Scoops

Because when you migrate to a new platform, there are times the transfer is not full and some data remain in the old system. Just like when alliances switch kingdoms and you still have castles in the old kingdom, and that guild still appears on that poor kingdom’s local rankings even if by function that clan is no longer active there. See, it all connects.

K2 was missing from your analysis of matchups. There is no point to having a group of 5 kingdoms since their have to be an even number for pairings. After getting all the real data (not just what is in the top 100 rankings) it looked to me that 10 was the right number for the largest group and from the actual matchups that were made that was nearly 100% correct. GoT also said they used kingdom age last time. That might explain the one deviation. K19 is not undetermined size. Using the easy way out of adding up alliances in top 100 is a bad way to judge kingdom size. K19 is one of the largest kingdoms out there. Beating K9 last time should have been a clue to that. It was 9th biggest kingdom in powerpoints of all alliances (not just the alliances in the top 100). By my analysis of true kingdom size and the pairings that were made by GTArcade, there looked to be 7 groups of kingdoms where members of each group were matched against each other. Also, in every KvK, it appears that one matchup is not random – that GTArcade determines who they think the top 2 kingdoms are. (K1 v K2, K1 v K14, K8 v K14). I expect that pattern of a top 2 non-random matchup next time also. P.S. Regarding my email address… that’s where I am a master’s student in data science, a field I’ve been a professional in for many years. Pattern recognition is a requirement of that practice. 😉 Alfred E

Hello, again, dear fellow number cruncher and stat junkie. What we used as basis for that article is a copy of a spreadsheet whose data of the world top 100 alliance rankings was scraped two weeks before September’s War of the Kingdoms. It appears you get to glean more data than we do.

Given what you know, maybe we can collaborate in releasing a more accurate ‘strength of kingdoms’ piece next time. And if you do have a direct line to the Old Gods, is it also possible to request to make the running scores, or at least the final tallies, of all matches be made accessible to everyone without needing to log in and out of accounts placed in different kingdoms? I forgot to mention this in the latest survey they sent.

I believe that this is a matter of greater concern than the supposed plan of consolidating kingdoms. I say, let kingdoms die a natural death. No to youth in Asia! lolz

At the request of people on K30 I’m sending a raven to give some info on the fight that went on between K21 and K30. K21 won the fight 1.75B to K30s 1.58B but up until about 4 hours to go K30 still had a 70 mil point lead and looked like they were going to pull it out. At that point, HMR’s 2 big players with lots of help from HMR’s other members had mostly wiped out K21’s big and medium hitters and were holding both KL’s and most other great cities. Devil Kor was 2nd in world points and HMR was 6th but the lead slipped away because K21 figured out that if they just all gathered they had far greater numbers. Every tick K21 made up 2 million points and with our big hitters needing sleep and the costs it would take to tele around our own kingdom to hit gatherers we didn’t have many options. We tried getting everyone gathering but K30 just wasn’t big enough. (Our 2nd biggest alliance with two T4 members didn’t even participate and helped k21 until the last couple hours because of an inter server war but I added their BR anyway in the next total) We did a look post kvk and found that even after K21 had bigger BR drops due to troops getting killed… out of the top 20 alliances K30 had 8,293,780,276 power and K21 had 16,546,715,215. Adding in the alliances post top 20 and it was a case where K30 was half the population of K21 but still put up a crazy hard fight. We rallied down K21’s big hitters, had smaller members participating in pvp and joining rallies, people gathering, and basically everyone having a lot of fun. We had plans to sit out KvK because of inter kingdom drama but the match-up vs K21 made it extra juicy. HMR’s founding members originally played on K21 in an alliance called TKO. There was drama and backstabbing from what I’ve heard and from stories it was ugly. Eventually they started new on 30 but HMR leadership was extra motivated to inflict as much damage as possible. The other alliances on 30 (KM family, WRN, INQ, LSE) are all smaller in size but participated and contributed in all facets and for once the kingdom was truly working together. Afterwards, even though we lost and were exhausted, we were very satisfied that we put fear into K21. We forced them to abandon most fighting as we fairly easily won the military and holding city part of KvK. We were a little disappointed we didn’t win it, but it still shows a smaller kingdom can compete with larger ones even if getting the win can be tricky with current point rules. I’ve never seen so many people from different alliances happy and sharing cool stories with battle logs over a KvK we didn’t even win. I know some of the K30 members follow the news here so I want them to know that BadJmac and HMR are crazy proud of the what K30 did! BadJmac

And this is why I prefer the new platform. Paragraph breaks are your friend!

Anyway, yes, something from K30. Finally! Your kingdom is no longer ‘no data’. lolz

With raven messages like these, who still need recaps? Also, good to know that War of the Kingdoms, regardless of the outcome, was the driving force that united the kingdom. Hope that unity lasts long.

And that is it. Here is the drill so that messages get sent to the right place this time: they should now be sent through here, so that you can see your name here and get access to the exclusive TRE Discord server.

A parting thought: if we can earmark the TRE alliance code in all kingdoms, we will. What will we do with it though? Having said that, the greatest split in Westeros has happened as NORDMANN has changed its tag to NDM, making LetThemEatCake the sole alliance that is known as NOM. Editorial Team, you know now what to do. Update those tags!

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