Jasper and Hasse:
Cheers guys for your support!
We are doing our best and hope that it would be our time this time. We also have been improving our game all the time this season.
Sam:
The funny thing is that we have been able to win and compete evenly in single games almost every team in this season and the season before in AmA... except you guys. We don't know why, but it's always a bit of a b****slap against you. Respect to you guys for that! ;-) So I would say that you haven't seen the best of us yet, not even close... But we've been close for success in general! And then always something goes wrong...
As an example of our luck, in Sweden, after beating teams like Syndicate and Cyclone in the prelims, we managed to fumble in the easier game and were first to drop out from semis as Hellwood won their quite controversial last game and got ahead us by a few points. Then they went on to win the whole tournament! Don't even get me started telling about my dislocated shoulder in the last years Campaign and how we had to play last games with 6 players. Or don't ask if Sweden was the first time we were the first ones to drop out from semis in millennium... But no excuses, just the game, losers whine!
Well, this has been a tough school for us, two seasons ago we played our first Millennium in novice (current AmB) and went straight through to the finals. So we decided to go up to Am (A) in the next season (2002) and get more tougher games and compete on the right level. These have been great years and we have been getting sooo much better. But so have the others, as Nick the B has been saying all the time, Am A's in Europe have been improving very very much for this season. We are always improving relatively more though out the season, because when you guys have been training 7-man for two months in the spring, we still have snow up to our knees ;-) (Our hometown, Kuopio in Finland is far more north from ICELAND!)
And for the other point! We could have been SANDBAGGERS! Snatching easy final spots and wins in the lower divisions. People are all the time giving some sort of disrespect for those, who are after easy wins and don't want to go up to compete for their level. But on the other hand, do the hard working teams, not on the podium after the tournament and still always coming back for the next one time after time, ever get any respect for that?
Well, no.
Still, we don't need that. Even though the sandbaggers get the better sponsor deals, and those "K*** m* a**"- retail vouchers, and the fake glory, we have chosen rather to keep our self respect than be sandbaggers. But it's just us.
We respect teams like Scalp, Cyclone, Powertrip, Doriane Golak and lots of others who kept on playing one the right level time after time and sometimes year after year without wins and got tough. And are now on the top! Respect!
Peace and love everybody, don't be upset of anything I said. Let's play paint for the love of the game. See you in Campaign!
Juho/Takeover
oh, the list...
Pro:
Dynasty
Russians
GZ "betterones"
and Tonton or Nexus
AmA:
Powertrip
Kapp
Scalp
Takeover (you don't do it if you don't believe it!)
AmB:
Evolution (trust me)
Wombles
Syndicate instinct
Russian cadets
Nov:
Well, maybe some UK teams?
