In comparing the two, it seems that ST seems to win. As of this moment, if you take a look at the last 30 games, Tiny has played, he has only lost to 3 players. All of them were playing ST or an ST split. With the superb ST font bonus along with extremely powerful champs like K'ento, it seems that the only way to challenge Tiny is to play ST.
He had a small losing streak a couple days ago to a variety of factions -- me with FW, cabelobr with FS, vampiro85 with SL (I think, or SL/UD). "Tiny's last 30 games" isn't a very long period time, considering two whole pages of matches come from just the last two days.
Also a Huge portion of the real veteran players are currently taking a time off, so I urge you not to take the run now vs the rookies a representative Tiny is a great player but he has his flaws and ST isnt all that powerful anymore when compared to many splits these days.
I don't doubt most BGs could beat tiny atm since imo his IS BG is quite poor as a result of IS being rather poor.
I played against tiny few days ago, I'm very rusty but I still gave him a fight due to mistakes happening on both sides. There was a time when the games were ended on 1 mistake, not who made more. The lack of competition leaves everyone out of practice imo No one can be at their prime atm, cuz you're not being punished for every mistake by top level play anymore.
This. It's also hard to get some practice with these queue times and people not joining unranked matches
More on topic, ST will forever remain a top tier faction because devs have historically refused to acknowledge the bonus exists and don't consider it for balance purposes.
Just play ranked you ninny. The points don't matter, and most importantly, you actually get a good pool of random maps.
To be honest I had to change into a weaker bg to make the game more challenging. My KF can easily destroy ST.
I figured you had done this. Seeing the BG's you've used recently seems like you are challenging yourself more than your competition is... BTW, please post your KF BG please
Ha, I've asked @TinyDragon to do one of the first ones but he blew me off like the peon I am... But maybe he'll come around! For the record, I would have loved to have done one with @Ballballer, but I don't think he was any good at the game then...
Tiny, how come you don't bring out your best deck when playing vs DragonSlayer1 as he's killing you with his ST-split deck? He might even overtake your #1 ranking because of the amount of points he is farming from you. That would just be wrong as you deserve the #1 spot!
As someone who knows dragonslayer personally, I can say that he respects tiny and is under no illusion that he is better than tiny. He just enjoys the competition and just happens to have had one hell of a teacher in this game.