I find it a bit odd when I see people, mostly some members of CKC, using the title Sir infront of their nicks. It`s a free world, so why not, but this title does have a meaning after all. You receive the title when you are made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and knighted for some kind of Honour. I really doubt anyone on Worms has been made CBE for their outstanding work on worms, lol. The only player I can think of who can pull it off wearing this title, is SirSmokeAlot, ironically an ex CKC member. He has though, as far as I can remember, always had this nick. But when you all of a sudden change your nick from *** to Sir***, it`s just wrong!
You have to EARN the title. You receive the title because you really deserved it. Let me take some examples: Sir Elton John! He has done outstanding work within the music for the past 40 years, and also done alot for the fight against AIDS. Or Sir Paul McCartney! His singing career has passed 50 active years now, but he`s still going strong. The Beatles, I feel I don`t need to say anymore. Sir Ian McKellen, maybe an unknown name for some. He played Gandalf in LOTR. He was given the title because of his outstanding work for theatre, acting, and also fighting for equality and Gay Rights.
Say, if there were anyone in Worms who had the power to entitle someone to Sir, lets take Spadge in team17 for example lol, there are only 3 or 4 active members of this community that deserves this title. First off is our very own
DarkOne. He has done so much for the community for the past 10 years, and he`s still contributing. Making many many maps for a various of schemes, reviewing maps for WMDB, inventing RRKit where he hosted tournaments and updated the ranks after every week, writing tutorials to help newbies like Zippo, helping out on FB with the playoffs, offering his services at XTC, and now helping out here at TUS where is the one who does most of all 4 mods on the complaints, and also making sure people get their Cup games done.
The next one that comes to my mind is
HHC. He has like Darkone done a lot for the community in many ways for over a decade. He was helping out and mod`ing at WACL in 99/00, he created his own league WL, which was for both wa and wwp. Being a mod at this league was not easy, as every game was reported manually on the forums, whereas HHC would have to add them to the standings on a daily basis. HHC also created WEL if I`m not mistaken, he has made tons of maps, creating new schemes, and writing tutorials such as his well known T17 tutorial.
The last one I want to mention is
Chicken23. Being one of the most loyal players on WA, and one of the best clan leaders on WA. C23 has always been one of the most active and eager forum writers on many different kind of leagues. He has alot of ideas and knowledge which the community benefits from. He`s also been helping out with leagues, at XTC he did a great job helping out Veg. C23 also took the initativ to create an own league when there was no other around, but the league was doomed to get hacked by a no-lifer.
Well, I could mention more names, but I feel I`ve dealt out enough brag here
My point is, remove the title, please. No one should wear it, its Worms, but if someone should wear it, its none of those whos actually wearing it now! I may be overreacting here, but I just had to get it out of the system.
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