Posted by Rat_Salat on 2013-07-11 04:35:28

Strong work!

Posted by Azure on 2013-07-11 05:13:25

Nice work! I take away from this that Dwarves rule Ranked!

Posted by Overhamsteren on 2013-07-11 05:39:13

All short bearded things should be banned immediately!!

Posted by BooAhl on 2013-07-11 07:27:43

Good job,
but as discussed in a thread before. Amazon won one of the first majors.

Posted by baelnic on 2013-07-11 08:00:49

I assume amazons won before CRP, this lists only CRP winners.

Posted by gansus on 2013-07-11 08:50:09

As i said in one of my blogs, the real strengh in dwarves relies in being able to replace an skilled player by another one.... with no less than block, tackle and thick skull, apart from the 9 armor!!
So i guess that chance is what makes them so good at tourneys.
Cons:
- You have to play a possitional game and just make NO mistakes at all, or the drive will be lost. But you can even get something from it because they are though and, if needed, kinda bashy.
- Because of the sooner, they are kinda booooooring not only to use (which would only affect the coach that took them) but also to play against :(. I have always thought they should be changed some way, but i have not get to know of a way to do so without nerfing them too much.

A last, but not less important point in them is that... they are SO MUCH the way they should in the background of that old world and so on...

Posted by Garion on 2013-07-11 09:41:08

no surprises there, other than maybe Orcs winning 2, though I would discount 1 of them as it was the first major in CRP and there were no CPOMB teams about then.

Posted by Daudy on 2013-07-11 10:14:07

Thanks for compiling this. Very interesting.

I'm super surprised Chaos teams have done so poorly in box (where they would be unhindered in build direction because people will still have to play them). Too many kill all menz at all cost type of teams? They lack the real ability to build replacements during a tournament I guess (given no starting skills outside horns on beastmen), but I'd argue the same could be said of Nurgle and look how they've done...

Posted by Overhamsteren on 2013-07-11 10:25:27

Yeah that surprised me too, Box Chaos did win the Fumbbl Cup though so they haven't totally failed. :)

Posted by pythrr on 2013-07-11 10:27:53

nerf CDs!!!!!

Posted by King_Ghidra on 2013-07-11 11:09:31

Garion, regarding cpomb, what majors in Ranked have ever really featured proper cpomb? Would Tiny Steel Hammers have anything like their current success if they had to play through a box major?

Re some other comments - I had totally forgotten how well Undead had done in Box majors.

The failure of Wood Elves in Ranked majors is kind of amazing (especially contrasted against the relative success of HE's which again was a subject of some recent forum discussion).

Posted by Loew on 2013-07-11 11:21:53

How many of these Dwarf appearances are just the SteelHammers?

I think it's just like the old days: one exceptional team and coach (remember the Competitive Eaters?) makes quite a difference. Dwarfs seem like easy mode, but actually winning a lot with them requires some coach skill and a special tactical mindset...

relative few Woodelfs, Lizards in two finals and Khemri in one are the biggest surprises for me here

Posted by JimmyFantastic on 2013-07-11 11:30:15

I guess the dwarf race has one genuine win, but once they got a clawpomb blitzer, a st4 tents longbeard and a gutter runner with stunty they kind of stopped being a "dwarf" team

Posted by Wizfall on 2013-07-11 13:15:28

Couldn't believe a dwarf team won 3 majors so i looked at their game to know how they managed to do the impossible.

I mean even of by "miracle" they won against a CPOMB heavy team, they would certainly not be able to be competitive after and won the tournament.

The impossible have not be done though, the dwarf never met a single team with a CPOMB player. In fact in these 3 tournaments they only faced a ridiculous amount of 2 claws player (not on the same team), one had block/MB and the other one just block/claw.
Still a little miracle, damn hard to win at high TV with dwarves.

Posted by Verminardo on 2013-07-11 13:16:52

Dwarves also won the last Blackbox Major, against Undead of all races, how it came to this I'll never understand. So two "real" Dwarf victories and two "mutant skink" Dward victories. ;-)

Nice compilation! I vote for this to be in the next issue of GLN!

Posted by Overhamsteren on 2013-07-11 17:13:54

If anyone wants to write some thoughts on this in an article kinda way they are welcome to use the stats. :)

Posted by DrPoods on 2014-01-31 08:45:53

In your opinion mate, which would be the "outsider" chance?

I mean Pact for instance could have a good shot in the right circumstances or Lizards. But I was thinking of a semi-realistic long shot.

Underworld? Slann?