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!

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

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!

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

RCTIC enters the scene of CS 1.6!

February 8th, 2010

Hello our fellow fans! Once again we have some great news for you guys as we have decided to add one more gaming-team under our wings and this time we are bringing in Counter-Strike 1.6 team! The team we’re adding under our wings is a finnish team which was created around five to six years ago. During that time their lineup have changed few times but with this moment’s lineup they have been playing for few years now. And this team is none other than [flag fi] waterloo! They have been doing great in both, online and offline and we’re really looking forward working with these guys!

Statement by Management member, snd:
“The year 2010 has started with a speed of light for RCTIC eSports club. First was the addition of our Team Fortress 2 team and now is the time to expand our horizon once more with addition of Counter-Strike 1.6 team. The team has everything that we are looking for. They are motivated, potential and all around nice guys. So without further ado I’d like to introduce RCTIC CS!”

Statement by Rami “caqtRr” Valve:
“We are very pleased to join RCTIC eSports! I believe that this organisation is the thing we have been looking for, as RCTIC has the attitude, the style and the professional grip that gives us the much-needed trust and faith – but it also gives us opportunities to accept new chances and the right spirit to challenge i.e. whole Europe. Our team consists of friendships. For example I, frieze and fooze have known each other and played together for seven years and there’s no signs of getting bored with it. We’ve had so much fun and we are constantly looking for new ways to challenge ourselves. I hope and believe that with RCTIC organisation we can do well and be successful, and of course we will try to bring about the same and more by creating us a good reputation and fame. From now on, keeping our minds open.”

Brand new CS 1.6 team of RCTIC eSports consists of

[flag fi] Rolf “FOOZE” Frid
[flag fi] Toni “chuNk” Saarinen
[flag fi] Jesse “jezi” Nurmi
[flag fi] Rami “caqtRr” Valve
[flag fi] Jarno “frieze” Lindholm

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New fragmovie starring Menace.CS:S released!

February 6th, 2010

Captain of Team Menace’s CS:S squad Fatu has shown his moviemaking skills yet again. His newest masterpiece includes great frags from LAN and online, videocamera footage from Lantrek 2010 and also Gaming.fi TV footage from Solid Vaultparty. You can watch the 6 minutes of Menace fragging at MenaceTV as HD-stream or download it.

Team Menace.fi Movie:

Game: Counter-Strike: Source
Size: 125MB
Duration: 5:43

Soundtrack:
Apollo Four Forty – Stop The Rock
The Crystal Method – Weapons Of Mass Distortion
Muppets – Mahna Mahna

Videofootage from Lantrek event by Jonsku / RCTIC.org
Gaming.fi TV footage by wabbit / Gaming.fi

DoD:S team placed 4th in EMS Season V playoffs

February 4th, 2010

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!

RCTIC starts a partnership with Team Menace.fi

February 2nd, 2010

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

recci joins up with our CS:S team!

February 2nd, 2010

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 [flag fi] Winter Assembly 2010 event as they managed to make it to playoffs with only one round difference to [flag fi] 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.. [flag fi] 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 [flag fi] 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

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

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

zg won two titles in community awards

February 2nd, 2010

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, [flag fi] 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!