at the same time might I add, with a few different people either being lost or joining. Some years it doesn't happen at all, others we suddenly have a full game of easties all reminiscing with each other. Certain people, like wanna-be-sheep, grim.shadow, magoo, etc. are seemingly on a longer loop, showing up once every few cycles. Wanna-be-sheep showed up and was very active a few years ago when we made clan EAST, but has since disappeared. The same could be said about grim.shadow who showed up a cycle after that for only about a day or two. Also, in most gaming communities a player who is 4+ years of being in said community would be viewed as very old, and rare. In the STC, almost everyone left is on average 8+ years so everyone is so old everyone except the ancient titans of 15+ years are viewed as actually old, which is amusing and a tribute to the longevity and grasp of the players of this community. 

On the corrupting factor of the community: it seems that the longer one is in the STC, the more it influences and corrupts you, and the mark of a true champion is someone who stayed true to their own personality while also enhancing it with the community. This is what people generally call the "legends" of the community, and people who sold out, to ANY degree, are viewed as the followers or lesser. There are some people in the community who have been around for long, and have not been influenced despite that, and that is often due to lack of exposure to the entire community, and all its sides. They're also players with also a will to dominate that is unbreakable. The word "licker" etc. is generally used by people against anyone they don't like, and many are hypocrites that act in the same way towards someone else. It's also just something thrown around for no good reason then to stir drama. Of course most of this doesn't matter today, since the community is bare bones, and mainly describes the community a good while ago, albeit still referenced much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX1YXWaXpb0

Player pool I have come up with, I will edit post if they CAN or CAN NOT play:
Sidey       1
Martin      2
Nmcdo      3
Neppy      4
Jean      5
Riziy      6
Zak      7
Trollpro   8
Mappy      9
BEER      10
Atha      11
CMK      12
Nick      13
Pab      14
Leon      15
Cowardlyshoe   16
Nightmare   17
Hawkys      18
Ajjjj      19
Mylescore   20
My World   21
Baiten      22
Simba      23
Latoni               24

Potential Captains: POLL

https://strawpoll.com/7kwp4k7e

Top 4 voted for captains will be captains who will be drafting.
If a captain that was selected can't play / doesn't want to captain, their spot will be taken by the next most voted player.

http://imgur.com/a/NAJz2

Hey, I just noticed Neppy had finished his WOLF tutorial, that I and some other sheep taggers helped make. I find it's actually a really good explanation, showing multiple aspects of wolfing, how they can fail, or succeed in different cases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q23IZwSdlMI

I've come to realize that something doesn't feel correct about the way current ST is being played. The game is now faster paced due to 2 hit farms, and while stack counters a lot of this, the new anti stack stomp lessens the already large margin that makes sheeping hard and wolfing easy.

Wolf players can play mediocre and get away with it easily on 2 hit farms. Masses in current ST collapse seemingly instantly in small games, and perfect sheep rounds are the only time sheep survive to even a decent time. Not only this, but wolf players can buy a scythe a minute into the game, generating insane amounts of gold from 1 item, while cash farms are few and rare for sheep.

The problem lessens greatly in 5v5 and above, by the sheer # of farms the team produces balances out the isolation ratio vs time on average which is important.

Therefore, I propose we use 3 hit farms for games smaller than 5v5, while 2 hit for 5v5 and up. 

ALL ANSWERS ARE FOUND ON ST YOUTUBE VIDEOS. Answers are subjective on some, so you must have a best prediction.

 1. "I am a pro wisp normally it's my main skill!" - Who?            (No idea how hard)

Is a comment on a video, responding to a moment in the video (hint). What video?

2. Inside a ST video

"ROFL" next is "(name) SERIOUSLY RAPAGE ATM"   (Easy)

3. Who made a ST video where the music builds up into a certain moment (stands out).   (Medium possibly)

4. What video was famous for it's tinies usage. (Sssssuper easy)

5. The name of the most troll ST video and funniest. (EASY)

6. A one clip ST video which stood out vastly. (Again, easy)

7. A ST video that was released before vacation (Maybe hard?)

8.  "**** TIME (NAME)" (Easy?)                    **** Is R A P E