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

We want to revive our server. Please help us, visit us and play with us. Thanks!

ET Server: |NO NAME SERVER|silEnT| IP: 193.33.177.19:26010

Facebook: facebook/WolfensteinPL
Website: wolfenstein.pl

Team Muppet Vietnam BoozeNight - We would like to invite you for its Booze event on the 15th of September, starting at 19:00 GMT+0 till you're to wasted to continue. Bring your alcoholic beverages and your best aim to enjoy an unforgettable night. And feel free to join us at our teamspeak3 server during the event for the extra experience!!

ServerIP: 78.46.91.105:27960
TSIP: 109.70.149.30:9987

For further questions/information visit our website and join us in the chat.We are looking forward to see you there.

Source: wolffiles.de | Team-Muppet

This saturday we are going to seperate the boys from the men. We challenge all to see if you are up against other players. In a challenge with several maps played you going to get a chance to prove your skills. No panzers allowed, only real weapons.
PS: Girls are invited too :D

Date: 18th October - Time: 20:00 cest
Server: Paintball Mod (NQ 1.2.9) IP: 213.239.207.85:27961

Maplist: Al_Abbasi, The_Station, DM_Metro_TE, Stonehenge, N2D_purefrag21, Pilsner

More info on... dark-alchemy.com/forum
Source: dark-alchemy.com

10 years Dark Alchemy

At the 3rd of august Dark Alchemy is the place to be! It was 10 years ago Old-Owl decided to start a server of his own. A server where everyone feels welcome and all have fun.

Now, 10 years later, Dark Alchemy is still alive. Still we are here to have fun and make players feel welcome.
Come and visit us on Dark Alchemy#1: 213.239.207.85:27960

 We will have some celebrations gifts for you waiting...

Link: dark-alchemy.com/10-years-birhtday
Source: dark-alchemy.com

Panzers, riflenades, shotguns and headshots. Just some ingredients for a nice map-cocktail.

We promise you a "blast" of an evening. And you also need to keep your "head" clear.

Come and show us your skills with all weapons available.

See you the 29th (Sunday) of june at the server to be: Dark Alchemy #2

More info > here <

Source: wolffiles.de | dark-alchemy.com

Dark Alchemy celebrates 7th anniversary - Dear players, Dark Alchemy invites you all to Last Man Standing EVENT! We want to make everyone aware of the memorable fact that this year at August 3rd Dark Alchemy celebrate it's 7th anniversary.
We are waiting for you there!

Dark Alchemy feiern Ihren 7. Jahrestag - Liebe Spieler, Die Dark Alchemy Community läd ein zu Ihrem Last Man Standing EVENT! Wir wollen jeden von der unvergeßlichen Tatsache unterrichten, daß dieses Jahr am 3. August, die Dark Alchemy Community Ihren 7. Jahrestag feiert.
Wir warten dort auf dich!

Quelle: dark-alchemy | dark-alchemy-forum

Welcome to the Enemy Territory Competition!

Please support the ETC Cup! Add the Banner to your Clanpage

Date & Time: when the Teams are available, Sign-ups: NOW
Note: We accept the Sign ups after three Members are part of a team

Rules:
Short way is allowed unless both teams agree not to use it.
Every player has to record demos; if you can't give your demos when asked for, your clan will be disqualified.
At least one player from each team must idle on IRC#etc-cup during the cup and he should be recognizable (with his name used on tourney.cc).
Only admins are allowed as spectators, players must use ETTV [gamestv.org].
TZAC is forced, your team will be disqualified if you don't play with TZAC. Check if everyone has TZAC before the match starts.
Banned(CB/ESL) and tagged players on CF are not allowed to compete.
A player can't play for different teams.
If there is a tie, a decider is picked by cointoss.

Serversettings:
ETPro 3.2.6
The latest available global config should be used Download [gth-clan.de]
TZAC Server addon TZAC [tz-ac.com]

For the final, which will be played on ETTV [gamestv.org], both teams pick a map from the mappool. Decider is picked by elimination.

Datum und Zeit: wenn genügend Teams verfügbar sind, Sign-ups: JETZT
Anmerkung: wir akzeptieren die Anmeldung, nachdem 3 Member in einem Team sind

Regeln:
Seite ist erlaubt, es sei denn beide Teams sind nicht einverstanden
Jeder Spieler muss Demos aufnehmen, wenn er dieses nicht tut und danach gefragt wird, kann sein Team disqualifiziert werden.
Mindestens ein Spieler aus jedem Team muss auf # etc-Cup verfügbar sein und er sollte erkennbar sein (mit seinem Namen, den er auf tourney.cc verwendet).
Spectators sind nicht erlaubt. Benutzt ETTV [gamestv.org]
TCAC ist erforderlich. Sollte ein Team ohne TZAC Antreten, wird es disqualifiziert.
Auf CB oder ESL gabannte Spieler dürfen hier nicht antreten.
Ein Spieler darf nicht für ein anderes Team Spielen
Wenn es einen Gleichstand gibt, wird eine dritte Map nach Cointoss und Mapelimitation gespielt.

Serversettings:
ETPro 3.2.6
Die letzte Version der Global Config Download [gth-clan.de]
TZAC Server addon TZAC [tz-ac.com]

Für das Finale, das per ETTV [gamestv.org] gespielt werden, nehmen sich beide Teams eine Map aus dem Mappool. Entscheider Map wird durch Eliminierung ermittelt.

Date et heure : quand les équipes sont disponibles, Enregistrement : MAINTENANT
Note : Nous acceptons les adhésions ( modifications ) après que trois membres aient rejoint une équipe

Règles:
On permet les " raccourcis " à moins que les deux équipes acceptent de ne pas l'employer.
Chaque joueur doit enregistrer des démos ; si vous ne pouvez pas donner vos démos quand demandé, votre clan sera disqualifié.
Au moins un joueur de chaque équipe doit être connecté à IRC #etc-cup pendant chaque match et il devra être reconnaissable (son nom étant employé sur tourney.cc).
Les arbitres sont bien sur autorisés pendant les matchs mais les spectateurs doivent utiliser ETTV [gamestv.org] pour suivre les rencontres.
TZAC est obligatoire pour tous ( anti-cheat ), votre équipe sera éliminée si vous ne jouez pas avec TZAC. Vérifiez si chacun a TZAC avant que le match commence.
On ne permet pas aux joueurs interdits (CB/ESL) et étiquetés sur des CF de participer.
Un joueur ne peut pas jouer pour différentes équipes.
S'il y a un litige, un vote peut être demandé par les deux équipes, toute décision finale et impartiale reviendra aux arbitres ( rejouer un match par exemple ).
Bon match !

Serversettings:
ETPro 3.2.6
Les dernières config globales sont disponibles au téléchargement sur Download [gth-clan.de]
Télécharger TZAC depuis le serveur de TZAC TZAC [tz-ac.com]

Pour la finale, qui sera jouée sur ETTV [gamestv.org], sélection des maps par les deux équipes dans le mappool. Le map décisive est sélectionnée par élimination par les deux équipes.

Mappool:
- adlernest
- supply
- frostbite
- tounine_b2
- library_b3
- braundorf_b4
- erdenberg_b3
- sp_delivery_te

Schedule:
1st Matchweek: frostbite <> braundorf_b4
2st Matchweek: adlernest <> tounine_b2
3st Matchweek: supply <> erdenberg_b3
4st Matchweek: library_b3 <> sp_delivery_te

Link: etc-cup.tourney
Quelle: gTh-clan

I'm happy to announce that the CyberGamer Anticheat now supports Enemy Territory! Effective immediately, CGAC is mandatory in all CG EU ET ladder matches. Read the rest of this newspost for more information.

To install CGAC, follow the steps below. Once you have installed the software, on your first launch the program will automatically update to the latest version.

1. Download the installer here.
2. Extract the .zip file.
3. Make sure you have .NET framework 4.0 installed. If you do not have .NET framework 4.0 installed, you can download it here.
4. Run setup.exe from within the extracted folder.
5. To find your User ID and Auth Key, go to your Extended Profile page and click "Game IDs" in the "GAME DEFAULTS" section. You'll find your information at the top of that window.

If you experience any troubles installing the software, please make sure you add an exception to your antivirus, have extracted the .zip file, and are running the program as administrator.

As stated above, CGAC must be used in all ladder matches played on CyberGamer. Simply open CGAC.exe, enter the match ID, and start playing.

By scrolling down on the match page, you can see which players are currently running CGAC along with all logs for that match. If CGAC is active, it should display "CGAC running" in green text.

Playing a match on the CG EU ET 3on3 or 6on6 ladder without CGAC will result in a forfeit loss.

Please note that the CG EU ET crew and I are not experts on CGAC, so all queries regarding technical support should be directed to badkip, the developer. You can contact him by posting in his journal or opening a support ticket on the CyberGamer website.

Related:
http://eu.cybergamer.com/article/4427/CGAC-Major-Update-Public-Configs-and-ET-Support/
http://eu.cybergamer.com/forums/thread/534070/CGAC-Updated-CoD4-Config-and-ET-Support-Included/
http://www.crossfire.nu/journals/151436/cgac-supporting-et-now
http://eu.cybergamer.com/article/4345/CGAC-The-new-anti-cheat/
http://eu.cybergamer.com/cgac/

IRC #cg.et

CyberGamer AntiCheat unterstützt jetzt ET und ist Pflicht für die CG-Liga

Das Team von CyberGamer verkündet, dass das CyberGamer-Anticheat (CGAC) jetzt auch Enemy Territory unterstützt!
Ab sofort ist in allen CG EU ET Ligen (CyberGamer ET Europa) das Spielen mit CG-Anticheat pflicht!

Um CGAC zu installieren, folge den Schritten wie unten aufgeführt. Sobald die Software installiert ist, wird beim ersten Start, das Programm automatisch auf die neueste Version aktualisiert.

   1.  Downloade das Installations Programm hier.
   2.  Entpacke die zip-Datei.
   3.  Stelle sicher, das du NET-Framework 4.0 installiert hast - Wenn nicht... hier herunterladen.
   4.  Starte die setup.exe aus dem "entpackten" Ordner.
   5.  Um die Benutzer-ID und den Auth Key zu finden, schaue in deinem "erweiterten Profil" nach und klicke auf "GAME-IDs" im Abschnitt unter "GAME DEFAULTS". Mehr Informationen dazu findest du auch oberhalb des Windows-Fensters.

Falls irgendwelche Probleme bei der Installation der Software auftreten, stelle bitte sicher, dass du in deinem  Antivirus-Tool, CGAC als Ausnahme hinzufügst bzw. erlaubst und führe CGAC in deinem Windows als Administrator aus.

Source: crossfire.nu | etpro.de