10.27.2008

3rd Leader - 2nd Assistant Specialized In Europe

Well, he plays in Inzane, he plays in every nice and populated European server.
The two BLS leaders have gone quiet in games. I thought it was finally time for a 3rd one. I have never set a limit for the number of leaders. But now I do, and it's 3. Haha. If Laz also gets way too busy, he can get substituted by a replacement. Only substituted, so it doesn't mean "a 4th leader" (otherwise the whole BLS are leaders). Laz will remain the original 3rd leader. That's it. He feels like he could lead a team and give them energy, especially BLS teammates. He has been one important guy giving opinions, reporting updates, etc to BLS like he could really be a 3rd leader. So he deserves it.

Another expired update I didn't make in the blog, well, we've got MANU_CHAO!
And that's probably it. Haha. I remember I was on my way to observe "cutegirl^" play but too bad.
J0ker has gone to a simple name. "BLS". Well, he's been our teacher from the beginning (why do you think we're flipping like crazy to make it so "BLS" on ND?). So he wears the clan name as he was the one who made BLS flip like Shai (just not as good as Shai). Then random non-BLS people have been learning from us... At the end, it all came from J0ker. Haha. "BLS movement". We just have to work on our sniping ability, the Chr1st's way. And Laz way of translocating.

8.03.2008

The Updates

Ever since the last update, there's been no new member in BLS since I've become so picky. But we now have Bioly from Poland Sith clan to help us in case we need a strong player.
But facing ZRYW has never made me expect to put one of the top squads. It came up pretty much at the last minute. ZRYW came up with some players we've never seen before. Players that seemed to be more like "borrowed" than anything else, or players who just wanted to be in war to face us. I was sticking to the messed up squad since I thought that the messed up squad could defeat ZRYW, the ZRYW that we know. What I mean by "messed up" is not "worst BLS players", no. Everyone in BLS is good. Most importantly, they are good at their MAIN tasks. "Messed up" because we were not the type of squad with good team chemistry together like the one we had against HKL in 2 first games. Also because all of us weren't in our main position doing our main tasks. Why? Because our appropriated players were not present. So I thought we could beat ZRYW with any type of squad. Looks like I was wrong. There's been a huge unexpectation that I need to put all anger on a future next war against ZRYW. There's a truth behind. I'll let you figure out. And no trust will be present when the war will nearly approach. Not a single 1%. I've been probably too "calculating" by trying to put a matching squad and a fun challenge against them but I guess I'll be "overcalculating" from now on and hope to overwhelm once and for all. Strict and severe to the point I wouldn't even care who's butt I'm gonna have to shove their own mouse up their ass. I was maybe not serious enough but I may be way more serious now since that's how people seem to want me to be. I'm usually not so vengeful but I'll make an exception on UT. I'll be full of vengeance and crappy stuff.

I don't have much details about the war myself except the fact that I was in Niven, and I left so that p0p could take my place and I tried to get back but it was full everywhere even in spectating mode. I heard we lost 1-0. I got back and we were winning in face 3-1. Though it was already a messed up line up, Christ managed to do something out of it (known from his sniping skills). Eternal cave clearly shows how messed up we were in a "not opened" map. With Christ defending and Blub supporting, things stayed at 0-0. But with bad chemistry in attack from non-pure attackers (Me, P0p and Kronick), it made me think we should ban this line up forever EXCEPT in North American servers. Christ lost patience and went on attack, leaving a clear path for the other team. And from the lack of quality in covering, Christ died, I took the flag and died too. They scored twice with the magic play of XT making it 2-0. Blue base basically had full of defence, making me having the stat of most kills & grabs in the team while aggressively attacking. But low score. I saw P0p trying his best too... But I never seemed to see Kronick supporting as much as we needed in attack. We were not even specialized in attack anyway... The absence of Laz, MC and Ciro clearly shows it. The pure trained flag grabbers... (Bioly was not part of the plan until the moment where it almost got too late... and he didn't show up... Our only hope was him to replace Kronick and win that war...)
So because of some stupidities I didn't expect in that war, there's gonna be a mega huge plan B for next time. Prepared and planned way before the war. Some people know what I mean. It's gonna be like the North Korean leader preparing tons of atomic bombs in advance when he's just gonna make some street wars. Just in case he would need to use them. I can't believe myself I have to do that but it will be like that. BECAUSE stupidities like that could happen again. Who knows... It's just a plan B by the way.
The first plan, we'll be at the best squad (good team chemistry) this time no matter what our opponents are.
Lesson learned.

Meanwhile, see you guys around.

-Lid

6.05.2008

BLS Updates

New BLS?
I have decided to expand BLS to make the clan become diverse and skilled in American / Canadian servers and European servers. Skilled in many mods and gametypes. Each one of us has his own speciality in the clan. The only problem is... What if they're too busy to show up in wars when we need them most? I tried to think about that part. BLS keeps expanding by choosing players who have things that we don't have. Ever since last update of this blog, here are the new BLS players and the main reason why they were chosen:
- Lazarus (Sweden) was found clanless and he wanted to be part of a team no matter what it was. Ciro was the one who pushed me to put him on a test which would allow me to know if he had something that we needed. I honestly saw nothing special from him on ND. Not until I saw him using the translocator in an amazing way and telefragging people in his way like it was nothing. It made me realize how noobish and RUSTY we are with translocator. This guy will be our example other BLS should learn from (if they ever want to be true pro players). His attacking style with translocator (practiced from .de servers) proved us how important it is to be skilled with translocators. One of our best attackers. Very good in English for communications, great sense of humor, good and friendly personality.
- Kr0n!ck (USA) was also found clanless. He came back from Call-Of-Duty 4, completely rusty in UT. He was an old partner of the best HKL english speaking person Ciro. He was known to be good on ND. Better than many players though he didn't show me much impact in games like p0p did. I had to wait and think for days. Until I played Insta Gib games, it made me think about Kr0n!ck because he said he was among the best in Insta Gib normal speed. Logically, if he's a pro insta gib user, then that means he's a man of precision... And a man of precision can never look like a pro with high ping. A very dangerous player if we play in American / Canadian servers or stuff that has Zero Ping for his shooting precision. At the very beginning, I thought that guy was an ass in personality but I was wrong... A nice friend with good personality, also half asian to sum up with other BLS asian blood. HAHAHA.
- Chr1st (Netherlands) was an old friend of Laz. A pro flipping sniper who would stand alongside with the scary all-rounder (J0ker) in our category of "BLS Lords". He's gonna kill you so much, you wouldn't wanna play anymore. Very competitive to the point he's gonna challenge anyone 1vs1 and make you look coward if you say no. A true DM player. When he's really really focused, on CTF, his average kills per game can go up to 100 kills in less than 2o minutes. If not, why not 500 headshot kills in less than 20 minutes? Definitely not a ND player... Sadly on ND server, he can't make use of his favorite translocator and he doesn't know how the ND grapplehook works. According to Laz, Christ is not only very very skilled and accurate but also extremely fast with translocator. Probably miles better than Laz? Just imagine that...

What you see up there will go to the member descriptions found in BLS forum along with the fantastic descriptions made by MC (unfortunately, the text was too huge, I couldn't put it here).

J0ker and Chr1st haven't got the "taste" of killing in high speed games of Atlanta yet. Probably a good warm up before they are brought to war against HKL. J0ker said he wants to improve more to become perfect even if he often owns in .de old friends / FFA servers already. Like it wasn't enough.

War against HKL, a 2-2 tie? Yes... I accepted to spice things up:
Apparently, it was a public war against HKL.
5vs5 in the two first games. Face and Thorn with normal weapons.
We won the two games but unfortunately, Ciro forgot to take the screenshot of the first game when I asked him. Was it 5 to 1 in face? We were even playing against HKL 5vs6 in which they had one random guy camping for their team. I dunno how many kills I got in Face against HKL but I remember at the end, I was aiming for dominating, unstoppable and godlike as I had fun sniping their heads off from their own base (Yes I changed my defensive spot at the end, I was in their base, protecting our base). I often saw 2 heads going off in a row and it opened my eyes wide "Who the hell did that? I was gonna shoot them...", as I looked up the screen, it said that the headshots were from Blub... Hahaha... Typically Blub...
In Thorn, I got distracted by the appearence of MC and Ciro at the same time, creating a 6vs5 for us. I said I was gonna leave but Ciro left the game for me. Despite all the confusions, we won 5-2. I gotta thank Laz, Anon and Blub for keeping the game tough for them. And of course MC, who was so focused to win for us since he couldn't see anything.
It was 2-0 until I had to leave to prepare my birthday preparation. I came back and they reported it was 2-2 as they came back with two 4vs4 Insta High Speed games. First of all, it was a major mistake for BLS to let them have what they want (because playing in Atlanta is already what they want - not what BLS want but we felt we could kick ass) but to let them Insta Gib during my absence and also without kr0n!ck, anon and our BLS lords? No way... No one probably had any idea how much they were practicing there with Insta. None of us were trained there enough for Insta Gib games. Since I'm a generous person, I let them have those 2 wins. But it should be a lesson for BLS. It's frustrating but that's the point. We must not let this happen again. Please, vote NORMAL WEAPONS! We're not even in our advantaged server. So we need our own strength too, NORMAL WEAPONS! They didn't accept to play on my server, they wouldn't accept European server, they would only accept their advantaged Atlanta server because that's their only way to play at BLS level. So please, don't forget to vote Normal Weapons. Those who spectate, I'd appreciate if you join in when the game is finished and vote Normal Weapons to make sure. It seems that we can't deal for games with them VERBALLY. Only from the act of voting what we want. If only I can communicate in Spanish eh? Ciro isn't the leader so the task for him is so hard that he would look like a slave if I abuse him. Anyway, HKL took their 2 wins that way, then we'll take our next wins that way too until we reach a total of 5 wins. Then act like nothing happened until our blog shows the ownage of the 3 next games. I'm calling up the BLS Lords for humiliations in those next 3 games. I don't care... Just a little message in games for HKL. Prepare for next Sunday same schedule, same server.

This is BLS Leader, thanks for reading.
Here are the pics of the moment. War result of the 2nd game (not as good as our 1st game).
Random picture with n00b. And Chr1st owning even if he wasn't focused in games (because he was chatting, killing and capping at the same time... I mean... CHATTING?! right before our eyes hahahaha... How about eating, watching tv, taking shower, playing football and owning on UT at the same time?).

5.16.2008

BLS Activities

Funwar - Training with CoD every Sundays

What's better than training with CoD to keep BLS in shape?
CoD is a clan with so much experiences compared to us and other clans we've met. Seeing how they play through our funwar with them always gives us some example of how a very good teamwork should be. At the same time, we will get more experiences playing in clanbase maps which seems new to some of us. Our first time playing with them was very fun, although we were missing some players. I hope we will have more fun in the next Sundays!

New BLS Players?

More space in BLS as our fellow Tyson left by himself. What can I say? Well, I kinda like it.
I mean, I like the "New Space Available" concept because we may have a new BLS Knight soon to refill that space and make the limit of 4 "Soldiers" dropped to 3! We also lost a Knight who came from a division but blah... I've been dealing with better pros in FFA server... Anyway, expect to see me scouting for European skilled players and don't worry, BLS, I still go for the personality first. :)
I brought up a potential guy *Edited* Wrong person... he didn't show up:
*Link Gone*

Screenshots anyone?


Here's an old screenshot taken because MC forced me to take it... It was one of his best games (best in terms of killing I suppose). My comment on that one: I looked ridiculous but what can I say... I admit I was struggling because I was attacking alone, damn it! HAHA! Good thing my team knew how to camp even though they ate a lot of MC's rockets in their faces... Anyway, we will never forget that Razman was a pest and I completely owned him in commands... :P














This one is from Ciro. He wants to give us confidence for an incoming war against CFD clan.

4.10.2008

Forum is made

http://blsclan.friendhood.net/

Due to the fact that many people are visiting this place, they have suggested that it is finally time to create a forum.
More sections will be added. But meanwhile, you guys can register and post in "Random discussions" section.
Hope to see you there!

Screenshot of the moment, Anon breaking MC's record of 8 caps.

4.02.2008

Trainings and new BLS server hosted by Lidstrom

74.57.162.28:7777

Forget about other BLS members hosting a server for me. HAHA! I was thinking that if I keep being lazy, BLS would be going nowhere! :D So... I've finally adjusted my router's options to open ports. Hosting server always has to be the leader's job eh eh?! Whyyyy! Whyyy! :P Just kidding...
The server will be opened every friday during day time for me, MC, P0p, Ciro, Jman, (and night for Anon, Blub and Tyson) so I think it's the perfect time to see all of you.
It can also be opened weekdays late at night my time (per request from BLS members I usually see around that time).
Some days can be exceptions. I'll tell you about the occasional days. :P
Hope we'll have fun training. YEEAAH!
Don't forget! Save that address to your favorites. :) You can go to "CTF" tabs to find the server under the name "BLS Clan Server" when the server is on.

Time for updates!
Alpha Omega went back to CoD. I didn't even celebrate the moment when he was a BLS anyway. :P Too bad.

BLS records on the right of the blog have more fun details hahaha... (I'm bored)

Ciro sent me this screenshot... That was when he got crazy and went dominating, surpassing Mareike...:













One of those days when the legendary flag killer Lidstrom (me) was almost reaching 400 points... PFHAHA! Hey guys, screenshot your points when you reach 500 or even 1000 or even 10 000! :) *Exaggerating* Anyhow, BLS on top! Yeaaah!:

3.30.2008

Quick and small update

Alpha Omega, former CoD, joined BLS.

As for Phalanx, if you guys allow me, I will train him... I feel that he needs to improve some important things in CTF... I will write huge and red here where the CTF training server will usually be, for all of us to enjoy it.

And I'm asking for our 1st war, LDP. I'd appreciate it if any of you find Kon@n, to tell him about that and gather some informations he'd give you. :) Thanks. Asking Marat made him speechless so it was useless.

As for ZYWR, they said NO... I hope they will change that answer someday...
Otherwise, we'd take on HKL.

Then other clans like ZSM, ... I forgot the others. Sorry.

I feel we're ready to face any of them, before taking on CoD and GP. :) I want to make sure BLS is experienced in Clan Wars... Also, our top players are really ready for it... Hahaha!

3.29.2008

Updates - Sad News 1st - Good News After

Sad news is... one of the best females ever left our clan for a personal reason. She was sorry she couldn't tell me exactly what it was. What can I say? I wish her the best though. It was fun having her representing BLS. I still hope we could see her around.

Good news are... Avanox reported that the real Shadow was seen without a tag and Dark clan was down?! Woooh hooooh! Just kidding. New members? Our important Melissa left... So it's very sad but there's some other goodies coming to our future BLS. Let's talk about P0ph3rch3rry. He's from the same city as me (good for French communication). The best thing is that he's a really good player. I also felt some potential from him, so that means... He could become way better as he fits in our team. Secondly, another new member has joined us. Currently ranked 6th in No Downloads server, a very friendly person from Netherlands, Blub! Thirdly, Shai is now a BLS!!! (Happy Early April Fool Day for that 3rd one)... Our momentum would really go up like a rocket if it was real.

Now... let's talk about some amazing things that happened in the last couple weeks. MC and Anonymous kept winning and winning? Haha. The dynamic duos. I've heard they kept amazing people with their "traditional" comeback. Meanwhile, Ciro was on vacation. HAHA I thought he was hospitalized or something. Me and MC were training in some DM maps, 1vs1. It was fun. He has improved as he kept finishing 2nd in LMS. So imagine if he had lower ping.

Anyway, here are some cool game results from Anonymous:
Anonymous, alongside with our brand new member Blub, facing the killing machine Berserker and Attaman.

Anonymous, proving everyone he could be an ultimate killing machine in this game. Look at the frags!!! This goes to our record book. HAHA!

MC also had a screenshot and I still didn't have it. It will be posted in the next update.

Recently... for one of the most rare occasions, I've finally shown myself up in games when Anonymous was also there. Basically, almost all BLS members were there except Ciro and Mc.
Due to the team balance, two strongest players always have to face each others, right? Haha. Well that's what happened. It was always me vs anonymous. Except once, because I've been moved to anonymous' team from a !team. We were facing p0p hahaha! BLS members were on top of every games.

3.22.2008

List of players and updates

First of all, I'd like to announce something that you all probably know already. A key player and probably the most wanted by many clans has joined our team! It's Anonymous! What a nice appearance he's made under our clan tag!
Also, he gave me the list of BLS players. A list that I've never looked at. There:
Click here to view the gametracker BLS players
You can type BL$ in the search if you wanna find some other results. (But most of them are from PinkStar and she loves to change her name and its design).

Tyson went in BLS just for a while but decided to wait as a clanless player first before re-joining. He's probably waiting for some other clans to call him. As far as I know, he asked NECRO if he could join it. Weird thing is that many good players left NECRO. And GLIKNIJ left that clan to try to join ours. After watching GLIKNIJ play, he was truly a skilled player, but he just doesn't play the games fairly. Plus, it was hard for me to communicate with him. BLS needs good basic communication. And not only that, but he simply doesn't fit in our team.

Kr0n!ck joined HKL but he was found more recently as a BLS. I don't know who exactly recruited him but he's not bad at all. I need to watch him play more as a BLS player. I also wanna have a little talk with him before confirming that he'll be in our original team roster. Then, I gotta make sure he'll find the perfect spot in our team. And BLS will keep rocking! Yeah!

Same for the new guy, Czekajcie. Please, if any of you have recruited someone new, I need you to report it to me or McYoung. I don't even know who he is. So if I see him, I'll start to watch him and question him.

When someone is seen with the BLS tag and he's not even in the list of players I made (or I didn't confirm his "membership" yet), he would be considered a wannabe BLS. A fake. So that's why I need any of you to tell me (or MC) some updates if something new happened to BLS.

That's it for the BLS updates of the moment.

We've seen Shai under the name "Singularity". He didn't even talk. But when he just came in the game, I saw the British flag. Then I saw his ping at about 80 to 110. I was a spectator so I checked him out. He was moving typically like Shai. I've never seen Singularity before and all of a sudden, he knows how to use the grapplehook like Shai. He moves like Shai, kills like him, etc. It only took me 10 seconds to recognize all that. Too obvious. I don't wanna guess what all that means but for sure, Singularity is not a random word.

3.18.2008

BLS - The clan that helps improving your skills and communication in games

As we know, BLS works as a great team with good chemistry. That's how we succeed. We understand each others by knowing all of our teammates' style in games to the point we could easily guess their next moves, knowing what kind of help they need, etc. We communicate so well in games that I bet that's one of the reasons why some unknown people were asking if they could join BLS. Of course I need to observe and know their style of playing first to see if they could fit in our clan.

At the same time, as a leader, I'm willing to improve myself for the clan and help my members to show how great of a team BLS is. I'm very happy to see how much BLS wants to improve alongside with me. I hope my presence in games would give you more inspiration and momentum to play at your best and have a lot of fun. When I'm not in the game, MC should be the one guiding you all through victory. He's got good sense of leadership in games.

Now, let's talk about some updates...
Tyson_Ind has joined BLS... But I still need to ask him some questions... I wonder if his reason to leave Dark clan was the same as us...

This is the screenshot of CirO!! during his ownage.
I'm really amazed by how much he has improved.
He has done way better than Skye Sken!? Amazing.

If you guys noticed, on the BLS team roster, you can click on few players' name to see their stats as BLS member.

Improvement of McYoung? Oh yeah! This is his old stat as a Dark: Click to see

This is CirO!!'s old stat as a HKL member:
Click to see

My stat as a Dark:
Click to see

So if you all click on the recent stats in BLS roster, you would see how much all of us has improved. Thanks to SmartCTF, it has shown our true value in CTF games.

To improve, it's always nice to compare ourselves to someone better... Like myself for example, comparing myself to Unnamed in stats... We don't have the same style but still...
This is Unnamed's weekly stats at the moment:

















Compared to mine (Yes I had a bad start of the week because I wasn't in the mood):

3.16.2008

A fun and exploding beginning

Hey! It's Lidstrom here. You know, in less than just 2 weeks, I'm really impressed by how things started out. I gotta say, I wasn't expecting many good things. It has gone pretty well!

1st, I was starting this clan alone with a random name. I was completely rejected. But people were shocked that I was no longer a Dark member. We were talking more than we were playing just because of that. I was looking for a 1st friend to join at least and then discuss about a new clan name by then. That person, I was only focused to get him as a 1st member. I'm not the type to go look for a massive bunch of players all in one week. So I was just waiting for that player while McYoung was still in Dark clan, waiting for Shai's decision. Guess who that player is... That's right, it's Anonymous. He's one hell of a good player.
A guy from HKL named SuperiorMatt interfeered to ask him to join HKL. So right now, he's still hesitating.

Later, I tried to recruit a girl from Canada named Helen, she was very good! But she said "Don't tempt me" when I asked her to join BLS as a 1st member.

Then Ciro!! of HKL randomly joined BLS by himself as a joke (but now it becomes serious, he's fully a BLS member). I didn't mind it.
But my 1st official member of BLS turned out to be McYoung. I felt more comfortable with that start.

We were trying to convince Shai to join us but because of his loyalty to Dark, it seems like it would take forever before we see him as a BLS member. McYoung said that Shai will one day end up in BLS. I wonder when will that "one day" be. I believe McYoung would keep bothering him with that. Hahahaha! In a way, if Shai remains a Dark, I don't feel like playing seriously.

Jman, the guy who was recruited in Dark by McYoung, joined BLS easily and I'm glad he was happy about it.

^PlNk$T/-R^, a Canadian girl who made a special appearance, has shown her potential to McYoung while I was away. Then I went to take a look. She's pretty impressive! I'm more than happy to have her as BLS! She's amazing! Especially after hearing that she was beating 7777 and Rayman 4 times in a row in Last Man Standing server! Those two players are REALLY among the best and she managed to own them?! Now she's really something.

Then Sikshot got out of CoD for some reason. She joined us. According to McYoung, she's also a really good player!

So if Shai-Hulud and Anonymous join BLS, the clan would already be among the best in less than a month!? (Without counting the "targeted players" to join BLS)...

Mareike said she will remain clanless. So she's off my list.

That's it! Let's get out there and enjoy!

3.13.2008

Clan Basic Informations For New BLS Members

Reasons For Starting BLS Clan: Friends / Communication / Having Fun In Games (Especially in clan wars) / Pride
Clan Starter: Lidstrom
Clan Name Creator: McYoung (BLS - Inspired from Yu-Gi-Ho)
Clan's "Original Three" - Friends & Leaders - (Former Dark Clan members): Lidstrom / McYoung / Shai-Hulud *Still Pending*
Clan GameType: CTF (Capture The Flag)
Special Fact: The Original Three Friends were in the top 2 pages of "No Downloads" Gametracker as Dark members / BLS seems more like a Canadian/British/Americans clan probably because of better communication