Bigfoot’s released his predictions for season 5 of the BWDML on Quakenation. I think he read too much into WPDML results (we lost to Wizzzards and had a default loss to BoG) and he doesn’t expect us to get promoted.

“Mid-table i think we will see XTC, FH and nexus. These sides are all pretty talented but i think may struggle to put in a concerted promotion challenge. nexus could be the surprise of the trio i guess, FH and XTC i think will be happy though with mid-table. [….]”

Champions - KoTR
Also Promoted - POTZW, BoG
Relegated - z3, cH, EoA

Week 1 was great - we drew with KOTR (predicted champions by Bigfoot). BWDML is immeasurably better than the WPDML, but the server was surprisingly laggy, since I usually have sweet ping on BW clanarena. Again, the ISDN players were suffering, ping over 100 for much of the game. The best thing about our result against KOTR was the fact that we beat them on dm7 despite having well over twice their ping (Lorcan on modem played, while me, Dest and Cascade were reasonably lagged). Up to now, I had always thought that dm7 was a pure lpb map, and that you can’t hold RA without some low ping. It was very encouraging for us to beat them here and shows how far a bit of good teamplay can take you.

I’m really looking forward to next week of the BWDML. We play BoG on dm14tmp and cpm4. It would appear from BW predictions that the worst is over for us, but looking at the results from week1.. the Hungarian clan z3 beat POTZW very convincingly on dm7. Like I was saying above.. it takes really good teamplay to win on this map when you’re at a massive ping disadvantage - I assume z3 were… Hungary is miles away Other unpredictable clans from what I’ve seen so far are nexus and XTC. nexus had a good win in week 1, while XTC defaulted their game.. but their website shows some impressive results (even if they are a bit outdated).

BW league is postponed by a week, giving us time to view our new members Cascade and x0n in action. We had a game against UKSG yesterday, the server was awful, but at least we got to see Cascade play. KOTR replaced BlackHail in our division in Barrysworld, KOTR are a very good clan from what I have heard. More gah servers in the WPDML on Thursday

Our BW division has changed around a bit.. the clans we have now are: POTZW, cH, BoG, EoA, HaiL, z3, Frag, XTC and nexus. I was looking at a few of their webpages, and by the looks of it, XTC could be favourites to win this division (although theres a few clans there I still haven’t seen). Unfortunately, we conceded our first default win ever last night. It was in the WPDML against BoG. It was completely my fault - after having no phone or electricity until a few hours before the match, I was very disorganised and I thought the game was at 10, instead of 9. I told this to Spoonman, and only Bug and Dest showed up. Its a pity because I would have enjoyed owning BoG on these new maps. Ah well, we’ll meet them in BW.

This default loss has reminded me that we need 2 more players, having lost Quozl and Honky to inactivity recently. So we’re looking for two semi-active or active lpb’s that can fire a rocket reasonably straight, but if they themselves are not a fish, they must have a grandparent at least who is.

Gay Savage Cup this week on dm7, we all have pings of 150 to the server. Also we drew in the laaaagy WPDML because our connections let us down on dm7 (slpb map). Lovely Barrysworld (60 ping :D) has announced their divisions, and we are in div3b with POTZW, cH, ->-, MC, HaiL, z3, WR, XTC, and nexus. I’ve heard of POTZW and one or 2 others, but I have never played in a tdm against any of them (we got a default over HaiL in Savage). as long as theres no l33t ninja clan among them, I’m confident that we can win the division.