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Round-up of the first 10 days 050317
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In Division 6, we?ve seen very few games so far. Team Toholampi of Finland have played twice in 6a and have won both games 2-0, with EGDA and Korea Team Fighting being their victims in battle.
Last night 6a lost one of its teams to inactivity - JohnBauer Quakers.
In 6b the Conquistadores of Talivanes sit behind fellow-Iberians Rebellion of Thunder. RoT beat the German team WoB 2-0, and Talivanes won against the Norwegian team Pursuit of Perfection by the same margin.
Division 5 has been a little more active. For example, in division 5a, only bosams are yet to play a game. Euro-mix Knockback are sitting pretty atop the table, having won both their games with comfortable margins. Jagarna and Samojedit have also made winning starts although both are separated from the leaders by the Fins from Clan QuadKillers. CQK are the most active team here, having played 3 matches. Unfortunately they have lost 2 of them, which could hurt them come the end of season shake-up.
Sympozium have dropped out of the league this week.
In 5b, the Portuguese team defs lead the way, having won both of their games quite comfortably. Danube and WAR have also won their first games, albeit only the one each. Demolition Crew sit in 2nd but have looked vulnerable in their games so far. It would be a surprise to see them still there in 6 weeks? time.
SmackThatAss are yet to play, but keep an eye on them. They are a good tip to win the conference so don?t rule out a late start by them.
Division 4 has also lost teams already. Both Clan Cube Squad and Nobody?s Bitch have been killed off by inactivity before even firing a rocket in anger.
4a has had reasonable activity thus far, but there are a few too many teams with 0 games played. Clan metally troopers are looking strong, having beaten Buff and PHC with relative ease. It?s tough to tell who will be up there at the end and it?s all still up in the air at this stage. Watch out for the POFFers; they lost to megamen but are more than capable of beating the other teams in the division and climbing the table.
In 4b, it looks like Fjortiz and Da Quaking Manjakks will be the teams to beat. Fjortiz have an impressive frag difference of almost +500 from just 2 games despite losing a map against Quakeworld Corporation. QWC?s DM2 game looks strong enough to keep them up there throughout the season, but two clans with a great chance of beating them are yet to display their skills: Ax3 and Jokkmokk. XZ and The Boss had tough times in their opening games and will hope for an up-turn in fortunes in the coming weeks.
Every ?a? conference has lost a team already this season, and Division 3 is no different. The Axemen retired due to lack of players earlier this week, leaving 3a with 8 teams.
Dybbuk and Death Dealers lead the way with 2 wins out of 2 but Bad luck troopers look likely to be hot on their heals all the way through the eseason. BLT only just lost to D2 and that result could have a big bearing on the end of season positions. 2 clans likely to have a shout at a playoff spot, Klatch and ChopstickNinjas, are yet to play a game and so Just for fun sit in 4th despite having lost both matches. It looks like the season will be a tough one for Fraggers United who have lost 2 out of 2.
3b is the most inactive division outside of the top and bottom, with just 2 matches being played. Both of these involved my own clan, Osams. Last Sunday we lost 2-1 to Thangorodrim and then won 2-1 against Luis. We were pretty disappointed to lose the first match but I?m confident we can win enough games in the rest of the season to get into the playoffs.
Every NQR season sees its fair share of dramas, and it looks like Division 2 will be the prime setting this time around. Following the debate and discussions over the size of the division in the week leading upto kick-off, this division has become the most active in the league. However, this hasn?t stopped controversy from flirting with the likes of Paranoia, who had 2 poitns deducted after refusing to play their opponent?s map choice of CMT3.
Suddendeath lead the way, having played 4 games and lost 1 (MNY beat them 2-1 whilst SD had a weakened side). MNY are the most active team with 5 games played and sit in 2nd place, but the fact that they have already lost twice indicates they will slip down the table as more teams play games.
Only 2 teams have 100% records so far; HPR and the impressive-looking Death Team. The Russians of DT dispatched with MNY easily and beat their countrymen 4Honor last night to cement their good start to the season.
SSC have lost 3 out of 3 but have played 3 of the top sides so far; they would expect to improve against the other mid-lower table teams in the coming weeks.
Postal Justice, many people?s tip for the title, slipped up by losing against last season?s runners-up, Veterans but made up for it by easing past Boefje. All in all, this division looks very tight and there have been relatively few ?big? wins so far. The clan that finishes 1st in this division is likely to have lost at least once during the regular season.
NQR?s showcase division, Division 1, has been as idle as Division 3b and Division 6a/b so far. Just 2 games have been played, both being contested by KOFF. Gamer?s boys lost both of these match-ups (vs CMF and LegeArtis), but it?s hard to gauge anything about these clans? abilities due to KOFF?s lag problems which meant they played both games with ? of their players on 90ms and above. LA, AntiQuad, Fragomatic, Game Over, Insanity and Slackers have all been active in the last few days, but this means nothing if no NQR games are played. So please, put down your prac sticks and drum up some NQR action!
There?s one other piece of semi-interesting news in division 1; Riker has upped sticks from LA and joined Griffins Tappra Gossar. He tried to join division 2?s Postal Justice but the move was blocked by the admins and so it seems he is joining his fellow WoW addicts in GTG for this season. All this means that GTG?s best side looks something like Mrlame, Griffin, Riker & Ermac/Dakoth. If GTG get their practice boots on then it could make the division even more interesting than it has already promised to be?
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| PIT - .*** |
050317 @ 15:46:42 |
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great as always! |
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| Rage - .*** |
050317 @ 16:31:14 |
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goood
and yay riker to gtg ! |
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| mushi - .*** |
050317 @ 17:20:27 |
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nice. keep it up! |
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| mushi - .*** |
050317 @ 17:29:16 |
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team ROT is clearly on wrong division (6b) which is a shame, but the difficulty
of putting everyone in the right division is understandable.
Every seasons
there are "less known" clans that join the league. IMHO, to try to resolve this,
b4 the season starts, a) admins should make online the teams that dont know for
sure what div they are, OR b) players who have the knowledge of "unknown"
clan/community should be encouraged to vote or mail the admins regarding the
clans division.
PS- is there a need to extend the crew to do simple
tasks as uploading the demos or writing reports ? (i love cmf ones, not the
usual x takes 1st quad, y takes second..etc) |
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| xhrl - .*** |
050317 @ 19:22:25 |
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well it is impossible to get an objective view of guessed-at performance. and we
do try to get a decent idea of a clan's talent level prior to placing to it in a
division. indeed often there is disagreement among the admin crew on certain
placements, but the compromises have to be made. such is life, such is a league,
such is nqr. cmf do fine reports, but the most thorough division 1 game reports
are perhaps done by gtg, though the funniest are without a doubt by cmf, aka
'the men without a curse' :) |
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yep mushi, i?ve said it some days ago : ROT = wrong division! |
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| gaz - .*** |
050317 @ 20:14:03 |
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But did anyone say anything to us BEFORE the season?
It's very easy to
say these things when you have 20-20 hindsight. |
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gaz : we ( mushi and i ) know them because they are Pt players like us.
They
play together for a long time and have players with very good team and duel
skills.
But they still have to prove it in competition, as they don?t
officially compete for a while... |
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| riker - .*** |
050317 @ 21:14:53 |
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lol tried to join PE ;) |
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Some more news: Campbusters has joined NQR in division 1. We tried to join
division 2 (Where I personally think, at least me, belongs) but the NQR Crew
doesn't want us to. It's up to my mates (and me) to prove me wrong. Perhaps we
can even win some fights. Happy fraggin'!. In 22 days I AM FREE FROM THIS
FREAKING ARMY THING. |
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didn't want us to.* |
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| znappe - .*** |
050317 @ 23:35:49 |
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.... "refusing" .. ok, it's nice to see that you still got your facts straight
gaz. |
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| niomic - .*** |
050318 @ 07:32:43 |
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I've got to say that making the wrong decision concerning the Para vs SSC one
map WO was just a human error, but sticking to that decision and not having the
balls to admit that you clearly read the situation wrong is beyond my
comprehension.
And even after all the evidence is out, you have the
audacity to smear Paranoia's reputation in this round-up for something they
clearly did not do!
I know the guys at Para are a handful to deal with
and they truly have their bad moments when it comes to communication, but
atleast this time their whine was well justified to say the
least.
<3 to paralaiset, ei auta vine ku on adminilainen vastassa,
onnee teille *pus* |
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| mate - .*** |
050318 @ 12:40:09 |
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aq is waiting for new client. we will start playing our games if it wont come
soon.
hv |
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| gaz - .*** |
050318 @ 13:34:49 |
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niomic: *yawn* |
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| ZNAPPE - .*** |
050318 @ 14:36:15 |
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niomic \o/ |
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| ananen - .*** |
050318 @ 15:00:25 |
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and im very surprised that you really write that shit there? so many ppl read
this. and you got there like REFUSE to play SSCs maps? WTF IS THIS? wake up now
gay whoever wrote this. We just skipped the level due the lack of time. NOT
REFUSED to play cause it was cmt3. So lol hope you even fix that shit. |
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| ananen - .*** |
050318 @ 15:01:49 |
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niomic <3 <3 |
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| znappe - .*** |
050318 @ 15:13:12 |
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ye because the plan was that we played dm3 first. and if we would win we would
leave wo on their map so we could finnish the game, but if we would have lossed
dm3 we WOULD have played cmt3 to atleast be able to get one point before ana had
to go... so this had nothing to do with cmt3.. just lack of time. but now it
turned out good for us at dm3 so therefor this decision was made.. no hard
feelings between us and ssc... but obviously from the crew? :< |
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| gaz - .*** |
050318 @ 15:30:16 |
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If you don't have time, play it another time then? Or even play first 2 maps and
play decider another day. Nothing wrong with that. |
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| ananen - .*** |
050318 @ 15:34:55 |
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yes we are gonna do that in future! cant change that now. but stop ur BS about
us refusing to play the map cause its cmt3.
its so fuckin BS mofo |
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| xterm - .*** |
050318 @ 23:18:16 |
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Two-point-penalty for team paranoia is in my opinion a wrong decision. First of
all, as someone said, there is nothing mentioned in the rules about consequences
by giving w.o. on a map. Also, it should in my eyes be seen as a tactical
approach if team1 decides to give team2 the win on a map - regardless of reason
or the effects.
I mean, why oppose? team2 will win the map just as much as
if it was played. Further more, it appears that in this particular case paranoia
had to give w.o. on it for a reason, which really should had been taken into
account before making a decision.
Also, the fact that team1 in this case
happens to be paranoia didn't really "delay the decision" =) Nah, this is just
sooo NQR.. |
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| knast - .*** |
050318 @ 23:21:28 |
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we just will do our job:)
and we will beat dqm!!!!!!!
:=) |
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| Icce - .*** |
050319 @ 10:54:03 |
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"znappe - 213.114.186.119 2005-03-16 21:06:46
hehe.... why waste 20
minutes loosing on a worthless map :D it was better going straight to the
decider in our opinion :D"
Above is the main factor behind that WO.
Nothing mentioned there after the game that Para was in a hurry or something
else. To prevent this kinda actions in the future we acted fast and strong. And
xterm, the clan that won?t have the possibility to play their map normally
suffers real bad in fragstats. So it's not correct when you say "team2 will win
the map just as much as if it was played" This situation would never occured at
all if just one player in Paranoia had contacted crew in the first place. But
you didn't, and we know the rest..blaming us for this and that, instead of
taking responsibility as grown-up's from the start. |
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| ananen - .*** |
050319 @ 13:54:33 |
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why try to save ur face now icce? u wrote so bs that no1 takes it. You just make
a fuckin cs decision and any1 of you dont have the baLLS to fix it. |
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| ajkon - .*** |
050319 @ 15:37:47 |
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this is what happens with a znappe in the clan, especially now without walla by
his side, he is confused :E |
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| Icce - .*** |
050319 @ 17:39:03 |
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Im not trying to save faces here. Your clanmate?s big mouth clearly spoke what
was going on in his sentence, which speaks for itself. Do you really believe
you guys have whole community behind you or what? We made the absolute right
decision..and your not so intelligent response make us even more certain what ?s
really happened. And oh..we got the balls to not "fix it", the way you want it. |
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| Diki - .*** |
050319 @ 19:52:56 |
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Ye we can start playing now... hurray new fuh :) |
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| Icce - .*** |
050319 @ 19:59:02 |
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Yeah Diki you sure can..the new build actually feels a bit smoother here also.
Like it =) |
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| niomic - .*** |
050319 @ 20:14:35 |
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Eventhough I agree with Icce on the subject of fragrank and that point should be
taken into account as far as the general rule for WO goes.
But I also
disagree in two ways: NQR should not be about fragrank, it should be about map
wins that count for the TEAM. But it is just to say that ppl might want to abuse
this WO tactic to drop players fragrank if it were allowed as such.
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other problem is that the argument for fragrank is a blatant non-issue
concerning the game at hand since SSC clearly agreed to it, knowing they would
not get any frags (and I think they can live with it just fine).
You've
made your decision and I will respect your right to stand by it. I also hope
that Para doesn't get too offended by this incident to stop participating. |
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| ananen - .*** |
050320 @ 18:03:52 |
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hajottii jo nio :E
saa n?h? pelataaks en?? ku hurreikaa n?yt? liiemmi
kiinnostavan ;E |
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| gaz - .*** |
050321 @ 20:59:17 |
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niomic when he speaks of fragrank I think he's more referring to the concept of
frag difference, which is one of the separators when teams are level on
points... |
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| znappe - .*** |
050322 @ 04:47:29 |
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lol icce... look at the ":D" .. you have no sense og humour at all? how serious
was that?.. since u guys hadn't start bitching yet we all thought it was ok with
the wo, so why not make a tb3-joke (since eveyone know that i prefer tb3?).. but
i guess u r too much of a dinosaur to get that :< sad... again... |
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| lavos - .*** |
050322 @ 11:54:33 |
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niomic: ooks palannu jenkeist vai vaikutaks sielt? k?sin :D
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| reka - .*** |
050322 @ 12:21:35 |
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gaz u suck |
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