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Texan’s Top 10 SEAPL Franchises of All Time

This is obviously a spinoff of HB’s top 10 list. Since that will probably never again be updated, I thought it would be nice to make a new one by someone who has been here from the beginning. In order to keep the spirit of HB’s picks alive, I’m including many of his comments.

Ya, I don’t have as many of the old school teams as HB, but I think longevity counts for something and several of those teams have very little of it.

Criteria: must have made at least 1 Super Wok appearance. Must have played at least 4 SEAPL seasons. At this point, every team with multiple Super Wok appearances is included.

1. East St. Louis Tire Fires (http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=997)
Owned by Rusty Trombone and Doug Plank
Super Wok History:
Season 5: East St. Louis Tire Fires defeats NACJAC ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=209716 )
Season 6: East St. Louis Tire Fires defeats Taiwan Blood Pandas ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=288066 )
Season 8: East St. Louis Tire Fires defeat Louisiana Screaming Pelicans ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=473078 )
Season 11: Singapore Flames defeat East St. Louis Tire Fires ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=802425 )
Season 13: East St. Louis Tire Fires defeat Louisiana Screaming Pelicans ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1000557 )
Season 17: East St. Louis Tire Fires defeat Apatity Awesome ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1357535 )
Analysis: this is a slam dunk for top franchise in SEAPL history imo. No team has ever come close to the dominance of ESL, especially for such a long period. If not for the WL, they would likely have a few more titles. They are likely to stay in WL for quite some time after their original struggles there when it first began. No one has come close to ESL’s sustained excellence. ESL has now won a World League title and is a top team in all of GLB every season.
HurricaneBear’s Comments These guys have been good for a very long time and are the only long time powerhouse left. The Tire Fires spent there first two seasons in AA, losing heartbreaking Conference Championship games to the Jersey Dragons and BLPP. During season 3, AA became AAA2, and the Tar Fars were on a mission, going a perfect 20-0 and earning a trip to the Pros. After an up and down first Pro season, they found playoff success before falling for the third time that season to the Bangkok Season in the Conference Championship game. This however, fueled the Fire, and ESL went on to win all but 7 games from seasons 5 through 8, including 3 Super Wok victories. They are the only team in the leagues history to have played in 4 Super Woks and made a name for themselves by winning games late, in dramatic fashion.

2. Krungthep Garudas http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=1600
Owned by fool and tautology
Super Wok History:
Season 12: Krungthep Garudas defeat Buffalo Rampage (http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=899094 )
Season 14: Krungthep Garudas defeat NBA Jam ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1100947 )
Season 16: Blue Renegade Wino Smurfs of Funkalicious Labatt defeat Krungthep Garudas ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1281150 )
Season 18: Cambodian RiverRats defeat Krungthep Garudas ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1432483 )
Season 20: Krungthep Garudas defeat New York Empire (http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1582428 )
Analysis: this may be a controversial pick for some, but they have an amazing 5 Super Wok appearances and have a spent a large amount of time in SEAPL. While they haven’t done terribly well in the WL, they have done amazing things in SEAPL. fool is fiercely devoted to the league and that counts for something too imo. One (very cool) thing is that the Garudas were the first team to win the Super Wok from both Naga and lolgaruda, having been demoted erroneously to lolgaruda from the WL. They even managed to stick in the WL after season 21.

3. Three Kingdom Warriors
Owned by datongw and Animalmother
Super Wok History:
Season 10: Singapore Marauders defeat Three Kingdom Warriors (http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=695562 )
Season 19: Three Kingdom Warriors defeat Cult of Personalities ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1508554 )
Season 21: Three Kingdom Warriors defeat Palembang Drunken Monks ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1653169 )
Analysis: Don’t give me any of that crap about how they spent too much time in the WL to be a real SEAPL team. They still have more SEAPL seasons under their belts than most of the other teams in contention. Most of the time they’ve been in SEAPL they’ve been very good and sometimes unstoppable. They also get some points for representing SEAPL very well in the early days of the WL. They hold the record for longest stint between Super Wok appearances. They recently added another SEA title and look to continue their WL success.

4. Bangkok Seamen (http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=448)
Owned by Ben Dover
Super Wok History:
Season 2: Bangkok Seamen defeat Bangkok Tweetys ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=37243 )
Season 3: Bangkok Seamen defeat Ho Chi Mean Hot Mamas ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=78245 )
Season 4: NACJAC defeats Bangkok Seamen ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=139257 )
Analysis: They had a tremendous run in the early days of SEA. While teams were obviously not as strong back then, everything is relative to whom you compete against. Even after all this time, they are still up at third place for Super Wok appearances.
HurricaneBear’s Comments The original SEA powerhouse, these guys put us on the map. The first team to gain respect outside of SEA, they nearly won one the first major GLB tourneys during season 4 beating ESL, the Manila Hitmen and a few USA Pro teams on the way. They are the only team to ever go to three straight Super Woks, winning it in seasons 2 and 3. The Seamen were run by one of the original great owners of this region, Ben Dover, and dominated for many seasons. There run started to slow down during season 4 when they lost the Super Wok to a great NACJAC team, although they made the playoffs for 6 straight seasons before shutting things down season 7.

5. Ho Chi Mean Hot Mammas (http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=459)
Owned by BigRatUno
Super Wok History:
Season 3: Bangkok Seamen defeat Ho Chi Mean Hot Mamas ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=78245 )
Season 7: Ho Chi Mean Hot Mamas defeat Bandar Lampung Pigskin Pirates ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=372462 )
Analysis: Kinda like Bobby Fischer, they just unexpectedly disappeared one day or they could have climbed higher on the list. They were a frightening team for several seasons. Got their first title at the expense of co-legend BLPP.
HurricaneBear’s Comments A team originally from AAA, they moved up after beating the Marauders in Season 2. During there first Pro season, they went 19-1, losing to the 20-0 Bangkok Seamen in the Super Wok. That was the only time in the regions history two 19-0 teams faced off for the title. This team was a power house while here, not losing a regular season game until season 5, and only dropping 9 regular season games in 5 Pro seasons.

6. Bandar Lampung Pigskin Pirates (http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=991)
Owned by joe87
Super Wok History:
Season 7: Ho Chi Mean Hot Mamas defeat Bandar Lampung Pigskin Pirates ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=372462 )
Season 9: Bandar Lampung Pigskin Pirates defeat Semarang Red Bulls ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=586538 )
Analysis: Everyone who has been in SEAPL any length of time knows these guys and that’s saying something in itself. BLPP is now back in SEAPL with a strong roster and looking to add to their legacy after an early playoff exit season 21 at the hands of the Monks.
HurricaneBear’s Comments One of the most popular franchises in league history, the Pirates combined great personalities with a very strong team. Entering the league season 4, they made the playoffs every single season in the Pros. At times, this team was nearly unbeatable, losing only 13 times from seasons 4 to 10 to teams outside of East St Louis(less than 2 a season) An original AA team, they won the title season 2 to move up to AAA, where they quickly ran through the conference before losing in the AAA championship to NACJAC. Bandar then made it at least to the Naga Championship game every Pro season except 4 and 6, winning 1 of there 2 Super Wok apperances along the way.

7. Royal Blue Drunken Smurfs of Funkalicious Labatt http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=5636
Owned by bighookworm and Snaza
Super Wok History:
Season 12: Blue Renegade Wino Smurfs of Funkalicious Labatt defeat Krungthep Garudas ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1281150 )
Analysis: This team came in with much fan-fair, mainly from themselves and their strategy of trash talking the forum. They quickly made many friends and many enemies and initially had only moderate success. After some time, however, they rose to the top of Naga, won the Super Wok and had a few successful WL playoff seasons to boot. Having rebuilt, the Smurfs are once again a perennial playoff team and could challenge for more hardware soon. Their combination of WL and SEA success is only matched or surpassed by a very few SEA teams (see above).

8. Neo Armstrong Cannon Jet Armstrong Cyclone(NACJAC) (http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=1853)
Owned by dhc1978
Super Wok History:
Season 4: NACJAC defeats Bangkok Seamen ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=139257 )
Season 5: East St. Louis Tire Fires defeats NACJAC ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=209716 )
Analysis: they might be the lowest ranked of the teams with multiple Super Wok appearances, but that’s not at all an insult in this company. This is a team linked to the present by ESL and to the past by the original SEAPL teams.
HurricaneBear’s Comments If I messed up the name, I appologize, it's been a long time. But NACJAC had a great, albeit short run in SEA. They were one of the first teams to "not care" about the regular season, sometimes not even appearing to care. But they were deadly as anyone in the playoffs when it counted. They first appeared on SEA's radar in AAA, defeating the highly favored Bandar Pirates during season 3. In there first Pro season, they knocked off the defending champs and longtime SEA powerhouse Bangkok Seamen in the Super Wok. They made a second straight Super Wok in season 5, losing a hard fought game to ESL. They made the playoffs again season 6, losing to the Garuda Champion Taiwan Blood Pandas.

9. Saigon Whores http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=4982
Owned By Stoutone
Super Wok History:
Season 15: Saigon Whores Defeat Tet Offensive (http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=1198421 )
Analysis: Saigon came into SEA guns blazing and honestly they didn’t stay very long. While it took them only a couple of seasons to blow through the league, gold trophy in hand, they repped SEA better than all but a couple of teams in the WL. They spent a number of seasons there with a lot of success before riding off into the sunset. Ya, that team link doesn’t even work anymore.

10. Semarang Red Bulls http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=3150
Owned by Sockamidic and pimpin snoopy
Super Wok History:
Season 9: Bandar Lampung Pigskin Pirates defeat Semarang Red Bulls ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=586538 )
Analysis: This is obviously a REALLY tough choice. Semarang edges out the Flames, but just barely. They’re back and possibly on track to make any controversy a moot point if they can pull off a Super Wok, or even a Naga title. They’ve been very good for a long time.

Honorable Mention
Singapore Marauders (http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=450)
Buffalo Rampage http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=3102
Louisiana Screaming Pelicans http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?season=11&team_id=1063)
Palembang Drunken Monks http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=3073)
New York Empire http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=1434)
Singapore Flames http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=1046)
Bangkok Tweetys http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?season=11&team_id=464)
Taiwan Blood Panda http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?season=11&team_id=1008)
Cambodian River Rats http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=3123
Taiwan Royals http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=421
Cult of Personalities http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=5902
Apatity Awesome http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=7026
Tet Offensive http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=3119
NBA Jam http://goallineblitz.com/game/team.pl?team_id=1659
Edited by Texan DTD on Apr 29, 2011 09:18:11
Edited by Texan DTD on Apr 29, 2011 09:11:28
Edited by Texan DTD on Jan 25, 2011 20:54:35
Edited by Texan DTD on Jan 25, 2011 13:49:31
Edited by Texan DTD on Jan 25, 2011 13:48:40
 
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By the way, if anyone would like to add their own positive comments to a team entry, let me know. I'll paste you in and give you proper credit.
 
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Texan is the man. Awesome writeup. Wu Dang hopes to make the list as the only top 10 team to have been demoted from SEAPL.
 
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sticky plz
 
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Originally posted by Victory Jones
sticky plz


You're a little demanding today.
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Incredible job, Texan.
 
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Awesome write up
 
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Originally posted by Livestrong
Awesome write up


Thanks for the sticky!
 
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damn season 11.
 
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Originally posted by Rusty Trombone
damn season 11.


http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=802425&pbp_id=19301042
 
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Originally posted by bhall43
Originally posted by Rusty Trombone

damn season 11.


http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=802425&pbp_id=19301042


damn tooley
 
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Nice job Texan
 
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Originally posted by fool
Incredible job, Texan.


 
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