Finnish WCG qualifiers tomorrow!

July 17th, 2010

It’s been quiet around organisation for past two months. People just don’t have time to put effort that much for the organisation during summer vacations and with some work issues. It’s a fact that everybody here in Finland lack motivation for eSports at summer so maybe it’s not just me who doesn’t do anything around gaming.

As you can see, there’s no big news about tournaments and line-up changes in our website  and I’m sad to say that few of our players have left RCTIC because they were going to play at different clan or just quit gaming because of personal reasons. No-one just knows what our teams are going to do with those situations and that’s why we don’t know how things with their line-up’s are going to be. We are going to write more about those changes and some other things when we know more about them. That’s sure.

Tomorrow our Counter-Strike squad is going to play at Finnish WCG qualifiers in Gaming Center Level 7 at Helsinki. We headed to Helsinki today because their first game starts so early. My journey started when I woke up just 20 minutes before tErppa was going to take me aboard and my backpack wasn’t packed yet so those 20 minutes was pretty hectic for some reason.. Somehow i managed myself to tErppa’s car and we were ready to hit the road. First stop was at Joutsa where we met defcon who came aboard too.

Travelling by road wasn’t the best idea when the day was warm and sun was shining from solid sky. Somehow we found ourselves at Helsinki after sweating few hours in tErppa’s wheeled and seated oven. We left our car somewhere near Helsinki and headed to beer garden by bus just to relax before event. We had little chat about games and laughter for line-up issues and at some point we found Dezbi and SaMZ hanging with us. After few hours we went to eat at some restaurant.

After dinner some of us had plans for afternoon and I decided to go at my grandparent’s place by SaMZ car. During travel we talked few words about qualifiers and some other stuff. Tomorrow is going to be a good but pretty hectic day.

Now it’s time to get some sleep because SaMZ is going to pick me aboard at 9 a.m. Good night and see you tomorrow!

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PassengeR works around our PR stuff and in many esports projects around the finnish scene such as shoutcaster. He had also played in our CS:S and DoD:S squads.

Movie corner – 14th July

July 14th, 2010

NOTE: Remember the HD quality and fullscreen mode!

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Tepid is a member of staff in RCTIC and does all sorts of things from writing to craptalk.

Last ”holiday”

July 11th, 2010

So, it’s been couple of weeks since my last blogging and I decided to time this one just before my “holiday” ends. Actually it haven’t been a real “holiday” for me as I’ve just been workless since February.

But how’s things going with eSports? Well, as usually during summer it’s always a bit quiet in Finland as people are having their summer holidays and so on. I haven’t really had any motivation lately to do much of news postings to Gaming.fi website, only did some coverage about this year’s ESWC event and one Finnish Counter-Strike 1.6 team. I haven’t even done any blogs lately here at our sites since I really haven’t had anything to write about. But now as my spare time is coming to end I decided to write something.

So, I have been on “holiday” during the whole spring and this summer until this day. But then, why does free time come to it’s end? Well, lets say that same reason as some Finnish top CS 1.6 teams have faced some changes, players are going to do their part in the military service. Yes, I’m going to army also tomorrow.. It’s quite nice since there’s quite much of my ex-class/schoolmates and other irl-mates going at same time. There’s also one other good thing besides that. The place where I’m going to do my service is located here at city where I live in. The gates of army’s venue are just like 2 kilometers away from my home, which is really nice. Not long way to home during the holidays from army.

Okey, that’s enough for this time. Peace for now and enjoy the summer and nice weather!

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k3mpo is a person who has been working in eSports-scene for years for now. Nowadays working as news writer in Gaming.fi, and being Editor in Chief and one of the founders of RCTIC eSports.

Movie corner – 8th July

July 8th, 2010

I’m sorry for making this times corner one day too late. There had been some undone things that needed to be done. But anyways here’s this week’s new movie corner. I hope you enjoy it.

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Tepid is a member of staff in RCTIC and does all sorts of things from writing to craptalk.

Look at that nerd running

July 7th, 2010

What’s up everyone who decided to read this piece of pretty much anything that comes to mind? Well I’ve been super busy with work, irl and upcoming RCTIC website so I haven’t had the time to write anything new for a while. But now I’m here and going to blog!

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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.

TF2 TEAM UPDATEZ

July 6th, 2010

Well, let me introduce myself first, I’m Santeri “SHU” Valkeejärvi. I started online gaming 2006 fall. I started as heavy public cs 1.6 gamer, after I realize that counter strike 1.6 was shit game. Then I bought Counter Strike: Source and played publics like six months. Then I found 5v5 gameform. (And also the little ones). I started playing many of clanbase matches in a day. For a while I played just with my friends and then turned to serious  clanbase gaming! With SAmZ and couple of my irl friends we started our serious-clanbase journey. Nowdays when I’m back in online gaming (thx to JackieBoy), I’m playing medic in RCTIC team fortress 2 team.

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SHU plays in our TF2 squad.

New Jacky-wallpapers!

July 4th, 2010

Our graphics artist furri has done it again! He has made two sweet new wallpapers including our little Jacky. There are plenty of different resolutions for both wallpapers so get the one that fits to your screen now from the media-section.

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Pretty good, pretty bad

July 4th, 2010

Hi people! It’s time for blog now because I wanted to tell you how’s it going for me. I gotta say that I’m doing pretty bad now but at the same time pretty ok.

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Tepid is a member of staff in RCTIC and does all sorts of things from writing to craptalk.

Movie corner – 30th June

June 30th, 2010

Remember the HD quality and fullscreen mode, peeps!

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Tepid is a member of staff in RCTIC and does all sorts of things from writing to craptalk.

Welcome Summer 2010! ( Here @ Finland )

June 29th, 2010

At first before anyone asks or starts to whine about why am I writing something like this at this point, reason is that Finland’s summer has began now as what comes to weather and feelings!

Midsummer is gone for this Summer and let’s say that it’s where Finland’s summer starts from. It striked over here at Eastern Finland real weather of summer and feelings are also really great even to we’re almost already moved to July. In Finland summer’s beginning has more far away year by year and I’m wondering that what could cause this? Maybe the global warming? I don’t think so as when we ask about old and wise people, they keep saying that they’ve seen things like this before.

Summer is wonderful time. Beauty, romantic, good smells and smiling everywhere you look at. But it really wouldn’t be right if it would be like this around the year in Finland even some would hope so. You would get bored at it really fast and then it would be just some normal stuff in my opinion. Even summer is of course my favourite time of the year, I enjoy about it with doing my job, hanging out with my girlfriend and having really great time at our summer house by Punkaharju. But however, I’m happy that there’s four seasons in Finland: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. All of them has their specialities and bad sides but still they’re all great! In winter the low degrees can cause some bad thoughts and then you start to wish that it would be summer already but when you think it backwards, by summer you sometimes wait for winter because it’s so damn hot in summer with all those flying bugs and stuff!

That was all for now again! I wish you all really great and happy summer! Hopefully you all will enjoy it as much as you can while you can do it. Now those real summer’s hot times are coming for us! AND LET’S ALL WELCOME FINLAND’S SUMMER WITH USING CAPS LOCK!

Peace and love, Jere!

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LeLE is a hero from Joensuu city and one of the founders of RCTIC eSports.