Scrim (8/12) "Blog"

[Guardia Republicano]

Good game boys.

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The only difference was the teamplay.
We usually play scrims. It was your first scrim so do not worry.
You have good players.

There are more clans from Argentina interested in playing scrims if you want.

Regards,
Pablo.

[H0ly-H@nd-Gr3nade]

(all times central)
8:55
Everyone is in the game, 6 v 6, and we are just playing around. We are working on our last minutes plans, classes, etc.

9:00
Everyone is ready to go, but wait, how do we get this thing started? We all know it has something to do with rcon, but what is the command? Go noobs! We ask the other team, and thankfully they help us.

9:05
We surprisingly win our first round, and we are pumped. We are all thinking, man who thought this would be so easy? (please note who got the winning cap) :twisted:

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Ok enough of the time shenanigans, I shall continue without them. We slowly get worse, and worse, and we go on this terrible losing streak. In fact, we didn't win another round as the Axis team. I got tired of taking an SS every time we lost, so there are only a few here to see.

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I think we lost the first set of rounds 8 - 1. I didn't bother taking an SS of this, too embarrassing! LOL. After 20 minutes of a complete disaster, we switch sides, so we are Allies.

This time, instead of winning the first round, we lose every single round! I believe that the final score was 9 - 0. Another 20 minutes up, and the pain is finally gone! Here are various times throughout the 2nd part of the match. (please note my score) :twisted:

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It was a lot of fun, although we got killed! Next time we do it, Cain will have to set-up Source T.V. so everyone can watch. Man of the match for the Cain team is... HHG (by far!). :twisted:

Go CLR!
:2thumbs:

[RuThLeSsKiLLa]

wow:o. ya got pwned. :twisted: lol

good try to everyone who played. :2thumbs:

for some reason i couldnt join, i kept freezing up on the loading time. :scratch: but then i found out what it was but it was too late..

next time i guess...they were lucky i wasnt there.:razz:

[Twiztednate]

Ya that was a fun 40 mins of play. Brought back some memories of playing in Rough Riders. Only difference was in Rough Riders we always won :D

But we also all played together every night and we had a strategy team that I led. We would spend the entire week analyzing the entire map down to every inch and writing each player a description of what they should do and at what times and in every circumstance we could think of.

This was a great time, heart was thumping in the beginning.

They were true to their strat. Ran it with out fail every time over and over and we just didn't adapt. They showed great discipline and stayed one step a head.

All and all it was a great time.

Rematch anyone. This time on our terms :twisted:


"I know not with what weapons WW3 will be fought. But WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones"

[FieryDragon]

Boo for Apache...I blame him...lol

J/K Apache! I love you. You were on the wall of my date. But seriously, I think it would have been a closer match if he was there. Apache just wipes the floor with me every time I play. But then again, this FPS isn't really my cup of tea but still fun.

Next time, I need to know what the time for me in PST b/c I had no clue when to show up. But I don't think I would of made that much of a difference.

Next time...Next time!

[Apache Warrior]

I went home last night, ate supper and went to bed. I was that exhausted.
My son plays CSS in Cal and all they do, between matches, is practice and scrim. They play together constantly and have tactics and strategies for every situation. Good try but, remember we are amateurs and they are the pros.
Apache

[BlackArrow]

Great effort guys and kudos to Holy for do the grunt work:2thumbs:


There is a big difference between those that play on public servers and those that compete. The competition teams practice working together with full communication and know exactly who is doing what at every moment.

You can never compare the way you played to them. No matter how good any of you are individually, they are much better working as a team.

With practice we could be just as good.

This is the main difference between most clans and us, we are here to play with the very good players that are attracted to Cain's Lair and like to have fun.....they are there to win team matches. One is not better than the other, just different goals.

You guys rock!!!!!

[Cain]

I'm proud of all of you, but....

I hopped on vent to listen to you guys and what made me the most proud was that you guys were laughing your heads off and having a great time...... THAT is what CLRs should be about, having fun and the fellowship of playing together outweighing the winning or losing.

I wish we had some audio recorded I was LMAO at you guys, particularly Jeffro who kept TKing his own guys !!

:D

[Jeffro]

very true arrow. i'm looking forward to playing another scrim. but let us pick the map this time! lol. i'm sure we would of gotten owned either way though :twisted: funny parts were me holy and nate all yelling at each other to do stuff lol.:2thumbs:

[Jeffro]

shhhhh cain! nobody supposed to know about that! :shock::twisted:

[BigTwinky]

Win or lose, sounds like you guys had fun.

As people have mentionned, these guys are pros and they showed what they are made of, both in terms of skills and in terms of sportsmanship.

Looks like it was fun for all involved.

But if we had the top 6 players who regularly play on Cain's, scrim and practice 4-5 nights a week, I'm sure we'd be up there.

Sorry I missed it :(
Thanks for the screenies :2thumbs:

[Guardia Republicano]

I went home last night, ate supper and went to bed. I was that exhausted.
My son plays CSS in Cal and all they do, between matches, is practice and scrim. They play together constantly and have tactics and strategies for every situation. Good try but, remember we are amateurs and they are the pros.
Apache

Yes, we play together often. dod_anzio is a very well known map because is a default map.
My team mates have been playing dods 1-2-3 years ago so they know very well the map.
You need a strategy for every map.

We are not pro, you can be sure of that. We had a good teamplay in a very well known map. That's all.

The only way to get teamplay is playing together. No secret.

I enjoy playing in public servers with no worries.
But sometimes I like to play seriously as a team. The key of the game I think.

We have got same results against other teams so do not give up and keep playing.

I want to mention the respect and sportsmanship during the match.

Because there were no plugins in server you can get the time remaining typing:
%t
You can make a bind with that.

I can arrange more matches against my clan or other clans of Argentina if you want to practice.

Saludos,
Pablo.

[BigTwinky]

.......
We are not pro, you can be sure of that. We had a good teamplay in a very well known map. That's all.




:shock: Ok..note to self...if these guys aren't pro, then avoid playing pros

[Cain]

Thank you again Pablo,

If any of my guys show poor sportsmanship, they will not be a part of our group any longer.

Yes we definitely want to learn more and I would like to play one night, last night was out for me however.

I have that match server available whenever, and you can use it to play other Clans if you would like. All my servers run on my own dedicated boxes so I control them 100%.

:2thumbs:

[juneau]

It was fun! Probably a good thing i was sitting on Vent a few mins before the start and said that i was here as sub if you needed me. You did, but i wasn't much help. :D

I guess that's what you get when a player that has only played the game a little ,since he only bought it after the free weekend. :D

COD4 = I PWN. :twisted:

Guess i need to be playing DoD more to pratice. But it was a very fun ride to be part of last night and i'd be willing to do it again.

[pigworthy]

Good job guys. If it isn't fun, it isn't worth playing. Keep it up.

[BigTwinky]

The best way to learn a game is to play against people who are better than you are. Same goes for most things in life.

If you keep playing against people who you can easily beat, then you don't progress.

Seems like the scrim gave a chance for the Argentina guys to practice some of their tactics in a more realistic environment, and at the same time, helped most of the CLRs online remember than team play is a huge part of the game, and gave them (or most of them) something to aim for in the future.

[K PhaNTOM]

I am so confused right now, so are you guys a clan yet? Is it the same with COD4? If so, I want a match, =TDS= Against {CLR} :2thumbs:

[BigTwinky]

No, we are not a clan. We advertise as not being a clan, more of a community.

But that doesn't mean that we don't like to try different variations of playing a game. Competitive play and recreational play are two totally different things. So if given the opportunity to scrim, why not take it?

We have had a few fun ventures into the world of competitive play. We had a team that went to the end of a BF2142 league play, won some money and all (which was donated all back to Cain's Lair). We had a venture into TF2 league were we got out butts handed to us by the top team in round 1.

This was but a scrim, all for fun, and should be taken that way.

There are basic conduct rules to having the CLR tag, but nothing clanish assocaited to it.

In this scrim, we allowed a first signed up, first to play type of roster. No matter who you are, you are free to play and have fun. Take Juneau, who was a sub and ended up playing, had only played the game a few times. We don't care, its for FUN.

If we were a clan, we would of picked certain people to play certain classes and probably would not tolerate alot of the childish stuff that we do in game, which is what makes CLR so much fun.


We had some BF2 matches where it was regular CLR players vs Admin CLR players. All for craps and giggles.

Staged events can be really fun, if people don't take them too seriously, specially when playing with a competitive group like last night's DOD:S match.

If you want to set something up for COD4, chat with Cain about it, deal with the logisitics. If the other clan has a server, get some CLRs together, have the other clan lock down their server and have a go at it. Its all good.

Just make sure that when you play, you exhibit the fun, sportsmanship and good nature that has made the CLR community popular. You will be representing CLR out there. We don't care about score, we care about reputation. Bad mouthing people, and breaking all the CLR rules on a non CLR server while under the CLR banner is a huge no-no.

[juneau]

I'd be down for a COD4 scrim. Bring it! :D

[K PhaNTOM]

I am giving it a serious thinking, we'll see where my brain is leading me lol :wink:

[BigTwinky]

I am giving it a serious thinking, we'll see where my brain is leading me lol :wink:

That can be a very scary place :D

[Twiztednate]

Based on the conversations through out this thread. This is what makes me attracted to CL. I love this community and have only been apart of it a short while. CL is what it is all about for me. Play, have fun, keep it clean and friendly and that is all. I have been searching for a place like this since our community/clan broke up over 5 years ago.

I found a few communities over the years but they were very strict about certain things like 1. Competitive play is forbidden or even required. 2. Must pay "x" amount of money per year to be part of the community. (it is usually in the $100s of dollar range).

This place feels like what gaming should and always be like.

Thanks Jeffro for inviting me,
Thanks Cain for making this all available to us all.
Thanks CLR for maintaining the ideal of this community.

I still want a rematch 3:wink:

[ViTO]

This place feels like what gaming should and always be like.

We have a winner !!!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56/vitopagano/quoteoftheweek.jpg

OK so maybe you really don't win anything but you still get bragging rights

Very nicely said.

ViTO

[Apache Warrior]

Based on the conversations through out this thread. This is what makes me attracted to CL. I love this community and have only been apart of it a short while. CL is what it is all about for me. Play, have fun, keep it clean and friendly and that is all. I have been searching for a place like this since our community/clan broke up over 5 years ago.

I found a few communities over the years but they were very strict about certain things like 1. Competitive play is forbidden or even required. 2. Must pay "x" amount of money per year to be part of the community. (it is usually in the $100s of dollar range).

This place feels like what gaming should and always be like.

Thanks Jeffro for inviting me,
Thanks Cain for making this all available to us all.
Thanks CLR for maintaining the ideal of this community.

I still want a rematch 3:wink:

All of the benefits of a clan without the crap. :D
Seriously though, that is why most of play and hang out here. :2thumbs:
Apache

[BigTwinky]

I guess Twiz didn't get his CL invoice in the mail yet... :twisted:


Very well put Twiz, and as Apache said, its the main reason why many of us are here