a couple preliminary nominations off the top of my head...
worst player
truly awful individual player would be
Rdubbs (us45). its difficult to pick a starting point with this player but i will start with the term noob, we all hurl it around as insult to unskilled fledgling players that dont know what they are doing... this does not apply to Rdubbs. he has been playing for YEARS and isnt just aware of how to play, in the most basic ways, but is arrogant in defending his "tactics".
-dodging... nope
-distinguishing between offensive troops and defensive troops... nope
-following directions... nope
-organizing... are you kidding? of course not
would literally post reports of his slingers, chariots, archers, and swords getting cleared (with and without militia popped) and brag about his victories. Dont believe me? track down Mikethebike and ask, saw this player getting attacked by garbage combinations of units and clearing questionable home units left behind by Rdubbs. though i was allied to this Rdubbs player i secretly began cheering for this Mikethebike, though we had never spoken, for pounding on this clueless bragard (it was like a strange case of stockholm syndrome). rdubbs would dedicate threads and take over tabs with these nonsense chest beating sessions while privately we all wondered if he was trolling us or some sort of enemy plant inside the alliance to drive down morale
now after the above portion im sure i look like a jerk for just witnessing this and complaining about it but we actually tried to help this poor bloke with zero success. One time while publicly calling for LS support to wonders cities to defend incoming he was confronted by at least 5 people goodnatured individuals and several other more frustrated & less kindly people on this basic understanding of the game. After dozens of post Rdubbs insisted that nobody knew what they were talking about and that ls were better served stacking on defense than holding in reserve for potential snipes...
between screwing up delicate inter-alliance ops, talking down to some of the best grepolis players i have seen in almost 6 years of playing, strange exchanges in what i assume was flirting, and the inability to understand basic skills Rdubbs (in my mind at least) is the worst player i in grepolis
p.s. yes to top it off he had a crown going into us45
worst leader
the worst leader i can remember would have to be Darius Nax(us23). unfortunately i found myself following this idiot (MCC, the original leader that brought us in, had gone into vm to get married) and it wasnt for anything extraordinary just that he was an arrogant narcissist. Was his first world i guess and because he could sim and gold like crazy he was the largest account on the server for months though he had extremely low bp numbers for a #1 player, i think they were outside the 200-300 range before players started clubbing him like a baby seal and dbp worked him into top 100 for a while. he managed to land a siege on a rival alliances trainer and proceeded to stack it with 5k horses, that was the extent of his abilities
he claimed to be a lawyer which would help explain how someone with no real experience or stand out performance could finesse their way into a leadership position but after seeing him explain his larger strategy and concepts im assuming he had a lot of clients end up on death row. he believed that by simply being the largest conglomerate of alliances they could pound out a WW victory, trouble was that was his strategy 8 months or so before WW started. a number of quality players collected from the original leader hid his ineptness because he was safely in the core eating internals and stray solo players but as other alliances teamed up to down the conglomerate the quality players questioned his leadership and left for greener medows. thats when the really lacking qualities began to show
Darius Nax dismissed smaller players because of his account size and stuck to his simplistic flawed way too early WW strategy. the core shrank/migrated south via founds and eating rim players. eventually his alliance numbers & figures/apoc/les caps/flagship betrayal fell to a point they couldnt even win a sim out WW crown and it only made him more laughable. He believed that because his account was so large that if he and a handful of other players ghosted it would force the world to close before WW started.
https://forum.us.grepolis.com/showthread.php?7655-PnP-R-I-P-Les-Capetians
while i was with Apoc in the early stages of that front runners decline i never once saw nax set up/run an op, teach anyone, help anyone outside of 3-4 large players who had been carrying his dead weight around, never made a diplo move good or bad, had some pretty ineffective pr campaigns when times were tough, and was nothing more than an oversized low end average individual. he was useless across the board
in summary he was wrong about almost everything. he wasnt even enough of a leader to kick me, just merged alliances and never sent me an invite, the irony being it was the only good thing he ever did to or for me lmao. let me out of my commitment
Worst Alliance: Talk Trash from Actium. So much star power, even backed by Appraxiadaddy and his branch. So much fail took a week to remove 8 cities from their core with help from their other branch. Please note i'm referencing that specific branch not AD's branch.
tough to argue with that one, had so many big name players and the egos hit critical mass so fast! maybe not the worst alliance but only because it burned out so fast, not leaving a large enough sample size