What did OP do to earn my admiration? lol
All you did was survive and survive you did, like a UFC fighter who only takes safe fights.
In our final rounds a lot of SE players joined TE to challenge D1 and we loved to see it but we knew they were going to discard every te norm to win and that they did. We were fighting top dogs for +5years and loved challenging ourselves with up-declares. We were very close to retiring, in fact I called for it the round before due to time restraints. D1 was getting tired and weary so that kind of dirty gameplay was the final straw that broke the camels back for us, they made it easy for us to hang it up.
But all of us are still tight brothers today because of everything we experienced together and I'll forever be grateful to this game for that.