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So now it ends, any ties left with Cyberglobe
have been severed. Yesterday I was told that
I and several other players will not have a
role in the new Cyberglobe.
The old Cyberglobe was always plagued by times
where morale was low and negativity was out
of control on ventrilo. We had several meetings
to try to address this issue, and while the
meetings worked for a few days, but you can't
change people. There are two breeds of players
out there, some that are very intense with their
communication, and probably the minority of
players that are perma-chill. You can't just
flip a switch and change who you are.
Kudos was fed up with the negativity on ventrilo,
he had expressed that he was going to quit Cyberglobe.
Kg did his best to salvage the situation and
with Cyberglobe's backing kicked the 3 players
and recruited 3 new players. Their thinking
was focused on long term. These moves showed
the schism of ideals and goals. Some of the
old Cyberglobe.zfz wanted just to play and be
a top team and did not pay enough attention
to their behavior on ventrilo. Others wanted
to go pro, and have a calm ventrilo.
On a personal note as one of the architects
for zfz's sof2 team, wolf et team, and CyberXGaming
team. If i could change anything about how I
helped run the early COD team; I wouldn't. This
team has always been about kicking ass and playing
with friends. I still consider anyone that was
in zfz as a friend, and will always be happy
for my former teammates' successes.
zfz is not in the business to be the next smile-for-the-camera
hand-shaking money-team. We have no aspirations
to be "famous" in any community of
gamers. To me, online gaming is about making
your opponent take a seat and laughing with
your teammates on ventrilo.
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 Happy
Cinco de Mayo! we celebrate with a nail biting win
over TAU on mp_powcamp. Cyberglobe emerges victorious
after taking a punishing 4-8 loss on allies, we quickly
rebounded with several defensive rallies. Our squad
seemed to be firing on all cylinders posting up a
brutal 9-3 defensive wall to stop the TAU offense.
In other matches: we toppled the up and coming HFE
squad on mp_powcamp for the CAL match of the week!
They fought hard, and they fought well, but we edged
them out 11-9. Many thanks to TSN for shoutcasting!
On the membership front: we have made changes, only
active players are wearing the Cyberglobe tag. We
have started playing with synthetic, and our strategy
is going to be to proceed with these set starters,
and go where it takes us. I've noticed a lot of teams
we've played recently dropping players or disbanding
after a loss. I can only try to advise them not to
give up. "Perseverance is the hard work you
do after you get tired of doing the hard work you
already did, crybaby". -kevin atkison
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playoffs news: in our round one match we were feeling
very good having a week to prepare for our first playoffs
match against team WTF on a mp_carentan. WTF put up
a great fight but were eventually dispatched 14-7.
In our second round playoffs match we faced the much
more formidable Gamewyze team. Unfortunately we were
unable to take home the win, taking a loss in overtime.
On the upside, I'm sure it was one of the more exciting
match of the week's to spectate and listen to on TSN.
Our very own Killagorilla has started writing for
gotfragged.com! check out his last writeup on the
Cyberglobe.zfz
vs GW playoffs match, it's a great read.
Now that there is a lull in our match schedule, we're
looking to join some new leagues and have some fun.
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 A couple
new developments from the front, firstly we've been
steadily rebuilding our squad. You may see some familiar
faces on our roster as we progress through this season
of CAL.
Since the last update, we've had two CAL matches,
the first against Lethal Warriors a team we've known
since the SOF2 days. We played LW on mp_depot, LW
came out strong early in each half, but we were able
to edge them out by adapting to their strats.
Last night we faced off against Hellfire Empire,
a top team in our division, HFE took the first half
7-6 as allies, when we switched sides we edged them
out 13-9 going on a 7-2 romp as allies. This win seals
our spot for the playoffs, it is an exciting time
for us comrades!
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 Comrades,
this day will be the proudest day you have ever lived!
Today, we had a match against Tactical Assault Unit
on harbor, which ended up being a blowout as they
could not field a full team. We would have rather
played a full squad but we already have two forfeit
wins.
If you have been in our IRC channel recently and
noticed we've moved it is because we have joined our
sponsor Cyberglobe as their Call of Duty division.
Yesterday Tripp and I finalized the talks with the
owner of Cyberglobe and Railz, with Cyberglobe's sponsorship,
our travel arrangements for major CoD LAN competitions
will be taken care of.
Our IRC channel is now #Cyberglobe on irc.gamesnet.net.
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 Strong
in our friendship tried by fire, long lay our crimson
flag in spire, shining in glory for all men to see.
Our first "match of the week", we faced
off against our friends from Esoteric on Dawnville.
We did prepare for this map for CXG, so we were well
prepared. TSN did a shoutcast of the match you can
check it out by clicking
here. Scores are reported on our match page as
usual.
The biggest news as of late is the CPL's announcement
of a CoD tournament, we are currently in the planning
stages for that event. We are having roster changes,
new people trickling in, old friends going out.
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 We
fought for the future, destroyed the invader, and
brought to our homeland the laurels of fame. A glory
will live in the memory of nations, and all generations
will honor her name.
In our second CAL match, we defeated ActionlLeagueNow
on Pavlov. A lot of preparation went into this game,
and it showed in our performance. Gotfrag.com did
an pre-cxg
interview with us a week ago, check it out.
Most of last week ZFZ was attending CyberXGaming
in Las Vegas. I wrote up a press
release which includes links to the event coverage
and demos of our matches which are hosted on gotfrag.com.
Pictures of our trip can be found in our CXG
2004 photo gallery. Keiju from acfclan.com did
a post-cxg
interview with us in which we talk in depth about
our feelings about some of the issues we had with
the tournament. The match page will be updated with
the matches we played at CXG 2004.
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 Long
live our Soviet Motherland, Built by the people's
mighty hand!
We had our first CAL match last week, on Brecourt
against VDP; which means I've got to get the match
page up and running. The match was really fun, and
overall I'm pretty excited about our future matches.
We've also made some additions to our roster page
with some old friends, DrWho and Wombat. We've competed
on LAN with both Ryan and Mark, I think they will
be valuable additions to the ZFZ CoD Team.
As CoD continues to grow and more of our friends
start playing, you may see some familiar faces scrimming
with us. Our starting "spots" are currently
filled.
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 For
the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes! - Celebrate
comrades! Our DNS is up and running on our new box.
We have also signed up for CAL's COD league. Feel
free to swing by our channel and ask us for scrims,
we're on #zfz on irc.enterthegame.com and irc.gamesnet.net.
Our roster is going to go through some fluctuations
as we become more active, and we'll make any changes
as needed. We are not currently recruiting, any changes
in the status of recruiting will be posted in the
chanel topic or on the webpage.
In other news: ZFZ is planning on sending a team
to CyberXGaming in Vegas Jan8-11th.
Selling CoD Private/Public Servers (Centrally Located)
Ping: 66.98.180.68 private message Kev or Glock on
irc for details.
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 Comrades!
Zero Five Zero welcomes you to our new webpage. The
Call of Duty was heard, and forward we march!
Kev has taken the lead in assembling some of our
guys and getting some scrims going. Our box should
be fully operational within a few days, as will this
webpage.
More news as it becomes available.
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