Nocturne kick off EC campaign!

Posted by Gattuso at 00:32 11/3/2002.

Nocturne finally got their first two Clanbase Eurocup games underway tonight with a not so exciting forfeit win over Spaniards DTZ and victory over dNC in an exciting game.

On Dust2 Nocturne managed to win 8-4 as T. However dNC pulled it back to 7-5 when it was their turn to be T’s. A close score of 13-11 set the scene for a tense second game on Aztec. Nocturne managed to win 8-4 as CT and dNC failed to stop Nocturne as T which lead to a 12-0 victory.

The final score of the game however was 27-15 because only the 6 rounds noc won before dNC had to leave were counted. Here is what Mike had to say about the game:

Gattuso: How do you think the game went?
Mike: On a whole the game went really well. It was a really close game right from the start with dNC taking the early lead. Towards the end of the first half of dust2 we managed to pick some players off with awps and got a lot of rounds by rushing where they were weak. As CT we won the pistol round which boosted our confidence, they played v well after that though and managed to get 7 after losing first round. Aztec was pretty straight forward but they had some nice rushes as T which confused us :(
Gattuso: What has changed since your defeat to dNC at PS2002?
Mike: We tried some new tactics, we felt we were too weak at bombsite a on dust2, seeing as we used to have 2 at b. we recruited a new member, "ajam" who played really well and kept us in the game numerous times. dNC had also lost a game before playing us so maybe their confidence wasn’t 100%? We also lost a member too, as most people know :p.
Gattuso: Do you think you can make the play-offs?
Mike: haha, it will be very hard :) loooads of great clans still left to play. If we can sort a few problems out on certain maps then maybe, if we do it will be v close :p
Gattuso: Thanks for your time, good luck!

Demos can be found over at nocuk.org due to Clanbase being down.

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	_ 00:40 11/3/2002	pld [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 01:27 11/3/2002	Wasnt 12-0 as T, we got to 5-0 which meant we couldnt lose/draw so dNC left cos the game was 50mins late and they had work/school in the morning. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	meglome 02:12 11/3/2002	I know I'm involved with .dNC amd I'm not trying to start a flame war [now the but] but... we see yet again a CS team which doesn't perform well on a Lan perform brilliantly online. I'm not saying noc cheat but it is an interesting point. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	meglome 02:17 11/3/2002	I should add this is not the view of the .dNC team just a personal observation [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	iron 02:27 11/3/2002	its quite simple to explain really, afaik, all of dNC are on 64k ISDN? and the fact they live near a LAN cafe gives them an advantage for playing at LAN, ive even heard dNC members saying they suck online but seem to do good on LAN, to me it seems noc arent amazing online, but dNC are just worse online? maybe with the upgrade in connection quality at LAN, and the fact they play at LAN a lot means it gives them a much bigger advtange at LAN. from what i could see nocs team was quite different from the one they had at LAN, with the addition of SaV and Ajam. so in the end its not that suprising noc come out on top this time round. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	hmmz 06:31 11/3/2002	funny how noc got hammered on lan against dNC just the other day and beat them on the net, must of had a weak team out i spose, or maybe it was because rigs had a puffy eye ;P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Blitz Editor UKTerrorist 09:59 11/3/2002	like iron says, maybe dNC are just worse online. Noc and dNC are both great clans, and no doubt each could beat the other, on their day. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	b1az0r 09:59 11/3/2002	"funny how noc got hammered on lan against dNC just the other day" we dont have any excuses? we were beaten by the better team on the day [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 10:55 11/3/2002	Hehe yeh meglome your not starting a flame war but your doing exactly that, s'ok you put a disclaimer which makes everything ok... The team was different and we were a lot more prepared having played dNC on dust2 and having seen demos of their aztec play vs ui, we had a lot more strats. I think we also had the advantage starting out as T, becos if you can win that half you knock the oppositions confidence right down. You should know this as it was exactly what happened at PS2002, we lost 8-4 as CT, exact score and we lost the first round as T we werent in any frame of mind to play to win. But fair to dNC they came back at us but we managed to scramble 2 more rounds to stay in the lead, only by 2 mind so aztec was well open. After the first 3 rounds of CT I thought it was allover, PS2002 allover again but luckily when we got guns we were able to get back in it. After watching the ui demo knew exactly what you did on bridge area and that you mainly attacked B, so could easily adjust to this. Now only needing 4 as T and winning the 1st round meant it was allover quickly. Ah well the preperation and practice doesnt even matter cos by the 'Official Laws of CS' you arent allowed to beat a clan online who you lost to on LAN, so were obviously cheaters. And don't forgot demos (HLTV + In-Eyes) available at www.nocuk.org [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	.dNC.Sev 11:02 11/3/2002	gg [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PHB 11:18 11/3/2002	I think noc put in more work for this game and they won it, just like dNC put in more work for the ps2002 game and they won it. Also they got the best damm player ever in their clan so like how could they lose? "Alright boys" - noc*Ajam [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Oi 11:24 11/3/2002	Who is Ajam and what clans he been in? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 11:34 11/3/2002	Ajam was in SoE I think. In noc by recommendation of PHB :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PHB 12:06 11/3/2002	Yeah Ajam was in =AI= [clergy] and .SoE. and then joined nocturne. Poor guy had to be with alex and tel the whole way up :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DArtagnan` 12:18 11/3/2002	The thing people are forgetting here, is both teams are good teams. Just cause of 1 map on lan, does not mean 1 team is better than another. Lose pistol rounds, and u can lose the map on a lan. If there were tournaments every week world wide, even thyought NiP are the best, they wouldnt win every game. It's like football, United wont win every game. Maybe Noc had a bad day on the lan, and dNC had a bad day yesterday. The lan didnt prove 1 team was better, but beat them on the day, the same occured yesterday. Both are v good teams, it was an enjoyable game to watch. Gl to both in the rest of their EC campaigns. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	St_George g30rg3h UKTerrorist 12:28 11/3/2002	well said. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sarge 12:55 11/3/2002	DArtagnan for NATO peace keeper? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	.dNC.Verifyor 12:58 11/3/2002	wp noc, gg. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Thorin 13:40 11/3/2002	WP to everyone who flamed me about being a newb because dNc were going to own Nocturne in their Ec match, shame you were wrong again guys. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	PHB 14:01 11/3/2002	"I told you so nah nah nah" - grow up Thorin. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DoZ 14:03 11/3/2002	"Ah well the preperation and practice doesnt even matter cos by the 'Official Laws of CS' you arent allowed to beat a clan online who you lost to on LAN, so were obviously cheaters" Pld ;-) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	K 14:14 11/3/2002	1. Clans can improve a lot if they work hard or get worse if they dont put as much effort in. 2. Many factors such as the map, luck, fatigue can affect the outcome of games. I know noc have a very strong will to be top, and if everything goes right they can take down many top clans. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	noc*Rock 15:03 11/3/2002	"we see yet again a CS team which doesn't perform well on a Lan perform brilliantly online" If you watch the demos or speak to any noc players about the game you will find out that we made quite a few mistakes which prevented us from performing "brilliantly online". [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	iron 15:26 11/3/2002	LOL @ thorin [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Eagle 16:05 11/3/2002	OMG i thought WTF when i saw this topic cos i read it wrong and thought it said kicked off....ahwell that didn't happen THANK F**K. WP noc, ul dNC and gl to both of ya in da future [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Blitz Editor UKTerrorist 16:41 11/3/2002	lol eagle :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	meglome 17:47 11/3/2002	ok lads fair enough... I'm just the suspicious sort, that’s all. Well done with the game btw. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	megIome 18:02 11/3/2002	ok lads fair enough... I'm just the arrogant sort, that’s all. Well done with the game btw. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	meglome 18:51 11/3/2002	some people are so funny... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Vertakill 19:59 11/3/2002	PHB: "I think noc put in more work for this game and they won it, just like dNC put in more work for the ps2002 game and they won it." We played 1 week of clans that cheated and raped us :( We were supposed to play I-eS as preperation, for noc, but we were told last minute that we had Infernum in EC. So we got no practice, as usual :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Vertakill 20:01 11/3/2002	We still played s*** though, we should of checked the HLTV demos of noc's LAN games but we didnt get time, and we underperformed on the day. We could of gone into dnc cafe to play on LAN but we didnt bother, mainly down to Sev/Me/Psyo not wanting to which didnt help either... We are our own worst enemy :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Snaggle 05:30 12/3/2002	Just because dNC beat Noc on LAN, doesn't mean that dNC will always beat Noc. Clans get better, clans get worse, fact of life. Some people might explain away the defeat as Noc working hard and dNC not doing a tap. That's a cop out. Putting in the work and analysing your opponents weaknesses is what good clans do. I'm well impressed with Noc's attitude, instead of going "oh well dNC beat us on LAN, lets not bother with EC", they fixed all the holes in their play from PS 2002 and whacked dNC upside the a55 good and proper, congratulations [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Snaggle 05:37 12/3/2002	In reply to Ironz0r, dNC don't play as a team on LAN as often as you might think. Personally I've only played 2 dNC matches on LAN (excluding competition events such as Lan Arena). The others have played more but nowhere near as often as they play online. Ireland's telecommunications infrastructure certainly doesn't do us any favours, with 40 choke on public server and spikes to 25 or so in matches, but I heard nobody in dNC complain about lag in the match so I presume it wasn't too bad [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SaVaCe 16:04 12/3/2002	GG dNc [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Loser whos opinion m 18:02 13/3/2002	LAN is the ONLY place to judge a good clan, theres way too many variables online. Noc may be a good lan clan, but they can never claim to be skilled on LAN. Their overall results and LAN track recrd is extremely poor vs top opposition. If any of the top 20 scandinavian clans were at ps2002 they would have walked it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 20:58 13/3/2002	Firstly, alias' poster...prolly 2-faced as f*** on irc/in person. Name a UK clan who has better LAN record...Id say Nocturne is pretty average along with most UK teams. "If any of the top 20 scandinavian clans were at ps2002 they would have walked it." - And we'd prolly walk the top LAN in China....your point? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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