Clutch @ Spardha '10

We are proud to announce first edition of Clutch, a CS 1.6 tourney that will give a new shape to Counter-Strike 1.6 scene in India.

Over past few years it has been noticed that Counter-Strike has gained immense popularity in India especially among the college students. Counter-Strike has infiltrated our life and soul to such a great extent that we not only play Counter-Strike but we live it..

To celebrate this passion and dedication towards this great game, we have decided to organize Clutch. A 5 day CS extravaganza where teams will compete for ultimate prize of Victory . A battlefield where dwell the brave at heart,the courageous who can dare to go through the highest level of reverse flow, the winners who can cut their way right through the rock of difficulties, the brave who can give everything for the sake of victory.

We promise all participants a great gaming experience. Also we have a first prize of Rs 25,000 and loads of goodies to be won. We also promise assured gifts for every participating team.

For more information:
visit our blog at http://clutch10.wordpress.com/
and join our Orkut Community http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=95377321.

Hence gear-up and be with us from 17th february to 21st february 2010 to experience the history while its written ..

Kom Igen Nu ..

Summers at OAT

This was written by me on 6th of July, but I was not able to post it due to my busy travel schedules and lack of resources.
So finally my summer internship at One Associates Technologies Pvt Ltd is over. So I thought I must share my experience. OAT is a small startup by Mr. Neeraj Kapoor (an IT BHU alumnus) and Mr. Himanshu Singh (IIT Kanpur alumnus). The company provides services in the mobile technology and web development. During my two months internship I got opportunity to work on some very exciting projects. My first project was the promotional website of motion picture Damage (http://www.damagethemovie.com) starring Stone Cold Steve Austin. The movie is scheduled to be released in January 2009. Working on this was fun for a Stone Cold fan like me , I loved this project.
My second assignment was corporate website of OAT itself (http://www.one-associates.com) this project was not that engrossing as the previous one but I enjoyed doing it. Both websites were made using ASP .NET with client side scripting using EMCA.I even designed this logo which is now official logo of OAT.
Then temporarily I was on a project of website for Nasser Entertainment (http://www.moviesfortv.com) , but I requested the company to move me from this project to some other where I could get greater opportunity to learn. So I was assigned the project of CRM application for a leading organization in India. This was a SOA based SaaS which was developed right from scratch by me and Vidit bhaiya. The best was part was that we worked on a very new technology and in a live project all by ourselves with liberty to make slightest decision by ourselves. And at the end we got the opportunity to meet the client for demo of software. This was the bumper bonus because that was great experience to actually present your software’s demo to client.
So overall I had a great experience at my summers. With an expenditure of around 10k which includes local site seeing and attending AR Rahman live in concert ,this was not a bad deal !!

Yesterday was a great day to learn !!

Ya ... and I think it was the best day of my 2 months summer internship. We went to present the demo of our software to the client. That was truely a great experience to actually meet the clients , present the demos and listen to their issues and changes that they requested to be modified. That was my first corporate meeting where I truely learned what is software industry and is a tough place for timid coder who does not know how to value his work. If you want to make money from your work then you don't have to wait the otherone to appreciate your work, rather you must force him to believe that the work you did was tough and and valueble . Because the person on the other side of table is gonna be tough on paying you every single rupee from his pocket. It becomes tougher if you are a small company and are dealing with a large one.

In our case also we have been working for them without any payment without the assurance that they gonna approve it when complete.

This girl has got guts...

Last year we heard of a 16 year old boy who convinced his parents to allow him to dop out from school so that he can concentrate on his professional gaming career in Guitar Hero...


Now we have another teenager .. but this time a girl ... who has decided to drop from school so that she can concentrate on her proffessional counter strike career.





Sophie 'inzane' Regnér, one of the Pink Zinic's, has decided to leave school due to being unable to concentrate fully to her academics.She decided that it would be better for her proffessional career that she drops from school and focuses on counter-strike. She want to be a full time Counter-strike player. inzane who is 17 years old also does modelling for her friend.

Former MYM.girls , Pink zinic who has announced their participation in dreamhack summer 2009 is a proffessional counter-strike team of some of the best female e-athletes.

watch the interview of inzane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Xi1gPz10I&fmt=22

I wish that she succeed in her goal of becoming a full time proffessional gamer .... wish u all the best inzane.

Another blow by this "1"

Jason Lake aka "1" knows how to be number 1. This time Jason Lake has

proved that he can do anything to be number one. Brand Complexity no

doubt means to be best wether its the 1.6 scene or the source complexity

has proved itself.
So this time Lake instead of making a new team and taking it to the top complexity gaming has simply bought the already top team . Yes ! Complexity had bought all the contracts of x3o , which I think is currently top team of America.

So the new coL will be :

Andrew "Irukandji" Timmerman
Ryan "Ninespot" Bell
David "savi0r" Park
Jeff "hero" Mettetal
Derek "dboorN" Boorn

Old school expels its oldest kids !

In a very much expected event the Complexity Gaming has a announced release of its CS 1.6 squad. After very poor peroformance by the team which left them just as a mediocre team from USA, they were not able to gain rights to play in any of the recent International tournaments. Jason Lake said he was very disappointed by this and the brand Complexity was not defined by this team.Complexity currently ranked 9th in ESEA league has an All-star squad of some the mmost experienced e-athletes.But since their induction after the fall of CGS they have never been able to give performance that would be expected from a team like that.
The rooster contained :

• Justin "sunman" Summy
• Mike "method" So
• David "zid" Chin
• Sal "Volcano" Garozzo
• Erik "da_bears" Stromberg

Statement from Lake posted on complexitygaming.com.
"We feel an integral part of this rebuilding process is the construction of a championship caliber Counter-Strike squad worthy of representing the world’s best gaming community: the coL Community. We will not rest, nor be satisfied, until we once again find the championship combination of players that possess the traits necessary to earn a long standing tenure with our organization and make our fans proud. With that being said, most of our research has already been conducted and we expect to announce the new roster very soon."

The new Complexity roster is expected to be released in the coming days as Jason Lake that the research for new squad has been carried for a while and the draft will be announced soon.
The complete announcement by Complexity Gaming can be read at http://www.complexitygaming.com/index.php?c=news&id=902

Moreover Sal "Volcano" Garozzo has announced retirement from Proffessional Gaming because he has found a full time job (for those who don't know he has a degree in Computer Science).

Thanks to Valve !!

Its really cool to know that Valve has released another pack of updates to the best game of the world. These new updates will greatly improve the gameplay of CS 1.6 because most of these update are for the bugs that have been nightmares for the competititve gaming for years, which gave birth to a large number of disputes both on LAN and internet.
Though the Valve took back all its updates that were part of its recent attempt to abolish crouch walking due to huge negative response from fans around the globe. We hope Valve will come with some other way to abolish this extremely exploited part of game which will be accepted by fans too.

In the latest updates Valve has -
* Rolled back recent silent walking exploit fixes as we investigate less impactful ways of preventing the bug* Adjusted bomb bounding box to prevent silent plant exploit* Fix to eliminate or significantly reduce "flashbugs"* Fixed status icons (buy zone, bomb zone, etc) disappearing when starting a recording, or issuing a fullupdate* Prevent creating aliases using the same name as existing cvars* Rate limit fullupdate and some other commands to prevent spamming* Fixed an issue with grenades where they could go into an area and bounce infinitely, causing the server to choke and or crash

Many of these updates to 1.6 have been a long time coming, and also hopefully will have a positive impact on the competitive scene, the removal of flash bugs and silent planting will greatly reduce possible disputes in both online and LAN play, along with the reversal of the botched fix Valve implemented last month for crouch hopping should improve competitive play at all levels.Other updates such as the nade bouncing fix and the buy zone when recording fix are sure to be much appreciated and it's nice that someone at valve took the time to fix some of these old bugs, hopefully with continued support by Valve 1.6 will keep becoming a more bug free game for all of us to enjoy for many more years to come.

Offscreen bloodshed stains Counter-Strike

This is a consequence that is always been talked about by people. Video games turn gamers violent.In Novosibirsk, Russia, a simple one on one game of Counter-Strike ended in the brutal murder of a seventeen-year-old by his fourteen-year-old rival. This is indeed shocking !!!

According to the investigation report on the Novosibirsk Prosecutor’s Office website, the two boys had met at a local cyber café to play Counter-Strike together. Alexei, the older of the two boys, had continuously defeated his younger rival which led to several fights breaking out, only to be broken up by the café's administrator. During the night, both boys were drinking alcohol and continued to play the game, despite their rapidly degrading relationship.
After yet another defeat Alexander decided to take revenge on Alexei.

With his another 17-year-old friend he waited outside until around 3 a.m. when Alexei finished playing and left the club. Then Alexander hit him with a brick on the head, and beat him to death.The half-buried body was discovered the following morning by residents. In court the killer testified that his older friend just stood by and watched the murder. He was found guilty and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment at a penal colony for minors.

This shocking event will surely lead to another debate about cons and pros of Video Games especially one that deals with violence and bloodshed.

Skillet Roxx !!

Thnx to CND Production for making the movie "FORSAKEN" and including the song "Falling inside the black" into it. That was the first time I heard any of Skillet,though at that time i was not aware of the band. The song rocked me , but I didnt knew anything about the song, then came Ranade he told me the name of song and the artist. I dnloaded the song and it reaaly rocked. The next thing I did was downloading the complete discography of Skillet. And believe me they are worth listening.

Here is a short intro to Skillet..

Skillet is an American soft rock band, formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996. The band consists of John Cooper (lead vocalist, bassist), his wife Korey Cooper (guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist), Ben Kasica (guitarist), and the newest member Jen Ledger (drummer). Skillet has released seven studio albums, the latest two receiving Grammy nominations: Collide and Comatose.Over the past 12 years, Skillet has spanned many different genres, including alternative rock, industrial rock, and hard rock.
Albums:
# 1996: Skillet
# 1998: Hey You, I Love Your Soul
# 2000: Invincible
# 2000: Ardent Worship
# 2001: Alien Youth
# 2003: Collide
# 2006: Comatose

They have announced another album named awake to be released this august.

Dont miss there album Camatose,it simply Rocks. With songs like "Rebirthing","Whispers in the Dark","The Older I Get","Those Nights" and "The Last Night" it was nominated for best Rock album at grammy .
So do listen them!!

Flashbug can be removed from CS 1.6 in near future

In the official CS 1.6 BETA Forum, Valve developer Toni Sergi has posted that he has found a possible fix for the infamous flash bug that has plagued Counter Strike for years. The developer apparently was able to do a very quick fix for this problem. Valve has come under fire in recent days for its patch to fix "Russian Walking".

The "flashbug" caused the flash grenade to effect players in areas where it should not and has been the cause of many disputes in competitive CS over the years. The bug was so important to the competitive community that "flash bug fixed maps" were used by most leagues and professional organizations. No estimated time for when the fix will be implemented has been given.

Below is a snippet from the posts by Valve developer Toni Sergi.


"Okay, I just worked out a potential fix; it at the very least fixed THAT one, it _should_ fix all of them though."

"I read the thread, went for a smoke, had an idea for what's causing it from the youtube video tested it out unmodified to duplicate the bug (by making the flashbang not explode for 20 seconds so i could get into position), went 'hmmm..', made the change to attempt to fix it, went in and tested again, no flash in tunnel. but i can still be flashed under normal circumstance." -Toni Sergi

* this was an article from www.gotfrag.com

Those who don't know about flash bug in CS 1.6 , watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxl0gbKYj44

Brute Force !!

Hey frenz !!

have you played the online game called mybrute . if not then visit mybrute.com. For others who have played but left because their brute didn't gain points fast enough..only 3 fight a day rule sux !!

Now here is tool to make your brute progress fast and soon reach upper levels.
I wrote this program in a hurry today afternoon. Please report any bug if there.Hope this helps your brute to rise to power fast.
Simply download the zip file from the link here.

http://wikisend.com/download/582840/Brute%20Force%20!!.zip

Unzip the folder and let each file be at its own place.

Then follow this steps
1) Visit "http://tachy0n.mybrute.com"
2) Create a new brute and fight with the master brute tachy0n.
3) Now run the Brute-Force.exe
4) Enter the name of your brute
5) Thats all have fun..

Hope you enjoy it..
Do comment.

I feel so lonely.....

Lonely am I
jim foulk

Lonely are the nights
Lonely are the days
Lonely am I, in so many ways
Lonely are the seasons
Lonely are the years
So lonely am I, that it brings tears.
Lonely is this place
Lonely is my life
Lonely am I, that I reach for a knife
Lonely is this court room
Lonely is my sentence
So lonely am I that I ask for repentance.

Major Update in Counter-Strike

Valve has released a major gameplay update in Counter-Strike . The update has faced heavy criticism by the community. Cries of "CS is dead", "I'll never play again" and "PLEASE ROLL IT BACK" are being heard community wide.

This update tends to remove the crouch walk exploit of the game. Sound has been given to any jump motion.Moreover the motion of a player will slow down whenever he presses the duck key. This would make a significant change to established competitive gameplay as many players and teams utilize the secrecy of silence during gameplay. Though there were some bugs in it which were removed by another update.
This new update primarily addresses an issue concerning the jump sounds in the game. It contains two fixes for the update released just the other day.

• Fix the wrong sounds being played on jump when moving to different surfaces
• Fixed crash in the spectator UI when hitting tab

Hence now this anti crouch walking update has no bugs also and seems to completely remove crouch walking or so called russina walk from game.
As far as I think this update will improve the gameplay as crouch walking was essentially a bug in itself which must be removed. Kudos for Valve for this great update. Though the jumping noise will be a nuisance in beginning but players will be accustomed soon to it. Similar was the frenziness in people when Valve released its update to abolish bunny-hop(Which was much easy at that time and a person could do it by merely pressing his +jump key continuosly). This update just improved the gameplay and same will happen with this new update.

Selected as Opera Campus Crew Representative..

Today I received the final mail from Zara Lauder,Education Manager ,Opera Software ,Confirming completion of all the formalities for being the Opera Software Campus representative. Hence now I am the official Opera Representative for Banaras Hindu University. 3 other guyz have been selected by Opera softwares, they are Nishant Jain (3rd CSE) , N.Vishwanaath ,Ankit (Engg. Physics ..don know his year ).It may be that few other guyz may have also been selected because Opera does not seem to mind large number students in its campus crew. MNNIT Alld has 18 members.

I don't know what exactly we are going to do being an Opera Campus repro.. kam se kam sabke compu me opera to dalwa hi denge..
So guyz start using Opera 9.6 great browser with attractive interface and better speed than your firefox.

Numb..

I Hate this world..

Its all about me.......

Thats right ...its all about me. Everything that I did and I am doing or I will do is all for me. I dont care for others . It doesn't matter what he thinks or what he expects, because all that matters is me..its all about me. Dont even give a shit to this crap..but nothing can change it . Its always been like this and it will be.


I am smart enogh to take my steps and live my life. Rather I think I am smarter than you are. Though you hellucinate of your smartness and supiriority but thats not true folk. The truth hurts...

I wont tell you what I am upto..becuase then you will try to stop me..because you are jealous of me..you fear me... accept it !! Thats the truth !!

Even I dont want to hinder my path..so I won't tell you where I am heading untill I reach there. You will surely know ..what are my plans, but not before they executed. Just sit back ..wait and watch me . This must be the way friend..
"FRIEND" ..aah.. I call you friend . But in reality no one is my friend atleast not you. I know you think the same about me .Neither me nor you know what a friend is ..and we never try to know. Because all that matters to me is all about me.

I tell lies and if I can't then I simply hide the truth, because the truth may hinder my way to my objective as you are always ready to grab my trophy. I perpetuate and hide reality because if you get to know it ..then it may harm me.Remember only one guy can climb a ladder at once,and I dont want you to be the one before me. So I hide the ladder till I climb it.You are such a dork that you can't see how I am manipulating you.

We may name our relation to as that of friendship,but this is life - pure competition . Every Man for himself..And its all about me......................

Grubby gets an american home

After MYM that stopped all its operation, some of the best e-athletes of the world were rendered homeless,and among them was the veteren WC3 squad of MYM, that declared no matter what happens they will stay together is now part of Evil Genuises. Today, they will officially join the forces of Evil Geniuses, together with their manager Cassandra. The announcement was made by Evil Geniuses' owner, Alex Garfield, on the Live on Three show.

"I'm glad that I can finally announce that I will be part of Team Evil Geniuses from now on. Team EG has had a strong position in North America so far, and now they're looking to expand internationally. That's great news for me, because I was looking for something new already," said Schenkhuizen, the new EG.WC3 captain.

Giving hints for a solid partnership for the future, he continues: "It's incredibly exciting that I can be working together with EG as I plan my future for the coming year(s). Having a great new spiffy looking website, EG's already made at least one wish come into fulfillment for me."

"This is truly a great day for the Evil Geniuses brand, organization, sponsors, and players. Today we welcome a new division full of internationally renowned talent, and players who have already accumulated dozens upon dozens of landmark results," said Alex Garfield, Executive Director of Team EG. "It's an absolute honour to welcome Grubby, Happy, Ciara, and Cassandra to Team EG."

This has been a quite nice week for EG,earlier EG.usa selected for ESWC Asia Masters, when x3o refused to participate. We hope EG reaches new heights with this amazing WC3 lineup.And some of the best e-sportsmen got shelter, but ex-MYM CS1.6 squad is still homeles. They refused to participate in ESWC Asia Masters , Crack Clan will be participating in place of them. Hope they also get a new home soon.

Lineup EG :

Dmitry 'Happy' Kostin
Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen
Rene 'Ciara' Krag

Cassandra 'PpG' Ng (Team manager)

Will e-sports survive 2009 ?

Since the beginning, this year has been unfavourable for e-sports. The last few days of 2008 saw the downfall of mighty CGS, which brought an end to one of the most anticipated e-sport projects. Though a large community took it as victory of 1.6 over source, but what I think is that it was big defeat for professional gaming.

Then came 2009, with the winds of recession, which led to backing-off of sponsors, as they planned to cut their un-necessary expenses to prepare themselves for recession. With the calendar loosing its few first events, and surely more events could be cancelled. No doubt e-sports is all about sponsors. No sponsors means no e-sports. In the beginning of this year AMD declared it will no longer finance MTW , which used to be a very old alliance. NVIDIA showed its inability in supporting ESWC, Samsung reduced funds for WCG, due to which company refused to organize European Cyber Games this year, these all are a blow to this industry.

On April 5th, ESWC announced that the Commercial Court of Paris had approved a motion to liquidate its business. The company has ceased all operations . Although Games-Services has confirmed it is ready to “organize the potential trade-in or resale of the company’s assets”, the ESWC is most likely - 99,9% to be precise - dead. The company has collected huge debts worth over a thousand euros and that cools down interest from any possible purchaser. That means ESWC is History.

And even the ESL - touted by many as the main pillar of e-Sports nowadays - seems to be suffering the effects of the financial climate. In fact, the ESL has yet to pay the prize money of the European Nations Championship and the Extreme Masters Global Challenges.
Furthermore, it has been confirmed that the EPS Scandinavia Finals have been postponed because of "unforeseen and uncontrollable circumstances." A rearranged date has yet to be announced.

When looking at the seven members that compose the G7 federation, one can see that three of them - Meet Your Makers, mousesports and Evil Geniuses - proudly exhibit Intel as partner.
In fact, the U.S. company is also the ESL's head sponsor. So can imagine what would happen to today's e-Sports if Intel - which announced last week it would cut up to 6,000 jobs – takes back all financial support from these organizations.

MYM…around end of February ES Nation which is the funding agency of MYM, fired its 21 employees and then after a fortnight, on 17 march came the press releases stating that ES Nation has ceased all its operation, leaving few of the best e-athletes homeless. It didn’t even pay the last two month salary to its player before ceasing its operation. This has discouraged a large community to step back from professional gaming. Even professional like Lucifer of MYM Warcraft team, lurppis from crack clan retiring stating that there is no more stability in this business.

All these mark the beginning of a dark age for professional gaming, where the battle is not for growth but for survival. E-sports today may be weaker when compared to two years ago because of the financial climate. However, if the involved parties are able to cope with the current crisis and find new ways to do business, then tomorrow will only bring a stronger e-Sports.

Spardha Website

After about 8 or 9 different layouts that I designed, finallly one of them impressed the Arun bhaiya (co - convener,Spardha 09). Thanks to Pawan and Ashish bhaiya of 3rd CSE who took the management of sit desigining,which brought all the chaos to control with proper work load division. So finally we have a site for Spardha '09 , which seemed to be impossible few days ago.

Visit Spardha 'o9 Website at http://itbhu.ac.in/spardha/

To know more about Spardha '09 click here.

Spardha '09

The Institute of Technology, BHU apart from being one of India’s most premier engineering colleges has the reputation of excelling at sporting activities.

For the last decade, Spardha has been the benchmark of flawless management and has evolved into one of the biggest and most eagerly anticipated sports extravaganza in India. Over 1500 competitors from 40 colleges, including many IIT’s and NIT’s, congregate at the Mecca of college sports gathering.

A majority of the games are held under floodlights including football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, badminton and kabaddi. Several others, such as cricket and hockey take place on the lush green fields during the day. Spardha ’09 promises to be more explosive and inspiring than ever before with repackaged events including informals and new concepts such as an e-magazine and blogs.

Witness this spectacular,be there at IT BHU from 26th feb to 1st March.

Website : http://www.itbhu.ac.in/spardha/
blog : http://www.spardha09.blogspot.com/

The gameboys are ready for face-off

In another shocking news of 2009 coL has announced the acquisition of the JMC 1.6 roster as their new starting lineup for 2009.
If you follow the e-sports news than you must be aware that the JMC already had a 3D effect in it. Now Jason Bass and Alex "Jax" Conroy are co-owners of complexity gaming.. Jason Lake sems to be ready for the all new 1.6 arena in US.

As for his selection of JMC as their new squad, Lake cited "The combination of attitude, work ethic, selfless play and raw skill that this roster possesses will give our fans one hell of a fun ride in 2009. It will take them some time to get back into 1.6 form, but this organization is patient and relentless".Confirming that Conroy would place focus on managing the new lineup, Lake stated, "Alex will do what he does best and keep them in top form. I'm very optimistic. With the incredible support Creative is giving us, I think you're going to see these players become bigger stars than people ever imagined".

Talking about the line up,now complexity boasts of :
Justin "sunman" Summy
Mike "method" So
David "zid" Chin
Sal "Volcano" Garozzo
Erik "da_bears" Stromberg

With an intersting lineup of old complexity guys at EG and a bunch of 3D guys at complexity..we are going to have an interesting year to go ...