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For people that keep up with WoW PvP videos, you’ll probably be excited to know that Hydra 9 is out. You can catch it here.

It’s 35 minutes long, a lengthy video by WoW PvP video standards.  The editing is very good and the music was right up my alley, although that always varies by person of course.  The gameplay is a bit more hit and miss.  I’m not going to make any comments on skill, since I honestly can’t even keep up with half of what’s going on.  Videos from rank 1 capable players are just too far out of my league.  The clips chosen are going to be a bit more controversial though.

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It’s that time again!  No, not firework time.  The outside is scary.  Keep that blasphemy to yourself.

Nope, it’s time for rank 1 drama!!  Every single season this seems to happen.  Whoever gets rank one on any server is instantly accused of win trading, mmr exploiting and whatever dubious methods people may feel they used to cheat their rank 1 rating.  Now, let’s be honest here, half of those teams probably did cheat.  Especially given the massive MMR exploit that was still going on at the time.  There were just *far* too many teams that came out of nowhere to suddenly secure a 3100+ rating.  The primary excuse I hear for that is that lots more good teams are queuing, giving more opportunity to move up.  While there’s some truth to that, I just can’t buy it in a lot of cases.

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