Team Colombia
Previous Captains:
NC XIII: X
NC XIV: 
zicario
Previous Achievements:
NC XIII: X
NC XIV: Last in Group (0 wins)
This Year's Applicants:
Paper- Entry:[quote]I should be the captain of Team Colombia because I keep track of news, announcements and schedules posted on crossfire. This allows me to contact efficiently the other members of my team before hand, and be ready to give our best at NC XV.[/quote]
- Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: Well there's not really much to introduce. My name is Juan aka Paper and I've been playing this game since late 2006, competitive from 2008 or so (still low- though). I'm looking forward to this Nations Cup as the Colombian team has shown improvement over the last appearances.
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: I am the best man for the job simply because I keep track of things (news, applications, registrations). This will give the Colombian team a fairly good organization. I do know all of the line-up from way back, so they know they have a friend in me, as well as an organized captain.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: The line-up is pretty much settled. I would like to get the 3 backups to be in the main line-up though, but some of them are inactive or have things they can't postpone.
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: Paper, Stoner, Terra, David, Eitileda, Nemesis - Torm, Paraco, Zcario
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: Our main objective at NCXV is getting to the group stage. Being a fairly new team means we have to fight our way thru qualifiers. Other than that, once we get to the group stage we will try to give our best to give everyone a good show.
Conclusion:
Being the only applicant for his nation
Paper is certain of his election and since he already has a line-up in mind I'm sure they'll get a qualifier this season once again.
Team Croatia
Previous Captains:
NC XIII: 
suVi
NC XIV: frozz
Previous Achievements:
NC XIII: Loser bracket round 1 (elimination by
Sweden)
NC XIV: Loser bracket round 2 (elimination by
Estonia)
This Year's Applicants:
hVk- Entry:[quote]I'm the only one with motivation to lead this team.[/quote]
- Q&A:
I was unable to contact hVk due to the search function here on crossfire disallowing me to search for names less than 4 letters long. I'll add this section as soon as he contacts me himself!
danL- Entry:[quote]L O L[/quote]
- Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: Hello, I'm Daniel from Croatia, started playing ET occasionally back when it came out but really got into it in 2004, been leading a few clans since then and was in twice as many, I've played every single OC and ESL hosted tournament since I started so you can call me a true ET nerd, also played a lot of other fps games but nothing beats ET :)
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: Well to be honest there are not many Croats left playing ET, and even in the previous seasons no one really wanted to take the captaincy so we kind of took turns, and with so few of us left now it's my turn, firing back that I didn't want it in previous years :P
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: I have a couple names in mind but I have to check who is actually willing to play first.
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: Can't really talk about names until I ask around and see who is available and willing, but let's say I'd like to have a few players that I've been playing for years with
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: Goal this year would be to try not to embarrass ourselves :D nah, would be good if we could give our best to get out of group and from there on everything is fine, in last few years we were 5th and 3rd and managed to cause a few upsets and beat quite a few highly rated nations in reaching that, although there are not many strong nations left you can always count on like of Estonia, Netherlands and Finland to give you a hard time so I'm hoping for playoffs :)
Conclusion:
With me having been unable to contact
hVk I think it is unfair to assume that he is not the man to vote for this season. So I won't pick sides for now.
Team Czech Republic
Previous Captains:
NC XIII: 
Rifleman
NC XIV: t4MjEE
Previous Achievements:
NC XIII: Loser bracket round 1 (elimination by
Spain)
NC XIV: Loser bracket round 1 (elimination by
Canada)
This Year's Applicants:
t4MjEE- Entry:[quote]So HI! I guess I don’t have to say something about me, Czech guys know me and besides that I was captain for last NC.[/quote]
- Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: Hi, I’m t4MjEE, currently ET Supervisor for ClanBase and I was captain/manager in last NC for team Czech Republic
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: I guess there are better guys for that, but I rate myself as enough for it.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: Well, in CZE are only few use able players, so of course I have in mind line up and mostly those guys are available for this.
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: Check last NC’s line up, this team isn’t going to be very different. There will just be a few changes because there are some players that are unable to play due work/school etc.
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: Our goal is like every year, try to win NC or at least surprise a few better nations. I hope we can get further in the tournament than we did last year or at least reach the semi-final.
malfoy- Entry:[quote]I want to be captain again (like 3 seasons ago) because I want to show that Czech Republic can play on decent level - that’s my target.[/quote]
- Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: My name is Marian, I am 21 years old player from Czech Republic. For a lot of people I am new but that is not true, I have started with ET in 2004 and have played for a long time under the nickname Flash - maybe someone could remember the Bloody F*ckin Users movie. In 2009 I decided to change my nickname into malfoy because people thought that I am the same person as Belgian Flashy
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: Why do I think I should be a captain? well that is a really difficult question but in one sentence. I was a captain and I have got a lot of experiences in national team and I would like to do my best when the people will decide to give their votes to me.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: I got the line up in my mind but I don’t want to tell that because it’s definitely useless to say that - I am not the captain yet.
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: My target with national team is prove that Czech Republic can play more than second match in the playoffs but it would be really hard because a lot of well-known people finished their gaming carreer
mnewcko- Entry:[quote]for those who don’t want to see another NC team with iR (zeroE) players only[/quote]
- Q&A:
I haven't been able to contact this player yet since he has no account here on crossfire and I couldn't send another message on clanbase yet.
caybro- Entry:[quote]Mature, old school player, respected within the community, played (and won) some Czech LANs, speaking fluent English/French.[/quote]
- Q&A:
Haven't heard from this player yet.
ZajaC- Entry:[quote]I want to give chance to other players. I don’t want to see only iR (zeroE) players in Czech NC team.[/quote]
- Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: I am not old-school because I only play et for 3 years now, I’m new to the Czech ET-scene so I’m one of the new talents :D:D:D.
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: I don't mean that I am the best for it, but I want to give chance for some new talents like me.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: Yes I have a lineup in mind for when I will be captain, I hope I’ll get the people I want.
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: zajaczek, CYPIS, teente, mnew, green clon, jalo(I hope) - malfoy, charlie
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: I don’t want to replay last year, I hope we will pass the group stage
Conclusion:
With both
t4MjEE and
malfoy having nations cup captain experience and both
mnewcko and
ZajaC pulling the “time for a change” card I think this will be quite an interesting vote. However I think that once again
t4MjEE will go home with the captaincy for the
Czech Republic.
Grtz, psy
not at cf and not at cb
Here on crossfire you're are apparently named differently so that is why I didn't find you (quebra-tolas at CB). Feel free to answer the questions in a pm. They can be found on all 9 pages. There's no need to get angry with me here :s
btw before page 10:HATER
Hoe is men West-Vlaams?
Nice try
got some invites, but dunno what to choose :p
obvious win for Basty!
Aber dann mach mal gewinnen tun hier!
awsome job man !
You couldn't be arsed to verify whether all applies had a common sense (people applying for other countries).
Lol....The only words worth writing that this guy is a fucking joke, nothing else.
:XD
So, Simoon's apply doesn't seem to be a troll for you but Kamz does? :XD I'd like to remind you that Kamz was already the UK captain.
Overall, if you want to contribute, do some PROPER research next time.
Also, I don't like the layout but that's a subjective feeling.
I've tried my best finding out most obvious trolls. That's why SIMOON's application was removed alongside with some others before the votes were opened. The ones that are still in there are the ones that were allowed by ClanBase. I've based my article on the votes allowed by ClanBase so don't shoot me for the mistakes still in there. (referring to for example
And about the conclusions I wish to remind you that I've stated in my intro that these are my personal views. I didn't pick
Doesn't matter. You are here as a journalist. So provide proper information for your readers instead of asking them for correcting your mistakes.
Does a team captain need to play? Besides, if you want to go deeper by writing "Even his application on clanbase states he's trolling" - maybe that's a troll statement (and thus a serious apply?) You never know with Kamz +D
I know those are your conclusions, I was just laughing at your opinion about team PL capt. So basically, what pros and cons do you see @ dizel and dialer and why would you pick dizel over dialer? I'm just curious how did you make that pick.
Furthermore, as someone stated, you could've mentioned nations that played last NC but did not have a single applicant.
I'm not saying that it's perfect job, but you're being way too harsh here. There are/were some mistakes and some parts of the text could've been written in a better way, but you can't really argue about his personal opinions (you could argue about whether they belong to this type of article or not, though).
I would say that this article offers a good amount of necessary information for the voters and gives a good overall look of all the captain candidates. Interviews had good questions and the article included answers from most of the major candidates. I personally think that the format is decent. Of course it could've been better and more stylish like everything can, but atleast it was clear and simple.
Atleast I enjoy reading this type of articles and we don't have too many active contributors around here.. I guess you have some grudge against P5Y, because otherwise I can't really understand your comment
1. Mentioning SIMOON applying for Bahrain was pointless as it obviously was a troll, but there was a mention that the application was removed for the reason that SIMOON has previously played for France.
2. About Kamz.. best way to handle it would've probably to ask him for the answers and speculate the trolling part as a personal opinion, but taking a look at Kamz's original application I think that it's just fine to not take it as a serious application.
3. Some mix-ups with player names and NC/EC
I don't think that there were any major mistakes that disrupted my reading experience. How ever the writer could've gone through the text a bit more carefully to find the smaller mistakes. Of course the texts are always more enjoyable to read when there are no spelling mistakes and all the facts are correct.
What comes to the feedback, of course it is by far more useful to post your opinions and point out the parts you liked or disliked and why than just post a generic response like "good job". Constructive criticism is very important and writers should appreciate it a lot. I just don't think that you really succeeded in giving it by just pointing out those 3 parts in your original reply without giving any hint as to what's really wrong with them and how to improve. Also one of those pointed out parts was his personal opinion about the best candidate for Poland based on the information/answers provided by candidates and you can't really criticize him for that.
Do you really see these as proper feedback for the writer to improve for the next contribution? (I know that you explained them a bit further in your next reply, but you could've already done it in the original reply in a more respectable way)
Besides, I wrote my comment in paragraphs. Some parts refered to mistakes but some (eg. team-PL one) refered to opinion with which I disagree and comment in a way I did.
humM3L's case is different as he has presented Russia in previous tournaments. I'd say that everyone who has been following top level ET closely knows that and the information is easily available (unlike possible second nationality in case of hvk and IceQ). This mistake should've been noticed by both CB and writer of the article in my opinion.
I already said my opinion about Kamz's application and yeah, I have to agree that the part about SIMOON wasn't written well at all and it shouldn't have been included in the article.
I've discussed the situation of hummel before the votes were finalised but he was allowed to enter the world cup for germany when clanbase nc didn't take place and it was cf world cup or smth and now he's allowed to play for germany since then. If you want a better explenation ask the admins...
Also I feel a bit offended that you quoted my text as it would've been written by tornis :D
I don't know of the rules changed for this nationcup, but afaik zerender and hummel or even fireball have tried it before and they couldn't make it because rules were clear: once you play for 1 nation, you can't play for anyother nation anymore.
but in ET at first i tought it was same rules, but i think some russian ( hummer? zerender ? ) played for russia & also germany, its better to not change country, better if its not allowed.
:o
cheers
but if you're able to give criticism you should as well say what's good about the work and not only what's bad.
Lately i don't see much active journalists around here. Even EC was totally fucked when it comes to coverage untill baggiez wrote a newspost about the final...
Looking at it this way i think we should be thankfull for the work P5Y did here.
And ofcourse it can still improve but then that's for the next time as i think the consept is realy good to start with imo
Its not his fault he doesnt know every single applicant and that CB lets them apply even though they have no relation to that country. If you want to point fingers, point fingers at CB for implementing a ridiculous system that allows non members to apply.
As for your "criticism" on his personal opinions about captains picks, as he said it is of his own opinions concluded from the interviews he conducted.
He obviously spent a hell of a long time doing this article and putting aside CB's fuckups and his own opinions, then it was a great job. Most ppl didnt even know who had applied for their own country.
Your post wasnt critical, it was pointless.
I've been critical over mistakes. At opinions - everyone has it's own but I can comment it in any way I want to. If I totally disagree, I can laugh, cry, whatever and it doesn't need to be presented in a sophisticated way. So no, it wasn't criticism @ opinions, but it definitely was @ meritorical mistakes.
And don't call me a prick if I judged someone's work negatively.
he's became one of us!
EDiT: Robin Hood "Directors Cut" on Sky Cinema HD awweeee
as argument for ignoring his application
japan and who also left?
Thank you :-)
Found a small mistake:
http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=article&mode=item&id=272&p=2
Should be "NC" instead of "EC", shouldn't it? :-)
I'd have used enter a bit more tho :)
and
at "Previous Achievements" for USA.
but thumbs up for actually putting something like this together
makes it easier for us and is definately better than working yourself through this horrible FUCKING shit site called cb
Oh boy XDDDDDDDDDDD
Name Clan Game ICQ
abrakadabra hAbility - HIGH ABILITY
abrakadabra High Ability
abrakadabra Rainbow
abrakadabra sobotni MIX
abrakadabra specjalnoje naznaczenije
abrakadabra Yo! #contra.et
abrakadabra Yo! RIPAZHA
Atrje` FocuS!
Sprajt #dunno.et
Sprajt Bijemy Plebs
SprAjT blutSTURZ
SprAjT chakS
SprAjT Conspiration eSports
SprAjT Life-ending
SprAjT mindtouch Gaming
SprAjT nonpro-gaming
SprAjT some1s
SprAjT 1on1
SprAjT Team 4fun Digital Players
Sprajt Team Delvix ...
SprAjT Team Delvix NetGamers
Sprajt Team-Delvix
SprAjT unnoticeable
SprAjT venG gaming
Sprajt versus
SprAjT zajebisty team
sprAjtoslawny team-Serious
Spri7e duNNo
at least now the little kids get a chance to play since all the skilled Slovenian players have retired from ET \o
1. ping 250+
2. meth fail jump = no backup
3. rifle
4. RAMBO!!!11 ftw
The only reason he considers himself like this was cause he actually used hacks (and got busted) and thus could shoot decently.. but in no way could he ever beat the Codelust gang!
UPL <3
Not looking to start a fight or debate, just replying to this old comment for fun & clarification. What I said is the truth :) (and that's what most active 2.55 players from those times know to be true, by the way. The only ones accusing me of cheating for the whole time are mostly players that had already moved to .6b)
http://pastebin.com/W5vyk2NL
Though if you meant just missing countries which have participated NC in the past, I can't really be bothered to go through all the seasons, but atleast these countries came into my mind:
Italy
Spain
Latvia
Denmark
Ireland
Also I'd guess that atleast Slovakia, Greece, Lithuania and some other European countries have played in NC earlier
Thanks!
China, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Brazil, Kazakhstan applied at least once or more times :)
+ Marocco and Korea played 3o3 NC :)
wut, simoon team france?? :p
racist faggot
TALKING OFCOURSE ABOUT TEAM
No personal offence though.
gifted never thought u would be a cap :p
and xperia has a nice mindset