BP gets stomped twice when it matters.
Now it’s chest thumping when no one cares, because there are no rewards and no glory to be gained.
Have fun winning nothing this week BP. Please feel free to win. (We had enough of your tears when you were crying yourselves to sleep during League. So our bottles are full, but we’ll see you next League, and pound you into the dirt where you belong.)
P.S. I think most of us just feel sorry for you at this point.
We did get stomped. But not by EBay. 
In the history of the servers BP has 7 wins vs. EBay’s 14. 12 of EBay’s 14 came during the 13 week war which ended June 8th. The other two came in league and were due solely to Yaks, not EBay. Since June 8th we have consistently been the better server but you folks simply can’t admit it.
BTW, If you’d have lost you’d be saying league doesn’t even count.
Poor Dio
You lost brother, and sometimes in life you need to accept things and move on.
Maybe after you’ve experienced more in life and learned your native language, you will understand what is happening here.
You are clueless. Perhaps the cold has limited your brain. I will show you one final example that fits all categories here, the World Cup. The teams are from countries and named only by the country name, which is about as similar to this set up as you can get.
Headline: “Spain deliver on promise at last”
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=2008/
Game, Set, Match.
As you said, Fort Aspenwood is a region in GW 1 meaning that it is a place.
So you are saying that when people reference server names within context of the wvw forums they are talking about a place in another game rather than the people grouped together and named after the place in another game? Are you insane?
And you haven’t answered the above.
Look at everytime you have referenced Borlis Pass, Fort Aspenwood and/or Crystal Desert in this thread and tell me with a straight face you have been referencing some location in GW1.
You keep making excuses and changing the reason it is wrong. First it was because examples had “the” in them and Fort Aspenwood doesn’t. Then it was because it’s a location and a location only. But that little bit of weaseling doesn’t hold up in the face of how people, including yourself, actually use the name of the server to refer to the players on the server. Under your logic, people should be saying Fort Aspentonians, etc. But, they don’t, including yourself. Tell me why?
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Sorry, but you are the mistaken one.
Fort Aspenwood is a place. The people that reside there are individuals or groups of people.
If you use the Oilers as an example and compare it to Buffy’s response, it’s like him saying “Rexall Place (the arena the Oilers play in) are easy to beat.”
If you play against a group of people, you would refer to them by pluralizing an individual players title.
Singular player – Oiler
Plural – OilersFor example, I am Canadian. If there were more than myself in a group we would be called Canadians. We reside in Canada (a place) and Canada is not pluralized.
You seem to be taking his phrase out of context.
Edit: I also want to point out that your examples are all properly pluralized, hence the s at the end of each team name, except for the tribe, which implies more than one person by definition. Buffy’s reference to Fort Aspenwood players was not properly pluralized.
Further to that, your examples all start with “The”, whereas Buffy’s starts with only Fort Aspenwood, which means that you have not followed his sentence structure to support your examples. Even if you change your example to “Oilers are playing on Saturday”, it becomes a sloppy sentence and somewhat vague since Oilers could refer to Oil works instead of “the Oilers” which is a specific reference.
Fort Aspenwood is a place. It is also the name of a server full of people. The reference was not made to the place, which is non-existent, but rather to the people. Do you believe that you were fighting against a mountain pass last week? Of course you don’t. You believe you were fighting against a group of individuals on a team named after a mountain pass.
Let’s put it this way. Say your character’s name was FuriousHammers instead of FuriousBeard.
FuriousHammers is unable to comprehend proper grammar.
FuriousHammers are unable to comprehend proper grammer.
Which would be correct? The first of course because it refers to a single person that is named after something that is plural.
The same thing for Fort Aspenwood in the original context. Whether the name is singular or plural is of no relevance because what is being named is plural and that is what counts.
As the to the Canada reference. Again, the plurality of the name makes no difference. Think of places named Twin Palms, Five Points, etc. One refers to each of them as singular despite the S at the end.
There is a famous water slide called Raging Waters in California. No one says “Raging Waters are a great place to go” instead of “Raging Waters is a great place to go.” (Well, maybe Canadian tourists do, who knows!?!) Places don’t have to have singular names because they are places and if they have plural names one still refers to them as singular because the place is singular, the name is not relevant.
Also, all my examples are not pluralized, that is exactly why I gave them. The Crimson Tide is singular, but you still use the plural verb because it is a collection of individuals.
Tide, not tribe. Alabama Crimson Tide. Nothing plural about it. Another example would be Stanford Cardinal. No s at the end, still a team name, still plural. People from Berkeley yell “Cardinal sucks” and not “Cardinal suck” at football games.
The inclusion of “the” doesn’t make a differences either.
The staff is in a meeting.
The staff are upset.
Both of those are correct. Both have “the” in them. By context though, one understand that in the first sentence staff is singular because it is referring to the collection itself and not the people in the collection, while in the second the reference is clearly to the people who make up the staff.
Buffy is talking about the people who make up Fort Aspenwood as not being fun to play against. Perhaps the mindless blobbing of FA has caused you to no longer think of yourselves as individuals, but we realize that you still are.
I dunno man. A server is a machine, not a collection of individuals.
A server is also someone who brings you food at a restaurant or delivers court documents to people.
Fort Aspenwood are a collection of individuals.
(Am I doing this right?)
Nice. But actually, not within the context of the text. In this case I was referring to the words Fort Aspenwood, and not the server.
*Americans
The grammar edition of PvF is fun!
Of course, that is just a typo.
Fort Aspenwood are not fun to fight at all
Fort Aspenwood is not fun to fight at all
It’s after 8:45 am Buffy. You have no excuse this time.
Fort Aspenwood refers to a collection of people, so the plural form of the verb is correct.
Unless of course you thought he was referring to the actual physical server. If he was beating up on machinery, it would be singular.
This is sort of a US English vs. UK English thing. Americans tend to want an S on the end whereas the English look towards what the word actually refers to when making a judgement.
Edit: BTW, the grammar rule for this is:
“Collective nouns such as team and staff may be either singular or plural depending on their use in the sentence.”
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BP and DB: you guys will get more points from fighting each other instead of squeezing that last 45 ppt that IoJ has in their corner. Or is it too hard for both of your 40 man zergs I see running around right now to fight each other so you’ll just avoid that confrontation and roll the meager 15 IoJ we area able to produce right now.
These achievements are the stupidest thing to implement. It made the karma train even dumber than ever.
I assure you that we are fighting each other, but I don’t doubt it feels like we are both focusing on you folks. Both DB and BP have a numerical advantage on you such that you are pretty much going to feel swamped even if you aren’t the primary target of either server. I feel for you, being completely outnumbered the entire week is never fun.
So, this is how BP is when their BL isn’t laggy and dc’s people.
You mean solid Green as of this posting? …I don’t know actually… It could still be bugged for all we know, we just haven’t found out what the problem is THIS week. Last’s week’s bugs weren’t as apparent as massive rubber lag but they were just as debilitating. Point is: don’t assume Anet is always fixing things. There’s a super long history of bugs they’ve taken Months or even a whole year to get around to fixing even after multiple reports were publicly submitted directly to their developers (who in a lot of cases, claimed innocence by blaming the submitters for not just sending it directly to support/QA instead).
Well, during reset it was fun being able to actually fight and keep Hills and Bay in there, and that meant no inflated PPT for you guys, which showed us all the real coverage during reset you have. You’re either pushing our BL and losing all in yours, or defending and not keeping a thing in the other ones.
Anyways, keep the fights, bags, blabla… all those thing people say.
Not quite all of our BL, at least not during NA time (you roll all over us SEA). I was in our garrison from start of reset until 2:30 am and DB was 0-11 in BP Garrison attempts.