Seattle, Washington, United States: 2300027

As of April 26, 2022, Seattle is controlled by Swarm. They have 8,926,941 bots in the zone. The top three players in the zone are suprizasarous (3,033,742), kalasal (2,566,413), and Einherjock (1,053,935). Swarm has held the zone since May 30, 2014. The zone capturer is Stromni.

Battle of May, 2014
(battle statistics 1) This battle marked the beginning of Swarm's long hold on Seattle. The battle started on May 29, 2014, when Legion had 7,173,812 bots in the zone. By the end of that day, the zone had been reduced to just under 5 million Legion bots. 36 people launched that day (27 S, 9 L), and 3,667,239 bots were killed (2,790,602 S, 876,637 L) with 3,663 launches (2,884 S, 779 L). Top launchers were Hectorivan (L, 418), ActionGee (S, 408), Xenobia (S, 257), Canderen (S, 230), and Stromni (S, 201). Legion saw a big drop that day, but the zone was still strongly red. That statement would not hold true for long.

(battle statistics 2) On May 30, 2014, Seattle was completely destroyed. Both Swarm and Legion had more than doubled their launches from the previous day, and battle was intense. By the end of the day, Swarm controlled the zone with 713,711 bots. 66 people launched the second day (46 S, 19 L, 1 F), and 7,697,964 bots were killed (5,857,812 S, 1,835,209 L, 4,943 F) with 7,778 launches (5,958 S, 1,813 L, 7 F). Top launchers were ActionGee (S, 1,202), Canderen (S, 421), Hectorivan (L, 357), Xenobia (S, 289), and las3r (S, 276). This day marks the beginning of a long Swarm dominance in the Seattle zone.

Battle of April 25, 2022
(battle statistics) It started off a nice and peaceful day. The Seattle Swarm were steadily launching into their various local zones, more than comfortable with the status of their 16,478,058 bots in the iconic Seattle zone. They had no idea what was about to hit them. On April 25, 2022, Legion launched a surprise attack on Seattle. Taking advantage of the expanded range due to Missile Monday, Legion brought together tons of players from all over the world to pounce on Seattle in an attempt to overwhelm the longtime Swarm zone. The zone was boosted at precisely 5:00pm local time. Boosters were flooded into the zone to prevent an easy clearance, and Legion built a beachhead of 800,000 defensive bots. Millions of Swarm bots were destroyed, and Legion quickly brought the bot count from over 16 million to under 8 million. By 8:37pm, the zone had been cleared of retired bots. Shortly after, they were noticed. Once Swarm realized what was happening, they responded with urgency, desperately clearing and stacking underneath the weight of the thousands of nanomissiles and plasma. They added 300,000 absorbers and called in reinforcements to help clear, in addition to bringing back MoBo, a retired player. At the end of the day, the Legion were unable to get the capture, and the Swarm zone remained standing, although badly damaged. Seattle remains green for another day. The zone ended the day with 8,437,330 Swarm bots. This single zone saw 69 players (55 L, 11 S, 3 F), 13,026 launches (9,162 L, 3,805 S, 59 F), and 15,110,698 bots killed (11,877,946 L, 3,165,831 S, 66,921 F). The attack was large enough to break several QONQR world records. Top launchers were Hectorivan (L, 2,882), suprizasarous (S, 1,548), Scottay (L, 1,494), 5th (1,015), and kalasal (S, 879). There were 50 players with 29+ launches. For context, this attack was planned by Hectorivan as his going away party. He publicly announced his upcoming retirement a couple weeks before the attack. In those two weeks, he planned the operation, sharing his weapons cache with fellow Legion and gathering commitments from his team members. There's no better way to go out with a bang! To quote Hectorivan, "A blast was had by all."