RTCW Competitive History
Editors Note: This was taken from the original authors (Karpov) post from TWL's forums/Planet-Rtcw's archives. I've been editing and correcting mistakes in scores, rosters, teamnames, dates and adding more content to create a better narrative for this great game and community. For the EU fans, this is mostly NA oriented. In time I would like to completely flesh this out to include the EU, South American and even Austrilian records. As this stands currently it is a completely NA based record minus a few tournaments where NA was involved with EU teams and vice versa. Enjoy!
March 2002
Battle of the Beach #1 (AKA: BOB 1):
BOB #1 Champions: D|S (Valdez, Shaftian, Shogun, Jones, Sh4ms, Ioneye, Sergihoe, Kristoff) defeats Doctors 3 - 2 on Beach (7's)
Wippuh: This included one of the Doctors using a nade spam exploit that was fixed in a later patch. The semis were on assault, where Dr.’s narrowly defeated III 3-2 and D|S defeated dT 3-1 BoB1 was also a large factor in how placement for CAL-I was done. Both The Professionals and Cult of Hands got to the final 8 and were invited to CAL-I despite being CAL-m level teams.
RTCW Open Cup Europe Champs: MoralDecay (Keen, Summ3l, Ivve, SoD!, Radical, Init) defeats Broken 7 - 5 on Beach, Village and Assault
April 2002
Cyber Athlete League RTCW Season #1 Takes Place (AKA: CAL)
Season# 1 CAL Champions: D|S (Valdez, Shaftian, Shogun, Jones, Sh4ms, Ioneye, Sergihoe, Kristoff) defeats phx 5 - 1 on Village (7's)
Donka: In preparation for upcoming huge LAN event, the almighty DarkSide’s core breaks off to wear pretty cK tags that were the hottest tags in the gaming world at that moment.
Wippuh: This match included a ping attack delaying its start for 2 hours ?!
July 2002
CAL RTCW - OSP Season #2: 3 Skill/Tier Divisions for Season #2 (Invite, Main & Open).
Season #2 CAL Invite Champs: Abuse (Quancer, Lantern, Method, Cujo, Rimshot & Citizen) defeats Drs 3 - 2 on Assault (6's)
Season #2 CAL Main Champs: nyX (EventHorizon, Dosey, Divbyzero, RQuasar, Cyno, Jericho, AK, Elmos, Jubei, Fookin) defeats cF 3 - 0 on Assault (7's)
Season #2 CAL Open Champs: FearUs defeats LQD 3 - 0 on Beach (7's)
Wippuh: There were 3 Regions of CAL Open (Atlantic, Central and Pacific). The 3 winners were LQD, Wat? And FU .The finals for CAL-I were 6's and included nice work by abuse's pf, Cujo? There was a nice video made by Citizen of the overall strategy and feel of the match. The change was due to the announcement of Qcon. Main and Open stayed 7’s. TWL still briefly rocked the 8’s!!!
RTCW Nations CUP #2: Sweden defeats Italy 3 - 0 on Village & Beach
August 2002
Qcon02 Champions: Doctors (George, Wombat, Relevant, Gusto, Arkrine, W!seguy) defeat iN 3 - 1 on Ice
Donka: Post quakecon syndrome goes in effect. Best RTCW teams part the game leaving a lot of room for 2nd tier teams teams and new comers.
Wippuh: Ice was not in competition in Europe at the time, so the NA teams had a huge advantage here. Dr’s are still the best team to ever play the game IMO. Also, I remember some very intense demos of matches played on sub (D|S vs. Ocrana?), including iN’s loss to affliction comprised mostly of the q3 affliction players. Never forget, cK-shogun’s classic qcon vid!
December 2002
CAL RTCW - OSP: 2 Divisions for Season #3 (Main & Open).
Season #3 CAL Main Champions: NARF (Da_G, Lynch, Cyno, Warkrime, Spike, Rev) defeats dT 3 - 2 on Ice
Wippuh: It’s fun to talk about which was a better rivalry. NARF vs. dT/-a- or dT/-a- vs. D|S !?
Season #3 CAL Open Champions: 82nd (Khan, Warrior, Nightwolf, Chaos, Dual32, Polo) defeats xTc 3 - 2 on Ice
TWL RTCW - OSP: 2 Divisions for Season #1 (Alpha & Beta).
Season #1 TWL Alpha Champions: Uprise (Korollary, Nok, Cash, EventHorizon) defeats 82nd 3 - 2 on Ice
Season #1 TWL Beta Champions: qantumFlux (Icehawk, Justice) defeats Sanrio on Asault
Wippuh: I always felt that this match was crap. qF was Justice and maybe one or two others from Paradigm Shift, a team from CAL-Invite.
Season #1 STA OSP Champions: Admin Clan (Redman, Jones, StonedNewie, JamesDeep, Scheme, KamiKaze, and CaP) defeats Quantum Flux (Sabotage, Justice, IceHawk, Jargus, Dread, kow and ShadoWeN) 3 - 1 on Beach
RTCW Open Cup Europe: PlanB (Ben, Crapa, Delux, bajo, anhe, Johnstar, weak, viros, n2y) defeats Exido
February 2003
RTCW Nations CUP #3: Sweden defeats Finland 3 - 0 on Beach and Village
Planet-RTCW Goes Online
April 2003
CAL RTCW - OSP: 2 divisions for Season #4 (Main & Open).
Season #4 CAL Main Champions: NARF (Da_G, Lynch, BeavermanA, Obliv, Warkrime, Spike) defeats dT 3 - 1 - 1 on Beach
Season #4 CAL Open Champions: Redemption (Steigl, Gnomish, Fenix, Madnessriot, Paper, Hova, Juliebean) defeats Outsiders 3 - 2 on Beach
Wippuh: Open still has East , West & Central Divisions. It may have been Outsiders semi’s match in which s!lo was so convinced that <<>> was hacking that he went out and made his own hack.
Donka: According to members of Redemption they scrimmed 5 hours a night on their way to CAL-O championship. Brian & K split from dominant east coast Death Touch to dump the dead weight of dT2 and to reform under respected name of affliction.
TWL RTCW – OSP: 2 divisions for Season #2 (Alpha & Beta).
Season #2 TWL Alpha Champions: HV (Vjason, Ryzer, Deftone, Silence, Grimdeath, SilentStorm, Xav) defeats Uprise (Mooreman, Cash, Stalling, Jinkz, Lerner and Korollary) on 3 - 0 Ice
Season #2 TWL Beta Champions: EoD (Anialatem, Saleen, Troll, Opio, Stormrider, Underdawg) defeats 7angels 3 - 0 on Beach
May 2003
Battle of the Beach #2
BOB #2 Champions: dT (Brian, Chrome, Decka, Hollywood, Illumina, Nail) defeats NARF 3 - 0 on Beach
Wippuh: I believe that for winning this matchup, dT/-a- got the Gamecubes? It was a massive letdown, the finals that is, as -a- ran NARF pretty hard.
Donka: dT revises their panzer strat and beats NARF when it matters. GameCubes go on sale.
Season #2 STA OSP Champions: Spy (loYalguArd, CaQruBBioR) defeats BYE! 3 - 0
Virus047: Loyalguard and company defeat a very solid BYE! team in the finals. BYE! finished the regular season 9-1(while *SPY* finished 8-2). STA played 10 week regular seasons and remained 7v7 format until Season #4.
June 2003
RTCW Open Cup Europe: Rage (Bonehead, Enril, Pui, Sengo, Mariano, Redcrow, Jaco) defeats InFront 2 - 1 on Assault & Village
RTCW EUROCUP: Rewind defeats SNAPS
RTCW Nations CUP #4: Italy defeats Sweden
July 2003
CAL RTCW – OSP: 3 Divisions for Season #5 (Invite, Main & Open).
Season #5 CAL Invite Champions: NARF (Lynch, BeavermanA, Obliv, Da_G, Warkrime, Immortal) defeats fX 3 - 2 on Ice
Season #5 CAL Main Champions: Exodus (Stiegl, Madness, Mario, Luigi, Riot, Cykass) defeats dh 3 - 0 on Ice
Season #5 CAL Open Champions: GLOW (D!rty, Valentine, SpanishRed, Thunderbolt, Bronkwi7z, Rott, Lightning, St!nky) defeats Comm 3 - 1 on Base.
Donka: This season could be labeled as rising of WaRRioR and affiliates. Warrior leaves darkside to help out their old 82nd buddies to form the most headshot whoring team known in RTCW. That team renames countless times including European rewind, and CS United5, finally getting stuck with their original team fX label.
Sharp: In my opinion this was ]NARF['s best lineup. Beaver, Obliv, Da_G, War, and Immortal are all excelent aimers. Lynch was ok, but his claim to fame was that panzer (good at pistol too). Good game ]NARF[.
TWL RTCW – OSP: 2 Divisions for Season #3 (Alpha & Beta).
Season #3 TWL Alpha Champions: immortals (Hartman, Crucial, Bob, Death, Wesley, Dsc, Excero, 50cent) defeats Arise 3 - 0 on Ice
Season #3 TWL Beta Champions: Tribal Valor (Nazgul, Dynosaur, KrazyKaze, C$, Monkey, Horizon, and Plex) defeats Eggnog Squad (Lokei, PsAlm, Nate, Zaine, Ammunition, Hiko)
Donka: TWL semifinals record hold, perhaps, one of the earliest cases of pulling a rule book. Shatter of Team Arise complained about a player on opposing team (K’Spawn ex-LQD) having a second account in TWL on Team Liquid. Even though the account was simply lost and forgotten, match result was overturned and Arise moved into finals after a 3-2 loss to kinetic. Term “pulled a shatter” stuck around for a while.
KrAzYkAzE: TWL Beta finals was a great match between Tribal Valor and ES on base. First round TV set a time of 9:09 and ES beats the time with 3:47. Second round ES sets a time of 5:11 and Tv beats it with 3:42. Third round TV sets time of 4:12 and holds. Fourth round ES sets time of 4:21 and TV beats the time with 2:10 to win championship. It was a really fun season. TV went undefeated 8-0 season and 4-0 playoffs.
August 2003
Qcon03 Champions: iN (Darkie, Hombre, Keen, SoD, Spear, Civ, Summ3L, Zam, Wuff, Sweet, Radical) defeats GMPO 3 - 1 (Zaf, Ramzi, Blaze, Verac, Refuse, Zemme) on Assault
Donka: Dark times on RTCW start with the end of the QuakeCon03. Neither of American superstar team got into finals. WaRRioR did not prove himself on LAN. NARF, 3 times CAL champion, was crushed on all counts. This is the time when both, hacking and witchhunt for hackers, develop at incredible pace. Most of the good, LAN proven, RTCW players left the game burnt out immediately after QuakeCon leaving the top of the mountain to whoever gets a first headshot. RTCW community experiences massive Canadian gangs invasion.
Wippuh: Affliction, in a big surprise move, didn’t play in CAL before qcon03, came in mostly overlooked, yet placed 3rd. The superstar ringer teams disappointed despite Frontline beating GMPO on ice in the first round. So much was focused on the first two maps that the NA players overlooked village, where the Europeans cleaned house.
Online Gamers Guild 1 day tournament: dT (Brian, Chrome, Dimmak, Hollywood, Illumina, Nail) defeats Narf 3-1 on base and cK 3-1 on Chateau
Wippuh: I forget what the winnings were for this, but I want to say it involved a video card?
Hollywood: 5 asus a7n8x deluxe motherboards and 4 asus 4200 video cards.
October 2003
Season #3 STA OSP Champions: TribalValor (Nazgul, Dynosaur, KrazyKaze, Kulumbus, Horizon, Plex, C$, BloodMoney, Druid, and Rambowl) defeats .RaG][ (Greven, Skull, Focker, Chocula, Sharp, G-Thugg and Ben) 3 - 2 on Base
Virus047: I was accepted into the Admin Staff of STA OSP. Joining Skrappa and Chackazz as admins where I pushed for STA OSP to use the same maps and configs as TWL/CAL. Which we later did to help boost attendance/support for the league.
November 2003
CAL RTCW – OSP: 3 Divisions for Season #6 (Invite, Main & Open).
Season #6 CAL Invite Champions: TRO (Robez, Moosho, Pissclams, Slaya, Blackmajic, Cade, G-thug) defeats ICF 3 - 2 on ice
Donka: ICF rolls to the finals by continuously exercising rulebook defenses in matches against Kinetic and Affliction. Slaya (TRO) is born.
Hollywood: -a- got dq'ed because they played illumina who was not on the roster. -a- defeats tTt 3-0 on ice.
Robes: The Rageing Octopi become reigning CAL-I champs.
Season #6 CAL Main Champions: aln (Roadkill, Hellfish, Alienware, Vitriol, Bongwater and Juventus) defeats UGB (Pongzour, Redman, Makaveli, CaptaindD, Bonart and CaptainPecker) 3 - 1 on Ice
Virus047: One of the feel good stories of RTCW. I remember aln started the season very poorly and had a fairly strong finish which carried over into the playoffs. Their determination to win helped them overcome early regular season failures and produce one of the better runs in RTCW history to win a championship.
KrAzYkAzE: This was a good season for Tv. We were up on ALN on assult 2-0 in the playoffs and they came back to win the match and the championship. Should have been Tv’s championship imo
Season #6 CAL Open Champions: $uperHeros (InvisibleMan, $pec_0pZ, TimeBomb, PuffMyDragon, Wolverine, Transit) defeats oTc 3 - 2 on Ice
Virus047: Little oTc (huge underdogs) collected the support from the majority of the RTCW community and nearly pulled off the upset over SuperHeros and Friends in the finals. Very good match. Some clutch doc runs by oTc.
Donka: Era of Invisible Man. Delayed attacks, colored multi page posts, witch hunt extreme and, most importantly - FR1eN@s.
Wippuh: IMO, the worst team to ever win open, in terms of how good they actually were.
TWL RTCW – OSP: 3 Divisions for Season #4 (Alpha, Beta & Gamma).
Season #4 TWL Alpha Champions: fX (Warrior, Nightwolf, Impulse, Wyldcard, Reaper, Vatican) defeats tTt
Donka: Hacking was real. fX left CAL after the WildCard incident.
Season #4 TWL Beta Champions: OPP (Baby, Slaya, Lucky, Hooligan, Hydro, Word) defeats SoS 3 - 0 on Ice
Season #4 TWL Gamma Champions: HkC defeats GFU 3 - 2 on Ice
December 2003
RTCW Open Cup Europe: KnightsofDeath (Aloc, JanCiper, Stranger, Viddi, Xtrem) defeats P!mps
RTCW EUROCUP: SurrenderOrDie defeats Kreaturen
January 2004
Cyber X Games
Donka: The world of e-sports and competitive video gaming learned a lot this time around, but RTCW world learned even more. It learned all about the man who created delayed attacks, and went undefeated at the event that hasn’t hosted a single RTCW match. Specops appears on the horizon.
Sharp: Second day they had "technical issues", and the rest of the competitions were cancelled. Teams that were there for RTCW included, but are not limited to u5, 4 kings, Amish, tTt, GLOW?
February 2004
TGT2 Tournament Begins!
Virus047: TGT2 was a little but very competitive tournament consisting of a 5 week regular season and playoffs. Members from teams M8s, Ni!, Team Cross Breed, Distress, Fate , Phoenix Rising, Texas Rangers and several others were split up into new teams. Thus giving a very unique experience to gaming with new players in this tourney. It was coordinated by SRDG from M8s. A ”draft” cup that actually lasted more than a day that worked.
March 2004
Season #4 STA OSP Champions: TribalValor (Nazgul, Dynosaur, KrazyKaze, Hiki, Kulumbus, Horizon) defeats .com (Ownage, Sureshot, What!?, Moto, Tomballz, Glassman) on Base2
True Gaming Tournament 2 Champions: TDQ (Elderly, HanoverFist, Jadefalcon, Kronk, Likethat, SilverKobra, SlammeR, SourKraut) defeats Alcoholics Anonymous A.A.
April 2004
CAL RTCW – OSP: 2 divisions for Season #7 (Main & Open).
Season #7 CAL Main Champions: Exodus (Stiegl, Madness, Mario, Luigi, Riot, Cykass) defeats sMn (s0r, Warrior, Conf, Laws_69, FatNinja, Elbow and CAL-OALLSTAR)3 - 2 on Base
Donka: Era of SpecOpz. “gimme sum jack” and “camp the nook”, and all the other lexicon that can be associated with this man who becomes the godfather of Wolf in the entire year of 2004. Covert Ops server gives a birth to a small sub-community that can be called an All-Star shop. Several of its members unite to create an unusual force – sMn.
Season #7 CAL Open Champions: ghettoPimps (Nayeen, Common, Shoosh, Hoohaa) defeats Canada 3 - 0 on Base
Wippuh: Not the beginning of the sandbag routine, but Canada, led by Kuniva had the strat of not scrimming at all during the season and then working very hard once they got into the playoffs. It worked and a lot of people mimicked it.
Donka: This match was mostly famous for server crashing controversy. Every time Team Canada would have a 7 minute hold, the server would crash, and ghettoPimps steal the replay round.
Virus047: ghettoPimps beats Closing Time (2am) who was a powerhouse with a lot of talent on the way to there eventual championship in the playoffs. No one predicted 2am to drop this match and was a huge upset in my opinion. Nayeen had a 6 man panzer shot in the finals on WTV. Very classic. Also CAL ditched Invite and went with just Main and Open vs. Invite and Main divisions. Interesting move.
TWL RTCW – OSP: 2 Divisions for Season #5 (Alpha & Beta)
Season #5 TWL Alpha Champions: ICF (Rob, Xpire, Warzone, Cypher, Korey, Johann) defeats EoD (Opio, Clash, Stormrider, Anialatem, JohnnyBlaze, and Flogzero)3 - 0 on Base
Cypher: ICF had a really solid core group this season with Warzone being team MVP, and Johann's strats really played to our strengths.
Season #5 TWL Beta Champions: forgottenKings (Boo7y, Covert, Diaz, Jones, Capone, Jujitsu, Inya) defeats nG 3 - 1 on Base
June 2004
RTCW Nations CUP #5:Netherlands defeats Belgium
July 2004
Season #5 STA OSP Champions: Reformation defeats MadeMen 3 - 2 - 1 on Village
KrAzYkAzE: This should have been Tv vs. Reformation. I was in the semifinals match vs. M2 along with the other Tv guys. We were up 2-0 on ice and I had to leave the match for some other league going on at the time. M2 came back and to win 3-2. I wish I would have stayed. I think this was when I played on Star in CAL/TWL and we had a playoff match the same night.
Virus047: Eventual STA Season #5 Champs Reformation split off from Commission and storm STA OSP going 10-1 (including the playoffs) to win the championship. Beating some very formidable teams along the way in (MadeMen, IronWarriors, Commission and Team Cross Breed). Perhaps the best season in STA RTCW History. STA OSP actively attempted to work with CAL and TWL to catch hackers. League wide bans began taking place. Banned in TWL or CAL = Banned in STA and vice versa.
August 2004
CAL RTCW – OSP: 2 Divisions for Season #8 (Main & Open).
Season #8 CAL Main Champions: fX (Brian, Rambo, Serbian, Vatican, Slaya, Militant) defeats Goggles 3 - 0 on Assault
Season #8 CAL Open Champions: v| (Animal, Caff, Ltgoose, Troll, Eights, Paladin) defeats oX 3 - 2 on Assault
TWL RTCW – OSP: 2 Divisions for Season #6 (Alpha & Beta).
Season #6 TWL Alpha Champions: fX (Brian, Rambo, Serbian, Vatican, Slaya, Militant) defeats Distress 3 - 0 on Assault
Season #6 TWL Beta Champions: v| (Animal, Caff, Ltgoose, Troll, Eights, Paladin) defeats m2 3 - 1 on Assault
RTCW Open Cup Europe: KnightsofDeath (Aloc, JanCiper, Stranger, Viddi, Xtrem) defeats Nameless
October 2004
TGT3 Tournament Begins!
Virus047: With the first two TGT tournaments being widely successful TGT3 was announced. Members from teams like F1, WFL, 4H and Resurrection join the fray. TGT3 was widely successful due to the efforts of SRDG who helped setup a very competitive and fun tournament. Unlike previous TGT’s this season also featured a move to OSP and a more CAL/TWL/STA experience.
November 2004
Season #9 CAL OSP Champions: fX (Brian, Hollywood, Rambo, Serbian, Vatican, Slaya) defeats sMn (Mindgame, Warrior, AlphaNeo, Conf, Warzone, Common, and SpecOpz) 3 - 0 on Beach
Season #7 TWL OSP Champions: sMn (Warzone, Alpha, Mindgame, Opz, Multitask, Conf, Warrior) defeats BWG 3 - 0 on Beach
True Gaming Tournament 3 Champions: Fruit Flies (Virus047, Fuzz, Lice, Janus, SilverKobra, CatSpit, Force, GopherGuts, BigBadBanna) defeats Rebel Alliance
Donka: Affliction returns only to be defeated by random teams. Warrior leaves fX and re-creates sMn. fX replenishes the roster hole with silo and fusion.
Virus047: TGT3 Champions Fruit Flies (roster above) steamroll through the competition going 5-0 in the regular season and 2-0 in the playoffs. Dropping only two rounds all season.
December 2004
Silo gets caught hacking. Affliction breaks up to fill rosters of fx(Hollywood and brian) and eXecutives(decka and nail). Specops joins splash My nuts. This was not the last case when a man traded in his legacy for a vent server.
January 2005
Season #6 STA OSP Champions: Flatline (Mutha, Alphaneo, Opz, Vid, Digital, Militant, Multitask, Sage, Eternal) defeats TV 3 - 2 on Frostbite.
KrAzYkAzE: Wow, this was good match. I remember it the most because Specopz bragged about beating us for the buzzard. LOL!
RTCW Open Cup Europe: emaHo (Darkie, Hombre, Keen, Serbian, SoD, Spear, Civ, Summ3L, Zam, Wuff, Sweet, Radical) defeats Kno i Horn (KiH).
February 2005
Season #8 TWL OSP Champions: Metal Gawdz (AlphaNeo, Serbian, Vatican, Warzone, Saladin, SpecOpz) defeats Fear Us
Season #1 TWL Shrub Champions: Hair Pullers (Coff, Kep, Robes, Vid, Rambo, Spuddy, Paladin, Kep, Mutha, Pissclams ) defeats ASF 3 - 0
Robes: Hair Pullers use the Voltron D in the Finals. Pull Free Vibes~~~ Pull Free? Can Be!
RTCW Nations CUP #6: Holland defeats Belgium
March 2005
Season #10 CAL OSP Champions: fX (Alpha, Rambo, Serbian, Slaya, Vatican, Warzone) defeats Inertia on Village
KrAzYkAzE: This was a good match. It sucked for us (Inertia) because Mutha couldn’t play. He had a 300+ ping that entire month of the playoffs. I think if he would have played, the match would have been 3-2 either way imo.
Season #9 TWL OSP Champions: TV (Donka, Elliott, Hikikomori, Krazykaze, Rambowl, Plex) defeats Metal Gawdz on Village
Donka: Metal Gawds was a distorted version of fX built and led by specops. It featured four fX members: AlphaNeo, Serbian, Vatican, and Warzone with addition of specops himself and saladin. After 2 hours of struggle, Metal Gawds receive a devastating loss after which fX members decided to quit wolf. That was also the last team Specops led through an entire season.
KrAzYkAzE: This was probably the funnest RTCW match I ever played in. I don’t think I could have played any better as an individual and our teamwork was superb. It felt really good to beat them because the same guys beat us in the CAL finals the night before.
Season #7 STA OSP Champions: Flatline (Mutha, Alphaneo, Opz, Vid, Digital, Militant, Sage) defeats NoX 3 - 0 on Final Stand
Virus047: Flatline wins championship in STA OSP season in back to back seasons (Back 2 Back Champs).
April 2005
Season #1 STA Shrub Champions: Syndicate-Soldiers (Gotcha!, Luna, Debussy, Herbman, Doc, Ck, Talbot, Rap, Karpov, Leafie) defeats nJ 3 - 0 on Base
RTCW Open Cup Europe: Unique.de (Fr4, Igor, Insi, Kraft, Maki, Ozzy) defeats UDS
Donka: April fools with Alpha getting caught aimbotting. Planet-RTCW generates above 1000 comments over night. Also, dozens of broken hearts and gallons of human tears. Wippuh gets kicked from CAL for playing along and banning the whole alphaneo’s team. Producers: alphaneo, donka, gisele, pissclams.
Wippuh: Good times! Classic April Fool’s joke! I would like to take this time to point out a massively overlooked portion of wolf’s history. It was shortly before this time that Pissclams stopped adminning in CAL. He ran the majority of CAL for nearly 2 years and really kept it stable. Along with Rahl in TWL, he provided a base that so many people simply don’t appreciate enough. I saw the hard work he put in behind the scenes with his adminning duties, camming and being a general great person to promote the game from within. HUGE loss when he stepped down. Combine this with people who simply cannot fathom the fact that other players/teams are better than them and you have the rapid decline of wolf.
June 2005
Season #2 TWL Shrub Champions: N4L (Militant, Warzone, Focker, Coff1, Banks, Dyno, Evil, Branmuffin, Mutha) defeats True Soldiers on Chateau 3 - 0
RTCW Open Cup Europe: ViB (Arno, Didjay, edge, Enki, Kritos, Max, Maxuh, Momo, Uzer) defeats Natalie 5 – 3 on Frostbite, Base, Village.
July 2005
Season #2 STA Shrub Champions: The Swat Guys (Hotniks, Golfpro, Hunaryun, Feltersnatch, Holz, Heckler) defeats -|SS|- 3 - 1 on Tundra
Talbot: SS got screwed out of this championship, we got forced to play on a server where we all pinged well over a 100.
August 2005
RTCW Nations CUP #7: United Kingdom defeats Germany 4 - 0
October 2005
Wolfenstock One Day Tournament: Exodus (Fuzion, Imposter, Hiki, Luigi, Slaya, Naevara, Fenix, Twrecka, Pheonix) defeats tehbirds 3 - 0 on Beach
November 2005
Season #10 TWL OSP Champions: TV (Donka, Dyno, Elliot, Alias, Hiki, KrazyKaze, Rambowl) defeats Mongoloids 3 - 0 on Beach
Donka: LuckyB tells admins that his ip shows up on MBL due to his hacking nephew. Issue goes public and LuckyB gets a boot from RTCW overturning all exodus’ wins in playoffs.
Season #3 TWL Shrub Champions: Xtreme Soldiers (Badman, Forsaken, Surge, Deadeye, Banger, Spliff, Madness) defeats ASF 3 - 0 on Base
Talbot: Xtreme Soldiers played extremely well and earned their shrub championship, they beat SS 3-2 in the semis before rolling over ASF in the finals.
Syndicate.Gromit|TWL: This the season where Syndicate.Soldiers beat X and N4L beat ASF in the Semis but both matches were replayed with opposite results because WTV was live instead of delayed?
February 2006
RTCW Open Cup Europe: Svperfrogs (Arno, Cerv, Edge, Kritos, Max, Maxuh, Momo, Mote, Uzer) defeats one.soldier
April 2006
Season #11 TWL OSP Champions: Teh Birdz (Caffiene, Mutha, Spuddy, Rampage, Animal, Troll, Sonic, Mesh, Eights, Lt.Goose) defeats Jolly Rogers (Donka, Alien, Vid, Kep, Hikikomori and Kalamazoo) 3 - 2 on Beach
Spuddy: I remember Kalamazoo had an 0-10 round a panzer, and it was a catalyst for Donka and Caffs special relationship to this day.
Season 4 TWL Shrub Champions: Syndicate-Soldiers (Luna, Debussy, Doc, Ck, Talbot, Rap, Karpov, G-force, Aiko, Gromit, Booty) defeats C1 (forsaken, doctor, sponny, scrilla, streetz and warlord) 3 - 2 on tundra
Talbot: SS came back from being down 1-2 to win an extremely close championship 3 – 2!
June 2006
Battle of the Beach #3
BOB #3 Champions: wSw (Remedy, Slaya, Slag, Beavermania, Elusion, Daized) defeats Exodus 3 - 0 on Beach
Wippuh: A match where even the RtCW fanboys were rooting for u5.
Donka: United5 comes to RTCW to defeat birds and does it on RTCW original Teh Birds favorite map 3-0. This is the largest registered transfer of bragging rights to ever happen in RTCW.
Virus047: BOB3 marks one of several minor revivals of the RTCW community throughout the years. Hollywood (from Affliction) sparks interest and with the help of TWL admins and several other community members gets the tourney underway. Several notable teams and community members return to RTCW for the tournament. Interest in BOB 3 Tournament revives interest in OSP Community and TWL announces Season #12 of OSP. Over 40 teams signup to compete. OSP pubs including Hells Gate return in full force.
Syndicate.Gromit|TWL: I remember 2 things most vividly: 1) agonizing over the team seeding which, with the return of so many talented players, was done subjectively; and 2) the semifinals match Donka mentioned above. The Birdz allowed a banned player to play for U5 thinking that, regardless of who played, the Birdz would win. TWL informed both teams pre-match that if a banned player played for U5, the Birdz would move on to the finals by forfeit. The teams played anyway and Birdz were rolled on Beach. In the Finals, the Birdz refused to play so TWL decided to let U5 play for the title. U5 forfeited. All in all, it was a remarkably crappy way to end a great tournament.
July 2006
Season #5 TWL Shrub Champions: Syndicate-Soldiers (Alien, Booty, CK, Debussy, Doc, G-Force, Gromit, Inya, Karpov, Mutha, Rap, Scrilla, Talbot, Warlord) defeats oN 3 - 0 on UFO.
Syndicate.Gromit|TWL: A very strong season for Syndicate with Scrilla taking over the PF to free the rest of us up to gun. I think all our team members played at least one round in the finals.
Talbot: A special championshp for SS, we played 12 players from our roster for this match.
August 2006
Vixen Resigns as TWL RTCW Lead Admin
Virus047: Vixen could easily be credited by some as being one of the soul driving forces in TWL to keep RTCW afloat in its later stages when several higher up TWL admins wanted to pull the plug. Her drive and determination to never give up on the RTCW community was something that was hard to find in any admin who’s ever worked in this community. She was a personal friend and teammate of mine so I saw the countless hour she put forth to make TWL the best league possible. Regardless of personal opinion or feelings towards her it’s hard to ignore the effort and time she put towards the community. Her loss was felt very deeply as TWL was knee deep in admin controversy for many seasons to come.
September 2006
Season #12 TWL OSP Champions: TV (Remedy, Slaya, Sage, Elusive, Serum, Rambo, Mofo, Dyno, SnipeTX) defeats Jolly Rogers by forfeit on Ice
KrAzYkAzE: Not the original TV by any means. I played on Rabia this season.
Talbot: TV took this win by forefeit and refused to reschedule...Suffice it to say they lost a lot of credibility after this win.
Syndicate.Gromit|TWL: 1) 24 team season with 16 team playoff format 2) Tv takes a forfeit win over Jolly Roger (Alien, Vid, Daniel, Word, Nard, Lunatic and Radea) after Jolly Roger squeaked by Syndicate in the Semis. HUGE disappointment as the WTV audience missed what would have been an excellent match between 2 teams with undefeated regular seasons. 3) Mid-season drama with the disputed TV vs. Birdz match on sub. 4) Overall, it was an excellent revival season coming on the heels of BOB3.
November 2006
Battle For Berlin 3v3 Champions: Hostile Inc. (Remedy, Slaya, Rambo, Serum) defeats HighBot
December 2006
Season #6 TWL Shrub Champions: Syndicate-Soldiers (Debussy, Doc, Ck, Rap, Talbot, Karpov, Gromit, Booty, Warlord, Inya, Scrilla, Mutha, Alien, Luna) defeats I Love Lamp 3 - 0 on multiple maps
Talbot: Another match where SS got to play a dozen players from it's roster in a championship match.
February 2007
Season #13 TWL OSP Champions: Trinity (Cade, Sucka, Myth, Robez, Elusive, Bigshot, Rowdy, Chocula, Saleen, Lowtrack, Anomoly) deafeats High Life 3 - 1 on Frostbite
Robes: Numerous server crashes. tTt pulls out a win for the flock.
Talbot: Server crashers ruined the WTV and the match for the most part, for everyone
Syndicate.Gromit|TWL: 1) Another good OSP season with 18 teams and an 8 team playoff bracket. 2) Syndicate went 8-0 and Jolly Rgr 7-1, but after losing to both teams in the regular season, Trinity won the title.
June 2007
Season #7 TWL Shrub Champions: Syndicate-Soldiers (Booty, Karpov, Inya, Luna, Donka, DTA, Timmay, Aiko, Talbot) defeats Paco Familia 3 - 0 on Tundra
Talbot: SS wins their 4th straight shrub championship, a dynasty is born.
July 2007
TWL Ends RTCW Support: Gromit and his admin staff retire RTCW from TWL following successful OSP and Shrub Seasons.
January 2010
TWL hosts RTCW 2012 Mayan Apocalypse Tournament: Team Exile (Common, Redman, CKY, Lacerate?, Snoop, Radigan) defeats Black Hawk (Source, Juventus, Anialatem, Flogzero, Snappas, Snitch) 3-2 on Village!
Virus047: Strong interest in pubbing generates interest in having competition return. With CAL and STA gone, TWL jumps back in the fray and hosts a short lived revival for RTCW! This would begin with TWL's most successful revival attempt with the 2012 Mayan Apocalyse Tournament. 13 teams signed up for the event. Teams returned included Exile, Total Havoc, Team Vote, Team Cross Breed, Teh Birdz, Black Hawk etc.
Source: We basically ran through all the teams we played until the final vs Exile. The Final was really close. I think we had multiple full holds. We lost in the last round because we spawn camped them and thought they were all out full but redman was hiding in a nook and shot the doc carrier in the back, there wasnt enough time to go back and regrab.
February 2010
Virus047: TWL attempts to host another RTCW OSP Season. "Zombie RTCW Season #14". The 14th Season began in February but signups were slow and only landed 10 teams. Unfortunately forfiets and poor attitudes crippled the ability to complete the season. The season was canceled after around 4 weeks. Teh Birdz, Syndicate Soldiers, Total Havok, Team Cross Breed are some of the teams who return.
March 2010
TWL Opens RTCW 5v5 Ladder System: Several of the remaining teams from the failed Season #14 demand TWL host something. TWL provides the answer. The Ladder system returns for a short time. Activity remained high for several weeks. Again forfeits and inactivity closed this short lived revival.
August 2012
ClanBase RTCW 2012 Cup Announced
Virus047: Sometimes called the Fall Cup. WarWitch returns to the community to begin casting career again. 20+ NA and EU teams return. Zed (EU) runs the cup with support from Clanbase.
Gut: We had been doing rtcw pug nights on Sundays, I think, for a couple years. Parcher heard about this EU tourney getting ready to start, with Warwitch back and all...and started a team which was basically all of us Sunday night players (Team Stable). Once we figured out that we had like 30 guys on a 6-man team, people started telling their friends and etc, and led to teams like teh birdz, crossbreed, GFU, Arise, etc coming back for a final run in N/A.
ClanBase RTCW 2012 Cup Champions: One.Soldier (MerlinatoR, juncie, crumbs, owzo, abort, Clown) defeats OverPowered (bully, Kris, mata, mystic, Sipperi, Sirkka ) 4 - 0 in the grand finals.
April 2013
RTCW Legacy Cup Announced
Virus047: NA and EU teams allowed. Zed (Eu) running the cup with Merlinator (EU) supporting this time hosted on his own without Clanbase. Group stage followed by a classic tournament (Losers and Winners Bracket). Warwitch and Sabo continue casting! Word gets out and community on NA and EU continue to grow. Twitch and facebook fuel the RTCW revival for both NA and EU. 20+ teams signup!
May 2013
RTCW Legacy Cup Group Stage Begins
Virus047: Legacy Cup group stage and playoffs take months to complete with delays, reschedules, drama and other issues.
RTCW Legacy Cup Playoffs Finalists:
Winners Bracket Finals: One.Soldier vs. Raw (Winner One.Soldier)
Losers Bracket: KiH vs. OverPowered (Winner KiH)
November 2013
RTCW Legacy Cup Grand Final Champions: One.Soldier (abort, crumbs, dusty, MerlinatoR, Night, owzo) defeats KiH (Askungen, FeTTe, Malmen, ozzy, syL, zerom) 4-0.
ASUS Alliance 6vs6 RTCW-Cup Announced
Virus047: Following the grand finals of the RTCW Legacy Cup; Playaa, Bully, Malmen and a host of others take over admin duties from Zed. ASUS support a suprise but creates added interest with WarWitch continuing to support the community with improved casting and commentary from a wonderful cast of characters from NA and EU RTCW lore. 16 teams signup for this event. Again NA and EU.
Gut: Its too bad twitch wasnt a thing in 2003. Super-fun times had by all while casting matches. Warwitch, Sabo, Nail, CKY, Merlinator, Voice, DTS, Storm, myself, and others I am forgetting had a great time commentating the games. I sometimes preferred just "watching" the game then actually playing it.
March 2014
ASUS Alliance 6v6 RTCW-Cup Champions: Phase (Nait, crumbs, razz, Clown, mata, Kris) defeats RAW (jam, sqzz, mirage, bully, fro, olBaa) 4-3.
The Reich Strikes Back Cup Announced
Virus047: Again following in the foot steps of the fairly successful Alliance Cup. This time Myself, Gut, Bully, Adeto and Lasher man the helm as admins.
April 2014
The Reich Strikes Back Cup Begins
Virus047: 11 teams signup. Again EU and NA teams (Team Cross Breed, Teh Birdz, Good Knight, Game Over). 2 EU and 1 NA Groups.
July 2014
The Reich Strikes Back Cup Finals Champions: Phase (askungen, crumbs, mata, Kris, Clown, razz) defeats RAW (sirkka, sqZz, bully, olbaa, jam, fro) 3-2.
January 2015
2 Continents! 1 Cup... Cup Announced
Virus047: Rather than going the group stage route, this cup featured an 11 week long regular season where every team played each other and thus seeded a playoff but brackets would be split NA vs NA and EU vs EU. Resulting in a NA Champ and EU Champ which would then do battle in the ultimate finals. Signups begin in late January and last three weeks. 11 NA and EU teams signup (Team Cross Breed, Teh Birdz, Good Knight, to name a few signup).
June 2015
2 Continents! 1 Cup... Playoffs Begin
=DOG= wins EU Bracket Finals over Sick6
FHRITP wins the NA Bracket Finals over Team Cross Breed
2 Continents! 1 Cup... Cup Champions: =DOG= (Night, Clown, crumbs, razz, Mata, Kris, Dusty) defeats FHRITP (AlphA, CKY, WarRi0R, Boo7y, Source, Warzone) 3-1
Virus047: This marks the end of the major revival cups. WarWitch and Sabo drop support during this cup. Merlin and Gut fill in the casting gaps. NA vs EU created headaches with matchups. NA had no idea Raiser was on the horizon.
March 2017
2017 NA RTCW Draft Cup Announced
Virus047: Bi-Weekly OSP Pubs return, creating interest in a competitive outlet. NA RTCW Draft Cup Announcement draws in over 38+ signups. The four Team Captains are nominated by the admin team, who then drafted the players in a snake style draft. Cup featured a traditional group stage, followed by a short playoff.
April 2017
2017 NA RTCW Draft Cup Group Stage Begins
Virus047: Not without some drama, the group stage ended with Team Common being crowned #1 seed during the playoffs, followed by Team Kittens, Team Parcher and Team Reker.
May 2017
2017 NA RTCW Draft Cup Playoffs Begin
2017 NA RTCW Draft Cup Champions: Team Kittens (Kittens, Murkey, Booty, Knifey, Nikon, Virus047, Dynosaur, DeadEye and Plan-B) defeats Team Reker (Reker, Luna, Brujah, Donka, Pillow, Raiser, Brian, Beast, Dresserwood, v1d) 3-1.
Virus047: Team Reker was the feel good story of the cup, finishing the regular season winless (0-3) but defeating the #1 seeded Team Common in the Semi's to make the finals vs Team Kittens only to drop a close match in the championship.
June 2017
NA RTCW 6v6 Fall 2017 Cup Announced
Virus047: Previous two cups (6's Draft and 3's Admin Built) prove very successful/fun. Community wanted another comp outlet. Natural choice was to see if players can build teams on there own. Unfortunately only 5 Teams Signup after an almost two month wait.
August 2017
NA RTCW 6v6 Fall 2017 Cup Begins
Virus047: Hostile Inc. (Warrior, Eternal, Common, Brandon, Donkey, Elusive, Source, Rambo, Nigel, Decka) is the clear fav. early on but drops the opening night match to Cross Crips (Luna, Brujah, Sonic, Reker, Tragic, Fox, Jaytee). Regular season lasts only 5 weeks. Ends with three teams at 3-1 (Hostile Inc, Cross Crips and Birdz Bloodz).
October 2017
NA RTCW 6v6 Fall 2017 Cup Playoffs Begin
2017 NA RTCW Draft Cup Champions: Hostile Inc. (Warrior, Eternal, Common, Brandon, Donkey, Elusive, Source) defeats Birdz Bloodz (Kittens, Caff, Spuddy, Cypher, Knifey, Virus047, Rampage, DeadEye) 3-0.
Virus047: One of my fav. things about this cup was the group decision with the Monday Night Crew (Cross Breed and Teh Birdz) to split the group into two even teams vs. creating one super team and one weaker team. The group felt this helped balance out the community built teams of (Iconic and Amicable) and create more parity during the cup. This also created a great intra clan rivalry and three very close/exciting matches during the regular season and double elim playoffs. Crips won the regular season matchup but Bloodz got the better of Crips both times in the playoffs in two very close matches.
March 2018
NA RTCW 6v6 Draft Cup Announced
Virus047: Community remains active and thus generates a high demand for another competative event. The Admin Team announces another Draft Cup which then generates over 40+ signups for another Draft Style 6's cup for NA players. Five Teams generated from the signups with Reker, Caff, Eternal, Source and Warrior serving as captains.
April 2018
NA RTCW 6v6 Draft Cup Begins
Virus047: Draft Cup regular season only lasts five weeks (since we only have five total teams). Team Reker (Reker, Nikon, Murkey, Cypher, KrazyKaze, DeadEye, Siluro and Dresserwood) finished the group stage in first place with a 4-0 record as they beat up just about every team during the regular season run, only dropping two total rounds!
May 2018
NA RTCW 6v6 Draft Cup Playoffs Begin
NA RTCW 6v6 Draft Cup Champions: Team Reker (Reker, Nikon, Murkey, Cypher, KrazyKaze, DeadEye, Siluro and Dresserwood) defeats Team Warrior (Warrior, Brandon, The End, Raiser, Virus047, Gut, TK Pow and Dagger) 3-0 on Tundra and Village.
Virus047: Top 4 teams qualify for the playoffs, Team Reker and Team Warrior win semi's matchups and meet in finals. Team Reker (Reker, Nikon, Murkey, Cypher, KrazyKaze, DeadEye, Siluro and Dresserwood) overpowers a Team Warrior for the championship. I recall this being sorta lop sided as Team Warrior just didn't have its best guns for the finals available. Ahhhh Draft Cups.
November 2019
Crossfire XMAS Onedaycup Announced
Virus047: While not an NA event, the entire RTCW community sees a return of actvitiy during the holiday season and thus Homie hosts an EU community specific event with 8 teams signing up to compete in a one day cup!
December 2019
Crossfire XMAS Onedaycup Champions: roznorodnosc (h2o, mini, parcher, murkey, raw, kylie, vis) defeats Dog (mata, kris, razz, clown, sharky, crumbs) 4-0 on Beach and Village.
Virus047: This cup obviously doesn't include many NA players other than Murkey and Parcher, but did include the return to hosting RTCW of Tosspot and Merlin casting the finals match together. Some great action in this match regardless of the score.
January 2020
RTCW 2020 6v6 One Day Cup Announced
Virus047: With the massive success of the Crossfire XMAS Oneday Cup and with activity remaining strong on both sides of the pond, Cliffdark takes the time to organize yet another RTCW 6v6 One Day Cup. This time several NA specific teams join the fray including (DHS and Trinity). A total of 7 teams signup for this event.
RTCW 2020 6v6 One Day Cup Champions: roznorodnosc (h2o , mini, raw, murkey, kylie, vis, parcher) defeats RAW (jam, bully, homie, fro, Mirage, dusty, crumbs, Kevin) 2-1 on Ice and Village.
Virus047: Roz continued the success from the previous event over to this cup and takes home the crown over a very good RAW team.
Winter Storm Cup Announced
Virus047: The continued activity in the community generates desire from many teams to compete in a larger scaled event. Cliffdark announces Winter Storm League which will round robin all teams in a large group stage followed by standard playoffs. 9 Team initially Sign Up including (DHS, Trinity, and N/A from NA and a host of others from the EU community).
February 2020
Winter Storm League Begins
Virus047: Cup favoriates and rivals, RAW and ROZ, "randomly" get scheduled for the final regular season match, setting up an exciting final week of the regular season.
February 2020
Coronavirus Nations Cup Announced!
Virus047: Why not! Activity around RTCW remained strong so Faster and Homie decided to announce the creation of the first Nations Cup to be hosted in RTCW in ages! The event would be played between the end of the regular season of the Winter Storm League and the beginning of that leagues playoffs. 8 teams originally signed up but roster issues ended up starting the event out with 7 teams representing including NA (Mixed Team of USA and Canadian Players), Belgium, UK, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands and “Pseudo Vikings” (Mixed Team of Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finish and Estonian Players) to round it out! The event would be conducted over one weekend with no official finals match taking place and the winner being decided purely by results and rounds won to provide a champion!
Coronavirus Nations Cup Begins!
Virus047: UK and NA are the clear favs going into the event. With several other teams having a chance to claim the event championship!
Coronavirus Nations Cup Champions: NA (brandon, murkey, source, parcher, Kittens, and Nigel)
Virus047: NA's ability to take rounds on EU based servers proved the ultimate reason they claimed the championship for North America! EU based teams struggled to win rounds on NA based servers with many EU players having problems playing with higher ping. During the event NA did not give up a single round vs EU teams on NA based servers.
Winter Storm League Playoff Begins
Virus047: Roz and RAW finish the season 8-0 and 7-1 respectively earning the top seeds going in to the playoffs. All 8 teams competing make seperate playoffs (Top 4 and Bottom 4) giving every team a chance to keep playing!
Winter Storm League Winners Bracket Champions: roznorodnosc (h2o , mini, raw, murkey, kylie, vis, parcher) defeats RAW (jam, bully, homie, fro, Mirage, dusty, crumbs, Kevin) 4-2 on Village, Ice and Frostbite.
Virus047: Roz again takes the crown but not without some major controversy. With RAW about to set a 2:15-ish time on Ice and the score sitting at 2-1 in favor of Roz on Ice, the server randomly restarted. Murkey, the server’s admin and playing with Roz, later admitted to shutting the server down to keep RAW from setting the quick time. Admins would force the round to be replayed but with only 2 minutes remaining on the clock for Roz to attempt to beat that time. RAW would go on to win that round to tie the match 2-2 forcing OT! Roz would eventually prevail winning the match 4-2 on the final map, Frostbite!
Winter Storm League Losers Bracket Champions: DHS (Virus047, Reker, Nigel, Brujah, Kittens, Tragic, Playa, Cypher, DeadEye, Fox, Jaytee, Spuddy, and Luna) defeat Bonkas (Joep, rezta, crabje, ditto, nova, seareal, chronic, Leonneke, and shootej) 3-1 on Village and Frostbite!
Virus047: DHS took the regular season matchup vs. Bonkas in 4-0 fashion but Bonkas was missing two key players who turned out for the rematch in the championship! The match was very close with several rounds being decided in the final 3-4 seconds! Easily could have gone in the favor of Bonkas!
Very Special Thanks: Karpov for creating the original document this is based from. Without his months of effort to put this document together years ago this wouldn’t even be possible!
Also Thanks Go To: Talbot, Gromit, Wippuh, Donka, Robez, Hollywood, Sharp, KrazyKaze, Cypher, Gut, Spuddy, RedMan, Gotcha, Source, Booty, DividedbyZero, EventHorizon, Fool, Sucka, Vixen, Juventus, Diaz, Rambowl, Vortex, Killermike, Flogzero, Sage, Coff1 and Caffeine for supplying info as well as helping put this together.
Special Note: Match Links, Videos and Shoutcasts provided by Homie.
Last Updated: 5/7/21