Pro Players

Recognised Pros in Command and Conquer Red Alert

The CnCNet Red Alert (RA) community defines the word to loosely mean a top level player. Naturally, players have a different perspective depending on their experience. Squid AKA Thunder used to keep a list on his site of recognised pros, so I'll continue that tradition here. But first, here is what I think pro means in RA: can you compete with the best? (Excluding the Aftermath expansion).

Skills to consider

RA is a simple game compared to other RTS, and yet it becomes quite complicated when you consider all the skills, win conditions and the order of doing things.

Necessary skills

The following are the skills you need to compete with other recognised pros. Excellence in one area may help compensate in another. 

1. Map knowledge - can you play a variety of map types? I think this one goes without saying - if you don't know how to play the different map types, including standard build orders for ore and gem maps, you won't be able to compete.
2. Production - do you produce tanks within 10% of the top players? Production get's you into the conversation. Your army of tanks must be of a similar size to stand a chance.
3. Q - can you beat Gold Medal Challenge (GMC), at least alone? The ability to move and shoot is essential, and GMC sets the pro standard.
4. GQ - can you beat Platinum Medal Challenge alone (PMC)? The ability to move and shoot automatically is important, and PMC sets the pro standard.
5. Can you defend a rush? Dying quickly isn't pro.
6. Soldiers - can you scout, defend and attack well? Your opening move is vital, and rockets will save you from air attacks.
   
7. Tactics and timing - RA is an RTS, T is for time. Doing the right thing at the right time can win you battles, and vice versa.

Unnecessary Skills

1. Air - Underrated, and even banned in some war tank rooms 😠. You can alternatively just build tanks and air defense though.
2. Naval - There's only a handful of maps with water which the pro community play. Boats work like tanks anyway.
3. Tech - How to use atom bombs, tanyas, chrono, iron curtain, cruisers etc. You can get away with not using them most of the time.
4. Factions - can you play both Allies and Soviets well? Whilst you can be a great player knowing only 1 faction, c'mon bro. That's like saying you're a carpenter who only fits doors. That said, your tanking skill is highly transferrable.
5. Do you know how to rush effectively? Knowing how to rush will also help you in defending, but there are other (and safer) ways to win.
6. Building - Defined as the act of building a service depot for extra MCVs before tanks, then using infantry/rockets and teslas as your only defense. Can be viable on maps with walled entrances creating a bottle neck e.g. 4c Niklas. Not needed to compete on any map I know of.

Recognised Pros (246 as of 27/07/2025)

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Future Candidates

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Profound
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Neo
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Cyclone
H2O
Hit
XeNa
Wael
JPRO
Tanksex
Rock
Sucky
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Mazell
Fattynoob
Monaco

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Harkit

Pixel

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Jackoderp

MadSTAR

Yamu

Felagund

Kroisos

Dak

Solder

Angleon

Kippa

Dragon
Bizare

Younger
Wai
Quin
Lee
r4z0r

Further reading

Atom1's view: https://ratimes.weebly.com/controversial-p4-rashowdown.html
Boy's view: https://web.archive.org/web/20170722211828/http://www.ra1guides.com/2016/08/lets-bring-back-term-average.html