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Week 2 Div 1 Preds!
Bac, on 21/02/2009 @ 17:58	4 comment(s)

Bac's Week 2 Preds

Saunamen - Team.Fantasy

The Clash of the Finns. Two very traditional and experienced teams face each other in a match that might get surprisingly close.

Saunamen opened the season with a relatively comfortable victory over TTS. Nevertheless, the game wasn't as dominant as we've used to see from the reigning champions. TTS got a 2nd hive up on lost and with some earlier fades they could've even held it. In the end the individual skill of marines like Tane, Zharp and Nade was still enough to stop the Hungarians though. Tane's alien play was devastating, but I feel TTS never really pushed the sauna alien play to the limits.

Team Fantasy opened the season with a 4-0 against Quaxy. They seem to be playing some well rounded NS and zh is one of the best commanders and alien leaders in the league. Kuitmo, Aleksi and NsN are all capable marine and lifeform players.

The match isn't going to be a walk in the park for Sauna. Fantasy is well capable of taking rounds unless Sauna steps up their game to the full potential. I think we'll see some really well thought and organised tactical play as both zh and Peach have solid game sense and ability to lead. Sauna still has the upper hand due to their top level play experience and huge individual players, but especially orbital might turn out to be really close.

My pred is 3-1 for Sauna. Fantasy takes the Orbital alien round.

Biggest Impacts:

Sauna: Peach, Tane, Zharp
Team Fantasy: Zh, Kuitmo, Aleksi, NsN

Gardeners - Team Russia

This week Team Russia needs to prove that they can play consistent marine rounds. Gardeners aren't the easiest opponent for changing the course though.

The Gardeners surprised me with their solid play on week 1. Of course there are a plenty of experienced and skilled players on their lineup, but still the teamwork and well organised play surprised me. The lifeforms were a little flashy, but otherwise their game seemed to be going fine. I'd say they are now the top contender for Saunamen's throne.

Team Russia was a little disappointment if you ask me. Their alien game seemed to work quite good, but on the other hand their both alien rounds were decided so early on that it's difficult to judge the actual gameplay. Their marine rounds on the other hand were quite chaotic. Players like Morvie and Macpersil never reached their marine potential and iPwn got 2 quite easy rounds against Ru Rines. Ru really needs to work on their marine work if they want to challenge the top teams this season.

This one is all about Ru's marine performance. The Gardeners aren't definitely going to give any freebies and their marine round with Enigmatic's shotgun is a threat to any team. At this point the Gardeners definitely have the upper hand, but I still wouldn't count out the Russia either.

My call is 4 - 0 mowover for Gardeners, but Morvie's shotgun, MP's lerk and Orbital are all capable of causing upsets.

Biggest Impacts:

Russia: Morvie, MP, Marine performance
Gardeners: Enigmatic, Tweadle (comm/fade)

TTS - iPwn

This one is still unpredictable. Both teams played some interesting aliens and far less interesting marine rounds on week 1.

TTS was actually a positive surprise on week 1. They were surprisingly close of upsetting saunamen on ns_lost alien round and they got totally dominated only on ns_tanith marines. I'm not a big fan of their marine tactics involving huge amounts of shotguns and w2/a0 combinations, but the alien gameplay was surprisingly effective. The biggest problem for them is the lack of lifeforms right now.

iPwn disappointed me a bit. Bigbanana never got his 2 sg pushes working and they gave Ru 2 almost free rounds with them. The alien rounds were a lot better, but Ru's lack of organisation gave them a relatively easy opposition.

iPwn is definitely the favourite for this, but the week 1 proved that TTS can get close to upsets, especially on aliens. Combine this with terrible iPwn marine performance and Orbital as the 2nd map and you've got some possible surprises coming.

My prediction is 3-1 for iPwn. Orbital marines are still too difficult for them to win.

Biggest Impacts:

TTS: Miglez (comm), Alien play
iPwn: Bigbanana (comm), Phil, Marine play.

Week 2
x-man, on 16/02/2009 @ 11:01	21 comment(s)

Hello,

Week one was finished and all games were played without many problems. Given the age of competitive ns, this is quite amazing. Keep it up guys.

Week two starting today with ns_tanith and ns_orbital_anslv2 (Download).

Also, some remarks:
- Please try not the schedule all your games to Sunday 20CET as we might run out of servers. Even scheduling two hours before that helps.
- We're still looking for refs. Contact us if you want to be one.
- We are adding a rule addendum to forfeit: if the team missing players, has atleast 5 players, only the round will be forfeited, not the whole match

To server admins:
- Please make sure you are running AMXX 1.8.1 version, older one breaks ENSL Plugin.
- One HLTV related bug needs to be fixed in ENSL Plugin, but until the release, please make sure cvars "ip" and "port" return correct server port and ip (not localhost, etc.).

Yours,
ENSL Staff

Week 1 predictions
x-man, on 14/02/2009 @ 13:02	21 comment(s)

Bacillus's Division 1 preds:

Hi there, another season and another set of finnish nonsense preds coming up.

As always, the first week is shooting blind. There are a few older teams in div 1, but inactivity between the seasons causes a lot of weird fluctations on the power rank.

I'm still trying to figure out how to handle such a big division. I'll most likely focus my aftermaths on a few more even games instead of going through all four matchups each week. I'll figure that out once we get some games played, so go schedule them already.

Tuho - TTS

The last season champions of Timpuri have changed their team name once again, but the lineup is almost the same as last season. The only new addition is Leon (or Leipa, whatever), a former Levitacus player. I'm looking forward to see how the long period of inactivity has affected his play, but in shape or not, he definitely has the experience and potential to cause a lot of mayhem on his enemies.

TTS has been around for ages and doesn't seem to change all that much. They've got some interesting tactics and quite good routine, but I feel they're going to end up struggling on the bottom half of the div scoreboard. Finding a solid and committed commander could help them improve their last season performance.

As for the match, I don't think Tuho will have much trouble dispatching TTS. The skill and experience difference is just too big for TTS to overcome.

4-0 for the Finns.

Gardeners - Squad 6

The Gardeners are an interesting team with a plenty of experience. The old core of Sprogga has been mixed up with some influences from teams like Flatline, Insane and Ninelegends. They're a formiddable opponent for any team left in ENSL and I'd consider them to be the top contender for putting and end to the reign of Tuho-osasto.

Squad 6 brings back some of the top Spanish players from the days of clan Armless. Add the crazy skulking of the Pole powerhouse aA and you've got a team that is capable of finishing relatively high on the div. The combination of Nycer and aA on the alien rounds spells trouble for most marine lineups.

As for the match, I feel the Gardeners have the upper hand. Most of their lineup has been active for the last few seasons and the Sprogga players create a solid base for the early season teamwork. Nevertheless, Squad 6 should be capable of taking at least an alien round comfortable. Their biggest worry is Enigmatic's shotgun and lerk tearing apart the early rounds until recovery is no longer possible.

I'll call this 3-1 for the Gardeners. Squad 6 takes the ns_lost alien round.

Team Russia - Danny's Clan

Sun 15 Feb 2009 @ 20:00 CET

Team Russia keeps going. They've got a solid combination of teamwork and skill, but haven't managed to break through to the very top yet. I feel the lack of an experienced comm affected their performance last season, but now with _PC back in lineup they should do fine. MP's lerking and Snake's fading are the biggest impacts once again.

Danny's Clan is an interesting mix. It has got some players from the low and mid levels of ENSL combined with the likes of Morvie. Danny and M are the two biggest names on the roster, but you can't underestimate the players from season 11 div 2 finalist Lightsaberz either. Bigbanaga's comm routine should serve the rest of the team well.

This is a close one. I'm going to say Morvie turns this for Danny's favour. 3-1 for Danny's clan. A few slips and you've got a 2-2 though.

MAAD's Division 2 preds:

What´s up folk!

There is MAAAD from ENSL special prediction operations HQ to bring you some madz predictions for Div-2.Well, this season we have 3 teams out of euro zone, that´s mean a hugh ping diference and imba games? I hope no.

Demonic Soul vs NS Korean representative players

Ok, the first match set is Demonic Soul vs Korean representative players. I don´t know too much about the seconds, but the point of play in a proper korean server deserve a good match.

Demonic´s got a good line-up, well performed with players already well know in the community. Their play is strong enough(specially playing marine) and they show proper teamplay.

In the other hand, korea representative aren't playing enough in my opinion, I don´t know if they were playing late for europeans but I often see DS search pcw and I never saw Nskrp search one.

Then, my predictions for this match are 3-1 for Demonic Soul.General predictions are at this moment 4-0 but I think nskrp have some chance in lost map, because it´s a hard map to play and some teams with less skill can have a chance there.

Final Score: 3-1 to DS

Impact players:
DS: nec0 (fade), Hammer (marine)
nskrp: DeadWind (the only I really know).

250 da ping vs No gas to europe

Well, the second game set is 250 ping vs No gas to europe :D .For me, this is the best match this week, because both teams are very balanced with enough teamplay to make a fun match. I know enough good that teams, because I played them, one with the TeamSpain and the other with lump´s clan in nightcup.Argentinians were very hard to kill.Thinking about the 220 ping+220 ping= 400 ms of difference its really hard reg something and I bet this will be usual in several matches of this season.This make me think about a long game, with aliens getting the second hive and using leap to counter their base skulk skills.Argentinians were hard, but ngte are a really good team with some newcomers playing really nice and some oldies getting experience. Their lost of Snake decrease a bit the average skill but they still have real chances to win this match.

Finishing, I think both teams are very good but the real diference will be the ping, then I bet for a 2-2 in this match.

But always, the start of the rounds will show us the real chance, that two teams can win getting a good and agressive marine
start, but I am very scared about the hell of the draws that season with 3 teams out eurozone.

Final Score: 2-2

Impact players:
ngto: [mafia]vip (overall)
200dp: Snail (overall), Laser (marine)

weeeell, I have 2 predictions and I didn´t used 40 words for each :D This is a acelerated english leasson for me(I need it if I want to live in UK 3 months and feel the fucking 20ping tanki power :F )

Turtlez vs Kingclub

Ok, the 3rd match setted is turtle vs americans.I am not sure how to predict a match with 2 teams, one team is a classic of this league and it performed really good but I never saw them ask for pcw´s.The second is a new team with very know players but their lack of teamplay and the lack of commander(Sorry for that, but I dont know who will command this team) can make it have some disavantage vs the americans.
For me, is less risky talk about a 2-2 argumenting ping reasons bla bla bla but I think king clan have better performance, experience and a really big line-up to filter the "real USA pro´s" than turtle. Then, I think it will be a disputed match but I can´t forget the americans experience to achieve the rounds.
General predictions are like 50-50 but I think 3-1 for Americans is the most reasonable score in this match.

Final Score: 3-1 kings

Impact players:
kings: I dont know who is playing atm in that HUGE list sorry. I think the real impact is see your playerlist for Firefox.
Turtle: Bungle (overall),Kadis (baguette), Orox (double extra raggy baguette).

... The final momment has come. Isn´t enough hard make a new clan? Isn´t enough hard get called no-2nd division player?
Isn´t enough hard get owned by all teams only getting 2-3 rounds( but vs 1div clans, eh)?
No. The really hard is THAT COMEBACK OF BACON MANNEN.This is psychological warfare!!! WTF. I learned in this game with tones of crap defeats vs Kayos, Onosendai, wtrs, zaiko, stalk :F The real cowboys in this game and for me(specially thinking in teamplay)the best team in the entire history of Natural Selection(sorry Fana, no fanboys for you today).

Bacon men vs Lego-2 the sequel

Ok but this is not the old BM with magical powers, milimeter tactics and rines flying in the map.This is a new generation of BM and they were well placed in 2nd division.They are the best projection in 2nd div? probably but at this moment, they have some lack of practice(this is like a 2nd sR without some key players).The only remaining from old BM is stalk and I am personally not sure about the activity of him.
But they still have a really nice team with players like Xythe, Micke, JustMe able to carry most of the rounds with the required practice. Also, LEGO team is not complete?(SURPRISE,SURPRISE!). No, I don´t want to call old-school spanish star ppon to carry this xDDD but I am trying to get some players inside (spanish players) to improve that team and raise the performance.We got really good players who learn at light-speed like Vince, but we need more players.The rounds I had played was a total carry of me with some helps of vince or some mercs(for the moment).If some of that mercs(piraiO, KONRAD) join the team, we will had the possibility to win at least 1 round vs that bacons men. But I am reasonable and we are still a Farm team without the proper experience and activity to chance that them, then my final score (I dont should to say that, I will prove myself and my team doing it :D ) is 4-0 for BM.

Final Score: 4-0 for BM

Impact players:
BM: stalk(old school jedi tricks)?, Micke(sneaky and hard2kill), Xythe(overall, fade?)
LEGO-2: ==skk1== (THE_DENTIST?), piraiO(if he plays, f**king cunt :D) and KONRAD (the serious guy).

ENSL Plugin 1.1.5 + Server Stuff
jiriki, on 13/02/2009 @ 19:19	8 comment(s)

Hello,

I'm happy to announce the release of a 1.1.5 version of ENSL Plugin. This is server-side package only and can be downloaded from here. I hope all match server admins install it. If you run into any problems, don't be afraid to contact me.

Changelog

New Icons
A whole bunch of of bugixes, including:
1. Player name enforcing
2. ENSL Data Fetch
3. Fixed a bug leaving unclosed sockets
4. Numerous other bugifixes
Help commands (amx_enslhelp amx_enslcvars) added
Gag and server move commands added for referees
Numerous code optimizations
HLTV request/move support with demo recording and uploading
Added a method to fetch general info from ENSL DB
Changed combattime back to 15mins
Compiled with a year newer ENSL (1.8.1)
Includes AMXX 1.8.1
Player information printed after the game
Specs can send message to game by prefixing their message with dot

Planned Features

Menus for ref commands
A command (/delwp) to remove waypoint
A command (/admin) to request an admin
Match "report" to ENSL DB, including
1. Game score & time
2. Player information (frags, deaths, lifeforms etc.)
3. Miscaellaenous events
4. Ref reports from in-game
Global ban support
Something else, go suggest!