[FiB] First in Battle

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We have scheduled an replacement of Linux server WWW-21 that hosts your website and/or email service for ajctech.co.za. The current hardware has served us reliably for almost five years; our service standard puts it close to the end of its useful life. We plan to move all services on this server to a new server, WWW-25, on Friday 9 March.

Maintenance schedule:
To minimize the risk of disruption of service, we are scheduling the migration to the new server to occur during the off-peak hours. We have scheduled the migration to occur in two groups to accommodate our clients around the globe:
• Group A - South African and European clients: Service migration is scheduled for migration from 18:00 GMT (20:00 SAST) through the night.
• Group B - Canadian and US clients: Migration is scheduled to occur after 18:00 PST (21:00 EST) through the night.
We plan to have the migration process completed by the morning (local time) of Saturday 10 March.

Team SA have it's last match this Sunday 26 February 2012 at 21H00 against Russia.

Russia never showed up for the match so we get a default win.

Team SA had its match against Australia on Sunday 19 February 2012 @ 1pm for us and 10pm for them.

The match was played on the map Operation Firestorm and this was the first map to be played with 2x jets, choppers and 3 tanks but only 1 jet and 1 tank were allowed to be active at anytime. Total ticket count per round was 200 per team.

On game day myself (Riaan “EasyKill” Vrey as manager) and Reinhardt “PeStil3nc3” van Rooyen (as captain) got together with Australia’s captain to arrange what servers we are going to play on. It was decided to have one round played on a USA server for them and one round on our MWEB sponsored UK server for us. Also it were decided that we will play on our UK server first with Australia being RUS and us being US. That meant that we would be RUS on their server and Australia US.

We also made use of only 10 of our 11 players in the team as our leader, Assassin’s latency playing with 3g was well over 400 and to high as both servers were not locally hosted. Assassin remained on Teamspeak with the team and lived the rounds with his team second by second.

We had a good strategy worked out by Sheraaz “ Zaarehs” Nunnian to get onto their back flag asap and bleed them with tickets. We really played a cat and mouse game as Australia had high ground advantage playing from on top of the buildings protecting their flags. This really worked well for Australia, but RSA decided to stay low and out of sight, and move in-between rubble, wrecked buildings and vegetation.

Australia had air superiority and kept our jet and chopper down at our base, they also did not allow us to take off, so the call was made to utilize the help of our aircraft players and move them into ground squads. This meant that we could keep the flags and bleed them.

First round we won 13-0 and second round 23-0 making it a match win with 36-0.

The second round we made a quick call to leave the jet and chopper when it got shot down and move the air players to ground units. This helped us maintain 3 of 3 flags 80% of the match.

The team was extremely happy with this win as we have felt all the time that we can take on the rest of the world but our connections were always be a problem but this time it was Australia that had the bad luck with 3 players dropping in the 2nd round.

A big thanks to all the team players AJ “Assassin” Herbst, Chris “Bloodslug” Hart, Helgard “Chaotic” van Rooyen, Daniel “Crincler” Towse, Kyle “Cromedome” Burton, Ricky “Jalgorty” Schlenk, Matt “Lt-Matt” Lennox, Reinhardt “PeStil3nc3” van Rooyen, Renier “Saberfox91o” van Rooyen, MJ “ Vermaak” Vermaak & Sheraaz “ Zaarehs” Nunnian for all the time and effort that they put into the game. Thank you to the team and their families that have to understand that we represent South Africa, and time practicing is critical to success.

Thank you for the tremendous support from our fan club, emails, SMS’s and phone calls. We appreciate the support from the community and well done to the one player alfonSo on clanbase that backed us with placing a bet on South Africa for winning. The odds was in his favour and he won 500euros.

Thank you Mind Sports South Africa for the opportunity to represent South Africa, thank you Colin Webster, you are doing a fantastic job out there and we will keep the wins coming for as long as we can! Thanks to Desmond Kurz from MWEB for the SA and UK servers as well as the accounts to help the players with pings and the TS server.

Our next match would be versus Russia and then we will have to see who makes it to the next round of competition.
Here is the links to the screenshots of each round.

Round 1

Round 2

Report done by AJ “Assassin” Herbst (Team RSA Leader) and Riaan “EasyKill” Vrey (FiB and BF3 Team SA manager)

Team SA's third match in the ClanBase NationsCup XV would have been Portugal but they are out due to not having enough players, so we have week off before it is going to be Team SA vs Australia.

The game is on for the week of 13 to 20 February but no date have been set for this match on Operation Firestorm. For match views join us on twitter while the match is going and get updates of the match.