TF2 Scout 2v2 Cup!

March 6th, 2010

RCTIC eSports is organizing a One Day Scout 2on2 CUP with some small prizes. The CUP will be played on Sunday, March 14th . The final will be played on Tuesday, March 16th. The games will begin at 20:00 CET on Sunday.

The CUP has a cap of 16 teams and we will be following ETF2L rule-set along with the following rules:

- 16 Two-Man teams
- Vanilla rules aka no FAN or Sandman
- 1 map per round
- maxrounds 5
- Map pool consisting of Badlands, Granary, Well, Turbine and Freight
- The final game will consist of 2 maps + decider. Teams can choose their own maps

The tournaments official channel is #rctic.tf2cup

You can signin in to this exciting cup at rctic.org/tf2cup

Frag.fi spring offer

March 5th, 2010

Frag.fi has started a spring offer for gameservers. You should get yours now since the offers lasts until all server slots are filled. Can you believe it 50euros for 3months! For top notch servers this is ridiculous.

Get yours from http://www.frag.fi

RCTIC CS:S Teaser

March 4th, 2010

Video by: PassengeR

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RCTIC CS:S bootcamp review

February 28th, 2010

Bootcamp @ Jyväskylä 26-28.2.2010
Video by: Jonsku

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TF2 team taking part in The Sennheiser Challenge!

February 23rd, 2010

Yesterday we announced news regarding our Team Fortress 2 team and player changes. Today they are competing first time with renewed lineup in The Sennheiser Challenge, held by Esports Heaven. Total of 64 teams will be competing in single elimination bracket for first place to gain prizepot of 500 euros in cash. Tournament will be played on two dates, today (23.2.) and on 25th day. There are total of six rounds in this tournaments and three rounds are played on both dates. Full schedule below..

Schedule for the tournament:

23rd of February

  • 20.00CET: Round 1 – cp_gravelpit
  • 20.45CET: Round 2 – cp_badlands
  • 21.30CET: Round 3 – cp_gullywash

25th of February

  • 19.30CET: Round 4 – cp_granary
  • 20.15CET: Semifinals – cp_freight
  • 21.15CET: Final – TBA

Our very own team will face [flag eu] infernal Gamers on first round. Winner of this match will be facing winner from match [flag eu] Blame versus [flag ru] .flag.

We wish the best of luck to our team for this tournament!

Esports Heaven

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TF2 team brings in Yerted to replace vitalis

February 22nd, 2010

Almost one month ago we announced that we’re bringing in Team Fortress 2 team. Since then they’ve been doing quite ok but now they’re already facing some changes in their team. [flag fi] Anders “vitalis” Anderssen leaves the team due to motivation problems. To replace vitalis, our TF2 team have decided to bring in [flag fi] Matti “Yerted” Virtanen to team. Yerted isn’t well-known player yet even he isn’t new face in the scene. He had quite long break but he decided to make a comeback after [flag fi] Winter Assembly 2010 event and ended up to our team.

RCTIC.tf2 after changes:

[flag fi] Santeri “sanhu” Valkeejärvi
[flag fi] Jack “JackieBoy” Tarvajärvi
[flag fi] Otto “WRYYY” Kivikärki
[flag fi] Timo “Taimou” Kettunen
[flag fi] Jeremias “zermu” Heinonen
[flag fi] Matti “Yerted” Virtanen

Good luck to our team and Yerted in the upcoming competitions!

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CS:S team taking part in The Sapphire Challenge!

February 15th, 2010

Our Counter-Strike: Source team is participating in The Sapphire Challenge, hosted by Esports Heaven in assocation with Sapphire. Tournament features total of 128 teams who will be competing in single elimination bracket to gain prize of 500€ cash. First two rounds will be played tonight and then cup continues with two following rounds on 17th of this month. Full schedule below..

Schedule for tournament is the following:

  • 15.2. at 20.00CET – de_tuscan
  • 15.2. at 21.30CET – de_train
  • 17.2. at 20.00CET – de_dust2
  • 17.2. at 21.30CET – de_nuke
  • 21.2. at 20.00CET – de_inferno
  • 21.2. at 21.30CET – Elimination
  • 24.2. at 20.00CET – Best of 3

Our team will be facing [flag hu] -=EVO=- in the first round. Good luck guys for the tournament!

Esports Heaven

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TF2 in ASRock Challenge

February 15th, 2010

Our Team Fortress 2 team will be starting their first tournament under RCTIC’s name  today! They’ve signed into ASROCK Challenge that is organized by ASRock and esportsheaven.

RCTIC TF2 might be facing teams such as Dignitas, Power Gaming and Blight Gaming in this massive tournament that has 128 signed teams. The winner of this tournament will receive 6xASRock H55M Pro motherboards.

I had a chat with JackieBoy from RCTIC.TF2 lineup about his and the teams thoughts of this upcoming tournament.

Sup JackieBoy, How are you doing ?
Pretty good. Excited about the tournament tonight :)

What are your feelings towards the upcoming ASRock Challenge?
The 1st rounds map cp_freight is one of our best maps. When we have been playing our best we have been able to keep skilled teams busy ;) But dont get any expectations! We can still mess everything up :D

You might be facing some of the best teams of EU in this tourmanets, excited?
Div1 Team would be nice :) Maybe we could learn couple tips from them by reading their game and learn what we might be doing wrong.

Good luck in the tourmanet and most of all have fun! And yeah you can say your famous last words if you have some.
Dignitas here we come, lol!

Let’s all wish them good luck in ASRock Challenge!

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I’m flying.. Wait I’m dead!

February 11th, 2010

Sup fellas? It’s been a while ( well not so long ) since I’ve “blogged” anything. Been busy as hell while doing some interesting things for RCTIC eSports club. Basicly I’ve been developing some websites and been so good so far, got couple of projects lined up for next month and still having fun.

Besides that I’ve been playing some warsow with Fatu from Menace and I am hooked to that game, yes I have played it before but never really learned anything but now I have found the instagib greatness. Jumping around, shootin’ some fools and giving a good whoopin’ for nerds!

But back to the subject websites.. Yeah it’s me who is developing the upcoming RCTIC website and I need you to tell me what do you want from the upcoming website. It’s still on the “drawing board” but I am starting to gather up some opinions and ideas what it should do. Webshop? Features? Something like that, you name it and I make it happen!

See ya later, Peace!

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snd has been in the esports world for many years and has influenced in teams such as cZar, 4kings, TheLastResort and Northwave.

Partnership with Frag.fi

February 9th, 2010

We here at RCTIC eSports club are proud to announce our newest partner, Frag.fi. Frag.fi offers quality gameservers and hosting services for finnish gamers and individuals. Frag.fi has been in business since the year 2006 and is still one of the best server providers in Finland.

Frag.fi will be supporting our Counter-Strike 1.6 team in their journey to greatness. With their server our team can prepare for upcoming tournaments and events.

Statement from Frag.fi

“We are happy to announce partnership with RCTIC. They represent everything that we are looking for in a organization and we hope  that this cooperation will bring fruit and last long. “

To get your hands on these quality servers you should visit http://www.frag.fi

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