Indeed, I'm pretty sure we can't let our guard down guys.
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Indeed, I'm pretty sure we can't let our guard down guys.
Kyonshi: great news, there is definitely a large pool of active talented
players in NA, larger than in Benelux for sure as we have problems
finding new players :)
Maybe the Benelux players are just staying quiet because they know we are already awesome ;)
Or maybe nobody in Benelux plays WOHD, either way :lol
Hi everyone!
As i expected, the Holidays period is very busy time. We have some difficulties trying to gather and do the NA Team qualifs. We're actually trying to settle on a date before Xmas, after the 21st, when Boo4ever is back online (he's busy from 18th to 21st). I also suggested to have the next WWC event shortly after our qualifications done, but this will be hard.
If we cant do our qualifs before Xmas, we'll have to try between Xmas and NYD. And then the next WWC event after NYD.
Again, please accept my apologies. Keep your motivation high guys, the whole confirmed to me again that they really want to do WWC races. We will make it! :D
When you talk of the "next WWC event", do you mean the next complete World Cup, i.e. the whole tournament again? I would imagine people might like a bit of a break. It will take planning too, if people are even up for it. I really wouldn't expect one to happen again right after this one has finished. That said, teams have raced each other plenty before, so Team NA can arrange matches with others just for a fun one-off, even if not part of a big event.
As for our match. I'm going to work out the availability of our team. Once I know, I will offer possible dates. If you've had your qualification tournament to decide your best players, then that's good, if not, then you'll just have to make the decision amongst yourselves. The chances are that all 8 of you won't be available anyway, and that your team is decided solely due to availability. Other teams didn't do the whole thing where they decide who are the 4 best and who are backups. They registered their players and got whatever team they could, whether it was their 4 best or not. We've had occasions where more than 4 were available and people stepped aside if they thought they would be better as backup, based on their own recognition of their ability, and the ability of their teammates. I really can't thank the Dutchmen enough for removing the stress of that side of things for me by being real gentlemen about it all. *wipes tear from eye*
Given how patient we've been, I think it's fair to just try and make it happen now, whoever takes part. It's highly likely that we will take a little while to get organised ourselves, and that the dates I propose will actually be after you've had a tournament. But the uncertainty is really grating on me now, so I'd like to at least have some control over this instead of just sitting here waiting and wondering.
Will let you know dates when I have them.
My mistake Saturn, I meant the "next race from the finals" by saying "event" :)
I decided to do the whole qualification thing with the new members because this is how it happened with the former team, because i wanted to be fair. But your idea of "voting" who'll be on the Main and Sub teams is very good indeed. I will submit the idea to the team, to accelerate the whole process. This said, if my team still wants to do the qualifs as we said, i won't interfere with the democratic decision :lol I must confess though that i want this issue being resolved asap as well. I will let you know soon.
Sounds good. I've sent a message to the Dutchmen to check their availability before Christmas. Will let you know when I have responses.
Yeah let's try to conclude this world cup before it's too late, I hope other
FD are still playing the game ...
Does Zone count? :g
Results of the WipEout HD World Cup Grand Final are in.
The Flying Dutchmen vs. New North America ;)
First half (forward tracks):
TFD 151 vs. 81 NAWT
Second half (reverse tracks):
TFD 150 vs. 83 NAWT
Total:
TFD 301 vs. 164 NAWT
MVP is yeldar2097 with 96 points.
I think there was a tie in at least one race so points are slightly more than normal.
Thanks to everyone who helped organise this at fairly short notice. Thanks to the Americans for being good sports about it all and understanding etc etc.
I'm pleased to announce that the following are your new...
...WipEout HD World Cup Champions 2009...
AnErare - cnmth - Connavar - DjManiac - Luxoflux - Mad-Ice - SaturnReturn - yeldar2097
The Flying Dutchmen
...WipEout HD World Cup Runners-Up 2009...
boo4ever - Coatlketzal - DeepMix - IDReaper - Koleax - Kyonshi - Rezatron - TehRedScar
North American WipEout Team
a.k.a. NAWTY
Thanks to literally everyone that helped make this whole event a success. It's really not easy organising something across the globe like this, but we managed it in the end. :g
Much love, and I look forward to our rematches.;)
Looked like an Utter Thrashing. An Unfitting end to the WWC in my opinion.
Nonetheless, Congratulations to The Flying Dutchmen.
congrats guys :+ it looks like haydn is going to have to get on the interweb to update and hand out the prizes :)
Better now than never :gQuote:
Originally Posted by Vartazian
Do we get a prize? :P
We're pirates, we demand our share of the gold :pirate
Well played everyone. Scoreline doesn't quite reflect how mental the whole thing was. I have never been so frustrated in my life. Nearly shat myself on a few occasions (thought you'd all like to know ;) ).
Great fun. Thanks again for NAWTY for scrabbling a team together :+
Merry Christmas :cold (just imagine the cold bloke with a happy face like so: :D)
Congratulations The Flying Dutchmen:clap:rock
Thank you guys and special thanks WWC2009 Organizer members:):+
Btw, who's MVP in TFD vs NAWT?
Congratulations to our small country for having defeated a whole continent!
Big congrats to you Flying dutchmen. You guys deserved that victory! Big congrats to Nawty too, we all know what happened to your team previously (thanks to the well known thread lol). Vart you should congrats your team, they played a fantastic final round.
I added MVP to the previous post with the scores. I'm sure it's not too hard to guess.;) (It was yeldar)Quote:
Originally Posted by reach-big7
Thanks Saturn:PQuote:
Originally Posted by SaturnReturn
Oh! yeldar with 96 points? Awesome:clap:guitar
My apologies to the Flying Dutchmen for not putting up more of a fight but considering the circumstances i'm still proud of our performance. I've never been in a tournament with so much grinding and where weapons pads were so scarce, I recall multiple times going over a lap without picking up anything, that's just never happened to me before! I'm used to being a pickup whorder (har har) so that really affected my performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeldar2097
It was a humbling experience but at least the new NAWTY knows what to expect. I'm committed to this thing for next year and look forward to improving the team. :+
Congrats to the winners! :clap
Now all that needs to be done is sort out 3rd place.
Team UK V's Team Aus/NZ.
What's happened with team UK anyway? Frozen in?
Pretty hard playing Wipout with gloves on I imagine.
Sweltering in Aus atm,Santa's beard is melting.
I agree but you contributed to that so you can't really moan about it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vartazian
Well done to the NAWTY team for getting the final played. May of been a bit different if Vartazian and TCK were playing, so the whole thing feels like an anti-climax to me.
Well done the Dutch who were great right through the comp and are deserved winners. :+
congratulation for the winner!!!!:rock
and marry christmas at all:P
Rezatron: considering this is your first international level tournament, you did
a fantastic performance! You're gonna rock. Here it was a horrible game, some
races there was nothing to do, just complete ramming and weapons everywhere
:), but some races I had a good opportunity to score #1 or #2 and then made a
blunder, hopefully yeldar played like God!
Congratulation to everybody!:rock
stevie:)
EDIT:
After having another look it seems the MVP award goes to..............(drum roll).............(dink)...Yeldar!!!
*applause*
Congratulations guys, well done :+ :rock
I agree with KGB :) Pity TCK and Vartypoo werent involved, but a great victory none the less!!! Well done guys!!
It took months to organise, one team dropped out early, one team dropped out late, there were thrills, splills, unexpected results, and live race streaming! :g All together a great tournament.
Big thanks to one and all! and especially EPSILON (M.I.A? :blarg) for the great idea.
Looking forward to the 2010 WWC - With Added FURY :beer
I saw EPSILON online, possibly just yesterday. He was playing Final Fantasy XIII - lucky guy. If I see him again then I'll let him know the World Cup has been completed.
Dammit I wish I could read/understand Japanese. Me wants FFXIII right now.
Not bad for the wiper-organised worldwide competition was it? I feel it went rather well :)
Shame I couldn't film it though (blame the BBC for putting Spooks on at 21:00) :(
yes Saturn I lied about having evidence :P
So where's the trophy? :g
Again, Congrats to the Dutchmen for fighting through the whole WWC events to get crowned the best :)
Oh and i got a message from my Nawty Terminator mates:
We'll be back.:robot
See you all in the WWC 2010! :D
Maybe then I can actually get a chance to play although there are a bunch of tough NA pilots to contend with. Grats to the winners.
I requested earlier on a time for us to race at least twice, no response.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackwiggle
I guess we can just call it a tie or something I guess.
How many MVP's did yeldar2097 get?
4
...out of 4 matches
Swish 8)
you got lucky :)
OI, none of that chat from you Mr Haydn, I used Mirage in the final just for you.
Talk about ungrateful... :g
Here is the results breakdown for the WOWC '09 Final.
Small version of results:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../untitled2.jpg
Large version is here:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1261783936
Videos are in the video thread - First Half - Second Half
I just watched all 16 videos of the WWC finals and i have to say im VERY proud of the performance my team gave, even though TFD are a freakin' solid team on the track.
We offered a fierce resistance and i'd dare to say you paid yourselves the victory with cold sweat and pressure, my Dutch friends :D
Those were astounding races guys. Once again, i can tell myself i wasn't wrong in the choice of my team mates ;):+
Wah fack I so totally missed all that!
:paperbag
Congrats Team! That is one wicked outcome ;)
Should have went different as we well know but seen the mess that went about before, I guess no-one was really expecting this to go any different.. :/
Cheery cheers! :hyper