(31st January
2004)
For the second straight week the Dueling
League schedule has not been posted before the day of the round. So I've
taken what times have been confirmed on the scheduling thread. So here's how the
round looks right now:
WWF vs Potshots n/a
Fantasy Island vs Dissent n/a
Unit vs Secret @ 1pm
BALLISTICS vs ONE @ 4pm
Apathos vs Elite n/a
DoubleZero vs ElementalForces @
3pm
Katana vs Quake @ 3pm
Speechless vs Hattrick.org @
3pm
All times are in EST. Matches will be played
today in ?go 2v2 in SSCX Chaos/League SVS. For more details you can check out
the Dueling
League website. I'm sure the full schedule will be posted on there before
the games start.
-Vorbis
(30th January
2004)
Our 2v2 game against ElementalForces will be
played at 3pm EST tomorrow. Very few other times have been confirmed yet so I
probably won't be able to post a full schedule list before the round starts but
I will do my best to get one up either this evening or tomorrow
morning.
-Vorbis
(26th January
2004)
I've been doing a bit of work on the site
today. I've added another playing guide. This is a dueling guide written by
Rak'kar which is full of lots of interesting tricks that should improve your
game. Click on the about section above and you'll find a link to it from there.
I've also started uploading to the Logs section in results/stats. Only a
few up right now up but expect it to fill up quickly. One of the logs is from
yesterdays Gladiator league final. I've taken out all my pm and chat messages,
but even with just pub and spec freq chatter it's still a fun
read.
-Vorbis
(26th January
2004)
Our pre-season round 2 game in Dueling
League is against ElementalForces. I've added the stats for the round 1 game
which you can find here.
Yesterday's Gladiator League final was full
of controversy. MupsiLurri took game 1 6-1 but Dissent were not pleased with the
lag of Mup's player sikari (AKA sika from B.I.A.). This ended up with the two
team's captains along with the League sysop Portal Realm stuck on a private freq
together for over half an hour arguing it out. The upshot was that sikari didn't
play in game 2 which Dissent won 4-3 in OT. Due to the time taken between the
two games that was it. The final will continue next Sunday at 3pm EST. The first
team to win three games will take the title. Don't miss it, this is turning into
a real grudge match.
-Vorbis
(24th January
2004)
We lost our first pre-season
Dueling League match today in three games. Dissent won game 1, we came back and
won game 2, but Dissent cleared the box to win game 3 and the match. Snail and
Kyre played all three games. I had a lot of lag problems so I missed the first
game and most of game 2. I also have an incomplete game log so I can't add the
stats yet. I will have a log soon to do this though. I was able to take a
screenshot to mark our first 2v2 game and you can find it by clicking the link
on the nav bar.
-Vorbis
(24th January
2004)
Turns out I did have time to
post today so I've updated yesterday's post with all the times for today's 2v2
games.
-Vorbis
(23rd January 2004)
Season 4 of Gladiator League will come to a
climax this Sunday with the final. MupsiLurri, last season's runners up, will
face Dissent, the two-time AML champions. These have been the best two squads
all through this season sharing the best regular season record of 10-1, although
Mups held a slight advantage by beating Dissent by 2 games to 1 in their regular
season meeting. But that will count for nothing in the best of 5 games final.
You can see all the action starting at 3pm EST this Sunday in ?go gladiator in
SSCX Chaos/League SVS.
Tomorrow sees round 1 of Dueling League
pre-season start. Not all the times have been confirmed yet but I won't have
another chance to post them on here before the round starts so here's how things
look so far:
Hattick.org vs BALLISTICS @
4pm
Speechless vs Secret @ 3pm
Potshots vs ONE @ 5pm
WWF vs ElementalForces @ 4pm
Apathos vs Katana @ 4pm
DoubleZero vs Dissent @ 4pm
Unit vs Quake @ 2pm
Fantasy Island vs Elite @ 2pm
All match times are in EST and will be
played in ?go 2v2a or ?go 2v2b in SSCX Chaos/League SVS. For more info check out
the Dueling
League website and to check on the scheduling for the games with
unconfirmed times go to the 2v2
forum.
-Vorbis
(20th January 2004)
Our first pre-season game in Dueling League
will be this Saturday against Dissent at 4pm EST. I'll post all the matches in
the round here when all the times have been confirmed. Dissent are going to have
a busy weekend. As well as 2v2 and their IML game they also have the Gladiator
League final to play after beating B.I.A. 2-1 in the semis. They will face
MupsiLurri who made their second straight final after knocking out lampaat 2-0
in the other all-Finnish semi.
Last Sunday's WZL final ended in dramatic
fashion. Early in the game ReDs held 7 flags while Loyalty defended 1. STRiKER
then attacked ReDs and took their base. But they made a huge mistake in letting
only one pilot (Kurt) pick up all 7 flags. This allowed Loyalty to thor the
flag room, kill Kurt and take the flags. They then defended their base for a
flag win in only 25 minutes to take their second win in the series and the
season 10 title. Congratulations to them.
-Vorbis
(18th January 2004)
Season 5 of Premier League starts today with
pre-season games for all three leagues. You can find a full schedule of games at
the Premier League website . Despite my ban I've
decided to keep doing predictions for AML. I've done a review of all the squads
going into pre-season. As WarRoom and SS Impact are no more I've decided to host
them here. To read the review click here.
-Vorbis
(17th January 2004)
Just a reminder about
the Warzone League finals tomorrow. After last Sundays matches STRiKER and
Loyalty have won one game each and need to win one more for their first WZL
title (although Loyalty is basically the same squad as Gust, who won the title
in season 4), while ReDs need to win both games to take it. Game 3 will start at
2pm EST and if needed game 4 will start at 4pm EST. With so many close and
exciting games that there's been in the playoffs this season it wouldn't
surprise me if the final went down to the last minute of the last game. You can
follow all the action in ?go league in SSCX Warzone/ASWZ
CTF.
-Vorbis
(16th January 2004)
I've updated the rosters page. Napalm
Sunrise and Kyre have joined and will play 2v2 for us. Welcome to the
squad.
-Vorbis
(12th January 2004)
The starting date for the first round of
pre-season in Dueling League is now January 24th. This gives us an extra couple
of weeks to practice and do some more recruiting. In yesterday's WZL final game
1 was won by Loyalty and game 2 by STRiKER. The final will continue next Sunday
with game 3 at 2pm EST and if needed game 4 at 4pm EST. Loyalty and STRiKER need
just one more win to become champions while ReDs need to win both games.
If you've be keeping up with general
Subspace news you will know that aswz merged with Warzone a few days ago. Now
Turf Arizona has also merged to give SVS it's second 'super zone' along with
Chaos/League. The new zone is now called SSCX Warzone/ASWZ CTF and you can find
Turf Arizona in ?go turf. Refresh your zones now!
-Vorbis
(11th January 2004)
If you've been keeping up with the news here
you'd be wondering where all the stuff about the start of Dueling League is. It
was supposed to start this weekend, but there's no news on the website and
there's no rounds or tables up on ScoreMaster yet. I'll post again when I have
more news on what's going on and when pre-season starts.
In other news the Warzone League final
starts today. Loyalty, STRiKER and ReDS will battle it out for the title.
Hopefully the finals will be as exciting as the semi final round was last
weekend which saw some great games and the shock elimination of Opulence who
were going for their third straight league title and their sixth overall. Game 1
starts at 2pm EST and game 2 is at 4pm EST. The first squad to win two games
takes the title. If a third or fourth game is needed they will be played next
Sunday. Check out all the action in ?go league in Warzone.
-Vorbis
(10th January 2004)
I've been doing some work on the website.
I've added some banner links to the top of this page. I want to have a link to
every SVS zone up there so I still need to get banners for WZ, Gladiator League
and Dueling Arizona. Also I've now got two new links at the bottom of every
page. The subspace banner takes you to the new Subspace/Continuum website which
promotes SVS zones to new players (or as they now call them SSS zones, dunno if
I can get used to that). The download subspace banner has also changed and it
will now download a version of Continuum where only SVS zones are on the zones
list when you first open the client. I think it's a good idea. Any scheme to get
more people to play subspace and steer them towards SVS zones has to be a
good thing.
-Vorbis
(2nd January 2004)
I hope you all had a great Christmas and New
Years holiday. Things have been pretty quiet on the ss front. We lost our final
Gladiator League match by no-show. I'm now getting us ready for Duelng league
which is still on track to start on the 11th. I've also kicked off a recruiting
campaign to try and get us a deeper and more active roster which had been a
problem for us in the second half of Gladiator League. Although as dueling
league is 2v2 we should have less problems with low numbers I'd still like us to
be a much more active squad.
-Vorbis
