People & clans
Zalon  /  16 Sep 2009, 01:21
Team Druidz disbands
Yesterday, the members of the clan known as Druidz decided to part ways. The team started out as Star Alliance in 2008, with a mixture of top duel players and solid high-level 4on4 players. During their time as a team they showed to be one of the bigger surprises in modern QuakeWorld, as they, with their high motivation and hard work, quickly advanced into the top of division 1.

Read on for a statement from bps about the disbanding of the team.
Their first season started with a 3rd place in NQR and ended with a 2nd place in EQL. Since then, they have won the 4on4 tournament at QHLAN12, had players in the finals of all DreamHack tournaments and played another EQL final. Besides the good results, the team also showed that QuakeWorld can go hand-in-hand with the modern gaming community, when they by the end of 2008, joined up with the Swedish eSports organisation Druidz.

During the last season of EQL, the team was probably the most active and ambitious team of the top division. The decision to close down the team is a result of not all players being able to devote the time needed, to keep competing on the highest level of competitive 4on4.

With EQL10 just around the corner, the loss of last season's runner-up might come as a blow to the the already diminished top division. However bps reasures that this should not be the case, the disbanding of the team doesn't mean that the players will quit QuakeWorld, and we might see most - if not all play under different banners for this upcoming season.

Already bps has joined up with his former team Suddendeath where he will play with arnette grisling, and molle. What will happen with the rest of the players is still unknown, but most likely we will see them join up with teams, that have a less demanding training pattern.

What will happen with the QuakeWorld division of the Druidz organisation is unknown, as they have not made a public announcement yet.

Druidz consisted of these players:
bps
goblin
Lakso
LocKtar
Mawe
Razor
Reppie

Statement from bps
I'm sad to announce that Druidz qw team yesterday decided to dissolve. It's since most of its players intend to go idle/semi-idle this season due to real life things or lack of motivation for high level playing. This includes reppie, razor, lakso, mawe and goblin. And LocKtar never played 4on4. For me, I'm thinking forward and am currently discussing with Suddendeath to form a new squad there. However, it came up during our talks last night that none of the players intend to quit completely. Just new constellations. Who knows what the future brings...

We've had a really good time together, and have become very good friends. Always having alot of fun on the lan events (qh/dh), but even getting together just to party in the sun. This summer we (me,lakso,LocKtar,mawe) took a roadtrip down to reppie's place in Holland for a few days, which was awsome. And last season of QW was very exciting, getting to the finals by beating Slackers in the semi 3-2, and giving Viper Squad a good fight felt really good to all of us. Ahhh, it's been an amazing time!

So, good games and see you around
Comments
2009-09-16, 01:13
GG's and GL to all of you
2009-09-16, 04:25
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This summer we (me,lakso,LocKtar,mawe) took a roadtrip down to reppie's place in Holland for a few days,
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OH MY GOD, MY CHANCE TO SEE LOCKTAR IN HOLLAND AND YOU DIDN"T TELL!!!!!!!!!!
2009-09-16, 06:05
zzz
2009-09-16, 07:38
Well this is obviously bad news, but I guess we've seen it coming.

Good to hear you guys had a great time together tho. Hope to see you all keep on playing
2009-09-16, 08:19
now that sd is taking in heaps and heaps of starplayers, what will happen to the old, and promising sd team consisting of votary, overd and ganon? sd2? or they won't play at all?
2009-09-16, 17:10
I've heard kingpin is looking for a clan, old DRz-ppl + kingpin?? More clans needed in div1!
2009-09-16, 17:20
Some of us will play with FS instead.. althou everyone pretty much semi-active i guess cause of schools and stuff. But we will defenatly sign up with a team.
2009-09-16, 17:42
bE
2009-09-16, 17:47
firing squad <3
2009-09-16, 17:49
sad time! But its great that the team members will still play, for a newcomer like me its really encouraging to play more knowing these players still play!
2009-09-16, 19:13
need member razor? 8-E
2009-09-16, 23:45
Not very good news for div1. :/
2009-09-17, 00:31
Hagge. Yes we will have 2 teams in SD. 1 in div 1 and 1 in div 2. We havent really talked that much since Bps joined since votary and ganon hasnt been online. We already had that plan to have 2 teams this season. I hope that they both wanna stay and play in div 2 team, but thats ofcourse up o them.
2009-09-17, 00:32
by the way hagge,,"heaps and heaps of starplayers"..we have recruited bps and only bps for this season. arne, gris and molle was already in SD. Puss! =)
2009-09-17, 00:41
yes maybe they are not new players to sd (especially not molle!), but I was just comparing to the team you guys were fielding last season =) great to hear that sd will field two teams! I vote for both in div1 =) with starplayer trash it should be np!
2009-09-17, 06:21
good luck with that suggestion hagge DD
2009-09-17, 09:41
thanks! and I've heard that lakso might join oblivion!
2009-09-17, 13:13
woah

i didnt really get why
2009-09-17, 13:14
the fact that druidz is a multigaming clan, sponsored and pretty known, it gave QW good exposure so in that way this is really sad if you ask me
2009-09-17, 13:23
Perhaps Druidz as an organization will still remain with their 1on1 players on their roster? Locketoppen@dh for example.
2009-09-17, 13:36
lol hagge!
2009-09-18, 10:17
i have heard that hagge will fakenick somewhere in div3-6 depending on the amount of divisions. comments on that?!
2009-09-18, 11:58
all true! "hagge is now known as eggah" noone will ever know its him!!
2009-09-18, 13:51
Congrats on becoming such a great team in such a short time, and GL in future!
2009-09-18, 19:41
??? who has leaked ???
2009-09-18, 23:32
so sad to hear this :'(
2009-09-19, 01:12
lol
2009-09-22, 22:19
the team had a good intention, too bad it didn't work...
let's see what's next
ggs
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