RCTIC.dods takes the 3rd place Esl Summer cup

October 13th, 2009

Our Day of Defeat: Source team Participant in ESL summer cup division 1.
Total of 36 teams competed in this 1st division and our own DoD:S team took the 3rd place. So nice job boyz!!

Below you can see their way to 3rd place.

Day of Defeat: Source 6on6 Summer Cup 2009

Qualification [flag fi] RCTIC eSports 2 vs. 0 sonolumines[flag fi]

Day of Defeat: Source 6on6 Summer Cup 2009 Division 1

ROUND 2 [flag fi] RCTIC eSports 2 vs. 0 In Memory of KaiZer [flag at]
ROUND 3 [flag fi] RCTIC eSports 2 vs. 0 SemperFi Team [flag de]
ROUND 4 [flag fi] RCTIC eSports 0 vs. 2 The Last Resort.DODS [flag fo]
LOSERB 6 [flag fi] RCTIC eSports 2 vs. 1 D4gaming [flag eu]
LOSERB 7 [flag fi] RCTIC eSports 2 vs. 0 animosity.DoD:S [flag de]
LOSERB 8 [flag fi] RCTIC eSports 0 vs. 2 zeroPoint.dods [flag eu]

[flag eu] zeroPoint.dods
[flag fo] The Last Resort.DODS
[flag fi] RCTIC eSports Club

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SaMZ is the leader of CS:S team and besides that he is the person who is in contacts with our partners/sponsors.

RCTIC CS:S squad changes fifth player!

October 12th, 2009

RCTIC CS:S squad changes fifth player!

We have to change our fifth player called Riku ‘Rikuu’ Olenius, because he quit playing Counter Strike Source.
But no worries. We had new very good css player, to replace his place :)

Our new fifth player has played cs since -01, and made himself famous through these teams, afterlife & Digitalsense , he is called Xaxe aka Samuli

RCTIC.CS:S
[flag fi] Sami “Samz” Lönnberg
[flag fi] Janne “zwhR” Mikkola
[flag fi] Toni “toniii” Lampinen
[flag fi] Ilkka “Harath” Lipponen
[flag fi] Samuli “Xaxe” Sormunen

I hope this lineup make something big in future!

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SaMZ is the leader of CS:S team and besides that he is the person who is in contacts with our partners/sponsors.

Solid X: Vaultparty CS:S -competition groups published

October 10th, 2009

Solid X: Vaultparty CS:S Compo groups are published. Our own RCTIC CS:S team will play in Group A, which includes teams Team Tokio, Penisraidaajat8081 & End it here. Our team has not played against any of these teams before LAN event. Our group compo matches starts on Thursday 15:00 CET (16:00 Finnish time).

Group A

  • RCTIC eSports Club
  • Penisraidaajat8081 (SeRuM,Migcou,mipA,tebbz,micce)
  • End it here (Eversor,Lessi,dUFF,Ephard,?)
  • Team Tokio (Juhits,RAiKSAN,rapEjEan,dynamik,cphi)

Group B

  • eXelon gaming (Kelli,lapio,ronde,xeriex,TaRaN)
  • team dispanded (Tobe,Tonttu,janneee,Nothiki,Radical,naxnax,etl)
  • LAST KINGDOM (Rept1le,rapularanne,sleepl3ss,xarte,stArless,fAlsu,dEEgl)
  • Team Menace.fi (Fatu,Papander,tommiG,legalize,zopic)

Winner of this LAN event will get 500€.
Compo matches will be played with event computers.
Event will start on Thursday (15.10) and it ends in Sunday (18.10)

GLteam!

Solid X: Vaultparty

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RCTIC.css in SGL Pre-season Tournament

October 7th, 2009

The SGL is helding Pre Season Tournament. All games will be best of three (even the group games).The five maps will be de_dust2, de_train, de_inferno, de_tuscan, de_nuke.
The whole idea of this is to get teams playing as many games as possible to see who will turn up and play. All teams will play at least 3 or 4 games best of three so it should give an idea where everyone stands skill wise and activity wise.

•Group Game 1: 11th October 2009
•Group Game 2: 12th October 2009
•Group Game 3: 15th October 2009

•First Round of Knockout: 18th October 2009
•Second Round of Knockout: 19th October 2009
•Third Round of Knockout: 22nd October 2009
•Quarter Finals: 25th October 2009

•Semi Finals: 26th October 2009

•Finals: 29th October 2009

Our team is playing in group 25

1 [flag fi] RCTIC eSports
2 [flag hr] virtuaLGaming
3 [flag fo] yourDEMISE
4 Waiting for Apply

Our Css Team starts their match 11.10.09 9:00pm

[flag fo] yourDEMISE * vs [flag fi] RCTIC eSports Club

Standings

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SaMZ is the leader of CS:S team and besides that he is the person who is in contacts with our partners/sponsors.

Pelaajan Valinta.fi arranges a CoD4 tournament

October 2nd, 2009

Other one of our new sponsors, Pelaajan Valinta, have announced that they’re going to arrange a Call of Duty 4 tournament in cooperation with FDS-clan.

Tournament will be played as 5v5 as normally all leagues are to be played. The are two important dates as for start, last day for signups and tournament’s starting date. There’s no information about tournaments maximum amount of teams yet, but let’s see how big this tournament will grow to. And as in good tournaments, there are prizes for top3. All details announced this far can be found below. All teams are welcomed :)

Last day for signups: 31st of October, 2009
Tournament starts: 9th of November, 2009

Prizes are the following:

- MERC Stealth Keyboard (PC) (Worth of 66,90€)
- Pelaajan Valinta karvalakki
- Shouts worth of 50€ to Takuuhuuto.fi webmarket
- REAPER Gaming Mouse by Zboard – 1600 dpi (Worth of 29,90€)
- Shouts worth of 25€ to Takuuhuuto.fi webmarket
- Shopping card worth of 10€ to Pelaajan Valinta.fi
- Shouts worth of 10€ to Takuuhuuto.fi webmarket

Related
Pelaajan Valinta.fi

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RCTIC eSports Club welcomes two new sponsors!

October 1st, 2009
We here at RCTIC eSports Club are happy to announce two new sponsorship deals!

First off, let’s introduce other one from two new sponsors, Pelaajan Valinta. Pelaajan Valinta is a Finnish company, which has webmarket where they sell games to PC and different consoles, and also some other hardware stuff.

Our second new sponsor is Talousmarkka. Talousmarkka is a Finnish company, which brings a lot of stuff from Asia and Europe and then sells them in Finland with good results. For us they’re sponsoring a place for bootcamps where our teams can practise for LANs.

We are extremely happy that these two companies have decided to start a sponsorship with us and we hope that these deals would last for long time.

Related
Pelaajan Valinta.fi
Talousmarkka.fi

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RCTIC.css in EMS V Finnish Qualifiers

October 1st, 2009

The Electronic Sports League (ESL) is helding EMS V Finnish Qualifiers. Total of 19 teams are competing in these qualifiers and they have been divided into four groups with three groups of five and one of four teams. There are many good teams competing like [flag fi] Team eXelon, [flag fi] AIMAZING E-Sports and [flag fi] Finnish Royalty next to our own team.

First matches are going to be played tonight and so will play our own team as they are going to start their qualifiers with match against [flag fi] Vild.

[flag fi] RCTIC eSports Club [1-0] Vild [flag fi] – de_dust2 (noshow)

Groupstage matches:

1.10, 19.00 – [flag fi] RCTIC eSports Club [1-0] Vild [flag fi]de_dust2 (noshow)
4.10, 21.00 – [flag fi] RCTIC eSports Club [16-7] MANIACS FI [flag fi]de_inferno
6.10, 22.00 – [flag fi] RCTIC eSports Club [16-8] Dualcode [flag fi]de_nuke
7.10, 22.00 – [flag fi] RCTIC eSports Club [10-16] Finnish Royalty [flag fi]de_tuscan

Related
EMS V Finnish Qualifiers

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CS:S Line-up changed

August 22nd, 2009

RCTIC CS:S squad changes fifth player!

We have decided to change our fifth player called Iiro “iPE” Havulo, because he was too inactive and he had not enough potential to play.

Our new fifth player has played cs since -04, and made himself famous through these teams, zCore & Team-Memphis, he is called natureboy aka Rikuu

RCTIC.CS:S
[flag fi] Sami “Samz” Lönnberg
[flag fi] Janne “zwhR” Mikkola
[flag fi] Toni “toniii” Lampinen
[flag fi] Ilkka “Harath” Lipponen
[flag fi] Riku “Rikuu” Olenius

Good Luck & Have Fun

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Vote for ESL Major Series MVP

August 15th, 2009

Our Day of Defeat: Source team was competing in first season of ESL Major Series. ESL has now opened a vote for MVP of this tournament. Total of 11 players has been chosen to this vote and even our own DoD:S team’s player, [flag fi] zagge has been chosen to be one of players who can be voted.

Players who can be voted for MVP

[flag se] antrax (zeroPoint! Gaming)
[flag se] exel (zeroPoint! Gaming)
[flag be] Cqrlx7 (eXtensive)
[flag fr] Condor (eXtensive)
[flag fr] MoMo (mysTix)
[flag fr] Oni-DS (mysTix)
[flag dk] JELZ (Ministry of Defence)
[flag de] dastii (myAtera)
[flag be] matziti (FirstFrag)
[flag fi] zagge (rctic)
[flag fr] aZn (mysTix²)

You can vote for MVP from here. Notice that you need to be registered to be able to vote!

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RCTIC.css WINS SGL CSS Season 10 League Tier Final!

August 14th, 2009

Finland RCTIC CS:S made their way into the finals of the SGL CSS Season 10 League Tier.
Finland RCTIC & United Kingdom Vicious Malice will be standing face to face in the very tight final match in 16th of August.

40 teams competed in season, but now there is just 2 best teams heading to the victory of SGL CSS Season 10 League T. Winner got place in Championship tier next season.

  • Match will be played in server which contains SourceTV for spectators.
  • Match will be played with SGL Anti-Cheat, and normal SGL 5on5 settings .
  • Map system will be bo3 = Best of Three.
    Which means that we have to choose map which we wanna play first and map that we will eliminated, selections will be made between these maps: de_nuke , de_tuscan , de_inferno and de_dust2. Vicious Malice has eliminated de_train.

Final maps will be announced on Sunday

Final match will be started: 16.08.2009 Sunday, 20:00 CET


**UPDATE**

Our CS:S team won SGL Season 10 League Tier Final straight in two maps! Scores below, well done guys!

[flag fi] RCTIC [2-0] Vicious Malice [flag uk]
de_inferno: 16-7
de_nuke: 16-11

Good Luck !
Match link

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