Black Ops In Review:
As a clan, 1Day moved into MW2 late in the game as its first Call of Duty series venture. We built up a good member base and did adequately playing HC SND, CG SND and a few matches of CG DOM. Of course when the news of Black Ops started filtering across the internet, most of the clan was keen to get into the game early and cement a good standing for the clan right away.
As was popular for the clan back then, we purchased a HC SND server and had it populated from day one. Even despite the horrible lag issues that accompanied Black Ops' release.
For the first few months of Black Ops, over the Christmas break we had a very successful and popular server, and through it we recruited players who are still members today. Our competition was mainly with nK and LTBB, both who were running similar servers (although nK later switched too a CG rules server). People used to say that they would go to LTBB when they got sick of waiting to get into ours.
Dalek wrote the HC SND scrim rules that were used for Black Ops clans for some time, and were loosely adapted by other HC clans later on. As with most new games, no matter how good we are later, our first scrim in Black Ops was a loss. Despite that, if you browse our Black Ops match results now you will see 101 posted scrims, with a very high win/loss ratio. Some of the scrims have been invalidated though due to issues with members at the time.
1Day entered Black Ops with many well known and friendly clans, like nK and majc. Both of those clans ended up closing along with many of the clans we knew at the time. Ironically, for some of the clans that we versed in early Black Ops, their only remains are the screen shots posted in the scrims on our forums.
The release of Black Ops caused us to lose several of our good MW2 members who did not want to play it, however the clan greatly benefited when some of its MW2 members got into HoN, leading to most highly ranked team in the clan's competitive history.
After our server shut down and people became disinterested in Black Ops, the clan reached a standstill in the game. However, eventually we all got back into and started to embrace softcore and CG game play, which has set us up in a strong sense for MW3 competition. We could not however bring back the glory days of our popular server, as the player base had diminished severley by this point and the few servers that had stayed around had garnered a following.
When some of our HoN members started playing CoD, like Carni and Shudder the clan took a surprising move and turned to playing sniper scrims. We had competed in CG for some time and people were starting to get sick of it, and when an ex-member challenged us to a scrim, miscommunication led us to playing a sniper game and the hosting of a semi-popular sniper SND server. We had some talent, and it allowed old Crysis Wars members like Xesdra to come back and compete with the clan again (as he played snipers exclusively).
Black Ops dieing days were filled with sniping and casual scrimming. The different range of scrims we played help cement the fact that players needed to be adaptable for scrims and certainly helped some people to get better.
Now with MW3's release we hope to place highly in the CGo. All in all, Black Ops was a good game for the clan, and the first game I would consider the clan to have properly supported. And it certainly helped the clan to work and act better as a competitive team.
Cheers, Dalek.
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snakeyyyy still bad
bloodshadow lold.
Shudder Cool story.
