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Hey! What happened to Atomic? Part #2 The Empire's End

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I have been checking and examining old accounts and here is what I found.

Intro

Last blog I talked about old accounts. Which brought a question to my mind: How did they get so high and why doesn't anyone get that high anymore

#1 LineTester

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@Linetester was a very famous 2000 player and got the score of 2633. That's around as high as @NeverOfZero ! But eventually crashed. Here are his last two games:

https://lichess.org/Re3DdKV9

https://lichess.org/GBmPmOmX/black

He also won the Atomic Shield Arena in 2018, pretty long time ago!Here is the last played by @linetester in this tournament

https://lichess.org/ReFK0bWA/black

#2 NM Tipau

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NM Tipau is a very famous account for many reasons, one being that he got as high as 2805. That's around 200 points higher than @Neverofzero (the current best atomic player in the world!!!) @Tipau won the AWC 2016. Here is the last game of his AWC win.

https://lichess.org/OCgjOAeo

Tipau's last game:
https://lichess.org/BbGTrzCL/black

#3 Kreedz

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Kreedz is another old account that got as high as 2626!!!!
Kreedz, the same as @linetester did not win any AWC's, but won two Atomic Shield Arenas in 2018. Here are the decisive games in which he won both tournaments:

https://lichess.org/IJ4IKRuI/black

https://lichess.org/tuLa2xJS/black

As you saw both accounts were 2000 even one was 2400!

#4 Moustruito

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image.png@Moustruito is a very famous account and has managed to get in the top ten of several AWC's. You would expect his current rating to be really high since he got to 2600 but he is actually he is only around 2100 at the present. Here are his last games:
2nd to last:

https://lichess.org/D6Fle7CR/black

last:
https://lichess.org/NL8sb3jn/black

#5 NM Pashpash

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image.png@PashPash is another old Atomic account and has recently begun to play Atomic again. He got as high as 2745 as shown above. Here is the game in which @PashPash accomplished that score:

https://lichess.org/hVCyRvve/black

Here is a game which @PashPash played his highest rated opponent:
https://lichess.org/jjVoYzHi

@PashPash and @tipau have played around 33 games together in Atomic.

Outro

So much has happened to Atomic in the last few years many players have risen and fallen. We have just found out how high players got, but the question still remains. What happened to Atomic? You decide!

Here are just the most famous accounts I found, but if you want to see more I will post it in the forum.

1. @Linetester2. @tipau3. @kreedz4.@moustruito5. @pashpash
Highest Rating: 2633Highest Rating: 2805Highest Rating: 2626Highest Rating: 2618Highest Rating: 2745