Dedicated Elite Soldiers

It seems it’s a time of major upheaval here at DES. As if one council retirement wasn’t enough, two more swiftly follow with the creation of a group of DES Veterans. Cleaner has been joined by tipper and TampaMike as the elder statesmen, leaving the way for two more council appointments. Congratulations to Mr.Floppy and Bukz who, we are sure, will help to carry DES forward on the groundwork set by our older members , who will, of course, be watching very closely.
Congratulations also go to Davitomon, of A&D clan, on his victory in the ESL 1v1 Summer League, proving that even if SMG > sniper, at the top level, as some claim, there’s no substitute for practise and dedication. Well done Davi.

Congratulations to jamz on his appointment to the DES Council!

Sadly, Cleaner has expressed his wish to step down from DES duties, due to inactivity and other commitments. Our warmest thanks go to Cleaner for everything he’s done to make DES the respected AC clan that it is. He will always be DES, whatever he chooses to do, and his resignation has left a hole which would be hard for anyone to fill.
jamz hopes to do the best job he can in making the right decisions for DES, and will continue to represent the clan’s ideals as he has for the past six months.

More sad news at DES, as we say farewell to Jelly, who has quit for personal reasons. He’d only been with us for 4 months, but in that time he became, arguably, our deadliest player on the public servers. He hasn’t admitted it, but it was probably the pressure of being called an aimbot every other game that did him in. Best wishes Jelly.
The DES mapping department has been busy again, turning out ac_culvert by Bukz and optus (missed off the last post ), ac_ingress by R4zor and RuThLe$$, and ac_alcove by Halo and Bukz.
Apologies go to Woop, oNe and BCFH, against whom we were unable to fulfil our ESL 3v3 fixtures. ESL apathy finally set in for good, and that will probably be our last involvement with the website from hell. Maybe.

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.

4th August saw New Zealander BenWasHere admitted to the mad house clan. His biggest contribution to AC is undoubtedly the tight, compact ac_arid which has achieved official map status for the next AC release. 7th August brought Bukz to the fold. Bukz, from USA, is a seasoned AC campaigner who, I’m sure, would welcome donations to his “Free me from this dial-up hell” fund.

On a sadder note, the decision has been taken to create an MIA section and place h00ver, riverOut and Vampy there. Their past contributions have, of course, been excellent, but it’s been a looongg time since we saw them around.

In other news, we lost our opening ESL 3vs3 match against M|A. Despite a good performance with their weapons, tipper, Godsmack and Jelly struggled to contain the tactics of a well-practised South American team.

This update comes fresh on the heels of the first AssaultCube World Cup. Started by Nighthawk of C=64 and followed through by Drakas of woop, the competition was hugely exciting, but strangely anticlimactic in the end.

DES was represented by tipper (UK), Medusa (Benelux), Godsmack (US) and a healthy showing from R4zor, RuThLe$$ and Jelly in the Australian team. UK and Benelux went out in the first round, each to the eventual finalists. US triumphed over Latinos before succumbing to a rampant Australian team in the semi’s. Unfortuantely for our members, Germany were too strong in the final. Congratulations go to tenshi, Smack, The_Rock and burp. All details available here.

Away from the battlefield there have been recent upheavals in the AC community, particularly at Tear you Down, whom we wish the best of luck in troubled times. Huge thanks go to Apollo and KanslozeClown for everything they’ve contributed in the past. Also, with AC servers coming under increased scrutiny from the developers, we’d like to let everyone know that DES server admins will be doing as much as possible to ensure adherence to any new rules, whilst maintaining fair and fun play, in the AC spirit, as often as we can. Changes to server restrictions mean we’re seeing a rise in the number of ‘new’ arrivals to public games. DES members will always be happy to say Hoi to those discovering how exciting AC can be away from their comfort maps. Stick with it guys and gals.

In the clan, tipper appears to have returned to his near-permanent position on public servers, and Cleaner is making more and more frequent appearances; they just couldn’t stay away for long.

Tomorrow (26th) sees the start of the ESL AC Summer 3v3 CTF league. In group A, we’ll be taking on M|A, followed by ANGRA, A&D, w00p(Tyr), BCFH, MCNNM and oNe. A feast indeed; best of luck to all.

Our members list has ground to 23 recently.

Firstly I would like to welcome another lady to the bunch. E.Hallstrom has came to us from the sunny land of South Cal.

We welcome back an old member with open arms. Jiba returns after his little vacation he had.

Finally a very kind guy joins us fro Mexico, byrus.

We welcome these 3 among us. Show them your welcomes.

Yes our forums are currently off-line, but not because our host has ran out, because the phpbb system is being updated to the latest version. This may take a couple of days to get it back on-line. Sorry about the inconvience that this may have caused. The problem is currently being worked on. Thank you for your patience with the problem.

Today we announce our two newest members.

First, our newest player, from Norway, OpenSource. He has been in the game sometime and has some good experience and respect. Secondly, we announce our newest lady in the ranks, Cyprian. She comes to us from the land of Canada. She is new to Assault Cube but very respectful and a good player with a bright future.

With that being said, for the first time ever, we have reached a new limit to our members. 20 members, and what better then these two new ones to take us to that new goal.

Again, Welcome OpenSource and Cyprian, make yourselves at home.