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TTA vs. TTX: The Players   Table of Contents   TTA vs. TTX: The Community

A clan is the best way for a new player to get acclimated into the community, make friends, build up their account, and overall to enjoy the game. It allows players to compete with other clans, clanmates, and to challenge themselves to improve their rank in the clan.

Given the recession the clan scene continues to be in, we will rewind a little bit to the best times of TTA’s clan scene and compare it to the very strong TTX clan scene.

Representing Triple Triad X- Card Club, Brotherhood of SeeD, Avalance, SeeD, and Eva.

Representing Triple Triad Advance- Trance Knights, Triforce, Zodiac Braves, Triad Elite, and Devas.

For comparison sake, clans will not be listed in both sites as some of the TTX clans have continued their success on the TTA scene.

So, where do we start here? Just like in players, it is so intriguing to see how the same system has managed to drastically change. Which clan scene is stronger? What do we even use as our measuring sticks? How is it possible to compare two generations of clan scenes?

Let’s start with the major similarity. While a few clans on TTA have implement clan limit rules, none more extreme than the former one-clan rule of Zodiac Braves, clan overlaps exist everywhere. The most common nickname on Triple Triad X was CC Your Name~Avl.com. If more people wore clan tags on TTA, I’m sure there would have been a number of ^[TK]Deva Name~avl.zb^. This much is a given. Clan overlaps existed then and they exist now. The idea of a one-clan rule was kicked around forever with no result coming from it. We may as well deal with it.

So let’s get some differences in. You want to know who the best clans are on TTA? You can find plenty of them in TTA’s Shrine as Clan Wars champions. If not there, you can certainly find out about those Clan Leagues that people have won. If not there, you can ask about those Clan Bashes people played in. If not there, you can certainly find out who was voted clan of the year. TTX, well, didn’t have this. There were no Clan Wars or Clan League on TTX. Once again, with TTA’s clan scene recession, it would be a simple answer to just say TTX’s scene was better and that was the end of it. How did TTX clans really measure up against each other? The top three, Card Club, Avalanche, and Brotherhood of SeeD, were the most generally accepted as the best clans. Even the site admins endorsed that providing their own clan forums within the actual TTX forum itself.

So how did TTX clans really compare themselves to each other? Quite simply, the players within the clans made the difference. Avalanche was an awesome clan on TTX. Not only did it have 50 or so members like every other clan, but it had those big boys on their roster. With Blackbolt, Lionheart, Rob, and company, the clan was generally accepted as the best because it had the best players. Let’s bring that concept to today. If the best clan on TTA is measured by who has the most talented players, congratulations Zodiac Braves, you are TTA’s all-time best clan. Anybody else disagree with that besides me? Zodiac Braves is a great clan, but for other reasons than that. They’ve won several tournaments and been active for a fairly long time, minus their recent lapse. Take a look at the flipside, though. Outside of a recent finals appearance in Clan Wars from TK, they haven’t had much success on the tournament side relatively speaking. Does that make them a bad clan? Of course not. We know that because we have the TTAwards to remind us what clans really matter on this site. On TTX, without competition or awards, a clan can get lost on that site.

Outside of those 5 listed, everybody else was “just another clan”. On the surface here on TTA, a clan like the Elites would be “just another clan” without the regular competition and awards that we have. They could easily get behind the major clans like Triforce, Avalanche, and Devas. TTX had a number of solid clans not named CC, Avl, and BoS. But how would anybody know that? There were no separate forums for these clans and no equal playing field for them to compete on to make names for themselves. The Zodiac Braves and Wild Sword, two household names on the clan scene for years, were just average clans on TTX. That should lead a person to believe that the clan scene on TTX was superior to the clan scene on TTA. Once again, we are in the apples and oranges comparison. TTX was very dominated by a few clans, so dominated to the point that nobody else could even compete with them no matter how hard they tried. TTA, on the other hand, allows a newer clan to have a better chance to make an impact because the playing field is more level.

Now that we’ve discussed how the clans are measured on both sites, let’s compare the two lists that have been made. In this section, we can make a definitive answer as to which clans were better. Despite not having any means of measuring their dominance, the TTX clans were simply that much better because all the resources were there: more players and a newer game. TTA simply cannot compete with that. If you were to add together the activity of Trance Knights with the skill of Zodiac Braves, you’d get one of the big three on TTX.

But that doesn’t mean that we should just give up. Great clans can still be made on this site with the resources available. They just have to be on a smaller scale than what it was on TTX.