Rctic-esports

Yeah, that’s right! Our very own Day of Defeat: Source team have been taking a part in ESL’s Major Series Season V. They managed to make it throught of groupstage into the playoffs and in the end, they placed 4th!

On first round of playoffs they faced FirstFrag, who sent our team to lower brackets. There our boys first met team named Satan666 and unfortunately our team lost that match too which ment that our boys took 4th place in this season’s playoffs. But overall, it’s really great placement so congrats for our DoD:S team!

So as the title says what will be the future of clanbase since GGL sold it to PrismOne with a huge amount of money. What will be the future? Will PrismOne pay the debt of GGL? Noone really knows what is the deal as there has been no statement from the parties of this deal.

I am hoping that PrismOne will develop clanbase to the next step and make it work. Tournaments with prizes ( and yeah they should be paid ), renewed website would also be total awesomeness since the old one is like really old and not working at all.

And the biggest question of all: Will Clanbase take your money? On 1 level I hope that they will take couple of bucks from users and make the thing work, I’d pay for something good. That might also take out some cheaters that doesn’t want to pay everytime they get banned. Get’s quite expensive.

But well, hoping to see some big things from Clanbase. That’s all for now, Peace!

In finnish eSports scene there is never enough of friends. Our Counter-Strike: Source team has been good friends with equivalent team from another finnish organization, Team Menace.fi. After managers from both organizations met at Assembly Winter 2010 LAN earlier this year, we have decided to start partnership, which will surely benefit both parties. So for now on you can see news of Team Menace.cs:s here at rctic.org and our news at team-menace.org.

Team Menace.fi is finnish multigaming organization which main target is to be Finlands’ best team on all competitive games. The organization was born in year 2006 from the ashes of Battlefield 2 team. Currently Team Menace.fi has two different gaming teams: Call of duty 4 and Counter Strike: Source.

Team Menace

Hello our fellow fans! As you surely have noticed, our CS:S team have permormed quite well lately. For example, they surprised lots of people who were following Winter Assembly 2010 event as they managed to make it to playoffs with only one round difference to eXelon Gaming. In playoffs then faced two better teams but still they managed to place 4th, which was really great job from our guys!

But, unfortunately, our team faces some changes now.. Harath has decided to stop active playing and therefor he left the team. So, of course our team started immediately looking for replacement for Harath and after some testing they have found the player who completes our CS:S team’s lineup again. And this player is none other than Aleksi “recci” Ahonen, who has played in our team and also in Afterlife in the past.

Statement by Sami “SaMZ” Lönnberg:
“After Harath decided to quit playing cs:s active we had to start looking for new player to replace him. We had many possibilites, who could replace him but after all recci was the best choice as he has been part of our team in the past and fits the team really well with his peacefull playing-style.”

Statement by Aleksi “recci” Ahonen:
“Playing CS:S started to interest again and then SaMZ contacted me if I was interested in of the open spot in their team. It was easy decision to join up with them as I know some of the players already and that they are doing their job well. I was having a break from gaming due to irl commitments and Im focusing on this team as much as needed.”

RCTIC.cs:s

Sami “SaMZ” Lönnberg
Natanael “PassengeR” Sinisalo
Janne “zwhR” Mikkola
Nico “NipA” Eriksson
Aleksi “recci” Ahonen

We wish good luck for our great teammate Harath, what ever he decides to do in the future!

The well-known community website in the scene of Day of Defeat: Source, zeroPoint!, have published results of their community awards. There was total of five categories and our team and one of it’s player has been listed in three categories! First off, our very own DoD:S player, Saku “zg” Lajunen have won two titles, Best Newcomer 2009 and Player to Watch in 2010, which is really great. Last but not least, our DoD:S team was voted for 6th place in Team to Watch in 2010 category.
So, congratulations to Saku and our DoD:S team about these awards.

Source: zeroPoint!

Well hello fellas and good morning to you all. Yeah it’s sunday and 8.40am. I just thought to write a little about what eSports means to me now a days. I haven’t been playing any game active since I left the day of defeat:source scene like a year ago but still eSports has a big influence in my life. Is it a hobby or is it something more? I haven’t figured it out yet, but it seems that eSports is more than a hobby for me.

In the past 3 months I’ve been trying to play some HoN but it seems that it ain’t my thing and after my military service ended quite fast I decided to start my job at RCTIC eSports club and so far it’s been fun. Lots to do and being organizers is my thing for sure. Why? Well I like to handle things that players just don’t have time to? Isn’t that why people join organizations? I like to quide them towards better future and keep their motivation up and running that they can give their best in the battlefields. So what comes to the topic of this blog post, eSports from my perspective is a growing business that needs people to run it. I am not the big shot in this business but I do my best to make everything run smoothly.

Ou yeah, what comes to our teams. We just recruited an awesome TF2 crew that has lots of potential and motivation to become a top team in near future plus they are really nice guys, so I am looking forward to work with them. What else? Well some sad news I am afraid, our Day of Defeat:Source squad lost to SaTaN666 in EMS more about that some day when I get more information what is next. Maybe an interview? Who knows.

But this is eSports from my perspective. Hope you enjoyed reading atleast. Peace!

Hello our fellow fans! Today we’re bringing you some good news regarding our organization as we have decided to take a Finnish Team Fortress 2 team under our wings! The team itself was previously known as Blacklisted. The team itself is quite new team as it’s formed like about one month ago and therefor they of course aren’t so well-known yet. You will see them attending several LANs in the future and maybe at the upcoming Solid-lan later on this spring.

Statement by Jack “JackieBoy” Tarvajärvi
“It was a shock when we were contacted by RCTIC and asked that what do we think of this deal. At first we was like “wtf?” but then we realised that what’s going on and thought that it’s now or never and here we are! I personally like really much of RCTIC’s way that they don’t recruit top teams but instead they want to help teams with potential to get to top level.”

RCTIC.tf2 consists of

• Santeri “sanhu” Valkeejärvi
• Jack “JackieBoy” Tarvajärvi
• Otto “WRYYY” Kivikärki
• Timo “Taimou” Kettunen
• Jeremias “zermu” Heinonen
• Anders “vitalis” Anderssen

Our Day of Defeat:Source squad has added a new member to their lineup. Since Tatu “taateli” Helander is quitting dod:s after EMS our team was in need of a talented rifle and who would suit better than Mika “crossi” Arttonen. Crossi has experience in such teams as Afterlife and Entropy and will definitely bring something new to our team!

Statement from Joonas “RydeR” Järvinen
“Since taateli will be leaving us after EMS and tepa is starting to play as heavy we  needed a talented rifle and crossi is what we need. He is an experienced guy with lots of motivation and talent. He is the perfect fit for our lineup.”

We shall see what kinda future will follow us after this lineup change, but best of luck to crossi and taateli.