There was a good FH presence at trinlan, and it was great fun even though we only got to play 2 clan wars. Quozl organised the event (along with Skyclad) but chose to 0wn in CS rather than Q3. Johnor was there for a while, but without his own computer he didn’t get the chance to humiliate PS with his l33t railing. Lorcan had his own comp and we managed to get a team there thanks to Bug who drove me, Nex and Izer up. So I was able to find some empty PC for awhile and that gave us our team of 4 - me, Lorcan, Nex and Bug. We had 2 4v4’s - losing to PS and beating Acid.

WPDML announced their fixtures, and a few days after, SavageUK did the same, but somehow they managed to pick the exact same days to start, and some fixtures clash. Between Savage and WPDML, we have 6 games scheduled for Tuesday 6th March - 5 of them on q3dm7. I’ll have to sort something out because even I wouldn’t be willing to go through all that, it would be way too hectic since some of our members have other games (UT, maybe QW) scheduled for the same night, and I should probably try to do some homework.

Also in the WPDML we were moved down to division 5 for some reason… Acid are in div3, and in the four times we have played them we have always won.. the only explanation I have is that div3, div4 and div5 are all equilavent to BW’s div3a, div3b and div3c. I’m not sure if this is the case, but if it isn’t then its just stupid, because looking at the div3 clans, some of our most recent league fixtures have been wins over Acid and XPD. And the map Ancient Archipelago has been scrapped for another one that looks dodgy and gives me bad fps.

WPDML has organised clans into divisions for the league. There are seven divisions in all, we are in div4. At first it looked like an easy division, but some tweaking has been done and it will be fairly challenging. The clans in our division are:

BlackHail, BoG, Eradication on Arrival, Insane Inside, Knights of the Round, Kudos, Mad Cows, nightbreed, and The Quake Wizzzards.

I’m confident that if our pings are OK we can get promoted. Custom maps for the league are cpm4, mexx1, cpm9 and lloydmdm2. Good stuff I say, custom maps 0wn

Also SavageUK has announced groups for its pre-season cup. We’re in with nEo, PR, Total Terror and Blackhail. Should be fun games, but only the top goes through, so with nEo in the group I doubt we’ll qualify. It will be nice to play PR after so many friendlies against them. Also, I got a column on quake.ie, so I can cut down on the spam here.

Our lagged Wireplay Cup campaign is finally over after losing to WTF in the quarter final. It was very gah for us being at such a disadvantage over the slpb’s on the other teams, especially WTF and Fed (DC had fairly average pings but still beat us best). Sometimes I duel on a Wireplay CPM server, and I get nice ping and a good smooth feel in game. I don’t know why the WPCUP servers were so bad for us throughout the league. Clan-Wars league last season was great, we had lovely ping to the Games Inferno servers and if the server felt bad to us, the opposition felt it as well.

The 2 screenshots above show our Clan-Wars ping compared with our Wireplay ping… GAHNESS!! (and yes, I do have too much time on my hands). Unfortunately, the next Clan-Wars league will be on Wireplay servers. I hope something changes between now and then that will make the WPDML better for us, because the WPDML will be a great league if we’re not all hpb’s.

Also the SavageUK league looks like it will be a good one, with almost every English/Irish/French/Belgian/Dutch clan I have heard of signed up. I’d say most of them joined for the same reason FH did - no more BWDML (probably).