TheKomodo actually does deserve some respect for his roping in the early years like '99-'01, for warming/style roping, not necessarily for his league roping. He was good, but 'one of the best' is so subjective that it's pointless to argue. Just know he had popular ropes, maybe top 50 warmer company (in no particular order; there were lots back then though).
'01-'03 had a big drop of older players leaving (Komo too, for a bit), but lots of other players made names for themselves, including shady. He also deserves respect for his warming/style roping, and yes he was fast (but again 'fastest' is so subjective that it's pointless to argue).
All these "50-0 ten times in a row" exaggerations are funny though, since I hear them a lot more and more as we get further removed. Unless you guys can archive.org and pull up those old standings, it's easy to say without proof. The only undefeated league record I can honestly remember was from the first worms clan league WACL when HOS did it, and even still, this was back in the Double or Nothing years of worms that ruined a lot of honestly in the standings (so even a 50-0 wasn't absolutely perfect, just removed lots of losses by winning Double or Nothings).
final notes: yes volcom was downright scary to play in league ropers. yes volrin was good, but he seems to get way more praise than he maybe deserves (but he definitely belonged in that top 50 warmer company I mentioned earlier with komo, again no particular order).
Actually I peaked in warmers around 01-03, although I had been playing WA since July 1999, I never started roping till sometime 2000, then I found major interest in girls lol, then BnG around 2004/5, can't actually remember, was EldarWorm who taught me 2 arrow wind aimed straight up full pwoer on 1024* then I was hooked...
I was on the same level of skill as tenchi/theone/marco/oijogja/saltyk9 etc when I peaked in warmers, we all had that something special that made us stand out, for me it was my ability to go at full speed for 90 seconds time after time again. I will always regard myself as an influence in warmers to many many players and a good friend to many many more... (Just had to do Commandant Lassard lol).
Did anyone else warm for hours on end with Marco talking about his "System" which was something like Speed Consistency Variety Style Creativity or something, it had a catchy name I know that's wrong, also used to talk about lucid dreams and 3rd eye n stuff, he was a really laid back nice bloke
No pics dev sorry haha, but one time, a video leaked out of us at a party cuzza bluetooth on phones
I didn't understand why everyone thought that was cool at the time lol, thank god it was before YouTube...
In fact, how many of you here feel lucky to be a kid before YouTube/FaceBook/etc? I do xD
Edit: I just remembered about this, I don't know who wrote it like but they know their stuff:
http://worms2d.info/WarmerAll the players noted there except from Anubis/Volrin, in my opinion, were all at the same "skill level" at some point or another, not all of us were at our peak at the same time, and I know you have trouble believing how good I was, alot of players forget how good I was at Roping simply because of my BnG status over the last 7/8 years, I tried getting back into warmers last year but just totally couldn't get the passion, I lasted like, 20 minutes or something then gave up... It just isn't the same because there is no glory now for being great at Warmers, in fact, people these days are way way harder to impress.
I garauntee anyone who thinks they were the shit back in the day (ropers, not warmers) wouldn't do as good with todays standard, not with that exact skillset, they would probably adjust, but it'd take a bit of time, maps were so easy back in 1999-2004/5, then people started doing TTRR heavily and ropers started playing on maps with way way way too many hides, making it literally impossible to reach some crates and attack within 15 seconds, even if it was anubis roping his best...
When it comes to Warmers, I know my shit about "back in the day", take my word for it or not, I normally wouldn't bother digging up something in the past like 8-11 bloody years ago, but this was a HUUUUUUUGE part of my childhood and it's something I am proud about.
(Oh, and my version of that list, is SOOOO unfinished lol...)
Oh wait, KRD wrote it lol.