Dedicated Elite Soldiers

This week marks a sad point for DES as we lose long-standing member jiba. jiba had been at DES since March 2008, but has resigned for personal reasons. He has said that he’ll still be playing AC, and will, we hope, continue to turn out the high quality maps that are his trademark. Good luck jiba.

In other news, we’ve taken the unusual step, of closing recruitment to DES, even through invite. With several new members on board, we need time to settle everyone in. This means that current apps will be on hold for the forseeable future. If this affects you, we hope you understand and, if you’re meant to be DES, there’ll be a slot waiting when we open up again.

We got our act together, briefly, to play an ESL match against MCNNM. Thank you Boni for being patient; your reward was a well-deserved victory. DES lined up with Godsmack, jamz and OpenSource, but a lack of tactics was the key issue again. A heavy defeat in game one, 14-4, led to us copying their tactics in the second. Our brilliant plan lasted for about three minutes, until MCNNM came up with a new one. 6-3 showed an improvement, but the most important feature was that it was a fun match.

Today our ranks are swelled by the addition of optus. Mapping with Bukz, he co-produced ac_edifice and is best known for making pretty pictures with lines on. Currently in Japan, he’ll soon be relocating to his native US.

Our bad start in the ESL 3v3 league came to grinding halt after it became increasingly difficult to pin down players. As a more mature clan, we just can’t guarantee attendance when real life duties take precedence. Since our participation in ESL relies on being able to stick rigidly to its rules and reg’s, it looks like we’ll be avoiding tournaments organised there in the future. Many thanks should go to tipper for sticking it out as team captain for so long.

The announcement in the AC community of a new ladder has produced a rush for points, and it was good to see DES appear at the top of the Clan ladder: if nothing else, we certainly have dedication to playing the pub’s. gj team.