Napy: The Excelsis Story

Excelsis has been one of those underdog clans that have been around forever. Think of v300 only slightly worse at counter-strike.

In this exclusive, we’ll be talking to Napy of excelsis where he spills the beans about some of the excelsis members, how excelsis came about, and why they aren’t at the top of the world CS rankings [GotFrag].

Hi Napy! Excelsis have been around for a LONG time. How did you guys come about as a team?

The rendition of tears ( excelsis ) started at a swimming carnival back in high school. Dypa asked me (napy): “Tony come and play some games and sip some bubble tea”.

I couldn’t resist his charms so I came along… Waiting to see what this LAN thing is about. I was only young and didn’t know what was going to happen but it changed my life… Our lives… THE EXCELSIS LIFE.

Anyhow we started to play counterstrike, it was fking awesome. I remember shooting and killing people in the game and after months of just killing asian kids in the Springvale store we finally formed a clan. There were 2 definite groups / CS clans in our school - DootKrew and Excelsis. We battled day in day out for bets of chicken strips, and after killing asian kids online now we found out about MGL.

How did MGL go for you guys?

We were KEEN to win but we lost all 30 games in the league. BUT we still went to every game - WAS FKING SHIT I HATE RAS [sprbeast]. We also lost to a girls clan in the league as well, that was shit too. And now 2007 nothing has changed except we got some other new people in the clan. As I know we’re the only clan still going with the same name since MGL. We’re awesome. We seen every clan from blanx to fate to iM.

That’s quite some beating you took at MGL. Did you guys continue to LAN after losing 30 games straight at LAN?

Oh hell no we kept tooting man. We went to iBisq, ezone and all that and it went OK - till people started getting WOW

Someone has informed me that there was some sort of arguement between yourself and Ras during LAN about eco rounds? Could you explain the situation further?

Well it was me and ras and every round he would go “ECO TONY ECO TONY FKING ECO” when I had like a lot of money so I didn’t talk to him for 2 weeks at school.. he’s a dickhead. I buy when I want to buy. I watched my demos.

Oh and we learnt how to eco properly from corona in the MGL war rooms no joke.

So you guys didn’t have as much success as you hoped for at LAN, did you guys do better in online wars?

Fking randy shit. Anyone whos anyone will know how shit it is compared to lan. I got a laptop and thats it to cs yet people can still call me shit. WE excelsis have once use to beat people online now we can’t even beat pub randies because everyone talks about what they did in the morning instead of strats.

Ugh..

Man this is good vent.

Being friends with some of the other excelsis guys as well, they asked me to ask you about the time you turned into a ghost. Could you elaborate further?

ROFL true I quit CS to play Wow during the school holidays. BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE. Didn’t EVER go out in the sun and turned pale white. It was fun. NOW THAT’S DEDICATION!

HEY WTF THIS ISN’T ABOUT EXCELSIS

HAHA yeah this ain’t no interview about excelsis anymore. So now that all the excelsis boys have finished school for a couple of years now, are you guys still friends IRL?

Yeah we were friends before CS, CS just made us more angry at each other and sometimes I hate them coz they’re shit at CS except me cause I’m actually good at the game. Like a gang banger.

Man if we hadn’t been friends I reckon I would be overseas now playing for some pros.. No joke.

Yep I can definately see you repping Australia and more importantly the Springvale community overseas I’ve just included a photo of you just in case someone like fnatic or pentagram do pick you up in their starting 5.

Yeah bad I might look like I’m 10 but I’m major.

This isn’t what I thought the interview was going to be but awesomeeee.

mmm… I got one [picture] of me naked holding a stick, ask andeh [iceman/nameci]

No it’s ok I don’t want to see that. Andeh told me all about it already - how you were young and we could see EVERYTHING.

WAIT WTF WHO SEND U MY PHOTOS?

THE NAKED ONES?

ON THE DRUMS?

We’ll just move on.. Since your team has provided us with your provocative pictures would you like to share any of them with us (to get back at them of course).

Omg.. epic. Wait I got a pic of united even tho his not in Melbourne but his mums hot.

lol @ his face.

Oh wait I sent the wrong one. This is the right one.

I feel like I’m dissing his mum even though I don’t know him (Sorry buddy! You can blame napy). Do you have any dirt on the excelsis members in Melbourne?

Andeh talks like a robot on the mic, he has a gangster brother that does weights LOL

Um..

United likes piss porn, dypa has dirty long toenails, sprbeast goes red like a tomato when Bizzare told him he couldn’t change comps LOL.

HAHAHAHA. I guess I’ll wrap this up now by asking where you see excelsis in another.. year? Better or the same level?

No way are we ever going to the top. Been way to many years of losing.. it hurts. Dagger to the heart

But we’re still a fun clan, should be back soon.

EPIC BACKTURE.

Just one more final question, do you see yourself moving to greener pastures then? I remember you slutting around for a few clans.

Oh man.. I’ve been in many clans.

But I went -2 against xgh no joke LOL.

Any final words?

YEH be well to every single onf of you guys. It’s an epic game and we will one day make ice of this water. Solid it up and ram it into the pro overseas scene.

Love u beedee

xoxoxo

I couldn’t find a appropriate place to ninja this image into the interview so here it is anyway. Thanks goes out to andeh for sending it in!

Conversing with the Fox

Well believe it or not i’ve decided to make a segment out of this seeing as though it is a good waste of time for people to read and have a chuckle to when they’re bored.

I shall call this segment ‘Conversing with the Fox’

dan.™ lolbear says:
oi

dan.™ lolbear says:
lets have an msn convo

dan.™ lolbear says:
so u can put it up on dicevip

dan.™ lolbear says:
ok?

tnyvo. says:
how about lets scrim

tnyvo. says:
i just got home from work

tnyvo. says:
and im keen to play games

dan.™ lolbear says:
scrim my fist

dan.™ lolbear says:
haha

tnyvo. says:
no thanks

tnyvo. says:
why cant we just be friends

dan.™ lolbear says:
cause u will put my secrets up on dicevip

tnyvo. says:
don’t let this one thing get in between our solid relationship

dan.™ lolbear says:
LOL

tnyvo. says:
it’s not my fault it has taken over me

dan.™ lolbear says:
eating nuggets after u lose to us @ zam 1 day comp will bring us back together

dan.™ lolbear says:
dw

tnyvo. says:
dont even think i can play it

dan.™ lolbear says:
lol

dan.™ lolbear says:
y

tnyvo. says:
need to ask for days off

tnyvo. says:
boss will be like wtf for

tnyvo. says:
i will be like for games

tnyvo. says:
him: i’ll chop yah cunt

dan.™ lolbear says:
hey it fucken works

dan.™ lolbear says:
just tell them ur a pro

dan.™ lolbear says:
and they’ll be like oh ok

dan.™ lolbear says:
seriously

tnyvo. says:
no thanks

tnyvo. says:
asians dont understand

tnyvo. says:
they will think im joking

tnyvo. says:
then again its my bday this saturday

tnyvo. says:
so i will just make that my excuse

dan.™ lolbear says:
lol

dan.™ lolbear says:
nice

dan.™ lolbear says:
maybe some birthday nuggets are in order

tnyvo. says:
haha maybe

tnyvo. says:
man im making it my goal in my awesome cs career.. before we get old and wrinkly and have arthritus from playing the game.. me and you will create a team

tnyvo. says:
we will be known as NOTG

tnyvo. says:
nuggets on the go

dan.™ lolbear says:
HAHAHAH

dan.™ lolbear says:
ok

dan.™ lolbear says:
maybe for one comp

dan.™ lolbear says:
after were all retired

dan.™ lolbear says:
haha

tnyvo. says:
pfft

tnyvo. says:
this will be happening in the next coming months

dan.™ lolbear says:
haha

dan.™ lolbear says:
oic

tnyvo. says:
age has already gotten to you

tnyvo. says:
however me im in my prime atm

dan.™ lolbear says:
asif

dan.™ lolbear says:
im fckn elite

dan.™ lolbear says:
u dud

tnyvo. says:
all you are good for is the banter and the nugget support

tnyvo. says:
gaming side of things you’ve developed what i like to call php-syndrome

tnyvo. says:
passed his prime syndrome

dan.™ lolbear says:
HAHA

dan.™ lolbear says:
fuckup idiot

tnyvo. says:
soon you will be like.. wtf how do i buy a gun

tnyvo. says:
its ok most gamers get it

dan.™ lolbear says:
b41b14b7 mother fucker

dan.™ lolbear says:
im ready to roll

tnyvo. says:
but seriously the fox and vo show would own melbourne

dan.™ lolbear says:
yea

dan.™ lolbear says:
were strong

dan.™ lolbear says:
anyways

dan.™ lolbear says:
im off to sleep mofo

dan.™ lolbear says:
ttyl

tnyvo. says:
wtf is this

tnyvo. says:
cant just leave like that

dan.™ lolbear says:
can and am

dan.™ lolbear says:
laters

tnyvo. says:
must be part of the syndrome

tnyvo. says:
k old guy

tnyvo. says:
cya

ZAM 1 Dayer

Update:

Dickens Cider will be supporting this event by providing ALL COMPETITORS with a 473ml can of their Dickens Cider energy drink.

More information can be found about their product HERE.

#Snatch.au and #clubdice have came together to organise and run a small 8 team, 1 day comp at ZAM because we’re awesome. Details as follows:

Where: Zone Adrenalan Melbourne
When: Saturday, 8th December
Time: 10am till ~6pm (half the teams will have a later start at around 1pm)
Format: 8 teams, 2 groups of 4, followed by a best-of-3 single elimination with the top 2 teams from each group.
Cost: $100 per team ($20 per player).

To rego simply PM me on esau with your team name, mirc channel, lineup, phone number
Registration full

The bottom 4 teams will get a guaranteed 3 games of play, and the top 4 will get around 5-9 games-ish. So for $20 it’s decent value for money.

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Gamerzstuff Summer League *Exclusive*

GamerzStuff Summer League
Brought to you by Ai and VA

This mini-league will run for 3 separate competitions, the first one taking place on December the 16th and then recommencing after the Christmas/New Years break on the 13th of January and the final will be run on the 20th.

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BBQ & Poker Day

Firstly, a big WD to sage who we saw live on TV make it out of groups. You guys did humski proud

What started to be a little scam to jib some money off a few dice members in poker turned out to be an enjoyable evening where everyone kicked back, and hopefully had a good time. And if you didn’t, I’m sure a Dickens Cider will help

Who came:

- drn
- bui
- nameci
- evo
- hadsi
- jing
- albz

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Call Of Duty 4 & DICE ?

Several of our members went out to buy this new high end FPS game to see what all the fuss was about last Friday. Amazingly the game runs quite smooth even with the bare minimum requirements for the game to be playable. Unfortunately one of the members who was the first to go out and buy this game doesn’t have a computer to run it.

When playing the game for the first time it was easy to see what all the fuss was about. This game is incredible in its detail and the game play is awesome. The maps and weapons are easy to get use to, the main downside however is being demolished by higher level players when you first start off which does get rather annoying. Having Air Strikes and Helicopter’s to help you get more kills is a great idea to spice up the game.

So after nearly a week of playing our members are now ranked in the mid 40’s and pretty much at the top half of the scoreboards in the team death match servers. You can find us playing in the GameArena and Internode servers, keep an eye out for us.

Screen-Shot of Tony ‘tnyvo’ Vo and Andrew ‘nameci’ Luong topping TDM:

5 Minutes With Dice (c0ke)

It’s time for the next segment of 5 minutes with DICE. This is where we hope to be chatting 1 on 1 with the players and people that make up the Australian E-Sports Community. This time around we were lucky enough to have a chat with someone who has been overseas to represent Australia in the game of Counter-Strike. This is none other than Michael ‘c0ke’ Troung, team Immunity’s in game captain.

He has been at the top of the game for quite some time now with numerous national CS titles with his team-mates they are a force to be feared of at every competition. The following is the interview with Michael.

// Michael ‘c0ke’ Troung

dice: Hello and thank-you for participating, please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about what do you do for a living?
c0ke: Yo im Michael ‘c0ke’ Truong and i play counter-strike for a living (yes its true money + women)

dice: What game(s) do you play and what is your all time favourite?
c0ke: Mainly CS dont really bother playing any other games cause my comp probably wont run it, would like to play tf2 but too poor/lazy to buy it. oh and i enjoy the occasionaly dota and more recently TD! gem + sprout TD is the way to go

dice: Favourite thing to do away from games?
c0ke: Clubbing/Poker

dice: What would be your funniest or most memorable moment throughout your eSports career?
c0ke: Funniest would probably be playing with mattyB or watch Dong just struggle to frag an enemy from behind. Most memorable would be winning ESWC and heading off to paris

dice: Being dubbed as one of the best if not the best player in Australia, how does that make you feel?
c0ke: Nothing cause im an ][CEMAN
ACTUALLY DONT SAY THAT
I’m not andeh

dice: If you were to be removed from the Immunity line up what team would you try to swindle in to? If none, what line up of players would you try to make a team with?
c0ke: Hmm if i was removed from iM i would probably just play for fun, probably become like bdn and live for online CS

dice: Is the talks of Mark ‘Kram’ Pierce being emo true? What has he done to prove this?
c0ke: This indeed is true, the evidence i have to back this up are found on his ipod, every now and then he would force his earphones into my ears and play some emo song or just randomly play it via vent. His favourite saying is “FUCK LIFE”. goes to some shit emo club “BANG”. oh and theres slit marks all over his wrist true story

dice: Will mini-Kram (bl4nk) ever be seen with a Immunity shirt on?
c0ke: Will be unlikely too see the 2 brothers play under the same team im afraid… too much anger involved

// Quick Fire Questions

dice: PC or Console?
c0ke: PC

dice: Favourite Pizza topping?
c0ke: Mexicana

dice: Water or Soft drink?
c0ke: Waterrrr

dice: Favourite Song at the moment?
c0ke: One Republic - Apologize

dice: Do you own a pink shirt?
c0ke: Yep and a pink skirt

dice: MySpace URL?
c0ke: Don’t have myspace

dice: Your celebrity girlfriend’s name?
c0ke: Jessica Alba

// Final Questions

dice: If you could invent something what would it be?
c0ke: A game where theres Terriost and Counter-Terriost and you have to plant bomb to win etc

dice: If you were in a fight with Chuck Norris what would you bring and how would you defeat him?
c0ke: Probably just accept a fly kick to the head and take it like a man

dice: So you wouldn’t try to defeat him? lol
c0ke: Chuck Norris is invincible!

dice: Thank-you for your time :D, Any shoutouts?
c0ke: Stay in school?

Pre-ACNC Nationals Summary

The DICE crew have all been pretty emo recently due to our nemesis [or rather Peki’s nemesis] Redux taking the autobirth in an overtime win on dust2 in the ANC Qualifiers. Props to them however, they won a lot of 3v1’s which we just totally caked. I guess it’s back to DotA for the DICE members until the next Melbourne event.

The following is in order of occurrence.

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Videos from Sunday [ACNC]

Mainly jnsie related

TF8 vs Redux opening pistol round:

What jnsie had to say after being disqualified and being sent to the lower bracket:

Dice asks cokester on his thoughts about the match:

ACNC Melbourne Qualifiers #2

The second Melbourne qualifiers for the ACNC is under way! Taking place once again at Zone AdrenaLAN Melbourne , 16(14) teams will be battling it out to try and secure a spot at the ACNC Final held in Queensland later this month. More importantly there is the one autoberth spot that every team is gunning for meaning flights will be paid for up to Queensland.

DICEVIP will only be playing on the Sunday with the first match being played at 11am. The site will be updated as much as possible as results come through. Please tune into the HLTV provided and we hope to be seeing you all cheering us on to secure the autoberth spot to Queensland!

Coverage:

Images live from Zam!

TF8’s disqualification Videos

Grand final:

redux > dice 19-17

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