| January 1998 |
karmann sets up a Quake2 server at his employer and joins "The Shadow Clan" =SC=. They do nothing as a clan other than wear the tag on public servers. |
| January - July 1998 |
karmann, cousteau and Dropzone (all working for the same company) play Q2 DM (Lithium MOD) on this server. A lot. |
| July 19, 1998 |
Action Quake 2 makes MOD of the weeks at PlanetQuake. karmann tests it out and switches the server to an AQ2 server. It's always packed and now has "regulars". karmann leaves =SC=. |
| August, 1998 |
AQ2 Teamplay is released. |
| October 9, 1998 |
The Goon Squad is formed by karmann, cousteau, Dropzone
and shortly thereafter Kevin (a server regular - now known as Everman). |
| November 1998 |
Master, Thrall, wl, NightShade and Doug Howser join. wl registers
and sets up goonsquad.net. |
| December 1998 |
Speebs, Sphaltz and bLaCkLoTuS join. The Fighting Nun asks to join
and I turn him down. (stupid, stupid, stupid) |
| February - March 1999 |
The Fighting Nun, Brenter, Ripper and Bulldog join. |
| Turning point |
To date we had played 16 official matches with a record of 7-8-1.
The Fighting Nun took it upon himself to apply some discipline. We start
to get VERY good at AQ2. |
| April 1999 |
TFC is released. Talon, Agrippa and Cardinal of clan RiP (server regulars
and friends) merge with us to compete in our new TFC squad. However we don't get enthusiastic about TFC
competition. The RiP guys split back off. We decide to stay a "one squad" clan. |
| May 7, 1999 |
We defeat Elite Assasins to take first place in the OGL AQ2 open ladder. |
| June 1999 |
wl goes on hiatus. Doug Howser joins the Marines and leaves for boot. |
| June 11, 1999 |
We lose first place on the OGL AQ2 open ladder to clan Dead By Dawn who
later admits to spectator cheating. |
| July 6, 1999 |
We defeat clan TOOL to re-take first place in the OGL AQ2 open ladder. |
| August 22, 1999 |
We lose 1st place to DeathSquad. The only AQ2 clan with whom we never proved
our skill. Oh well. |
| August 1999 |
bLaCkLoTuS, NightShade and Sphaltz leave. MikFly, Jeeves and Gunslinger join.
Thrall and The Fighting Nun start college. |
| Turning point |
bLaCkLoTuS resigned in disgust over the match with DS.
NightShade and Sphaltz (real-life friends) go with him. They feel that I allowed the
leader of DS to take advantage of me in the match setup and were forced to play on a
server that gave them an unfair advantage. They were right to think that we were taken
advantage of but wrong to think that there was anything I could have done about it.
Flash{DS} was very skilled at manipulating match setups to give his clan an unfair
advantage. He used the rules to his benefit, I knew he was doing it and couldn't do
anything to stop him within the rules. We lost. |
| October - November 1999 |
karmann goes on hiatus and moves to Knoxville, TN.
Redlead joins. |
| February 2000 |
We (as a whole) goes on hiatus. Jeeves and Bulldog leave. |
| Turning point |
AQ2 for us is over. Since our start at 7-8-1 we had gone 22-2 for an overall
record was 31-10-1. We were the best. First came =AR=, then came (gs) and 20ID
followed after. |
| March 2000 |
Doug Howser returns. We begin playing Counter-Strike and collectively kick ourselves for not playing
it earlier. |
| April 2000 |
We join the OGL CS open ladder. Scrappi, Treset, Talon, Lemonhead, HUM, Frost
and BizZ join. We move up 200+ rungs via forfeits. |
| May 2000 |
MikFly leaves. Garrland joins. |
| June 2000 |
Gunslinger leaves. We join the STA-CS league and immediately get put in the Alpha
league due to our respectible reputation from our AQ2 days. |
| July 2000 |
We switch from the OGL CS Open ladder to the OGL CS East Coast ladder. It still
sucks. wl goes on hiatus again. |
| August 2000 |
GoonSmack 2000 is held in Knoxville, TN. In attendance from (gs): karmann, cousteau,
Howser, The Fighting Nun, Garrland and Lemon. We start to not suck at CS. Our record to this point in CS is
7-6-0. |
| October 2000 |
GameURL is released |
| November 2000 |
We start our own invitation-only CS league uncreatively titled The Goon Squad League.
Invitations are emailed with play due to start in January 2001. |
| December 2000 |
The Server Wench is released |
| January-February 2001 |
The Server Wench is renamed to The Server Spy. Tons of features are added. wl goes on hiatus (again). The Goon Squad League starts competition. DixieLAN 2001 starts being planned. |
| March 2001 |
The Server Spy V2 is released. Howser goes on a work related hiatus. The GSL finishes Season 1. |
| Turning point |
CS is getting very old for a lot of us DoD has our attention a little. There is not such thing as a CS community and that is starting to wear very thin. We've gotten very good at CS but our record does not at all reflect our skill. |
| June 2001 |
DixieLAN 2001 is held in Gatlinburg, TN. In attendance are karmann, Howser, The Fighting Nun, Lemon, many from Tribe Synergy and several members of I.M. (which will later merge with USMC). The Fighting Nun goes on inactive status for the remainder of 2001. |
| July-August 2001 |
blaCkLoTuS and NightShade rejoin the clan. JazZy and Fo0d (formerly of DeathSquad) join. GoldChuck joins. Pyramid leaves. BizZ, Treset, Shalott, Master, Yoda and Howser start college. |
| September 2001 |
Counter-Strike 1.3 and Half-Life 1.1.0.8 are released. PunkBuster announces that they're dropping support for Half-Life (and later rethinks this decision). |
| Turning point |
CS competition is over for us. The latest versions of HL and CS seem to have killed clan interest in the game. That combined with PunkBuster and real-life have taken us past the point of being a CS-only clan. We dropped from the STA-CSX league (with which we have the longest history) and the BiTE League to prepare to play something new. |
| October 2001 |
Dark Age of Camelot (MMORPG) is released and grabs the attention of more than half the clan. We go on hiatus from first-person shooters. |
| March 2002 |
Day of Defeat Beta 2.0 is released and some of us find it interesting enough to compete in. Clan sK joins us to compete in it. |
| June 2002 |
Since we left CS in October we've lost 15 members. Some retired, some resigned and some were booted. Reaction Quake 3 Beta 2.0 is released and immediately grabs our attention. Veterans return. There is much rejoicing. Day of Defeat hasn't gone anywhere for us (my fault) but we're still playing it. We join the OGL for DoD and RQ3. |
| September 2002 |
I'm bored. College starts and schedules get tight. RQ3 isn't taking off anywhere near the level we'd hoped. |
| Turning point |
It's been a fun run. It was especially nice having the old school members of (gs) back together for a few weeks in RQ3 competition. However, RQ3 just is not taking off and certainly is not worth my time. Combine that with the very limited schedule for our veteran members and my own unwillingness to recruit more members and we have the end of (gs) as a competition clan for the time being. I simply have no desire to try to rebuild this clan yet again for another game. |
