TSC's TITANIC TUSSLE #2
RPG vs SS101 (SA2(B))
Where do I even start with this one? The molds for this rivalry to take place where set into motion before TSC was even born, and it even showed signs of occurring in the infamous Time Attack topic on the SA2BGB, and in the SA2B Challenge topics that appeared at regular intervals. What began as general friendly competition, turned into the second longest (hint) rivalry that the site has even seen, beginning shortly after the sites birth and finally drawing to a close several months ago when neither of us could be arsed anymore.
So lets take a look through some of the finer points shall we?
By the time I started competing at SA2B, the top 3 had been stable for quite a while:
Cybrax
SadisticMystic
Supersonic101
Now, I didn’t submit all my times at once because the majority of them were shitty, as such I submitted when and where I improved until my bracket was complete. This was back when we both little nubcakes who’d never have dreamt of obtaining the totals we do now. I passed SS, and then, much to my suprise, found myself ahead of SM, too, though still a good way behind cybrax. I didn’t have my sights set on first but I continued to TA away regardless. SS countered this by pulling out a bunch of good times, passing SM and rapidly catching up to myself. Now if memory serves we were both around 200 (That was a LOT back in the day) points behind. So we did the most logical thing we could; teamed up to try and take down cybrax. Unfortunatly this didn’t work exactly according to plan. As soon as wed take the time to painstakingly break one of his records, hed simply come back and beat us by a few seconds. After a while we gave up and ended up simply squabbling over second place, very slowly drawing nearer to cybrax however. This continued throughout ’04 until I eventually simmered down and tried elsewhere (Hi Advance 2). In this time, rayku and kev had both passed me, and yoshi was drawing near to SM who was some distance behind me. I left SA2B alone until the great downtime of ’05. And then the challenger appeared. Yea, that faggot we call mike89.
Seriously, if hed not came around and incited both me and SS into action with his "rar i am going to whoard stats and take the Championship" type talk Id never have had the championship beyond that one fleeting day sometime in '04 I forgot to mention till now.
By this point, I know cybrax was out of the game and third, and I -think- rayku was first with ss in second but yea this is my memory were relying on here X)
Over the downtime, the three of us TAed relentlessly, I have never smashed my own PRs to the extent I did in that month or so, smashing an entire 15 minutes (!) from my total, 179 minutes down to 164, mike got his down to 174 or so, and ss to 162. As such mike never really had a shot at the championship but hes had plenty more so nevermind.
SS once again overtook rayku, after a LOT of effort I crawled passed cybrax into third and it stayed this way for a good while, right until, in fact, the addition of scores and rings to the charts, which shunted me into first by a mere 9 points. From here, full scale war commenced, if you can call it that. SS would bother in a ring stat and drop 20 points. Id painstakingly claw them back. Repeat. It was only when I got my OWN Rings and Score stats to satisfactory levels (at the time) and SS couldnt be arsed that I got a decent lead of about 100 points. Overtime this was gradually reduced lower and lower to the miniscule gap it is today, as we both stopped playing and eventually were passed by yoshifan, zeph and stefan (Not necessarilly in that order). But who knows, you never know when something could spark up again out of old flames.
Current Leader: TIE. Yeah thats right, I am refusing to determine a winner here, its way too close to call, although it would most likely be SS if hed ever bothered with rings properly...
This aside, Id like to say SS is a fucking awesome rival, whenever I felt I couldnt get any better he convinced me otherwise and vice versa, it was an absolute pleasure duking it out with you over all this time dude, its just a shame great things have to come to an end I guess, this is almost certainly one the best times, and friendships Ive ever had and gained from TSC, and one I certainly wont be forgetting for a -very- long time
The Mysterious List
#10: SkyLights vs Crowbar (Rush)
#9: Cybrax vs Rayku (SA2B)
#8: SJ vs eredani vs sonicam (SH)
#7: Rolken vs eredani (SC)
#6: NintenDan vs RPG vs douglas
#5: Rolken vs sonicam (SC/STT/SPA)
#4: mike89 vs sonicam (SADX)
#3: eredani vs mike89 (S&K)
#2: RPG vs SS101 (SA2B)
#1: ??? vs ???
And now I believe its over to mike for TSC's Greatest Ever Titanic Tussle, whether he wants my opinions on it for a secret collaborative effort for you folks remains to be seen, though o:
