Hello everyone! Here is Klouwe, the new W11 Blogger, with the Weekly W11 News – The World’s Only Reliable News. First of all I want to thank the previous W11 Blogger bl00dlust023 for the awesome blogs that he made. Cause his blogs were very good, I won’t change much about the lay-out in the beginning. So the blog will mainly contain bundled information of updates of last week. This summary should give players, ex-players, interested people a good idea of what is going on in our world. But I’m also aiming to provide some new information that you can not find in twstats or on the main forums. Therefor this week we have an interview with playerhater11234, the co-duke of {RASP} (currently n°1 tribe of w11). He will answer some spicy questions on actual hot topics. Have fun!
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War Stats

I’m currently only aware of 2 wars so I’ll post weekly their results. If new wars are started, please contact me. Then I’ll add those stats to the blog.

The first war is the North-Eastern clash between RASP and jotad. The underdog jotad is putting up a good fight but couldn’t prevent to lose this week.

RASP vs jotad

RASP vs jotad

Side 1: {RASP} RASP-T
Side 2: jotad
Timeframe: Last week

Total conquers against opposite side:

Side 1: 101
Side 2: 55
Difference: 46

The other war is located North-West. In this  area ZIP and ~THB~ are fighting. Recently the Z-family took the dominance of K12 over from ~THB~ and also this week ~THB~ couldn’t do much against ZIP.

ZIP vs THB

Side 1: ZIP
Side 2: ~THB~
Timeframe: Last week

Total conquers against opposite side:

Side 1: 20
Side 2: 1
Difference: 19

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Power Rankings

Changes since last update:

  • XPTD enters the Power Ranking as a Minor Power
  • good week (+ 1 mil) for jotad (+11.6 mil) and LoD (+ 2.6 mil)
  • bad week (- 1 mil) for ATTERO (-11.7 mil)

Major Powers: (+10%)
RASP 519.406.799 31,28 % 969.517 0,06 %
ATTERO 338.872.984 20,41 % -11.679.387 -0,70 %
LoD 277.997.372 16,74 % 2.627.710 0,16 %

Mid-sized Powers: (3-10%)
ZIP 133.685.826 8,05 % 783.077 0,05 %
jotad 111.026.385 6,69 % 11.639.030 0,70 %
OZ 108.103.157 6,51 % 474.680 0,03 %
~THB~ 64.969.055 3,91 % 117.691 0,01 %

Minor Powers: (-3% and +5mil)
}DF{ 43.238.692 2,60 % 219.169 0,01 %
Legend 21.791.868 1,31 % -74.555 0,00 %
Aten 17.218.134 1,04 % -98.208 -0,01 %
WW|E 7.354.892 0,44 % 122.318 0,01 %
RT? 6.550.851 0,39 % -63.782 0,00 %
XPTD 5.183.716 0,31 % *new*
=NN= 5.157.945 0,31 % -130.769 -0,01 %

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Player of the Week: playerhater11234

This week playerhater11234 (co-duke of {RASP}) found some time in his busy schedule to answer some questions.

Klouwe: jotad are doing recently pretty well versus {RASP} (last month: 315 vs 279). They are also very close to become #5-ranked tribe again. How long (do you think) will they be able to survive?

playerhater11234: I’m hesitant to put a timeline on their survival, as Toll has recieved some flak for his 5-month prediction, but I’d anticipate them being around for a fairly long time. Their core seem to be very good friends with each other, and more than just being skilled players, are extremely loyal to one another. That being the case, I think you’ll see Jotad put up a fight for quite a long time.

Klouwe: But considering the sizes of both tribes (RASP is 4-5 times as big as they are) and the fact that RASP doesn’t have other enemies; shouldn’t jotads downfall go faster?

playerhater11234: Not necessarily. I think their smaller size and their location might actually being working in their favor. As it is right now, I believe they only have about a 2-continent border with us, and it’s with our players in the northeast. Not to say that my guys up there aren’t warriors (they absolutely are), but until this war with Jotad, I don’t think most of them were quite at the same level experience-wise as the {RASP} members to the south that are veterans of the MCD war. Since Jotad is reasonably far away from the MCD war vets (anywhere from 150-250 hours by nuke), these {RASP} members can really only play a limited role in the Jotad war right now. So I guess you could say that part of Jotad’s survival comes down to the fact that their limited border with us, as well as their location, makes it very difficult for the majority of my members to be completely involved in the war. Really, its only about 10-15 players that have been doing most of the fighting for {RASP}’s side.

Klouwe: So other RASP-players are looking for other targets? There has (as example) been action from {RASP} on LoD in K24. LoD is now taking villages back from {RASP} in K54 and K99. Was the incident with LoD a mistake or is this maybe a new way to expand for {RASP}?

playerhater11234: I think this is mostly an isolated incident. LoD and {RASP} have never had any sort of formal diplomatic agreement until very recently, and CHIMERAA has a history with {RASP}, me in particular. I get the feeling that this is simply a territorial dispute…

Klouwe: Recently 2 ex-MCD players left ATTERO to join jotad (to fight {RASP}). Do you think that there are more ATTERO players willing to fight {RASP}? Or does the fact that “ATTERO let members go to jotad” proofs that {RASP} and ATTERO are still good allies who won’t fight each other?

playerhater11234: The two that left are ex-MCD, and I think that most people, especially in {RASP}, view them that way as well (as opposed to ATTERO members). One of the players in Jotad that we have been attacking for a while now is Kaitz, another ex-Macedon. In this instance, I think the players you’re referring to, Rale011 and Ghanghis, are more loyal to their old tribemate than they are to ATTERO. That being the case and the fact that ATTERO leadership has told them they can’t be involved in the {RASP}/Jotad war, I think they decided they would leave ATTERO and join Jotad so that they can try and protect their friend. As far as what it says about ATTERO and {RASP} relations, I think these two’s departure from ATTERO implies that {RASP} and ATTERO relations are as healthy as ever and that the leadership of both tribes respects each others diplomacy and wishes.

Klouwe: RASP and ATTERO together own now 51.7% of the world. In time that dominance will only grow. Wouldn’t it be much more exciting to see soon a war between the 2 biggest powers in W11?

playerhater11234:  We’ve had a deal between our tribes for a very long time now, the details of which I will leave out. I’m sure that the world would love to see the two of us fight it out, and it will inevitably happen one day, but for now, I think we’re just trying to let the suspense build…

Klouwe: You are n°1 player in the ODA-ranking. Congratulations with that achievement! Who was your favourite target during gaining all that nice ODA?

playerhater11234: Thanks!… I’d have to say that kaitz has probably been my favorite victim so far. He’s been a much more worthy opponent than anyone else I can remember. Anyone that can take over a month of having his villages catapulted and still put up a good fight has earned my respect…

Klouwe: What would you pick if you are only allowed to have 1 sort of drink for the rest of your life?

playerhater11234: Haha, funny you asked me that. My drink of choice is and always will be MILK. I love milk, and my friends always make fun of me because that’s all I ever drink. If they drink water, I drink milk. If they drink soda…. I drink milk. If they drink beer…………….. I drink milk. I couldn’t live without milk… and all i eat is beef…

Klouwe: Well, let’s hope cows won’t be extinct soon! Thank you very much for your time!
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Nickjers Map


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Challenge of the Week

Every week I will pick a challenge for W11 players to participate in.

This week is… BEST SUICIDE BUNNY!

For the ones who’ve never heared of suicide bunnies… This is an example: http://www.pjlighthouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/funny-bunny-suicide-dota-pjlighthouse-01.JPG

Send me a link via In-game pm. I will choose the best one and it will be featured in next week’s blog.

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Thank you all for reading, and I hope you are excited for next week’s edition!

Suggestions or extra information is very appreciated and always welcome in my in game mailbox or forum mailbox.