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| bigfoot has posted this draft divisions for this season on the jolt website. he stresses that these divisions are not final, but usually theyre not too different when the league starts, so its worth having a look at them the way they stand now...
fh are back in division 2a. the french clan s? would be favourites here, mostly yo! players who did well in division 1 last time i saw, although missing some of the key players who gave them map wins over gzd among others. i would tip seraph and ac as the other promotion contenders... seraph have always been an upper div2 clan as long as i can remember, and ac have been very active lately with a strong lineup of mostly french players.
the rest of the clans are very familiar... strongest among them i would say is jb or yadegari. yadegari won div3a last season despite losing to fh (on the one time we got our old first team from season 8 thanks to a brief return from lorcan) but this season it is less likely that lorc will show up out of the blue so we won't be seeing that level of teamplay probably. they have some skilled icelandic players who could get teh powerups and win teh games. inf have been consistent enough to stay in this division for a long time, but in my own experience there is huge variation in the level of their performances from one game to the next, and they're likely to finish lower mid table i would think.
mdu are a french clan capable of great teamplay but not always up to par at this level. they will see some success when the maps suit them but i don't think they'll make too big an impact on this division. xsv is mostly made up of 15 year olds who think they're l33t and quit the server when they start losing, so its difficult to say how they will do, but with 20 ping cable and 24/7ing they could finish in the upper half if they don't fold again.
omg and jb are the two teams fh beat in the bigfoot tribute cup this season. both are solid division 2 clans, omg the belgians are a bit inconsistent, but ctfers since the beginning of time and will be hoping that cp22 will be included, and that they can keep the 999 spikes at bay. joblows need no introduction here but i'll give one anyway, founded by banjospendlove their irishness has been phased out over the past couple of seasons, and with n8z entering the league this season and likely taking rapp and benji, jb will only have kat and sk!a waving an irish flag. they have a strong lineup despite missing some other influential players from last season, most significantly the french star raoul who is back with aaa. good connects, good skill and good teamplay should see them safe in this division and maybe cause some problems for s? and other promotion contenders.
n8z will have an easier time, but by no means an easy time in division 3c. dx! (belgian), souls (french), and 3p (benelux) all have division 2 experience and hundreds of ctf games under their belt. i would tip 3p as the strongest of the trio, although if souls can regularly field both the skilled defender slimseb and the tricky attacker yoshi then they will do well. dx! will destroy a lot of teams in this division, but when they come up against the better sides they will suffer if they're as inconsistent as they always have been in division 2. nonetheless i would think n8z has the strongest lineup here potentially, assuming they get enough of prac in before the season starts, and that they can get the key players like rapp out each week. as much as i hate to say it, "former" clanhopper kazz will be a valuable addition to the side, injecting the dose of experience they'll need in attack. the defence should be solid with experienced campaigners like mindphuck and jedi involved. this season will be worthwhile for n8z if only to watch the development of the new rising star of irish q3, pyro, who would surely terrorise the enemy defences in this division if he had broadband, but he will need to adapt to a strategic/speed-based attack style if he wants to rake in the caps on flimsy isdn.
fds are a belgian team who have been in division 3 for a long time and will still be there next season i'd say. hc<3 i have never heard of, but they look like a mostly uk team, and with so many uk players that i have never heard of i can only assume they will struggle at this level and be relegated unless their foreigners are complete ninjas.
hz have a lot of very active players, but they're relatively new and i don't think they will bother the better clans here too much. n2s have been around this level for ages, some days they could beat most division 2 clans, other days they would struggle to beat division 4 clans, but that is the nature of their team (not 2 serious). they have plenty of strong defenders like maj, snipez and animal (and pumpkin if he plays) but they're lacking a 3rd experienced attacker this season. the recently broadbanded tony should complement hopey enough make up for that against most clans here, but like every season they'll probably win or draw against the eventual champions and lose to the clans that end up getting relegated and finish up in mid-table. i have never heard of rw.
anyway, should be a good season if the jolt staff don't decide to ban everyone for life for having cg_fov > 100. hope the divisions don't change too much 
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