A note on our poor performance in recent matches, lack of clan participation, and general shittiness:

It seems that this clan is very unwilling to participate in practices for the purposes of preparing for the league matches that are currently ongoing. As a result, {pDs} is in 6th place of the tournament right now, after four matches. We have lost to zen, RR, and RS, with RR and RS being supposedly very easy teams to beat. In fact, the only teams below us in rankings are RR, Elite, Czetax, and fc.

There is not much else I can say that Nite, J-Town, or myself have not said or posted already, but the results of the past three matches and the lack of participation on the part of the clan as a whole is extremely disappointing. Extenuating circumstances aside, we have tried our best to schedule practice times that would allow at least 10 members to attend. However, the highest number of practice attendees was perhaps around six or so. Rarely are we even able to set our five-member team for a particular week's match until the day of the match itself.

Personally, I want to see some change in the attitudes of players within this clan with respect to willingness to try new mods. I myself gave CTF a chance when the Tomb first changed to CTF, even before I became a member of this clan. Although this may seem harsh, it is the stubbornness of certain players that may eventually lead to the death of this mod. Our clan participates in primarily CTF, DM, and DOD:S. I play two of these mods myself; I do not own DOD at the moment but I may someday, perhaps over the summer. All of our CTF players at least play DM once in a while, and if simply the reverse occurred we could increase our clan participation in CTF greatly.

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Honestly, it is not only disappointing but also completely disheartening to see that a clan with 50 members listed on its active roster cannot field at least ten members on a regular basis. Why is it that we have 15 members listed on our team for MyGamingLeague.com when several of these players even refuse to learn the basic techniques necessary for us to stand a chance at winning or have never even showed up to practice? Yes, I'm referring specifically to elDiablos (DI) and Superpants. I hope the two of you will read this post and respond as well.

In terms of the amount of time put into training this clan, Nite, J-Town, and I have spent countless hours waiting on empty practice servers wondering if anyone will ever show up for practice. I don't have that kind of time on my hands, and neither to Nite or J-Town. For one, saying that you will show up to practice and then staying only a couple minutes is not only a pain in the ass for those of us trying to practice, it's also downright disrespectful. I am sick and tired of putting so much time into setting up practices and organizing all of the logistics needed such as putting up a TS server, especially when the return is so little. Nite has also contributed so much to this clan, among his many endeavors graciously hosting a practice server for us. As for J-Town, every practice he can make he has always been there, which is essentially every practice that has been held so far except three.

There is a certain amount of dedication necessary to make a clan successful. So far, I have seen very little of that dedication from the majority of the members of this clan. The most stubborn of the older members downright refuse to participate in the CTF mod at all, and under what pretenses? That they don't own Half-Life 2 and are too cheap, lazy, or poor to buy it? None of those three excuses are particularly viable. Laziness is exactly what has led this clan into a state of apathy about matches. If you are too cheap and poor, how do you expect to support this community and the clan as a whole? WDF cannot run this entire community and all the servers alone, and the current rate of donations cannot necessarily sustain three servers for very long.

On the subject of servers, I would like to see some possible explanations, or excuses I would call them, as to why there are fewer than six {pDs} members who seem to visit the Tomb regularly. Just answer this question for me: Why are you willing to go to the Crypt or Trench Foot but not the Tomb? In regards to answers, I don't want any smart aleck or bullshit responses; my temper is running short regarding this matter.

With regards to our members who have recently been a bit less active than we would have hoped, I know that many of you are hard at work a lot of the time, but I hope that you can at least give us some sense of possible time contributions to the league team as well as populating the Tomb when possible. Even a bit of estimation would be helpful with regards to scheduling matters.

To be frank, the lack of discipline in this clan is starting to erode what faith I once had. The ILDM ended up pretty horribly for this clan in DM. The ILDM HL2CTF was similarly disorganized on our clan's part, in terms of readying players for matches. After the disaster of ILDM CTF, and the announcement of the HL2CTF 5v5 tournament, I gained new hope. With a quick victory over Elite in the preseason and 1st round games, I began to think we actually might have a shot at ending up in a decent position. But as the season has gone on, it seems that many members have become either overconfident or disillusioned by the easy victories over Elite.

Inherently, it is already obvious that our individual player skill on average is much lower than that of other clan's members. However, the fact that we do not practice enough together and have poor teamwork is a multiplier that easily puts us behind most of our competitors. Not only must we improve our individual skills such as aim, speed, and weapon choice, but we also must also utilize teamwork to pass the flag more effectively. Admittedly, although Elite were easy opponents, our team exhibited very good flag passing during those two matches. Why then could we not keep that up throughout the next three matches?

However, this it not a time to speculate on the details of teamwork; that is what practice is for. Instead, I would simply like to point out the obvious: This clan is too laid-back. Yes, we may be a community, but simply because we use a tag in front of our handles does not make us a clan. It is practice and dedication that will raise this clan's reputation, and all of our members must help to make this possible. The Crypt was once the number 1 HL2DM server. With the support of all of our active members, we can bring the Crypt back to number 1, and also the Tomb to number 1 status in HL2CTF as well, and maybe even the Trench Foot to number 1 in DOD:S.

On another note, get off Ogame and get back into CTF, DM, and DOD:S. Seriously. We need all the help we can get.

I appreciate CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and responses to this thread...I don't want any bullshit or blatantly obtuse replies.
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-elf

First of all it is you're and second of all, no he is not hasty. Right now this clan is a bit too laid back. ILDM HL2CTF was a disaster now it is repeating itself in HL2CTF league (well somewhat). We have a roster of nearly 100 people yet only like 15~30% are active? That makes no sense to me. Why keep them on roster?

I too would like to see this clan get into more shape than it is in now. With that said, I agree with what Elf said.

Well, we may as well set Nite's baseball map or the raceway one as our map choice, because at this rate those are the only maps we will win on.

Interesting. Dude just because I do not want to get ctf you are calling me lazy.

Second of all if  you look at this clan and most of the new members in it they joined because of fun. Not because of skill. We are laid back clan because it is fun. I already tried to get this clan to take DM competition more seriously but nothing happened. So I gave up and just started just not care. Sorry bro but you will not get people on your side if you are going to call them lazy. Just because I am laid back and not into gaming as much as I used to be does not mean I am lazy. I have a life outside of games. You don't know anything about us older members beside that we do not play ctf and yet  you call us lazy. So I play when I can and I want to support the main game that this clan populates which is DM. So I am supporting this clan. Dude stop trying to get your way through jerk tactics. We used to  have a blast on DM but this clan is all about having fun and making people laugh after work or class.

exactly (responding the white and lady).

i think the reason there are so many people on the roster and so few people playing ctf is that very few people have the game.  we have members that only play css and dod.  then there are members that play hl2dm and can't play ctf because they don't have the game.

if you thought we were a competitive clan, you were mistaken.  that doesn't mean we can't take place in competitions and do well.  what i'm saying is that you shouldn't get all bent out of shape if hl2 isn't the #1 priority in our lives.  we have a fair number of players that have a decent amount of skill.  but most of the members of this clan are older and have lives.  people play when they have time.

Didn't you guys read the post until the end? If not here, lemme quote one of last lines of elf's post.



Once again, constructive criticism is not flames.

Shignog, did you mean to quote me?

so anyone wanna sum up what this post said? to many long replys and the first really long post. my head hurts, im going back to eve now

Whut, thank you for posting. Hopefully these new regulations you will implement will help Also, I appreciate you helping to get us a dedicated Teamspeak server as well.

-elf