Due to two players being afk because of IRL issues, the TG Cod4 squad is currently looking into filling out 2 spots in it's main lineup.
As a part of the team you'll either play Assault or SMG.

Requirements

• Mature & Friendly
• Med+/High skilled
• Able to speak understandable English
• Being able to understand the rules and what we stand for here in TG
  

Want to be a part of this oh so awesome community?
For recieving a tryout for the Cod4 squad contact TG|Nux at xfire: urban187
For other gaming interest in general contact TG|Zymon at xfire: theflakkman

To see the recruitment post in whole at Crossfire, visit article.

See you on the servers!

With matches upcoming in OC we are bound to get some steady prac times in.

Monday 20.00 CET (19.00 )
Wednesday 20.00 CET 
Thursday 20.00 CET

All pracs will start up at our warserver, make sure to be there in time.
Would be nice if you have everything sorted and ready to go at that time.

Due to Cupcake being AFK and Zymon working late no prac will be held at Tuesday.
CB Admins have decided to force the maps to be played each matchweek.
Maps forced for all weeks can be seen here.
Hence, we will have to prac hard on both Radar and Adlernest, as well as learning Missile fully.

The first OC match will most likely be played this upcoming Sunday for the rest of you to watch.
Also to add is that Eagle will be playing in the team this OC, much thanks to the prac dates being put a bit earlier.

Happy fraggin'!

But as it always is teams have their peaks and bottoms.

Cris, our rising team-captain had to move down to Spain. He was even so dedicated that he played the last official with us when all his belongings was already going down to Spain in a truck. All he kept at home was his computer and a cardboard-box to sit on.
We had to make several pauses because his "chair" broke. Unfortunately we lost the match as well as Cris after this evening.

After that we got sad news from our damagewhore Jamzz explaining that he couldn't continue playing active due to having to much IRL things to take care of.
So we where now down to 4 guys, our rescue arrived in Eagle a very skilled and good replacement for Jamzz, Zee who was already a friend of  Hard and Carpet who has played in TG before and now returned.
We where now 7 guys, with the motivation to carry on again. Even though we won our last two matches on the Seasonal Ladder we didn't make it to the play offs. The motivation was still here though and we kept on praccing, unfortunately due to our prac times being to late and Eagle wanting to play in a higher division in OpenCup he decided to leave us.

The team is now down to 6 strong guys with several semi-active backups to go bonanza in this fall's upcoming OpenCup!
The team now consisting of:

Cupcake {Medic}
Zymon {Riflenade}
Hard {Medic, FieldOp}
Target {Medic, Covert}
Zee {Medic}
Carpet {Medic, FieldOp}

Statement from Zee;
" Our positions are very good with some nice players and if we can get rid of Hard then that would be the icing on the Cupcake!"

So the groups have been announced and can be watched here.
As you can see TG have been placed in the fourth division in group C!
TG will be facing: dev1ous, nvm, Losie superktosie, Virtual Voyage and diLemma.

Statement from Hard;
"Coming soon."

So hopefully this will be an very interesting fall for everyone related to TG! The matches will most likely be up on Gamestv.org for you all to watch them as well. Stay tuned for more information.

At the Paris Game Festival this weekend Nadeo, the developers of the highly appriciated Trackmania-series announced that there will be a Trackmania 2 coming early next year.
Trackmania United Forever currently got 5 million players registred and amongst them many TG Gamers, many believe that Trackmania 2 will be an even bigger hit.

There's still a lot of work that needs to be done on it but according to Nadeo there will be 3 different environments to race in and customizable blocks when making your own tracks.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far way..

There was a clan called The Gathering. They numbered in the hundreds, their might unprecedented. All Jedi who wielded The Force under the proud banner of TG wielded it with great strength indeed. All but Colonel, who was and remains a complete and utter über nub. Many battles were fought, many triumphs were achieved. Many lamers were given the banhammer by the omnipotent admins, many innocent bystanders were mauled by the frantic /amexplode binds. Many nights were spent poking each other with glowy sticks on the streets of Bespin, many classes were neglected due to lack of sleep.

Dust of your lightsaber and join us for a night of nostalgia, reunion and silliness!

Wednesday 23/9 19:00 GMT

IP: 62.75.202.104:28078

http://thegroupthing.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=960

For the second interview I've chosen to speak with an what you might call old-timer in TG. He's known for chatting a lot in teamspeak and being a very friendly guy. You know who he is, AngelDust!

The Interview

Hi AD!

- You will address me as Sir.

Having been in TG for quite a while now, what has been your favourite moments here, any special happenings?

- TG gatherings. There is nothing like a bunch of like minded loons on a server trying to complete an objective that no one is sure what it is in the first place.
Back in the good old days when I was still the sub-division leader of JK2. Nothing pleased me more than see you lot waving your sabers around, trying to get the gist of the game and failing miserably. Yet I felt so proud when you pulled off your first DFAs and lunges. Good times.

In for some Enemy Territory action?
Then tune in tonight on our very own ETTV server to see two interesting matches.

• 7 PM GMT versus Notoriuos
• 8 PM GMT versus Deathless
  

For those of you that still haven't gotten hold of a Beta Key to this nice DotA styled game, here's your chance!

There are now a couple of TG Members in posession of 2 keys each.
So if you are a TG Member and interested in playing Heroes Of Newerth then contact Zymon via Xfire or in our IRC channel: #the_gathering. Please note that the beta keys are for TG members only. However if you're interested in what we do here or would like to join the clan then please register and make a post in the forums.

Happy fraggin'!

Hi Target! How are you today?
Hiya! Pretty good I guess, rather tired though… It's been a busy day in the realm of RL: Up before 10am! Driving lessons, cutting wood (Erm?), WoW… Oh wait that isn't RL

You’re one of the latest additions in TG, how has your stay been so far?
Other than the abuse and violence in ventrilo it’s been ok. Aha nah in all serious its been a lot of fun ^.^ If it wasn't fun for me I wouldn't be here right now. You're a friendly bunch and I’m happy to stay here for as long as it need be!

Even though he denies it, Target has a fetish for pink dresses.

The TG ET team fought brave but lost versus Dark & Beyond with 4-0 after a defeat on both Supply and Bremen.

Statement from the teams riflenader Cupcake:
"We did our best really, they performed a nice teamplay effort last night. We still have some things to work on at both maps, I think we'll be great for OC though."

And that is just what this team will be aiming for as a main goal, the Opencup!
In the CB Seasonal Ladder so far though the team has earned one victory and now a loss, TG will fall down a couple of positions in the ladder but will hopefully be strong enough to beat upcoming opponents!

GTV Matchsummary, where you also can watch a replay of the match!

Upcoming matches
06.09.09 - 19.00 GMT vs ?
07.09.09 - 20.15 GMT vs Devotion

*Squads and Matchresults pages are currently being updated as well!