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Ronan Condon
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clan : n8z
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| after 3 weeks of a packet-loss-filled connection, 2 weeks of disconnection, and 2 weeks of holidays, you could say i have "been away" to put it mildly. moved into a new house now and waiting for the dsl to be connected, will hopefully be back online within the fortnight. i must say i'm disgusted at what i read on this site when i got back into work yesterday.
how dare ye have a row when i'm not there, you bunch of inconsiderate bastards. we havent had a good row in 12 months at least, and ye wait for the one fucking time i'm on holidays to have a go at each other. if that ever happens again, i'm going to have this site taken down, the iol server taken down, and all irish players banned from clanbase and jolt. maybe then ye will learn a bit of common fucking manners and wait til i'm online before ye have a row...
anyway, back to business. ds was deadly, n8z and fh had some deadly games, we played tdm earlier in the night (2-1 to n8z in some very close games), and after the pub played ctf later on (2-2 in sickenly close games, fh won 1st and 3rd games, must put up a match report like paddy did later on for one of the games). sky came over for the weekend, and while we were very disorganised etc., (me and mp both movin gaff at same time, me just back from states etc), we got some good games in and was deadly to meet rick after talkin to him on irc/teamspeak for a long time. he'll be over for the next lan, in which we'll hope to get a lot more clan games played, altho i spose ded turning up would depend on the price of flights from eastern europe (haha).
anyhoo, even though ye're little argument seems to have blown over, i will still make my few comments on what was said, there were one or two things i noticed as i skipped through the little handbag quarrel in the comments: -
baz: "i was specifically referring to the last nc, in which you dropped the whole team because you lost you connex"
if you look here, you'll see that that wasn't the case, it was multiple players unavailable, and a general consensus in the team to pull out.
banjo: "how many clans have u/killy/zero and as kilyl said spec/dest/sky run?"
you are kidding banjo, right? i'll give you specifics here so if you like. i ran the fianna qw clan from 1996 to 1998. we changed our name to nd and i ran that clan from 1998 til april 03. i co-ran se7en with mindphuck from 99-2000. i have been running n8z since myself rapp and mp formed it back last october. i solely captained the irish qw team in a nations cup back in 1998. i helped run the irish qw team that flew over to france in early 1998 to play the french. i solely captained the irish q3 team in 2001 that qualified and flew over to london for the bw european finals in q3. i managed the irish duellers that went to cologne to compete in the 2002 cpl. without specifics i solely managed both ctf and tdm q3 teams in some of the online competitions during the last 5 years, and also shared captaincy with mp and killy for other online competitions, (both of whom have also ran the team on their own).
banjo : "but i do believe it should be more than one person running as my idea of a first team is also very different than ronans"
emmm....i said attack : dest/killy/kazz, def : melachi/vin/sky. i left rapp out as he is offline. if your proposed team is "very different" from mine, i'd love to hear names being named.
attackers:
dest - this guy is the best attacker in the country by miles, there is absolutely nobody better, everyone knows it and if there is anybody who thinks differently, that person hasnt a clue.
killy/kazz - i think jim definitely comes in second as an attacker, with kazz a very close third. there are others like sno/nexus/benji/bd who have very similar speed and tricks as the two guys but on simple fragging skills they would come out top and be the choice.
defenders:
melachi - it's a toss-up between melachi and rapp as to which is the better player, they are both by far the most skilled quake3 players in the country. as rapp is offline, melachi would be the first choice as a defender, because not only does he have the mad skillz, he also knows exactly what to do in the ctf and has played for elaw among others. any player who has played with or against mel will know that there is no other first choice as a defender. when he plays, people die. simple as that.
vincent - while eamo wouldn't be quite as l33t as melachi, he is very fuckin good and is probably the cleverest ctf defender that could be on the irish team.
sky - apart from having played with numerous heavy-hitting uk teams, sky has also played on team.ie and well proven his worth on the team. he is an exceptional teamplayer, and has the skills to boot.
players can be listed all night that are up to playin on a national team, but whoever thinks that there is someone who better fills a position than the guys i have named, i'd like to hear who they would put on the team, and who that person would replace, and why. i could see from the original post below that some people seemed to think it was all a big clan thing, i saw a comment somewhere saying "uh overlooking ded" or some such tripe. when it comes to a national team, it comes down to the best 5 irish players. there are plenty of good players (nex, ch, carl, casc, ol, pyro, sno, flash), but i wouldnt put any of them on ahead of the six players above, with the possible exception of sno, who i find very impressive. how benji could say his team would be very different from mine....can i hear what it would be, as in an actual team and not a sweeping generalisation?
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