Farewell, TUS singles

[Rocket]

A short post full of kind words, good memories and some updates on my activity here.

First and foremost, thanks to all players on TUS who used to be my rivals in TUS single league in 2010-2025. You gave me plenty of happy and intense hours of gameplay, a real desire to improve, to grind, to become a tech-savvy lad, let alone bringing my language skills to comletely another level. And I found some true friends here. That's huge, guys.

Back in 2010 I could only imagine how good a player should be to win a big cup visible in one's league profile. A beautiful shiny thing I always desired. It's been 15 years, and I have 2 cups of the same size in my profile (Season 32 and 35), both silver, both won in grand finals vs blitzed, the man the machine the legend
I'm grateful for the opportunity to get these in 2025. To me it's important to see that I haven't given up in a course of years and finally got what I wanted. Thanks to all of you and our great MonkeyIsland ofc! You've earned a standing ovation, big TUS dad!

However, a bitter understanding of these trophies being won in an extremely low activity era making me a bit... dissappointed. It's not that I'm not happy for the results shown, but I'd rather had my skills tested in greater competitions of the past. All we have now is a great TUS website full of games, maps, schemes, programmes and a legendary forum, some league updates coming on the way, and literally blitz alone playing the league. I have enormous respect for the guy, but my interest for TUS singles can't be kept up by playing vs him time after time, day after day. It's pretty boring and well far from being exciting. And excitement is the key thing we came  here for one day. Excitement brought us here, made us friends, made this community strong. But it's not here anymore, not for me at least.

On the other hand, there is a good thing to mention. For some wild reason clanners still exist (!) and they are still exciting, even though permanently played between 2-4 clans and ever the same players. The magic of cooperation, team chatting and voicing hasn't faded. For the sake of this and only this kind of games I won't sell or throw my WA keyboard away. Even knowing that clanners won't return to their 2013-2018 level, I reserve a room for them in my life while I still have this room.

So yeah, this is it. I'm going to be there on AnythingGoes for different kinds of funner games, and for clanners. As for TUS singles, don't ask me that as I don't play it anymore.

Thanks to you all for being awesome!

[Korydex]

Early 2010s were good times for the league indeed. But as I recall around 2013 "tus ne1" started failing already. And asking specific player for a match is basically cheating
Maybe it would be nice to have discord server for TUS league (mention feature is nice and helps if you are afk). If Dario didnt create a server for ONL some years ago I doubt it would even survive

[Chicken23]

There are already discords like cwa to ask for TUS but an official TUS discord wouldn't be a bad idea. Probably better than the instant messaging available on the site.

There is a whole new league system MI has said he's working on which will boast activity for single scheme players like myself. However MI probably has lots going on in real life and not much time to code.

We should all donate to the cause. Also CS and DC making core game updates will have ab impact.

I said similar things in that other thread

[Kradie]

If people like Rocket, and Chicken, wouldn't have bowed out, the league could had been a little more active. Who knows how many have left like this. All these people who bowed out, maybe they should band together and make league activity great again. Putting the band back together

[Chicken23]

Kardie - I'm currently not playing as there is no TTL and if there was I wouldn't want two seperate t17 ratings. The reason I have no motivation to play is I'm competitive and I don't like the current competitive league system.

I don't play allround league because my time is limited and I don't want to play wxw or big rr/tower rr. All over schemes I'm happy to play.

The proposed league system MI has sounds excellent and soon as it comes out I'll be asking for TUS and setting my preferences to part take in elite, t17 and bng playoffs

[Wolfgang]

ae @Rocket see you in ag, you were a great opponent in the last PO, it was nice to play with you in PO because i know you since 2010-2015 times