And the last match on Proving Grounds plays itself out. Some very tense moments in both of the maps, especially on Lost Village. Dagger, you're way too stuborn, you bastard. Same with CP and Smikies.

We're going to miss Proving Grounds, it's a shame they went under. Thanks to everyone we played for the great matches and attitudes. Don't know what ladder we're going to next, we'll have to see what comes up I guess.

This match was recorded and is avaliable in the downloads section for your perusal.

Final results:
Lost Village: 206-0 (Coalition)
73 Easting: 345-0 (Coalition)
No Fly Zone2: (not played)

Attending troopers: BlutSauger, Cable, Dukester, Flash Fried, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Rune, and VA Killer.

Just noticed this posted on the main Proving Grounds page. This sucks.

Endgame - PG Closes Its Doors - - 11:13 PM - Jalis
Five years ago, a "couple guys in Michigan with a database" opened a site called Proving Grounds and aspired to provide a different kind of atmosphere for gaming enthusiasts to match their skills up against other competitive enthusiasts. Built on hard work, a dedication to always making the right decision instead of the popular decision, and the desire to have fun above all else, those guys were wildly successful in that vision.

Unfortunately, all great things must come to an end, and we now stand at that point in our storied history of providing a place for great people to play games. Along with success came personal financial burdens, and though we have for a long time taken those losses and smiled all along, we can no longer do so. Many great people have contributed to this site, none more than our wonderful staff, and thus, this decision was not an easy one to make.

We have seen great players come and play here at Proving Grounds, sharing their experiences with the others here who would follow rules in pursuit of something better than what was offered by our competitors. We have seen our share of detractors who figured we'd close up shop after a few months, or cave to childish antics, threats and even illegal attacks on the web server. We have seen many of these good natured people come and play at Proving Grounds, and enjoy themselves so thoroughly that they joined our staff in order to help provide that same enjoyment to others. These people, staffers and the members who have played here and stood behind us from day one and beyond, will be missed, and we regret that this experience must come to an end. We hope that you will find something similiar to the experiences you have had at Proving Grounds, and we hope to see many of you in the gaming servers we'll all no doubt be frequenting until old age or carpal tunnel keeps us from spending unhealthy amounts of time kicking the crap out of one another at the detriment of our wives, girlfriends and families! No doubt exists that Proving Grounds made an impact in the online gaming community, whether it be the positive reactions most of you expressed, or the love-affair the whiners and cheaters had with trading barbs with us!

In the end, we have to admit that the financial issues must force us to close down, and in that respect, this closure will happen relatively quickly. On October 14th, 2004, PG will officially close its doors. We hope to hear from our committed members in the next week as we say our goodbyes, and afterwards as we become "just players", as we were before we began this thing we would come to love. Certainly, we more than expect to hear from the trolls who I have personally more than enjoyed schooling in lessons of humility.

So, please forgive us for this decision, wrap up your matches, and enjoy the last moments of Proving Grounds. We hope that you guys have enjoyed playing with us as much as we have enjoyed serving you.

PG will be missed, and so will all of you who so supported us.

Final results:
Lost Village: 209-0 (Opposition)
No Fly Zone 2: 761-0 (Opposition)
Docks : (not played)

Attending troopers: BlutSauger, Boris, Cobra, Dukester, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Rune, Sgt York, and Speedslash.

Final results:
El Alamein Day 2: 53-120
Kursk : 0-189 (Coalition)
? : (not played)

Attending troopers: Flashfried, Instigator, Magic, Messiah, Rune, Sgt York and VA_Killer.

It's been 4 years since the team formed up guys, and wow. What a great time. In one way it seems like it was just a few days ago, and in others it seems like forever and day since we joined forces to start playing Tribes 2. (Once it came out of course). I've lost track of the number of hours we've spent online gaming, having a good time and enjoying each other's company, or the number of practises and matches we've held, but thanks to everyone who's helped make the team what it is today. You're a great bunch of guys, and I'm proud to call you all my friends.

Looking forward to many more years of fun and gaming. :)

Final results:
El Alamein: 289-0 (Coalition)
Weapon Bunkers: 323-0 (Coalition)
? : (not played)

Attending troopers: BlutSager, Cable, Dukester, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Panzerbox, Sgt. York, Speedslash, VA_Killer and Zink.

Attending troopers: Boris, Instigator, Magic, Messiah, Sgt. York and Speedslash.

Final results:
Gazala: 84-157 (Coalition)
Kursk: 120-0 (Opposition)
Kharkov: 0-154 (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Cable, Dukester, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Panzerbox, Sgt. York, VA_Killer and Zink.

Final results:
Lost Village: 0-285 (Coalition)
Oil Fields: 0-188 (Coalition)
Basrah's Edge: Not Played (Opposition)

Attending troopers: Cable, Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Kingpin, Marauder, Messiah, Panzerbox, Rune, Sgt. York and Zink.

So so close, but yet again no cigar.. But much better score on Lost Village than in the last match! (0-421 last time vs. FOW) Thanks for the games Future! VGGs!

As an interesting note, this match is our 50th game in Battlefield conquest. :)

Final results:
Lost Village: 0-27 (Coalition)
Guadalcanal: 109-131 (Coalition)
Sea Rigs: Not Played (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Cable, Dukester, Instigator, Marauder, Messiah, Panzer and Zink.

That was painfull, but at least we didn't get hammered too badly on lost village ;)
This marks Zink's first match with the team. GGs bud!

Final results:
Lost Village: 0-280 (Coalition)
El Alamein: 0-204 (Opposition)
Basrah's Edge: Not Played (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Cable, Dukester, Instigator, Marauder, Messiah and Zink.

We no longer have a Desert Combat server to practise on. It has been taken down due to lack of donations. With a cost to run of $85 USD per month, and the number of people we have playing (approximately 12 players play on a regular basis) we should have been able to pay for it easily, but regretably a few of our members end up paying the majority of the bills. Alas poor Team Forever Twisted Server, we knew yea well.

Very nice co-ordination FOW! :) Thanks for the great games.

Final results:
Desert Shield: 0-61 (Coalition)
Lost Village: 0-421 (Opposition)
Kharvov: Not Played (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Cable, Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Marauder, Messiah, Sgt. York, and VA_Killer.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. In this case, we were completely unable to do anything bad to AOD. ;) The whole night seemed to be filled with bad luck and things going wrong. Ahh well, there's always next time.

Final results:
El Alamein: 0-149 (Coalition)
Lost Village: 0-354 (Opposition)
Desert Shield: Not Played (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Cable, Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Sgt. York, Spazl, Rune and VA_Killer.

Welcome to the Battelfield Division, Zink!

Ouchies. At last we taste the bitter english beer of defeat rather than the invigorating Jack Daniels shot glass of victory. GG's to LTO!

Final results:
Oilfields: 0-149 (Opposition)
Stallingrad: 0-114 (Coalition)
Lost Village: Not Played (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Boris, Cable, Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Kingpin, Magic, Marauder, Sgt. York, Rune and VA_Killer.

Nice work all, that brings our winning streak up to 6, and we retain #1. Thanks as always for the games DLB, nice to meet your new guy VS9.

Final results:
Kharkov: 96-0 (Opposition)
Berlin: 49-0 (Coalition)
Battleaxe: Not Played (Opposition)

Attending troopers: Boris, Cable, Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Messiah, Marauder, Sgt. York, Rune and VA_Killer.

Roster changes made today. Alcazar, MC Hammer, Sinister Sniper and Merkilo moved to the DC retired page.

Promotions: Due to their hard work and dedication, Instigator and VA_Killer are hereby promoted to Lieutenant. Goshwin and Rune are promoted to Sargent. Cobra, and Dukester are promoted to Corporal.

Welcome aboard to Sgt. York, he's a rather kick ass chopper pilot and all around player, and he's here for a little DC ownage.

To anyone who's interested, all of the Desert Combat match demos from Proving Grounds are now avaliable on DVD, in double the resolution of the downloadable demos. Email Marauder if interested. We're also working on putting them on video DVDs, but that's going slowly and only two matches fit on each DVD (Give or take.) Cost is $10CDN for the shipping to wherever for the current two DVD set.

Outstanding games guys! We even managed to defeat MS (even if not by much!) as the Coalition on 73 Easting, even when down by one man. Nice SCUD hunting, Goshwin. Excellent work from everyone, those were some tight, tight games. Practise does pay off! That also marks our 20th match played on the PG DC Conquest ladder.

Final results:
Oil Fields: 230-0 (Coalition)
Gazala: 16-45 (Coalition)
73 Easting: 112-72 (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Boris, Cable, Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Kingpin, Magic, Marauder, Rune and VA_Killer.

Again, the scent of lemon and carnage surrounds us. An excellent effort from all involved, and the airforce gets kudos for their work on El Al. :) There's nothing like seeing an enemy tank coming at you shooting, then suddenly exploding and seeing one of our aircraft come screaming through the smoke and flames. Thanks as always DLB, we look forward to meeting again, which I'm sure we will. :D

Final results:
El Alamein: 133-0 (Opposition)
Berlin: 84-0 (Coalition)
73 Easting: Not Played (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Boris, Cable, Goshwin, Instigator, Kingpin, Magic, Marauder and Rune.

Lemony fresh victory is ours! Very nice games, everyone. Excellent team work and very little chatter was heard. Everyone played very well tonight. Amazing work on both the ground and the air. In Gazala, Magic was shot down a total of 0 times by the enemy.

Final results:
El Alamein: 114-0 (Coalition)
Gazala: 164-0 (Coalition)
Lost Village: Not Played (Opposition)

Attending troopers: Dukester, Cable, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Rune and VA_Killer.

/me does little snoopy dance. Nice work everyone. We managed to soundly defeat MS in some very, VERY tense fights tonight. Thanks for the great games Stalkers, you certainly kept us on our toes our on the battlefield. I thought in the last few minutes on Desert Shield you had us for sure, but Rune and Insigator pulled it out of the hat for us on the east flag. Good work to Killer and Instigator for snagging the axis airfield on Oil Field as well.

On a rather cool note, we just took the #1 place on PG away with that match, and that victory puts us even with our number of wins on OGL 1942, and well ahead on the win/loss ratio. (8 wins to 9 losses, compared to 8 wins to 16 losses on the OGL 1942.)

Final results:
Oil Fields: 142-0 (Coalition)
Desert Shield: 38-0 (Coalition)
Lost Village: Not Played (Coalition)

Attending troopers: Boris, Dukester, Cable, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Rune and VA_Killer.

At last! The evil that is Ason and his crew of trunk moneys has fallen before our might... Well.. Barely, but still, we won. :P Great games guys, thanks as always. 786th retired from the PG ladder after this match as well, we'll miss you. Nice work to all !FT! troopers who played, that was really well done guys.

Welcome back to Messiah! This is the first match he's played with the team since the December 15th match vs. LTO. Match demo is up in the demo download FTP for those who are interested.

Final results:
Basrah's Edge: 12-0 (Opposition)
El Alamein: 89-0 (Coalition)
Stalingrad: Not Played (Opposition)

Attending troopers: Cable, Cobra, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Rune and VA_Killer.

Grrrrr... So, so VERY VERY close... and yet... No cigar. Nice work to everyone who played, there was next to no extraneous chatter on teamspeak. I think we did very well on Guadalcanal, and we darned near won on Stalingrad as well. As usual, the choppers and the SCUD got us. I'm thinking no more bocage for us. Love the map, but it's hugely unbalanced towards the opposition team.

Tonight was the first match for Boris and Cable, and you guys did an outstanding job.

Final results:
Guadalcanal: 423-371 (Coalition)
Bocage Day 2: 0-92 (Coalition)
Stalingrad: 0-12 (Opposition)

Attending troopers: Boris, Cable, Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, and Rune.

Thanks to everyone who donated to the server. This month, we're $3 over for the server! Thanks again guys. :)

I can't believe it, we actually WON on Lost Village. :) Yay for us! Nice work from everyone who attended, that was a tight match. Soooo very close to victory on Bocage...Demo is up in the 1942 Demos section for those interested.

Final results:
DC Lost Village: 291-0 (Coalition)
Bocage Day 3: 103-116 (Coalition)
El Alamein Day 2: 74-174 (Opposition)

Attending troopers: Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Kingpin, Magic, Marauder, and VA_Killer.

Okay guys, we have a bit of a problem here, and it's with our Desert Combat server. The server costs the team $85 USD per month. Right now we have just a few team members footing the bill for it every month. Thus far we have 3 people this month who have donated $55. We have roughly 15 people who play with us on a regular basis. If they all kicked in $5 per month we've have enough to pay for it without any problems. I'm going to add a little chart to the Battlefield site to show everyone how much has been donated.

Dagger and the boys once again tremble before the might that is Forever Twisted. (Well, sort of anyhows. ;) Nice work to all attending !FT! Troopers, especially to Gosh for keeping the spawn chopper out of the skies on Urban Siege, Magic for the magical aircover and SCUD o' Death, Rune for his armor work, Dukester for playing his first match and kicking some Bradley ass on Bocage, Killer for his outstanding long range fire support (as usual) and of course, Kydd for just being a damned good player no matter where you put him. Kingpin unfortunately couldn't make the match as his computer was acting up.

Thanks as always to DLB for being such good sports and a great bunch of guys to play with.

Final results:
Bocage Day 3: 122-0 (Allied)
Urban Siege: 93-0 (Allied)
73 Easting (Just for fun): 163-0 (Axis)

Attending troopers: Dukester, Goshwin, Instigator, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Rune, Tracer, and VA_Killer.

Welcome to Cable, one of Marauder's local friends. Yes, another nice Canadian in the mix baby!

A big welcome to Boris! He's an excellent player from Magic and Instigator's neck of the woods.

Ouch. We got handled bad tonight. Good work 786th! No idea what happened, but man that hurt. Specially on Lost Village we just couldn't seem to get anywhere.

Final results:
El Alamein: 125-286 (Allied)
Lost Village: 0-196 (Axis)
Bocage Day 2: Not Played (Allied)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Instigator, Kingpin, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Rune, and VA_Killer.

Getting kicked by Punkbuster? Download this file. Copy it to your program files/ea games/battelfield 1942/pb folder and run it. It will manually update your Punkbuster files. Thanks to KyddThunder for the heads up. :)

Since no one's heard from Denaline in ages, he's been moved to the retired list.

Well, we did much better than expected on Lost Village, holding our own for ages. On Bocage unfortunately, once SOT got their SCUD (one vehicle I REALLY wish that they would take out of the game, as the allied team doesn't have anything to compete with it, especially on the maps with no aircraft.) they kept us penned in our base forever. Goshwin and Kingpin dropped on the second map and only Goshwin was able to reconnect after about 5 minutes. *sigh* Bad luck night. Nice work SOT.

Final results:
Lost Village: 0-27 (Allied)
Bocage Day 3: 0-57 (Allied)
Tobruk: Not Played (Allied)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Instigator, Kingpin, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Rune, and VA_Killer.

Welcome aboard to Dukester! He's going to be playing some Ghost Recon and Desert Combat with the team, and from what we've seen so far, he's a great guy, and kicks some major ass. :)

Always a pleasure to play with DLB, they all show amazing sportsmanship and are a fun bunch of guys, and even hung around to play the third map just for fun. Nice work to everyone in !FT! who played, tight game lads. See, practise night does pay off in the end. This one brings us back up to 50% win/loss ratio! w00t.

Final results:
Bocage Day 3: 165-0 (Axis)
El Alamein Day 2: 128-0 (Axis)
El Alamein: 158-0 (Allied)

Attending troopers: Cobra, Goshwin, Instigator, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Rune, Spazl, Tracer and VA_Killer.

Holy crap! Nice games 786th! Your chopper pilots are truly, truly annoying individuals, as are your arty guys. Grrrrrrrr... :) Nice work y'all

Huge kudos to our pilots on El Alamein, that was truly, truly an impressive performance. Nice work to Inst for sitting patiently on the north flag for most of the 25 minutes on the third map. :)

Final results:
Bocage Day 3: 114-23(Axis)
El Alamein Day 2: 65-109 (Axis)
El Alamein: 131-27 (Axis)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Instigator, Kingpin, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Prozac, Rune, and VA_Killer.

Woot! Download 'er from File Planet here.

Wow. Fast games. Nice work MS, especially with the SU-25 action on El Al. You guys have obviously been practising more than we. :) We'll be back!

Final results:
DC Lost Village: 0-59 (Axis)
El Alamein: 0-66 (Allies)
Basrah's Edge: Not Played (Axis)

Attending troopers: Cobra, Goshwin, Insigator, Kingpin, Magic, Marauder, Merkilo, Rune, Tracer, and VA_Killer.

Cobra is setting up a vanilla 1942 team for CAL. If you're interested in playing, contact him ASAP. ICQ #: 16322327 or email: donald125@hotmail.com

Once you've perloined the 1.6 patch for Battlefield, yah might wanna grab the fix for the Scoreboard for Desert Combat. (Thanks Rune)

Another new comer to the ladder, SOT, and they had a great first game. As per usual, we got handled on Lost Village, a map that I personally detest for ladder play. We did well on El Al, and it was incredibly tight on Desert Shield... VERY VERY tight. Demo will be up in the downloads section in the next week or so. Nice work from everyone, and thanks to SOT for the games.

Final results:
El Alamein: 35-0 (Axis)
Lost Village: 0-76 (Axis)
Desert Shield: 0-4 (Axis)

Attending troopers: Cobra, Goshwin, Insigator, Magic, Marauder, Merkilo, Prozac Princess, and VA_Killer.

First game for DLB, the new guys on the ladder, and they drew us. A very, VERY tight game from all of FT, and we defeated DLB on the field of battle. The server crashed right at the end of Desert Shield, with 1 ticket left for DLB. Wonderfull work from everyone, there was so little chatter on Team Speak it was almost silly, and everyone stuck to the plan beautifully. Gosh, Kydd and Magic in the air were just owning it up tonight.

Thanks for the games DLB, we'll meet again soon I'm sure. Actually we have to set up some scrims. You seem like a really good bunch of guys. :)

Final results:
El Alamein: 84-0 (Axis)
Desert Shield: 81-1 (Allies)
Kharkov: Not Played (Axis)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Insigator, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Prozac Princess, and VA_Killer.

Due to the server being a naughty little monkey and misbehaving, despite the best efforts of Magic to bring it into line, we'll be playing Da Lost Boyz in one weeks time, on the 19th. (Monday) It figures doesn't it? The damned thing is like a rock, untill the one night you REALLY care that it works. Stupid computers.

A big welcome to Merkilo, who has joined the ranks of the Twisted to play a little 1942 Desert Combat!

VA Killer has been promoted to Corporal. Congrats, now get to work. ;)

First match on the PG ladder for MS, and well played games guys, very tight. Thanks for the patience, Marauder screwed up and thought the match was 01/04/03... Not 01/03/04. Stupid new year crap. Luckily we managed to pull a few people together, and played an 8 on 8 by the seat of our pants! We did well on Bocage, but regretably on DC Lost Village we just couldn't make a dent in them at all. Everytime we set down, there were heavy assault guys all over the place.

It was R-Khan and Spazl's first match with the team. Nice work picking off the strays on Bocage Khan, and wonderfull arty work from Instigator and Magic.

Final results:
Bocage Day 4: 42-0 (Allies)
DC Lost Village: 0-134 (Allies)
El Alamein Day 2: 4-19 (Allies)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Insigator, Kingpin, Magic, Marauder, Prozac Princess, R-Khan, Spazl, Tracer and VA_Killer.

Darn you LTO! We'll get you yet my pretties! And your little tanks too! Yet again vs. the lads at LTO we win one, loose two. Seems we're much better in armor/armor maps than in ones with any air combat involved. We ended up playing this one 9 on 9.

Great games everyone, and as always thanks to LTO for an excellent server and great sportsmanship and attitude.

Final results:
Iwo Jima: 93-213 (Allies)
Bocage Day 3: 77-24 (Axis)
Gazala: 163-195 (Allies)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Insigator, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac Princess, Rune, and VA_Killer.

Welcome to the DC 1942 team Spazl! Protocal is moved to the retired list.

Hold turn out Batman! Both teams had players crawling out of the woodwork so we ended up playing it 12 on 12. Regretably we got handled in the air on No Fly Zone, and from the air on Tobruk. (Paratroopers!) LTO pulled the same strat on Tobruk we were going to try, but unfortunately did it better than we did. We managed to kick some butt on 73 Easting, we tend to do better in maps that aren't really heavilly air dependant. Good work to our middle base defenders and their arty of death.

Great games everyone, and nice playing to LTO!

Final results:
No Fly Zone: 0-158 (Allies)
73 Easting: 445-0 (Allies)
Tobruk: 0-202

Attending troopers: Cobra, Dopper, Goshwin, Insigator, Kingpin, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac Princess, Rune, Tracer and VA_Killer.

Nice work by everyone from !FT! tonight. Spanky spanky from both sides of 73 Easting, and heck, we didn't even really use the Scud when we were Axis.

Final results:
73 Easting: 314-46 (Axis)
73 Easting: 289-23 (Allies)

Attending troopers: Dopper, Insigator, Kydd Thunder, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, and VA_Killer.

Regretably, GXC didn't finalize their challenge, so they forfeited.

w00t! Nice work tonight guys. Game X Change put up a valient fight, but was defeated in the end. Thanks for the matches guys.

Final results:
Bocage: 108-0 (Allies)
Tobruk: 71-0 (Allies)
El Alamein: not played (Allies)

Attending troopers: Dopper, Insigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac Princess, Rune, and VA_Killer.

Everyone give a big !FT! welcome to Drenaline, a mad mad player who's here to kick some ass. :)

Our first proving grounds match, with the very excellent peeps at Team LTO. Thanks for some great games guys, Midway was especially tense, and I thought for sure we'd lost our last base on Bulge a few times.

73 Easting was total crap, as the oposition team of course just grabbed the scud and hit our main base. (My bad, shouldn't have given them side choice on that one.) Basically we lost 3/4 of our tickets before we even got out of our main base. *sigh* I hope never to see that stupid map again.

Final results:
Midway: 181-156 (Allies)
73 Easting: 0-448 (Allies)
Battle of the Bulge: 239-33 (Allies)

Attending troopers: Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Sinister, Tracer and Rune.

We're all really proud of everyone who played the match, tight guys. Very tight.

We've joined the Desert Combat 6 on 6 Conquest ladder at Proving Grounds. Only a few other teams here so far, but hopefully the ladder grows. It's really nice to see a ladder that allows smaller teams to play some competitive 1942.

Cheese Nugget, Tumult and Wonderpickle have been declared missing in action and moved to the inactive list.

With our rest time up tomorrow, we've dropped the OGL 8 on 8 conquest ladder as we debate which DC ladder to join. Final ranking on OGL: 8th place with 8 wins and 16 losses.

After discussion among the captains, we're placing the 1942 team on rest for two weeks while we figure out what we're doing. Things will probably get back to normal once the fall starts and everyone has less to do outside.

Final results:
El Alamein: 0-83 (Allies)
Berlin: 0-74 (Axis)
Guadalcanal: Not Played (Allies)

Attending troopers: Dopper, Goshwin, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac, Rune, Tracer and VA_Killer

Oh, it hurts, it hurts! As always, the planes are what slaughtered us on El Alamein. On Berlin, we lost in 3.5 minutes. Ouch. Nice work AFF!

Final results:
Midway: 0-124 (Allies)
Operation Aberdeen: 53-0 (Allies)
Guadalcanal : 0-101 (Allies)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Magic, Marauder, MC_Hammer, Messiah, Prozac, Rune, Sinister Sniper, and VA_Killer

Some tense moments last night. Regretably things went horribly wrong on Midway, as it always seems to when we're the allies. (Damn you Axis! Damn you to hell and back!) On Aberdeen we pulled it out of the hat with a modified strat that worked most excellently and led to a sound victory. It was pretty tense at the start untill we got things rolling, but it worked out really well. On Guadalcanal quite obviously we've got a great deal of work to do. On Guadal we tried a new communications tactic between air and ground elements that worked out quite well, with a little polishing it'll make things much simpler for our fliers.

Thanks to BHRD for an excellently fought match. We'll be back for our #3 spot soon. :)

Well crap. As of 9:00, we got a forfeit and dropped from 4th to 7th. Damn it all, I was busy and forgot to check for challenges. *sigh*

Final results:
Battle of the Bulge: 0-28 (Allies)
Midway: 51-65(Allies)
Berlin : Not Played (Axis)

Attending troopers: Cobra, Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, MC_Hammer, Messiah, Prozac, Sinister Sniper, Tinman, Tracer.

Nice work Chosen Ones! Regretably on the first map, things fell apart for us and we got smoked. Defence award goes to Magic in the M10 and Sinister the Engineer on the north bridge for keeping them from crossing it, period. On midway we were finally catching up, with their fleet supressed and dead for most of the match. Unfortunely I'm an idiot, and didn't notice that the time limit was set for 15 minutes, NOT 25 minutes. Ah well. We'll make sure to watch for that next time. Thanks again to CO for an excellent match, we'll be back for our #3 spot as soon as we can. ;) Dopper couldn't actually play in the match, as he was busy chatting with a lady. Much mocking of Dopper's priorities from all the nerds ensued. :)

This marks Hammer's first match with us, thanks for the work bud :)

Very nice work from everyone tonight, it was wonderfull to again taste the sweet, tender fruit of victory. Our horrible lemony revenge on VX9 is complete at last. ;)

Final results:
Battle of the Bulge: 15-9 (Allies)
El Alamein: 23-0 (Allies)
Iwo Jima: Not Played (Allies)

Attending troopers: Cobra, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac, Rune, Sinister Sniper, Tinman and VA_Killer

Thanks for the intense games VX9! Battle of the Bulge, we did a last man stand at the south base, and that was quite possibly the tensest battle I've ever been involved in. I thought we'd had it, but we just fought them off. Goshwin managed to kill their Tiger tanker and highjack the heavy, that helped a heck of a lot.

Welcome MCHammer to the ET and 1942 divisions!

Our 20th match on OGL 8 on 8!

Argh, it hurts! It hurts!

Final results:
Operation Aberdeen: 0-69 (Allies)
Berlin: 0-21 (Allies)
Iwo Jima: Not Played (Allies)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac, Sinister Sniper, and Tracer.

Nice work LETHAL, especially with the rush on Berlin right off the get go. Cobra couldn't make it, as his mom is in the hospital. Killer had company. :)

I have nothing to say about this match. It was so, so painfull. On a plus note, it's the first match for Tinman and VA_Killer. Thanks for coming out guys! :)

Final results:
Operation Battleaxe: 0-57 (Axis)
Midway: 0-78 (Allies)
Stallingrad: Not Played (Axis)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Sinister Sniper, Tinman, VA_Killer.

Nice work TAW!

Welcome to Tinman. 10 foot tall, looming brother of Skeezix, he'll be joining us for some 1942 action!

OK! After horrible things going wrong with the server (Damn you 1.4! Damn yoooouuuu!!!) we managed to get the server up, although we couldn't get it passworded. And were thereforce forced to watch and kick 3 players who connected during the matches. (Sorry Messiah :) -=MF=- played down 2 players, and put up one HELL of a fight for being outnumbered. It was extremely close on the first map, with LiquidNinja owning up both in a tank, in a plane and on the ground as an engineer. What a versitile player, we were all impressed as heck with Liquid, and indeed with MF as a whole. On wake island, we did much better, sinking their fleet 5 or so minutes into the map. Nice flying from Sinister, Goshwin and Magic! Aircover=gooooood. :)

Saw some good sneaky stuff from MF during that one, where one guy would do a long run for a flag. It worked a number of times, and only lucky placement of our foces prevented them from wide spread breakouts on our little island home. Unknown held our north flag for ages untill finally he was tracked down and killed. Good work MF, hopefully next time we start on time, the server works well, and the whole team turns out. This win puts us to #3 on the OGL 8 on 8. :)

Final results:
Kharkov: 30-22 (Allies)
Wake Island: 67-0 (Allies)
Kursk: Not Played (Allies)

Attending troopers: Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac Princess, Rune, Sinister Sniper and Tracer.

Thanks to everyone who played, and MF for a tense match, and the quick reporting.

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Our horrible revenge upon VX9 was horribly stimied! Fate (and no, not F8S, just Fate) has conspired against us, an several of our players (Dopper and Rune, who were at a LAN party at Pappy-R's) dropped out during the first map, and couldn't reconnect. Despite that, we were rapidly catching up with VX9 after a slow start... when the time ran out. Douh! :) Nice M10 and arty work guys. Luckily Tracer and Dart came in for the second map.

On Battleaxe, as usual we just got slaughtered by the enemy planes. Arty shells hit our runway before we could even get in the air and that was the end of that. Of the 11 times I died, 10 of them were to aircraft. Ouch. OISRADIO.COM as usual did the Shoutcast. It'll be up in the downloads section soon. Thanks Iron :) You rock bud. Magic was awarded MVP for our team, due to his amazing tanking skillz.

Final results:
Battle of the Bulge: 20-33 (Axis)
Operation Battleaxe: 0-60 (Allies)
Wake Island: Not Played (Allies)

Attending troopers: Dart, Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Rune, Sinister Sniper and Tracer.

Thanks to everyone who played, and to VX9 for another excellent match. We'll get yah next time ;)

Just a little notice to everyone. We've been keeping track of who attends for matches and practices. For a while there, attendance at both was most excellent, but lately we've had a drop off in attendance for practices. Please note that the players who attend practices and pub nights WILL be given preference in match play time. This is due to the critical nature of the practices in learning our strats, and learning to play with each other. People who don't fully understand the strats will not be able to function properly as part of the team during a match, and therefore may be bumped from a map if a player who HAS been attending the practices wants to play. If this happens, don't complain. Come to practice. If you can't make it, please let one of the team Captains (Magic, Messiah or Marauder) know why you couldn't. We're not trying to be jerks here, and we do our best to ensure that everyone who comes to a match gets in... But we're taking this step to try and get a little more solid on the organisation for matches.

The match on Saturday will be shoutcast, as usual by our hyper buddy OIS. We need everyone on Teamspeak by 9:30 at the latest so we can go over the strats, and explain them to those who didn't make practise last night. We need to defeat VX9 guys. :)

And the Dark Watch guys quit! That was fast eh? They've decided to go to a smaller team where they can get more play time in. Best of luck guys. :)

Excellent fight tonight guys. We played Aberdeen 7 players on 7players, then we were 8-7 on Battle of the Bulge. Excellent work on the part of MF, you really had us pushed back and on the defensive on Aberdeen for a bit there. Messiah and Sinister took the axis base on Aberdeen right off the get go, and held it for the length of the match, which spelled doom in the end. (Sneaky bastard medal for both of them.)

On Bulge, I thought for sure we were dead for sure. We were down something like 27-45 for a bit, but managed to pull it out of the hat near the end. Interesting, as we usually do well off the get go, and loose it in the endgame.

Final results:
Aberdeen: 46-0 (Allies)
Battle of the Bulge: 26-0 (Axis)
Market Garden: Not Played (Allies)

Attending troopers: Dart, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Rune, Sinister Sniper and Tracer.

Thanks to everyone who played, and to MF for the games. Excellent work, we keep #4 on the OGL. :)

Everyone give a big welcome to Hamish, Voodoo, Koren and Tombstone! They're going to be joining us from Dark Watch for the summer to play a little battlefield.

And lets welcome VA_Killer to the Battlefield 1942 team shall we?!

Oh my, that was some tense, TENSE fights tonight. Great maps, I can't believe we actually tied it up on Midway with 8 seconds left on the clock. OISRADIO.COM did the shoutcast, as always, and did an amazing job. The shoutcast will be posted on the site tomorrow for download. I got the MVP, I have no freakin' idea why. :) Guess I'll have to listen to it like everyone else and figure it out.

Final results:
Midway: 57-57 (Axis)
El Alamein: 11-61 (Allies)
Tobruk: 0-8 (Axis)

Attending troopers: Cobra, Dart, Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac, Rune, and Tracer.

Wow. I'm going to go off now and try to calm down a little.

Magic is indeed the one true lord of the dance. He's also our little ace in the sky. I did a little video one night just for fun It's the Magic Plane Demo, and it's up in the demo section! Click here to check it out!

Last night's shoutcast is up in the Battlefield Downloads section. Click here to check it out!

Darn it, I thought we had them! VX9 has their horrible revenge upon us, as predicted by both Nostrodamus AND the Bible. Nice work Alpha Company, that was some hella tense fights. Magic was just totally on, he got the MVP award from OISRADIO.COM, who did the shoutcast of the match. Our apologies to everyone for the late start, I'm not sure what happened we got some wires crossed at HQ with the start time and date. :(

Final results:
Midway: 64-0 (Axis)
Iwo Jima: 0-55 (Axis)
Bulge: 15-38 (Axis)

Attending troopers: Cobra, Dart, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Sinister Sniper and Tracer.

We're also going to drop the CTF ladder for the moment. We've come to the conclusion that we really don't have time for both.

I'm still waiting on the afteraction report for Suday's CTF match vs. The Dirty Dozen (d12) it'll be posted as soon as I get it.

Looking forward to our Conquest match on Wednesday night, vs. VX9 for #2 spot on the OGL 8 on 8. OISRADIO.COM will be shoutcasting the match, so listen in there if you want to hear it as it happens.

Oh my god. Nice games tonight Warrior Nation, that was some hard fought games, and a hell of a lot of fun! Wow. I'm still shaking :)

Final results:
Tobruk: 18-6 (Axis)
Bocage: 33-65 (Axis)
Kursk: 51-75 (Allies)

Attending troopers: Cobra, Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac Princess, and Sinister Sniper. Goshwin was having some wicked ping spikes tonight, so he sat.

Ouch. Obviously we need to play Battleaxe more. Thanks to Das Reich 2nd for a hell of a well fought match.

Final results:
Kharvov: 50-82 (Allies)
Battleaxe: 0-127 (Allies)
Market Garden: not played

Attending troopers: Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Reverend, Sinister Sniper and Tracer.

Sinister wasn't in TS early enough, so he ended up sitting for the first two maps, and no third map was played. Thanks again to OISRADIO.COM for the broadcast!!

Hamish from Dark Watch sends his appologies for missing the scrim last night, apparently they had some problems.. Everyone went to watch the Leafs and Flyers play "hockey" (Whatever the hell that is.... I think it involves boxing and sticks or something?)

Congratulations are in order! Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator and Reverend have recieved field promotions. Due to their dedication to the team, outstanding attitude and skills they have been promoted as of last night to Corporals in the ranks of Forever Twisted 1942. They will be taking more of a leadership role from now on, as well as having more of a say in command and strategic decisions. Congrats gentlemen, and thank you for all your hard work.

We're taking on the 2nd Panzer on April 22nd at 9:00pm, and yet again the match will be shoutcast on OISRADIO.COM. Tune in, check it out!

Official !FT! BF 1942 Unit patch! Right click the image and "save as" to download 'er.

Okay, here at last is the info from the match April 3, vs. Fate's Minions (F8S). (Lazy, lazy Marauder!)

Final results:
Iwo Jima:173-31 (Axis)
Tobruk: 36-12 (Allies)
Market Garden: not played

Attending troopers: Cobra, Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac Princess, Reverend, Sinister Sniper and Tracer.

Iwo Jima went really well, with Fate's only challenging us seriously in the centre of the island a few times. Tobruk was a great deal harder, as one would expect being on the allies team, but we held the line pretty well. The F8S guys did take over a few of the middle bases for a bit, and held our back main base for the longest time, but we managed to repell them and ended up winning it and holding onto #3 on the OGL 8 on 8.

I'm proud of everyone who played in the match, you guys did an amazing job. I think the regular practises are really paying off, and we've come a long way. :) Everyone gets a big hug from all of the captains. This was also our first Shoutcasted game ever, which is sort of odd considering how long we've been playing together. We'll definately have to get more of them Shoutcasted. Thanks again to OISRADIO.COM for the broadcast!!

Sinister Sniper gets the GTA3 award for stealing the enemy's bomber from the deck of the aircraft carrier and making off with it. Everyone else gets, as already mentioned, a big hug for doing so very, very well. :)

A huge thanks to the whole team at Fate's Minions for a great night of gaming, as always! We really appreciate the level of courtesy you guys show. It's always fun, and we always look forward to meeting you on the battlefield. One of the demos from the match, as well as the Shoutcast from Old Ironsides (OISRADIO.COM!) is will be up in the BF Downloads section in just a little bit.

w00t w00ty Mcw00tw00t! Check out the forums over at OIS Radio. :) Nice writeup from OIS himself. Now I'm getting all worked up over the match!

I'm an idiot, and forgot to announce our latest member. Welcome to Dartanion!

In other news, our match this thursday with F8S is going to be shoutcast on Oisradio.com! Thanks in advance to Old Ironsides for the work. :)

Thanks very much for a fun and exciting match VX9! Everhard, you are so the man. :) We look forward to meeting you guys in battle again.

Final results:
Market Garden: 64-6 (Allies)
Bocage : 25-0 (Allies)
Tobruk : not played

Attending troopers: Cobra, Dopper, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Reverend, and Tracer.

Last time we faced VX9 (Jan 9/03) we lost 0-53 on Bocage and 0-106 on Battleaxe. Revenge is ours. ;)

Gorgeous teamwork from everyone tonight, it was lovely to see everyone working together like a well oiled machine and kicking some butt.

Match Awards!

Amazing work from Magic, Messiah and Tracer in the air. Magic gets the "Red Barron Medal" and Messiah is hereby granted the right to wear the "Heavy Rain Cross" for his fine, fine B17 bomber work on both maps.

Special "Axis Air Support" award to Reverend for his suicide attack on Marauder in his M10 just as he attacked the enemies tiger tanks from the rear. ;) You're grounded bud.

Dopper was just an engineering bad ass on Market Garden defending that big bridge, and is hereby awarded the "Oh, was that _MY_ mine you hit?" medal.

Cobra gets the "redneck fishing" award of the night for his underwater nade work.

Inst gets the "roadblock" award for getting nasty with his tank and machine guns, mowing down a few enemy troopers and slowing the enemy tanks down on the MG stone bridge enough that the airforce slaughtered them where they stood.

Tracer also did some nice tank work on both maps and gets the "Everything but the Kitchen Sink" medal for just being overall a damned good player in most roles.

Special enemy note goes to the aforementioned Everhard for sneaking behind our lines on Market Garden, and capturing the church, thereby opening a second front behind us, and allowing VX9 reinforcements to take all of the flags for quite some time.

Welcome to the team SinisterSniper! Nice to have another good player online. :)

Thanks to Fate and his Minions for the great game tonight. We managed to pull off two clean victories on both maps. Some wierd issues on our servers so we played on theirs. Thanks again guys!

Final results:
Stallingrad: 138-0
Midway : 178-47
Guadalcanal: not played

Attending troopers: Cobra, Goshwin, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Protocal, Prozac, Reverend, Tracer. Rune attended, but his game kept crashing so he couldn't get in. :( Cobra also came out as well, but had a horrible connection night. (Stupid school connections :)

Nice work to Magic and Messiah for their armor action on Stallingrad, and to Protocal for keeping the pressure on the middle. Tracer was a machine, killing everything that had the misfortune to wander into his sights. Everyone else did an excellent job as well, we're proud of you all. Excellent match.

Looking forward to the match tomorrow night with Fate's Minions. They're good people, and always a heck of a lot of fun to play with.

Great games with [HEL] tonight. Played on their server with 1.31, everything seemed to run smoothly, no major problems. It was great to see so many people show up for the match, it's a nice change to have enough people that we had to do some subing. Picked up some interesting tips on the use of tanks and Hanomags vs. planes and infantry.

Final results:
Guadacanal: 14-120
Market Garden: 111-45
Kursk: 30-89

Attending troopers: Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Protocal, Reverend, Tracer, Tumult, and Wonder Pickle.

The 1.31 patch is finally out! It's posted in the downloads section. I'm assuming that the servers will be putting it up pretty quickly.

Nice to see so many guys on playing tonight. We were between 8 and 9 players for most of the night. Some great, GREAT games tonight. To Mac, Messiah and Magic who were on the other team and who killed me, I hate you all. ;) Yes, yes I do. Had a blast guys, we'll do it again real soon. It was nice to meet Dart, a buddy of Tracer's.

Everyone, please check the forums for practise information. We pay for the forums, we should really use the darned things. It's also a bit of a pain for me to always be ICQ'ing everyone, much MUCH easier if I can make one forum post.

A few great games with Muddy and the boys from Warpigs. We lost it, but managed to hold them off for the full time limit on both maps. We played down 2 players as well, due to real life concerns eliminating a bunch of our guys from the playing this evening. Thanks for the GGs WP!

Final results:
Battle of the Bulge: 52-74
Kursk: 11-69
Berlin: not played

Attending troopers: Dopper, Goshwin, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Prozac Princess.

After a long and drawn out evening of disconnects, drops and kicks (for TKing. Stupid 1.3) we got the match done and over with. The 2nd Panzer guys aren't happy that we claimed the victory on El Alamein. Personally I think we would have won it anyhows, despite their claims that they could defeat us soundly at anytime. Good games from the 2nd, and thanks for patching the server so we could play tonight.

Final results:
Stallingrad: 0-31
El Alamein: 96-18
Berlin: 9-8

Attending troopers: Dopper, Goshwin, Instigator, Magic, Marauder, Messiah, Protocal, Prozac Princess.

My hopes were so high, and we played much better than we have been, as a team, but we still lost this one. :) A valient and noble effort from all players, thanks guys. Great games AF!