well foo, it's actually not true. you basically have 3 teams, confetti, guild and blame game, who have been accused of being a family, which isn't true. They just so happened to all pick the tactically sound choice: crush a weak team. But when thermos gone, then what? it's 60 to win it and all the teams know that. Regardless of what one thinks there are WAYYYY to many egos in all 3 of them to have 1 team and 2 backups teams. It's not a dig at them, it's the truth. Same with Sons family, you think all of sons of thor is just going to be like "this was fun, here's the win?" I doubt it.
Criki has well deserved shade thrown at him. He didn't build an alliance, according to him, he ran a garbage company. He was the owner, and everyone else his personal trash to throw around. Unfortunately, he LED his team to defeat. He could have stopped pounding his chest, and recruiting from the NE corner of 54 to the SW corner of 45, but he didn't. then when he lost cities, he blamed alliances for working together? He bordered nearly every major team.
#factcheckyourself foo
I will try an address every point you have made to the best of my understanding of what is going on.
Confetti Family? TBG?
I have never been one of the players that have put Confetti/Guild with TBG as one family. I don't think I have ever said it anywhere that they are 'family'. In fact I believe TBG probably hasn't even had the need to reach out to Guild. Even if they did at most they would have a do not hit.
I mean looking at the map it's obvious and the right move by tbg is to feed on the immediate thermos near them, as they were gonna collapse weather tbg attacked or not. I am surprised why VG took so long, should have joined in on the feast. I am sure Sons would too if they were close enough. My point has never been they are one 'family'. As you said this is largely due to thermos position. But I would like to point out how similar it was too confetti's.
My point is for the general thermo player, it doesn't matter if the other alliances are working together or not.
The real war for domination is just around the corner
Criki's leadership:
I quote myself, "Do I agree he is a bad leader? maybe, probably (must have done something right to have led successfully b4 eh?) a lot of things can go wrong, certainly looks like it did in this world."
That's kinda me saying he screwed up this world which is also what you are saying, but not taking away credit from him for winning whatever other world that they did.
And yeah when you put it like that
"Criki has well deserved shade thrown at him. He didn't build an alliance, according to him, he ran a garbage company. He was the owner, and everyone else his personal trash to throw around."
I really cant't argue here, got nothing to say against that.
But even before Criki made the statement, it was basically drooling over thermo before the world had even started, which is what I mean with criki lashing back out. This follows up to the 60 player
60 Players
I think i have addressed this in a previous post i made in reply to neily in greater depth. At the risk of repetition. Here is how I see things happening. The two sisters alliances wont go to a war. Simply a merge of the most well coordinated members that work best together will take place. Members in the sister alliance simply wouldn't have the power to rise up and rebel and due to the nature of previous worlds (WW) which has made players happy to help 'friends' out to win. Every alliance with a second branch would to some extent be guilty of this.
There could have an interesting diplomatic aspect where those in the sister alliances fueled by revenge might side with opposing alliances. But its unlikely, I just don't see it happening at-least not in this world. Its too soon after the WW format and anyways this is the first domination world. Who knows what works.
So hats of to the alliances keeping it one branch. And maybe TF if that second branch truly remains a holding branch instead of repetition of White Snakes in 105.