We got a new member this week - sk (abbreviated from Stormkeep) joined us for CTF when -Sw- folded, and since he’s not in any BW TDM clan, hes playing for us in the BWDML as well. He got to show off his skills against n2s in week2 of the BWDML, in two close games. sk, Jc, Spoonman and dest played for us. Jc was on a very dodgy BT connection, getting a lot of lag and disconnected a couple of times in each game. We ended up losing DM14 by 30 frags, but CPM4 was much closer (very tense for me refreshing gamespy…) We never lost the lead on CPM4, always 3 or 4 frags ahead, and ended up winning 81-79.

Heres the screenshots: DM14TMP and CPM4. Jc will be going on holidays next week, so we’ll be missing our star player for some tough games, but now Vin has ISDN so hopefully that will compensate for it to some extent at least

We had our first BWCTFL game tonight against XPD (postponed the game against Ronins). There was a bit of a mixup with times, with our TDM at 10pm, and our CTF at 9, and we were late getting to the server, and had a makeshift team, with quozl playing q3 for the first time in about 8 months, Spoonman playing his second game in 4 months or so, and Lorcan just getting back into the swing of things after 5 years on a modem :). Thanks a lot to XPD for being so patient and never complained about us being late. We still managed to put up a credible performance, well played to everyone, and if we had more time to develop our teamplay we could have won. It finished 0-3 on q3ctf2 and 3-5 on q3wctf2… although I’m not sure about the ctf2 result as XPD capped right after the timelimit hit, and this score did not show up on the scorebot on IRC, nor did it show on gamespy, but it is on the screenshot, so I’m not sure what happens there. I still can’t find my password to update the f2s site, so I can’t update members and results page yet, but you can look at screenshots here: ctf2 and wctf2.

Lorcan got ISDN last Tuesday, a nice 40 ping to Vishnu. Vincent should have it next week so he can see how well he can adapt his QW teamplay to Q3. BWDML was unusual this week, the worst week we have ever experienced in the league. We played the Croatian clan CaF who had good pings but jerked all over the place and were impossible to it (I wasn’t on the server, this is what I was told). They’re a really good team, and we got heavily beaten on dm6.

For the second map, CaF’s pings went bad… like 250 - 800. After switching servers and waiting over 20mins for their pings to settle, we had to leave the server (had better things to do). The admin was terrible, I can understand that he wanted to give CaF a chance but he went about it the wrong way entirely, being rude to FH, acting like it was our fault when he was just wasting everyones time since it was clear that their pings were not improving. The dm7 game will be played later in the season.