Yes, indeed. This night we finished one of the hardest-to-arrange clanwars ever! Some month ago Yasco and I tried arranging it, and we ended up playing the night immediatly after. We agreed on some kind of three-round CTF clanwar on semi, distopia and jungle's edge. Somehow 8D managed to win 5-1 on semi that time - and you might think that was the end of it, but no.

Before we move onto why that wasn't the end of it, let me expose you to my personal comments on the semi-round: First of all, we tried to have to have Saphir host the round, but that was so laggy that we moved to Jerry's (?) server, where we played it. As I remember it the game was very even, but 8D had better timing/luck with both lag and scoring, which made them quickly get a 3-0 or 4-0 lead, then we managed to get back at them, and I could really feel that we would win in the end after the 4-1 score I managed to make. However, there was a nice 3hk and the game was over. Eventhough I think we should have managed to get a few more scores, or even win, I do think 8D no doubt deserved to win this round.

The important lesson to learn from this clanwar is that Grytolle and Yasco (suck) when it comes to arranging clanwars. Apparently noone really knew how the game was to be played. 8D thought the semi round was a round like any other, while CC thought it was a "just in case round" (meaning it would count only if the other rounds resulted in a tie), chatlogs from Grytolle's and Yasco's negotiations couldn't really prove anyone right - and thus the clanwar was put to rest for a while, with (no matter how one looked at the situation) two rounds remaining to play.

So, tonight the time came to play the remaining two rounds. There was problems getting a host, and somehow Squirrel was elected to host round 1 for the day (Jungle's Edge). I won't say much about this, but it was a lagfest for Chiyu, Vegito and Sucer, and it ended 5-1 for 8D (my teammates was too lagged to ever be able to kill when I was ready to score). To our great surprise 8D showed proof of great chivalry by offering to play the round over again on a new host. (I can not enough express my admiration for Sucer, Superjazz and Yasco on this matter.) We tried R3p's server but as we didn't want the same thing to happen again (or even worse 8D losing by lag after such a wonderful act), we decided that the server wasn't good enough after we tested it by playing friendly for three minutes or so. We then tried Sasik's server, and everyone agreed that it was good enough.

We got, ready, started, everything went as it should and CC quickly had 3-0. I had the feeling we were in total control of the game the entire time, and we were close to getting 4-0 serveral times. The game never really turned to 8D's favour but somehow they managed to squeeze in a weird score every now and then without CC really knowing how it went. So, before we knew it the score was 3-3, then finally we managed to score our 4th score and I could feel that victory was near. But not! 8D nicely scored 4-4, and then they got a score that all player admitted was "lol timing/luck", but the game was over. GG 8D had won that round with 5-4.

Next up was Distopia, where Sasik kept hosting. CC ran 8D over 5-0 in no time, to keep a short story short. Afterwards I blurted out: "|THIS CLANWAR WAS THE BEST LOSS OF MY LIFE!".

Counting controversy
There was never really an agreement made on how to count, however 5 players (Vegito, Grytolle, and the 8Ders) agree that this is the right way to summarize the score:
Round I (Jungle's Edge) - CC [4:5] 8D, making the total score 0-1
Round II (Distopia) - CC [5:0] 8D, making the total score 1-1
Tiebreaker (Semi) - CC [1:5] 8D, making the final score totale 1-2

Chiyu, however didn't want to make any compromise on how to count the total score, but sticked with what he thought from the beginning:
Round I (Jungle's Edge) - CC [4:5] 8D
Round II (Distopia) - CC [5:0] 8D, making the total score 9-5
Tiebreaker (Semi) - Not used for counting

As you might be able to see, the total score could also be counted as 10-10, making the game a tie!

In any case, I (and most with me) think it should be counted as a win for 8D, however those aspects should be taken into consideration so you get a fair idea of how close of a clanwar this was (Last encounter 8D lost bigtime, so know that they've indeed improved ).

Lineups
Semi - Sucer, Vivando and Yasco vs. Chiyu, Grytolle and Vegito
Jungle's Edge - Sucer, Vivando and Yasco vs. Chiyu, Grytolle and Vegito
Distopia - Sucer, Vivando and Squirrel vs. Chiyu, Grytolle and Vegito

Lastly
It sucks badly that I don't have any screenshots to show you from the clanwar - but if anyone playing finds any, share them here!

That said remains only to congratulate 8D on a good win, and CC on a good loss (yes, this proves that such a thing does exist)! Personally, I wan't a rematch as soon as possible, but I don't think both my current teammates are up for the task, so it might take a while to have something to challenge 8D with.

Thanks for some of the greatest jj2 games of my life, friends! <3<3<3

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Congratz 8th Dimension. =)

However the topic isn't totally correct but k, gg.

(previous quotation)

and (-) yeah, <3 + grats to 8D

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Nice result! It's good to see that two of the biggest clans in the scene can play a good an civil clanwar and that both sides in the end can agree that it was a good match.
Nice job, 8D, I'm proud of you guys!

gg

My comments:

@ Semi. CC didn't really train before the clanwar in Semi. Not as a team, I didn't train myself at all really. Thats how we got 4-0 behind really fast, after that our teamplay started to become better and better. 4-1 was scored, and then what Gry said. 3hk GG.

@ JE. Bah, this round was nice ;p close game. We didn't have much luck unfortunatly. Thats how we kinda gave this game out of hands. It was fun to play though.

@ Dist: N/C G.G in 10 minutes if it wasn't less.

GG. I hosted the Semi round, btw. It seems that Distopia is C-C's level, because they beat there with ease. But congratulations to !

We didn't take the Dist round too serious, I think that's why we lost that hard in there.

Originally Posted by Yasco

We didn't take the Dist round too serious, I think that's why we lost that hard in there.

LIES!

oh well, rematch will be ours probably >O

Edit:
Clan .. rivalry is kinda funny. At least there's something to fight about.. Who is the best clan in a bunny game? ;D xD

Kind of childish that Chiyu sticks to whatever scoring system benefits CC more. Regardless of that, good to see that there's some serious clan activity again. Your report is pleasant to read too

I think you should talk to both sides before making up your opinion though ;O

...This report is from the "CC side", isn't it?

Originally Posted by grtolle

Tiebreaker (Semi) - CC [1:5] 8D

Semi - Sucer, Vivando and Yasco

Haha, thinking Skull and I defeated this team with Anubis yesterday.

8D rocks.

Originally Posted by Stijn

...This report is from the "CC side", isn't it?

No, this report is from my personal angel.

Originally Posted by Rep

Haha, thinking Skull and I defeated this team with Anubis yesterday.

rocks.

Uh, well we aren't the best semi-team, unlike you claimed so...what's so special there, while it's only your opinion?

Also, a more unimportant thing was, that you played as host in that match.

3rd clan...

Exactly Veg.
I never agreed on switching to the other counting system (by rounds) in the first place, and I already said that before the matches took place. I couldn't have known that we would lose the JE round. Gry, although he doesn't agree with my point, can verify this. So Stijn, don't jump to conclusions too hastily.

And no, this is not the official CC-statement. The issue will be solved through democracy and at the moment we are voting about what the best thing is to do considering the clanwar .

GG and CC. Im glad we finally got this war off are chests. Nice going , you deserver it

Good game and CC. Im glad we finally got this war off are chests. Nice going , you deserver it

Bah, my mistake

Originally Posted by Vivando

Uh, well we aren't the best semi-team, unlike you claimed so...what's so special there, while it's only your opinion?

R3p hosted. R3p, skull, Anubis vs. Me, Sj, YAx.
It was a 4-4 situation. We had had many 3hk's, I had many airs. Skull pwned a lot. Then the last score was so that I was R3, standing on the base. Then when yax died I think I got flag and dropped down, but I HAD A CTO And didn't get flag. I think there was another similar score...
Anyway I guess we are quite good in semi, but sometimes things just don't work out.

Like things don't always work out for the CrC either.

Semi round:

I did't have much lag. We begun by scoring one point, but Gry had a CTO so we did -1. The CrC had some timing problems and we got quickly a 4-0 score. Then the CrC started playing more carefully or something. Somehow my strategy of prophylaxis failed and Gry got to RTS3 with Seek and bouncy PU at least and he is very good at it so they got one score. However we were good also and I don't know how the last score happened (was it a 3hk?) but it did and we won.

Je round:

This was the round that could set the victory for us. Me and SJ had beaten the CrC's many times in distopia (in their hosts even) and we were very confident in it. Of course we wanted to try in JE as well as possible, but we didn't expect to win.

The game itself was very intense. Our timing sucked at first and we didn't go RTS enough. The CrC seemed to always be RTS and always have a seek PU to RTS with. After 3-0 situation I started getting seek PU a lot and suddendly the cards flipped over. Yax and SJ ruled (in my opinion) and we got the game to 3-2.

Then, we made one score to 3-3, but we all went somewhere to get a PU or C and didn't get the flag so the CrC rushed a 4-3 score. However we were controlling the level at that time and it wasn't long until we put the scores to 4-4. The CrC team started playing very well at 4-4 and it was quite long in this situation.
The last score was a fluke. I shot my last RF somewhere and it hit Chiyu who died. Then at base SJ used his luck and scored 5-4 victory for us.

Distopia round:

I was so happy for the win I didn't care what happens here. The CrC said they would do this round for the CrC glory and maybe we were a bit too gentle at them.
In this level the CrC RTS'er again ALWAYS had the Seek PU and it was quite hard to go R, because I didn't have any concentration left. It was quite a fast 5-0 win for them which was actualyl quite surprising to me.
Anyway I was happy that the CrC won distopia, because they had some problems with each other and a cool victory on one round rose their feelings a lot.

@Chiyu Even if all the CrC would now say that it was about counting rounds, the CrC player who arranged this cw by your permission told us the terms, according to which we played. You can't change them after a cw just because other terms would suit you better.

For the record I scored atleast one, maybe two of the distopia scores without any powerups.

all your scores were caused from Anubis' deaths, SJ and Sucer. therefore result didn't reflect the game too much.

Originally Posted by Rep

all your scores were caused from Anubis' deaths, SJ and Sucer. therefore result didn't reflect the game too much.

I guess it's quite easy to DD in your own server. It ain't very hard to DD in a 20ms ping server either when the guys who try to kill you have around 200ms.
Nevertheless you played well and the lag wasn't so terrible. Just don't put too much pressure on one single game.

@Gry
In distopia when I was R there soom came someone with a seek PU. I never saw anyone RTS without one. I was the one to have flag and die when you scored then?

congratz 8d, especially to you viv. I hear ur like in top form and stuff.

After some discussions and a vote, CC' published it's official point of view, for those it concerns. You will see that the situation is not as easy as it may seem. It's at the CC' site, for those who are interested.

All I can say here is that I'm very proud on this amazing 9-5 victory for CC, and would like to congratulate 8'D; they did really well.

Hahahah.

So predictable.

Haha, you are funny, Chiyu =DD
I don't care who won the cw, but from my side it's clear and you should stop making idiot of yourself. Accept the lose and play rematch (maybe). Just stop making everything to not admit that you lost a clanwar, even if it makes you feel better or sth ...
I still remember Yasco asking CC's team if the last round is only for honour and you replying 'yes' : P

I lol'ed.

Although I knew that this will end in this way, as always.

Originally Posted by Sucer

I guess it's quite easy to DD in your own server. It ain't very hard to DD in a 20ms ping server either when the guys who try to kill you have around 200ms.

there is no much difference between a latency of 0 to 200, really (it's the packet loss that really matters).

Ahhh Chiyu , just live in your own world and tell urself that you won. I hope the rest understands that is the real winner of this clanwar. And yes , it is really predictable that you do this.

The possibility for a tie in scores is tiny indeed, so the semi-round proved to be more useless than it first looked like. While you played that one 'softly', knewing it would be a 'KeesTheCaSe'-round, although in begin we had the idea it was like any normal first round.

Now we played Distopia, just as well softly because we had the idea the score in there wouldn't affect to the outcome, because of the semi-round. We even changed our line-up.

...and we even gave you a rematch for the JE-round, where the score was way less close originally, but you just claim it as a nearly deja vu-victory.

Originally Posted by Rep

there is no much difference between a latency of 0 to 200, really (it's the packet loss that really matters).

Hah. Ever tried sniping in UT with a sizable ping? People can move quite far in 1/5th of a second.

Truly pathetic, and indeed predictable.
First CC opens up a new topic to give congratulations to 8D, now their "official statement" suddenly says that their own clan has won the match?
Ridiculous... if CC had put just A LITTLE thought in this problem they would have seen that keeping the war as a loss would've caused the clan less damage than it has now. In short that's what CC is at the moment: a clan with only green results on the clanwar page, but with the lowest credibility a clan could ever get.

Couldnt say it better(although I'm not blaming the clan itself but only (a) certain member(s) )

thing is, gry opened the topic
pic because he feels differently, or at least did. he aknowledged the scoring system where 1 game was 1 point in which case the result is 2-1. I think C-C has a formidable record and should just let it rest and train for the rematch. Come on guys u have half the active players of the community, don't tell me you can't win the rematch. Hell you have the potential to train like 6 squads on gazillion different levels 24/7. But this time i gues you lost. Strength and honor guys, not just strength.

I don't have much of an opinion about scoring or honour or anything, but would like to note that this is just a clanwar. It sounds useless to make too much of a fuss about it or put things at stake, for whatever side. It says little about people's honour, or genuine qualities. Losing a clanwar matters little in the end, as does winning.

Originally Posted by Fquist

Losing a clanwar matters little in the end

Owning a large community website matters little in the end.

Ya and fquist never said it did. But you have to understand fquist, that just as you like to keep jcf clean of garbage posts, and try to keep some firm rules about the place(although after all it is just a forum, why bother right??), so the part of the community that plays jj2 actively and competes, likes to have a clean bill. People like to know how things stand after a clanwar. And it's hard losing em, I know that personally. And i'm not some plonker who plays games for his life and I never have. But nevertheless you have to see that to the people involved this is important. How important something is, is relative from the standpoint. Sure to every1 else this squabling is funny, but not for those involved. And as long as it is civilized, they(us) might as well do it, after all thats also one of the reasons we have these forums. It's not like the roman forum wasn't used for very much the same purpose now wasn't it?
And as you can see, a lot of people refrained from saying certain things, which can tell you quite a lot. Obviously, some people have to a certain extent learned how to control their temper. it aslo goes to show u run good forums here, because the rules arfe clear and people usually don't break em, and some other stuff prolly.


Ohh and chiyu, how did your clan come to the conclusion u won again? some council meeting, or did you put a poll on c-c msg board saying who won? (j/k about the last one m8)

Cool... That's all I've got to say. ;/ When was this again? >_<

Yesterday...and like a month ago.