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Around 350 gamers wanted to show their best on the LAN party "nur48stunden" in Styria in south-east austria. Many tournaments for many games were avail like C&C, CS1.6, COD and much more. Also a tournament for UT3 was running and myself joined it to get the cup on side of SaIcosa! And this plan worked pretty good. I could bring home the gold Cup.

So the results were:

1st place by Stroyer || Clan Austria SaIcosa
2nd place went again to spEEdy || Clan Germany UTzone.de

We could also reach the 2nd place at the BloodBowl Cup. The Winner was selected by a coin flip. The final games were pretty exciting and the results were 0:2,2:0,1:1.

Later in this night the admin had to get a winner and so we did an easy coin flip. Unlucky, but here we failed and we got the 2nd place. Still a good result.

Congratulations!

Blood Bowl is an ultra violent team sport, based on the Warhammer fantasy world. Build up your team with Orcs, Elves, Dwarfs and many other fantasy creatures before jumping into the bloodiest arenas!
Blood Bowl was originally created by Jervis Johnson and Games Workshop in 1987. The board game, a parody of the Warhammer world and American Football, met with success in the 80s and the 90s. The world’s largest Tabletop Wargames company continues to sell the game's miniatures today. Also, its creator never stopped improving and enriching Blood Bowl’s game system and universe with several rule changes.
Today, Blood Bowl remains very popular around the world thanks to a large community of players and numerous dedicated fansites. As for old Blood Bowl players, they have unforgettable memories of all the passionate games they used to play. Throughout the years, the original Blood Bowl game has earned a legendary status.

The game is a combination of a tactical game and a sports game The basics are extremely simple: two teams, one ball. The team that carries the ball into the opponent's end zone scores a touchdown, the team with the most touchdowns at the end of the game is the winner. However, it’s how you decide to do this that makes things interesting, the ends justify the means! It’s not just the players you have at your disposal either. You can bribe the referee’s to look the other way as you cripple or trample annoying opponents and hire illegal wizards to give you a hand directly from the crowd… Blood Bowl severely tests the finest tacticians' strategies
There are many races to accommodate every player’s profile and even more strategies for experimenting. Winning a game requires a strong game-sense and a lot of self-control.
For the player's enjoyment, omnipresent humor and the use of spells, weapons, and other non-regulatory means place Blood Bowl outside of the classic sport simulation genre.

SaI will participate in the 1st season at the blood bowl league.

Next cup, next award!

Also the CTF Hosted Cup comes to an end. And the winners are:

gold Zero Degreez
silver Funky monkeys
bronze SaIcosa

Congratulations to the SaI CTF Team!

Last and final game in the groups again at TRUFA that funny spanish people who only like to play after 10pm - so we all took or pills to stay awake...
Man we should've started at 8pm so we could've played secound map by 11pm like tonight.
It must be an awful hard bit of work to get a mappack and 5 players ready in time - also something like testing a server 20 mins before a game is allmost impossible for some clans
Or was it maybe because we played RA before where those things went in time!?
Anyway we found a server where pings were ok for all and started with reflection cause searchligt se wasn't on it.
Lineup SAI: ezzy, ramses, stroyer, morph and ed. against some trufas.
as allways reflection was about hard fights low in the mid and lots of picks - we had a bit more pressure to all of it and so it went smooth until morph attacked - Die Null muss stehen! - well afterwards 1 for them and 7 for us

No the crazy evening begins back to sai server for searchlight (wasn't on ezzys server) - but not all trufas could join - backup only got a lousy 120-and-up ping - but we didn't have another server. so trufa played and morph not - he got (i think) five disconnects (he think he personally disliked the map and found an interessting way to show it ) so it took quite a while till the end of the game - scoring an playing was allmost even here we got some x-steals but managed to find the better end for us so again 1 for them and 3 for us.
GG trufas, GG mates - i'm off for hollydays now.

Tonight second last game in groupstage against old guys from red alert again.

First game was maybe a too clear result for us, but i had my doubts we would do that again, because the maps for tonight were: terra and lopo.
especially on terra red alert showed us that they have played that map in all sequels of ut since 99. coordinated attacks and item-timing stood against our not-so-good-knowledge of 3 players of the map
TS was like: "i'm our amp" - "aha, where is that?"..."are there no vials in that map" and "is that enemy-base somewhere? i'm still at homebase i think"...
That couldn't end good - but our new attacking-team with the hurrican morpheus and the blizzard ramses coverd by soulclap did it and after ten minutes they captured for the 1:0
So Stroyer or "aushilfsdefender" decided to put up the tent and the grill and ordered ed and him to built a wall around our flag.
Stroyer who played at flag must have fallen assleep or something, cause with 3 mins to go and not so much to do inbase some how they sneaked out of our base and somehow managed to enter theirs...
fortunatly we got their flag also but then storyer switched his role and decided to cover the FC what resulted in a permanetly dead ed on the other side trying to return against 3...
So it was murpheys-law... 1:1
Who's to blame? Stroyer!!!

Second map was lopo and we switched back to the old system morpheus and ed defense and replaced soulclap with neutrino.
ramses did an outstanding job here and with the backup of stroyer, neutrino and ed the final result here was 12:0. What a strike but only a 2:1 in counting on our side...
Anyway GG to RA deserved on terra and raped on lopo.

After a good first match tonight it was time to prove what the first victory was worth - this time a real ctf-clan was to show up: RA, Red Alert in the business for ages now, but with a slighty change in focus: from ut to wow... will that be good for ut?
Anyway as allways with guys how play for the fun and spirit for it, server negotiations was fast and smooth. we were all a bit tense how strong ra with their teamplay and skill will be. we haven't seen any players of them anywhere. so we started on hazardsphere with a bit defensive lineup.

Some minutes later - storyer was whining: "i can't take some flags out!" we ordered him to die quitly but also takeda to start attack - that change and our solid defense (as allways morph aka theWall) take care of all attackruns from neas, revanchist and all the others...
So result on hazard after a hard fight 4:0 for us
Now next map again hosh2, which we prolly had the advantage to play against Trufa as decider - so all new what to do.
i think RA didn't play that map before in the new version , but as allways quick an organized the came to our flag - but as allways too: morph.
After some glorious runs from heckz and stroyer we'll take a solid lead.
with more coordinated and better backup from stroyer we could've scored more - but who cares!?
Anyway attack lineup heckz, stroyer und takeda did an good job and also morph and eddie played for 0 tolerance!
Final score a bit high 15:0
We wish RA gl for match against Trufa for the playoffspot.