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Moridin_ from clan TOG messaged me the other day. It looks like they may not have enough players to join the ladder. He was interested in letting some of his players play for us in the ladder.

What do the guys who are in the ladder think of that?

Regardless of which way we go with this with the deadline for player joins fast approaching we may not be able to get them registered. I’m interested to see what the general consensus is though.

He’s also interested in some regular practice and I’ve told him we’re always happy to play other clans.

Edit: We have until April 1st to make roster changes.
http://www.gamearena.com.au/forums/3323/thread.php/4555426

Regards,
Fuzz

Despite claiming to be in freeplay mode (can challenge teams, results don’t count) for at least a month now, GA finally decided on a map cycle which apparently now allows free play to actually work. See below for the nice email from GA.

The ET:QW ladder has had it’s map selection options updated.
Teams can now make Freeplay challenges.
Regards,
The GameArena Team

Let me know if you guys want to challenge someone. The team lists are here

Currently all the founders are captains. If we find ourselves playing a match with no founders we’ll add more captains then.

Edit: Originally this post was about Shad quitting. In the end it turned out to be a misunderstanding, and while several things that went down as part of that I’m not at all happy about, I’m now going to chalk it up to a misunderstanding due to ambiguous language.

The entire comment tree has been removed, and I consider this issue closed. I will however leave in the only positive thing to come out of this – my comment on work for the individual vs for the team.

Fuzz: A message to all – if you’re going to do some work for IPX (and we very much appreciate those that do), don’t do it to make yourself look good, or to make others look bad. Do it because you care about the team, and want to contribute. If you want to own anything you do and be able to take it away at will, maybe being in a team isn’t for you.

Merry Christmas all. I hope everyone had a great Christmas day with loved ones.

While we were all eating turkey and non Norwegian goodies, TeamIPX.net’s hosting provider had a massive explosion in their HQ affecting many of their customers including us. Given the timing of this I’m not too concerned if it takes a few days to get everything back to normal. I sent them an email informing them of the situation last night, just so they knew what was going on when they got back to work. Much to my surprise 10 mins later (11:40PM, Xmas night!) I get an email back explaining what had happened and that they would return all their customers services to normal as soon as possible. Very impressive.

Sure enough this morning TeamIPX.net is back up. We still have a few issues which they are working on resolving (the test site is still having a DB and DNS issue) but there is no rush on getting them back.

Anyone wondering what was going on with the site, now you know.

Enjoy the rest of the holiday period. See you in game (or in the rink, or on a trek).

Fuzz

PS, by massive explosion, I actually meant a RAID card died and they had replace it :-)

Update: 9PM, 26/12/2007 – Looks like I spoke to soon. Moments after writing this post this morning the site went back down again. It’s back up now for some, but still down for others the DNS change propagates. If you’re reading this, you obviously don’t have that problem :)

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