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« on: February 09, 2008, 03:13:15 PM »
It's hard to say definitively who is the best I've ever played against. My view is always going to be tainted since I played primarily before this inception of DP and its heavier focus on even more speed with "jumping" tricks as opposed to the more grind-it-out style of the original quakeworld, Q1/q2 versions. Then taking into consideration the fact that there was a much bigger ping difference back then between everyone, it makes it more difficult to judge really.
Calrathan, Razor, and Murdock always gave me fits in public or during matches. I learned how to play a lot of maps by dying and then observing those guys; Razor always just destroyed me on Splatterhouse and the two Splat/Smurf guys taught me how to play maps like Pforest the hard way. To try and not be so old, I've always felt that Fryth never got his due as being a really top level player and oddjob was really amazing - it's amazing what people take for granted now oddjob was one of the first to do, in certain jumps and things like that. Those guys are the ones who really stick out in my mind as being "the best" from what I remember. I also have heard a lot of stuff about Zoogooz and GWB with allegations of cheating and everything, but I always felt unless they were doing it the whole time from Gotcha! onwards that they were still extremely good and right up there with the best.
I don't think I've ever played in a clanmatch with a lot of the teams like CC and ereet, so I can't talk much about their skills. I know from pubs and previous times I've come back that dystro has always impressed me and Aztec never seems to have a bad day on the public server.