Champions of ETF2L (kinda)

So we finished first in our division @ ETF2L:


Overall a decent season. We achieved our goal of automatic promotion and played fairly well, although losing on Turbine (to a very determined vR) in our last game was a shame. Our other 'booboos' were two drawn maps against dmg and FB who came joint 2nd and will need a pre-playoff playoff to decide who makes the playoffs. Only 7 of 10 teams in our division finished the season and one of those will be/is folded now, but we enjoyed all our games in season 4 nonetheless. Now we have a long and painful season 5 lined up, after a summer break.

In other news, wltrs is 'back' after a short emo vacation. No-one knows what he was doing or why but he likes TF2 again (yay) and he wants us all to play more. Deith has a new PC and seems slightly happier (according to Pizza) - though he doesn't say much so we dont know for sure.

Finally, there's a new TF2-related blog. It won't be gossip or news, but more thoughts on the game, the clans and the noob players. Oh and it's written by me. Check it out HERE

Peace out.

PS. Pizza is da bomb

Tapir

You know what a tapir is?
The arch tapir is like the king of tapirs..
That's Patriarch.

Pat's first entry to the blog, hop on the hypetrain and stay tuned!

World of Wotrcraft

After a long discussion this morning, me and Patrick decided to leave TF2 behind us and move on to a game with more content and faster gameplay.

Statement from Patrick "pat" McClane:
Me and Pizza have grown tired of the clan and we are moving back our first love, WoW. BB GL and see you in Azeroth!

WE JUST AINT THE SAME WITHOUT ROBBE







Naturally coming from me, this story is horse shit. I did play WoW for 38 minutes though :<
I don't know where wltrs is, hope he's ok!!! =(
PS: sjurb, I fixed your picture!

sjurb's corner

So Pizza asked me to contribute to the blog despite me not having anything to talk about.

There is the very real possibility that reading this unstructured post of random thoughts may bore you to tears but Boss Pizza tells me he expects this done by the time he comes back from the pizzeria (a pizza shop or Pizza's house?)

Let's jump into real life first. Monday-Friday wake up at 7am shower-shave-shit then it's off to the hospital for a day's work to pay the bills. Currently working as a Biomedical Scientist in the NHS. My deprtment is Microbiology/Virology so any of the superbug stuff you read in the papers (MRSA, C. diff, Noro Virus) is the stuff I mess with. From testicle skin scrapings to faecal examinations- if your body can make it I can work with it. For all the whining I do about it it's actually a pretty good job. It can be immensly satisfying when you follow a patient's sample through from collection to results but you do need a tough skin- it can be pretty depressing looking at some of the patient details- 5 year olds with leukaemia, 30-something women with breast cancer, geriatrics who likely won't be alive by the time you finish with their sample... MEDIC!



I don't get back home until 6pm which I guess is the reason my TF2 activity has been pretty poor for a long while. With alty and cube being really active and reliable and Ads being online most evenings it's neigh-on impossible to get a good run in the team. When it was at its worst in February as I was really keen to play but couldn't, I think it's fair to say I threw my toys out the pram- "LET ME PLAY YOU'RE ALL SHIT". Since then I've realised how unfair it is to ask to take the place of someone who plays more than me so like a respectable ninja I've dropped back into the shadows. It's been 3 weeks now since I've played with wotr2 but I'm still up for playing. I think being a backup is the best I can hope for given my (in)activity and inability to say which nights I'll be here. At work we've recently arranged to play football on Monday nights and I'm usually at my girlfriend's on a Tuesday and Thursday which makes Wednesday and Friday the only weeknights I'm around.


In those 3 weeks I've hopping across different games. Me and phoenix/penix/Josh from NS days play a fair bit of Dawn of War 2. It's an RTS game light on strategy which makes it easy for us to hop on for a couple of games. Also bought Unreal Tournament 3 after the free weekend. The netcode is shockingly bad but it looks jaw-droppingly beautiful. Also had a game of NS with frG's adopted Spanish team. Funnily enough playing DoW2 has given me a better scope of what's needed to command well, despite having played NS since release day. Still- the game is dead so I don't think I'll be going back to it. Oh, and got in touch SpaceJesus/esJ. Pretty out of the blue but he's into EVE online these days. I've been persuaded to give it a go using the Steam trial- a recent update has changed the start for new players so I'll see how it goes. Finally, I'll get back into Quake Live since it went public. All these games should keep me interested when I'm home alone and bored!

Interesting final note- it seems Cube was harshly banned in the ETF2L for a forum post. It wasn't that bad- admins must have been on their period or something but as the thread on the sandman made the head admin quit heads were bound to roll. With his 3 months ban this will free up a soldier slot that I could compete for. Unfortunately (for me) the only team left to play in that league is veAre.black. The game shold be a walkover regardless of who we field which is unforunate for me!


sherpa out.

pat made a smiley?

Olaf is out for blood

cube let his dark intentions take over and posted from his heart regarding sandman limit 1 in the ETF2L:







Lame jokes aside, I see a reason why something like that would be punished but I find a 3 month ban rather harsh for something so minor. It affects our team greatly if cube doesn't get to play in the first few games of the upcoming season when we start in the first division.

Quote from an admin:
"well you gave us no other option, most wanted a 1 year ban for this. hopefully 3 months are enough to learn from it"
Makes me wonder what sort of people they have in the admin crew. A one year ban would probably kill us as a team.

VA FAN

League updates, oh boy!

UKeSA Week 3 10.3 :: vs Oh My God It Is WON

One of the better division 3* teams. Shouldn't pose much of a threat, although we're a bit shaky on both well and turbine.

* = division 3 as in ETF2L division 3

ETF2L Week 8 xx.x :: vs Nwave DEFAULT

Ahh, the lovely chaps of Nwave again. Last week they made cube hate cp_well even more and this time we get to play them on gravelpit! It's a bit more important this week as it's ETF2L and we want to have a clear no maps lost-record. After Nwave there's only one game to go, it being against veAre, a german team that is currently 6th in the division.

UPDATE 10.3: Apparently their team folded once again and unless they come up with a new team, it will be a default win for us. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new nwave team soon.

ESL Season 3 Week 1 12.3 :: vs eLD TIED

ESL starting again and after the disappointment of last season, we actually got placed into a proper division this time. eLD getting a shot at us again this week after their loss last sunday in the ETF2L. Our win on badlands was quite solid(7-1) but managed to win granary only 4-3. Arguably they missed their most influental players.

Wireplay season coming to an end

The season is now over for us. It was a bit weird as we had such good results vs the top teams yet managed to only tie some of the middle tier teams.
Personally I'd say that the games vs TCM and Druidz were the most fun, intense games we've ever had so the season itself left a good aftertaste even if it was the league we performed the worst(resultwise) in.
The Druidz game actually became a win for us as DRz folded.
Some teams still have games to be played so I'll post our final standing in the tables at a later time.
Full results list in xls format can still be found here










We are currently discussing(yeah right) if we should play in TheSGL or not as we might want to keep our focus on other, more familiar leagues with better teams.
Already signed up for the next season of Wireplay, which should be good assuming the skill level of the premier teams will stay about the same. Did a bit of scouting while writing this and to be honest, it looks a bit grim for Wireplay concerning whether the top teams will sign up or not..

The Rumour Corner

sherpa getting back to ns...
Pizza forced to take a break around may...
cube joining a polish team...















Altbst, the ugliest soldier known to man

Schedules and stuff

Haven't updated the blog in a few weeks as nothing interesting has happened really.

UKeSA Season 1 4.3 :: vs uP Gaming WON

Our second game in the UKeSA. Won the first one against miBty quite comfortably and this one should be a pleasant stroll for us. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Wireplay Season 2 4.3 :: vs Dignitas LOST

Well they're the best, we'll do OUR best I hope!

EnemyDown xx.x :: vs weapons of the rebellion, not ColorZ!

High stakes in this one, a whopping FIFTY POUNDS(or actually, is it euros?). The last game of EnemyDown for us, we're playing ColorZ who won the division below us. Again, should be easy for us as we didn't lose a single map in the 7 group games we played. Date not set yet.

Apparently we're playing weapons of the rebellion instead!

ETF2L Season 4 week 6 8.3 :: vs elD WON

The season is nearing its completion and we have only 3 games to go, this being one of them. My bet is on us.

Wireplay Season 2 5.3 :: vs Nwave TIED

Wireplay also getting to an end soon, we should finish fourth which isn't too bad. Lost against wotr quite tightly, tied 1-1 in fastlane after leading the map for 28ish minutes and after that lost gravelpit which was a bit of a mess.
But again, Nwave shouldn't be much of a problem. After that we're playing Dignitas.

Other than those games, we've got some internal shit to deal with if we want to actually compete in division 1 in the future and win the first season of UKeSA.

ESL Season starting soon and we're playing in division 2B which is a bit of a sigh. At least we're not in division 3.










I'm not going to regularly update stuff about the bball/scout/instagib fun cups, will make a bigger update about each as they get finished.

We didn't make it to the Cadred top10 Clans list of february but honestly, we should be in there instead of a few teams(1, really). Hope a nay-sayer reads this and starts drama or something. Just do it.
Then again, the ranking mechanics work against us.

Interesting tidbit of information: We have WON 26 games, LOST 8 and TIED 4 games. (Officials, defaults excluded)

God Hand is an awesome game and anyone who owns a PS2/PS3 should get it. Or get a console just to play it.

A rather overconfident blog post this time! wltrs stepped down as a writer and Steven hasn't kept his promises of making an entry :(