From zOo we have calli and he will answering my questions.
John : Before we start can you please describe your team for us?
calli : I dont really know how to describe zOo. Me ralle reziak manner played in a clan called Purple-Haze. When Purple-Haze started to go down we started using stin as sniper and wallu as light. As we started moving forward, we brought evilh with us. We started a clan called DEATHCLAN. The teamname was more for fun. We all found these supernames like "bonekrusher" "skullcracker" "shitsweeper" "hypnotoad" etc etc. After the DC era where we only lost 1 war in 6months. We changed it all and started zOo and brought our real nicks back in the game. We stumbled on an1mal, alex and ding. And there you go, zOo. Swedes, fins, brits and one retarded italian. The perfect mix. We have played together for probably 3years now.
John : What are your comments about how your team have performed this season?
calli : This season zOo haven’t really shown its true level. We haven't played as good as we did in DEATHCLAN. But at the same time we have opponents on a whole different level. Which is very pleasent to see. For the last 4years, we haven’t had 8 teams that's been this close skillwise to eachother.
We are slowly starting to get better and this playoff will be crazy.
John : What team did you enjoy to play against under the group stage?
calli : For me, personaly, I can’t say. I didn't play vs EuS so I dont know about that game. It surely was close. But the EvC war was also close. But I'm not sure I enjoyed it. It was chaos. We started 40mins late. 2 players in the opposing team had 150 ping or more. Reg was horrible. Both teams destroyed eachother as axis on a map that’s usually controlled by allies. Like I said it was chaos. But we managed to win with like 30p or something. So I guess that game was the most enjoyable one to watch at least.
John : What can you tell us about the other teams in the Group? Did any team surprise you?
calli : All teams in the whole league have surprised me. I thought we would be 8 teams top in the whole EU league. But skillwise I'm surprised EuS got so good so quick. They have been inactive for so long.
Overall EuS, RenameD, EvC, GenesiR are a lot better than I remembered them. The big difference this year from earlier years is each team’s teamplay. European DoD has for the last couple of years only been about individual skill and not so much about the team. So I’m very happy to see what all teams have become.
John : Going into the playoffs, what will your line-up be and do you have any expections for the playoffs?
calli : The players we will use are calli, ralle, alex, reziak, manner, evilh and stin.
John : Do you have any short outs or any comments?
calli : I’d like to tell team Arsenik to come back. They are really missed. And also to all players and teamleaders who have been playing this first season of the European TPG. Let’s keep this going. Next year we will have more even divisions. Keep hanging in there. For me as the one who forced this league onto all teams. I hope you feel it was worth coming back to start playing some DoD again. I know I have enjoyed it. And thanks TPG and defiance for letting us in on this.
European Unknown Soldiers - ~ EuS# ~
From EuS we have Booby and he will answering my questions.
John : Before we start can you please describe your team for us?
Booby : European Unknown Soldiers, ~ EuS# ~, is a team since since Januaru 2005, who's normally in break since more 1 year. But for the evenement, for the dod community, we decided (under pression put by Bibop) to get 7-8 players to do the competition. SInce the beginnig, ~ EuS# ~ wants to ally Fun and Competition, and it's the same today. So, in our team, we can't get out one player, because our force is our team, and the team and the tag are the priority, not players.
John : What are your comments about how your team have performed this season?
Booby : Like i said, we backed after a break, only in a first time for the game and the community, not to prouve ourself that we can do. We are here for pleasure and good game, so for the competition too, but without big objectives. For the moment, we are satify by our results, and we hope to do better in play-offs, when the real competition begins. But, it's nice to play again with our mates, and to see we keep our teamplat's reflexes, it's a pleasure to see it. Hope we can do this each game.
John : What team did you enjoy to play against under the group stage?
Booby : Play-offs is the competition! Championship resultats aren't so significative. Play-offs is one game, with pressure! Teams must handle it, if not, even favorites can be loose in the first game! So we haven't a favourite opponent, but to play oriGin, after all our history between our team, it will be a pleasure. Like old time withtout l0ker, so even better
John : What can you tell us about the other teams in the Group? Did any team surprise you?
Booby : Not really. All good teams are in the first places, so it means, that they do the job to be here, and assume so as favourites.
John : What will your line-up be and do you have any expections for the playoffs?
Booby : Our line up since the beggining changed between, Bibop, Booby, Ketchup, Wazabi, FloYd, Rabi, M@tsu and Javel. It will be same players for the play-offs; subjectf to availability.
John : Do you have any shout-outs, or any comments?
Booby : Thanks to you for your work and your determination to keep dod 1.3 alive. Go On! Then good luck to play-off's team, and "best will win".
Hello to french community, who based on old school players, who wants to keep dod 1.3 alive too! Good luck to them!
~ EuS# ~ an historic tag, for an immortal team...
Enjoy!
aliVE - aliVE
From aliVE we have Nik and he will answering my questions.( I will also answering my own questions
)John : Before we start can you please describe your team for us?
Nik: Basically alive is a GLOBAL powerhouse of the finest dod players selected from all over the world (Brasil, United States, Europe and Vikingland) who join forces every Sunday to play other clans in the Euro-league like the random mix that we really are.
On a more serious note. It is not easy to classify alive. We have a lot of non-Europeans on our roster and only 2 of them are allowed to play each war. This also means that each war our line-up is different and on top of that we never practise. Just play and have fun
John : What are your comments about how your team have performed this season?
Nik : The performance of the team this season is very inconsistent. I feel like we had more trouble than we should have had with some teams, but we also had some excellent results vs others. Sometimes I feel like the opponent has the upper hand because they have more time to practise together , but I also think alive should not be underestimated as we have a lot of players with great individual skill.
John : We had this season a few roster problems, people leaving because they wanted to play matches(after a week in the team or something), anyway I’m happy over my teams performance, because many people on my roster haven’t play with each others, but it’s have getting better with the time. So our chemistry are getting better.
John : What team did you enjoy to play against under the group stage?
Nik : The most enjoyable game during the group stages must have been the game vs EUS on railroad as we only managed to win that game by 4 points. A very tense game where either could have won.
John : Our match against EuS on rr2 is probably one of my best match I have ever played, it was a really close match and everyone did what they could do. Last minute I was nervous if we are going to win or not,there was a relief when they said we won with 4 points. GG EuS!
John : What can you tell us about the other teams in the Group? Did any team surprise you?
Nik : No real surprises there. EvC did very well and might have ended higher if they participated in the league from the start. It was surprising how EUS managed to win the group because for me zoo had always been favourite for the nr 1 spot.
John : Just like nik said earlier, we had trouble with some teams, but many teams hold up pretty good at us. RQ and wPlay even manage to cap out against us, I guess this became a big surprise against us. Except that, so didnt we have so many surprises this year.
John : Going into the playoffs, what will your line-up be and do you have any expections for the playoffs?
Nik : I guess we will be as ready as we’ll ever be. We mostly worry about getting 6 and do not really prepare for any games as far as I know. We try to play with a starting euro line-up of 4 euro’s and to that we add 2 non-Europeans depending on who can play who could basically be anyone as they are all good players. I cannot really predict what line-up will play. Also because we depend heavily on our other European players as we are only allowed to use 2 non-Europeans.
As for the playoffs in general I am most interested in how well group A does against group B. Renamed probably feels invincible by now as they have easily won their group and beat zoo in pre-season. But I have seen zoo improve over time and I am certain they and other teams in group A are up for the challenge.
John : We have changed our lineup many times, and nik is the only one who have played every minute. Our lineup will be probably
Nik, Cage, Linus, myself, and Beas/cAss/frank/jules. I haven’t heard anything from Jared or ryan on days. But this will probably change.
John : Do you have any shout-outs, or any comments?
Nik : F33st.
John :
- pr0n and taylorb for showing up when needed
- calli and other other admins for starting a european division
- Manner for his prefire(cheats) on me when we played against zOo and for letting us borrow his server when needed <3
Evolution Virtual Cry Gaming - EvC
From EvC we have meganfox and he will answering my questions.
John :Before we start can you please describe your team for us?
meganfox : About my team. Not much do say about them. All team, is very funny. All we have our days. More funny, more angry because something go bad from what we expected.
John :What are your comments about how your team have performed this season?
meganfox :Taking into account that we begin in week 3, because some of us were in RenameD team without playing, I think it has been a great season. We are almost the same player's has in EvC.usa, so, was not much dificult for us get the same teamplay. Of course some players can make diference. But all are good players.
John :What team did you enjoy to play against under the group stage?
meganfox :All teams are great. The most dificult team i saw, was zOo and aliVE. Against zOo, we didn't played with the lineup i wanted but even with this, was a nice game. Against aliVE, the game didn't go as I wanted. We had some problems with the server. I wish I had played this game with other conditions. The team is very good and is able to reach further. I hope everything goes better next time.
John :What can you tell us about the other teams in the Group? Did any team surprise you?
meganfox :aliVE. I knew they had good players. But I did not expect so much teamplay.
John :Going into the playoffs, what will your line-up be and do you have any expections for the playoffs?
meganfox :The team I'm thinking of using, will be "3clipse, sence, sacamuelax, b1ohazard, lwffeh and me. Expectations?! I will not make any. Every game is a game. All are played in different ways. So we'll do our best.
John :Do you have any shout-outs, or any comments?
meganfox :Just GL&HF
RenameD*Gaming - RenameD*|
From RenameD we have Kev and he will answering my questions.
John :Before we start can you please describe your team for us?
Kev :Its easy to say I LOVE ALL my players, but for you i explain this we have a wonderful felling in team, all guys like the other and thats make us hard and good.
John :What are your comments about how your team have performed this season?
Kev :We had be lying if we did not say we want to win, however we performed very well and had a very good feeling
John :Week 8 are finished and we are now going in to the playoffs, what team did you enjoy to play against under the group stage?
Kev :So my team had not so much fun maybe because of our results, but i think now we have to play some good opponents and the first game against our second family will be something very special
John :What can you tell us about the other teams in the Group? Did any team surprise you?
Kev :I do not want to look at other teams, maybe i wanted to see more difficulty during the groupstage but it doesnt matter
John :You are ready for the playoffs, what will your line-up be and do you have any expections for the playoffs?
Kev :Our line up will consist of the 6 bests players, k4b00m,noname and onax will play for sure, and after it depends of our disponibility
John :Do you have any shout-outs, or any comments?
Kev :I thank all admins for their hard and stressful work and to my team that i always believed in, and i wish a good luck to all other teams
GenesiR - GenesiR ~
John : Before we start can you please describe your team for us? [[ EXAMPLE : Who are the guy that scream under matches in vent/ts3,who are the comedian and who are the guy who are quiet in your team ]]
ezo : GenesiR is team since 2008, this team had many line up changes since its creation but for this evenement lot of team founders have come back like darkafflard, shA or iNsl1dE.
John : What are your comments about how your team have performed this season?
ezo : We didn't play to our best level during this season. For the most part of us, DoD is no longer a priority and it's difficult to motivate my teammates to train again but we hope playing better during playoffs.
John : Week 8 are finished and we are now going in to the playoffs, what team did you enjoy to play against under the group stage?
ezo : I enjoyed to play against Sine Cura on railroad, it was for me our best match during the group stage.
John : What can you tell us about the other teams in the Group? Did any team surprise you?
ezo : Not really, there have been an huge difference between some teams and Renamed didn't have any problems to win all their matches, it's a pretty strong team.
John : You are now in the playoffs, what will your line-up be and do you have any expections for the playoffs?
ezo : For the quarters our line up sould be BUTAGAZ with sniper, shA and SuNcA with heavys and l0ker, darkafflard or iNsl1dE and me with lights.
John :Do you have any short outs or any comments?
ezo : I would like to thank the TPG staff to keep 1.3 alive and i hope that all the teams will be here again for the next season. Good luck to playoffs teams !
oriGin - oriGin
I unfortunately did not receive any response from oriGin. I will edit this post when I get them.
Sine Cura - S.C
I unfortunately did not receive any response from Sine Cura. I will edit this post when I get them.
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