Posts Tagged ‘lan’

Less than week before Solid Mojo

May 11th, 2010

I have to admit that there’s starting to be a bit of excitement about the upcoming event. I have already used to that we were going to LANs with our CS:S team and Jonsku. Now that’s gonna change as there will be over 20 members from our organization attending Solid Mojo and 15 from total amount is there to play in competitions. You just couldn’t have imagined a situation like this like half year ago but atleast it makes you smile.

The last week before the event is always really busy one. Already few days has been spent with getting things done and still there’s plenty things to do. Had to do a vector-version of the logo for new t-shirt, fix some things on website, think about coverage and other stuff. But it’s always good to push up a little more before an event. Tasklist is getting emptier even tho days feels really long. We managed to get our t-shirts for Solid Mojo into printing phase just in time and resources for doing coverage is likely handled. We are aiming to publish news, blogs (even videoblog) and of course pictures during the event. Besides all this, we’re thinking of arranging few competitions for all of you, our fellow fans out there! Let’s just hope that we don’t forget anything special.

Also getting good gear for photoshoots is keeping me busy. My own job as photographer in news paper is ending within this week and earlier LANs and bootcamps I have photoshooted with gear from my working place. But for this event it’s not possible anymore. The payment for new DSLR body is already gathered but it isn’t 100 percent sure that i’m going to get it by Friday. So, everybody should put their thumps up for this!

The last week before event is also being noticed in other team’s behaviour. Time spent for practising has rised and there’s always some minor conflicts in teams also. However, it would be really great that teams also remember to have some fun during the event and afterwards also.

I am feeling a little sad for this event anyways. There was total amount of over 1000 computer places and under half of them has been booked. The prize amounts has been cut quite much already and there must be many persons from The Group (organizers of this event) thinking about this situation. Let’s hope that players would just decide to get into the event even without computer and just spectate the tournaments. It’s possible to get into there and follow really great matches with the cost of just few movietickets. Again with this little investing we could get the Finnish eSports scene to rise up a bit.

But now, it’s time to put some more gas and let’s see ya at Solid Mojo!

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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.

First LAN-event coming up

May 10th, 2010

Hello there folks! Well, this is my first blog which I decided to time just before the upcoming [flag fi] 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!

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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.

Piece of RCTIC.CoD4

May 9th, 2010

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.

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NiNLeX is the leader of CoD4 team

RCTIC eSports with three teams at Solid Mojo!

April 26th, 2010

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