I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

[meekrab]

The one thing that really stuck out to me was against mornos on harrington when you were standing white steps and aiming far to the left, as if nobody would try to peak and would just run across. Were we all that bad in 2004?

I don't think he was aiming as far to the left as it looks because of the weird widescreen format of the video. How about the clip where he sprints around the outside of the mountain house to stairs and then shoots a sniper in the back who's still looking at hole? Dude must have had his headphones on backwards?

[Fulmar]

The one thing that really stuck out to me was against mornos on harrington when you were standing white steps and aiming far to the left, as if nobody would try to peak and would just run across. Were we all that bad in 2004?

I can remember that mornos match being quite a beat down for them. I don't remember them doing terribly well that season and I think it was towards the end of the team.

2004-2005 there was quite a difference in qualities of teams. If you still sandbagged it in Open you wouldn't run into a good team until maybe the Semi's or Finals. In 2006 with devil, I just remember playing random teams and they all had at least one superstar on every team. So the progression of pubbers out of leagues was apparent.

From what I remember form Main was it was either composed of teams that should have been in invite or were quickly progressing there, or teams that should have stayed in IM.

[Airnick15]

2004-2005 there was quite a difference in qualities of teams. If you still sandbagged it in Open you wouldn't run into a good team until maybe the Semi's or Finals. In 2006 with devil, I just remember playing random teams and they all had at least one superstar on every team. So the progression of pubbers out of leagues was apparent.

The good old days, had tons of experience in O/IM back then with Victory Party. In fact your name rang a bell and I just found this...
http://www.gotfrag.com/dod/forums/threa ... 7/?cpage=1

[Fulmar]

2004-2005 there was quite a difference in qualities of teams. If you still sandbagged it in Open you wouldn't run into a good team until maybe the Semi's or Finals. In 2006 with devil, I just remember playing random teams and they all had at least one superstar on every team. So the progression of pubbers out of leagues was apparent.

The good old days, had tons of experience in O/IM back then with Victory Party. In fact your name rang a bell and I just found this...
http://www.gotfrag.com/dod/forums/threa ... 7/?cpage=1

Haha
What can I say? I spit the truth.

[squatta_leader]

2004-2005 was actually the competitive peak of DoD. We peaked at about 2800 active competitive players between Open, IM, Main, and Invite in 2005, and then sharply declined heading into 2006, with only about 1500 active players in Season 13, below 1,000 in Season 14, and then finally were at about 500 when we started Season 15, which we cancelled half way through.

Obviously 500 people is plenty to sustain a community, as we've had less than that all these remaining years. It's just incredibly difficult to sustain league play during a decline like that because there were just so many dead/dying teams.

[meekrab]

Obviously 500 people is plenty to sustain a community, as we've had less than that all these remaining years. It's just incredibly difficult to sustain league play during a decline like that because there were just so many dead/dying teams.

Yeah, I think the reason for that is that people grow up and quit this horrible game at a roughly equal rate across skill levels, rather than finding out they're terrible at it and never playing again, like say, Quake or CS. So the already skimpy top level of skill and ability to spend time practicing just gets thinner every year, and its obviously not good for the health of the community to stick random main teams that don't practice into Invite. (Ask how I know :p ) So yeah, tough to maintain a consistent league.

[Todo]

i enjoyed all of that

[Fulmar]

youtube?

http://youtu.be/s763BsIH0mU

[hildebrand]

some serious nostalgia here.

just comes to show how far we've come. shooting skills and the like and strategies.

[squatta_leader]

added youtube embed