A1 Accomplishment Thread - Why should you join A1?

[Wtzky]

Before I start, I want to make it clear this post is meant to serve several purposes, it is not here for me to make us sound elitist.

Firstly, I am very proud of every single one of my guild mates. It has been an honor to be chosen to lead them and I wanted to acknowledge the contributions and skills of each of them. This list is partially here as a way to keep records, now that the Hall of Fame is no longer being updated regularly.

Secondly, I have noticed lately that more and more guilds are popping up, making the decision to join a guild much tougher for newer players. Of course every guild wants to advertise themselves as being the best and the best choice. Each guild is starting to develop their own "theme" if you will, of what makes them special. A1 however is determined to stick to our goals of being the best that we can be in all areas of the game, including: competitively, in theorycrafting, in enhancing the ShadowEra experience for other players on this forum and in deckbuilding. This thread will keep track of all of our accomplishments in each areas to showcase that we will continue to strive to excel in each of those areas.

Lastly, this will be a way to keep track of each of the threads that I deem worthy for people to read in terms of tactics and deck/theory crafting. No new player can be expected to read everything in the forums, there are literally thousands of posts. However hidden in some of the older posts are some gems, which are well worth a read even if the version they were written in has long since came and gone. It would be a shame (imo) to lose some of the great discussion and tactics that were posted in the past.

I will do my best to keep this list updated. It includes some accomplishments from our Alumni, who are sadly no longer in A1. No accomplishment by an ex A1 member is posted if that accomplishment was performed AFTER they left A1.

For those that are to lazy to read the lists:

TL;DR - Winners list includes 54 wins, runner's up list includes 26 second place getters, 3rd place getters = too many to list. A1 have also won the first guild wars, and took out 1st, 2nd, 3rd AND 4th in the 2012 World Championship. Other recent notable accomplishments not mentioned include A1 taking out 1st-7th in the Crown Invitational.

Tournament results

Please Note: Despite having many third place getters over the course of A1's history, we will not be listing them as our list will be too long. This does not diminish from their accomplishments however and we would like to congratulate all of our third place getters in all tournaments with this small note of acknowledgement that they have not been forgotten

Pre 1.26:

Winners:

Australasia Regionals - LyingDragon
First Tournament - Yaemon (ex A1)

Runner's up:

First Tournament - LyingDragon
World Championship 2011 - LyingDragon
World Regional's - Sisyphos and Kentuequi (ex A1)

1.26:

Winners:

Le4gue - Hatts

1.27:

Winners:

Launch Tourn4ment - Raphael Majere (ex A1)
Masters tournament - Jjsia and CodeDomination
League 1 Division 1, Red - Danae (ex A1)
League 1 Division 1, Yellow - Master Blakes (ex A1)

Runner's up:

Launch Tourn4ment - Sisyphos
League 1 Division 1, Red - Kentuequi (ex A1)
League 1 Division 1, Blue - Leibruc (ex A1)

1.28:

Winners:

Crown 6 - Soothslyr (ex A1)
League 2 Division 1, Blue - Flycheung
League 2 Division 1, Green - NinjaDucky
League 2 Division 1, Yellow - iClipse
League 2 Division 1, Red - Danae (ex A1)
Hatts Pop Up - Soothslyr (ex A1)

Runner's up:

TLOTpSGR Tournament - Master Blakes (ex A1)
No-Holds-Barred - Jjsia
Crown 7 - Raphael Majere (ex A1)
League 2 Division 1, Green - BlanketEffect
League 2 Division 1, Red - Kentuequi (ex A1)
Hatts Pop Up - Jjsia

1.29:

Winners:

Friday Night Tournament - Soothslyr (ex A1)
PFG design tournament - Wtzky
League 2 post Season - FlyCheung
Crown 9 Masters 5 Classes Tournament - Sisyphos
Hatts Pop Up Tournament - Soothslyr (ex A1)
League 3 Division 1, Green - FlyCheung

Runner's up:

TJ Gauntlet finalist - Wtzky
Crown 8 - FlyCheung
Hatts Pop Up Tournament - Jjsia

1.30/1.50:

Winners:

"You and a friend" Pop up tournament - GreatOldOne
Test Server Streak Challenge #1 - GreatOldOne
Test Server Streak Challenge #2 - GreatOldOne
Pre-Crown Streak Challenge - GreatOldOne
A1-Alliance Pop Up Tournament #3 - Otto7
Crown 10 Masters 5 Classes Tournament - LyingDragon
TJ Iron Man Challenge Part II - Busti
Outlaw Pop up tournament - Holynoob
Extremely Tough Challenges: 3 Hero Challenge - Busti
End of Q1 Streak Challenge - Holynoob
TJ Pop Up Tournament (9/4) - NinjaDucky
TJ Pop Up Tournament (11/4) - Busti
A1 Troll Tournament - iClipse
League 4 Division 1, Blue - Cwhittastic
TJ Pop Up Tournament (27/4) - NinjaDucky
League 4 Division 1, Orange - Busti
League 4 Division 1, Red - Lyingdragon
TJ Pop Up Tournament (6/5) - Sisyphos
Nakatu Pop Up Tournament 3 - Busti
TJ Hendrickson pop up (3/6) - Busti
Painful's Pop up #2 - Painful_smile
Grand Prix - Sisyphos
TWAIN doubles tournament - Sisyphos (teamed up with FouDeLile - non A1)
Crown 12 6 Classes Masters Tournament - Cwhittastic
Nataku's Pop Up #9 - Hatts
Popup Championship Series Qualifier #1 - Busti
TJ Sponsored Pop-Up Tourney 6/25 - Busti
Best Pop Up Tourney in the World #3 - Painful_Smile
TJ Sponsored Pop-Up Tourney 6/25 - Busti
TJ Nataku X's Pop Up #12 - Painful_Smile
TJ Nataku's Pop UP #13 - NinjaDucky
Popup Championship Series Qualifier #8 - Hatts
Popup Championship Series Qualifier #9 - Hatts
Crown Invitational #1 - Jacqui

Runner's up:

ShadowEra Unleashed tournament - Busti
4 Guild Invitational Elimination tournament - Sisyphos
Barcafan95 Pop Up Tournament - Busti
TJ Pop Up Tournament (12/4) - Busti
TWAIN doubles tournament - Busti and Cwhittastic
Nataku's Pop Up #8 - Painful_smile
Popup Championship Series Qualifier #3 - Hatts
Popup Championship Series Qualifier #4 - Vitality
Dungeon Crawl of the Blue Phoenix - Vitality
TJ Nataku's Pop UP #13 - Painful_Smile
Crown Invitational #1 - FlyCheung


2012 World Championships Top 32 qualifiers:

A1 Otto7
Busti
Dollmaster
Finneri
Hatts
Holynoob
iClipse
NinjaDucky
Sisyphos
Youanthe


2012 World Championship winners

A1 dominated the 2012 World Championship finals, bringing home the hatrick. Congratulations to all of our players, and especially the following three:

World Champion (winner of 2012 WC) - iClipse

World Championship runner up - Flycheung

World Championship third place - Busti


Guild Wars #1 winners

A1 successfully won the first guild wars hosted by BDK 16 April 2012 against Team Juggernauts (TJ), Enlisted 2 Endure (E2E) and Shinning Stars (SS).

A1 Champions: Wtzky (7 wins), iClipse (6 wins) and Kamman13 (5 wins)

Current A1 League Division 1 players:


BlanketEffect
Flycheung
NinjaDucky
Kamman13
Lyingdragon
Wtzky
Holynoob
Cwhittastic

A1 members hired by Wulven:


Calmdown (ex A1)
Rumsey (ex A1)
GondorianDotCom (ex A1)
Soothslyr (ex A1)
MattOG (ex A1)
NachyoChez (ex A1)

[Wtzky]

Notable articles written by A1 members:


CodeDomination:

Improving at Shadow Era Through Willpower
Deck Building Tips
Threat Theory, Answer Theory
How To Use Retreat!

Wtzky:

Wtzky's Beginner's Guide to SE Heroes
Epic Game Replay - Wtzky vs Barcafan95 - Guantlet Final

He-Man:

Beginners Help: Deck Building and Strategy Considerations
SE Strategy: Who's The Beatdown?
SE Strategy: Race vs Attrition, Control Decks, and Inevitability
SE Strategy: Card Drawing Engines
SE Strategy: Combos and Booster Cards
SE Strategy: Quick Match vs Best Of Three - Part 1

kamman13:

Card Draw Engines and Card Advantage Strategy
Damage Strategies and Counters
Mage Strategy and the Art of Death Racing
The 1.28 Meta and Roshambo
Amber the Death-racer

Soothslyr (ex A1):

Priest Tactics Forum
Ways to Play

Atomzed:

A case for slightly bigger deck size

NinjaDucky:

The Beginner's Guide to Sacrificing

Pyrogene:

Planning your turn

Notable decks and deck discussion threads:


Gravebella Beatdown - Killtrend
Gwenneth Powerhouse - iClipse
Eladwen Frost Burn - Wtzky
DarkClaw Hidden Machine - CodeDomination
Boris Perfect Machine - BlanketEffect (further tweaked by Raphael Majere [ex A1] for 1.27 Tournament)
Sucker Punch Nishaven - Kamman13
1.27 Banebow - Sisyphos
Zaladar Mega Rush - Raphael Majere (ex A1)
Drakkon's Lazy Wolf - Drakkon
Solo Ter Adun - Caitlyn
Swiss Army Priest - BlanketEffect
ZTC 3.0 - The Feedbomb Dynamo - BlanketEffect
Eladwen Controlled Burn - Wtzky



and who could forget the stir that the following caused



Serena Superdraw ™ - BlanketEffect

Notable projects:


ShadowEra Deckbuilder
Shadow Era Duel Videos - HHHBK
Epic Battle Videos by Figga - Figga
A1 Academy
Chinese Friends of A1 (now disbanded)
Acolytes of A1
Various A1 hosted tournaments
Project Omega
State of the Era podcasts

Misc:


Oldest surviving guild
Still one step ahead, and changing the meta

[Padawan Pete]

As far as I know, A1 is the oldest surviving guild.

[Raphael Majere]

Wow, it's a good initiative from A1. I like it. Nice one.

I'll try to fill blanks:

1. Kentuequi - Ex A1. Pre. 1.26 - Worlds Regionals Runner Up

2. Hatts Pop-up Tourney 1.28 - Won by Soothslyr and 1st Runner up- jjsia.

[GS]

Yeah, one hell of a long and storied history of accomplishments. Some of them really big.

[Raphael Majere]

Yeah, one hell of a long and storied history of accomplishments. Some of them really big.

The League title that Hatts won. That one takes the cake, it think. Massive number of games.

[Bluejet24]

Edited: stupid tapatalk

[MrNice]

Gratz to all your accomplishments. When I joined SE and the forums, you were already there. Quite a long history.
I even had the pleasure to play a few of you guys back in v1.26.

[GS]

The League title that Hatts won. That one takes the cake, it think. Massive number of games.

Flyc recently won undisputedly. All 3-0 games. For League.

[kentuequi]

Pre 1.26, LD is champion for the asian-autralian tournament.

And my name is kentuequi