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Clanbase Scandinavia vs our old enemy from the LM-world, Clan RoX! Only one map played, de_nuke, ending to our 16-4 victory. Screenshot: de_nuke.
Clanbase Finland fight against Electro Magnetic Impulse. Loss in both maps, de_nuke and de_aztec, making the total score of 17 - 23 to EMI. Screenshots: de_nuke and de_aztec.
Clanbase Finland fight against Genocide. Maps de_dust and de_nuke. Kiukku loses both making total score of 15 - 25 to Genocide. Screenshots: de_dust and de_nuke.
ClanBase-fight against GaB's. Third game in ClanBase, and third win too. Woohoo! Kiukku wins cs_siege 16 to 4 and after that de_nuke 15 to 5, gaining total victory of 31 to 9! Screenshots: cs_siege and de_nuke.
First official match versus PM, and a victory again :D Kiukku wins both de_nuke and cs_italy, getting a total win of 28 to 12. Over 50 ClanBase points gained. Screenshots: de_nuke and cs_italy.
Well. Our first game in the Finnish ladder. Or actually our first game in the ClanBase. Heck, it was our first official CS-game ever. And .. we won! 8) Started with a little nervousness on both maps, but ended winning de_nuke 17-3 and after that de_dust 11-9 after getting our arses kicked pretty bad as Terrorists. Heh. I must say it was a really pleasant experience playing this game. Lots of thanks to our opponents, ERASER, they were really cool and the game was good! Thank you. The pings at Raketti server were pretty bad, but it was so for both teams. Probably server being too weak to run 6vs6 game properly. Screenshots: de_nuke and de_dust. In Clanbase it seems so that it's the scores of both maps added together to find the winner. So these 2 maps will be treated as one game only in the GameLister.
Two more wins for our glorious team. PM dies twice, this time in maps cs_italy and de_nuke! Screenshots(1,2).
Clan Kiukku grabs its first ever victory against clan PM! Woohoo. Nice going there fellas! Screenshot.
Clan Kiukku welcomes a new member: BigSwede from ... uhm, well. guess :D .
We started our CS career by scrimmaging a clan from Norway, UmC. Sorry that it took this long to write this, but I was really busy and I didnt know how I should report CS matches yet. Anyways. They knew what to do in a match, we didn't.. so. the result was that we got our arses kicked pretty bad 8) hihii. Screenshot. No stats ...anyone know a good stats proggie for CS??
Clan Kiukku welcomes a new member: Pehmo from Finland.
Our new URL is: http://www.kiukku.org Please update your links/bookmarks. Also we will be getting aliases to our other services, but they will be announced later.
Clan Kiukku will start playing Counter-Strike, a Half-Life mod. We have now played for almost a week with our own names at public servers and we can say it sure is a phun game! 8) Expect a CS-server appear in your favorite gaming machine in the near future. We will probably start clanbusiness in CS after the LMCTF-LAN at Stockholm is over and we have converted enough of our players into believers ;)
2 maps versus Men In Guns 2. Not much to tell there, we started 50min late because we couldn't find a 4th player. And when we finally played, we had 3 lagged guys and one normal (hi Tukai!). Second map we had the same plus one drunk player ;) (hi Mopar!).. so. I wasn't really expecting to win these games. And we didn't. But it was kinda fun anyways. Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
Another 2 maps against RUKU. They sure had found some skill during the 2 weeks and gave us a good run. But not enough 8) 2 wins for Kiukku. Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
Kiukku plays against Team21 again. Yeah, these guys really are a fun sport 8) And this time even better since we won both maps clearly. 4vs4 rocks ;) Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
2 maps against RUKU, a new Finnish clan. Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
Kiukku plays 2 maps against clan strid, one away and one home. Loss in the awaygame and victory in the homegame. Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
3 maps against NBZ again. Heh these guys sure are anxious for that first win ;) well. didn't happen this time. First map we had some problems but the 2 next one went pretty smooth. The second map was forfeited at 8min, that's why the strange screenshot. Screenshots(1,2,3) and Stats(1,2,3).
Two maps against Team21 again. One win, one loss. Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
RoX wanted to have some again, and we gave it to them 8) 2 maps, 2 victories. Sorry about the server though (We couldnt find a Swedish server that was working correctly ATM. Maybe next time you guys should reserve one beforehand if you insist playing on Sweden?). Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
Kiukku plays 2 maps against Neckbenderz, winning both after a good struggle. Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
3 games against Warriors of Gehenna. 2 of them in very strange maps 8) 3 victories anyways. Screenshots(1,2,3) and Stats(1,2,3).
Scrimm against ACE boys, 2 games, 2 wins. Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
2 maps against BIA. One great victory and one narrow defeat, not bad. Scores 6-0 and 1-3. Still the trend with less caps per game goes on. Check the averages from our games page if you don't believe 8). Screenshots(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
4 (yes, four!) maps against Team21: 2-2, 1-0, 3-4, 1-3. Sigh. Doesn't anyone else think that this new "the less caps the better" trend is boring? 8( I mean.. 1-0??? c'mon!! urrgh. this is supposed to be a fun and _fast_ game, not soccer ;) hehe. Anyways, good games. Screenshots(1,2,3,4) and Stats(1,2,3,4).
Kiukku plays Clan THOR in 2 maps, scores 2-0 and 0-1. Boring? Probably. I'm kinda worried about the direction these matches are going to, less and less caps all the time 8( wonder when people get bored and leave? hope not... Screenshot(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
Kiukku plays Neckbenderz in 2 LM-CTF maps and wins both. Screenshot(1,2) and Stats(1,2). (Yea, stupid IDDA counted that second one wrong..)
A new Scandinavian Tournament is here! Kiukku hosts you a very special event, The Sixpack! The Sixpack is a 3vs3 tournament. Read more and register here.
Kiukku plays Team 21 in two maps and wins both. With a pretty narrow margin though. Obviously Team21 has improved their playing quite a lot since the last time. Screenshot(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
Yea baby! Kiukku plays it's very first UT CTF scrimmage against NBZ, and grabs two victories out of two! Yihaa. We are now officially undefeated in UT ;) Expect more games in this field in the future. Screenshot(1,2).
Kiukku plays 2 maps with THOR. It didn't go very well for us, guess the long break meant something too ;). Screenshot(1,2) and Stats(1,2).
Clan Kiukku welcomes the following new members: Seka, Jore, Pepper and Falcon.
We are back. Starting from now, you can consider us belonging to the LM community again. Tremble with fear you mortal clans! 8) Incoming news attack!: 1) Unreal Tournament: This game seems to rule! So, we will start playing it as a clan too. Expect first test-match soonish 8) 2) Quake 3 Arena: We won't play it as long as there is no good CTF version available. Maybe that will change soon, maybe not, can't know yet. 3) New Members: We have recruited a couple of new LM-playing members. Expect an announcement on this any moment now. And a little uplifter for the end. We got lots of good positions on QBitches LM season voting for the year 1999. Saxit actually won the Best HPW category with 19 votes when the next guy had 5! Shite 8) Does that guy rule or what? He must have gotten quite a good reputation for playing that one Ragnarok2 game with 400 pign and capping couple of times when Batstone himself was reffing the game, hihi ;). We got other good positions too. The following things got a Bronze metal in the votings: Our WWW-site, Knucklebone server, me as a referee and Foursome 2 as a tournament. Look out for RLC in the best clan category and Karpat in the best LPB category too. Pretty good going there too!
Clan Kiukku celebrates its 100th Victory in match against Team 21 in map lmctf22! These 100 wins are the results of 141 clangames. I strongly believe that there is no other clan in LMCTF reaching these numbers. Feel free to prove me wrong 8). Of these 100 victories, 56 are from scrimmages and 44 from tournament games. 19 of the wins are from overseas games (USA-based tournaments). Our very first victory was our first clangame in OGL Ladder against PyA in July 1998, almost 1.5 years ago. Long road eh?
Kiukku plays 2x20min with Team 21 with revenge in mind because of that WG-loss ;). Well, we played better and won both. Not very clearly though. These guys sure have improved their skill level. Or we lost ours? dunno. Anyways, they gave us good resistance. Screenshot(1,2) and GibStats(1,2).
Kiukku has decided to drop the Wargrounds tournament. The reason is that we felt that we had already lost our chances because of lack of active players and thus playing became meaningless since we can't compete for the championship anymore. So we leave the battlefields for the 3 clans that still compete and accept our loss. We were defeated, it's simple as that 8(. This thing holds absolutely NO allying or other teaming up business in it. RLC got our 5 maps because they asked for them and Kenny had failed to make a ruling against consecutive challenging, so we used it. Last time I tried to ask a week ago if it's illegal or not (we already knew we were going to leave the tourney pretty soon) and he didn't say anything so we assumed it was perfectly ok and used it. So, I guess this puts us kinda on a training break now. We will be back meaner than ever at the Year 2000 when lots of us have better connections! Beware 8). We will arrange scrimmages in this time, hopefully lots of them, for training purposes.
Today I released my GameLister which lists our games in way too many categories ;) go check it out, it's way cool! hehee. "games" link in the sidebar. There's the options 8) Now all the games are loaded in "database" and I can do more queries too so if you have something useful in mind, let me know 8)
Another game in Wargrounds (sigh), against RoX. They challenged us on our favorite, lmctf10, and got their arses kicked 8). Well done Kiukkuguys! A clear win for us. Screenshot and GibStats.
After losing again as HPW we wanted to play someone as LPB. THOR was the first one to say yes 8) so we played 2 maps with them and let them feel our wrath ;) hehe. Screenshot(1,2) and GibStats(1,2).
Our last regular season game in Ragnarok 2 against the Doom Troopers, who compete seriously for the championship. Well, you guessed it, they won ;). not really that much though. The game was interruped by fraglimit and they had 8-0 lead so we decided we got the point already hoho. Oh, have to whine a bit, about the ping difference. They were all LPB 8( they had one guy with equal ping there to us (200) but they refused to use him. Go figure. Need I say more? Winning over fairplay, sigh. Screenshot and GibStats.
Another game in Wargrounds against MIG2. It was pretty much even till the 15 minute mark, then they managed to get the edge and capped 2 times and won. Doh. Screenshot and GibStats.
Ragnarok 2 against MD. Now this was really a good game! We actually had a chance to win it, which I never expected. It was 3-3 before they started to outrun us 8( ah well. Extremely gg anyways. You all whiners out there who whine if your pings happen to be 20 higher than usual, check the ping difference in this match. This is how real men do it, hoho ;). Screenshot and GibStats.
Kiukku and MIG2 battled over the control of Wargrounds map in Wargrounds tournament thus ofc the most important one ;) and doh. They managed to grab it from us. We have defended it succesfully I think like 4-5 times and now we lost it, sigh. 8(. Screenshot and GibStats.
Wargrounds with RoX! This was actually our 14th match against them, hoho. Can't wait to see the stats of those games when I find the time to finish my GameLister. Anyways. They won. Aergh. Map 14, so pretty much DM. It was really even and good game, even the frags in game are tied 115-115, resulting in their 4-5 victory. Dooh. Screenshot and GibStats.
Ragnarok2 vs Clan 420. These guys deserve somekind of fairness award. After seeing that they are LPB and we are HPW, they offered to play half of the game in our server which made us LPB and them HPW. Really great sportsmanship guys! And they won too. Eargh 8) after winning their side with over 10 caps, they forced us to try the same and it didn't work that well. We tried to run like hell and it resulted us making too much mistakes and them being able to stall and even cap. So, they win in total score 13-5. Screenshot(1,2) and GibStats(1,2).
Ragnarok2 against Pathetic Completely Harmless. Well. They were as good as PTH 8) and kicked our arses. Luckily they didn't want to start running caps but instead started fighting with us, which made the game really fun even though we ofc lost like pigs 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
Wargrounds vs MIG2, map lmctf02, Saxit's request. Kiukku wins 3-2 after controlling the game very good for first 15min and then almost losing, doh 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
2-map scrimmage against BIA. First map, we played bad, they played good, they won. Second map, we played bad, they played bad, we won. So we played bad in both maps.. SIGH. We need to train, or something 8) When was our last training? I think it was last winter, eheh.. doh 8). Maybe I'll start setupping a lots more scrimmages after our "match rush" is over (Wargrounds and Ragnarok2). Screenshot(1,2) and GibStats(1,2).
R.D was unhappy because last time they had to play our challenge at our server. So we agreed that if they challenge us, we play at their server. And now they did. The map was the same than last time, lmctf26. And what a game it was! 8) Kiukku did a quick cap in the beginning and everything looked good. Then they managed to snatch our flag away and resulted in flagswap situation, which lasted about 17 minutes. About 10 seconds before the end they killed our FC and like 2 secs to go they capped and made it 1-1 and won by points! ararerhgehrgh! pfft. whine! 8) hehe. Screenshot and GibStats.
Ragnarok 2 match against PTH which is currenly one of the top clans in North America. I was hoping to give them a good run 8) But no, it was really bad day in the overseas connection, sigh. Practically half of our players were lagged out all the game. I tried to play for a short while too but had 300 ping, eheh. Well, they did a nice gesture and played 4vs5 for the rest of the game, but it didn't really help us any, since they ofc had all the techs and armors already. And our lag didn't ease up. I was observing and they did some really nice teamplay tricks, and to tell you the truth, I don't believe we could have won them without lag either. But atleast we could have given them better fight which we now couldn't. They eased up after midgame (damn 25 minutes game! huh, whoever's idea is that long game?), and let us have one too to make us happy ;) hehe. Rule Number One eh? 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
Well, another match against RLC, this time it was our challenge, and map lmctf04. I had really high hopes about this, but we lost it. Sigh 8(. Well, they challenged us and lost, and we challenged them and lost, so pretty much no good situation for both sides. Too bad. The game itself? Well, I lagged again, sigh. I hate my network 8(. And I hate the artifact code hehe. Orchid was right, Shield and Damage spawn to red side, which they did this time too. And RLC got both of them, which made our game start REALLY hard, allowing them to score easy 3-4 caps before we got into the game. Then we managed to make it 6-5 thx to our flagrunners, but then they did a very good team attack, recovered the artis and took couple of caps and won. Waah. We suck ;) Screenshot and GibStats.
Kiukku scrimmed NBZ in 2 maps, their new members wanted to kill us 8) Well. Kiukku won both. Not very much though so maybe the new NBZ guys have hope ;) Screenshot(1,2) and GibStats(1,2).
Kiukku continues victorious in Wargrounds. This time the RLC biatches got spanked 8) A tight game, with them having very good start and us having very good end, resulting in our 4-3 victory. A huge banana up to the ones arse who chose the map. pfft. 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
Our second encounter with the German clan, NRG, and our second victory aswell. This time we grabbed map lmctf10 in Wargrounds tournament. Wohoo. One of my favorite maps! 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
Team 21 managed to do it at last, to win us in a match 8) Congratulations to them. And warning to other clans, DON'T play that map, it totally sucks! (xmap7). It bugs everywhere, people spawn nowhere else than in enemy base (this time it was us, last time our opponent).You'll get nothing but a headache from that map ;) For the game itself? Well, my mistake. I underestimated them. Sorry to both teams about that. Won't happen next time! Screenshot and GibStats.
Well, we finally faced the Dogz and their RailGods. We had met them once before but then they were just starting their LM career and lost like pigs 8). I'm happy to tell you that this time it didn't go much better for them ;) A good victory for us. But not as great as it could be, since because of their server problems they had to give their home advantage away and play at our server. So basically it turned to our homegame and we had no problems winning it. Thus it yet is not clear which team is better, since teams are supposed to win their homegames, right? 8) To really say we are better we need to make them bite the dust on their home too, which ofc is gonna happen next time! ;). Anyways, RD died horribly 8). Screenshot and GibStats. Special awards go to Super-Ebola for 22 SSG kills and Hyper-joghe for 14 Hyperlagger kills!
Team 21 in Wargrounds, map 20. When do people learn we're not gonna give that map away?? 8). Screenshot and GibStats.
What a busy month for us! Lots of games 8). And the last one was Wargrounds against strid. No question about winner there either, but they fought better than I expected. So they have hope! Good luck for you in the future strid! Screenshot and GibStats.
Wargrounds against Clan RoX. We took our revenge! After losing bad last time, we kicked their arses 12-1 which makes us happy again 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
Ragnarok 2 week 3 match against UgA. Clear victory for Kiukku and MVP offence for me! Whoa! 8). Maybe I should reconsider my position, grin ;) Screenshot and GibStats.
Again Wargrounds! Isn't this ever gonna end? grin ;). Well. TCW challenged us on lmctf20. They played good, we played bad. However, we still won 8) but not that much really. A close one, sheesh 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
Another Wargrounds game. This time against WOG. For once the RLD did not lag for us! Whee 8) but otherwise the game was really weird. the map (xmap7) sure is full of bugs, eeh 8) darn, 100sec quadguys running around, and enemies spawning into our base constantly. Or what do you say when defender gets 50 kills in 20 min? eeh, weirdo 8) Oh, not counting that our players spawned inside each other 8) hohoo. Well, victory for us anyways. Two screenshot since dumb referee forgot to take the fraglimit off (hi me!) (1,2) and GibStats.
After learning that our game vs WOG was cancelled, we decided to find a partner for a scrimm. BIA agreed. So we played them, 2x20min. At the first map they really gave us some resistance, led by their new starplayer, Grejt, but in the second map we had our revenge and crushed them really bad 8) Screenshot(1,2) and GibStats(1,2).
Wargrounds game against our oldest and best enemy, Men In Guns (2). It was our homegame and map 20, and this time we really showed them who can play that map! 8) Thank you guys for making this happen! It was really a blast! The numbers were 8-0, leaving no chance to any speculations at all. I hope our teamplay works this good in the future too, as the Wargrounds tournament is getting more and more exciting now that the Top clans are finally challenging each other after ripping out the poor newbie clans maps ;). Screenshot and GibStats.
Our second Ragnarok 2 fight against The Real Untouchables. I couldn't be there myself but looking at the score, 8-6 I think it was a very good game 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
Wargrounds game against The Can Warriors. Clear victory for Kiukku, thx to Saxit. We SLPB:s lagged like shite but Saxit did all the work and did it well ;) Screenshot and GibStats.
The Wargrounds continues, and is starting to look good. Finally, the top teams are challenging each other. A lot. 8) A german top clan challenged us on map 20, biiig mistake ;) We found extremely good german server to play on, and took a clear victory. The game was played in 2 parts, due to connection problems during the first one. They were fair enough to let us continue the game later (seems like links to Germany lags always before 22 cet? remember that, you other clans out there!). Kiukku showed some really good teamplay, thanx guys! Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
Our first match in the Ragnarok 2. We had 7 players and they 3 of which 2 could play, uh oh 8). But hey, we all are in this for fun, right? so, we played 2vs2. And won. Wohoo! 8). First time ever we won HeyMOE btw, hee. Screenshot and Gibstats.
Uh oh. This isn't going very well. And I hate my connection. Damnit, I'd trade this 100mbit to ISDN any day, I'm getting frustrated with my ping problems 8(. Ah. Shit happens, aye? The game itself was hmm, how I'd say it, interesting ;) We played like shit and lost it. Simple as that. Can't even fully blame the lag, or any of the conditions (except that Hearse was lagged out and I hit walls more than enemies because of PL, but, hehe). Want my real opinion about this? Here goes: It was a deathmatch game in an unknown environment which no-one really knew (expect those damn Q1 cheaters who had played it there, hehe), and RoX managed to handle this situation better and thus deserved their victory. But I wouldn't really call that a CTF game, hehe 8). I spent most of my time looking for a weapon to use, after being killed by quad (which I was supposed to guard but didn't find most of the time, grin), and got shot in the back so that I didn't know where it came from 8). Not considering all the missing intellectual and tactical elements and the fact that we lost, it still was pretty fun I'd say 8) Screenshot and Gibstats.
A new try in the failed Kiukku vs RLC in Wargrounds, map 01. This time it went well, absolutely no problems at all. Except some problems in skill of the Kiukku-defenders. oops ;). The match did not go very well for us, uh-huh ;) Resulting in a clear 2-6 loss. I'd rather not show the stats of this game, they are a bit embarrasing to me ;) but anyways, here we go: Screenshot and GibStats.
Foursome 2 pages are now opened and rules released. You can start registrating! Read the rules first, and especially read what information you need to submit for the registration!! Pages here.
Today I made a MapPak which contains TombMaps, CTF-Maps and XMaps. This is mainly because of the Wargrounds tournament. And done to ease your job in finding & downloading the maps. And saving valuable PAK slots ;). You can find the Pak at server/files section. Expect these maps to run more or less in all the servers, so better have them.
Our second (official) match at the Wargrounds tournament. This time it was RoXers time to surrender one map to us :). This puts us into leading position in the whole tournament with 4 maps. Screenshot and Gibstats.
The Kiukkumachine has now been moved from Axeli's place to Tukai's place, in seek for a juicier network. We believe that this new location, which is MUCH closer to the backbone, and is guaranteed 100mbit/sec, will reduce the lag. Anyways, expect some minor DNS problems and other short breaks during the last couple of days, we need to fix things up. I'm waiting for your lag reports 8) (What it should help, is the long discussed "lag near the server"-problem, read the BBS for more details if you wish).
Yehaa! The Wargrounds has finally started. As their first move, Clan Kiukku challenged TCW on map 20 (the map Wargrounds itself, hehe), and won it. The game was really laggy for us Funet players, have no idea why. Still we managed to squeeze a 7-1 victory and are happy with it. Screenshot and Gibstats.
Yep, the rumours you have heard are completely true. Kiukku played RLC in 2 maps and lost both. Not counting our lag and other problems, they played good and deserved their victory. Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
Kiukku attended the games in ClanLan99 held in Borensberg/Sweden with 7 players. We played 2 more or less official scrimmages, one against Team 21 and one against AllStar team and won both by 3-0. Screenshot and Gibstats for 21-game and Screenshot and Gibstats for AllStars game.
A new clan in business, R.D, needed to have a skill test. And they sure showed us what they are made of! We won both games but they fought back really hard! Kiukku gives them a very warm welcome to the LM community! We definately need more clans like you. I hope you will abandon 3wave for us,hehe! 8) Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
The WWW-pages for the Finland vs Sweden series is now ready! It contains all the necessary information about the games and the teams. Check it out.
Today, 15.06, KiukkuPak v2.0 is released and it includes the so much asked for ManglerMaps! Download it from the server/files section. Currently maps running at Testserver, but expect them to appear in the public server soonish.
Zero Army had some new guys that wanted to test their skill level against us. They did pretty well, although being CTF guys they obviously need to train grapple attacks more. We had a shutout in every game, that should tell you enough? Heh. Screenshots(1,2,3) and Gibstats(1,2,3).
The Neckbenderz asked us to kill them and we did as requested, grin ;) Screenshot and Gibstats.
Kiukku WWW server now runs Analog to display usage statistics. Updated daily. Follow this link to see it.
A new clan in the Scandinavian LM scene, NightSky Clan decided to have it the hard way. Picking us as the first opponent isn't very common procedure for new clans ;) Well, they did good. They won the other map, pretty clearly actually. After we crushed them on their map they did the same to us in our map, with pretty good tactics and all. Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2). Readers can make their own conclusions about the newbieness of these guys. 8)
A new opponent for us, The Can Warriors. They managed to put up some good resistance, stalling the game in flagswap situations. But Kiukku managed to make 2 shutouts anyways, but good try there TCW! Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
And once again a no-setupper! Hehe, these are cool. THOR managed to give us some good resistance in this. They did as they promised last time, got some captures in both maps 8) Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
Well, since MIG started whining, I feel like I have to contribute a bit. First. We offered them a chance to play at some other server after the NBZ crashed, and they refused. Because they wanted to get a better team for the next map? That I do not know and I'm not going to accuse them of that, some might, but I won't. The no-show 2 days later was clearly our fault, no question about that. Second, I always report maps as different games. I don't add scores of scrimmages. You can check the games page, I have ALWAYS done so, and I won't change it. So Kiukku won one map. If MIG wins the second, it doesn't change anything in my viewpoint. I do what I always have done with these map scores. Maybe their way is different, adding scores and such. But I don't do that. Period.You can write whatever you want, I still count maps as games. And Kiukku won one game.
Another no-setup scrimm, which are actually pretty cool. Forces us to improvise our systems a bit since we never seem to have a specialized man for each position available, hehe. This time Team 21 wanted to train against us since they are going against MIG the next day 8) well. Screenshot and Gibstats. No IDDA available, the darn program doesn't seem to eat demos made in RoX server, urgh.
Another series inthe famous battle of the titans, Kiukku vs MIG scrimms. We were supposed to play 2x20min again, but server crash made us move the second map to future (this Thursday it seems). So I decided to make a separate reports of them, so here is the first map. Kiukku won! Althought you may not see it so clear from the screenshot (it's bugged), the score was 5-2. We scored all our caps in first 9 minutes, dunno what happened to us after that, damn, we had really nice numbers coming, hehe ;). Anyways. Screenshot and Gibstats. And new experimental IDDA output (Thx to [TCW]Mururoa).
This time we scrimmed THOR, those super-lpb:s from Sweden 8) One game at Kiukkus and one at their server, both were nonlaggy this time, whee 8). The games resulted in 2 clear wins for Kiukkuteam, mostly because of their all-def tactics. People have tried that against us before and it didn't work back then either, hehe. Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
I hear that it was these guys very first Clanfight ever. uh. they sure didn't pick an easy one to start with, aye? 8) well, not much to say there, we weren't too nice to them..sorry 8(. Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
Our next step in the Ascension path. And a loss again. This is starting to look real bad. We definately need some Highping training. Well, you can imagine what going from 20 ping to 170ping does to your playing if you don't practice that at all, ehhm. We ofcourse will finish the Ascension tournament but after that we have to make a decision about these overseas tournaments. If we want to play in those, we will have to train them too, aye? Screenshot and Gibstats.
Not much to say there, our guys wanted to have a game and we gave them one. Opponent just happened to be NBZ. Too bad it was so laggy for everyone (everyone but me actually ofc, heh). Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
The boys from Team 21 also wanted to scrimm us and we put up a show for them too! No more of that not playing 100% stuff on the BBS aye? 8). But they indeed played that 3rd map well! We almost lost it (Thx Tukai!, hehe). Nice going there guys 8). Screenshots(1,2,3) and Gibstats(1,2,3).
We put up a scrimm with Zero Army on a 2 hours notice and to my surprise I was able to find 6 players! Thx guys! 8) We played 2x20min and well, we showed them some 8) Screenshots(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
Quinthor sent me a picture if his car too. Damnit are these guys rich or something???
Janus has purchased a new (well, old) car! We ofc instantly gave it TOKSTV status (The Official Kiukku Staff Transportation Vehicle)! It rocks 8)..Maybe if you are really nice to him he will let you touch it? (the car you sick perverts!) A picture of Janus sitting in his cool car.
Round 10 of Narf! It was the most fun Narf! so far! Too bad it is also the last one 8( It was low-gravity, rocket launcher, altered flag positions, 100 quads in level 10. Rock! Screenshot and Gibstats.
Long time since we last played Ascension. well, now we did 8) against HeyMOE, one of the oldest clans around. and lost again, damnit. This tournament isn't going too well for us, hehe..and our next two opponents are PTH and OS.. 2 more losses coming our way? maybe, hope not 8). Screenshot and Gibstats.
Kiukku has received an upgrade for the server. We are now running Dual P2-350mhz with 256MB memory and 100mbit/sec network (sorry, not dedicated, can't help that). Special thanks for Joghe(Kiukku) for doing all the work and Turun Mikrotukipalvelu for giving assistance. Read the BBS for more information.
Well, another 2 games in the MIG series! This time maps 10 and 14, with 8vs8.. Urgh. I think everyone agrees with me when I say that 8vs8 really isn't that cool in a small map. well, it's deathmatching, nothing else it seems. And we lost deathmatching again 8( ... a lot less in caps than in frags so I guess that means we have good tactics? grin 8) (or good luck?). Anyways, 2 narrow victorys for MIG again, 2-2 and 8-6. Screenshot(1,2) and GibStats(1,2).
Narf! Week 8. This time they had altered the map too, not just weapons..strange teleports everywhere and flags were in strange places etc etc. heh. and SSG:s only (almost). Hmm. Pretty interesting game it was. Maybe I'll release my Narf! demos to public someday, hehe. It's really cool tournament. Well. Anyways, Screenshot and Gibstats.
How many of you out there has been waiting for this for the last 3 months? Raise your hands boys and girls! Yes, we did play, a scrimmage only though. But still. 2 maps, 20 minutes each. And to my great sorrow, I have to announce that MIG has now taken the title of Best Scandinavian Clan. Atleast for a while. We are looking for to gain that title soonish! 8) As for the games, they were extremely GG:s! First we played their map, 12. I was pretty happy when they only won it 3-2 with their last minute cap, thinking that yess, now we can kick their arse on our own map, which was 20. But huh! What the feck! 8) we played like shit and they gave us no chance on that one, winning 2-0..doh! So score Kiukku vs MIG : 0-2 (2-3,0-2). Screenshots(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
Narf! It was BFG-match again 8) With all normal weapons being there too but everyone seemed to use BFG anyways, hehe. Well, from what I hear, this is last of the "normal" Narf! maps.. the last 4 are really strange ones with modified stuff, not just weapons. Can't wait to see them! Anyways, not that it would count, but we won this one.. the server crashed in the middle so 2 screenshots (1,2) and combined Gibstats.
Ascension Round 4 match against Big Sexy Dawgs (or something like that, heh, strange name). Well. They introduced us to a new tactics 8) controlling the water in Map10 and going through it all the time. We were kinda confused. This lead pretty quick to a situation that they all had power screens and we didn't, and yes you guessed it right, pretty soon they had the artifacts too. We never recovered from this... got a few caps in the end but it didn't help anymore. Nice going there BSD!. Screenshot and Gibstats.
Ascension Round 3 (round is a better word for this than week it seems, hehe) match against Loki's Minions (yep, it's them). And what a strange match it was. Can you imagine 5vs5 teams playing 25 minutes on Bloodbath with no caps? Yepp. I couldn't either before this one. It was 0-0 and Kiukku winning by 9 points margin. heehee 8) Screenshot and Gibstats.
Our friends from Sweden, Extremely Evil Elks 8) wanted to scrimm us. Well. We did. Their butts must hurt now, hehe. It was also a first 5.0 match in Kiukku-history 8) not much new there, we didn't use the plasma rifle, hehe. I managed to modify gibstats so that it took the new console output 8) whee. Hey you LM guys better fix that serverside logging soon, hehe. Well, anyways. Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
Narf! week 5 against Clan Valhalla. Good game there, 7vs7 quadfest 8) And our second loss in Narf! tournament, doh 8) Screenshot and GibStats.
RoX wanted to test their skills by challenging us in the OGL European ladder. Well. Don't take it too hard guys, you have many new members and so, they need practice, let this be a lesson to them, hehe 8). Thanx for the fight anyways, you gave us good run for the money! The caps don't tell everything, the game was much more even than it looks like from the caps. We just had superior flagrunners again.. Screenshot and Gibstats.
Week 4 of Narf! on the same day 8) actually this was before the week3 game, an hour before, heh. A 7vs7 BFG-Quad-Hyperblaster fest on Bloodbath. hmm 8) you can imagine the nature of the game... over 400 kills in 25 minutes hehe. And we lost it, darn 8). Screenshot and Gibstats.
Well, week 3 of Narf! .. we played 5 minutes of this a week ago before the server crashed..and continued this week. With no CBD present grin ;) the server admin and bunch of his friends played as CBD, hehe. We might get an award in Narf! for this action hehe 8) atleast we are mentioned in their news page 8) Anyways, we won the game, not that it would matter in that tournament. Screenshot(1,2) and Gibstats(1,2).
Our first match with Team21, a scrimmage of 3 maps. Well. We are LPB and they are HPW..need I say more? They showed some pretty interesting group attack tactics though 8) Screenshot(1,2,3) and Gibstats(1,2,3).
I'm happy to announce that the Narf! game against Clan Saint was the 50th clan fight Kiukku had (scrimmages included)! Time for celebration 8). Of these 50, we have won 36 and lost 14. You can find more detailed statistics in our games page if you so wish.
Our second Ascension match against iPOK and again we had a horrible start! This is becoming a habit in this tourney, damnit. They took 5-0 lead in first 10min or so and then we almost came back, the game ending in 6-5 numbers to them. Argh, argh argh. We really gotta get rid of those bad starts aye? Screenshot and Gibstats.
Uh! It's Clan Saint again opposing us! ;) heh. This time it was Narf! week 2 match, and our first since week1 was cancelled, too bad 8(. Well. It was a cool BFG match with no gravity (which was kinda hard with 250 ping hehe. they had the same ping so no prob there)! I really liked it. And we even won it! woohoo. 3-1 to us 8). Visit the Narf! page to see what's it all about. And ofcourse I have Screenshot and Gibstats.
The first match of Ascension was against Clan Saint, who is starting to be a regular enemy for us, hehe, we have faced them in everytournie and we will face them again next week in Narf! 8). This time we had a VERY bad start, giving them early 4-0 lead :(. then we managed to get our pack together and played better but it wasn't enough anymore. They won 5-2. Duh. Screenshot and GibStats.
Well. Ragnarok is over for us. Our final standing is 9th-16th. hmm well more like 13th but I don't know how they count it. Because of our bad regular season performance we got to play OS and they kicked our arses bad 8) hehe. Screenshot and GibStats.
We welcome a new member: Ebola from Finland.
Another scrimmage against Zero Army. They wished to have good opponent because they needed to train for their E! match. Good luck for them to that. They need to play a bit better there though, hehe. Screenshot(1,2,3) and GibStats(1,2,3).
OGL Euro against Extremely Evil Elks. Again they gave us a good run, frags to us by 166-152. But our runners were good again 8) thus resulting in our clear 10-1 victory in 30minutes game. Screenshot and GibStats.
Scrimmage against Zero Army. No news there, they are a pretty new clan and just wanted experience, hehe 8). A clear win from both maps. They fought pretty well in the first one, have to say. Screenshot(1,2) and GibStats(1,2).
OGL Euro game against Clan RoX! A good game as always, this time they almost got us on frags, but not in caps ofcourse ;) hehe. Screenshot and GibStats.
Our last Ragnarok regular season game against NBZ! Well, result was as expected, a clear win. I'm very disappointed our modem players didn't show up and we had to use LPB:s against modem-clan. GRR! But anyways, this means we are in the playoffs, wohoo 8). Screenshot and GibStats.
OGL Euro game against Doctors! A good game again, I'm beginning to see a new hope in the Euroladder with these new teams (dr, e!). Good opponents. Our team scored 34 Flag Defences and 10 FC Kills, atleast you can't say these guys didn't try hard enough hehe ;). But ofcourse Kiukku-team won 8) 5-2. Screenshot and GibStats.
Clan Kiukku (Axeli) is starting a 2vs2 LM-CTF Tournament. The WWW-pages are at http://www.kiukku.org/foursome/. I am now taking in registrations. Remember to read the cover page, news page and THE RULES before registering or applying! You have 2 weeks to register yourself.
OGL Euro game against Extremely Evil Elks! Now these guys really put up a good sport! 250 kills in a 30min game, can you believe that? Huh. We managed to squeeze the win out of this with our experience on flagrunning while they held the middle 8). Screenshot and GibStats brought to you by your local newsmaster ;).
Ragnarok Week #8 game against Clan Wuss. Our homegame, so 2 games, Euro and USA parts. Result: clear victory for us. Now we are 5-3 in Ragnarok and heading for the playoffs. If we win our next week game the playoff-spot is pretty much secured. 8) cool. Screenshots(1,2) and GibStats(1,2)
We welcome 2 new members: Orchid and Hearse, former [Opeth] players. Both from Finland.
A game against Incredible Tech in OGL Open League. 6:30am, doh. We gotta do something about that morning playing...most of players are half sleeping then and make a lot of mistakes, uh. Including myself 8). Bad playing all the time from all of us. Yeah, you guessed it, we lost. heh. 12-5 or so says GibStats, the screenshot is bugged so we have none.
Clan Kiukku homeserver at 130.233.28.217:27910 now runs also Nachos MapPak and Lockheed's Tombs Maps! Total 13 new maps (8+5). Nachos has actually been there for a while now, Lockheed I installed today. I will put both packs available to our "servers" page for you to download if you wish to play them. I think I will also do some other changes there, mainly timelimit and fraglimit. I find long games boring so I might change the timelimit to 15 minutes to have it cycle through more maps in same time.
The E! clan challenged us to a scrimmage. 2x20min with 6 players. We won both pretty clearly. Well they are a bit new into teamplay, but I'm sure they will be tough one day. Good signs there 8). Screenshots(1,2) and GIbstats(1,2). We also played a one-map unofficial training after that, I brought you the scores for that too since you all want to seem them anyways. Not included in matches-page. shot and stats. Oh, and also Aple, the legendary member 8) returned into our lineup after being 4 months away. Lets kick him in the ass a bit so he goes to practice some so we can use him in matches 8) hehe.
After the Ragnarok loss we went out and kicked poor Neckbenderz asses in Euro OGL. Almost feel sorry for the guys, hehe 8) Can't say that the pings were equal and such, them all being modem players and the game being in our server. Oh well. Let's hope we find a more equal ground for our next game. Screenshot and Gibstats. I also got a way cool screenshot: Babe-lineup.
Ragnarok week #7 match against the best of the best, Harbingers of Despair. Well. Need I say we lost it? But only 8-0. Thats a record of some sort...no-one ever has allowed that little caps against them in OGL or Ragnarok game 8). Just waiting for the chance to play them in Europe. I think we might have a chance there. Whee 8). Screenshot and Gibstats.
Another scrimmage against Clan RoX. This time we took clear win in all 3 maps. Scores were 7-0, 5-1 and 6-2. That's pretty much like Finland-Sweden in hockey also, huh? 8) screenshots(1,2,3) and gibstats(1,2,3) available too.
I decided to cut down my news-writing a bit, to only reporting games... too bored of this 8) hehe We played Sorry Ass Clan in OGL. At 5.30AM, duh. Our pings were 210-250, and it is just too much to play effectively...150 is fine, but with 220 or so, it's impossible to catch grapplemonkeys 8(. So we lost it. And pretty badly. Here's the screenshot and gibstats.
This one was pretty interesting. I was informed just before the game that MIG had quit the tournament and we were going to get a forfeit win in this one, no matter what the scores was. So I made my decision, I kept it secret and let everyone play normally. I can now say it was a good decision since the game was good. I really enjoyed it. But we also lost it, damn 8) Clan Datsun (MIG) was too good today. We had control over the middlefield resources and quad but still they won. They just had too good railgun-men. Bah. The score was 7-2..I think the game was much more even than the score shows but they just were more efficient in scoring. But anyways, thanx for the good game MIG! Here's the screenshot and GibStats. Oh, and because of this, we are now 4-2 in Ragnarok, at position 18 or so... and our next game is against HD, currently the best clan in the world, uh oh 8)
Our second match of the night was also a Ragnarok game, against The Forsaken. Now this was a true thriller! Both teams got a fast cap and the score was 1-1. Then both teams got the flags fast too, and next 20 minutes were just people running everywhere trying to protect their FC and kill the enemy FC. We already had 90-80 lead at one point but they took it to 98-98 2 minutes before end or so. Then they managed to kill our FC. We got the flag again, they killed again and... capped. 30 seconds before the end. Score was 2-1 to them. What a shock. Huh. The game was also chosen as "demo of the week" in Ragnarok, hehe. Go get the demo from there ;) This now drops us to 3-2 in Ragnarok and we have next games against MIG and HD. Both are hard to win, and if we lose both, then we have 4 defeats and that brings us to a situation that we have to win all the rest games if we want into Playoffs. We can't lose more than 4 games to qualify. Duh! So that means we have to win MIG tomorrow, hehe ;) Well anyways, heres the GibStats and screenshot from the game.
A clan match against Strike Force Alpha in The Ragnarok. It was our homegame but we agreed to one game in HD NYC because their pings sucked in Europe. The game was pretty cool one, the score being like 2-2 in the middle. Then we just started playing better and got the score to 5-2 or 6-2 pretty fast and then it was over. Then final score was 8-2 but those last caps were meaningless. We are now 3-1 in Ragnarok, pretty good scoring. Here's the GibStats and screenshot.
This time we fought Clan RoX who had challenged us to a scrimmage. We agreed to play 3 x 15min so we could train more maps and keep the scores reasonable (No-one likes those 20-0 games). Well, we won 2 first maps clearly and Joghe joined them for the third map and then we lost. Whoa.Joghe rocks 8) hehe. This was also a first test for our new server and atleast it could handle 12 players easily, whoo. We will be announcing the new server when it's ready but you can already find it from GameSpy 8) and you can ask it from me if you need it before weekend for your clan. But back to the games, heres screenshots for all maps (1,2,3) and GibStats (1,2,3) too.
Whoppie, we had our long awaited chance to show a world-class clan what we can. But did we? No. And we still don't know if we are as good as they or not. The connections were really bad. Packet loss and general lag more than an average lpb can handle without getting frustrated. Oh well. Janus got a shot of his netgraph. Pretty sad 8(. Oh well. They promised us a scrimm with more fair connections. We just have to get a chance to show them what we got so I already agreed to it, hehe. 8) But they also were cheating! Janus spied out that they were multiplying themselves in the game!! This screenshot proves it all! It's a conspiracy!!! Hehehehe. But seriously, the game itself was more or less warping backwards or wondering "who shot me I didnt see anyone". Ugh. And the result pretty much shows it. Geez. 18-0 for them. Hehe. I believe we could have at least given them a good game without that packet loss, maybe even getting a cap. We managed to get a few flags when the lag wasnt so bad every now and then, but ofcourse at that point they had all the artifacts and everyone had power armors so they really had no problems recovering. Heres Gibstats and screenshot.
Another Ragnarok game, another Victory. This time against Wild Cats. We are now 2-1 in the season and everythings looking good. The game itself was our homegame, so half of the game was played in our server. Well. Their connection here sucked really bad, I almost feel sorry for them... they lost 12-0 here. Oh well. After changing a lot of servers, hehe, we finally got the game going in their end. At their own server. We even had there better ping than them? Uh oh, I'm starting to believe what people say USA guys having always bad links, hehe. Well, we played all-team def there and won the part 2-1 making the total 14-1 for us. Well. Heres the gibstats (1,2) and screenshots (1,2).
This time we had an Euro-OGL game, Clan RoX had challenged us. We were supposed to play 5vs5 but only 4 of our guys showed up. I'm disappointed, of a 10-player clan only 4 show up? Uhh. Oh well. We played the game 4vs4 then. After the server probs we encountered, we finally got the game going. Our teamplay worked good, we had artifact control and we pretty much controlled the whole map/game and got a shutout. They had a pretty good 5min in the middlegame, where they almost recorded cap. First they managed to grab our flag, then I almost got myself killed with their flag before we recovered. I had only 6 life when capping, ehh. That was a close one 8). Then again, the game was in that point already like 6-0 or so, so I believe it wouldnt have changed the outcome, but it would have ruined our shutout 8). The swedish guys (Clan RoX and Saxit) had some connection problems, and even I encountered some lag which is strange. Have to see what could have caused that....Oh well. GibStats and screenshot.
This Champions League thing has been going for 2 weeks now and we managed to get #1 position there for last week (43). Cool! And that was with a clear gap we having 35k points and the next clan (VT) having 30k. Tukai also got #1 position in individual standings. I was 3rd and Janus 11th. Mopar, Saxit and Joghe were also in Top-50. Check out the weekly clan scores here, it will be there till next Sunday when it is updated again. Ofcourse we will have #1 position again, right? 8)
So, we did change it and got a sweet Ragnarok victory over Clan Saint who had previously defeated us in OGL. The game was played in 2 legs, one in our server and one in USA, Clan OBC server, which was pretty good. We played Euro-part first. Tukai introduced a new tactics for us in that one, we actually had 3 attackers and only one defender. FF in def was outstanding, allowing 0 caps and dying only once. Our attackers lost a LOT of flags but still managed to get 6 caps which gave us a good lead before moving to USA. Then we went there with 3-man defence. We held our base clear 10min before they got their first flag out. And after that they got 2 more but that was it. We had squeezed a 6-3 win. I managed to almost match FF:s performance in our def, allowing 3 flags out but dying 0 times in the match. Heh. I'm particularly proud of myself making their quad attacks void without dying. We are now 1-1 in Ragnarok and things are looking good again. Enough typing, heres Gibstats (1,2) and screenshots (1,2).
Sheesh, we have now 3 losses in a row?? Gotta change it today.. Well anyways, we had an OGL fight against Digital Samurai. I watched the referee-demo and it truly rocked! Wow. That was a good game, too bad we lost it. The final score was 3-1 to them and it was pretty even all the time. As Tukai pointed out, they turned the match to their favor by being better in those "both flag stolen" situations. We need to improve our playing in that field I guess. Well, check the scores out yourself, here's Gib and Shot 8).
Janus had his saying so it is now time for me to write the report. Yes. I will do it. I was told that don't write it but I will. I can't consider myself as a worthy news-reporter if I only write reports of good/win matches, no matter how emotional the games are. I'm sure you can see my point if you think about it. Well. I pretty much know now that our guys had some "attitude-problems" in that game. Well. Let this be an example of what happens when you do, hehe ;) So, you all have probably by now figured out it that MIG kicked our arses.Yes, they did. Duh! The result was about same than our last game, just the other way round. Guess they have learned something during that 2 week period. They even used the flag-drop Tukai had invented. Guess he should have patented it hehe. Here's the Gibstats output you all have been waiting for so anxiously, hehe. And the screenshot too, taken from the MIG website since our guys didn't take one, hmph. About Januses post. We will continue in Euro OGL if we get games. RoX has promised us some 8). I can't really say about that challenging MIG thing yet. It depends how many people are willing to do that. No point playing them with just me and FF, hehe. Oh and you all spanish people out there (non-finnish speaking! you doofuses), you don't want to know what Janus said in the finnish part. Trust me. You don't. ;)
The Ragnarok has started.Our first week game was against Columbia Fraq Squad. And we lost it. Sheesh. We truly play like the Team Finland in hockey, hehe. U know, they always lose the first game and then everyone starts wondering if they will get to playoffs at all. Hehe. But serious, I can pretty much say that we lost because of bad connection. Sad ..8(. We had tested our ping before and it was 130 and running fine, now it was around 200 and lagging like hell. And they were LAN players or something, with ping 20... Well. You can guess who won the 1vs1 situations in that game? Heh. They weren't experienced at all and we had quad control and artifact control and still they deathmatched our asses. Hard to win a game when you can't hit an enemy with a rocket when he is standing in front ot you, huh? Grapple and railgun were unusable... Well the defense did fine since they don't need to run fast or get into those 1vs1 situations very much but attack completely failed to do anything but get themselves killed since they couldn't run away or dodge. Hmph. Well. Guess we learned a lesson here. Shouldn't play on a unknown server 8( It was obviously netlag in their direction. Well, we couldn't know it and I believe they didn't know it either. So I'm not blaming anyone here. Just bad luck and all. But hey! Always look at the bright side of ..err. game! 8) We got a cap! Wohoo! 8) Here's a screenshot to prove it 8) and the gibstats output too. But that one is pretty sad to read, hehe. I'm the only one who got almost positive record. I had a good day heh.
Another title fight in the Euro-OGL League, against Clan RoX! We defended our title successfully. Again 8). But this time it was pretty equal matches. We were supposed to use our "modem players" but not enough of them showed up and Joghe had to play. Well he couldn't 8) so Tukai jumped in. They had ping problems also but it pretty much was fixed when the guy reconnected from different ISP. After all this start trouble the score was 1-0 to them and the real game started 8) I was watching the console and it seemed pretty even game, since both sides got a good amount of frags. In the end the scores showed a 7-4 victory for us. Not bad since most of our players were pretty new / not trained tactics / high pings (Mangler mostly). Still they managed to squeeze the victory out of that. Well done 8). Here's the screenshot (It's 35min yes but the scores are right, the game was 30) and gibstats output.
We welcome a new member: Mopar from Finland. He is an ISDN player and can be found playing on iNet, like all the other Kiukku's too 8).
Whee. We had a game against Men In Guns for the number one position in the Euro-OGL-Ladder. They challenged us for that one. The game was 5vs5 (most of the time, hehe) on our server. The game itself had lots of troubles again, urgh. We played 20min with 5vs5 and then another 10min with 4vs4, hehe. Oh well, the game was good anyways. Mostly because we won, hehe ;) But it's nice to have a game where your opponent actually fights back 8). Too many of those 10-0 games nowadays. Maybe we are just too good, huh? 8). Well I don't have that much to tell from the game itself since I was hosting it with a dedicated server. So I'll just cut the crap and give ya the results...here are the screenshots: 1 2. And here's the combined GibStats output. We also played a training against UD today, I will post something of it to our BBS. So you Kiukkus out there who don't read the BBS yet, now it would be a perfect time to start doing that! Hehe.
How come we always have two games in the same day. Eh. Well, it happened again 8). We had the second game of the day against Ares Clan in OGL Open Ladder. Pretty much the same guys played this than the NBZ game, since no-one else showed up. We need a bit more activity here guys! The game itself was about the same as NBZ game... We got the caps and they got hmm.. well. deaths 8). They were a bit new to LM so that explains a lot of the score. Anywayz, screenshot and gibstats available for this one too.
We had to defend our Number One spot in Euro-OGL against Neckbenderz. The game was 5vs5 on Frozen Waste and was played on my computer, so we had ping advantage, no point denying that. But still, the score was kinda ..eh. You decide 8) Here's the screenshot and some gibstats output too. So this means we are still The Number One! 8) ...maybe we get the game against MIG soon 8).
We have now joined The Ragnarok, the Ultimate Tournament! It's gonna be 11 weekly matches and then All-Star Game and PlayOffs, NHL style 8). Since it's USA games mainly, I'll make our goal to qualify for the playoffs (Have to beat atleast half of the teams at the moment (It's 16 teams playoffs, 32 teams have signed up and the amount is increasing)). The matches are paired random so we can actually get games against teams like UD or HD, whoo. :).
The evening game was against iCEWAVE. OGL Open ladder. Well. We kinda had to change the lineups at the last moment, just like the ST game, when people didn't show up. Ehh. That turned out to be no problem, we won the game pretty clearly. No doubt of who controlled the game. We won it 8-0 in the end. Here's screenshot and gibstats.
Whoa! We are now on the Number One position in the Euro-Ladder of OGL! Well. The match kinda failed again (third time) and they decided we get the win. It was 2-1 (122-62) to us when we got interrupted. We don't have screenshot for that at the moment, but I do have gibstats to that point. Here. Oh yeah, the opponent was The Saints. FYI, We have already been challenged for title fight. By NBZ :).
We welcome a new member: Fuckface from Sweden. You can find him playing on iNet or Nachos with alias F!FACE(Kiukku). He will offer us server services too, stay tuned for information 8).
Uhm, we were supposed to have a clan fight against Digital Samurai....it was 10.30PM EST...and Tukai said to us that it's 6.30AM EET...well, we were there at 6.30...they said "where were you at 10.30PM???" ....uh. 10.30PM EST is 5.30AM EET. duh! duh! So we gained a default loss there for not showing up in time. Urgh. That's what you get for working the summer. Brains don't work anymore ;)
Whoa! Good news for ya boys and girls out there! We beat THE clan, Loki's Minions themselves! 8) We played the game on their server, had pings like 160, pretty good I'd say. Execpt for Saxit who had 350 and capped 4 times, hehe. I just can't figure out how he does that. Saxit is da man! And even the time was reasonable, 1.00AM for us. If everything goes this well, I really don't see a reason to drop out of OGL USA any more. Cool. 8) Oki, about the match. It was a good game, both teams seemed to lag equally. One strange thing I noticed there, the match was 30 minutes instead of 20. hehe. Well, first 15 minutes went like this; they defended, and attacked with usually only one player whom Janus stopped before he got to our base. We were pretty much out of job with Quint in the def... Then we managed to get a few caps (Saxit!!!) and they started attacking. At that point the game grew much more interesting. I just love defending when my aim is good and I have luck, muahaha. Dropped quaders like ducks ;) They attacked pretty much after that and left their defence weaker...that gave our attackers chance to rally some. So it ended 7-1 for us. Can't really say what would have happened if Saxit wouldn't have got the first caps. They might have crushed us with points in 0-0 pretty easily...(It was already 40-10 to them before Saxit started the show). Heh, then for this news thing. Uh. I worked like 1.5 hours to get the new GibStats work correctly with the "now supported LM-CTF Client Logs". muah. But I managed to get something out of it eventually. Here's the output ....and screenshot too.
This time we had an unofficial game against Karhut/Bears. Umh, don't know what to say. I kinda saw this coming. They really aren't that experienced and all... Well atleast they tried and didn't give up, points for them for that 8). Screenshots for game 1 and game 2 and GibStats for game 1 and game 2.
Well well, another defeat (Clan Saint). This time the game sucked a bit and atleast the newsmaster is getting bored of these OGL USA games, the times suck and pings suck. This time we all had almost 300 pings. Atleast for me it was the first time ever I played with such a ping. Uh, you can see the result from the scores ;) All I managed to do was to jump in front of all the rockets I saw. I was best at that! Collected them all! ;) Anywayz, we didn't totally lose because of the pings. They clearly had some tactics, which we didn't. Our attackers just jumped in an out and usually died (just like the MIG training last night BTW). They always came with a quad and a second wave guy. Defence is kind of in a deep sh.. err I mean trouble when there's a quad attacker and a second guy behind him to back up...Example: I defended all the time. I died 8 times. 6 of those were quad-deaths. Can you see a strategy there huh? Well ok, if we had had good pings, our attackers would probably have managed to get a few flags, but with sucky pings, that just doesn't work. Going there alone and trying to grapple out fast... You can check our attackers (Joghe/Tukai) death amounts if you don't believe, muah ;) Ok, enough whining there I guess. Here's the screenshot and the gibstats output.
Duh! We lost! An OGL fight against Crazy Canucks that is. Well, the match was the best we have had so far. For it's entertainment value that is. They first took 2-0 lead, then we made it 2-2, then they got 4-2 and it ended 4-3 while both teams were holding enemy flags. A true thriller! 8). Then for the issues of why WE lost (we can't lose, right???). Hmm, nothing much to complain here really, it was a good game and well arranged too. Only problem we had was Joghe's ping. It varied between 300-900. How many of you can make a capture with an average 500 ping, huh? 8). If we had had a fourth player with a good ping, who knows what might have happened. Personally I think we could have won the match without that problem but what the heck. Life isn't fair ;) Well anyways, here's the screenshot and the gibstats output. Only client-logged, sorry.
We welcome two new members: Quinthor from Norway, who joined us from [SUN], and LooserX from Finland.
So, this time a Real OGL Fight! We actually got to play, woohoo. Match was against Rendition Redliners (VxK). Well, we were supposed to play on two servers, one on our and one on theirs...they never got their server up so we ended up playing only in our server, as you can again see from the pings ;) ... They kinda suffered from bad links (they said so)....We started the game then, they blowed us off with their amazing start, they just came and kicked our asses and captured. Duh. Bad playing from us...then Tukai's server crashed, muahahaa.. And we started again, with scores added ofcourse (They had 1-0 lead)....Well then we started playing better and really gave them no chance...the rest of the match went 23-0 to us so final score was 23 to 1...whoah :). Here's the pics: before_crash and after_crash ..... for GibStats I managed to combine the logs and got good results with Server logs after fixing a few bugs (force-suicides at start removed and another strange bug which gave 2 points to the one who LOST the flag, oh well.) So these stats are pretty much accurate. Output is a bit stripped though to fit to "one line per player" ...here.
OGL has finally launched European Ladder for LM-CTF! Hooray! Now everyone go sign up your clan! Gonna send an invite E-Mail to every Clan I know of ;) FYI: I will update our link-page today. Updated links to game-files and some new clans...
Training match against Scandinavian Undead Noblemen...whee, at last a real game 8) We played the match in our server, as you can see from the pings ;) We won the games 5-0 and 14-2....Screenshots here: map1 map2 and GibStats here: map1 map2.
Okey, there goes another OGL match without any actual playing... We were supposed to play against Devious Assassins but they never showed up..oh well. not much to say there. We woke up at 4.00AM for nothing, urgh.
We were scheduled to have an OGL Ladder match agains Clan Large Scale Destruction, but at the last minute, they decided they don't like this new LM and forfeited the match and quit the ladder...This is funny, both our opponents have quit the ladder...are we really that scary? ;)
And there it goes! Our first official Clan Fight! It was an OGL Ladder match against the Psychopathic Angels. Well, they were more deathmatch oriented clan and it showed. We kinda kicked their arses ;)...first in their server and then in our own as the rules say. Well, the scores look a bit hmm well, you decide 8) but they weren't really trying that much in the second match (no wonder after their home loss, and we had three 30ms LPB:s in our home..so it was kinda hopeless at that point for them.) Well anyways, here are the screenshots for Match1 and Match2. GibStats-HTML-output for Match1 and Match2 available too. At the moment, all the stats are taken from Client logs. This may change in near future. Not sure though, depends how good the support for server-logs is... Stay tuned for more news from your favorite newsmaster! 8)
...and that itself is the first piece of news. Your newsmaster is axeli@kiukku.org. |
