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 ..

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.

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

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.

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 ...

Col is now EG

In a press release on 14th december, Alex Garfield, owner of the Evil Geniuses' organization, announced a historic team shuffle. The new team goes like this :

• Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert
• Danny "fRod" Montaner
• Matt "Warden" Dickens
• Tyler "Storm" Wood
• Corey "hanes" Hanes
  

Shocked !!!! Yah man EG has hired 4 of the Col guys to be part of their CS team. After the downfall CGS (no doubt source sucks !! and I knew it was gonna happen some day), it was obvious that Col was goin to return to 1.6, And here they are.

The basic outline of this team as told by frod in an interview will be :

• Warden : no doubt he is the cap, as expected warden is the strat caller and he will also will be playing his role as an aggressive gunner.
• Frod : The star of stars ..the prime AWPer.
• Storm : Will continue to support the team with his rifle skills.(He always remind me of the colt obsession).
• Hanes : Known for his fast acrobatic movements is another gunner for the team.
• Nothing : the young-blood.. he will again be an aggressive gunner.to what he calls as "Runnin and gunnin".

When asked about Rambo not being the part of this new team frod responded "Our team has always had a formula and certain way we approach the game in terms of strategy, teamwork, and etc. This has been a defined formula that we as a team know is proven to work, going all the way back to the success of United 5 in 2003. We have always had every member of the team follow their certain role, and in doing so we feel we are most successful. Ron was a great player, but he didn't fit well with the formula, nor did he adjust to it, which made things difficult sometimes".

We hope Nothing fits well as United 5. Even Nothing was happy with his new team-mates showing a slight negative response for old EG.He commented "It just wasn't working out. As much as I liked those guys, we weren't seeing eye to eye anymore and I'm looking forward to playing with the new EG players."

Now when this great line up is ready we hope they rock the world. Regarding performance no one must doubt them.They are few of the most senior players in the e-sports scene. Regarding 1.6 .. its their true game. They stood second in CEVO 9 and won CGS Pro-am 1.6. And that was when their main focus was on source . Now hope they shine again ...

Best of luck Col ..ooops!! Sorry .. EG

Best of luck for 2009.

Counter-Strike Maps

Due to my immense exposure to counter-strike..I do lot of technical stuff related to counter-strike.And designing new counter-strike is somthing I love doing. I have made many counter-Strike maps. Some of them are

• eP_m4a1 : Dedicated to Clan eP,This is small combat map ,each player is given a colt-m4a1,an armour and a pistol. The target is to eliminite opposite team. This map is very helpful in increasing your skills on maverick,and is a fun play for 2 to 6 players. Thanx to my team-mate SataN for giving idea for this map. Download
• afk_6killer_nogrens : The concept of this map was brain-child of my another team-mate RuuD.This is a modification of most played map of IT BHU..afk_6killer. Its very frustrating when people use excessive grenades in this map.And hence this is the map for those who love to frag by bullets . Download
• fy_saket : I thought to mention this map becoz this was my first map.Though its just a single square room,meant only for two players, But then also it is a funfilled map.So do give it a try. Download

There are few other maps that I am thinking to implement but not able to do so sue to some other commitments. de_mininuke_a and de_minidust2_b are two of them.

Watch The ^T^ is for Terror

Download Link
http://www.mediafire.com/?jucmzteicgq

This is a Counter-Strike 1.6 Frag Movie that I made myself...featuring some of the coolest frags by me in various clan matches that I played at my college in past 4 months that is the time when we made our clan and started playing together against other clans of my college.
It also have few frags from the matches we played at Aavishkar 2008(MNNIT,Allahabad).

Hope you will like the video..do leave your responses..

The softwares that I used are:
* Sony Vegas 4.0
* Total Video Convertor
* Fraps 2.9.3, Build 6914
* Microsoft Paint

The music themes used in the video are:
* We Salute(The Unamericans) - WWE Themes
* Out of My Way - Seether
* Theme - Mortal COmbat
* Remember the name(Rising Tied) - Fort Minor
* One of a kind - Breaking Point
* Bodies - Drowning Pool
* Breaking me down - Soil
* Leave out all the rest(Minutes to midnight) - Linkin park