The Ashes are coming!
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4 Dec 2006, 05:05
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In Cricket there is a rivalry between England and Australia and each series is called the Ashes, it is ongoing right now. Its called the ashes because a bird was hit by a cricket ball and tragically lost its life, it was burnt and its ashes along with the birds death were to symbolise the death of English cricket who lost that series. Today ET gets its ashes! Although its unlikely an English player will play, an Englishman (or a pomme) will admin and thats enough to give it this most unoriginal title (It has much to do with the fact Europe has no notable rivalries with Australia!). The popular Atlantic Battle series has possibly had its lifespan as the American's have given up, but the Aussies have come forth and challenged Europe to a war.
The match will take place on December 23rd at 14:00 CET which is 24:00 Australian time. The server is located in California and Australians are anticipated to ping around 200 with some European testers getting in the 150-175 range. The maps will be Supply Depot & Goldrush.The match server is kindly provided by seek from #snd-gaming and #Crossfire will be hosting the tournament itself.
Shoutcasting will be a joint effort between
iTG's TosspoT and the 
Gamestah crew, which should be an experience not to be forgotten! GamesTV.org will lend their irreplacable hand to all things ETTV.As for the teams? The European Captain will be selected in the coming days who'll then by up against
angelus who has been both hard at work getting a team together but also organising things for this event down under! Be sure not to miss out as ET gets intercontinental once again!
and when will you make another EU Allstar Battle TosspoT? :)
Pff, the title is lies :<
How many ET teams are there in Euro land that play comp? In Aus/NZ ET there are ~40 teams - a reflection on the much smaller population. This leaves a much smaller talent pool from which to draw players. With a FAR greater # of people, you are far more likely to find more good players (and bad ofc).
Assuming that players across the world are basically similarly skilled, then you're likely to find 30 great players for every great Aus player. Ofc this isn't factoring in the scene in Australia, which is far smaller with less quality competitive teams & less activity.
No?
never realised it was such a dangerous sport :p
I'm already looking forward to seeing all the different lineup suggestions by xfire members and the flame that will follow the post :P
Good luck
and about time the top Aussie Players get to play on near even terms with the top Euros
Aussies 2-0
although we still do use ladder supply, but with scripts to fix spawn bug. i think it will be the latest Supply though :)
wiki says:
I went to the 4th ashes test last time and its far from boring, beer+mates+8 hours of cricket is the win.
You really cant call it the ashes as europe are not even part of the real ashes.
Angelus, can you give the line-up asap?
riCo (Adversus)
HANZ (Adversus)
maxxxx (Modus Operandi)
shaggy (Modus Operandi)
haste (Modus Operandi)
forty (teamredux)
Where did you find that btw?
can you have my babies anyways?