Also the barbs/inactive players are there to farm when you join late.
The villages are way more advanced so hold more res and overall are better farms (minus the walls)
Anyone who joins late will be able to grow faster in the same period of time than someone who joined while everyone was 26 points.
Runs keeps claiming Germany to have the best TW players like all the other German players do, yet the masters team did terrible, those german players who joined Uk10 did terrible and even said they were surprised at the competition there when they couldnt even stay top 5. When .nets better players joined .de's server, they held at least ranks 1 and 2, not the german players.
The German server in general has an over-flated, unsubstantiated ego that they are somehow the best players on all servers. That is simply not true.
There are about 5/6 SLAP! members who play actively on uk speed, mainly only 3 members at a time. Seeing as most rounds are 3 member tribe limit i dont see a problem in that.
Also i'll think you'll find that SLAP! has beaten bubu? more times than bubu? has beaten SLAP!, but feel free to deny that with 'we are german, we are the best' or make some other excuses up like Runs does when Matt backtimed him several times after sniping Lucky's train:
[2/13/2012 3:26:47 PM] #moron: uk is a lucker
Sounds like luck, or sounds like skill?