Rctic-esports

So, i decided to write a blog about how things are going with our DoD:s team.

As I haven’t written any blogs before I think I should start by giving a little introduction to who I am. So, my name is Joonas Järvinen, I am a 22 year old student from Vaasa. I am one of the founding members of RCTIC, which have been an interesting road this far and hopefuly it just gets better! And I am also leader of RCTIC DoD:S team. Our team has been in RCTIC for longest time, I think we joined RCTIC at march of 2009 or something like that so I think it is pretty respectable (as we really only have changed couple of players) time for a team involved in eSports where people join and quit organizations for like two months. (more…)

So, we here at RCTIC eSports have decided to hold a NightCup for Day of Defeat: Source today, 31st of May. Signups were opened by 27th day of this month via well-known community site of DoD:S, zeroPoint! Cup includes total of 16 teams, who will be fighting tonight that who’s gonna win our very first DoD:S NightCup.

There will be teams like zeroPoint!, cm and rockit taking part in this cup which makes it very interesting. However, now to main thing, below you can find the rules and of course, brackets.

Rules:
- ALL players must record demos from every round/match.
- Teams got 15 minutes to come to server or forfeits will be handed to opposing team
- Matches are 2×15
- Cup Channel #RCTIC (Please be here atleast 15 minutes before first game)
- Maps are anzio, harrington, argentan and salerno

Final at 20.30 CET – salerno

• rockit [3-0] RCTIC eSports

Bronze match at 20.30 CET- salerno

• asq [3-5] stfo

Semifinals at 20.00 CET – argentan

• asq [0-3] rockit
• RCTIC eSports [1-0] stfo

Round 2 at 19.30 CET – harrington

• asq [8-3] Jin-Roh
• rockit [4-3] w4sp.Acase
• RCTIC eSports [4-3] pod
• stfo [4-3] cm

Round 1 at 19.00 CET – anzio

• zeroPoint! [0-1] asq
• aw3some [1-4] Jin-Roh
• rockit [7-0] FF.uk
• w4sp.Acase [9-1] whatya!
• RCTIC eSports [5-1] myR.fi
• pod [12-0] unkn0wn
• stfo [6-3] imgaming
• cm [7-0] kkthxbye

Two days ago zeroPoint! Gaming announced list of European Clan Rankings for this month. Yesterday was turn for Player Rankings!

zP! gathered total of three ranking lists which are rifles, heavies and snipers. Each category has their own point system and all teams who were in European Clan Rankings were asked for their opinions which means total of 11 team got their opinion said. Unfortunately only zg from our DoD:S team managed to get enough of votes to make it to top list and in his case the list is snipers. zg is actually drawing first placement of sniper list with micHii from zeroPoint!, with both having 40 points.

Top 5 European Snipers

1. micHii – zeroPoint!
1. zg – RCTIC eSports
3. pentYum – rockit!
4. alone – casca
5. Link – Vicious and Evil

With drawing first placement of top snipers, zg and micHii are also drawing their place in dream team.

zeroPoint!

Yeah, that’s right! Our very own Day of Defeat: Source team is on 6th placement in zeroPoint!’s European Clan Rankings of May 2010.

This list has been done based on opinios of six panellists. In the future list will however be done with panellists opinions and also one member from each team who was in previous rankings will be asked for their opinion. But now to the main thing, the ranking list itself..

European Clan Rankings of May 2010

1. zeroPoint! Gaming
1. cluthmasterz
1. rockit!
4. Vicious and Evil
5. Dimegio
6. RCTIC eSports
7. w4sp
8. da Roxor united
9. pod
10. casca
10. HellRaiser

zeroPoint!

A finnish LAN-event called Solid Mojo is coming nearer and nearer as there’s only 17 days before the event kicks off! The organizers behind competitions at Solid Mojo have released what teams have been chosen to take a part in NON-BYOC tournaments. There is total of three NON-BYOC tournaments and we have teams taking part in all of them!

Counter-Strike 1.6:

Playzone
eXelon gaming
Munkka
RCTIC eSports
Team Menace.fi
Asperity
Kivimäki
Doozies

Counter-Strike: Source:

KOJOTSONLINE
eXelon gaming
Afterlife
Team Menace.fi
MajesticBOYZ
table for five
RCTIC eSports
The MIPC Organization

Call of Duty 4:

RCTIC eSports
Northern Coder Community
Live Theatre
xtothed
Insidaz!
Luval Gaming
teaM2K
eUrheilu Klubi – kuratus maximus

So, there will be three teams representing us which makes already the count of participants/visitors from our organization to 15. Besides that there will of course be some players coming to hang around from management and other gaming teams, so you will see likely over 20 of us at Solid Mojo!

Solid Mojo

Our very own Day of Defeat: Source team will be participating in the ESL Major Series Season VI against some finest teams in the Europe. Total of 16 teams will be competing for prizepurse of 750 euros! These 16 teams have been divided into four groups with four team each. Our team has been given a spot from group c which looks the following:

cyberAddicts
Dimegio
what the fock ?!
RCTIC eSports

Prize money distribution:
1. 400 €
2. 200 €
3. 100 €
4. 50 €

And the schedule for groupstage is the following:

• Week 1 (26th April – 2nd May): dod_anzio / dod_argentan / dod_santos_b3
• Week 2 (3rd May – 9th May): dod_harrington / dod_salerno_comp / dod_coire_rc3
• Week 3 (10th May – 16th May): dod_lennon / dod_catania_rc2 / dod_vallente_rc3

ESL

Yes, that’s right! The player who left the team because he decided to retire from active gaming is back again! And this player is no one else than Tatu “taateli” Helander! Tatu left the team back in January and team recruited Mika “Crossi” Arttonen to replace him. Besides that, Tatu has been one of the core members of our DoD:S team as he has played with team’s leader, Joonas “RydeR” Järvinen for years now. So, welcome back Tatu and good luck for the team for future’s competitions!

Statement by Joonas “RydeR” Järvinen:
After so many things we have tried out since the latest EMS we have finaly settled out with our current line-up. We brought in Crossi who first came in as our heavy, but he is more comfortable as a rifle so we gave him that place. We have had some guys as try outs as our heavy, but today, after many times of me asking, taateli has decided to come and play with us as our final heavy. There is no way I can descripe how happy I am right now for that.

RCTIC.DoD:s

Joonas “RydeR” Järvinen
Tatu “taateli” Helander
Jaakko “jsk” Tirkkonen
Saku “zg” Lajunen
Tero “zr0” Leino
Anssi “tw Hietaniemi
Mika “Crossi” Arttonen

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!

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!

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.