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Eric Mooney
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| ireland played sweden in the clanbase nations ctf cup last nite. played over two maps, wcp1 and w2. with anarchy, killy, sno, vinni and kazz playing on swedans map first - wcp1. the 2nd map, w2 was anarchy, killy, sno, vinni and bd.
something was wrong.. everyone was in foul humour, there was no pre-game banter that there usually is before we play another country, irc was having net city splits and in general, things just wernt the way they normally are.. (no, this isnt excuse time.. im just telling it like it is)
okay, sweden were good, they outplayed us on their home map.. but they wernt that good. considering we have never practiced that map as a team, (yes, we should have practiced it), we should have been totally analed by sweden. on our home map, we wernt on form and sweden were playing well.
now, to the bitching.. why?.. because i have to. basicly, when the servers search started, sweden would only suggests gs.net servers, were all the sweden were pinging 32 or less (god knows what their draw ping was). we pinged about 45-54 on dsl (killy was 65 - in game: 70-170 ping).
we asked for a server in the uk and we were getting on average a 10ms advantage. despite our best efforts to provide multiple other choices of servers (swe gave no other choice but gs.net), the admin felt it was too much in favour of ireland and forced the match on the gs.net servers. (even with killy on isdn and vinnis connect often bouncing up and down from 200-500).
add all that up, i donno what you got, but it just wasn't our night at all and we got punished for it. sweden were a better team on the night and i cannot/will not take that away from them. but i feel the circumstances, not necessarly in our favour, but were just not right. fair enuf if you think i'm talking bollox.
anyway, heres the screenies and the match report (none yet) can be found here.
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