Mid Season Through the Looking Glass

2013-10-23 16:46 by Claw

As many teams now have played, the season is becoming a bit more clearer .So far all teams except one has played games If they do not play by the end of this month, we will remove them. Here is some information about the performance of the teams so far.

Morituri - After 8 games played, they are the leaders with 17pts. The main members are Fer, Mushi, Feffe who have played the most games. They have beaten The Norse fairly easily which was a surprise as they won 4-0 and have played clan unf and tied 2-2 and also played legion which went 2-2. They were surprised though against North American team g0d which beat them quiet handily 4-0. I would like to see how good they might fair against TVS and Sudden Death.

The Viper Squad sits at 2nd place so far with 6 games played and have only lost once to The Norse 3-1 in which the games were pretty close. They beat Sudden Death 4 to 0 in which featured Milton having a good series. Maga is the star of the team with 27.1points per series on average, although Milton who has played fewer games has a slightly better average with 27.2 We have still yet to see North American superstar Squeeze play a game for them, as he has played for many years in North America with one of the best teams at the time with "Damaged Inc" and won of the great CA tourneys at the time called Stronger than All QWCA Season 2 if I am not mistaken, he definitely can bring experience and take TVS up a higher level which is actually pretty scary.

3rd place sits Sudden Death with 5 games played. The main lineup so far has been bps, ganon and rst with some few appearances from Locktar.... the only SD team member registered who has not played has been Carapace.... it is uncertain if he may feature at all as in the very beginning he said "I don't like CA and won't play" but things said one day can mean nothing the next day, so we will see. They lost vs a good TVS lineup and although did not win any series, the games were pretty close, it could of been totally different. With SD looking like strong contenders for the EQL, they might practice a bit and also claim the Fusion title.

4th place sits the Chilean team Jalapeños although with 8 games played. The main lineup consists of lokogilbert and membah and these 2 guys have played all the games so far. 7 out of 8 players registered in this team have played, making them the most active team so far. Big props go out to them as they are the only Chilean team and because of bad routing to Brazil, all games so far have been played with 150+ ping in the US. Next season (if everything goes great this season) we expect to have more teams from South America and hopefully we can find a solution to bad routing between Brazil / Chile to see some great games at lower ping.

5th place sits North American team g0d. This team is the result of the merger between God Blessed and Free Agents, since both teams couldn't ever field more than 2 players, they decided to merge and thus have played games so far, originally this is what they should of done in the very beginning. We (clan unf) played them for their first game and we lost 4-0 with us winning nothing more than 2 or 3 rounds in total.... This team could be a very strong team to beat as most the players are clan arena veterans and they have been playing in the EQL with 100+ ping, and since all games are equally fair.. they may have the upper hand against Euros who don't usually like to play with high ping.

6th place sits The Norse, however they have only played 4 games, they did start strong by beating TVS and Legion, however did lose against Morituri fairly easily, they say that it was because Rikoll was not playing, so hopefully we expect Rikoll to show up to some games and see how they do against good teams such as SD and even team g0d.

7th place sits my clan, UNF. We have played 6 games so far and our main lineup consists of Phil, Cream, and myself. We do have other unf members, but have yet to make one appearance. We are actively looking for one good player in the NA, so msg me. We tied Morituri 2-2 and also beat SD 1 series, but we lost overall. Our worst defeat came against team g0d, who fielded a very good lineup and our pings were all at 50..... I am not sure how far we might go, but we enjoy playing and that is the most important thing.

8th place sits Legion with 6 games so far and have only managed to win 1 against clan unf, which was actually pretty close, overall score was 15-14 in rounds. They have lost to the big teams TVS and SD. The surprise match was vs Morituri in which series 3&4 came down to the final round, Morituri was up each series 4-0, only to have Legion claw their way back and win to salvage a tie. Norules now lives in the UK and should have better ping to EU servers, so it will be a good plus having him around with better latency.

9th place currently sits Brodganget which is a 2nd team of SD consisting of Lethalwiz, Mawe, and Goblin and Rio. Their first game was split between sudden death and got a draw and they beat team Paras who are new to clan arena. It is yet to be known if they might continue playing because they haven't been around anymore, but we hope the main SD can contact them so they can play more games.

10th place sits Brazilian team Brazucos. They played their first game against the Chileans and game was split and beat Foozle. They are very disorganized and I have a hard time figuring out who to contact to when its time to play their games. If they can get their act together, they might have a good tournament since many years ago there was a great clan arena scene in Brazil but now adays, the only main action so far down there is a resurgence of team fortress, maybe we can get those TFers to join instead.

11th place sits the Winged Clams. They played Morituri and The Norse and were humbled both 4-0 however they played division99 and actually won. So far the main lineup has been Fro, Turbo, Matuka from the UK and zombie90 from Sweden. They still have a lot of games to go, and since everyone has been playing, they might find it difficult against the other teams that have played more and already have a feel for the tournament.

12th place sits Foozle, which is actually a team that consists mostly of q3 CPMA players. So far they haven't won any matches, and have lost to the two south american teams and to clan unf. Although their main map so far that seems promising, is q1_q3dm13 which seems to have produced them the most round wins. These guys don't play much QW other when it comes down to playing matches, if they can put some time and a bit of practice they could probably surprise a few teams especially on the q3 maps.... Hats go off to them as its not their main game of choice and are only playing for fun.

13th place goes out to Division99. These guys came together because I replaced the team "Tera" as Skulker who had registered the team turned out to be a total jerk and I needed to find a team and it turned out to be these guys. So far the team has played 2 matches and have lost both of them. The game against The Winged Clams actually was pretty close as series 4 came down to the last round and could of been a tie, however they lost the round and lost the game 3-1. They have yet to play with the likes of Pew, Tsobo and Brazilian overflow who now resides in Switzerland... if these guys can field pew,tsobo and overflow in matches... they can definitely put up a good fight against some teams... but we will see what happens as these guys are generally pretty new to clan arena.

14th place goes to quake2 team "Liver and Onions" but actually are only ranked 14th because they haven't played any games and have no losses. Its been 4 weeks so far since the tourney has started and if by the end of October they do not play 1 game, more than likely we will be removing them. They are new to Quakeworld and perhaps could be the reason they have not decided to play, but we do hope they find time to play games and even though with all due to respect they may lose the majority of their games, we encourage them to play and have fun.

15th place goes to Team Paras who actually sits 1st in division 2 in the EQL with 11played games and have played everyone there, however for whatever reason have only played 1 game in our tourney and played against Brodganget who beat them fairly easily... this team could do fairly well if they try and field players, every time I join their channel, they say don't have time or don't want to play. We do hope they play and even though they might be new to CA, they shouldn't be discouraged.

16th place goes to team TPA from Finland, who joined fairly recently but already has 4 games played. They haven't won any games and have lost all games 4series to none..however they did manage to win a few rounds against TVS, so there is definitely some glimmer of hope. We wish them best of luck to our amigos from Finland :D

Overall that sums up our half way season.
We hope that this season is a great success and that everyone enjoys play the matches as much as I enjoy adminning the tournament. We do look forward for our next season and expect to have more teams and hopefully we can have a division system so that teams that are new to Clan Arena can play teams with their same skill and have great games.

Any questions, let me know or stop by our channel on quakenet #qwca

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