D1 - I think you'd find that they were the only decent players in CATS that weren't already quitting.
The fact they had a past in KnK may have helped with the contact with them, but the decision was based on the fact that we knew they could play the game - and were (oddly enough), listed by Cat Norris himself as the most experienced players in the tribe... perhaps that idea escaped you when you got your anti-knk cap on...
If you like, next time - i'll deliberately ignore the experienced players and recruit all the noobs to create a training tribe that will munch barbs on the rim and then complain when other tribes attack them... would that pass your high standards D1? as I really don't think I can lower the bar any lower.
As for ER and TC merging. So what? If the member count allows it, and the tribes are working closely together - why shouldn't we merge? Does it say somewhere that it is not allowed? Is it a merge to win? Of course not, as spurs says - its the same players, just in one tribe. Its still the world versus TC/ER.
I'm rather bored of the continual accusations that this is somehow KnK. I've been in other tribes too you know..
Tell you what, this can be a recreation of ]Romans[ from uk1 if you like, there are 2 members of them playing in the tribe!
... conspiracy theory!!!...
Or... SPQR!.. we have some of them somewhere...
Oh.. and Free..
and... W1N..
and.... ORC..
and.. TR..
and.. TIR..
and KnK...
and T4H...
and WZP
and ZP..
and =KN=..
... and loads more...
could be any number of those!... or... simply... we could just be TC / ER... new world, new name, lots of people from different places.. kinda like AFA is, Amaze is, CATS was...
can you tell that i'm bored?