Attack of the Clones

Please recieve this status report of our Defense of the Ancients (DotA) team. First of all the SLAP Dota test league has finished and we ended 3rd. Random Routine and Makes me wanna FF were very good teams, but we had some very good matches against both teams. Xalphite Electrocuters had really improved since the latest replays we could check them out on, so we were really impressed by their skill but we still managed to win the match. So here are the final standings of division 1B.

HoBBiT answered: My expectations are very high and I think and hope that we can end up with a first or second place, so we can get through to the playoffs and hopefully get to Division 4. But they have setted the map to 6.60b this pick league, so it's going to be quite a interresting season, because it's not long since they realeased the map, and so much have changed in the map since 6.59d. I hope that we can end up second or first, but it's going to be hard, because they changed the map. I dont really know any of the teams we are going to compeat with, but I can see that some of them participated in the last Pick League, but didn't manage to end up as second or first place

HoBBiT answered: That is hopefully not going to affect our chances to continue to the playoffs, but if the teams we are compeeting against, dont wanna move some of the matches to another day, it's going to be really bad for us, because we got some of the members on vacation at the moment. But I really hope that the teams in our division will be politely and understand our situation, and I think that the other teams got the same problem like us, so hopefully that wont affect our chances.

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Lineup disorder

Our Counter-Strike Source team has been experincing some changes lately and it have been very confusing for me as manager for the team. Let's start at the very beginning. The team had gathered a great lineup and they all agreed to be active and focus on improving individual and as a team. After a while Concker, ExpriMentaL , tdS and GogopleX decided to move on to the next level and become even more serious, nearly using all their time on this project. But d1skant and OTHII was not ready to give everything up for gaming, and they decided to leave the team.

Just as this was decided tdS broke his hand and it is still not known when he will be able to practise with the rest of the team. A few days later Concker who was team leader and in the lead of the whole project decided to stop playing Counter-Strike Source and told us that he wanted to try new things. So now we're left with ExpriMentaL and GogopleX . ExpriMentaL will be the man in charge of the team now and we're hoping to build up a new lineup during the summer. If you're norwegian and are ready to take up this challenge, please send us an application!

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Welcome tracks

We are happy to announce that we've now got a new warsow Deathmatch/Duel player. His name is tracks , and we hope to see a lot of good results from him. He will play in various leagues, ladders and tournaments and is already signed up for the ESL ladder.

We're still looking for a TDM or CTF warsow team, so sent us an application if you wish to be a part of Clones-Inc!

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Savage Sunday!

It has been a very intense day for us at Clones-Inc. Many of our teams have been in action, and I personally had a great time following some of the matches. Our day started already around 00:00 CET, as our Counter-Strike Source team was entering a small cup at pwned.no. The cup was won nearly 4 hours later, but this was just a warmup and test of tactics as they were going to play the Hellfragger League Qualification beginning 12:00 CET!

The first match was against delerium, which was a too good team for us. Not much to say, they were simply a better team today and won de_dust2 16-5. This sent Clones-Inc.css to the lowerbracket and another lost match would sent us out of the qualification. Only the top4 teams would qualify for the Hellfragger League (with LAN finals). Next match was against Decent.no. A match that we expected to win. But we did not expect to play de_train and did not have any good tactics prepared for that map, which meant that it became a very tough fight and at some point it started to look like we were losing. The outcome of the match was hard to predict as de_train is a CT map and the map ended in overtime with MR3 and we lost 2-1 as T, but won 3-0 on the CT side. We moved on in the lower bracket and had to face the strong team Surprised Gaming. Again we simply met a better team and lost 8-16. Clones-Inc.css did therefor not qualify to the Hellfragger League.

The Dota team joined the mumble server very early today and they have all been practising the entire day. We had to face Xalphite Electrocuters in the last match of SLAP Test League around 21:00 CET. We had a very bad start and were continously behind with a few hero kills. The only solution was to wait for the late game, as we would have a great advantage there. We won a great 5v5 fight and had a great push and were the winners after a good game of 77 minutes.

Clones-Inc.tf2 dk had to play the retired team plan-B. We won the 2 first rounds on cp_granary very quickly, but they had a crash and paused the game. After the unpause they played totally different and we were not able to do anything at all and they wrecked us completly. They won first granary 5-2. We had to play cp_granary once more and we tried some tactics that we have not practised at all, we were simply clueless what to do. But still with no luck as they easily did a counter-attack on us. We lost 5-0 due to the 5 difference rule in ETF2L and had no chance winning that map.

All matches have been submitted to our results page.

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Hellfragger cup

Our new Counter-Strike Source are now in action, as they have signed up for the Hellfragger cup. The matches will begin tomorrow the 21. June. There are a total of 16 teams signed up for the cup and the cup is running with upper and lowerbracket. View all matches by following this link to the brackets on Hellfragger's website. Notice that you must have Java installed on your PC to view the brackets.

All rules and information about the cup can be found at this newspost on Hellfraggers website.

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Increased creativity

We've lately been searching for a new Counter-Strike Source team to represent us, and we've finally found what we've been looking for. We've recieved loads of applications, and it has been quite a hard task to manage them all. We've tried to do the best research on all teams to pick the best teams possible and also to make a fair decision. We thank all teams and players for their interest and wish them good luck in the future.

The team we've decided to pick up is the hardCreative CSS team, which is considered a top10 team in Norway. We've picked this team because: They are very dedicated gamers, they are very active players, they are willing to represent Clones-Inc as much as possible by joining several online leagues and tournaments and by participating in offline LAN events. The team consists of the following players.

Concker
d1skant
ExpriiMentaL
GogopleX
tdS

Their best result is 5th at Norways biggest LAN event The Gathering and we hope to see more great results with Clones-Inc! We're looking forward this partnership and we wish all new clones good luck! You might be able to see the team in action soon, as they are planning to participate in the norwegian Hellfragger league and the next Source Fever Sunday at ESL. Stay tuned for more!

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ED and theSGL

Clones-Inc.tf2 FR just finished 2 Team Fortress 2 leagues, The Enemydown and theSGL! We ended 6th in the EnemyDown league, and we just have to admit that the competition in EnemyDown Division 1 was very hard. So it's not a disappointment for us, but we're glad that ED allowed us to play in Division 1. Follow this link to view all standings.

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The Sleepless LAN won!

Our DotA 2v2 team returned home today from The Sleepless LAN. It was a very professionel LAN and the admins knew what they were doing. Overall it was a very positive experience. The Sleepless LAN ended up perfect for our DotA 2v2 team and they won the tournament. The prize was a Steelseries 4H headset and an AMD CD cover, not a big prize, but they were satisfied with it.

There were not that many teams in the DotA 2v2 tournament, so Clones-Inc only had 3 matches before they won the tournament. The tournament started Saturday at 02:00 CET. It was played using Single elimination BO3 (Best of 3). The Game mode was -apom with 5 bans to each team.

The first team Clones-Inc defeated was a team called Keke, they were not that good and were pretty much a walk-over for Clones-Inc. It was 2 quick matches, they were not very strong tacticians, but they were okay at the lasthitting.

The second team was alot harder to defeat, the team was called THF, they were very good at the tactics and the hero picking aswell.
In the first match it was a very concentrated Clones-Inc team, and won it after some great ganks from behind. After the first match against THF the tournament was put on hold until next evening due to the fact that the time was now 06:00 and people was getting tired. In the second match we never really found forth our good gameplay, and lost it pretty big, we made some mistakes with the hero picking and the bans. We knew that the third match would be very hard, because they just had a really good match against us. We knew that we had to do something drastic in the third match, and that we had to do some solo laning in the middle, while having a hero in the forest.

When you got a hero soloing in the middle and a hero in the forest, both the heroes will get more xp than the opposing heroes, because the opposing heroes will have to share the xp received in the middle.

That was a very good tactical move for the Clones-Inc team, HoBBiT was soloing the middle with Ezalor, and did a great job, and Praisi was doing forest with Lycanthrope and had a very decent farm. THF picked Necrolyte and Nerubian Assassin, who were able to anti Lycanthrope surprisingly well, but after a really good counter push and a 70 minutes long game, could Clones-Inc get away with the victory.

The third team which Clones-Inc competed against, in the finale, was a team called random, who impressively entered the finale against all odds.
The finale was an okay match, but they never really had a chance of winning, Clones-Inc did some great tactical moves
and was really good at the lasthitting, so after 2 x 45 minutes of games the finale was finished and it ended perfectly for Clones-Inc.

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SLAP DOTA Groups published

The divisions and groups for the SLAP Dota League #1 have been published. We're very happy for being in division 1b, which will bring us some tough matches. Our goal is therefor to stay away from the playoff matches for division 2 and therefor stay in division 1. See all groups here. You can read the original news post on SLAPs website , if you understand danish!

Division 1b

• Clones-Inc
• Xalphite Electrocuters
• Makes me wanna FF
• Random Routine Dota

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The Sleepless LAN preview

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