Rctic-esports

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!

Back in business!

It’s been about six months since I was working active for RCTIC and that’s really long time. Now I am planning on making a comeback even more motivated. And as for start for my first blog I’ll introduce myself.

Who is Jere “LeLE” Alanen?
So, my name is Jera Alanen and I’m 18 yeard old and my nick in the world of internet is LeLE. I’m living in Finland’s East side in city of Joensuu. Few weeks ago I decided to move into my own department in downtown of Joensuu with my girlfriend so feel free to come by and let’s drink some coffee! I’m studying in technical college on building line and my last year is starting on the upcoming Fall. For all who are thinking about same line than Im studying I give an advice; go to some other line even tho you’d like doing some building job as the job isn’t the best when thinks about the payments we get… But that’s enough about me for now, let’s move on!

LeLE + RCTIC = ?
So, how am I compared to RCTIC? I was forming this great Finnish eSports organization back in 2008 with Toni, Joonas and some other great dudes after we decided to part ways with CMAX.gg. We were aiming on forming an organization what supports motivated and upcoming talents in Finnish scene so they could get more well-known in the scene of eSports. All stuff was going great back then even we had some problems with couple of teams which we however got solved out and after all things started to roll great and are still rolling really well! I’d like to thank all the players and members of our management for their own output for this organization. Especially big thanks goes to SaMZ and PassengeR who have done really great job and got our name more well-known and they’ve even got nice deals done with Ulti-mat and Pelaajan Valinta!
But then back to my period of inactivity. I decided to step down for a while due to irl commitments (work, school and so on). But so, now I am getting back into the business even more motivated and feeling really great! I’m really willing to keep this organization up with my mates and achieve our goal which is to get our players more well-known and to the top level! I promise that RCTIC is coming and going to great success within upcoming years!

How about my gaming then?
Yeah, some people knows that I used to play active on teams few years ago. I started gaming quite young but interest towards FPS games rised up at age of 11-12 when we got Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam. That’s when I started gaming and for first time I started playing in teams when Battlefield 2 was released and we were doing quite okey back then we were like little boys. I have also played Call of Duty 4 but I didn’t like it so I decided to end my career with playing in teams and nowadays I don’t play much of games anymore. Only a little of Battlefield 2 when I visit by my parents as this i-net connection my girlfriend has on her laptop isn’t good for gaming.

That’s it for now. I will be writing more blogs sooner or later! But I’m back with strenght of 110% and I promise that we’ll be doing some great things with dudes in the future!

Peace for now, Jere!

As in our review of first day at Solid Mojo was mentioned, our Counter-Strike 1.6 team was the only team from our organization who made it throught to playoffs with placing second in their group just after PlayZone.

Today was time for playoffs and first was the semifinals. Our team faced team of eXelong Gaming which contained some famous names in Finnish scene such as Joona “natu” Leppänen and Slaava “Twista” Räsänen. Our team didn’t have much of chances and eXelon took victory by 2-0 score and made it to the grand final while our team was sent into the bronze match. Few hours ago our team played their bronze match where they faced munkka. Munkka overran (16-3) their map choice which was de_train. Our team chose de_inferno and this time it was our team who was likely overrunning as score after two both halfs was 16-7 in favour of our team. Last map and deciding one was de_nuke. Our team managed to start this map on the so called “easier side”, CT’s. However, munkka was giving some hard time and they managed to get a 8-7 lead after first half. Then our team fought back well and was giving some hard time to munkka but after all munkka decided to grap the needed rounds ending the map in score of 16-13. This ment that munkka placed 3rd and our team got 4th placement from the very first lan under our name! Congratulations boys!

Oh and by the way, our Team Fortress 2 player, Ville “robo” Seikkula, took a part in Heroes of Newerth (HoN) 5on5 with his friends. They managed to win this tournament and will receive the prize money of 500€!

So, first day here at Solid Mojo is over and second day is going on and we’re soon getting live with the non-byoc tournament’s matches. We had total of three teams competing here as Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4 teams joined in non-byoc tourneys.

But how the first day went for our teams after all? Well, the day wasn’t a really great success, but not big failure either. Our CS:S and CoD4 team’s journey unfortunately ended up in groupstages with both teams placing 4th. But our CS 1.6 team managed to make it through to playoffs which means they’re already in top4! Below you can find all groupstage matches from our team’s.

Counter-Strike 1.6:
Final placement in groupstage: 2nd, PlayZone won the group.

RCTIC eSports [1-16] PlayZone
RCTIC eSports [16-2] Elegy
RCTIC eSports [16-0] Kivimäki (forfeit)

Counter-Strike: Source
Final placement in groupstage: 4th

RCTIC eSports [15-15] Team Menace.fi
RCTIC eSports [14-16] from roihuvuori h00ds
RCTIC eSports [5-16] eXelon Gaming

Call of Duty 4
Final placement in groupstage: 4th

RCTIC eSports [4-13] x9.Syndrome
RCTIC eSports [10-13] Northern Coder Community
RCTIC eSports [0-13] Insidaz! (forfeit)

Wazzap fellas! Here we are at Solid Mojo with lots of RCTIC players/managers hanging around, including me. A total of 26 from our organization is here at somepoint of event or even during the whole event. As I mentioned in my last blog, this lan-event is my first one I’ve attended and this is quite great. Amazing atmosphere over here even tho the event isn’t as large as it could have as there was like 1000-1100 computer seats but after all there’s only like around 250-300 and not all even have been filled.

But then to main thing, hows the games going? Well, as usually on lan-events, there’s some delays on here also with the schedule. All games are delayed about two hours from the predicted schedule. Our CoD4 team already played their first match and CS:S team is starting or have already started their match against Team Menace.fi. Later on we’re going to do an overview from our team’s first matches in this event

Today RCTIC will head over to Vantaa with over 20 of it’s members! Our latest intel says that 26 of our players and managers will be coming. It’s going to be wild!

Is there a reason you can’t make it to Vantaa to watch our games? Don’t panic. We know that our website can’t handle all the published material from the event, so we need to narrow it down a bit. With these next instructions you will be able to get all the latest info from the spot!

Follow this website
We’ll be publishing majority of the material here. We’ll be writing blogs and news about the scores, publishing pictures and posting videos from YouTube. We’re trying to inform about other events and contest on our website too. Our goal is to publish atleast 15 posts about the event.

Follow us at Facebook
We’re not linking our latest news and upadates on our Facebook page. This beacuse people might be afraid of the amount of spam. We’re not ditching Facebook for the event, instead we’re releasing new photos taken with our mobilephones and we’ll be writing some feelings about the event.

Subscribe our Youtube-channel
All of the videomaterial from the event will be on YouTube. We’re manning 1 videocamera, wichfrom we’re trying to push new material during the event.

Join to our irc-channel (#rctic @ Quakenet)
Our managers are serving there, so you will get the fastest answers to your questions. Even some of our Players might visit our channel during the event.

Today We Rock!!!

Hello there folks! Well, this is my first blog which I decided to time just before the upcoming Solid Mojo LAN-event, located in Vantaa.

To start off, maybe I should introduce myself a bit to you guys out there as I haven’t done any blogs before. So, I am almost 20 years old dude from Kajaani and have been working in eSports for many years for now, mainly as news writer at different websites. Besides being a news writer, I am also working at management of this organization. Before we formed RCTIC (yes, I am one of them, who were forming RCTIC back in 2008), I was CEO in organization called Random Gaming which later on joined up with Team CMAX.gg. However, that project didn’t go as planned and we decided to part ways with CMAX and soon after that we formed RCTIC. Within these years I have been part of many well-known eSports organizations/websites, including Cadred.org and Team NoA (nowadays mTw).

So, then what comes to my job at RCTIC. As mentioned, I am one of the founders and besides that I am Editor in Chief which means that I am mainly the guy who is responsible about writing content about team news and coverage. Next to working in management/news writer in eSports, I’m also a gamer myself. I play FPS-games such as CoD2/CoD4 with my IRL-mates. I also play Bad Company 2 on public, don’t know if I’ll ever try looking for a team and playing matches and so on. I also like of racing games, like TrackmaniaNationsForever and rolegame called Perfect World.

So, three of our teams will be attending Solid Mojo next weekend as CS:S, CS 1.6 and CoD4 teams will be there competing out other teams. That makes already total of 15 of RCTIC members attending and also some guys from other teams and management are going to attend, including me. However, I am going there to do some coverage for Finnish website Gaming.fi. This LAN-event is going to be my very first LAN that I’m attending to so I will surely be a bit excited and will be looking forward to meet my mates from RCTIC and also Gaming.fi.

Well, now it’s done, my very first blog. See ya guys at Solid Mojo and hopefully I will have some time to do some blogging at Vantaa also!

The Finnish eSports website, Gaming.fi, have announced a list about Finland’s top 8 Counter-Strike: Source teams and our team is featured in this list. The list is last month’s toplist but there’s new list coming sometime soon after Solid Mojo LAN-event. All teams were asked about their opinion on what’s top5 like so this list have been made based on team’s votes. Next list is however made with the help of an committee so team’s won’t most likely have a chance to say their opinions anymore.

Gaming.fi Top 8 list:

1. CKRAS Gaming
2. eXelon Gaming (former KOJOTSONLINE)
3. table for five
4. from roihuvuori h00ds (former eXelon)
5. Afterlife Gaming
6-7. ACSI eSports (former Team Majestic)
6-7. RCTIC eSports
8. Team Menace.fi

Source

Hey everyone, it’s me, Lauri “NiNLeX” Vanhanen and I’ve decided to write my very first blog! Any feedback about content I should write about in future is more than welcome! (Yes, I will be doing this in future as well, so be afraid, be very afraid) My thoughts about my first blog were that I maybe should introduce everyone to who I am and who I play with.

Since most of you don’t know me I just give a short presentation about who I am and what I do in RCTIC. I’m a dedicated gamer from Siuntio, which is about 50 kilometres west from Finland’s capital Helsinki. I’m currently part of RCTIC eSports organization and at the moment my main duty lies in being the captain of CoD4-squad.

Few weeks have passed since me and my fellow gamers joined RCTIC and we have had our ups and downs, we finished 2nd in gaming.fi cup, which was a very good achievement from us, but due to certain reasons we had to make a lineup change only 1,5 weeks before LAN. This change was kinda predicted though and we don’t have to start from a scratch, since our change concerns a guy who we had been playing with for weeks before, Jalmari, who wasn’t sure if he could join us at LAN, but now that he knew he could, we are more than happy to welcome him. But someone always has to step aside and this time it was Miikka. It is sad that he told us he won’t try to find a new team, since he is such a great guy for any team to pick up, but I’d like to wish him luck in future and apologize if we (or I ) left him with something to regret.

And so our team will be moving on with our biggest goal of the moment, Solid Mojo, being only few days away. To make success at LAN, we have to build our team potential to top, both game and mentalwise. We basically have 3 potential days to practise left, it’s not much, but we have to manage with it. And since most of you people are not familiar with my teammates, I thought it might be best if I introduced them to you! Instead of sharing their nicks, which you might already know, I think I’d like to share something else about them instead, some of my favorite quotes that is!

Janne “better won” Yläoutinen, the guy who is always laughing or making jokes, he brought me back to this game and it’s definitely worth playing with him! I think of him as an irreplaceable teammate, his game is always solid and he never rages like me! He gives us some of the best laughs on top of his amazing clutches. On top of that, he is cute <3___<3 Or well, at least he says so…

Daniel “ninlex they have typoed my nick AGAIN on that site” Jansson, being the junior of the team, he brings us the greatest talent Finnish cod4-scene has seen from such a young player. Because he is so small guy he needs something longer than his hand to get those frags and that is why we have entrusted him the role of scope in our team. It was me who picked him up last fall from the depths of Internet and trained him as my padawan and seems my apprentice has surpassed his master in terms of pure skill. And those who doubt him should watch him destroy our opponets at lan (as long as map is not mp_shittystreets as he might call it)

Santeri “I have ninlex-syndrome, I failed” Neste I don’t know that well as I know Daniel and Janne, but with the small time we have had together so far, he has proved to be a player that is always willing to learn something new. He reminds me a bit of my ex-teammate, who I could control like a robot with a remote. So I just plant him somewhere and put him on turrent mode so he can start to destroy without questioning why I put him there. But sometimes it’s better to put his chip back on “learning mode” and let him think for himself when it is time to clutch 2v5 with someone. I see him as a guy who can adjust well to playing with anyone and that’s type of a guy we need, because our team has a so different personalities.

Jalmari “I think it’s Luboshmir-time” Hakunti, he rules the game, the destroyer, the guy who is ready to play with any given weapon. He is our second smg, but in case we are in need of special long range assault assistance, he will transform into a fearsome “Luboshmir” and pick up M4 with desert camouflage to mindrape his opponets and to boost our confidence. This homie is usually top fraggin’ so he is also braggin’ about “Ima fuck ya up at LAN”.

I look forward to meeting these guys I’ve been playing with at LAN and ofcourse, win together with them! But I’m also looking forward to meet the rest of the RCTIC, since we have 3 squads attending (which is already 15 players!) and some management as well. So see you guys at LAN and good fragging!

PS. Something from my life outside of gaming. I got my driving license 2,5 weeks ago and I thought that “this is going to make my life so much easier”, but actually it’s a bit bothersome as well. My sister just called me that I need to pick her up from stables AGAIN (yes, she goes there almost every day) and the trip, “there and back” driven by Lauri Vanhanen takes about 40 minutes. But well, I guess that is just preparing for the time when I have to take my own kids to their practise, school etc.

It’s been a bit over one year since i joined organization of RCTIC. I was looking for a organization for my CS:S team and after an short tryout period we managed to get our spot in organization. Today’s lineup is much different related to those times and so have changed my status in organization. At first I was just leader of CS:S team but nowadays I’m also part of skilled management team. Without all these fellow mates I wouldn’t be writing here.

Who is RCTIC SaMZ?
I bought my first computer about four years ago. It was a laptop which was bought just for paying the bills. By then I also bought Call of Duty, what I later on played a lot on publics sometimes even without any sleep. Then on one day I was at a bootcamp with my friend, just two of us. During this bootcamp I saw game called Counter-Strike: Source which caused my interest towards rise up.

Later on we played much of Clanbase matches and then enemies were whining that how a 26 years old playes CS:S. Usually enemies said: “Get wife and kids” but that was already done as I got wife and three children. What could I hope besides that? Then, about one year ago I came up with a thought that this would be the game that I should test for real.

I have always thought that who ever can learn anything without checking your age or gender so why couldn’t 30 years old guy play CS:S on a higher level? Of course that would require a team but that’s what I’ve been lucky with. Team has contained and still contains really cool and nice guys. I couldn’t hope a better team to play with. I have also learned much of things from the younger guys here what I have been missing during these years.

There is also one other good side on gaming and that’s good memories and it’s one of the reason I am doing this. I have said to the boys many times as a joke: “At the age of 50 SaMZ will still be playing CS:S against bots”. Maybe then later on in the retirement center I will be showing grandmoms how to play with computers.

How are the things going nowadays?
RCTIC eSports has grown a lot within last year. With power of five gaming teams and eight persons in management this organization has worked hard to become what it is now and there’s still a lot of stuff to do in the future. Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Soure teams have been in organization for long time already, longer than any other team. Team Fortress 2 team was recruited in early 2010. Soon after TF2 we signed in Counter-Strike 1.6 team and now later in this spring it was time for Call of Duty 4 team. But then comes the question, why these teams? My personal opinion is that the teams that has motivation and potential and have goals to aim for should be given a chance to show what they can really do. And our teams are just like that.

Counter-Strike 1.6 team consists of bunch of nice guys who also have skills. I am sure that if boys just can keep their heads up and work hard, they will rise more to the top. There was some problems in the team though as some player changes came up but finally it looks like they have found the right lineup to continue with.

Team Fortress 2 team is a bit different related to others and so is the game. What do I mean with this being differend? Well, people who knows Jack knows what I mean. Jack is the guy from who many persons should have as a rolemodel. This far, I haven’t seen a single day when he wouldn’t be happy. While talking with him you just can’t be without laughing and that’s what brings some good to the day. Boys are still working hard to get better and get more well-known in the scene but we have lots of faith in them. You will see some day what I mean.

Call of Duty 4 team is the only team which still is a bit foreign to me. I haven’t had a chance to get known with each other with them but they have already taken their place in organization’s private channel which is a good thing. Guys are chatting and throwing links there which is always good to keep chatting up in our organization. When NiNLeX first came to ask a spot for CoD4 team I right away realised that what kind of team we were talking about here. Team with skilled players who are also nice guys is just what the organization needs.

Then what comes to Day of Defeat: Source team. They have been in from very beginning and they are one of the top teams in Europe. There’s one thing what I really want to arrange for these guys. What else could it be than sending them to some LAN-event in Europe as there’s no LAN’s with DoD:S competition in Finland. They are a team who really deserves it!

What comes to CS:S team then?
Hhhmm, what should I say about CS:S team then? It’s always easy to say good things from the players from your own team. But as I am playing with them a lot, of course I should introduce them a little. This is definately the best team I have ever played with.

You couldn’t always believe that Janne (zwhR) is the youngster of team. He has so much gamesense that he would deliver it to others. Skilled with AWP and unbeliavable loyal to the team.

Aleksi (recci) joined up the team after period of inactivity and took the spot of in-game leader which is really important. Without him this team wouldn’t be anything it is nowadays. It’s hard to find as calm player as Aleksi is.

And what about our Nico with the C (NipA). I don’t know anyone else who enjoys the game as much as he does. Guy with lots of humor and skills so game wouldn’t be anything without him.

Then to our newest guy, Teppo (TEBBOU). If someone just would hear his jokes, he could right away write a book of those jokes. I can’t believe that from where he figures our all those jokes and with such a great timings! This all makes him a really great mate!

Unfortunately Natanael (PassengeR) had to take a little break from gaming due to irl commitments but I’m happy that I can still enjoy him being part of us. I bet that he is one of the must trustworthy persons on earth. All the trips what we have done with him have been even more than great! Really great moments and I can’t wait what future brings.

And last but not least, I want to thank our management team for trusting and for all that work what they have done for this organization. snd, LeLE, k3mpo, RydeR, tepid and Jonsku deserves a really big thanks! And of course we can’t forget the smarter gender so thank you Riina! Afterall the most important thanks goes to my wife. Thanks that you have been understanding for all those gaming sessions during evenings/nights, I couldn’t hope better wife than you!