Clanbase - Game Over
For those unfamiliar with the name: ClanBase once was a cool site to visit if you were an online gamer. With cups and ladders hosted for games such as the RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike and Call of Duty series, a teenager really had quite some options for multiplayer entertainment. Heck, we even had LAN finals for our renowned EuroCups.

Those days are far behind us and as it stands today, the company that owns the ClanBase site - GGL - is unable to cover the costs required to run the website. Moreover, lately the owners of the site do not wish to cooperate with the voluntary crew, keeping everybody in the dark and thus showing complete disrespect to people who spend many hours a day trying to make our tournaments a success.

The website has now been offline for more than three weeks due to an unpaid bill. No action is being taken by the owner to get the website back online. Having no vision for the future, we - the ClanBase Crew - have lost our last hopes about ClanBase ever coming back online, and unfortunately we announce the end of a great era.

The history and the truth as the ClanBase Crew sees it

A US-based company called Global Gaming League (Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc.) noticed the success of the site and bought it from the original owners in December of 2004. They had financial backing for server hosting and our tournaments. Things were going well until in 2007 CB suffered its first heart attack when GGL couldn’t deliver the prize money they put up for the EuroCup. This can be marked as the start of our downfall.

The CB Crew has always been made up of volunteers with the majority being just teenagers. There was no possibility for us to come up with the money on our own that was promised, yet we were always the ones getting blamed. After all, it was our cup season and our name. It is no surprise that after this blow there was no way for us to host another season with the promise of any kind of prize until the debt was settled with the previous winners.

To this day, GGL owes around €24,000 in prize money which will never be settled. The other sites who were in the same gaming business of course had no problems hosting their tournaments however they wanted. ClanBase, however, lost a great deal of its reputation along with some top teams who never got their winnings.

As time went by the site also started to decay. After the takeover we had paid developers who tried to put the code in shape. There were some noteworthy developments such as the seasonal and invitational ladders, but after the first test run we couldn’t get the necessary changes implemented - because GGL stopped paying the developers.

Money. The source of all evil.

GGL started moving the servers between hosts (RackSpace, Amazon, GreenQloud) to save costs, and to avoid further missed payments. This appeared in the news a few times when providers came out with how they were lied to. We also lost the ability to upload files anything other than demos. Fortunately, a Crew member had the means to help out.

Funding continued to dry up. After the first wave of cuts where we lost the two developers and a head admin, things cooled down for a while. Recently, a general system administrator was cut off which got interesting at one point when CB suffered a denial of service attack to which the host (GreenQloud) responded with moving the servers to a different IP address. However, the domain name had to be updated as well to point to the new address. Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while.

So how do we get money? The site had ads for a while which obviously was not enough. We may have been naive thinking that upping the quality of the site would be a good move, which was promised more times we bother to count. GGL thought otherwise. In fact, many of the cool features our gamers would have loved to see on the website were never implemented - because "CBv2” was supposedly just around the corner.

Their first bold move was trying to get adult banners on CB - a website that was home for thousands of teenagers. The Crew was shocked and appalled by this. Fortunately, we managed to get our voice through (by threatening to go on strike) - but we also lost several valuable crew members who had enough of the poor conditions and bad decisionmaking.

Next to adult material, gambling can also be a good source of income. The Poker and Betting ladders were introduced. It is doubtful that much money was ever made of this, at least nobody said otherwise. The only thing certain is that these projects never got off the ground.

A poor attempt was also made to gather money in the form of offering VIP membership. Nobody took this very seriously and as expected, nobody bothered to opt in after a while. The only benefit to having VIP was the ability to get rid of some of the ads. Perhaps a regular donation system would’ve been more useful.

By the end of August 2013, yet another problem surfaced: the money ran out for the hosting. This is when CB started to go down every month when the time came to pay for the next 30 days.

Of course we tried contacting GGL through our manager who was in charge of handling communications. As you may have guessed by now, he also failed to receive his payment for a while and a company owing money to you, and who knows how many others, is not in a hurry to get back to you.

The ClanBase management tried to directly contact the GGL founder and president Ted Owen (since everyone else left), with very little success. Whenever we got a response it usually consisted of no more than a few words.

The last we heard from him, he stated that "GGL will move on without ClanBase, and besides, why did the Crew never put any money in it?”

Mr. Owen, the Crew put time in it. A lot of time... for free. Every day. And to clarify, nobody has ever reached out to us to ask for any kind of financial aid. Not that we would’ve ever agreed to anything if the money had to go through GGL as that would’ve resulted in the money never reaching its intended destination.

Ultimately, we understand that our users would have expected us to come out with the truth sooner. It has taken us three weeks to make a public statement - but the only reason it took so long is that we were trying to not lose the hope and to reach out to mr. Owen. Unfortunately, our last request (or offer) to him - to release the ClanBase site to the crew for us to be able to continue running it on our own, without the GGL - was not welcomed.

It is thus our sad duty to inform you that ClanBase is gone. We would like to sincerely thank over a thousand admins working on the website over the past 15 years of ClanBase’s existence. And an even bigger thanks goes out to all the players who supported us over the years and who did not lose faith no matter what.

This writing has not come easily because ClanBase has been a big part of our lives, and we definitely did not want to see it end like this.

Clanbase - Game Over
Die Clanbase war einmal eine sehr coole Website für Online- Gamer, mit Cups und Ligen für Spiele wie RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike und der Call of Duty-Serie.

Diese glorreichen Tage sind nun hinter uns, und heute steht es um die Clanbase Website sehr schlecht - wir sind nicht mehr in der Lage, die erforderlichen kosten der Website zu decken.

Die Website war offline für mehr als drei Wochen, wegen einer unbezahlten Rechnung. Keine Aktion wird vom Eigentümer übernommen, um die Website wieder online zu bekommen. Da sie keine Vision für die Zukunft mehr hat. Wir - die Clanbase Crew - haben unsere letzten Hoffnungen die Clanbase jemals wieder online kommen jetzt endgültig verloren, und müssen leider das Ende einer großen Clanbase-Ära verkünden.

Source: etpro.de | clanbase.org

The Dark Alchemy Clan organizes a public ET-Panzerwar for all splash bitches - Have fun! 

Der Dark Alchemy Clan veranstaltet einen Allgemeinen ET-Panzerwar für alle Splashhuren - Viel Spass dabei!

Sunday, 18.12.2011 at 19:00 CET
Server IP: 213.239.207.85:27961

Quelle: dark-alchemy

From HD’R clan we present the “Christmas tournament 2011”. The tournament will be in our new server: 91.151.98.72:28160, Start day : 15/01/2012.
Teams will be formed by 5 players and 2 reseves at most, so 7 players in total.

Tournament:
1. The mod used will be nq, with pb activated in the private server + TS with channels with password determined before the game.

2. Maps to play are chosen between following ones in this way:
Will be played 3 maps and both teams will play in both sides, 6 games in total. Every teams will chose their “favorite map”, and the third will be a random one from the server between this:

Special delivery, Bremen, Braundorf, Warbell, ET Beach Invasion Final 1.1, Gold Rush, Siwa oasis, Adlernest, Caen, Frostbite Final, Supply Depot

Prices: 1º Classified, 2º Classified, 3º Classified

More infos about this: www.forum.splatterladder.com
You can register here: www.clanhdr.com/forosmf

Thanks and regards! Happy New Year!!

Quelle: ehiron (Aaron) via Mail

AoS Enemy Territory Day - Saturday, April 30th

Now... it is time for a new funny day on AoS, we will try to make some fun at Saturday 30th April.
It starts around 19.00 CET, maybe we are earlier on our server so just try log on.

Also we updated our facebook site , you can also have a look at: www.facebook.com/groups/armyofsociety/

As always we will be on our teamspeak...
Feel free and connect to : ts.aos-et.com or 108.61.166.18:9253

Amadeus Chief of Staff

 Source: AoS-Clan

Time: 12:00 (noon) to at least 07:00 (12PM-7AM) London time zone (GMT +0) which means 19 hours of gaming !

Server Name: Jaymod 2 XPSAVE FOREVER 
Server IP: jay2.clan-fa.com:27960

 
Come and enjoy a fun and crazy day with us, playing crazygravity, panzerwar, sniperwar. It will be a memorable day! Do not forget invite your friends.

Teamspeak: Server Name: =F|A= Clan TeamSpeak - Server IP: ts.clan-fa.com:4666

Source: wolffiles.de | fearless-assassins.com

We're having another gaming event @ ETF during Easter Weekend!

Please join us this Easter Weekend for a frag event. We will be rounding up a lot of regulars and and ET gamers from different clans and gaming communities.

Connect from console via domain name or IP:
/connect etforever.com
/connect 192.99.1.221:27960

Map Listing for this event is posted on the main page of our forums: www.etforever.com
Teamspeak will be live and cranking @ ts3.etforever.com
We hope to see you there!

Source: etforever.com | wolffiles.de

Halloween on the  [UJE] Teamplay server - From Sunday 22 till 31 Oktober our Teamplay server is going to change to Halloween.

There will be a total coversion of the game with also a brandnew map and alot of spooky maps !

Gameserver: 37.120.174.14:27960 [UJE]Clan Teamplay

Visit our Gameserver and have fun! ;)

Source: ujeclan.com

New TeamMuppet Event on 5 October. Not long after the recovery from last event, TeamMuppet announces its upcoming event: An all out panzerwar boozenight!! Join us on this server and on our TS3 to have a wonderful and unforgettable Saturday night. It will be a blast!

No entrance fee and consumption mandatory!

Source: TeamMuppet.eu | wolffiles.de

STARTED TO TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION -NO NAME-
We cordially invite all players to participate in the tournament.
Participants will measure up to each other on the map Valhalla Station TE
in one-on-one.
The exact method of elimination will be announced when the entries are completed.

To sign up for the tournament enter your nickname from the game on this post.
Entries will last until Friday, October 17, 2014 y.
The fun will begin on Saturday, October 18, 2014 y. 23:00.

The tournament will not take place if you do not report at least 8 volunteers.
(translate by google)

ROZPOCZYNAMY ZAPISY DO TURNIEJU -NO NAME-
Serdecznie zapraszamy wszystkich graczy do wzięcia udziału w turnieju.
Uczestnicy będą mierzyć się ze sobą na mapie Valhalla Station TE
w pojedynkach jeden na jednego.
Dokładny sposób eliminacji ogłosimy gdy zakończą się zapisy.

Żeby zapisać się do turnieju wpisz swój nick z gry pod tym postem.
Zapisy potrwają do piątku 17. października 2014 r.
Zabawę rozpoczniemy w sobotę 18. października 2014 r. o godzinie 23:00.

Turniej nie odbędzie się, jeśli nie zgłosi się co najmniej 8 chętnych.

Link and more infos: wolfenstein.pl/forum
Source: wolfenstein.pl