I have to admit Seven knows how to start me thinking, like with his last poll on how long people have been playing UrT. I got my first glimpse of the game back in 2001 when I met my hubby who was running an internet cafe then. Though CS was lot more popular, there was this one guy who did play UrT once in a while. But I haven't started playing myself until the second half of 2002 and for a long time I resisted the real clan scene - there are some things I don't do half-ass and I just knew I'd get sucked in real bad if I did. I wasn't wrong but that's a different story.

The reason for this post is my memory of the people and teams that left a lasting trace on how I think about this game. I was no impressionable kid when I got started; I was 22 and I definitely had a head of my own. But to this day I bore my clanmates with stories of SKALK rolling over CB OC with Sliema. And Annies rolling over pretty much everyone. And Oswald's shoutcasts and Urban Radio (like this one with Oz shoutcasting pistola v phear at OGL, or one of these radio shows). And the first really impressive jump movies when the guys jumped their way out of the maps - literally - while the rest of us were still trying to wrap our head around the fact that we could do more than bunnyhop and circle jump.

Like this (2004):


or this (2004):

(download to get the original video (different music): here

and this (2004): download and more at: Don's movie repository

And the time when we could barely find a decent pub to play in, and only at night, because there were so few people left playing the game. And how lucky I felt when I got into the FOS Macelleria server because the home team was cool to hang out with and they kept up a decent level. And how the 10 minute wait to get into any decent server was worth it anyway because the atmosphere was great and everyone was helping everyone else. Except for autoaim, who donned the gaygun and nightvision goggles and annoyed the shit out of everyone from the water in Docks. And how a lot of pubs actually ran custom maps and no one voted to cycle them - temple anyone? Or reykjavik, paradise, laberinto, demolition?

So, that's my story of who and what impressed me in my early days - Sliema a la SKALK, the Ann Clan, Oz, first decent jump movies, cool vibe in the community, one true eccentric, and actually, really playing custom maps.

Now you tell me, who and what got under your skin when you were a UrT nooblet? Which team did you idolize, which player? What made you stay and play? Take to the comments.

(And since I started with the unmentionable, don't feel obliged to keep the content pg-13 )

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