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Eh, well, another month goes by and no SG site update. Naturally it's all Horus' fault; it was definitely his turn again but no, he was off licking Valve's boots. Rather successfully, I'm sad to report. Free this, preview that, access to blonde Aussie bimbos. Gah.
So what's happened? Well, er, lots. Ruiner
went potty and organised another Slap A Spice tournament. The second SaS,
to be precise. Last time, SG took on (and defeated) every clan in the UK over the
course of a single weekend. This time around we played everyone (except for SaintS who missed their slot)
plus a few European clans. The full results card needs tarting up for our results page, but I seem
to recall us beating every UK clan except QTL, who lost by several
caps on 2fort5 and then revenged themselves by stuffing us on Bam4. Thanks to
all the clans who took part - and a huge slap on the back for those members of SG who neglected
food, sleep and other bodily necessities in order to fulfil this particular feat of TF endurance!
The other mighty undertaking of the month was due to SG newspimp Horus.
This unfashionably optimistic young man opened the French Windows of his beautiful home in Muswell Hill (that's in London, for the Australians in the audience) to a sweating, packed crowd mostly hailing from the
UK Team Fortress scene with the occasional Teutonic interloper. There's a
write-up from
Homer Spice and a
Rogues Gallery of photos courtesy of
Goffer. Coming right on the heels of the release of
Half-Life, the LAN meet saw a good deal of HL:DM
as well as the TF and MM2. Congratulations to the SG's in the crowd who despite being heavily outnumbered
managed a win over two maps against the assembled might of those present. Woohoo!.
A small group turned out for the Engineer Battle cup game against FWD which didn't go so
brilliantly; we "came second" and complained to the ref about rule violations and
wotnot which resulted in FWD withdrawing from the tournament and SG slipping forward to the
semi-finals. Unfortunately "words were exchanged" and, as
Camel put it, an unholy war of words broke out in IRC and on the
UKFN messageboard that resulted in the ref disqualifying
both sides on the (fairly reasonable) grounds of unsportsmanlike behaviour. Hey ho.
If you ask this old grizzly, it barely compared to the majestic, all-encompassing, community-wide
slanging matches that disgraced the messageboarde of olde. Times change I guess.
Meanwhile, over at SG's
Action Quake
department, Horus and CiderPunk have
been doing marvelous things in the 2v2 League.
Knives in eyes, heads popped with MP5's. Sounds like a night out in Muswell Hill...
Finally, please offer a big warm hand on the entrance of Big Gay Al,
overwhelmingly voted into an SG trial! Yay! Now I just need to know
what colour hanky he's
wearing. Red & Black stripes, anyone?
- J2
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