(30th September
2003)
Our squad forums are back up. I've
updated the links, let me know if you find a dead one. Our first match in the
Gladiator League seedings round will be against the #1 ranked Dissent.
-Vorbis
(26th September
2003)
At the moment we don't have any squad
forums. The Alpha forums and website are in the process of moving from
theplague.net to sscxalpha.com. When this has been done, it shouldn't take too
long, I'll update the links. We may lose a few posts but apart from that nothing
will change.
With Glad League regular season over I've
updated the division standings and scores. Click on results/stats above then
choose Gladiator League from the list.
-Vorbis
(24th September
2003)
In the next couple of days the Alpha web
site and forums (including our squad forums) will no longer be hosted on
theplague.net. At the moment they're looking for alternative hosting. If they
can find it then all I'll have to do is update the links. If they can't get any
hosting straight away we may have to find some new forums. Our best bet would
probably to get some boards hosted on the Subspace Forum Network. More news as I
get it.
-Vorbis
(23rd September
2003)
We don't have a Gladiator League game this
weekend. There will be a make-up round this Sunday then the following week the
seedings round start. I'm pretty sure that we will play ROCK MUSIC in the first
round, I'll post here when I have confirmation.
-Vorbis
(22nd September
2003)
We lost our third Gladiator
League match of the season yesterday in three games. The match was very
similar to the Round 5 game. We won the first game easily and we had chances in
the next two games to win the match, but we just couldn't put it away. Crucial
fire had some luck. In game 2 Demongo and I were 2v1 up and could've won the
game (and the match) easily, but I took a bad bounce off a gate and died out and
at 1v1 all Crucial Fire had to do was run out the clock to even the match
at one game each which is exactly what they did. In the end we went down 6-3,
4-5, 2-6. There was some positives to take from the game though. Out teamwork is
improving. The practice drills that DBecks has been running are starting to pay
off and we will be a force by the time AML season 10 rolls around. To see the
full stats from the game click here and
you can read the game log by clicking here.
That is the end of the Gladiator League
Regular season. There will be a seedings round of games before the playoffs
start. Expect news about that and who we will play later in the
week.
-Vorbis
(20th September
2003)
Our Round 6 Gladiator League match against
Crucial Fire will be held at 4pm EST on Sunday.
-Vorbis
(15th September
2003)
We lost our Glad match yesterday in three
games, but it was a much better performance and we really should of won. FuN!
had a lot of lag problems and they needed 2 NTS's, which I allowed (and which
cost us the game in the end). FuN! had two non-lagged players for game 1
(Winston and ZDeathX) and Vega22 was an NTS. Demongo, Savman and I played all
the games for DZ. Inside the first minute Winston lagged out and couldn't
return. With us up 3v2 it was an easy win. Winston still couldn't play for game
2 so I allowed Hellsbane as a second NTS. This was a huge mistake. Hells just
tanked through us going 5-0 inside two minutes and tying the match up. We were
ready for Hells in the deciding game and his lag wasn't a factor. Unfortunately
I choked and left Demongo and Savman 2v3 only three minutes in. Despite
this we almost pulled it off, but the man advantage was too much to over
come and FuN! took the game and the match. You can read all the game stats by
clicking here. I've
also added a screenshot, you can use a the nav bar above to see it.
This was a much better performance than last week. We
played toe to toe with a Pro League team and we should of won. Next week's game
is against Crucial Fire and I'm confident we can get our first win
here.
-Vorbis
(12th September
2003)
Our Gladiator League game against FuN! will
be at 5pm EST This Sunday.
-Vorbis
(8th September
2003)
The squad forums are up.
Thanks to Suppoko for hosting them on the Alpha West boards. If you click the
link above it will take you to our public forum. For squad members there's info
their on getting access to our private forum. This is the last of the features
to go up, so I can now update all the links. Please let me know if you find any
dead links as you travel round the site, there's an e-mail link at the bottom of
most pages.
-Vorbis
(7th September
2003)
We lost our first
Gladiator League match in two games to Lampaat. This game was dominated by
lag, mostly theirs but we had some problems too. The first game started slowly
with Lampaat taking a 2-1 lead after the first five minutes, but due to some
leet Finnish tanking we just couldn't make the kills and after we went
a man down they finished us off 6-1. We had our own lag problems in the break
between the two games with DBeckham almost unable to play while I got
disconnected for a couple of minutes. When the match finally started I think we
all realised that with their tanking along with our problems staying
in meant our only real chance of getting a win was to attack from the start
and try to get it over quickly. Unfortunately it didn't work. Lampaat
sucked it up and won 6-0 in just three minutes. To face the reigning champions
in our first ever game was a tough ask. You can read all the stats by going
here.
Next week we're playing FuN!, who are the reigning Dueling League champions and
currently lie second in Pro, so it doesn't get any easier. I'll post here as
soon as I have a time confirmed.
-Vorbis
(3rd September
2003)
I've added all the
current Gladiator League Season 4 info to the results/stats section. At the
moment you can only link to it from the nav bar here on the home page. I'm not
going to update the rest of the links until the squad forums are up so I don't
have to do the update twice. We should have them up by the weekend. I've
included all of the results from the HATE SQUAD games, but not the player
stats. I'm only going to counts those from now as the roster has
changed.
-Vorbis
(1st September
2003)
The Yahoo Groups hosted
squad-only section is now finished. As well as holding an archive of the squad's
mailing list you can also download banners, graphic mods and check out player
stats game by game. If you're a squad member and are not getting access e-mail
me and I'll sort it.
-Vorbis
