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

This event is hosted by Fearless Assassins. If you wanna have a good time, come and immerse yourself in a fun bath where you can enjoy various summer activities, such as crazygravity, sniperwars, panzerwars...

Everyone is welcome to our party! Do not forget to bring your swimsuit and a beach towel, the rest is in our care.

ET Midsummer Pool Party - August 2-3
Server Name: =F|A= Clan TeamSpeak
Server IP: ts.clan-fa.com:4666

Source: wolffiles.de | fearless-assassins.com

TeamMuppet Infected Halloween event - Friday 31st of October - 109.70.149.30:27934 - 7PM GMT

Our Next event will take place on Halloween night which is Friday 31st October ...
The event will also take place on our very own Micha's Infected Mod!
Time of the event will be at 19:00 GMT (UK Time)

Server IP is 109.70.149.30:27944 and/or 109.70.149.30:27934 ( you can use either of the following IP's )

Please also do not forget to join our TeamSpeak server for an evan more fun night!
The infected Mod is one of the most popular event we have and what a better night than to have it on Halloween ...
All maps will follow the theme night so mostly / all spooky based map!
Anybody is allowed to join our event so feel free to come and visit us :D

Hope to see you all there on the night.
Happy Hunting!  

FILE DOWNLOADS:
BOTH OF THE BELOW FILES NEED TO BE ADDED TO YOU 'INFECTED' FOLDER INSIDE YOUR ET FOLDER:
INFECTED MOD / SKINS / SOUNDS ETC >>> mnwa.bplaced.net...infectedmod_b2.1.pk3
CLIENT FILES ( DLL/SO ) >>> mnwa.bplaced.net...infectedmod_mpbin_20140715.pk3
MAP LIST FOR THE EVENT SERVER ( ADD THESE TO YOUR ETMAIN FOLDER ) >>> mnwa.bplaced.net...etmain/

Link: teammuppet.eu
Source: etpro.de

Dear Wolfenstein: ET Community,
Many people have been messaging us lately, asking if the LAN event will happen. The community want us to make it happen and we are willing to host it for you. After the last newspost we did not get the response we'd hoped for, resulting in our long silence.
After having another internal conversation, we decided to try and make the event happen, for you, for us and for all those unforgettable moments, the offline events of this beautiful game. We have to pay the location in exactly one month, that being said, this is the final deadline!

We need exactly ten 6on6 teams and twelve 3on3 teams to make the event happen. If we can surprise ourselves and make it, the event will happen from November 2nd 2018 to November 4th 2018. We need the teams signed up and paid by August 30th 2018! Every 6on6 team pays 390€ (65€ per player) and every 3on3 team pays 105€ (35€ per player). We still have the location booked and would love to host the event and the needed seeding tournament.

The prize pool the teams are competing for will be 3160€!

We have reset the recruitment post, to give you all the chances to form or/and find teams. See >HERE<

You don't have a full team? No problem. Sign up for the event and you will be assigned to a team by the event organisers.

Greetings from Chosen, Ekto and stRay

Many thanks to:
Moe, for his donation of 550€ to the prize pool.
The three winning teams of the "ETernal Damage Cup", for their donation of 450€ to the prize pool.

Source: crossfire.nu | wolffiles.de

At the 3rd of august Dark Alchemy celebrates its 8th birthday.
After all those years we still can manage a beautiful server with a nice atmosphere.
Players feel welcome and the objective play is highly present.

We invite all players to come and join at our part on A1.
This saturday A1 will be a party server where everyone gets suprised.
So, join us and see what is happening.

The place to be: 213.239.207.85:27960

Source: dark-alchemy.com | wolffiles.de

Auch der HFC und Clan läd herzlichst ein, zur Enemy Territory Halloween SpooKy Night!
Der Server kann mit allen ET Client-Versionen besucht werden.

Das Event startet am 31.10. ab 20.00 Uhr. Viel Spass! 

Server IP: 188.40.117.76:22960

Quelle: HFC|MadMax via Box
           HFC-Site | Site

Der |bTc| Clan läd alle herzlichst ein, zur Enemy Territory Halloween Fightnight.

Das Event Ticket to Hell - The |bTc| Halloween Nights startet am Halloweentag den 31.10. um 0.00 Uhr und Endet am 1.11 um 0.00 Uhr.

Es erwarten euch gespenstische Maps, Skins & Sounds. Lasst euch überraschen und seid dabei!

Server IP: 78.47.105.65:27960

Quelle: ClawFire via PM | |bTc|Clan

Hello dear community - here want to we announce that we want to start at the weekend a small cup (event) the 26.05.2012.To 17 clock.
We have opted for the final version of ET domination (Powerball)
Here it comes one to find ball to move him in the tar of opponent in the middle of the map. Where to keep in mind is that you in the time where her the ball have not defecating can because her the ball otherwise away throws.
More infos on -> forum.splatterladder.com

User friendly greeting with the-=Waff= - team
The data you can all with us on the clan page find -> et.splatterladder.com 

Hallo liebe Community - Hier mit möchten wir bekannt geben das wir einen kleinen Cup (Event) am wochenende dem 26.05.2012 starten wollen. Um 17 uhr.
Wir haben uns für die final version von ET-Domination entschieden (PowerBall)
Hier geht es darum einen Ball in der Mitte der Map zu finden um ihn dann in das Tar des gegner zu befördern. Wobei zu beachten ist das ihr in der Zeit wo ihr den Ball habt nicht schissen könnt, da ihr den Ball sonst weg schmeisst.
Mehr Infos dazu -> forum.splatterladder.com

Friday Night Frag Event on 16th of January 2015. Fraggin' starts at 7:30pm GMT, ServerIP: 148.251.46.49:27962

Silent Mod Anti-cheat will be running for this event

Cool Squad Clan server details can be found HERE
Cool Squad website HERE

Source: wolffiles.de