{ball}

[Tortilla]

Originally Posted by Deathblade

You're clan has about 3 "great" players, 3 "above average", and a lot of mediocrity.

So who is what?

[r87]

Originally Posted by tgleaf

r87, Deathblade: try reading next time. Thanks for basing your whole argument on one line in a long list of requirements.

It's not like we see someone score two goals in a match and think "gosh, let's add that person!"

You're entitled to your opinion, even if your opinion is wrong.

I was kidding...

hence the

[Evan20000]

Tg, it appears your clan page has turned into a giant trollfest. >.>

[tgleaf]

Originally Posted by Evan20000

Tg, it appears your clan page has turned into a giant trollfest. >.>

That's {r87} for you. You'll notice I stopped responding quite some time ago.

[r87]

Originally Posted by tgleaf

That's {r87} for you. You'll notice I stopped responding quite some time ago.

I wasn't trolling I was making a joke.

[tgleaf]

I've added two new practice dates. Our next practice is Thursday, January 28th, at 9:30pm Pacific (GMT-8).

For the full schedule, see http://tinyurl.com/ballpractices.

I can guarantee you that spots on both the starting and sub rosters are open and will depend partly on who shows up to practice!

[Silly]

Hey. My computer has been in paperweight mode for the past few days and I'm still working on a fix. I also need to finish my thesis so ... it could be a while, but hopefully I'll be back soon. Good luck! - who

[tgleaf]

Originally Posted by Silly

Hey. My computer has been in paperweight mode for the past few days and I'm still working on a fix. I also need to finish my thesis so ... it could be a while, but hopefully I'll be back soon. Good luck! - who

Who do we miss? Who. That's who. Thesis... eesh. Good luck to you, too!

[drunkguava]

tgleaf, you are old.
GLUCK WHO <3

[awesome3]

Who, new statement for your thesis:

Mastering the game of Altidude is in direct correlation to the meaning of life: loopy's rule and whale's drool, ugh ..... fatties.

4.0 paper, guaranteed.

[wolf'j'max]

i probobaly can't make any practises 0.0 i can make both first and second matches in the ball tourney though...

[tgleaf]

I'm not sure how many of you have actually played with MOXIE, the founder of {ball}, but he just PM'ed me to let me know he will not be playing any more because his parents have cut off his supply.

A little back story (the history of {ball/*}):

One day, around the 1st of November 2009, MOXIE asked me if I wanted to be in a clan. I asked him the name and he said, "{ball}". I was SOLD because I love the game of BALL and I knew it was just a casual clan... no league play or rules or real structure. He also asked wiseguy, so we quickly had a clan of three. We all recruited players over the next month or so (drunkguava was an early member and a strong one), to create what was -- until recently -- a very bloated clan. We then split into two teams, {ball} and {ball*}, and cut several players to trim down.

Since MOXIE was not around much/at all over those couple of months, I took leadership of the clan and poured my energy into organizing it, and into building what I thought a {ball} clan should represent, namely talent, good attitude, and good teamwork.

MOXIE at times came back for a brief moment and either had no interest in running the clan or had very specific ideas for how it should be run (but wasn't able to put the time or effort into putting those ideas in place). I removed MOXIE's co-captain status and have since designated him as "founder."

MOXIE is, I think, disappointed that our clan is no longer a casual, "just for fun" gathering of folks, but my response to that is that it would not have lasted this long if it had no functional leader and no structure. I also imagine that the current members are very pleased with what we have accomplished (becoming a strong BALL clan, generally being respected for our in-game and forum contributions, creating a Guide to Ball, holding discussions about BALL strategy on our private site, fielding a team for the upcoming 6v6 tournament, etc.).

And the rest, as they say, is history. If you happen to see {ball} MOXIE (a bomber) around, say hello and thank him for founding this great clan.

[Nikon]

Yeah MOXIE!!! It turned out great because our very own TGLEAF! Thanks tgleaf and MOXIE for creating this amazing clan!

[classicallad]

hear ye, hear ye. I bestow upon thee tgleaf the status 'ball messiah' and hearby invite other ball loving folk to keep the circlejerk going.

=P

[arty]

Originally Posted by classicallad

hear ye, hear ye. I bestow upon thee tgleaf the status 'ball messiah' and hearby invite other ball loving folk to keep the circlejerk going.

=P

preach on brother preach on.

[Harmonica]

Hey {ball/*},

I've started a post/document to discuss short-term ideas and tactics for next weekend's 6v6 Tournament. It's on the strategy site: http://ballstrategy.wordpress.com/20...urnament-prep/

Right now it's just me blowing hot air out of my ass; please add yours and let's see if we can get a circlejerk going there, too. =P

[classicallad]

Tgleaf klf's availability is not looking good so im going to have to play for klf. As a side note i wont be entering klf into future ball competitions so i hope i will get my chance then to bear the ball banner.

class =]

[tgleaf]

Originally Posted by classicallad

Tgleaf klf's availability is not looking good so im going to have to play for klf. As a side note i wont be entering klf into future ball competitions so i hope i will get my chance then to bear the ball banner.

class =]

Thanks for letting me know. Good luck against us, if it comes to that. And yes, please know that you are welcome in any and all future {ball} matches on OUR SIDE.

[tgleaf]

We have a scrimmage scheduled against {ICE} tonight (Feb. 1st) at 8:30pm Pacific / 11:30pm Eastern.

Please show up if you can play, and PM me if you are a definite for tonight.







(Match schedules are also posted at http://tinyurl.com/ballmatches.)

[tgleaf]

We have finalized the starting and sub rosters for the BALL tournament this weekend. Rosters and additional information can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6v6ball.

Congratulations to our starting six: CCN, Don't Follow, drunkguava, Harmonica, Nikon, and tgleaf.

[Triped]

None of my business, I guess, but why is LeKai so far down your bench list? He's good.

[tgleaf]

Originally Posted by Triped

None of my business, I guess, but why is LeKai so far down your bench list? He's good.

Good is an understatement, but to answer your question, the starters are detemermined by skill level (which he has), practice availability (which he has not), and tournament availability (which is questionable).

I also alphabetize rosters, so if he wanted to change his name to AKai, he would be first!

We don't take the idea of subs lightly, either. Any of those subs could fill in at a moment's notice and positively impact team play.

[tgleaf]

The map pool order has been announced (very important!):

http://altitudegame.com/forums/showp...&postcount=113

[wolf'j'max]

Originally Posted by tgleaf

The map pool order has been announced (very important!):

http://altitudegame.com/forums/showp...&postcount=113

Yay! Cave and snow at the first day! Mayhem is great too but not as great as the other two =}

[tgleaf]

Originally Posted by wolf'j'max

Yay! Cave and snow at the first day! Mayhem is great too but not as great as the other two =}

Not quite, wolfie. We have a bye for round 1. That means we're playing on core and mayhem2 first. =(

So... we should be practicing primarily on: core (1), mayhem2 (2), maze (3), darkwar (2), cave (2), and snow (1). The numbers in parentheses are the number of times we could theoretically see those maps.

[wiseguy]

Looks like we'll just be watching round 1, though. (Are spectators allowed?)

Edit: ahh, beat me to it, leaf. Two of my less favorite maps, for sure...oh well!

[classicallad]

i so hope klf play you guys in your first round it was immense fun last time, just to remind our viewers who might not know, {ball}2-KLF. 1

Let the festivities begin
=]

[tgleaf]

We played four games 5v5 against {ICE}.

Everyone played well, but I want to single out Nikon and awesome3. Nikon was fierce with a nearly 2.0 ratio for the match, assisting on and scoring several goals, and flying in patterns to avoid the opponents. awesome3 had our first ever quadruple hat trick!!! He somehow managed to score 13 goals in four games, recording a hat trick in every single game.

The number of kills per team was even in the first game, but after that {ball} averaged 19 more kills per game than {ICE} in the remaining three games.

Playing for {ICE} were: carstairs, York, Pein+, Russianator, Vega.
Playing for {ball} were: Harmonica, Nikon, gator, awesome3, wiseguy, tgleaf.

Results: {ball} wins four games to zero.

Maps, in order:
cave: 6-1 {ball} (MVP: awesome3)
mayhem: 6-0 {ball} (MVP: awesome3)
middleground: 6-0 {ball} (MVP: awesome3)
grotto: 6-1 {ball} (MVP: awesome3)

Match Awards:
Most goals in one game: awesome3, 4 goals (middleground); one of four hat tricks!
Most deadly: tgleaf, 26 kills (mayhem)
Best kill streak: awesome3, 5 kills in a row (grotto) AND wiseguy, 5 kills in a row (middleground)

Match MVP:
awesome3

[awesome3]

Wouldn't have been possible without all the sweet passes! That was fun

[Nikon]

Man I love playing when it is really easy to win. It was a blast! Well I mean it wasn't REALLY easy but you know what I mean if you were there. Great job everyone who played.

[wiseguy]

I guess it was the 5th game I scored 5 in? Very strong play, awesome3. Glad you're on our team! Haha

[awesome3]

thanks Wise, And yours were against DrunkGuava I believe? :_)

To Quote Harmonica - "let's see if we can get a circlejerk going there, too. =P"

I think we're in the midst of it brother.

[wolf'j'max]

so according to everything. i can make both our first two matches!
by the way. i have all planes under control so i can play any at any time.

[Nikon]

I might not be able to play the hole tourny because I have to go somewhere else for the superbowl. and that is at 4:30 so it shouldn't be that bad.

[VietCampo]

wat is this

[tgleaf]

{BL} is interested in a scrim before the tourney, so if you see enough of them (and of {ball/*}) online, set something up.

I doubt we'll have a chance to schedule anything official before the weekend, but impromptu matches are fine.

[tgleaf]

http://altitudegame.com/forums/showt...ghlight=ohjeah

[drunkguava]

fun games tonight, guys. too bad the server had to go down . I like playing against tbd'ers (good ones). Can we try and get our starting team, and maybe some more together Thursday night so we can play some? I liked harm's or whoever's idea to just get our team together, flood an official server and try and convince the others to play some ball, all vs {ball}.

[Nikon]

This is a good Idea. We should meet thursday night at like 9:00 pm Pacific.

[drunkguava]

That works for me