@Anubis - Brought some life? That's mostly because you guys live off silly drama, people fighting with each other.

Besides, I cannot remember the last time ropa had an entirely positive attitude, he's always out to get someone, for some reason.
@ropa:
WA's peak of competitiveness? I honestly don't know what the results are statistically, as in which period of WA, which league had the most games played and reported. It also depends on what you were competitive in. For me the peak was being a Warmer player back in 1999-2003, there were no records kept because you didn't pick Warmer in a League and report it to a League, but for sure people were insanely competitive as they wanted to succeed with great desire and be recognized as a top player. Which makes the following point even more satisfying.
Saying nobody knew who I was until I started playing BnG:
https://worms2d.info/Warmer#Notable_People_in_WarmerI played with the best Warmers between 1999-2003 at the top level, you know this, back when you were leadermagikarp and you just started playing, you and I used to be friends who played together a lot, when we met we were both noobs and learned a lot together playing Warmers and Ropers with people like ThesheriFF, SpinwinG, Link, Nimmer, BigC, Dodgefreak, Jmoberg, FaTaL and more.
I made my first clan BDD - Bringers of Death and Destruction, back in those very early days, and while we didn't win anything major, we still mananged to win some games against top clans which we were proud of.
When talking about leagues, for me it's always been about clanners, and i'd say that was before WL during WACL and CL2K. I was never much of a singles player anyway(other than BnG and Darts anyway) as i've never been much of an "overall" player, as I spent most of my time focusing on single schemes. So if singles was ever the peak of competitiviness on WA, then i've pretty much missed the entire thing lol.
It's hard for me to choose between WACL and TUS, those were my 2 favourites and most competitive as far as clanners are concerned, WACL because there were way more players and you would ALWAYS find a game, TUS because generally the skill level was overall higher and more schemes to choose from and the organized playoffs were always intense.
I'll admit, looking back I find myself annoying and cringe at a lot of stuff(i'd tell myself to shut up...), even stuff I said 5 years ago. I was annoying to a lot of people back then, said a lot of things I wish were not said, shared some personal stuff about my life, but this is not a characteristic I share alone, ropa is also considered one of the most toxic, annoying people there was in this game by many people. He's been banned from most forum websites for various reasons, likely more than I ever have, for reasons more offensive in nature than what i've ever done I believe.
I strongly believe i've been a positive influence to way more people in this game than i've ever been a negative influence on in this game, from something basic as treating noobs with respect and taking the time to help them learn how to play the game, how to understand the concepts of different schemes and how to play around with files and use mods. Regardless of what you believe, i've climbed to the top of several schemes and used that experience to influence others and i'm proud of that.
I was in ToP, and it wasn't under alias, it was on WWP, when WWP came out I was playing both WA and WWP, on WA I was TheKomodo and on WWP with the name KomoduS / KSP(KomoduS SerentuS ProximuS - I was into Gladiator at the time lol). Interesting fact on WWP I was also voted among the best Ropers.
I don't remember everything perfectly, nobody does, one thing I barely remember is changing my name for a few months and making a clan called Xeno back some time between 2000-2002, my name was Xenomorph and there were 2 other people called Xenosomething. It was no secret that it was me though.
However i'm not going to mention any secret alias I used because that would defeat the purpose, something you of all people should know about lol.
The only long break i've ever had from WA was Feb 2019 - August 2020, other than that i've maybe missed a few weeks here and there because of a new relationship or something.
Here's the real kicker, I REAAAAAAALLY wish you were right and I was wrong, as looking back and realizing i've spent much more time than I should have on this game, I don't regret it but i'd definitely put more time into other things if I could go back.
Edit - Oh, and I don't really play anymore, so when I said that's my only break that wasn't true, haven't played a single game this year yet because i've been studying at open uni learning Python. Although I really enjoy doing the streaming for CWT last year, and looking forward to that again this year.