Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)Excalibur on 2006-05-31 at 07:20:25
Ive noticed the clans are posting their history. I myself have one aslong as a clan. (Longer then MMs 
)
Feel free to share yours too.
The first age: BNU
Account: BNU-Dogboy222
I had been playing starcraft for about 2 years offline before i finally got dial up, which wasnt so bad back when everyone had it. It was during this time, that i joined BNU, or Battle Net Underground. A large clan, consisting of many bots, it was at its peak when i was a very new member. Due to inactivity it became more and more of a bot grave yard.
This was the longest age.
It was also during this time that i met my first and long time Bnet friend Mokodoko.
After i finally decided that BNU was going nowhere, i headed off on my own.
The second age*: _xz
Account: Inuyasha_xz
BNU went nowhere and i thought all clans were just like it, destined to fail sooner or later. (I was technically right.) So with what remained of my hope for Bnet i went around, in my most active period playing SC. My download folder size exceeded all expectancies.
It was in the middle of this golden age that i met a girl, Kagome62, who i later fell in love with and spent all my bnet time with her rather then gaming. From 2001 to late 2004/early 05, we were inseperable. We had a fight, a larger one then our usuals and we broke up, i stayed of Bnet for a few months, ending the second age.
The Third age*: Ph1 and Leon
Accounts: Ph1b3r_0pt1c and S.T.A.R.S-Leon
Coming back to bnet i had a new hope in clans. My relationship which consisted of 2 people went good for a few years. Why couldnt a few more people band together and hold? It was early 05 and under my _xz name (it was never a clan.) i found S.T.A.R.S-Chris and Steve sitting in a game. I have always been an RE finatic and asked if i might join them. They were more then happy to take me in and show me their awesome maps.
This age consisted of the begining and middle of my STARS career. The end however is an age all its own.
*This means WC3 was played in the marked age but not very much.
The Fourth Age: Disbandment and Failure
Accounts: Ph1b3r_0pt1c, S.T.A.R.S-Leon
This age is in the end of STARS, during which i quit the clan with 3 members, starting my own clan and failing. I had multiple clans but they failed within days. Unknown to me, my best friend from STARS who had accompanied me on my failed clans was destorying them as a mission from STARS leaders Chris and Steve. They thought i wanted to collapse STARS, i only wanted my own clan.
After rejoining STARS it soon died out. I left it and registered at SEN.
During this age, i met many allies and made a name for myself in the RP community.
The Fifth and Current Age: Hope for the future
Accounts: Ph1b3r_0pt1c, S.T.A.R.S-Le0n. (Yes theres a differance.)
During my use of my Ph1 account Leon had expired. When i found out, and this is very recently, STARS had revived i talked to steve and rejoined. A new Leon had taken my name but i decided a zero would do just as well. In this current age i have many map projects going, and hope for what is to come. STARS looks destined for a legacy of tales to be retold, unless Dark Stars, (a portion of the old STARS members that dont support the remake and want control.) accomplishes its goal of dooming it. A clan war currently rages with hackings going on both sides. But both are ready and determined.
That is the story of this Bnetter.
-DB
)Feel free to share yours too.
The first age: BNU
Account: BNU-Dogboy222
I had been playing starcraft for about 2 years offline before i finally got dial up, which wasnt so bad back when everyone had it. It was during this time, that i joined BNU, or Battle Net Underground. A large clan, consisting of many bots, it was at its peak when i was a very new member. Due to inactivity it became more and more of a bot grave yard.
This was the longest age.
It was also during this time that i met my first and long time Bnet friend Mokodoko.
After i finally decided that BNU was going nowhere, i headed off on my own.
The second age*: _xz
Account: Inuyasha_xz
BNU went nowhere and i thought all clans were just like it, destined to fail sooner or later. (I was technically right.) So with what remained of my hope for Bnet i went around, in my most active period playing SC. My download folder size exceeded all expectancies.
It was in the middle of this golden age that i met a girl, Kagome62, who i later fell in love with and spent all my bnet time with her rather then gaming. From 2001 to late 2004/early 05, we were inseperable. We had a fight, a larger one then our usuals and we broke up, i stayed of Bnet for a few months, ending the second age.
The Third age*: Ph1 and Leon
Accounts: Ph1b3r_0pt1c and S.T.A.R.S-Leon
Coming back to bnet i had a new hope in clans. My relationship which consisted of 2 people went good for a few years. Why couldnt a few more people band together and hold? It was early 05 and under my _xz name (it was never a clan.) i found S.T.A.R.S-Chris and Steve sitting in a game. I have always been an RE finatic and asked if i might join them. They were more then happy to take me in and show me their awesome maps.
This age consisted of the begining and middle of my STARS career. The end however is an age all its own.
*This means WC3 was played in the marked age but not very much.
The Fourth Age: Disbandment and Failure
Accounts: Ph1b3r_0pt1c, S.T.A.R.S-Leon
This age is in the end of STARS, during which i quit the clan with 3 members, starting my own clan and failing. I had multiple clans but they failed within days. Unknown to me, my best friend from STARS who had accompanied me on my failed clans was destorying them as a mission from STARS leaders Chris and Steve. They thought i wanted to collapse STARS, i only wanted my own clan.
After rejoining STARS it soon died out. I left it and registered at SEN.
During this age, i met many allies and made a name for myself in the RP community.
The Fifth and Current Age: Hope for the future
Accounts: Ph1b3r_0pt1c, S.T.A.R.S-Le0n. (Yes theres a differance.)
During my use of my Ph1 account Leon had expired. When i found out, and this is very recently, STARS had revived i talked to steve and rejoined. A new Leon had taken my name but i decided a zero would do just as well. In this current age i have many map projects going, and hope for what is to come. STARS looks destined for a legacy of tales to be retold, unless Dark Stars, (a portion of the old STARS members that dont support the remake and want control.) accomplishes its goal of dooming it. A clan war currently rages with hackings going on both sides. But both are ready and determined.
That is the story of this Bnetter.
-DB
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-05-31 at 07:24:10
Uhh... HTML doesn't work, but here goes anyway... 46kb of text -_-
The History of Clan GgG[/size]
By GgG-Chaos
GgG-M.K.Russ.
<a href="#humble">Humble Origins (June 2002)</a>
<a href="#expansion">The Age of Expansion (July 2002 - November 2002)</a>
<a href="#reformation">Reformation (December 2002)</a>
<a href="#dominance">The Age of Dominance (January 2003 - April 2003)</a>
<a href="#1golden">The First Golden Age (May 2003 - Mid June 2003)</a>
<a href="#strife">The Age of Strife (Late June 2003 - Late August 2003)</a>
<a href="#renascence">Renascence (September 2003 - December 2003)</a>
<a href="#darktimes">The Dark Times (January 2004 - Mid February 2004)</a>
<a href="#2golden">The Second Golden Age (Late February 2004 - Mid July 2004)</a>
<a href="#schism">The Great Schism (Late July 2004 - Mid August 2004)</a>
<a href="#beginnings">New Beginnings (Late August 2004 - Mid November 2004)</a>
<a href="#depr">The Great Depression (Mid November 2004 - Mid May 2005)</a>
<a href="#repar">The Reparation (Mid May 2005 - Mid September 2005)</a>
<a href="#enterprise">The Age of Enterprise (Late September 2005 - Mid April 2006)</a>
<a href="#storm">The Calm Before the Storm (Late April 2006 - )</a>
<a name="humble">Humble Origins (June 2002)</a>
The founding of GgG can be clearly traced back to the day of June 19th, 2002. A boy named Nick, along with his two friends John and Sang, banded together to form a new clan on Battle.Net. It was a time when the baseball map was still young, and Nick quickly took the opportunity to create the first ever baseball clan, Going Going Gone.
With his new name, GgG-Nike, he set about recruiting new members, while John, to be known as GgG-Gonmog, took the role of botmaster. The first person to be recruited was GgG-PensSUCK. Over the next month, many people were recruited, but few actually stayed. The key members at this point included GgG-Crystal, GgG-Tank, GgG-Imperial, and GgG-Assassin. However, over the next few weeks though, their roles would be over, and replaced forever.
<a name="expansion">The Age of Expansion (July 2002 - November 2002)</a>
July through November of 2002 were great months of growth for Clan GgG. During this time, baseball popularity was at its peak. Some of the greatest and most famed members to be recruited joined at this time. The egotistical GgG-Chaos, venomous GgG-Pooman, humble GgG-Infested, gothic GgG-Terror, perverted GgG-RuneLesnar, and bold but quiet GgG-Madman are all members who had been key to the growth and success of the clan in its early months. Each man would play a pivotal role in GgG the following years, though some good, and some bad.
These months also brought change to clan GgG. No longer was it just a baseball clan. The venerable GgG-Juvenike who had by now changed his name declared that clan GgG would open up to all sports. Much reasoning for this was because of the pressure other members put on him to expand the clan's horizons. Dodgeball, snipers, and football were the original expansion maps. At this point dodgeball and snipers were now more played than even baseball itself. GgG-Juvenike had once more made history. Now for the first time on Battle.Net, there was an all sports clan.
<a name="reformation">Reformation (December 2002)</a>
The past months had been kind to GgG. All of that was about to change. Two of the more dominant members of the clan, GgG-Pooman and GgG-Chaos, decided that the clan needed change. They felt under appreciated by what they thought was a tyrannical leader. In a sudden coup, they led a small band of members in a rebellion against GgG-Juvenike and all of clan GgG. They formed a new clan, Starcraft Sports Masters. GgG-Juvenike however, was slow to react to the threat. He cared little for the rebellion, and thought in a matter of days it would be over. He had turned a deaf ear to their cries of "No taxation without representation". That arrogance cost him dearly. Nearly all of GgG had switched sides in only a couple days. Only three important members had stayed at GgG-Juvenike's side: GgG-Madman, GgG-Terror and GgG-Infested.
However, GgG-Juvenike was no fool. He quickly saw the folly in his actions, and gave into the demands of the rebellion clan SSM. The majority members who had rebelled received promotions. GgG-Chaos though, was not satisfied with the results. Despite the clan having returned to normal, he continued without them. Realizing that victory was impossible, he simply vanished. Weeks went by with no word from him. In late December though, he returned. Many of the members still favored him over GgG-Juvenike though. Where GgG-Juvenike had the upper hand in pure power, GgG-Chaos had power in his charisma and ability with people. In a stunning move, the people pressured GgG-Juvenike not only to let him back in clan GgG, but also to receive the promotion that he and SSM had fought for. GgG-Juvenike had also promised one more thing, a clan council.
As a new year came, the members of GgG thought there would be changes in how GgG was run. Though by this time, the clan had forgotten all about the council that GgG-Juvenike had promised. There was a new threat to GgG, known as clan ScVz.
<a name="dominance">The Age of Dominance (January 2003 - April 2003)</a>
Up to January, GgG had been home to the best dodgeball players on Battle.Net. Nevertheless, clan ScVz, who had long been GgG's only enemy and rival, decided to challenge them to a dodgeball war.
The 1st DodgeBall War was a struggle. Neither side achieved any roll at first. In a series of defeats and wins, both sides found themselves reduced to about 5 people each. Then GgG-Imperial would play his last big roll in the clan, where he went on to crush 3 ScVz in a row. Even with the heart of their order taken out, ScVz continued to struggle on, bringing the war down to the final people, GgG-Juvenike and ScV_Distrust. In the end, however GgG was victorious, with ScVz pride seriously injured losing on their own map.
Fresh off their victory, clan GgG continued to expand in numbers unseen since mid 2002. Many new faces were brought in at this point, many who are still in the clan today. However, things did not remain quiet for long, and ScVz soon challenged clan GgG to a 2nd war.
The 2nd DodgeBall War was completely unlike the 1st. For starters, it was 6 people rather than 10 per side. The more important fact however, was the way it turned out. GgG-Pooman, filled with intensity, managed to defeat all 6 ScVz in a row, thus securing the victory for clan GgG. A great triumph was held, and ScVz once more sunk back into the shadows licking their wounds.
It seems that they would not learn when to give up. For the 3rd time, clan ScVz demanded a war. It was to be a 10-man battle like the first. The battle lines were drawn up, and clan ScVz came out with zeal, crushing those GgGs who stood in their path. Though GgG-RuneLesnar defeated the first ScV, ScV_Agrul soon struck back. ScV_Agrul proceeded to smash aside 4 GgGs in a row, crushing the spirits of clan GgG. That was until GgG-Chaos stepped in. In a show of utter supremacy, GgG-Chaos defeated 8 straight ScVz, until only the mighty ScV_Distrust stood in the way of victory. ScV_Distrust however, showing the true colors of his clan, refused to play GgG-Chaos thus forfeiting the war. With their 3rd straight victory over clan ScVz, clan GgG proved itself superior in dodgeball to any other clan on Battle.Net.
It would continue on for a long while, until the troublesome clan known as i)D( was resurrected, and would prove to be a terrible thorn in GgG's side.
<a name="1golden">The First Golden Age (May 2003 - Mid June 2003)</a>
As it was, clan GgG was at its peak. It stood unopposed in nearly any sport, save football, which was fiercely fought over by the struggling clan ScVz. Their time was over and they were out of the spotlight. A new clan had been reformed. Clan i)D(, at the time known as Immortal Demons was founded by the sinister i)D(Player, GgG-Juvenike's arch enemy. They had laid dormant for many months, and most thought they had disappeared. It was not to be. i)D(Player returned, and with that came i)D(, now renamed Insane Dodgers. The clan grew quickly with the help of traitorous GgG members going to their side.
However, this was little concern to GgG. They continued to grow regardless, and approaching its 1-year birthday, had much to celebrate about. Full of dedicated members, dominant in many games, and having defeated their long time rival ScVz in 3 separate dodgeball wars, what was there to be sad about? Members even took up the map diplomacy and soon began to excel at that, defeating even the hardened diplomacy clans of battle.net in their maps.
In time the calendar read June 19th once more, and everyone showed up to celebrate the day. GgG-Juvenike had planned half a dozen tournaments for the occasion, and the first day of his so called "Festival Week" ended with nothing short of success. Little did everyone know that things were to take a turn for the worse. The following days were completely unlike the first, with nearly no one turning up to complete the tournaments. Filled with a mix of anger and depression, GgG-Juvenike made the announcement he had hoped to deliver to a full channel of followers. He would be leaving for Korea for nearly two months. Normally it would not have been such a bad thing, and a replacement would be found to serve in his place. It was not so with GgG-Juvenike, who would leave clan GgG on the brink of destruction in the coming months due to his incompetence.
<a name="strife">The Age of Strife (Late June 2003 - Late August 2003)</a>
A matter of days had passed since GgG-Juvenike's departure, and things were already starting to fall apart. GgG-Juvenike had left no leader to take his place. No one had sufficient power to effectively control the clan's bots. Worse still, there were no bots. With GgG-Juvenike left the botmaster John, and GgG-Juvenike's second in command, ST-6. Without any power in the channel, and the power of i)D( growing even more, clan GgG was on the verge of collapse.
To make things worse, there was a betrayal in the ranks. Despite the obvious stress the clan was under, a few people chose to take advantage of the chaos and break off to form their own clans. A trio of disgruntled GgG members, Shocker, Matrix, and PensSUCK decided to start a new clan, known as Drunken Snipers. With them, they took a portion of the elite sniper cadre of GgG, leaving the already weakening GgG reeling from yet another blow to its core. Yet things continued to get worse, as two of the dodgeball elite of the clan, Vegeta and China-Man, abandoned GgG to join i)D(. Struggling to survive without bots, members, and a leader, clan GgG was nearly destroyed by the repeated disasters. However, from the clouds came light, as a pair of individuals were to not only keep clan GgG alive, but also bring it to its former glory.
GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos were two of the only members still to come on the GgG tag. They assessed the situation and knew if nothing were done soon, the yearlong project known as Going Going Gone would end forever. They acted quickly to re-establish the channel in a new location. GgG-Chaos, seizing the opportunity to satisfy his craving for power, declared himself the new leader of clan GgG due to GgG-Juvenike's lack of sense. GgG-Madman, a self-proclaimed genius with bots, took over as botmaster. Together they rallied what people they could to reform clan GgG against the two clans that threatened to destroy it. GgG-Madman immediately became a master in the sport of dodgeball in order to help combat the i)D( threat, while all other members practiced snipers in an effort to quell the DS rebellion.
Some people were unhappy though. Two members in particular, GgG-Pooman and GgG-RuneLensar thought that GgG-Chaos was too irresponsible to run the clan. They also thought he and GgG-Madman would not only bring the clan down further than it was, but doom its very existence. The pair started a revolt and attempted to rally the people to their cause. However, the people held strong, and stood by GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos. With their rebellion in tatters, GgG-Pooman went into hiding for the next month. GgG-RuneLensar in his weakness, begged for forgiveness, and it was given to him. GgG-RuneLensar would prove to be far weaker though in the coming weeks.
A popular map was created by GgG-Criminal during these dark times. GgG Survivor was a movie map that captured the hearts of the few members still active during the summer days. It had its moments of comedy which would spawn many GgG-RuneLensar and GgG-FistofFury jokes for many months to follow. Another version of the map was made when GgG-Chaos stole the unprotected version. Though GgG-Criminal would never admit it, the vast majority of the clan liked GgG-Chaos' version better.
During this time was the infamous "website wars" by GgG-Pooman and GgG-FistofFury. Both members had created websites for the clan to use. Though GgG-Pooman's was official, GgG-FistofFury insisted that his was better, and should become the main GgG site. In the end, people determined how terrible GgG-FistofFury's site was, and victory belonged to GgG-Pooman.
This war didn't end for both members as each one tried to improve his site for the better. It was to remain so until GgG-Madman decided the clan needed a new site, and put together one that topped both GgG-Pooman's and GgG-FistofFury's sites. There was little opposition from either.
Though a steady process of mass recruiting declared by GgG-Chaos, GgG once more grew strong. By this time it was mid August, and GgG-Juvenike had returned from his long vacation. What he saw was a completely changed clan. The majority of its members were all new faces to him, and all loyal to the only leader they ever knew, GgG-Chaos. In the channel, bots were up and running 24/7 and everything ran smoothly under GgG-Madman's control. Nevertheless, to his credit, GgG-Chaos did not retain leadership of the clan. He handed it over to GgG-Juvenike, who reluctantly accepted control for the rest of the summer.
They were self-proclaimed heroes. GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos knew in their hearts they had saved clan GgG, and that is all that mattered. The clan was alive and strong. Soon enough the traitors of DS realized their experiment was a failure. They crawled back into clan GgG, being accepted back by GgG-Juvenike. However, GgG-Juvenike did not know what trouble they had caused in his absence, which deep down caused resentment in GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos. Up until school started, GgG-Juvenike would remain the leader of GgG, until the next time he would leave them.
<a name="renascence">Renascence (September 2003 - December 2003)</a>
It was September of 2003 now, and the majority of the clan was back in school. GgG-Juvenike took the opportunity to thank the members for their hard work in his absence, and once more left the clan. He explained that he would need to devote his full attention to his junior year of high school, and would be leaving the clan until the summer of 2004. He had learned a lesson from the summer incident, and placed GgG-Chaos in command of the clan, with GgG-Madman as the botmaster. The setup was much like summer, but the clan was now growing stronger than ever before. New faces were now the strength of the clan, and names like GgG-Kaiser, GgG-Truls.Rohk, and GgG-FistofFury were the new stars of GgG. With the old DS members back in the ranks now, it seemed as if nothing could stop GgG from expanding once more.
As soon as it seemed GgG would reach a new golden age, something had to tear it down. This time, a map did the job. In October MillenniumArmy, a long time friend of the clan, had made a basketball map with GgG's name on it. At first, the map was very popular in the clan. Then the downside reared its ugly head. A map that is played by many people is bound to bring in some bad attitudes, and that is just what basketball did. The clan began to recruit from the map, bringing in a large amount of immature and plain stupid people. GgG-Chaos took action and banned the basketball map for recruiting new members. The majority of members recruited in this map had to try out in an approved GgG recruit map. This did not sit well with some of the newer recruits, who quickly broke off and formed a new clan based on the basketball map, 3pt. However, GgG-Chaos was glad that they had gone, leaving his clan cleansed of the people that gave GgG a bad name.
In the coming months, 3pt would grow large, but never pose any sort of threat to GgG. Nevertheless, more skilled members were recruited to support Clan GgG's growth. The rookies GgG-M.K.Russ., GgG-Hitman, GgG-Xterminator along with the foundation of the clan were bringing new members to clan GgG.
In November, GgG-Criminal created a map in honor of the clan. GgG Warriors, an arena-fighting map pitting members of GgG against each other was popular with everyone in the clan. All the new recruits asked GgG-Criminal to put them in the map, and over time the map was almost played as much as dodgeball. Though all good things must come to an end and in the weeks after its release, GgG warriors would start to lose its popularity, but remain a well-known map among the clan.
Clan GgG continued to grow and thrive to new heights, as GgG-Chaos decided to open up the clan to a new map, diplomacy. Many members had already been playing for quite some time, but now it was official. New people were recruited through the diplomacy map, and soon GgG-Criminal would spawn a map, which would utterly desecrate the game forever.
In December however, MillenniumArmy redeemed himself. By request of GgG-Chaos as well as many other members, MillenniumArmy made the first ever Dodgeball Tournament map. Though it took a while to finish and perfect, the map was soon completed much to the delight of the clan. The map was easily spread into the public and soon became the most played dodgeball map on Battle.Net. With a message in the briefing asking the best players to try out for GgG, the clan was flooded with new potential recruits. The clan rejected many because they could not live up to the high standards set by the GgG elite. Some though were accepted and became popular members within the clan. However clan i)D( had grown considerably in power with GgG, and threatened to shadow clan GgG with superior dodgeball players.
<a name="darktimes">The Dark Times (January 2004 - Mid February 2004)</a>
A new year was upon GgG; right from the start of it, things went wrong. January 3rd was the 1st dodgeball war with i)D(. A secret known by only one person at the time would spell doom for the entire war.
GgG-Madman had become convinced that the only way to win the war with i)D( was through him. He came up with two fake names, GgG-King, and GgG-Evil. No one had suspected a thing when these two had joined the clan, and most saw them as some of the best dodgeball players GgG has to offer. To make things worse, GgG-Pooman had also created a fake name to enter into the war, GgG-Lionheart.
When the 10-man war took place, little did anyone suspect that it was actually a 10 vs. 7. GgG-Madman, GgG-King, and GgG-Evil had all been placed in the GgG lineup. GgG-Pooman and GgG-Lionheart were also there. The war was nothing short of a slaughter, as even the best GgG had to offer could not withstand against the i)D( machine.
In a stunning move, GgG-Pooman refused to give up. He challenged i)D( to 2 more wars without the permission of GgG-Chaos, both which GgG lost.
There was also a new threat when it came to dodgeball, clan Dodge or Die. Though they never were big enough to be as dominant as GgG or i)D(, D]o[D did have a number of good players.
Up until the mid February clan GgG would lay dormant and try to recover from the devastating blows dealt by i)D(.
<a name="2golden">The Second Golden Age (Late February 2004 - Mid July 2004)</a>
In mid February, things started to go more of GgG's way. Many tournaments were held both in baseball and dodgeball to strengthen the clan's hold on both maps. Clan i)D( was now a serious threat, and already a few members had switched sides. It did not concern the clan; the weak members were slowly being weeded out.
February was also the month the GgG dodgeball ladder was born. Members would be ranked according to what place they took in a massive tournament. They would then compete with each other to advance in rank on the ladder. GgG-Chaos was quoted as saying "We hope the dodgeball ladder will get us one step closer to defeating the i)D( scum".
The ladder had both its ups and downs. Not only did it increase the activity of the many members of GgG, but it also greatly improved dodgeball skill by the members who played, and increased the interest in the map by the entire clan. However there were downsides to it. The fierce level of competition and lust for being #1 degenerated many members' attitudes. Eventually the ladder was stopped by the entire clan who thought of it to be more troublesome then helpful.
Leading into the summer months of 2004 there was nothing that could stop GgG from growing larger than any of its rival clans. There were many dodgeball tournaments being held at the time, with members of GgG always coming in the top 3 spots. New members continued to join, and soon GgG had become bigger than both clan ScVz and clan i)D( combined.
When summer finally came, the return of GgG-Juvenike came as well. It was a welcome return for the old leader of the clan, though much of the clan knew nothing about him. Their loyalties lay with GgG-Chaos, which would prove significant in the future.
Summer also spawned another popular GgG map from MillenniumArmy, GgG Revolution. A war style map was soon played by all the GgG members for a brief period. Little did anyone in GgG know, by mid July the GgG Revolution would not only be a map, it would be a reality.
<a name="schism">The Great Schism (Late July 2004 - Mid August 2004)</a>
Though it would appear the return of GgG-Juvenike was a good thing, not everyone harbored such feelings. Two people in particular felt this way. Once more, it was GgG-Pooman and GgG-Chaos. GgG-Pooman however did not participate in the upcoming events; he simply vanished off battle.net in protest of GgG-Juvenike. GgG-Chaos on the other hand, would go much further, and test the limits of GgG.
GgG-Chaos, resentful of GgG-Juvenikes sudden rise to power, and GgG-Juvenike's new clan regulations felt as if he had been betrayed. He had spent nearly a year running the clan in GgG-Juvenike's absence, and GgG was in a golden era. He thought that it was his doing, and without him, GgG would crumble. On a late July night, GgG-Chaos started an open rebellion against the rest of GgG. It started small at first, with only about three members leaving with him. Nevertheless, over the coming days it accounted for no less than half the GgG active members, including some of the elite in the clan. They soon set up a temporary clan known as SbS. The initial plan was like that of a siege, they would starve GgG into submission, upon doing so GgG would beg them to return in order to keep the clan alive. It was not to go at all as GgG-Chaos planned.
For starters, the level of loyalty GgG-Chaos' members was lower than he expected. Several key members of GgG that he expected to follow him stayed loyal. At first GgG struggled with the sheer lack of members and activity by the clan. However, GgG-Madman, now the ruling figurehead, took action with the aid of the newly appointed Co-Leader GgG-Forgotten. In a series of moves, they began to mass recruit members. Many of these people were not good, others left only after a day of being in the clan. However, the sheer numbers that GgG-Madman and GgG-Forgotten were recruiting meant that only a handful had to be good. Soon enough GgG was back, with nearly the entire clan being made up of new blood recruited during the rebellion.
After three weeks of waiting, Chaos made one final push to try to secure victory. Clan i)D( had proposed to GgG-Chaos that their clans should merge, seeing how i)D( was crippled from their own rebellion at the time. If the two clans combined, they would be far stronger than GgG in every aspect, and would crush them in short order. Just as the merger was about to take place though, a few important and influential members of i)D( declared they would leave should the merger take place. With his final plot in tatters, GgG-Chaos decided there was no reason to continue with the rebellion. He ordered his members to join i)D(, rather than return to GgG in shame. Some however did not, and stood by GgG-Chaos who claimed he would never wear an i)D( tag. In the end, GgG-Speed convinced GgG-Chaos that pride was not worth the destruction of something that had been building over two years. GgG-Chaos swallowed his pride, and admitted defeat. Moreover, he came back with some trusted members and took a demotion for their troubles.
With the help of testers like GgG-Hitman, GgG-Xterminator, and GgG-Traitor a complex version of GgG Ice Hockey was created. These few testers, along with GgG-M.K.Russ. started playing games, and forming teams. From this, the original two teams were formed. The first was GgG-UNIT consisting of GgG-M.K.Russ. and GgG-Traitor. The second was The Dark Warriors consisting of GgG-Darkknight and GgG-Warrior. Before long, The GgG Ice Hockey League was formed with 6 teams playing best-of-7 series. But all good things must come to and end. Four weeks after formation, the league was stopped with a final 8-team tournament. A total of 73 games were played between 9 teams. GgG-UNIT proudly went 35-8 throughout the league winning both tournaments, having the highest Goals For, and the lowest Goals Against. GgG-M.K.Russ.'s goalie skills and GgG-Traitor's scoring skills could not be beaten. The runner-up team, The Juvenikes made up of GgG-Juvenike and GgG-Infested promised that one day GgG-UNIT will fall to The Juvenikes.
<a name="beginnings">New Beginnings (Late August 2004 - Mid November 2004)</a>
It was now August and GgG was reaching 2 years of age. As the year before GgG-Juvenike wanted to plan a festival. This festival would starting on August 19th and end on September 2nd. GgG-Juvenike would promise to host a series of tournaments with the help of GgG-M.K.Russ., and GgG-Madman. The two weeks of GgG Olympic Games 2004 involved players from Clan GgG and good friends of GgG represented their heritage proudly as they competed in sports of all types.
A total of 8 events were held with 105 entries. At the end of it all, 27 medals were given out to 15 players from 11 countries. GgG-M.K.Russ. representing U.S.S.R. toped the list with 3 gold medals, and 1 bronze medal. LegenderyVegeta also of U.S.S.R. was in 2nd with 2 gold, and 2 silver medals. Finally, GgG-Madman of U.S.A. cruised in 3rd with 1 gold, and 2 bronze medals. Overall, U.S.S.R. came out on top with a total of 10 medals, 6 of them gold. U.S.A. came in 2nd with 4 medals, 1 of them gold.
With summer coming to an end, GgG-Madman and GgG-Juvenike now assumed the roles of co-leaders over clan GgG. During this time, relations with some members from the late clan SbS were being patched up. More new members were continuously being recruited, but the results were the same as before. Many of them were not qualified to be in the clan, but old habits die hard. Despite this, GgG-Madman saw his chance to start his regime off strong. Seizing the initiative, he challenged i)D( to a 4th dodgeball war. The results however would be no different from the past.
To understand why GgG lost the war, the situation must be analyzed first. GgG-Madman went into the war with one of his best dodgeballers, GgG-Truls.Rohk, unavailable. Secondly, the basic skill levels of many GgG members had deteriorated, and they were not as good at dodgeball as they once were. Even with the addition of the legendary i)D(Player to their ranks, GgG was hopelessly outclassed even before the war began.
GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos both knew this and discussed it the night before the war. GgG-Madman decided to put some of the newer recruits in the lineup to test their skills under pressure. It proved to be a horrendous mistake as i)D(StarX proceeded to carve through 8 of the GgG members before finally being halted by GgG-Kris. GgG-Kris however was soon dispatched by the next i)D( competitor.
In the end the 4th i)D( dodgeball war was another crushing defeat for GgG. However it prompted GgG-Madman to bring back the GgG dodgeball ladder, much like GgG-Chaos did after the losses earlier in the year.
Loosing the war was a huge upset for GgG but many members still had a great and successful summer.
It was time for another clan meeting. Many clan changes would be made. Several complaints had been made about the inactivity of GgG-MadMan and GgG-Juvenike as leaders. With the permission of GgG-Madman, GgG-Forgotten organized a meeting that would install a new temporary leader and clear out other inactive members from the website and bots. A lot of active members were promoted including GgG-M.K.Russ. He had his best months that summer having the Hockey League, hosting Olympics, keeping track of the ladder and supporting GgG-Madman and others during their tournament hosting. The reward was a promotion to manager, a role as a bot-master, and a spot on the site crew. This story didn't have a happy ending. People were looking forward to GgG-Forgotten's message. They were not aware that the reason members had been promoted to the site staff, botmasters, and a new clan administrator was that GgG-Forgotten was retiring from Clan GgG. GgG-Juvenike also would retire from his leadership role. GgG-Forgotten had appointed GgG-Chaos to take the leadership role, with GgG-Truls.Rohk as co-leader. Weeks after, GgG-Madman also needed time off from clan GgG due to school. He quietly took the rank of Single A. It was now time for Clan GgG to step into 2005 with new leadership.
<a name="depr">The Great Depression(Mid November 2004 - Mid May 2005)</a>
A new school year caused GgG to desert with only few members being able to play online. This depression lasted until the Christmas holidays where some hope of clan activity was restored. As the New Year arrived at the door clan GgG sparked for the two weeks of holidays. But as the holidays ended, so did the participation of many members. Tournaments were planned, but not carried out. The clan once again fell into depression. During this time, the clan was taken over for a brief period of time but quickly conquered back by GgG-Deathawk. As if things couldn't get worse, the clan members started having disagreements and problems.
After a controversial incident involving a member of the clan getting kicked out, GgG-M.K.Russ. suggested a Clan Council to regulate the clan in a fair non-anarchy way. With that idea, M.K.Russ., GgG-Pooman, and GgG-Chaos created a GgG Constitution. The GgG Constitution touched on aspects of clan administration. 5 members were appointed for The Senate as well as 5 members for The Lower House. January 11, 2005 marked "A great day for democracy" for Clan GgG as quoted by GgG-Chaos.
Weeks passed as the clan remained deserted with few members recruited. GgG-Chaos acted quickly to try and resolve the problem by introducing new clan sports. The first were: Diplomacy Blood and Iron, Civil War Campaign Virginia, and GgG Ice Hockey. After a couple of weeks more sports were introduced as Clan sports: Volleyball, Basketball, and Wallball.
During the last clan meeting of February more sad news came. It was only 4 months ago when the founder of the clan, GgG-Juvenike retired as the clan leader as well as a respected Site Administrator GgG-Forgotten retired from Starcraft. Now, GgG-Chaos announced that he would retire at the end of the summer and will need a new replacement. More members were rumored to retire as Clan GgG will enter its 3rd year of existence.
With summer at the doorstep, clan GgG was starting to regain life. The GgG Constitution was practiced with participation of the elders. New members were slowly coming in and clan GgG was coming back to life. As the previous summers, people hoped that the long months of Julius and Augustus would bring activity and participation.
<a name="repar">The Reparation(Mid May 2005 - Mid September 2005)</a>
As school ended and summer was in full swing, so was Clan GgG. Clan participation was at it's highest this year with every intention of getting better. Like an annoying cliché, just as things get better in clan GgG, things go wrong. The clan site, an important part of clan communication and administration, shut down. With all information lost, GgG-Madman organized a meeting with the elders with plans to rebuilt a bigger and better site. Until then, the bots would deliver all the information.
It was that time again, Clan GgG has aged yet again. Now 3 years old clan GgG has gone through more change than anyone can imagine. As every other year, an event of tournaments was ahead.
The Clan GgG 3rd Annual Anniversary Event, or GgG Olympics 2005, was in effect and host GgG-M.K.Russ. as well as anxious participants like GgG-Deathawk and GgG-King were eager to play. Staying with the mood of previous year, members would represent their heritage with pride. As planned, a total of 11 tournaments were played out. Once again, with the participation of the clan members, this event was a success. GgG-M.K.Russ. lead the way with a total of 11 medals, 6 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze. GgG-Xero was runner up with his 8 medals, 4 gold, 3 silver, and 1 bronze. Finally, GgG-King was third with his 6 medals, 2 of each color. The country standings were U.S.S.R. first, with Jamaica in second, and Czech Republic finishing third. An overall success, members were now looking forward to more tournaments and a greater expansion. But it was not to be. Angry with the lack of progress on the clan site and lack of organization of clan bots, GgG-Chaos had no choice but to form a new clan channel. Thankfully, this argument did not last long as GgG-Madman, returning from his summer vacation, quickly fixed the bots and with the help of GgG-M.K.Russ. brought the site to life. During the next weeks the site would be fixed, improved, and updated.
It was also around this time that a growing number of bad members were joining the clan. Much like the basketball map had done ealier in GgG's history, the combined trio of basketball, volleyball, and wallball were responsible for another group of immature and disrespectful clan members. With overwhelming support from the Senate as well as from other elder members, these three games were done away with and no longer recruition maps.
From the day of its creation, the GgG Constitution was criticized for being flawed. As the summer progressed evidence of that started to show more. So, with the support of the elders, GgG-Chaos removed the GgG Constitution to go back to the old oligarchy ways of the clan, which proved successful over the years. GgG-Chaos remained leader, while GgG-PensSUCK and GgG-Infested became duel co-leaders.
As every year, it was time for GgG-Chaos' annual Home Run Derby. After a slow and confusing start, the Home Run Derby turned out to be a complete success. GgG-Haddaway defeated GgG-NellyFan69 in the finals, thus walking away as the winner. He joins GgG-Chaos and GgG-Infested as derby champions.
With events and tournaments hosted often, people got more courage to host their own tournaments with the help of the clan site. Within weeks tournaments were planned for weeks ahead and successfully carried out.
Eventually, it was that time of year again. As September arrived, members would once again return to their places of business. Unlike most other years, participation thrived throughout the clan. It was an everyday experience to see an active clan members communicate and compete with one another. Where other clans have failed, clan GgG surpassed all others, and advances towards the new year.
<a name="enterprise">The Age of Enterprise (Late September 2005 - )</a>
The first day of fall marked an important day for GgG. It's long time leader, Chaos, would be stepping down from his position of power. He had made an announcement of this months ago, however few people actually believed him at the time.
It was little suprise to anyone that he named Infested as the new leader of GgG. Infested had served for nearly as long as Chaos had, and was finally getting a chance to prove his mettle. With a co-leader position open, Chaos named M.K.Russ. as the new co-leader, as he had been only a few months earlier. Russ was eager to prove that his earlier demotion should have never happened.
Chaos said that he would not leave Battle.net completely, and still be active. However he thought that it was time to prepare other members for positions of responsibility for when the "old school" members of 2002 eventually did leave GgG.
Baseball saw a sharp increase of popularity in the month of October. Perhaps a cause for this was because of the real life baseball playoffs, which saw the majority of GgG's favorite teams participate. The Yankees, Red Sox, and White Sox accounted for much of GgG's population when it came to which team they rooted for. The Chicago White Sox went on to win the World Series, which turned out to be an excellent farewell gift for Chaos.
During the early parts of November, there was also a sudden resurgence of activity. Unlike past falls in GgG, the channel was filled with members almost all day. With this came a number of older members who began coming online again. Names of the past such as NellyFan69, FistofFury, Dread, and even Juvenike were a common sight in the channel and on peoples friend lists.
Even as the members of old returned to GgG, new members were being recruited all the time. It seemed they were being recruited in all the games GgG played. New recruits for dodgeball, baseball, and even basketball poured into GgG and were quite skilled at what they did. It looked as if a new golden age was nearing.
This was proven in a baseball tournament hosted by GgG-Playar in the early days of November. The final match pitted Playar against the soon to be phenom new recruit GgG-Bad, known at that time as Bad-Recordz. In the end however, Playar beat Bad, but soon after was recruited into GgG by the combined efforts of Deathawk, Playar, and Chaos.
In the early days of November, GgG was approached by members of ScVz to have a 4th clan war. This however would be the biggest yet. Members from both sides agreed to five sports: Baseball, Football, Basketball, Dodgeball, and Sniper Walks. Each side would have four players or teams for each sport, and would compete in the same way as the three previous Dodgeball Wars. To make things more efficiant and due to the large amount of players completing, multiple sports would be played at the same time.
GgG started out strong in baseball as expected. Chaos defeated the 2 ScVz players sent against him. That was all ScVz could muster. In dodgeball, FistofFury defeated the first ScVz dodgeballer, but was unable to play the next due to them not being online at the same time.
In football, ScVz dominated as expected. Snipers however soon became the main topic of discussion. The ScVz member who had agreed to playing the Sniper Walks map went back on the agreement. Futhermore, he demanded that unless GgG would play locks they would forfeit the catagory. GgG members including Dorkhawk, Infested, Juvenike, and Chaos fought this feircy. ScVz then proclaimed they could change their teams at will. When this happened the war was immediatly put on hold as both sides argued about what sports would be played and who could play.
After many days of fighting, high ranking members from each group agreed that the war would be stopped, with GgG leading 1-0.
GgG would soon forget about ScVz. A man named Shippo( approached GgG-PensSUCK about joining him in a new all sports clan on the west server. PensSUCK considered this but eventually turned it down. Soon however Chaos heard about this, and had an idea. He spoke with Shippo( and said that if he would agree to make his new clan on the west server have the GgG tag, then they would get GgG's resources such as bots, members, a channel, and a website. Thus on November 21st 2005, GgG West was born.
That day a clan channel was created on the western server, and Shippo( changed his name to GgG-Shorty. In the coming days they would get many new recruits and would soon become a strong and active clan, much like their sister clan on the east server. However unlike East GgG, the west played mostly basketball and wall ball, and Chaos knew this. He also knew that it didn't really matter what sports GgG West played, just as long they spread the GgG tag to new areas. By doing this East GgG would gain fame and popularity due to having a clan on the west server. Most Starcraft clans can't even manage to become powerful on one server, let alone two. This was a powerful statement by GgG, saying that they would not only dominate sports on the east, but west as well.
After the creation of West GgG, things started to settle down in the east. GgG would continue to recruit more members and host more tournaments contributing to M.K.Russ.' All-Star league. That was until a mid-December day when PensSUCK approached GgG's leader, Infested. He made a proposal, that if him and Chaos could defeat Infested and Juvenike in a Pokemon Battle, they would be the new co-leaders of GgG. Infested readily accepted. Later that day, PensSUCK and Chaos became co-leaders.
To start off the new year, a wave of anti-basketball swept through the clan in response to its growing popularity in the clan. Members such as Playar, Xero, and even GgG's leader Infested took up the map and began to play almost every day. This upset veteran members such as PensSUCK, Dorkhawk, and Chaos. So they along with a few other members began the campaign to stop basketball in its tracks. It did not last long however, as they soon realized it was just a fad, and they were overreacting. The anti-basketball craze began to cool down.
GgG had always been fickle when it came to popular maps. They had seen it before such as with dodgeball, baseball, even GgG warriors. Games came, lasted a few weeks, and then something new would come along. This time it turned out to be the most unexpected sport. GgG Ice Hockey, a map that member M.K.Russ. had made so long ago made its way back onto the scene. With it came a whole new era of popularity. Old schoolers such as Russ, PensSUCK, Juvenike, and Infested once more took up their hockey sticks and began to play. With them came rookies like Chaos, Playar, Dorkhawk, and Kovalev.
It was decided that the old GgG Ice Hockey League would be reformed. With this came high hopes, as more people than ever before had begun to play and perfect their skills at the sport. Russ' map had finally reached its potential, but to him, it was probably worth the wait.
February 6th, 2006, marked a day of defeat for GgG. Its branch on the west server, after only a little more than two months of existance, finally collapsed. It can be argued on how and why this happened. From bad leadership, to inactive members, it did not matter to the members of east GgG. The dream of having their clan stretch from coast to coast had failed. However it was of little concern to the members of east GgG, as their server was thriving like never before. With many new and active members, along with its veteran members, it seemed as if a third golden age had begun in GgG.
Controversy and intrigue have always ruled GgG. In 2006, it would be no different. GgG had since turned it's back on being a pure sports clan. Only a few members still played sports maps on a regular basis. GgG had changed from a clan, into a close-knit group of friends who just played whatever they felt like playing. It was for these reasons that drama inside GgG flared up again. It started with the renewal of interest in D2. Key members like Playar, Infested, Chaos, and Lesk began to play this game more and more, which sparked a conflict with other more conservative members. It was for this reason as well as others that the flow of new recruits into GgG nearly stopped entirely. The fad would not last long however, as members would soon see that playing it caused a severe decrease in member activiy, ultimately bringing down the Age of Enterprise.
More arguments began as Deathawk introduced a new LAN-based system of gaming to GgG. It can be debated whether this was worse than the D2 craze, but in both instances GgG activity suffered because of it's introduction. LAN did not last long however, as the promise of "lag-free" games simply did not justify the use of it over more conventional battle.net methods. By late April GgG was once more searching for new members to boost it's declining activity. Summer was fast approaching however, which gave the older members hope, for summer was always a rejuvinator for GgG when it was struggling.
<a name="storm">The Calm Before the Storm (Late April 2006 - )</a>
[color=white]So dire had the situation become in GgG that it's leader, Infested, declared April 29th 2006 'National Recruitment Day'.
It wasn't written by me :\
The History of Clan GgG[/size]
By GgG-Chaos
GgG-M.K.Russ.
<a href="#humble">Humble Origins (June 2002)</a>
<a href="#expansion">The Age of Expansion (July 2002 - November 2002)</a>
<a href="#reformation">Reformation (December 2002)</a>
<a href="#dominance">The Age of Dominance (January 2003 - April 2003)</a>
<a href="#1golden">The First Golden Age (May 2003 - Mid June 2003)</a>
<a href="#strife">The Age of Strife (Late June 2003 - Late August 2003)</a>
<a href="#renascence">Renascence (September 2003 - December 2003)</a>
<a href="#darktimes">The Dark Times (January 2004 - Mid February 2004)</a>
<a href="#2golden">The Second Golden Age (Late February 2004 - Mid July 2004)</a>
<a href="#schism">The Great Schism (Late July 2004 - Mid August 2004)</a>
<a href="#beginnings">New Beginnings (Late August 2004 - Mid November 2004)</a>
<a href="#depr">The Great Depression (Mid November 2004 - Mid May 2005)</a>
<a href="#repar">The Reparation (Mid May 2005 - Mid September 2005)</a>
<a href="#enterprise">The Age of Enterprise (Late September 2005 - Mid April 2006)</a>
<a href="#storm">The Calm Before the Storm (Late April 2006 - )</a>
<a name="humble">Humble Origins (June 2002)</a>
The founding of GgG can be clearly traced back to the day of June 19th, 2002. A boy named Nick, along with his two friends John and Sang, banded together to form a new clan on Battle.Net. It was a time when the baseball map was still young, and Nick quickly took the opportunity to create the first ever baseball clan, Going Going Gone.
With his new name, GgG-Nike, he set about recruiting new members, while John, to be known as GgG-Gonmog, took the role of botmaster. The first person to be recruited was GgG-PensSUCK. Over the next month, many people were recruited, but few actually stayed. The key members at this point included GgG-Crystal, GgG-Tank, GgG-Imperial, and GgG-Assassin. However, over the next few weeks though, their roles would be over, and replaced forever.
<a name="expansion">The Age of Expansion (July 2002 - November 2002)</a>
July through November of 2002 were great months of growth for Clan GgG. During this time, baseball popularity was at its peak. Some of the greatest and most famed members to be recruited joined at this time. The egotistical GgG-Chaos, venomous GgG-Pooman, humble GgG-Infested, gothic GgG-Terror, perverted GgG-RuneLesnar, and bold but quiet GgG-Madman are all members who had been key to the growth and success of the clan in its early months. Each man would play a pivotal role in GgG the following years, though some good, and some bad.
These months also brought change to clan GgG. No longer was it just a baseball clan. The venerable GgG-Juvenike who had by now changed his name declared that clan GgG would open up to all sports. Much reasoning for this was because of the pressure other members put on him to expand the clan's horizons. Dodgeball, snipers, and football were the original expansion maps. At this point dodgeball and snipers were now more played than even baseball itself. GgG-Juvenike had once more made history. Now for the first time on Battle.Net, there was an all sports clan.
<a name="reformation">Reformation (December 2002)</a>
The past months had been kind to GgG. All of that was about to change. Two of the more dominant members of the clan, GgG-Pooman and GgG-Chaos, decided that the clan needed change. They felt under appreciated by what they thought was a tyrannical leader. In a sudden coup, they led a small band of members in a rebellion against GgG-Juvenike and all of clan GgG. They formed a new clan, Starcraft Sports Masters. GgG-Juvenike however, was slow to react to the threat. He cared little for the rebellion, and thought in a matter of days it would be over. He had turned a deaf ear to their cries of "No taxation without representation". That arrogance cost him dearly. Nearly all of GgG had switched sides in only a couple days. Only three important members had stayed at GgG-Juvenike's side: GgG-Madman, GgG-Terror and GgG-Infested.
However, GgG-Juvenike was no fool. He quickly saw the folly in his actions, and gave into the demands of the rebellion clan SSM. The majority members who had rebelled received promotions. GgG-Chaos though, was not satisfied with the results. Despite the clan having returned to normal, he continued without them. Realizing that victory was impossible, he simply vanished. Weeks went by with no word from him. In late December though, he returned. Many of the members still favored him over GgG-Juvenike though. Where GgG-Juvenike had the upper hand in pure power, GgG-Chaos had power in his charisma and ability with people. In a stunning move, the people pressured GgG-Juvenike not only to let him back in clan GgG, but also to receive the promotion that he and SSM had fought for. GgG-Juvenike had also promised one more thing, a clan council.
As a new year came, the members of GgG thought there would be changes in how GgG was run. Though by this time, the clan had forgotten all about the council that GgG-Juvenike had promised. There was a new threat to GgG, known as clan ScVz.
<a name="dominance">The Age of Dominance (January 2003 - April 2003)</a>
Up to January, GgG had been home to the best dodgeball players on Battle.Net. Nevertheless, clan ScVz, who had long been GgG's only enemy and rival, decided to challenge them to a dodgeball war.
The 1st DodgeBall War was a struggle. Neither side achieved any roll at first. In a series of defeats and wins, both sides found themselves reduced to about 5 people each. Then GgG-Imperial would play his last big roll in the clan, where he went on to crush 3 ScVz in a row. Even with the heart of their order taken out, ScVz continued to struggle on, bringing the war down to the final people, GgG-Juvenike and ScV_Distrust. In the end, however GgG was victorious, with ScVz pride seriously injured losing on their own map.
Fresh off their victory, clan GgG continued to expand in numbers unseen since mid 2002. Many new faces were brought in at this point, many who are still in the clan today. However, things did not remain quiet for long, and ScVz soon challenged clan GgG to a 2nd war.
The 2nd DodgeBall War was completely unlike the 1st. For starters, it was 6 people rather than 10 per side. The more important fact however, was the way it turned out. GgG-Pooman, filled with intensity, managed to defeat all 6 ScVz in a row, thus securing the victory for clan GgG. A great triumph was held, and ScVz once more sunk back into the shadows licking their wounds.
It seems that they would not learn when to give up. For the 3rd time, clan ScVz demanded a war. It was to be a 10-man battle like the first. The battle lines were drawn up, and clan ScVz came out with zeal, crushing those GgGs who stood in their path. Though GgG-RuneLesnar defeated the first ScV, ScV_Agrul soon struck back. ScV_Agrul proceeded to smash aside 4 GgGs in a row, crushing the spirits of clan GgG. That was until GgG-Chaos stepped in. In a show of utter supremacy, GgG-Chaos defeated 8 straight ScVz, until only the mighty ScV_Distrust stood in the way of victory. ScV_Distrust however, showing the true colors of his clan, refused to play GgG-Chaos thus forfeiting the war. With their 3rd straight victory over clan ScVz, clan GgG proved itself superior in dodgeball to any other clan on Battle.Net.
It would continue on for a long while, until the troublesome clan known as i)D( was resurrected, and would prove to be a terrible thorn in GgG's side.
<a name="1golden">The First Golden Age (May 2003 - Mid June 2003)</a>
As it was, clan GgG was at its peak. It stood unopposed in nearly any sport, save football, which was fiercely fought over by the struggling clan ScVz. Their time was over and they were out of the spotlight. A new clan had been reformed. Clan i)D(, at the time known as Immortal Demons was founded by the sinister i)D(Player, GgG-Juvenike's arch enemy. They had laid dormant for many months, and most thought they had disappeared. It was not to be. i)D(Player returned, and with that came i)D(, now renamed Insane Dodgers. The clan grew quickly with the help of traitorous GgG members going to their side.
However, this was little concern to GgG. They continued to grow regardless, and approaching its 1-year birthday, had much to celebrate about. Full of dedicated members, dominant in many games, and having defeated their long time rival ScVz in 3 separate dodgeball wars, what was there to be sad about? Members even took up the map diplomacy and soon began to excel at that, defeating even the hardened diplomacy clans of battle.net in their maps.
In time the calendar read June 19th once more, and everyone showed up to celebrate the day. GgG-Juvenike had planned half a dozen tournaments for the occasion, and the first day of his so called "Festival Week" ended with nothing short of success. Little did everyone know that things were to take a turn for the worse. The following days were completely unlike the first, with nearly no one turning up to complete the tournaments. Filled with a mix of anger and depression, GgG-Juvenike made the announcement he had hoped to deliver to a full channel of followers. He would be leaving for Korea for nearly two months. Normally it would not have been such a bad thing, and a replacement would be found to serve in his place. It was not so with GgG-Juvenike, who would leave clan GgG on the brink of destruction in the coming months due to his incompetence.
<a name="strife">The Age of Strife (Late June 2003 - Late August 2003)</a>
A matter of days had passed since GgG-Juvenike's departure, and things were already starting to fall apart. GgG-Juvenike had left no leader to take his place. No one had sufficient power to effectively control the clan's bots. Worse still, there were no bots. With GgG-Juvenike left the botmaster John, and GgG-Juvenike's second in command, ST-6. Without any power in the channel, and the power of i)D( growing even more, clan GgG was on the verge of collapse.
To make things worse, there was a betrayal in the ranks. Despite the obvious stress the clan was under, a few people chose to take advantage of the chaos and break off to form their own clans. A trio of disgruntled GgG members, Shocker, Matrix, and PensSUCK decided to start a new clan, known as Drunken Snipers. With them, they took a portion of the elite sniper cadre of GgG, leaving the already weakening GgG reeling from yet another blow to its core. Yet things continued to get worse, as two of the dodgeball elite of the clan, Vegeta and China-Man, abandoned GgG to join i)D(. Struggling to survive without bots, members, and a leader, clan GgG was nearly destroyed by the repeated disasters. However, from the clouds came light, as a pair of individuals were to not only keep clan GgG alive, but also bring it to its former glory.
GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos were two of the only members still to come on the GgG tag. They assessed the situation and knew if nothing were done soon, the yearlong project known as Going Going Gone would end forever. They acted quickly to re-establish the channel in a new location. GgG-Chaos, seizing the opportunity to satisfy his craving for power, declared himself the new leader of clan GgG due to GgG-Juvenike's lack of sense. GgG-Madman, a self-proclaimed genius with bots, took over as botmaster. Together they rallied what people they could to reform clan GgG against the two clans that threatened to destroy it. GgG-Madman immediately became a master in the sport of dodgeball in order to help combat the i)D( threat, while all other members practiced snipers in an effort to quell the DS rebellion.
Some people were unhappy though. Two members in particular, GgG-Pooman and GgG-RuneLensar thought that GgG-Chaos was too irresponsible to run the clan. They also thought he and GgG-Madman would not only bring the clan down further than it was, but doom its very existence. The pair started a revolt and attempted to rally the people to their cause. However, the people held strong, and stood by GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos. With their rebellion in tatters, GgG-Pooman went into hiding for the next month. GgG-RuneLensar in his weakness, begged for forgiveness, and it was given to him. GgG-RuneLensar would prove to be far weaker though in the coming weeks.
A popular map was created by GgG-Criminal during these dark times. GgG Survivor was a movie map that captured the hearts of the few members still active during the summer days. It had its moments of comedy which would spawn many GgG-RuneLensar and GgG-FistofFury jokes for many months to follow. Another version of the map was made when GgG-Chaos stole the unprotected version. Though GgG-Criminal would never admit it, the vast majority of the clan liked GgG-Chaos' version better.
During this time was the infamous "website wars" by GgG-Pooman and GgG-FistofFury. Both members had created websites for the clan to use. Though GgG-Pooman's was official, GgG-FistofFury insisted that his was better, and should become the main GgG site. In the end, people determined how terrible GgG-FistofFury's site was, and victory belonged to GgG-Pooman.
This war didn't end for both members as each one tried to improve his site for the better. It was to remain so until GgG-Madman decided the clan needed a new site, and put together one that topped both GgG-Pooman's and GgG-FistofFury's sites. There was little opposition from either.
Though a steady process of mass recruiting declared by GgG-Chaos, GgG once more grew strong. By this time it was mid August, and GgG-Juvenike had returned from his long vacation. What he saw was a completely changed clan. The majority of its members were all new faces to him, and all loyal to the only leader they ever knew, GgG-Chaos. In the channel, bots were up and running 24/7 and everything ran smoothly under GgG-Madman's control. Nevertheless, to his credit, GgG-Chaos did not retain leadership of the clan. He handed it over to GgG-Juvenike, who reluctantly accepted control for the rest of the summer.
They were self-proclaimed heroes. GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos knew in their hearts they had saved clan GgG, and that is all that mattered. The clan was alive and strong. Soon enough the traitors of DS realized their experiment was a failure. They crawled back into clan GgG, being accepted back by GgG-Juvenike. However, GgG-Juvenike did not know what trouble they had caused in his absence, which deep down caused resentment in GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos. Up until school started, GgG-Juvenike would remain the leader of GgG, until the next time he would leave them.
<a name="renascence">Renascence (September 2003 - December 2003)</a>
It was September of 2003 now, and the majority of the clan was back in school. GgG-Juvenike took the opportunity to thank the members for their hard work in his absence, and once more left the clan. He explained that he would need to devote his full attention to his junior year of high school, and would be leaving the clan until the summer of 2004. He had learned a lesson from the summer incident, and placed GgG-Chaos in command of the clan, with GgG-Madman as the botmaster. The setup was much like summer, but the clan was now growing stronger than ever before. New faces were now the strength of the clan, and names like GgG-Kaiser, GgG-Truls.Rohk, and GgG-FistofFury were the new stars of GgG. With the old DS members back in the ranks now, it seemed as if nothing could stop GgG from expanding once more.
As soon as it seemed GgG would reach a new golden age, something had to tear it down. This time, a map did the job. In October MillenniumArmy, a long time friend of the clan, had made a basketball map with GgG's name on it. At first, the map was very popular in the clan. Then the downside reared its ugly head. A map that is played by many people is bound to bring in some bad attitudes, and that is just what basketball did. The clan began to recruit from the map, bringing in a large amount of immature and plain stupid people. GgG-Chaos took action and banned the basketball map for recruiting new members. The majority of members recruited in this map had to try out in an approved GgG recruit map. This did not sit well with some of the newer recruits, who quickly broke off and formed a new clan based on the basketball map, 3pt. However, GgG-Chaos was glad that they had gone, leaving his clan cleansed of the people that gave GgG a bad name.
In the coming months, 3pt would grow large, but never pose any sort of threat to GgG. Nevertheless, more skilled members were recruited to support Clan GgG's growth. The rookies GgG-M.K.Russ., GgG-Hitman, GgG-Xterminator along with the foundation of the clan were bringing new members to clan GgG.
In November, GgG-Criminal created a map in honor of the clan. GgG Warriors, an arena-fighting map pitting members of GgG against each other was popular with everyone in the clan. All the new recruits asked GgG-Criminal to put them in the map, and over time the map was almost played as much as dodgeball. Though all good things must come to an end and in the weeks after its release, GgG warriors would start to lose its popularity, but remain a well-known map among the clan.
Clan GgG continued to grow and thrive to new heights, as GgG-Chaos decided to open up the clan to a new map, diplomacy. Many members had already been playing for quite some time, but now it was official. New people were recruited through the diplomacy map, and soon GgG-Criminal would spawn a map, which would utterly desecrate the game forever.
In December however, MillenniumArmy redeemed himself. By request of GgG-Chaos as well as many other members, MillenniumArmy made the first ever Dodgeball Tournament map. Though it took a while to finish and perfect, the map was soon completed much to the delight of the clan. The map was easily spread into the public and soon became the most played dodgeball map on Battle.Net. With a message in the briefing asking the best players to try out for GgG, the clan was flooded with new potential recruits. The clan rejected many because they could not live up to the high standards set by the GgG elite. Some though were accepted and became popular members within the clan. However clan i)D( had grown considerably in power with GgG, and threatened to shadow clan GgG with superior dodgeball players.
<a name="darktimes">The Dark Times (January 2004 - Mid February 2004)</a>
A new year was upon GgG; right from the start of it, things went wrong. January 3rd was the 1st dodgeball war with i)D(. A secret known by only one person at the time would spell doom for the entire war.
GgG-Madman had become convinced that the only way to win the war with i)D( was through him. He came up with two fake names, GgG-King, and GgG-Evil. No one had suspected a thing when these two had joined the clan, and most saw them as some of the best dodgeball players GgG has to offer. To make things worse, GgG-Pooman had also created a fake name to enter into the war, GgG-Lionheart.
When the 10-man war took place, little did anyone suspect that it was actually a 10 vs. 7. GgG-Madman, GgG-King, and GgG-Evil had all been placed in the GgG lineup. GgG-Pooman and GgG-Lionheart were also there. The war was nothing short of a slaughter, as even the best GgG had to offer could not withstand against the i)D( machine.
In a stunning move, GgG-Pooman refused to give up. He challenged i)D( to 2 more wars without the permission of GgG-Chaos, both which GgG lost.
There was also a new threat when it came to dodgeball, clan Dodge or Die. Though they never were big enough to be as dominant as GgG or i)D(, D]o[D did have a number of good players.
Up until the mid February clan GgG would lay dormant and try to recover from the devastating blows dealt by i)D(.
<a name="2golden">The Second Golden Age (Late February 2004 - Mid July 2004)</a>
In mid February, things started to go more of GgG's way. Many tournaments were held both in baseball and dodgeball to strengthen the clan's hold on both maps. Clan i)D( was now a serious threat, and already a few members had switched sides. It did not concern the clan; the weak members were slowly being weeded out.
February was also the month the GgG dodgeball ladder was born. Members would be ranked according to what place they took in a massive tournament. They would then compete with each other to advance in rank on the ladder. GgG-Chaos was quoted as saying "We hope the dodgeball ladder will get us one step closer to defeating the i)D( scum".
The ladder had both its ups and downs. Not only did it increase the activity of the many members of GgG, but it also greatly improved dodgeball skill by the members who played, and increased the interest in the map by the entire clan. However there were downsides to it. The fierce level of competition and lust for being #1 degenerated many members' attitudes. Eventually the ladder was stopped by the entire clan who thought of it to be more troublesome then helpful.
Leading into the summer months of 2004 there was nothing that could stop GgG from growing larger than any of its rival clans. There were many dodgeball tournaments being held at the time, with members of GgG always coming in the top 3 spots. New members continued to join, and soon GgG had become bigger than both clan ScVz and clan i)D( combined.
When summer finally came, the return of GgG-Juvenike came as well. It was a welcome return for the old leader of the clan, though much of the clan knew nothing about him. Their loyalties lay with GgG-Chaos, which would prove significant in the future.
Summer also spawned another popular GgG map from MillenniumArmy, GgG Revolution. A war style map was soon played by all the GgG members for a brief period. Little did anyone in GgG know, by mid July the GgG Revolution would not only be a map, it would be a reality.
<a name="schism">The Great Schism (Late July 2004 - Mid August 2004)</a>
Though it would appear the return of GgG-Juvenike was a good thing, not everyone harbored such feelings. Two people in particular felt this way. Once more, it was GgG-Pooman and GgG-Chaos. GgG-Pooman however did not participate in the upcoming events; he simply vanished off battle.net in protest of GgG-Juvenike. GgG-Chaos on the other hand, would go much further, and test the limits of GgG.
GgG-Chaos, resentful of GgG-Juvenikes sudden rise to power, and GgG-Juvenike's new clan regulations felt as if he had been betrayed. He had spent nearly a year running the clan in GgG-Juvenike's absence, and GgG was in a golden era. He thought that it was his doing, and without him, GgG would crumble. On a late July night, GgG-Chaos started an open rebellion against the rest of GgG. It started small at first, with only about three members leaving with him. Nevertheless, over the coming days it accounted for no less than half the GgG active members, including some of the elite in the clan. They soon set up a temporary clan known as SbS. The initial plan was like that of a siege, they would starve GgG into submission, upon doing so GgG would beg them to return in order to keep the clan alive. It was not to go at all as GgG-Chaos planned.
For starters, the level of loyalty GgG-Chaos' members was lower than he expected. Several key members of GgG that he expected to follow him stayed loyal. At first GgG struggled with the sheer lack of members and activity by the clan. However, GgG-Madman, now the ruling figurehead, took action with the aid of the newly appointed Co-Leader GgG-Forgotten. In a series of moves, they began to mass recruit members. Many of these people were not good, others left only after a day of being in the clan. However, the sheer numbers that GgG-Madman and GgG-Forgotten were recruiting meant that only a handful had to be good. Soon enough GgG was back, with nearly the entire clan being made up of new blood recruited during the rebellion.
After three weeks of waiting, Chaos made one final push to try to secure victory. Clan i)D( had proposed to GgG-Chaos that their clans should merge, seeing how i)D( was crippled from their own rebellion at the time. If the two clans combined, they would be far stronger than GgG in every aspect, and would crush them in short order. Just as the merger was about to take place though, a few important and influential members of i)D( declared they would leave should the merger take place. With his final plot in tatters, GgG-Chaos decided there was no reason to continue with the rebellion. He ordered his members to join i)D(, rather than return to GgG in shame. Some however did not, and stood by GgG-Chaos who claimed he would never wear an i)D( tag. In the end, GgG-Speed convinced GgG-Chaos that pride was not worth the destruction of something that had been building over two years. GgG-Chaos swallowed his pride, and admitted defeat. Moreover, he came back with some trusted members and took a demotion for their troubles.
With the help of testers like GgG-Hitman, GgG-Xterminator, and GgG-Traitor a complex version of GgG Ice Hockey was created. These few testers, along with GgG-M.K.Russ. started playing games, and forming teams. From this, the original two teams were formed. The first was GgG-UNIT consisting of GgG-M.K.Russ. and GgG-Traitor. The second was The Dark Warriors consisting of GgG-Darkknight and GgG-Warrior. Before long, The GgG Ice Hockey League was formed with 6 teams playing best-of-7 series. But all good things must come to and end. Four weeks after formation, the league was stopped with a final 8-team tournament. A total of 73 games were played between 9 teams. GgG-UNIT proudly went 35-8 throughout the league winning both tournaments, having the highest Goals For, and the lowest Goals Against. GgG-M.K.Russ.'s goalie skills and GgG-Traitor's scoring skills could not be beaten. The runner-up team, The Juvenikes made up of GgG-Juvenike and GgG-Infested promised that one day GgG-UNIT will fall to The Juvenikes.
<a name="beginnings">New Beginnings (Late August 2004 - Mid November 2004)</a>
It was now August and GgG was reaching 2 years of age. As the year before GgG-Juvenike wanted to plan a festival. This festival would starting on August 19th and end on September 2nd. GgG-Juvenike would promise to host a series of tournaments with the help of GgG-M.K.Russ., and GgG-Madman. The two weeks of GgG Olympic Games 2004 involved players from Clan GgG and good friends of GgG represented their heritage proudly as they competed in sports of all types.
A total of 8 events were held with 105 entries. At the end of it all, 27 medals were given out to 15 players from 11 countries. GgG-M.K.Russ. representing U.S.S.R. toped the list with 3 gold medals, and 1 bronze medal. LegenderyVegeta also of U.S.S.R. was in 2nd with 2 gold, and 2 silver medals. Finally, GgG-Madman of U.S.A. cruised in 3rd with 1 gold, and 2 bronze medals. Overall, U.S.S.R. came out on top with a total of 10 medals, 6 of them gold. U.S.A. came in 2nd with 4 medals, 1 of them gold.
With summer coming to an end, GgG-Madman and GgG-Juvenike now assumed the roles of co-leaders over clan GgG. During this time, relations with some members from the late clan SbS were being patched up. More new members were continuously being recruited, but the results were the same as before. Many of them were not qualified to be in the clan, but old habits die hard. Despite this, GgG-Madman saw his chance to start his regime off strong. Seizing the initiative, he challenged i)D( to a 4th dodgeball war. The results however would be no different from the past.
To understand why GgG lost the war, the situation must be analyzed first. GgG-Madman went into the war with one of his best dodgeballers, GgG-Truls.Rohk, unavailable. Secondly, the basic skill levels of many GgG members had deteriorated, and they were not as good at dodgeball as they once were. Even with the addition of the legendary i)D(Player to their ranks, GgG was hopelessly outclassed even before the war began.
GgG-Madman and GgG-Chaos both knew this and discussed it the night before the war. GgG-Madman decided to put some of the newer recruits in the lineup to test their skills under pressure. It proved to be a horrendous mistake as i)D(StarX proceeded to carve through 8 of the GgG members before finally being halted by GgG-Kris. GgG-Kris however was soon dispatched by the next i)D( competitor.
In the end the 4th i)D( dodgeball war was another crushing defeat for GgG. However it prompted GgG-Madman to bring back the GgG dodgeball ladder, much like GgG-Chaos did after the losses earlier in the year.
Loosing the war was a huge upset for GgG but many members still had a great and successful summer.
It was time for another clan meeting. Many clan changes would be made. Several complaints had been made about the inactivity of GgG-MadMan and GgG-Juvenike as leaders. With the permission of GgG-Madman, GgG-Forgotten organized a meeting that would install a new temporary leader and clear out other inactive members from the website and bots. A lot of active members were promoted including GgG-M.K.Russ. He had his best months that summer having the Hockey League, hosting Olympics, keeping track of the ladder and supporting GgG-Madman and others during their tournament hosting. The reward was a promotion to manager, a role as a bot-master, and a spot on the site crew. This story didn't have a happy ending. People were looking forward to GgG-Forgotten's message. They were not aware that the reason members had been promoted to the site staff, botmasters, and a new clan administrator was that GgG-Forgotten was retiring from Clan GgG. GgG-Juvenike also would retire from his leadership role. GgG-Forgotten had appointed GgG-Chaos to take the leadership role, with GgG-Truls.Rohk as co-leader. Weeks after, GgG-Madman also needed time off from clan GgG due to school. He quietly took the rank of Single A. It was now time for Clan GgG to step into 2005 with new leadership.
<a name="depr">The Great Depression(Mid November 2004 - Mid May 2005)</a>
A new school year caused GgG to desert with only few members being able to play online. This depression lasted until the Christmas holidays where some hope of clan activity was restored. As the New Year arrived at the door clan GgG sparked for the two weeks of holidays. But as the holidays ended, so did the participation of many members. Tournaments were planned, but not carried out. The clan once again fell into depression. During this time, the clan was taken over for a brief period of time but quickly conquered back by GgG-Deathawk. As if things couldn't get worse, the clan members started having disagreements and problems.
After a controversial incident involving a member of the clan getting kicked out, GgG-M.K.Russ. suggested a Clan Council to regulate the clan in a fair non-anarchy way. With that idea, M.K.Russ., GgG-Pooman, and GgG-Chaos created a GgG Constitution. The GgG Constitution touched on aspects of clan administration. 5 members were appointed for The Senate as well as 5 members for The Lower House. January 11, 2005 marked "A great day for democracy" for Clan GgG as quoted by GgG-Chaos.
Weeks passed as the clan remained deserted with few members recruited. GgG-Chaos acted quickly to try and resolve the problem by introducing new clan sports. The first were: Diplomacy Blood and Iron, Civil War Campaign Virginia, and GgG Ice Hockey. After a couple of weeks more sports were introduced as Clan sports: Volleyball, Basketball, and Wallball.
During the last clan meeting of February more sad news came. It was only 4 months ago when the founder of the clan, GgG-Juvenike retired as the clan leader as well as a respected Site Administrator GgG-Forgotten retired from Starcraft. Now, GgG-Chaos announced that he would retire at the end of the summer and will need a new replacement. More members were rumored to retire as Clan GgG will enter its 3rd year of existence.
With summer at the doorstep, clan GgG was starting to regain life. The GgG Constitution was practiced with participation of the elders. New members were slowly coming in and clan GgG was coming back to life. As the previous summers, people hoped that the long months of Julius and Augustus would bring activity and participation.
<a name="repar">The Reparation(Mid May 2005 - Mid September 2005)</a>
As school ended and summer was in full swing, so was Clan GgG. Clan participation was at it's highest this year with every intention of getting better. Like an annoying cliché, just as things get better in clan GgG, things go wrong. The clan site, an important part of clan communication and administration, shut down. With all information lost, GgG-Madman organized a meeting with the elders with plans to rebuilt a bigger and better site. Until then, the bots would deliver all the information.
It was that time again, Clan GgG has aged yet again. Now 3 years old clan GgG has gone through more change than anyone can imagine. As every other year, an event of tournaments was ahead.
The Clan GgG 3rd Annual Anniversary Event, or GgG Olympics 2005, was in effect and host GgG-M.K.Russ. as well as anxious participants like GgG-Deathawk and GgG-King were eager to play. Staying with the mood of previous year, members would represent their heritage with pride. As planned, a total of 11 tournaments were played out. Once again, with the participation of the clan members, this event was a success. GgG-M.K.Russ. lead the way with a total of 11 medals, 6 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze. GgG-Xero was runner up with his 8 medals, 4 gold, 3 silver, and 1 bronze. Finally, GgG-King was third with his 6 medals, 2 of each color. The country standings were U.S.S.R. first, with Jamaica in second, and Czech Republic finishing third. An overall success, members were now looking forward to more tournaments and a greater expansion. But it was not to be. Angry with the lack of progress on the clan site and lack of organization of clan bots, GgG-Chaos had no choice but to form a new clan channel. Thankfully, this argument did not last long as GgG-Madman, returning from his summer vacation, quickly fixed the bots and with the help of GgG-M.K.Russ. brought the site to life. During the next weeks the site would be fixed, improved, and updated.
It was also around this time that a growing number of bad members were joining the clan. Much like the basketball map had done ealier in GgG's history, the combined trio of basketball, volleyball, and wallball were responsible for another group of immature and disrespectful clan members. With overwhelming support from the Senate as well as from other elder members, these three games were done away with and no longer recruition maps.
From the day of its creation, the GgG Constitution was criticized for being flawed. As the summer progressed evidence of that started to show more. So, with the support of the elders, GgG-Chaos removed the GgG Constitution to go back to the old oligarchy ways of the clan, which proved successful over the years. GgG-Chaos remained leader, while GgG-PensSUCK and GgG-Infested became duel co-leaders.
As every year, it was time for GgG-Chaos' annual Home Run Derby. After a slow and confusing start, the Home Run Derby turned out to be a complete success. GgG-Haddaway defeated GgG-NellyFan69 in the finals, thus walking away as the winner. He joins GgG-Chaos and GgG-Infested as derby champions.
With events and tournaments hosted often, people got more courage to host their own tournaments with the help of the clan site. Within weeks tournaments were planned for weeks ahead and successfully carried out.
Eventually, it was that time of year again. As September arrived, members would once again return to their places of business. Unlike most other years, participation thrived throughout the clan. It was an everyday experience to see an active clan members communicate and compete with one another. Where other clans have failed, clan GgG surpassed all others, and advances towards the new year.
<a name="enterprise">The Age of Enterprise (Late September 2005 - )</a>
The first day of fall marked an important day for GgG. It's long time leader, Chaos, would be stepping down from his position of power. He had made an announcement of this months ago, however few people actually believed him at the time.
It was little suprise to anyone that he named Infested as the new leader of GgG. Infested had served for nearly as long as Chaos had, and was finally getting a chance to prove his mettle. With a co-leader position open, Chaos named M.K.Russ. as the new co-leader, as he had been only a few months earlier. Russ was eager to prove that his earlier demotion should have never happened.
Chaos said that he would not leave Battle.net completely, and still be active. However he thought that it was time to prepare other members for positions of responsibility for when the "old school" members of 2002 eventually did leave GgG.
Baseball saw a sharp increase of popularity in the month of October. Perhaps a cause for this was because of the real life baseball playoffs, which saw the majority of GgG's favorite teams participate. The Yankees, Red Sox, and White Sox accounted for much of GgG's population when it came to which team they rooted for. The Chicago White Sox went on to win the World Series, which turned out to be an excellent farewell gift for Chaos.
During the early parts of November, there was also a sudden resurgence of activity. Unlike past falls in GgG, the channel was filled with members almost all day. With this came a number of older members who began coming online again. Names of the past such as NellyFan69, FistofFury, Dread, and even Juvenike were a common sight in the channel and on peoples friend lists.
Even as the members of old returned to GgG, new members were being recruited all the time. It seemed they were being recruited in all the games GgG played. New recruits for dodgeball, baseball, and even basketball poured into GgG and were quite skilled at what they did. It looked as if a new golden age was nearing.
This was proven in a baseball tournament hosted by GgG-Playar in the early days of November. The final match pitted Playar against the soon to be phenom new recruit GgG-Bad, known at that time as Bad-Recordz. In the end however, Playar beat Bad, but soon after was recruited into GgG by the combined efforts of Deathawk, Playar, and Chaos.
In the early days of November, GgG was approached by members of ScVz to have a 4th clan war. This however would be the biggest yet. Members from both sides agreed to five sports: Baseball, Football, Basketball, Dodgeball, and Sniper Walks. Each side would have four players or teams for each sport, and would compete in the same way as the three previous Dodgeball Wars. To make things more efficiant and due to the large amount of players completing, multiple sports would be played at the same time.
GgG started out strong in baseball as expected. Chaos defeated the 2 ScVz players sent against him. That was all ScVz could muster. In dodgeball, FistofFury defeated the first ScVz dodgeballer, but was unable to play the next due to them not being online at the same time.
In football, ScVz dominated as expected. Snipers however soon became the main topic of discussion. The ScVz member who had agreed to playing the Sniper Walks map went back on the agreement. Futhermore, he demanded that unless GgG would play locks they would forfeit the catagory. GgG members including Dorkhawk, Infested, Juvenike, and Chaos fought this feircy. ScVz then proclaimed they could change their teams at will. When this happened the war was immediatly put on hold as both sides argued about what sports would be played and who could play.
After many days of fighting, high ranking members from each group agreed that the war would be stopped, with GgG leading 1-0.
GgG would soon forget about ScVz. A man named Shippo( approached GgG-PensSUCK about joining him in a new all sports clan on the west server. PensSUCK considered this but eventually turned it down. Soon however Chaos heard about this, and had an idea. He spoke with Shippo( and said that if he would agree to make his new clan on the west server have the GgG tag, then they would get GgG's resources such as bots, members, a channel, and a website. Thus on November 21st 2005, GgG West was born.
That day a clan channel was created on the western server, and Shippo( changed his name to GgG-Shorty. In the coming days they would get many new recruits and would soon become a strong and active clan, much like their sister clan on the east server. However unlike East GgG, the west played mostly basketball and wall ball, and Chaos knew this. He also knew that it didn't really matter what sports GgG West played, just as long they spread the GgG tag to new areas. By doing this East GgG would gain fame and popularity due to having a clan on the west server. Most Starcraft clans can't even manage to become powerful on one server, let alone two. This was a powerful statement by GgG, saying that they would not only dominate sports on the east, but west as well.
After the creation of West GgG, things started to settle down in the east. GgG would continue to recruit more members and host more tournaments contributing to M.K.Russ.' All-Star league. That was until a mid-December day when PensSUCK approached GgG's leader, Infested. He made a proposal, that if him and Chaos could defeat Infested and Juvenike in a Pokemon Battle, they would be the new co-leaders of GgG. Infested readily accepted. Later that day, PensSUCK and Chaos became co-leaders.
To start off the new year, a wave of anti-basketball swept through the clan in response to its growing popularity in the clan. Members such as Playar, Xero, and even GgG's leader Infested took up the map and began to play almost every day. This upset veteran members such as PensSUCK, Dorkhawk, and Chaos. So they along with a few other members began the campaign to stop basketball in its tracks. It did not last long however, as they soon realized it was just a fad, and they were overreacting. The anti-basketball craze began to cool down.
GgG had always been fickle when it came to popular maps. They had seen it before such as with dodgeball, baseball, even GgG warriors. Games came, lasted a few weeks, and then something new would come along. This time it turned out to be the most unexpected sport. GgG Ice Hockey, a map that member M.K.Russ. had made so long ago made its way back onto the scene. With it came a whole new era of popularity. Old schoolers such as Russ, PensSUCK, Juvenike, and Infested once more took up their hockey sticks and began to play. With them came rookies like Chaos, Playar, Dorkhawk, and Kovalev.
It was decided that the old GgG Ice Hockey League would be reformed. With this came high hopes, as more people than ever before had begun to play and perfect their skills at the sport. Russ' map had finally reached its potential, but to him, it was probably worth the wait.
February 6th, 2006, marked a day of defeat for GgG. Its branch on the west server, after only a little more than two months of existance, finally collapsed. It can be argued on how and why this happened. From bad leadership, to inactive members, it did not matter to the members of east GgG. The dream of having their clan stretch from coast to coast had failed. However it was of little concern to the members of east GgG, as their server was thriving like never before. With many new and active members, along with its veteran members, it seemed as if a third golden age had begun in GgG.
Controversy and intrigue have always ruled GgG. In 2006, it would be no different. GgG had since turned it's back on being a pure sports clan. Only a few members still played sports maps on a regular basis. GgG had changed from a clan, into a close-knit group of friends who just played whatever they felt like playing. It was for these reasons that drama inside GgG flared up again. It started with the renewal of interest in D2. Key members like Playar, Infested, Chaos, and Lesk began to play this game more and more, which sparked a conflict with other more conservative members. It was for this reason as well as others that the flow of new recruits into GgG nearly stopped entirely. The fad would not last long however, as members would soon see that playing it caused a severe decrease in member activiy, ultimately bringing down the Age of Enterprise.
More arguments began as Deathawk introduced a new LAN-based system of gaming to GgG. It can be debated whether this was worse than the D2 craze, but in both instances GgG activity suffered because of it's introduction. LAN did not last long however, as the promise of "lag-free" games simply did not justify the use of it over more conventional battle.net methods. By late April GgG was once more searching for new members to boost it's declining activity. Summer was fast approaching however, which gave the older members hope, for summer was always a rejuvinator for GgG when it was struggling.
<a name="storm">The Calm Before the Storm (Late April 2006 - )</a>
[color=white]So dire had the situation become in GgG that it's leader, Infested, declared April 29th 2006 'National Recruitment Day'.
It wasn't written by me :\
Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-31 at 08:20:33
I started playing SC about 2 years ago. My account was Middle_Finger. I was energetic & enthusiastic. In about a month, after learing the basic things any SC player should know how to do, I found The Thing map. At first I was a noob at it, but I didn't give up & continiued playing. There I met my first b-net friend Sharf. I became a fan of The Thing, soon I met lordofarchons, Cam_ (later UcE_Cam), Bacucco, Sanjuro100 (later Sanjuro[SF]), Markh (later Markhurtubise). I gathered all my friends together & kept the interest in the Thing. We got better, began the time when I could call my self a pro. New people joined, like Samar, Blood.Sucker (later I "got rid of him" for using hacks for 3 times in a row, not hearing my warning), Tradore, Loss_Acc, Koroniss. Markh dissapeared. Began the golden age of The Thing. Later I will regret doing this - I banned noobs instead of teaching them. We played allmost all the time we could. Even more people came into our "society", if you can call it like that. Hanf (Loss_Acc's brother), Totem(Hun), Zealot_77, Frosty_Harrison, TETKA, xela, Bilijonessmits. But some people stopped playing, like Sanjuro100, lordofarchons, Tradore. We played non-stop for maybe a month. I didn't see any other "group" of people play thing so much for such a long time. Then I first started thinking that we may be "lonely" on the Europe server. Then came summer. I stopped playing becawse I went to the summerhouse. Nobody was there to organize it, & many people lost interest. When I came back, I was shocked. Most of people left - UcE_Cam, Sanjuro100, Samar, TETKA and many others. I was left with Loss_Acc, Hanf, Totem(Hun). In some time, lordofarchons came back, Markh turned out to have a new nick - Markhurtubise. I met mrmonko - he was a nice guy but he left SC in about a month. BEgan the downfall. From those who were left, about 1-2 people were active at the same time. It was extremely boring to play with noobs. I started to think about teaching noobs, but it didn't have any effect - they all played for a fiew weeks & then quited. I stopped playing Thing for about a month. I found another type of maps - bounds. I met AzN-silverclone, Whiteninja3 and some other bounders. I changed my nick to Jammed. I made my first ever to be released map - Lightning Bound. I began playing Thing again with those who were left. I allso tryed to teach noobs. I lost interest in Bounds. I found SEN.
I'm still playing Thing. Hanf plays WC3:Tft. Loss_Acc is sometimes active. I'm making my Thing map to try revive the good thaditions. Today, I can't find any good thing player that's regulary online on Europe or US-East.
My story is a Thing story mainly.
I'm still playing Thing. Hanf plays WC3:Tft. Loss_Acc is sometimes active. I'm making my Thing map to try revive the good thaditions. Today, I can't find any good thing player that's regulary online on Europe or US-East.
My story is a Thing story mainly.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2006-05-31 at 19:08:05
@ Deathawk. Bloody freaking hell! That's a freaking book!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2006-05-31 at 19:30:26
*Syphon laughs at the online relationship.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Killer_Kow(MM) on 2006-05-31 at 19:37:24
Really though... when did who write that? Do you expect people to actually read it? >.<
Anyway, my history:
It began when I was a young lad, maybe 8 or something, can't be sure, for Starcraft has rotted my brain. I had the Shareware version of starcraft. I pwned some n00bs, had a good time, and eventually got real Starcraft+Brood War in BattleChest. (I can't remember all my shareware names...) My first name on real Starcraft was Striker32. There were many variations. I later became The_0utcast. I later joined clan Twisted, and became TwistedCanadian. Somewhere in here I got interested in mapping, and made some crappy maps. After TwistedCanadian, I lost interest for a while (OH NOES!) When I returned, I created Killer_Kow(USEAST) and James_Raynor(USWEST). It stuck. Later, I realized that all of my friends at school played StarCraft (WHA????) and we all sort of joined a new clan, clan di. I became di.kow for a while. What a mistake. After Christmas, the Clan fell apart and I got back into melee. I found Staredit.net and now offer my skills to the community. I am getting into modding, and hoping to join clan MM. I am a member of PGTour (although I suck, and hardly ever go on), and that's pretty much it. I probably forgot something, but thats alright.
Anyway, my history:
It began when I was a young lad, maybe 8 or something, can't be sure, for Starcraft has rotted my brain. I had the Shareware version of starcraft. I pwned some n00bs, had a good time, and eventually got real Starcraft+Brood War in BattleChest. (I can't remember all my shareware names...) My first name on real Starcraft was Striker32. There were many variations. I later became The_0utcast. I later joined clan Twisted, and became TwistedCanadian. Somewhere in here I got interested in mapping, and made some crappy maps. After TwistedCanadian, I lost interest for a while (OH NOES!) When I returned, I created Killer_Kow(USEAST) and James_Raynor(USWEST). It stuck. Later, I realized that all of my friends at school played StarCraft (WHA????) and we all sort of joined a new clan, clan di. I became di.kow for a while. What a mistake. After Christmas, the Clan fell apart and I got back into melee. I found Staredit.net and now offer my skills to the community. I am getting into modding, and hoping to join clan MM. I am a member of PGTour (although I suck, and hardly ever go on), and that's pretty much it. I probably forgot something, but thats alright.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-05-31 at 19:51:31
QUOTE(Kow @ May 31 2006, 06:07 PM)
@ Deathawk. Bloody freaking hell! That's a freaking book![right][snapback]496846[/snapback][/right]
It's the entire history of Clan GgG he copied and pasted. Though I don't know how, the site is down....
And neither me or hawk is mentioned in it
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Killer_Kow(MM) on 2006-05-31 at 19:53:05
Hawk is mentioned in it... Near the end.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Cloud on 2006-05-31 at 20:15:32
QUOTE(Golden-Fist @ May 31 2006, 11:51 PM)
It's the entire history of Clan GgG he copied and pasted. Though I don't know how, the site is down....
And neither me or hawk is mentioned in it
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And neither me or hawk is mentioned in it
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GgG members including Dorkhawk, Infested, Juvenike, and Chaos fought this feircy. ScVz then proclaimed they could change their teams at will.
Hawk is mentioned in it
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Oo.Insane.oO on 2006-05-31 at 20:33:17
lets see here
About 2 years or so ago I started playing on Uswest as Insane-Ias for about 2 months than I changed to insane_dP because I joined a diablo clan which at this time I had been more into. After quitting dP Clan Darkness Patrollers or something I took my diablo stuff and put it on Insane)WS( clan West Side which I was kicked out after about 2 weeks for jacking another member of about 6 hi runes in todays trading. After about 1 year of Starcraft and Diablo II I quit for about 6 or 7 months due to boredness but eventually came back to SC under the name Insane-itg or something (name didnt last long).
I eventually got alright at bounding and decided to join clan Extinted Dragons as Insane[Ex]. In this clan I met alot of the friends I still know on west to this day. Some time past and the leader decided to be a female dog so I quit the clan and was solo once again under the name InsaneLooter.
With the help of Cc_x (dont remember his ex name) we managed to create a new clan called bK or Bloody Knights. So I started to Bound and somewhat mapmake under the name bK_Insane. The clan eventually died due to Cc_x taking a break and me playing Diablo so I just decided to take a break from starcraft.
About 2 weeks later I went to go onto my account and my key was banned due to hacks that I never used so I just decided to freak battle.net for now.
A while later I came back as No_Authority and still remembered alot of my friends like Cc_x and was amazed to find that they still played starcraft pretty actively. Cc_x and I decided to try to make bK again under the name Clan Bounding Knights and I started to make a bound under the name bK]Authority. This clan once again failed in staying alive and I went back to No_Authority just before I finished my first map in a while Bmx Bound.
At about this time I had just joined SeN and discovered what east was like and eventually switched realms to play East.
I joined clan DD or Darkness Dragons something around christmas I belive and went back to my Insane name as Insane(DD) but I left that clan pretty fast and joined clan Mp under Mp)Insane. I got bored with Mp becasue it hit an inactive point at this time and I joined clan Oo under the name Oo.Insane.oO where I am today.
There probably is alot of stuff I forgot but im amazed at the amount that I do remember
About 2 years or so ago I started playing on Uswest as Insane-Ias for about 2 months than I changed to insane_dP because I joined a diablo clan which at this time I had been more into. After quitting dP Clan Darkness Patrollers or something I took my diablo stuff and put it on Insane)WS( clan West Side which I was kicked out after about 2 weeks for jacking another member of about 6 hi runes in todays trading. After about 1 year of Starcraft and Diablo II I quit for about 6 or 7 months due to boredness but eventually came back to SC under the name Insane-itg or something (name didnt last long).
I eventually got alright at bounding and decided to join clan Extinted Dragons as Insane[Ex]. In this clan I met alot of the friends I still know on west to this day. Some time past and the leader decided to be a female dog so I quit the clan and was solo once again under the name InsaneLooter.
With the help of Cc_x (dont remember his ex name) we managed to create a new clan called bK or Bloody Knights. So I started to Bound and somewhat mapmake under the name bK_Insane. The clan eventually died due to Cc_x taking a break and me playing Diablo so I just decided to take a break from starcraft.
About 2 weeks later I went to go onto my account and my key was banned due to hacks that I never used so I just decided to freak battle.net for now.
A while later I came back as No_Authority and still remembered alot of my friends like Cc_x and was amazed to find that they still played starcraft pretty actively. Cc_x and I decided to try to make bK again under the name Clan Bounding Knights and I started to make a bound under the name bK]Authority. This clan once again failed in staying alive and I went back to No_Authority just before I finished my first map in a while Bmx Bound.
At about this time I had just joined SeN and discovered what east was like and eventually switched realms to play East.
I joined clan DD or Darkness Dragons something around christmas I belive and went back to my Insane name as Insane(DD) but I left that clan pretty fast and joined clan Mp under Mp)Insane. I got bored with Mp becasue it hit an inactive point at this time and I joined clan Oo under the name Oo.Insane.oO where I am today.
There probably is alot of stuff I forgot but im amazed at the amount that I do remember
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-05-31 at 20:35:15
Whatever no one likes him.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Oo.Insane.oO on 2006-05-31 at 20:54:37
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-05-31 at 21:15:18
It's been compiled over a long stretch of time. Whenever something went on, Chaos would write about it, and so on.
I've read it 1 or 2 times
I've read it 1 or 2 times
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Cloud on 2006-05-31 at 21:35:00
The History of Clan Shu
It began with a person named Andy Nohr. He funded and started Clan Shu way back before I joined. By the time I got to the clan there was the leader- LiuBei-Shu-(Andy Nohr) and his "sub-leaders" HuangZhong-Shu-, staduim, Dc)Reavers2, and PangTong-Shu-.
At this time the most active members in the clan or ones that stood out the most were Zergling[sK] and Brithos(also known as Mpeq or HuaXiong-Shu-). They were the future for the clan as you could say it. That didnt last long though.
<March 2004 - April 2004> The New Age.
At this time some important members were turning up such as SunCe-Wu-, WeiYan-Shu-, rushigen, GuanPing-Shu-, and GanNing-Shu-. Now SunCe-Wu- came from the old Wu- clan that recently died off, he joined shu because he couldn't remake Wu and didn't want to join any of the other clans. WeiYan-Shu- and rushigen have little history and not much are known about them so we can't give you much. GuanPing-Shu- was a dw fanatic and was looking far and wide for a good dw clan-which was Shu. GanNing-Shu- was a new member that became obessed with staduim's dw maps which included Dw4-Battle of Chi Bi, and Dw4-Battle of He Fei. GanNing's former log-in name was dr.peep and he once whispered staduim asking if he wanted to play a dw map with him. It turn out staduim recruited him though Ning asked to join.
In this new age staduim was still working on his maps, his most recent was Dw4-Battle of Xu Chang, which he finished around April. GanNing-Shu- was a shining star with a short temper, he quickley worked up his ranks. This was the start of a new age.
<April 2004 - June 2004> The First Golden age.
At this point a new key member showed up, Menehunes. He was the first to get shu- from its old channel Op Shu- to Clan Shu. This didn't last very long and the clan channel expired by Augest 2004.
At this time GanNing's rank was all the way up to Sub-General(which was about 3 ranks for the highest before the sub-leaders came in which are by the way called Unit leaders). Also during this time Zergling[sK] was unhappy with his position and said that he deserved to be a leader and not staduim. The problem was resolved very easily by LiuBei-Shu- adding in the new Co-Leader ranks of Army Leader. Basically how it worked was there was the Leader, LiuBei-Shu-. Then the 1st Army Leader, which was named staduim, and then the 2nd Army Leader, which was named HuangZhong-Shu-. After 2 positions came free 1 being filled with Zergling[sK]. Then abruptly Dc)Reavers2 retired his position. and PangTong-Shu- was kicked off his position for his inactiveness. The elections started with Menehunes taking 1 unit leader, GanNing-Shu- taking another unit leader, and Brithos taking a last unit leader.
Around early-june the 2nd Army Leader HuangZhong-Shu- retired his position. Menehunes automatically taking his place.
<July 2004 - September 2004> The First absense of GanNing-Shu-
During this age GanNing-Shu- went away for 1 month, on a trip to Australia. Leaving he left his goodbye message on the forums. First thing that happened was that Brithos, being too inactive was kicked off of his unit leader position and replaced with SunCe-Wu-. Menehunes also being way too unactive lost the Clan Channel forcing Shu to return to Op Shu-.
This was a short time which was highly unnoticed.
<September 2004 - November 2004> The return of GanNing-Shu-
By this time GanNing had returned. Only to find that the channel Clan Shu was lost. He found them in Op Shu- of course and asked what happened. As soon as he learned of Menehunes inactiveness he went into a rage and forced Menehunes kicked off of 2nd Army Leader. This was the climax of GanNing's thirst for power. The vote started and GanNing ended up on top. Coming in first with 18 votes, followed by SunCe-Wu- with 14 votes and lastly Brithos who was alot more active 13 votes.
Also at this time we were at war with a clan called Clan Dwr and DwE. Nether posed much of a threat and DwE parished. This is when GuanPing-Shu- should diplomacy skills by settling relations with Dwr. Soon after GuanPing was promoted to Unit Leader.
<November 2004 - December 2004> The Resignation of LiuBei-Shu-
At this time LiuBei-Shu- announced his resignation and opend a vote between all leaders. The vote was mostly a race between GuanPing-Shu- which was unthinkable and staduim. It was GanNing-Shu- that stoped the vote dead with a tie leaving his vote for staduim. The Clan Shu members were outraged and disgraced by the almost-win of GuanPing. The tie breaker vote went to staduim winning by a good 15 votes.
Also Mike who was part of the clan for along time got the channel Clan Shu back. He was promoted to Unit Leader and took GuanPing's place as GuanPing left to form his own clan. This was the start of the worst for Clan Shu.
<December 2004 - Feburary 2005> Clan Shu in desperate need
GanNing-Shu- was quickley promoted to 1st Army Leader in this era. Most people appluded and SunCe-Wu- was promoted to 2nd Army Leader. Also the new member Ammu-Nation joined the clan. He was recruited by GanNing-Shu- while playing the new dw map that staduim made. It was called Dw4-Siege of Fan Castle. Ammu-Nation was proved beaten by GanNing-Shu- but not by much. GanNing then offered for Ammu to join the clan and he accepted. They were good friends.
Now at this time GuanPing-Shu- reappeared in a clan called "Tarken Tribe" based off of the dw map on starcraft "Dw3-New Age." His clan was soon destroyed as GuanPing ran into a person named Cao-Cao[DwE] who wanted to join. GuanPing refused because Cao-Cao was a hacker. Cao-Cao then convinced the bot holder of DwTT to betray the leader and form a dw clan called the Pink Turbans, PT. The clan died before they could move against Shu.
GuanPing rejoined as his former rank and was still making trouble with Cao-Cao[DwE] who was found out to be apart of Clan RH.
<March 2005 - May 2005> The First Death of Shu
At this time Clan Rh moved against shu many times. Loading and Flooding the channel as much as they could spare to. It was at this time that GanNing-Shu- made his first dw map called Dw5-Battle of Xia Kou.
The map was the most popular in the clan for about 2 weeks. After this RH almost got the better of shu. Then the unthinkable happened again. Clan GgG came to offer help against Clan Rh. They would try and fill the channel as much as they could to stop the flood and loading. It didn't do much but was enough. Also the new member Ammu-Nation was proving to be a very loyal and important member. It was also at this time that Dwr broke the peace with Shu.
The Dwr rebellion didn't last long. The Clan challenged GanNing-Shu- and staduim to a melee match. They were pounded by Gan and staduim. Shu then absorbed dwr into the clan.
Then it came. The master bot holder, Mike betrayed the clan for a Clan Wei. At this time we lost the Clan channel which was soon restored by Terra.(Cao-Cao[dwe]) Although his plan was just to remake the channel take it and then ban us all.
Lastly GanNing-Shu- had his 15th birthday on March 5th.
<June 2005 - July 2005> The Birth of Clan xShu. The loss of staduim.
By this time staduim remade the clan in Clan xShu with the help of DBZGT-Cell. In which staduim dissappeared for 2 months and left the clan with no notice. At this point the Ill-faded GanNing-Shu- took leadership. He led the clan with authority and almost..tyranny. Of course in the end the members accepted GanNing's leadership and respected him. His key loyalists were Ammu-Nation, GuanYu-Shu-, GuanXing-Shu-, Mitshuhide-Shu-, LingTong-Shu-, and HuangZhong-Shu-.
GuanYu-Shu- was highly noticed back in 2004 when he joined just after GanNing. GanNing which promoted him to 2nd Army Leader.
<August 2005 - November 2005> The second and third deaths of Clan Shu.
By the start of August staduim came back and reclaimed leadership. A happy GanNing-Shu- gladly stepped down happy to know that he had finally showed his leadership skills being underrated. Also at this time GanNing-Shu- released a new dw map called Dw5-Battle of Bai Di Castle. This was his first musou map, soon after came Dw5-Battle of Chen Cang. Being his second musou map. August 25th the unthinkable happened once again. DBZGT-Cell had plotted with Terra. and took the channel Clan xShu from the Shu. Shu having nowhere else to go and staduim disappearing went with Terra. . GanNing-Shu- knowing what was going to happen left and joined Clan Mp). He was known as Mp)C]l[oud for a time.
October 5th 2005 Terra. destroyed Clan Shu again. After which Clan Shu was dead for good as it looked. Most of the old loyal Shu members went and just hung out in Clan Mp exchanging conversation with the former GanNing.
<December 2005 - January 2006> The reappearence of staduim. The second absense of GanNing-Shu-.
The unthinkable happened for a third time. staduim returned from absense in a channel called Clan SSMG. Which he rallied most of Clan Shu, the only person who did not return immidately was GanNing-Shu- which was trying his best to hold his promise to Mp)Ryu and stay with Clan Mp. In the end something terrible happened to GanNing's computer and he dissappeared until late May 2006.
<Feburary 2006 - May 2006> The second return of GanNing-shu-. The Leadership of GuanYu-Shu-
At this time staduim retired from leading Clan Shu only to ocasionally log on and talk to the members. GuanYu-Shu- taking Leadership from stadium. The months after were quite and Clan Shu became very isolated place. The clan was more of a hang-out area.
May 15 2006 GanNing-Shu- got his starcraft back and returned from the dead. haha not really but still. As a return celebration GanNing-Shu- made a new Dw map called. Dw5-Battle of He Fei. Which was realised May 22nd 2006. GanNing announced himself also retired from Clan leadership but is still part of Clan Shu to this day being rankless. The key members of Clan she was Ammu-Nation, GuanYu-Shu-, Taishi_Ci-Shu-, and GanNing-Shu- who is still retired until further notice.
Also between this time GanNing-Shu- had his 16th birthday and celebrated by some of his good friend from the SeN(ww.Staredit.Net)
Btw I'm GanNing-Shu-
It began with a person named Andy Nohr. He funded and started Clan Shu way back before I joined. By the time I got to the clan there was the leader- LiuBei-Shu-(Andy Nohr) and his "sub-leaders" HuangZhong-Shu-, staduim, Dc)Reavers2, and PangTong-Shu-.
At this time the most active members in the clan or ones that stood out the most were Zergling[sK] and Brithos(also known as Mpeq or HuaXiong-Shu-). They were the future for the clan as you could say it. That didnt last long though.
<March 2004 - April 2004> The New Age.
At this time some important members were turning up such as SunCe-Wu-, WeiYan-Shu-, rushigen, GuanPing-Shu-, and GanNing-Shu-. Now SunCe-Wu- came from the old Wu- clan that recently died off, he joined shu because he couldn't remake Wu and didn't want to join any of the other clans. WeiYan-Shu- and rushigen have little history and not much are known about them so we can't give you much. GuanPing-Shu- was a dw fanatic and was looking far and wide for a good dw clan-which was Shu. GanNing-Shu- was a new member that became obessed with staduim's dw maps which included Dw4-Battle of Chi Bi, and Dw4-Battle of He Fei. GanNing's former log-in name was dr.peep and he once whispered staduim asking if he wanted to play a dw map with him. It turn out staduim recruited him though Ning asked to join.
In this new age staduim was still working on his maps, his most recent was Dw4-Battle of Xu Chang, which he finished around April. GanNing-Shu- was a shining star with a short temper, he quickley worked up his ranks. This was the start of a new age.
<April 2004 - June 2004> The First Golden age.
At this point a new key member showed up, Menehunes. He was the first to get shu- from its old channel Op Shu- to Clan Shu. This didn't last very long and the clan channel expired by Augest 2004.
At this time GanNing's rank was all the way up to Sub-General(which was about 3 ranks for the highest before the sub-leaders came in which are by the way called Unit leaders). Also during this time Zergling[sK] was unhappy with his position and said that he deserved to be a leader and not staduim. The problem was resolved very easily by LiuBei-Shu- adding in the new Co-Leader ranks of Army Leader. Basically how it worked was there was the Leader, LiuBei-Shu-. Then the 1st Army Leader, which was named staduim, and then the 2nd Army Leader, which was named HuangZhong-Shu-. After 2 positions came free 1 being filled with Zergling[sK]. Then abruptly Dc)Reavers2 retired his position. and PangTong-Shu- was kicked off his position for his inactiveness. The elections started with Menehunes taking 1 unit leader, GanNing-Shu- taking another unit leader, and Brithos taking a last unit leader.
Around early-june the 2nd Army Leader HuangZhong-Shu- retired his position. Menehunes automatically taking his place.
<July 2004 - September 2004> The First absense of GanNing-Shu-
During this age GanNing-Shu- went away for 1 month, on a trip to Australia. Leaving he left his goodbye message on the forums. First thing that happened was that Brithos, being too inactive was kicked off of his unit leader position and replaced with SunCe-Wu-. Menehunes also being way too unactive lost the Clan Channel forcing Shu to return to Op Shu-.
This was a short time which was highly unnoticed.
<September 2004 - November 2004> The return of GanNing-Shu-
By this time GanNing had returned. Only to find that the channel Clan Shu was lost. He found them in Op Shu- of course and asked what happened. As soon as he learned of Menehunes inactiveness he went into a rage and forced Menehunes kicked off of 2nd Army Leader. This was the climax of GanNing's thirst for power. The vote started and GanNing ended up on top. Coming in first with 18 votes, followed by SunCe-Wu- with 14 votes and lastly Brithos who was alot more active 13 votes.
Also at this time we were at war with a clan called Clan Dwr and DwE. Nether posed much of a threat and DwE parished. This is when GuanPing-Shu- should diplomacy skills by settling relations with Dwr. Soon after GuanPing was promoted to Unit Leader.
<November 2004 - December 2004> The Resignation of LiuBei-Shu-
At this time LiuBei-Shu- announced his resignation and opend a vote between all leaders. The vote was mostly a race between GuanPing-Shu- which was unthinkable and staduim. It was GanNing-Shu- that stoped the vote dead with a tie leaving his vote for staduim. The Clan Shu members were outraged and disgraced by the almost-win of GuanPing. The tie breaker vote went to staduim winning by a good 15 votes.
Also Mike who was part of the clan for along time got the channel Clan Shu back. He was promoted to Unit Leader and took GuanPing's place as GuanPing left to form his own clan. This was the start of the worst for Clan Shu.
<December 2004 - Feburary 2005> Clan Shu in desperate need
GanNing-Shu- was quickley promoted to 1st Army Leader in this era. Most people appluded and SunCe-Wu- was promoted to 2nd Army Leader. Also the new member Ammu-Nation joined the clan. He was recruited by GanNing-Shu- while playing the new dw map that staduim made. It was called Dw4-Siege of Fan Castle. Ammu-Nation was proved beaten by GanNing-Shu- but not by much. GanNing then offered for Ammu to join the clan and he accepted. They were good friends.
Now at this time GuanPing-Shu- reappeared in a clan called "Tarken Tribe" based off of the dw map on starcraft "Dw3-New Age." His clan was soon destroyed as GuanPing ran into a person named Cao-Cao[DwE] who wanted to join. GuanPing refused because Cao-Cao was a hacker. Cao-Cao then convinced the bot holder of DwTT to betray the leader and form a dw clan called the Pink Turbans, PT. The clan died before they could move against Shu.
GuanPing rejoined as his former rank and was still making trouble with Cao-Cao[DwE] who was found out to be apart of Clan RH.
<March 2005 - May 2005> The First Death of Shu
At this time Clan Rh moved against shu many times. Loading and Flooding the channel as much as they could spare to. It was at this time that GanNing-Shu- made his first dw map called Dw5-Battle of Xia Kou.
The map was the most popular in the clan for about 2 weeks. After this RH almost got the better of shu. Then the unthinkable happened again. Clan GgG came to offer help against Clan Rh. They would try and fill the channel as much as they could to stop the flood and loading. It didn't do much but was enough. Also the new member Ammu-Nation was proving to be a very loyal and important member. It was also at this time that Dwr broke the peace with Shu.
The Dwr rebellion didn't last long. The Clan challenged GanNing-Shu- and staduim to a melee match. They were pounded by Gan and staduim. Shu then absorbed dwr into the clan.
Then it came. The master bot holder, Mike betrayed the clan for a Clan Wei. At this time we lost the Clan channel which was soon restored by Terra.(Cao-Cao[dwe]) Although his plan was just to remake the channel take it and then ban us all.
Lastly GanNing-Shu- had his 15th birthday on March 5th.
<June 2005 - July 2005> The Birth of Clan xShu. The loss of staduim.
By this time staduim remade the clan in Clan xShu with the help of DBZGT-Cell. In which staduim dissappeared for 2 months and left the clan with no notice. At this point the Ill-faded GanNing-Shu- took leadership. He led the clan with authority and almost..tyranny. Of course in the end the members accepted GanNing's leadership and respected him. His key loyalists were Ammu-Nation, GuanYu-Shu-, GuanXing-Shu-, Mitshuhide-Shu-, LingTong-Shu-, and HuangZhong-Shu-.
GuanYu-Shu- was highly noticed back in 2004 when he joined just after GanNing. GanNing which promoted him to 2nd Army Leader.
<August 2005 - November 2005> The second and third deaths of Clan Shu.
By the start of August staduim came back and reclaimed leadership. A happy GanNing-Shu- gladly stepped down happy to know that he had finally showed his leadership skills being underrated. Also at this time GanNing-Shu- released a new dw map called Dw5-Battle of Bai Di Castle. This was his first musou map, soon after came Dw5-Battle of Chen Cang. Being his second musou map. August 25th the unthinkable happened once again. DBZGT-Cell had plotted with Terra. and took the channel Clan xShu from the Shu. Shu having nowhere else to go and staduim disappearing went with Terra. . GanNing-Shu- knowing what was going to happen left and joined Clan Mp). He was known as Mp)C]l[oud for a time.
October 5th 2005 Terra. destroyed Clan Shu again. After which Clan Shu was dead for good as it looked. Most of the old loyal Shu members went and just hung out in Clan Mp exchanging conversation with the former GanNing.
<December 2005 - January 2006> The reappearence of staduim. The second absense of GanNing-Shu-.
The unthinkable happened for a third time. staduim returned from absense in a channel called Clan SSMG. Which he rallied most of Clan Shu, the only person who did not return immidately was GanNing-Shu- which was trying his best to hold his promise to Mp)Ryu and stay with Clan Mp. In the end something terrible happened to GanNing's computer and he dissappeared until late May 2006.
<Feburary 2006 - May 2006> The second return of GanNing-shu-. The Leadership of GuanYu-Shu-
At this time staduim retired from leading Clan Shu only to ocasionally log on and talk to the members. GuanYu-Shu- taking Leadership from stadium. The months after were quite and Clan Shu became very isolated place. The clan was more of a hang-out area.
May 15 2006 GanNing-Shu- got his starcraft back and returned from the dead. haha not really but still. As a return celebration GanNing-Shu- made a new Dw map called. Dw5-Battle of He Fei. Which was realised May 22nd 2006. GanNing announced himself also retired from Clan leadership but is still part of Clan Shu to this day being rankless. The key members of Clan she was Ammu-Nation, GuanYu-Shu-, Taishi_Ci-Shu-, and GanNing-Shu- who is still retired until further notice.
Also between this time GanNing-Shu- had his 16th birthday and celebrated by some of his good friend from the SeN(ww.Staredit.Net)
Btw I'm GanNing-Shu-
Report, edit, etc...Posted by HorroR on 2006-05-31 at 21:43:10
Talking in third person?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-05-31 at 21:48:05
I remember threatening LiuBiu that I'd take over clan shu but NuMbsy asked me not to
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Cloud on 2006-05-31 at 21:48:22
ya basically. I wrote it on what I know about the clan. I've been in it from basically the start. It'll fix up later when the other members post important stuff that i missed. btw ignore the typos.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Merrell on 2006-05-31 at 21:51:32
My "personal" history:
1998. I was 7-8 at the time. I watched my brother play it. He actually avoided melee and played only UMS; he never really got into Melee or anything. I watched him play various maps like plenty of Lurker Defence, Protect the Queen, and other famous old maps. Those maps are still my favorite, screw the current hi-tech trigger filled special effect maps. Go classics.
1999-2001. Actually started playing starcraft myself. My brother worked at Wendy's, so I would get on his account, YouSTFU (The name was funny at the time, but now the term is considered old and flaming), and play it while he worked after I got home from school
. I say I had some of the most fun on here. I also met my first friend on Battle.net, still friends today, wesmic.
We had a LOT of hilarious 'gay' moments.
2001-2003. Made various wierd clans such as z(Z)z, and (G)-unit. These clans now that I think about them today were soooo homo. I think I only created them because of experimentation and having a clan. Started going to Op Opz(U) in 2001 as my home channel and making mutual friends such as SiLeNT(U). My first forum was in 2001, the (U) forums at shadowfortress.net (or something).
2004. At the beginning of 2004, near winter, I was visiting staredit.net and going to op staredit.net quite frequently. Made new friends on B.net like Deathknight2004, Minimoose2707, Beer_Keg, Cheeze, KABOOMHAHAHEIN!, Kaboohahahein, and a crapload of others. I signed up at staredit.net in summer 2004 creating a thread about a wierd noise I found in starforge.
2004-2005. These two years, Deathknight and I were spending hours a day looking for glitches in starcraft. We both discovered the faceless archons glitch and other wierd happenings during sprite limit. Loads of fun and non-forgetful moments. And yay, discovered my own glitch, the Hallucinated-powerup-glitch, the-one-where-a-probe-can-carry-a-firebat-and-attack-with-it-with-double-attack-glitch!
2006. Fixed lag problem I was having in 2005, but I'm not active. I was playing in March and April a lot, still playing the same glitch map with DK as we did 2 years ago. Maplestory is sucking me in it's blackhole (currently level 30 bandit), so Starcraft is kinda on the low list unless Cheeze and Moose get on at the same time, then it's fun. (We love playing classic and korean maps, like TRUE men.)
I'm not going to type my whole SC-life story here, so I may have forgotten some memorable moments.
1998. I was 7-8 at the time. I watched my brother play it. He actually avoided melee and played only UMS; he never really got into Melee or anything. I watched him play various maps like plenty of Lurker Defence, Protect the Queen, and other famous old maps. Those maps are still my favorite, screw the current hi-tech trigger filled special effect maps. Go classics.
1999-2001. Actually started playing starcraft myself. My brother worked at Wendy's, so I would get on his account, YouSTFU (The name was funny at the time, but now the term is considered old and flaming), and play it while he worked after I got home from school
. I say I had some of the most fun on here. I also met my first friend on Battle.net, still friends today, wesmic.We had a LOT of hilarious 'gay' moments.
2001-2003. Made various wierd clans such as z(Z)z, and (G)-unit. These clans now that I think about them today were soooo homo
. I think I only created them because of experimentation and having a clan. Started going to Op Opz(U) in 2001 as my home channel and making mutual friends such as SiLeNT(U). My first forum was in 2001, the (U) forums at shadowfortress.net (or something).2004. At the beginning of 2004, near winter, I was visiting staredit.net and going to op staredit.net quite frequently. Made new friends on B.net like Deathknight2004, Minimoose2707, Beer_Keg, Cheeze, KABOOMHAHAHEIN!, Kaboohahahein, and a crapload of others. I signed up at staredit.net in summer 2004 creating a thread about a wierd noise I found in starforge.
2004-2005. These two years, Deathknight and I were spending hours a day looking for glitches in starcraft. We both discovered the faceless archons glitch and other wierd happenings during sprite limit. Loads of fun and non-forgetful moments. And yay, discovered my own glitch, the Hallucinated-powerup-glitch, the-one-where-a-probe-can-carry-a-firebat-and-attack-with-it-with-double-attack-glitch!
2006. Fixed lag problem I was having in 2005, but I'm not active. I was playing in March and April a lot, still playing the same glitch map with DK as we did 2 years ago. Maplestory is sucking me in it's blackhole (currently level 30 bandit), so Starcraft is kinda on the low list unless Cheeze and Moose get on at the same time, then it's fun. (We love playing classic and korean maps, like TRUE men.)
I'm not going to type my whole SC-life story here, so I may have forgotten some memorable moments
.Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-05-31 at 23:07:11
QUOTE(Cloud @ May 31 2006, 08:34 PM)
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