Justified Ancients of Menace

History

The team at the start of the first season of the WPDML was Quadfather, Cons, Thirdof5, Telly, ThaKrow, Lightfoot, Pobster and Zardoz (forgive me if I missed someone).

Bitter enemies of Edge Of Madness in the old days, but that was a long time ago and everyone has grown up now, even Telly and Quake50.

Aliased as the Silly Turkish Balloonmen during the Wireplay Shot-To-Bits crisis.

Went inactive many times over the years but never really split up.

Highlight for the clan was late 1999. Won over many division one uk clans in practises and reached all the way to the semifinals of the UKCL cup, beating long term rivals Denial [have to point out they had a depleted team at this stage, so skum and oppy won't beat me up] twice on the way. Unfortunately lost to TS in the semifinals in a really disappointing fashion, Thirdof5, Tanan and Atomic (probably our best three players) were all unable to make it. TS won DM2 but JAMS were leading on UKCLDM2 until Telly (I was using the up to that point ultra stable Thrustworld dialup to make sure I didn't have problems) and Grassman were disconnected while JAMS were still in the lead, costing them control of the map and allowing TS to get pent. To be fair TS also had a weakened team, and perhaps would have won even with both teams at their strongest as they had many strong players like Bigfoot, Cenobite, Erebus and Salamander. But me and Cons still feel bitter about it to this day :).

We also got to the quarterfinals of the MCW cup that year and had a good modem team starring Lightfoot. But Zybex's poor attitude meant we had to ask him to leave, and we couldn't find anyone to replace him at short notice, so had to default to XC.

Thirdof5 was the original leader and then Telly took over mostly from 1999 onwards.

From 2000 we tried out various games, mostly with the same team. Played Quake3 in 2000, doing reasonably well. We reached the top divisions of all the UK leagues and had some good results in CTF. Nih was very good at Quake 3, and also the one who hated it with the most passion.

Tried out CPM TDM for a season but it was just free for all. Our team iirc was telly, grind, nih, cons, krass and acidicfish. We also played a 2v2 cpm tournament, with telly, acidicfish and cons playing, but can't remember how we did, except won at least one map.

Played one season of a Counterstrike league, Telly (I never played CS except the league matches themselves) thought it would be easy, but lost all the matches horribly. Pobster, grind, telly, acidicfish and cons was the CS team (I think).