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i40 is over!

=[MI5]=RJayW — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:04:25 GMT

So i40 has come to an end, 12 members came along to i40 for 4 days of gaming!

It was another great event and was really good meeting everyone again

I entered into the BC2 tournament with Team Rush and we dominated everyone in the group and elimination stages pinning just about every team into their spawn, not pretty but had to be done so we didnt loose tickets!

We met Team Dignitas in the upper final on Laguna Presa, in the first round we lost by 12 tickets in the end, on the 2nd round we came back to win 60-0 going through to the grand final!!!

Dignitas got back into the grand final via the loosers bracket.

At the final dignitas won both maps, resulting in team rush coming 2nd, i will be posting more about the final as soon as the stream comes online!

Thanks to everyone that came to the LAN that made it so enjoyable and thanks to the guys in Team Rush for teaming me up, i think we played very well together and i think i held my own in the team but i will let them be the judge of that :)

Next up is i41 which i will be attending and i hope some members come too! Hopefully BC2 will be back and revenge can be taken!

More to come on the BC2 final shortly along with lots of photos and more website updates!!

Please give us feedback on the site and update your picture on the roster via this link: Click Here

Tick Tock the clock stopped!

=[MI5]=RJayW — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:10:25 GMT

Tick Tock the clock stopped!

Here is what the clock has been counting down to we hope you like it!

The website is currently in the BETA phase this means there will be bugs around and there will be improvements coming, we wanted to get the website out there over i40 fully finished but we haven�t been able to fully do so. As the website is in BETA if you spot bugs please report them to us.

Our previous website template had been with us for a good few years, since 2007 or earlier the original template was made. Since then we have just continually added bits in which has just made it more and more unstable and horrible

This website has been built from the ground up from a proper professional design by systems friend, system coding the template and me and dark providing all the lovely content and scripts you see :)

The website is much more robust now, easier to maintain and looks much more professional.

We will be adding more content and scripts over the next few weeks and get everything fully finished off, any suggestions for improvements can be directed at me!

Get your picture on the slider roster by uploading one to: http://forums.mi5-clan.com/profile.p...editprofilepic no animations or anything rude just your face will do!

Please note as Internet Explorer is a DIRE web browser this website does not currently support or work properly, please use a proper browser for time being!

=[MI5]= at i40!

=[MI5]=RJayW — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:34:52 GMT

12 members are here at i40 up in G2 on row V

I will be participating in the Bad Company 2 tournament, as a clan we will be entering a Team Fortress 2 team for fun and a couple of members will be playing in the starcraft 2 tournaments!

Come and pop by our row and say hello!

Going Home To Nam!

=[MI5]=RJayW — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:05:44 GMT

This winter we are going back to where this clan started! IN the jungle of vietnam!

At E3 this week DICE announced the first expansion pack Bad Company 2 Vietnam

This winter we time travel back to 2004!!

See you in the jungle! Ahhhhh the memories :)

6 Years!

=[MI5]=RJayW — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:04:41 GMT

The clan is now 6 years old

Started back in 2004 in Battlefield Vietnam and now 6 years later its a whole different battlefield...but still the same old DICE :)

This also means that its 5 years since i took over the clan, many hours played and lots of fun times

I look forward to the future and spending many more hours playing games and going to LANs together

Thanks to everyone that has stuck with us for all these years, you are all great people and good friends and i look forward to a great LAN this August!

By The one and only RJW!

2010 Starts with a BANG! : BFBC2

=[MI5]=RJayW — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:49:10 GMT

6 years ago on Battlefield Vietnam is where this clan begun and the next instalment is right around the corner!

2010 brings the 5th year of Battlefield 2 which has been the biggest success for the clan to date. With early success in TWL for over 2 years moving onto i37 LAN victory and i38 4th place Battlefield is what we are good at!

Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a highly anticipated game by the whole pc community after the failing of IW and MW2.

There are some questions hanging over the PC version of the game but im sure these will be answered in the BETA.

I am pleased to announce today that Battlefield Bad Company 2 will be the next clan game! Full focus will now be driven towards this game starting Jan 28th when the BETA is released.

We are now looking to recruit people to come and join the clan. My aim for this section is to have a big group of gamers using our ranked server that we will have but also have a League/LAN team.

As soon as the BETA is released on the 28th we will be able to tell if the League/LAN team is possible or even if competitive gaming is in BFBC2. I personally have no doubts that BFBC2 will become competitive as long as DICE develop the game to how the community wants it!

If its possible to get a server during the BETA we will do! If not we will definitely have a server for the full game and we will be looking for people to help pay for it, if you would like to help contact me.

If you are already in the clan and looking to become part of the BFBC2 section then please let me know. If you haven�t pre ordered yet then you need to do so the only current place offering BETA access is www.play.com. The BETA will be a great chance to get use to the game ready for the release on March 5th.

If you are not already in the clan and you want to join please apply at www.join.mi5-clan.com as I said we are looking for both a League/Ladder team and people that want to play with us publicly just like we did across BFV,BF2 and 2142.

The BETA will be the place for you to show me your skills and teamwork so as soon as the game is released a team can be picked and trained ready to enter leagues and LAN tournaments.

If you have any questions contact me!

i38 - Another LAN comes to the end!

=[MI5]=RJayW — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:10:45 GMT

i38 Ended today yet another 4 days of gaming!

Newbury was the venue and I was quite impressed with it! The LAN did feel alot smaller with people spread over a few floors, but it was a great LAN with a different feeling.

Personally I think stoneleigh is the better venue but only for the summer one when a much larger group turnout.

We entered into the BF2 tournament this time playing for prize money a total pot of �500 for the top 4 teams

I was expecting to see a bigger turnout than we had, only 6 full teams entered, there were rumours flying around that a few teams in Europe were going to turn up but this wasn’t the case!

The first stage was basically playing every other team, our first match was a giant mountain to climb in the form of power gaming a highly skilled team and regarded as a top team in Europe.

I wasn’t expecting much here as I knew we would get wiped out which basically did happen......we tried our best to run them around the map but a mixture of it being the first match of the day, first time in months playing together and the first time since i34 warden playing BF2, they were just too good!

Our next match was against a mixture of Rush Gaming and Crack Clan, RG being the team we beat at i37, again we lost and was feeling pretty much destroyed.

Then we played Team Rush again a decent team, a critical error was made on our side on the start of the first round virtually sealing the fate of the first round. The 2nd round was better but we lost.

Next up was Team CoolerMaster, who are again regarded as a top team in Europe and a close match to power gaming if not slightly ahead, we waited on the server for TCM to turn up which a couple of them did but a team of 4 that was needed to start the match didn’t turn up and the BF2 admin for the tournament gave us a default win.

This boosted our tickets and gave us a second lifeline, we had to destroy the next team and make sure that power gaming beat RGCC by a considerable margin.

We did destroy the next team and power gaming did beat RGCC meaning we would be in the top 4.

Although this wouldn’t have happened if TCM did turn up but if people cast their minds back to i34 we lost out in the group stages as we beat a team and then they left meaning everyone else in the group had a ticket boost forcing us to miss out on the next stages.

Also technical problems on my part at i37 meant that we played with 4 virtually throughout the group stages.

Things like this do happen fortunately for us it happened in our favour and we were into the elimination stages.

At this point we were a lot happier and feeling more relaxed and working 1,00000000000 times better as a team as now we had 6 matches previously to practice.

The next match we had was against Power Gaming on karkand which is the same map we played them on previously.

This time we felt we could give it a better go now we had played more previously.

As a team we couldn’t match their firepower so we went to try and give them the run around the map, good teamwork and smart thinking meant that on the USA side we nearly had them capped out, we just tried to think outside the box and just do whatever we could. We held onto a few tickets on the US side.

The 2nd round they capped us out but we had a lot of fun in the process!

We then played against Team Rush again on Sharqi, again we just had to do what we could and try to be sneaky and think on the spot.

First round we held around 90 tickets to them

On the 2nd round they returned the favour of being sneaky and smart got around us and capped us out!

This meant that we landed in 4th place.

Team Rush then went on to beat TCM by about 3 tickets meaning they went into the final to face Power Gaming.

The overall result was:

1st Power Gaming
2nd Team Rush
3rd Team CoolerMaster
4th =[MI5]=

In the end we did ok and will be getting a cut of the prizefund, as a team we improved hugely from the start, its highly likely that this will be the last BF2 tournament at the iseries with BFBC2 coming up next.

On the whole the LAN was great it would have been better to have more members attend but I hope at i39 we have a bit more interest and then at i40 get back up to big number of members!

The LAN also showed how COD:MW2 will not work as a competitive game unless IW do a complete U turn which I don’t think is going to happen. I would expect to see COD4 back at i39

Now I look forward to BFBC2 which is highly likely to be the next game for the clan.

The PC beta will be out in December when I know more I will post about it.

If you are seriously looking to become involed in BFBC2 team then I suggest you get ready to get on the BETA and work out how to play the game etc.

I would expect the game to become competitive and I will be looking to enter a team into the iseries LANs, and keep a constant team of players that will attend the LANs and play online to try and become top team in European leagues.

If this interests you then show your interest to me!

Thanks to the 4 others that came along to i38 who made it a great time!!!

If you are looking at i39 then please make your interest known it will be 2nd – 5th April 2010 and tickets are 20% off until 14th December.

=[MI5]= Clan IRC now active PLEASE READ !

=[MI5]=Ward3n — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:49:27 GMT

IRC has always been an important part of the gaming community, we however have stuck behind x-fire for a VERY long time, as from today (Monday the 18th May 09) we are going to start using IRC as an alternative messaging system to xfire, while we require that you use x-fire we do not need you to use IRC, however if you want to speak to all the Admins in the same place it's worth a look :)
Most leagues (For example enemy down) require an active IRC channel, so we have decided to have one.

There are other administrative reasons for us, for example, we (the admins) can now get chat data sent via IRC to us so we don't have to be playing the game to know what's going on...

If you have never used an IRC client check out the guide here (http://forums.mi5-clan.com/showthread.php?p=10586#post10586)

IRC Details are as followed:

=[MI5]= Clan IRC
Connection : quakenet.com
Channel : #mi5clan