Wilmund Tigers

The Wilmund Tigers were a Wilmund-based hockey team competing in Stoneworks Hockey, composed of the actual inventors and runners of the hockey community between December 2022 and April 2023.

With its beginnings rooting back to April 2022, months before the first official Hockey League being formed by Tigers founder Juvieus, it was officially the first and oldest team in the community until it dissolved in April 2023 when its core members wiegeht_s, FredBurton and Juvieus left Stoneworks.

Launch Trophy
The Tigers played their first official 3v3 in the First Round of the Launch Trophy, were they faced Yestanbul Goats on home turf. Yestanbul Goats emerged victorious with a 2:0, kicking the hockey inventors out in their own tournament.

Tests before Season 1
With a bad result from the Launch Trophy, the Tigers desperately needed to improve their track record to be chosen for the Prime Division in the league system which was to be starting on January 1st.

During the great hockey hype, which saw dozens of test matches being played every single day, the Tigers enhanced their game and actually grew to one of the strongest teams following various wins and an unbeaten streak. Consequently they made the cut for Prime Division and started in Stoneworks Hockey's elite tier in Season 1.

Season 1
Continuing their great form from the pre-tests, the Wilmund Tigers had a great first half of the season and actually lead the standings with two weeks to go. After an one-week break however, which the other teams utilized to evolve their tactics and the game meta in general, Wilmund had suddenly lost its status as top team and lost all remaining matches. They finished 6th in Prime Division with 8 points ahead of relegation zone.

Their Cup campaign had mediocre success, as they managed to advance to the quarterfinals before losing to Stormgova Donkeys.

They would never recover their previous status as top team and their squad would skillwise fall behind many other players.

Season 2
With the game and skills of many hockey players evolving continuously, the players of Wilmund had more and more difficulties competing at the highest level. Not being able to invest as much time into practice, they now had become a serious candidate for relegation.

The Prime Division was expanded to ten teams, with the bottom three of them expecting relegation to 2nd Division.

Following a rough start of 3 defeats, the Tigers could finally collect their first points after drawing against Solisia Doves. With two wins against fellow relegation-candidates Stormgova Salmons and Vyspos Bears, they totalled 7 points after 9 matches at the end of the season - not enough to make it out of the relegation zone and finishing 8th.

The Cup campaign was surprisingly successful though. After beating D2-side Illeryon Wolves, Wilmund would face the Sicilian Doves in the quarterfinal. In a memorable match as total underdogs, Wilmund brought a 1-1 draw over the regular time and eventually won 3-2 on penalty kicks. It was the later Cup Winners of Fosdinas Stars that would end the Tigers' run in the semifinal.

Season 3
Following a controversial further expansion of Prime Division to 11 teams, Wilmund's relegation was annuled and the team invited to play in Stonework's elite tier once more. wiegeht_s, who was responsible for the league's organization as well as being the Tiger's manager was accused of corruption (rightfully so in Juvieus's eyes).

The skill deficit of wiegeht_s, FredBurton, Juvieus, and especially their newly hired backups SKaldon and MrFootball became even more evident in season 3.

The team did not win a single match on field, only three victories via forfeit of the opponent. The only onfield point, a 3:3 draw against Sea Sharks, was possible after Sharks were undermanned for a significant portion of the match.

At season ending, Wilmund Tigers deservedly finished in the relegation zone another time.

In the Cup they made it to the quarterfinals, were they got beaten by Finnibus Donkeys.

Dissolvation of the team
Following season 3 the core members decided to retire their team, to step down from League management, and also to leave Stoneworks for good.

While they may not have won significant titles for the Wilmund Tigers, they achieved the greatest possible thing a Stoneworks hockey team could strive for:

Having fun while playing, making friends, and one way or another go down in Hockey history.

Players
* only official competitive matches are counted