The Long Road To Rotterdam - Team-Helix is back (4088 Views)
written by
FlyingDJ
on 28.08.06 16:45
A big LAN event seems like second nature to most Counter-Strike and WarCraft 3 teams. Managers take care of all the arrangements, sponsors pay for the trip and t-shirts are standard equipment anyway. No big deal, one might say.
When it comes to Enemy Territory, everything is different. Most managers hardly manage to plan online cup matches, sponsors only pay for servers and web space (if they do at all) and t-shirts are something you have to pay for yourself. With the upcoming Crossfire Prizefight Challenge, we have seen how difficult it can be for teams to attend these events, even with €3000 of prize money to be won.
Let's take the example of the
vicious and evil team. When they won the qualifier, they started to count their money and had a look at the costs that they'd have to bear. With 30 Euros of entrance fee, 30 Euros for a hotel room, about 100 Euros to get there and a still uncertain amount to be spent on drugs and prostitutes in Rotterdam, this is a lot of money for a standard high school student. When an offer to cover some of these costs comes your way, who would say no?
So what happened? Team Helix, one of the oldest names in Enemy Territory, stepped to the players and offered their support. I asked team leader biqq for the reasons to accept this offer:
So while vicious and evil are now playing under the flag of Helix, there must have been a reason for duke to offer his support all of a sudden. He had this to say:
So once again Team-Helix is on the road - to success? One should always remember that they were one of the few teams that were able to beat u96d in EuroCup XI. Will history repeat itself? We'll see very soon in Rotterdam.
Team-Helix
#hx @ Quakenet
When it comes to Enemy Territory, everything is different. Most managers hardly manage to plan online cup matches, sponsors only pay for servers and web space (if they do at all) and t-shirts are something you have to pay for yourself. With the upcoming Crossfire Prizefight Challenge, we have seen how difficult it can be for teams to attend these events, even with €3000 of prize money to be won.
Let's take the example of the
vicious and evil team. When they won the qualifier, they started to count their money and had a look at the costs that they'd have to bear. With 30 Euros of entrance fee, 30 Euros for a hotel room, about 100 Euros to get there and a still uncertain amount to be spent on drugs and prostitutes in Rotterdam, this is a lot of money for a standard high school student. When an offer to cover some of these costs comes your way, who would say no?So what happened?
Team Helix, one of the oldest names in Enemy Territory, stepped to the players and offered their support. I asked team leader biqq for the reasons to accept this offer:So while
vicious and evil are now playing under the flag of Helix, there must have been a reason for duke to offer his support all of a sudden. He had this to say:So once again Team-Helix is on the road - to success? One should always remember that they were one of the few teams that were able to beat
u96d in EuroCup XI. Will history repeat itself? We'll see very soon in Rotterdam.Team-Helix
#hx @ Quakenet
Comments
gtv.otter
Monday, 28th August 2006 21:24
gl
i'm trying to forget that match tbh (gg though)
nice, more germans kicking sum more but in ET can only be good :o)
Rotterdam si teh best
