Hello my fellow Cubecraft players. It has been long since the release of Free For All on the Cubecraft network. 2021 marked the year of its full release. Over 5 years later, we as a community have gone through many eras of our own PvP history - countless maps, countless players, so many memories. A lot of people have risen to the top, become leaderboard players with hundreds of thousands of kills; many have become good content creators and great moderators, exemplary pillars of the community - others not so much. We have had our ups and downs.
But it seems that no one ever, at least as of recent, has asked the most important question. In all the rivalry of Free For All, beyond all its blatant cheaters, all its harsh environment of competitive players, all the spiteful feelings and unfair teaming, there must be something, someone that stands above the rest. Unlike most other minigames on Cubecraft, in FFA there is no single 'winner' of a match. A map simply stays there until the server resets - it never changes, never shows how much blood was spilled during its existence, how many killstreaks were lost, how many wars were fought, how many players came and went. But then what is the point of the game? To gain kill statistics? To become the most skilled player overtime? How do we measure that, quantify it - who is the best player ever in FFA? Who is its one true winner?
Perhaps the answer to this question is simple - the player with the most kills, Ignsinf. But he is not the best skill-wise, as is widely agreed by the community.
But perhaps this question is self defeating, as one might say that even though there might be one "top" player at that moment, they themselves could easily become better and replace them in due time. Without a constraint in time, the winner of the "match" of FFA can only be a single person - one forever memorialized in time and talked of for years after his conquest of the maps. Perhaps he is not a constant individual, but a shifting persona that is adopted by player after player in the different eras of Free For All.
So who is it then?
Who do you believe to be the Thomas Shelby of FFA?
But it seems that no one ever, at least as of recent, has asked the most important question. In all the rivalry of Free For All, beyond all its blatant cheaters, all its harsh environment of competitive players, all the spiteful feelings and unfair teaming, there must be something, someone that stands above the rest. Unlike most other minigames on Cubecraft, in FFA there is no single 'winner' of a match. A map simply stays there until the server resets - it never changes, never shows how much blood was spilled during its existence, how many killstreaks were lost, how many wars were fought, how many players came and went. But then what is the point of the game? To gain kill statistics? To become the most skilled player overtime? How do we measure that, quantify it - who is the best player ever in FFA? Who is its one true winner?
Perhaps the answer to this question is simple - the player with the most kills, Ignsinf. But he is not the best skill-wise, as is widely agreed by the community.
But perhaps this question is self defeating, as one might say that even though there might be one "top" player at that moment, they themselves could easily become better and replace them in due time. Without a constraint in time, the winner of the "match" of FFA can only be a single person - one forever memorialized in time and talked of for years after his conquest of the maps. Perhaps he is not a constant individual, but a shifting persona that is adopted by player after player in the different eras of Free For All.
So who is it then?
Who do you believe to be the Thomas Shelby of FFA?
