UKTerrorist

Iron Clad

Posted by Sunman^ at 13:51, 26/1/2005

A community engulfed in class? Or Stuck in a void?

Firstly I would like to say hi to those that know me and hi to those that don’t. I don’t have much time for this game as of recent occurrences in my life, but that said you didn’t come here to read a life story and if you did then frankly you need help.

Day in and day out I visit this site and have the unequivocal misfortune of reading some of the dreary eyed responses to monotonous columns.
Most columns seem to be carbon copy’s of past and present. I thought I would try and write something covering all aspects of the spectrum and provide some informative reading whilst doing so. (here’s hoping)
Now onto the momentous task at hand, I would just like to say that the opinions expressed in this article are that of my own, I don’t expect many or any of you to hold your heart on your sleeve as far as they are concerned. What I would like/hope for is some adult conversation or unbiased views after this atrocity, other wise know as a column.

A Gulf In Class.
People talk consistently about the Hierarchy Tiers if you will of the uk cs scene, those evidently being
1# 4K, PCgamer.
2# Lastchance, Landed.cs
3# ctx, 2s2p, lanimals, scee

Forgive me if I have left any respective clans out, just keep in mind this is a brief synopsis and It’s difficult to have it completely iron clad.

The point I am trying to make is that for a long time now at least 1.5 years or about, these tiers have not changed, apart from the folding of I-es. But yet you hear people say that “the skill gap is closing” that for the most part has yet to be proven. Bar 2 results which I can think of. C4u taking pcgamer at i19 and wolf beating 4k to reach eswc no other lower tier teams have come close. Look at the recent cpl quals landed had a poor showing, PCgamer didn’t even show (no fault of there own) and the rest of the lower tier teams were not even invited. If you cant even get invited how do they expect to get the experience that is essential in propelling them to the pinnacle of uk and world gaming.

It seems that the answer lies in sponsorships and contacts. Would landed.cs really have been invited to the recent cpl quals if they did not have the financial backing of the landed-lan crew that and or the good relations with gamefrontier after hosting the previous Intel events? Never mind hold such a high seed. That is not a dig at landed simply something to ponder on. Would omg! Still be omg! If the deal with team-amd gamer had not been advertised and they were not so lucky to pick it up, or would their fate be sealed just like that of I-es who lacked the financial backing to take their team to higher ground.

It seems to me that with the exception of 4K, Sponsorship has been reluctant to come to the aid of uk teams which is recognizable in AMD pulling out of the aforementioned sponsorship with the then TAG. Bar omg! Getting the sponsorship which to me was rather dubious, as it was more of a plug on pcgamer and amd’s behalf with regards to advertising, has any other team gained sponsorship?

Would any other team be worthy of it? I see a lot of people talking tripe in the form of “give it to c4u they are better than 4K”, To be quite frank if I were Intel and seen the mouthy kids that c4u had all be it if they were or were not better players than 4K. I would be extremely hesitant to conduct any relations with them whatsoever. Its about the way the team carries themselves and represents the sponsor just as much as it has to do with skill level, and until the likes of ctx can comprehend this then I see no bright future for the 2nd and or 3rd tier teams that make up the competitive uk scene, never mind even getting close to filling the gulf in class with regard to skill and maturity.

Stuck in a void
Are we really going anywhere at all? Do we have the motivation to do anything about it.? I’m not a player taking the world by storm nor do I delude myself into thinking I am. However some players that I feel need to be named have serious misconceptions about how to achieve the goals set by their ‘fools paradise’ if you will of a mind. And inevitably those players actions set the community back a long way, but also sets bad examples for the influx of young players coming through.

Look at kritikal. No doubt the lad had skill when it came to the game but was he really all there when it came to the upstairs department? Sadly no. The lad was a burger short of a happy meal.

He tried to elevate his team to a world status but bar disgracing himself with his all too frequent showing of immaturity, cheating online in a prestigious match and getting banned out of clanbase by having an already banned player play for them in a match. Also not to mention making 4Kings never want to play in an online comp with regards to uk opposition, what has he or his team done for the uk? Yet people wanted them to be given sponsorship, TAG’s to be exact, directly after i19. Yes folks this is the type of player that despite all of the above b0sh decided to give a chance to, and what does he do throw it back in his face. An egotistical kid once again gets the limelight, only to throw it back in the community’s face. Yes folks the future looks bright.

Now brings me to another person I feel I need to mention: realf1re. Now this kid is warped when it comes to the world of cs. Not only did he once scribble 4K^Realf1re onto a college desk (thanks ubiquity for letting us know that) He gets the best known cheaters to play with him online “geo” and then kicks him after his lan performance. So what those he do then? Oh! He goes and recruits more cheating retards in the form of v1x.

Leezer had the best column up here in ages. The one saying “Caution! These guys cheat” How or why it was removed I really don’t know. It had 2 demo’s the one versus disturbed + leezer on a non cd server and one versus ctx on a cd server with admin, Anyone looking at it could see their skill level dramatically decreased in the form of losing their 6th sense when it came to the 2nd game.

Sadly the two aforementioned names have one good feature goings for them, the fact that they want to win, but going about it any means is not the way to do it.

However we the community are partly to blame. By taking down leezer’s column what message were we portraying to the rest of the world and the up and coming players? That it’s okay to cheat? That when you do so and it’s shown on the uk’s most respected cs website that we turn a blind eye. Is it any wonder more and more kids want to cheat to get a name for themselves with the botched messages we seem to deliver to them.

Sadly until we take a dramatic stance in the form of banning the cheats from all online play, and for good. Not like clanbase who let c4u in numerous times, or like csgn who kicked carbine for cheating and then let in c4u. ah the irony.
Not to mention carbine were acquitted. Ban the cheats for good, or else the scene will not be going anywhere, bar, round and round in a vicious circle.

This article has been “KIND” of dragging on quite a bit now and for that I am sorry. I hope you can forgive my semi-rhetoric column. I would have also Liked to touch on the following aspects “Fulfilling our potential” and “is it simply a dying genre” Perhaps the 2 above could be discussed with regards to the comments.

On a side note towards Kritikal and Realf1re it wasn’t a flame as such, just trying to show the people who are holding the scene back. I’m sure there is hundreds more out there.

Happy flaming.