Yesterday I was comfortably sat in front of my comp with a drink and some food, I was prepare to spend a relaxing evening and watch TV or so...
Then I checked NDML webby and what I see * Jaws movies music * HOOO NOOO CZ - LTU ?!!!!!
I thought I could escape it and tried to find a naive admin who would jump into the legendary hardcore server search for those two east countries. But the dudes weren't dumb enough "erm sorry I can't I must go to the dentist's" or "ho soz grav but my pet just died and i feel to sad to admin a game :'("
From there I got it. One more time I would have to handle this...
After like 30 minutes spent and after my whole ASE server list was getting dry of neutral server.. Home/away was the solution.
Q2DM3 - The Frag Pipe Lithuania's map / Server: Progamer.cz
At the start we could see CZ controlling the SSG-Quad and RL part while Lithuania, leaded by DM, had railguns to frag. The score was pretty close with an advantage to CZ though.
After 10 minutes it switched and Marty and his colleagues were profitting of their ping advantage at Rail. Lithuania's best fragger DM had overflowed and was replaced by Parashut. He became the new top fragger of the team but this time at Quad and RL. From there Lithuania took almost all quads and Invul and the score was still really close but with a small advantage to LTU until the end.
Q2DM7 - The Slimey Place Czech's map / Server: Balticum.lt
We went on the lithuanian server and it started off rather quickly. Czech had the best start and secured the RA, but Lithuania collected weapons carefully at SSG/HB and Upper RL. Then they stroke back and kicked Czech arses.
From there they started the usual domination scanario although they were playing very agressive. Parashut was taking a RA then going hunting the Czech dudes until he dies.
Pretty impressive I must say.
Marty kept resisting and never let the RA quiet but it was never enough to reverse the domination.
Conclusion
GG but I must say, the server search was awful and it's sad that we had to play this home/away but finally the game went smooth and players quickly forgot all this and shut all the whines while playing.