 | Well friends, foes, guys I don't know. We're at it again. Another Myth World Cup. Mostly oldies, but not all. For those who can't recall the details of their past MWCs or just weren't there in the first place I have prepared a history of this venerable tournament dedicated to all the fine people who organised it, did work for it and of course - played in it. Myth World CupAn online Myth II: Soulblighter Tournaments. Originally played on Myth: The Fallen Lordsin 1998, it has since been played on Myth II: Soulblighter annually (bar 2002). Known for its complex Double Elimination system, major prizes in several of the tournaments and for being the largest 2-team Myth II Tournament within the Community of Myth. TFL98: Myth World Cup (Myth World Cup 1998) (80 teams)
First ever Myth World Cup and the only one to be played on the original Myth game. Required all teams to be a registered Myth II order, something no one would consider in modern-day Myth. Largest tournament ever played on Myth: The Fallen Lords. Despite not being played on Myth II, it had all the hallmarks of a Myth World Cup - based on a system organised by the infinite wisdom of Butcher, in depth reviews of lots of the games, a state of the art website and the biggest Myth tournament of the year. It also had a semi-serious narrative that ran parallel to the tournament. This idea was popular enough to return for MWC99, but in MWC00 only three entries were posted before the idea was dropped. Most amazing thing about this tournament is how tiny the organising team was compared to all other MWCs. * TFL98: Myth World Cup Site (Mirror) Top Ten Teams* 1. Rabble Forces (RF) * 2. Clan Plaid Dwarves (#CP#D) * 3. Civil Order (Civil) * 4. Foundation (*F*) * 5. The Violates (-V-) * 6. Final Reign (FR) * 7. Altus Praeses (ap) * 8. Lucifer's Knights (LK) * 9. Destruction Eternal (de) * 10. Evil Inc. (-e.i-) Server* Bungie.net I (Myth I Server) Tournament Credits* Tournament Design: Butcher * Tournament Organiser: Butcher * Site graphics: Aracona * Features: Lophan * Strategy: Crimson King Prizes* First Place: ??? * Second Place: Myth: The Fallen Lords baseball caps from Bungie Trophies
Myth World Cup 1999 (96 teams)
First Myth World Cup to be played on Myth II, and the largest with 96 teams. Said by many to be the best Myth World Cup, it was organised by Butcher of MWC98 fame. Its top 10 featured Civil, BMF, GtM and fs - four of the most succesful MWC teams of all time. Added the Double Elimination system that has been used in all other MWCs and expanded on the idea of a storyline for the tournament that had been strong in TFL98. Threat Assesments were far more widespread in this tournament and it began the fights that players have over them in every MWC since - arguing over an assesment is as much a part of MWC now as the games themselves. * MWC99 Site Top Teams* 1. Civil Order (Civil) * 2. BMF (BMF) * 3. Alliance (=A=) * 4. Glue the Moose (GtM) * 5. Sabre Rummers (sabre) * 6. Mac Gamers' Guild (MgG) * 7. Evil Inc. (ei) * 8. The Companions (~C~) * 9. Snap, Krackle, DIE! (snap) * 10. Fellowship of Stoneheim (fs) Server* Bungie.net II (Myth II Server) Tournament CreditsTournament Organisers* Tournament Organiser: Butcher * Tournament Design: Butcher * Triumvirate: Cap'n Carnage, Carnage, Imperator, Assistant Judges Black Death, Zeronova, Hoder * Assistant Judges: Black Death, Zeronova, Hoder * Staff Writers: Logoth, mystik, Cap'n Carnage, Ned Hamfist, Mandrake, Butcher * Web Architects: Butcher, Hoder * Image Wizard: Rust Dragon * 3D Craftsman: Danteshade * CGI Joe: Butcher * Design Critics: Imperator, Noctavis * The Backers: Bryan Chaffin, Dave Hamilton * Highlight Coordinator: Kith-Kanan * Strategy Analysts: Achilles, Ailil, Ananab Tilps, Belgarion, Copper, Croaker, Dark Angel, Demon, Reaper, Elayne, Eldreth, Ferrex, Gothmog, HighTower, JJaYY, Jonny Rocket, Kensai Loco, Lotus, Malted Spatula Guy, Marstof, M0bitz, Mortur, Mr Sweetie, Papascrub, Phos, Rolling Rock, Sir Parson, Sir Volgar, Some Loser, Sorcha Payne, Stinger, Surfal, Toxyn, Xerxes * Site Host: Mac Observer SponsorsMain Sponsorships* MacTell Corporation - Majority of prizes * Bungie Software - Many prizes, suppport in running tournament, help organising tournament, tournament advertising * Mac Observer - Hosted site, helped organise tournament Other Sponsors* Diamond Multimedia - Prizes * XLR8 - Prizes * PowerLogix - Prizes * Mac-O-Rama - Prizes * Trans Intl. designs - Prizes Prizes* First Place (Won by Civil): Macintosh G3 OverDrive upgrade card 366 MHz/1024K/2:1 (supplied by mactell) 8.4GB FirePower FireDrive external Firewire hard drive (supplied by mactell) Macintosh ZForce upgrade card with a 400 MHz G3 processor (supplied by PowerLogix) Macintosh XLR8 MACh Speed G3 with a 400 MHz G3 processor (supplied by XLR8) 1x USB to PCI interface card (supplied by mactell) 1x USB gamepad (supplied by mactell) 1x USB joystick (supplied by mactell) 2x Diamond Viper V770 Ultra 3D accelerators (supplied by Diamond) * Second Place (Won by BMF): Macintosh G3 PowerJOLT upgrade card 333 MHz/1024K/1.5:1 (supplied by mactell) Macintosh G3 G-MAX upgrade card 320 MHz/1024K/2:1 (supplied by mactell) $75 gift certificate for the Bungie Store. 128 MB DIMM (supplied by TransIntl) 1x USB to PCI interface card (supplied by mactell) 1x USB gamepad (supplied by mactell) 1x USB joystick (supplied by mactell) 1x Diamond Viper V770 Ultra 3D accelerator (supplied by Diamond) 5x T-shirts (supplied by Mac-O-Rama) 5x hybrid games (supplied by ) $50 gift certificate for Mac-O-Rama. * Third Place (Won by =A=): 64 MB DIMM (supplied by TransIntl) 5x T-shirts (supplied by Mac-O-Rama) 5x hybrid games (supplied by ) $50 gift certificate for Mac-O-Rama. Myth II poster/T-shirt/hintbook bundle (supplied by Bungie). * Front Runers Prize (for winners of Qualification Round, won by Heroes of Legend) 5x Myth II T-shirts (supplied by Bungie). 5x Myth II soundtracks (supplied by Bungie). Trophy
Myth World Cup 2000 (94 teams)
First non-Butcher MWC. As with MWC99, the tournament had sponsors. Less than MWC99 due to less PR and a general decline in Myth activity, but significant prizes were provided. SF won the tournament, shocking everyone. Unfortunately, during the second round of the tournament, the SF player SAGAT lost his life in a fatal car accident. In a happier turn of events, the remaining members re-commited themselves and dedicated the victory to their fallen comrade. BMF surprised all by failing to make the top 5 after coming second in MWC99, but still performed well compared to other teams achieving a respectable 8th place. It is widely believed (and was admitted by some members of *SF* long after they retired from Myth) that *SF* was an incarnation of Civil Order, lated admitted by a few Civil players. This tournament showed a decline (and then end) of the idea of a 'story' behind the MWCs and humour began to take a more important role over serious analysis of things as the Myth Community slowly developed its own culture. The MWC00 Flame Forums also gave rise to flame-wars as being greatly asociated with MWCs from this point onwards. * MWC00 Site (Mirror) Top Teams* 1. Street Fighters (*SF*) * 2. Ginslingers (gin) * 3. The Spannish Inquisition (Spin) * 4. Ancrik * 5. Northern Paladins (Np) * 6. Swedish Meatballs (Sm) * 7. Men of Rohan (MoR) * 8. Bad Mo Fo's (BMF) * 9. Cagey Ghols (CG) * 10. Clan Plaid (CP) Server* Bungie.net II (Myth II Server) Tournament CreditsTournament Organisers* Tournament Design: Butcher * Tournament Organiser: Stinger * Triumvirate: Moridin, Ned Hamfist, Balefire * Assistant Judges: Moonshade, Jedi Val, BlackBeard, BNA Coconino, * Staff Writers/Editors: Heal w Steel, Jedi Val, Mike, Ned Hamfist, HWED, Moridin, Toxyn, Stinger, Bullseye * Web Architect: Magellan * Site Graphics: Achilles, Magellan, Stinger, Nico * Site Proofing: Magellan, Cap'n Carnage, Balefire, Achilles, Moridin, Moonshade * CGI Scripting & Forms: Spond!Max, Magellan * MWC99 Consultant: Cap'n Carnage * Strategy Analysts: Heal w Steel, COPPER, Hwed, Aracona, DagorFunk, Dark Angel, Death, Flag Nabber, Long John Silver, Mazrim Taim, Moonshade, Myrkridon, Pacu, Panamon Creel, Skeletor, Widgen, Wight Slayer * Forum Moderators: Doombringer, Moonshade, Stinger, Achilles, Spond!Max Sponsors* Bungie Software - Prizes, tournament organising, tournament advertising * Clan Mac Gaming - Prizes, tournament advertising * MAC-O-RAMA - Prizes * Strategy Gaming Online - Web-space Tournament Organisers' Special Thanks* Butcher * Sir Parson * The entire MWC99 Staff Trophy
Myth World Cup 2001 (67 teams)
First MWC after the lost of Bungie owning Myth, and last MWC on Bungie.net's Myth server. The tournament had a large turnout (67 teams) but was significantly smaller than previous ones. This lack of size led to sponsorship and prize problems (Only Mumbo Jumbo - makers of Myth III - sponsored them. Rest of prizes were a donation from Clan Mac Gaming). First MWC to make use of articles as a significant attraction. Prizes promised were not given to tournament winners. The tournament was the most famous of Np's great victories. They held the greatest tournament record of their era (2001, with other tournament stints up to 2004). The key part of the MWC's evolution here was the ability for anyone and everyone to submit articles and reviews to the MWC. This popular idea has been used in every MWC since. Another well-liked idea in this tournament was the way teams voted on who would be in the top 10 teams and gave each team a skill rating out of 5. This idea then returned in MWC06 when Wight Slayer returned to the high-end of Tournament Organisers. * MWC01 Site (Mirror)] Top Teams* 1. Northern Paladins (Np) * 2. TeAm AnGrY FaCe (12inch) * 3. Monkey Island (MI) * 4. Cirque du Soulblighter (CiRQUE) * 5. Glue The Moose (gtm) * 6. The Cagey Inquisition (CI) * 7. Men of Rohan (MoR) * 8. Cacrajou Circle (Cacra) * 9. Legion of the Avatara (LoA) * 10. Greek Gods (GG) Server* Bungie.net II (Myth II Server) Tournament CreditsTournament OrganisersTournament/Site Operation* Tournament Organiser: Wight Slayer * Tournament Officials: Wight Slayer, Sam Stone, Myk the Lame, Jedi Val, Monk * Match Reporters: Koga, Kap-a-roo, Regulus, Zephyr, Fire, Anony * Neutral Hosts: Stone Cold, Wark, St. Joan Tournament/Site Design* Tournament Design: Butcher * Rules and Scoring Modification: Wight Slayer, Sam Stone * General Site Layout: Malkavian * General Site Graphics: Rhino * Other graphics: Wight Slayer, [[Bungie Software]] (Bungie's images owned by Take2 Interactive) * Implementation: Wight Slayer, Sam Stone * CGI Scripting: Wight Slayer * Taste Tester: Naelot t-cell Site content* Spotlight Matches: Orange King * Blunder of the Week: Myrkridon * Chicken Soup for the Ghol: Wizziwand * Play of the Week: Croaker * Team of the Week: Myk the Lame, Wight Slayer, Oxicet * Match of the Week: Sir Parson * Ego of the Week: M. Bison * Threat Assessments: Myk the Lame (head), J-Ditty, Sam Stone, Wight Slayer, Hitlow, East Wind, Ar-Isildur, LimpBizquik, Zephyr, Rival, Wark * Head Reviewer: Anony * Reviewers (3 or more to be credited): Achilles, Blade, dforce, Ducky Tank, GMad, Head, Heal w Steel, Hitlow, Jedi Val, Lord SmackyBob, Maxx5of5, Moonshade, Myrchlamydia, Myrkridon, Ruin * Site and forum host (Site closed in 2004, since then site hosted elsewhere): *Some Loser* * Most Original Review: Tribunal and Ragnarok Sponsors* Mumbo Jumbo Entertainment - Prizes, Beta testing jobs for Myth III: The Wolf Age * Clan Mac Gaming - Prizes * MythWolfAge - Provided webspace for duration of tournament, donated by *Some Loser* Tournament Organisers' Special Thanks* Bungie Software (for creating Myth) * Butcher (for inventing MWC and running TFL98/MWC99 * MumboJumbo Games (for Myth III: The Wolf Age and prizes) * Clan Mac Gaming (Prizes) Prizes* First Place (Won by Np): Three games of choice, 3 x Myth III: The Wolf Age, 1 x Myth III with box & manual signed by entire development crew, 7 x Myth III Boardgame, T-shirts for whole team, Beta Testing jobs for Myth III: The Wolf Age for whole team * Second Place (Won by 12Inch): One game of choice, 2 x Myth III: The Wolf Age, 5 x Myth III Boardgame, T-shirts for whole team, Beta Testing jobs for Myth III: The Wolf Age for whole team * Third Place (Won by MI): 3 x Myth III Boardgame Beta Testing jobs for Myth III: The Wolf Age for whole team Myth World Cup 2002 (0 teams/team count not applicable)The loss of Bungie.net meant there was no finalised MWC02, though a team did plan on organising it (led by Rauko), registering a domain to host the tournament on, though it never developed beyond the message 'Coming Soon...Myth World Cup 2002'. It was not at all the fault of the guys who wanted to organise it. The below names are people who were confirmed as working on the project. Server* TCP/IP Games Tournament Credits* Tournament Organiser: Rauko * Rules Updates: M. Bison Myth World Cup 2003 (32 teams)First MWC on PlayMyth.net and the one with the biggest loss of players - 32 teams. Led by Grim, a much smaller team was used to create the tournament. It saw the first ever defeat of the Np team, something no one predicted. The loss of Bungie.net and the lack of an MWC02 led to a huge decline of players, but the tournament was a success - even without a prize due to lack of sponsors. It was the first great tournament that Northern Paladins (Np) failed to win since their era of domination began, but they achieved second place. * MWC03 Site (Archive.org mirror) Top Teams* 1. BIAUIHYAC (BIA) * 2. Northern Paladins (Np) * 3. Sweedish Meatballs (Sm) * 4. Thundercox (TCox) * 5. Glue the Moose (gtm) * 6. Order of Aurelius (OA) * 7. Legion of the Avatara (LoA) * 8. The Wight Foundation (twf) * 9. PoOp * 10. WolfPack (WP) Servers* * [url=http://www.mariusnet.com MariusNet * TCP/IP Games Tournament CreditsTournament Organisers* Tournament Design: Butcher * Tournament Organiser: Grim * Tournament Organisers: Grim, Sioflake, DagorFunk, d*WAR*f, Drizzt, qwerty * News, scoring updates, registration/teams: Sioflake * Brackets: DagorFunk * DE scoring updates: Sioflake, Anduril, Brandtake * General Updates: Anduril, Brandtake * Films upload script/Films database: Stonecold * Scoring: d*WAR*f, DagorFunk, drizzt, qwerty, Odysseus * Lead Threat Assesor: Odysseus * Threat assessments: Grim, Drizzt * Map Selection: Grim, chickenwire * Site and forum host: *Some Loser* * Neutral Hosts: T'ai Kung, Nineball, Cyclops, St. Joan Sponsors* MythWA.com/MythWolfAge.com - Provided webspace for duration of tournament, donated by *Some Loser* Tournament Organisers' Special Thanks* Badlands Games (For many of the tournament's maps and providing the organisers with web-space for them) * Mythwa.com (For hosting the site and providing forums) * PlayMyth.net (For providing a server for all Myth II addicts and the majority of MWC03's games) PrizesFirst Myth World Cup to have no prizes. Myth World Cup 2004 (36 teams)
This MWC was in the height of PlayMyth.net's life. 36 teams registered - the first MWC to have more than the previous since MWC99. MWC04 also had an unprecedented prize (for all of Myth history, but particularly since after Bungie.net no tournaments had significant prizes) for the winning team. Organised by Grim (of MWC03 fame), first person to run two MWCs since Butcher in 98/99. Surprise team of the tournament was ICBMNATH (ICBMN), a 5-star rated team who failed to progress past 11th place. The team was a reformation of the MWC03 winners BIA (which was in turn a successor to , with a few player differences and was predicted a much better placing. As with the year before, legendary team Northern Paladins were forced into second place after being predicted winners by many players. The MWC04 thread of spam was one of the tournament's most famous features, a forum thread which has still survived to the present day with active posters. Routine weekly columns were another thing that helped keep players interested in the tournament after their team was knocked out. The other forum theme was 'cool points'. Each time a player made a post they would receive a set of 25 Cool Points to keep to themselves or donate to other worthy posters. This was supposedly a way of aquiring Myth II Soulblighter Respect via the MWC forums. Offering prizes led to Article/Review writing becoming far more popular than in the sparse previous year. * MWC04 Site God's CornerThe tournament also had a controversial publication called [http://god.mwc04.com God's Corner], where the Myth player 'god cops' and his team of writers wrote (usually inaccurate) news posts about happenings in the Myth Community and MWC04. * god's corner Top Teams* 1. Brills Meets Evil (BME) * 2. Northern Paladins (Np) * 3. Matrial Arts Guru's (guru) * 4. NFD ft. fcomm, (nfdf) * 5. GREEK GODS (GG!) * 6. To Be Determined (lame) * 7. The Ghetto Cakes (GC) * 8. Agents (evil) * 9. enhanced ~PoOp~ (eP) * 10. Wolfpack (WP) Server* PlayMyth.net Tournament CreditsTournament Organisers* Tournament Organiser: Grim * Site/Forum Design: Sioflake * Site Host: Nitro * Graphics: Sioflake * PHP Scripts/Database Work: Cave, Wight Slayer * Implementation: Nitro, Wight Slayer * Webmasters: Cave, Nitro, Wight Slayer * Threat Assesments: Grim, Tainted Bliss (TB) Weekly Columns* Match Of the Week: Anduril * Ego Of the Week: Cruiser * Player Of the Week: CheezeFist * Team Of the Week: Jengizu * Blunder Of the Week: Al Capone Sponsors* Bungie Software (did not provide prizes at the end of the tournament however) All other prizes provided by the Tournament Organisers, based on donantions. god's corner Credits* Site Director: god * Editors: ryan cops, shinco, * Image Director: Browning * Journalists: redrum, al capone, blade, acheron, clank, ether Prizes* First Place: US$1000 (Won by BME) * Best Personal Ratios (Wightymeter): US$50 (Won by Loial of BME) * Best Review: US$50 (Won by M. Bison) * Most Popular Article/Review of the Week: 30Mb Subdomain at MWC04.com (Won by M. Bison) Note on prizes: Bungie promised to donate additional prizes, including Myth collection boxes (in original packaging), Myth-decorated clothing, pewter Soulblighter figures and original Myth scetch art signed by the artist. Grim decided to give these to the 2nd and 3rd placing teams. However, Bungie stopped answering communication and did not provide the prizes. Trophy
Myth World Cup 2005 (30 teams)Smallest MWC so far (as the latest, following the general trend for tournaments to shrink). Players cared much less than in previous tournaments (lack of a prize and of opponents partly led to this), with the legendary Np forefitting all games. A delayed website (and unfinished by a lazy team) did not help either. At the end of the tournament the finals went unplayed - 2 games were played then scheduling issues ensued until the teams gave up trying. Thundercox, the lower bracket challangers (and thus second seed at the finals) was up by two points after both were played, but then BIAUIHYAC2 turned up for the later-shceduled 3 games. The two most vocal players in the teams - god cops and Myrkridon, both claimed victory. god cops for having had his team win both games - though he was not there at the time (being banned from PlayMyth.net), and Myrkridon for winning the remaining 3 games by default. Tournament Organiser statement is 'no official winner' and the tournament is now closed, because 'you cannot win the tournament by a forefit victory'. Lack of motivation and poor organisers (though no one better was willing to do the job instead) mean the tournament is the only MWC to be considered a failure. Despite various issues with the tournament itself, bright points included unofficial tournament 'mascot' the HoHo Goldfish. A competition to create the best photoshop picture of the HoHo Goldfish was started with lots of results indending to prove it had the funniest creator. A similar gallery based around satyr of The Elfoid was also created, with an equally good response. Other tournament themes included spamming the name of Brazillian Myther 'THOR' and discussions about 'ASTEROIDS' killing off all of humanity. Articles were a key part of the forum humour in this MWC and much better written than in previous years, but sadly not nearly as many were posted as MWC04. * MWC05 Site god cops spam cornergod cops also returned to run 'god cops spam corner', a forum where players could have interviews with god posted, and god would get involved in flame-baits, as well as allowing players to flame each other. Less popular than god's Corner from MWC04, it still led to lots of fighting and arguments with players and thus, from the creator's point of view would be seen as a success. Top Teams* 1. ''No Overall Winner'' * 2. BIAUIHYAC2 (BIA2) * 2. Thundercox (TCox) * 3. Hand of Allah (HoA) * 4. Unholy Alliance (UA) * 5. The Living End (TLE) * 6. Mostly Harmless (MH) Servers* PlayMyth.net - Default * MariusNet - Only if both teams consent * TCP/IP - Only if both teams consent Tournament CreditsTournament Organisers* Tournament Design: Butcher * Tournament Organisers: Mad Dog & Cheezefist * Site/Forum Design: Browning, Judas * Site Host: Igmo * PHP/MySQL Scripting: Cave * Main Game Scoring: Mad Dog * Threat Assessments Shinco, Dantski * Team of Helpers (Threat Assesments, Scoring, Contacting teams etc): Paris in Flames, Will, Orlando the Axe, Enigman, Father Mac, Tainted Bliss (TB), Nitro, Asmodian, Duan * Cheeze's Official PR Man: Ascot * MWC03/04 Consultant: Grim (gave unofficial support) * god cops spam corner: god cops Sponsors* Igmo - provided webspace PrizesNone. Notes* I am unable to find information on TFL98's first prize, the prizes for MWC00 and the problems surrounding the MWC01 prizes * The MWC05 Logo won't fit into this article so I left it out * Feel free to tell me what's what if you were around back then because MWC04 was my first * This will include MWC06 once I feel like adding it |
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