The Loughborough Confederation
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The Loughborough Confederation was originally created in ~1997 by Brett Davids, a prominent letter writer through the 1990s in a number of productions, including Amiga Power.
Darff, also an Amiga Power reader and letter writer, discovered LoC in the UK New Comers Clan League and begun aliasing for them. After some time (could've been days, maybe weeks), Darff left his regular clan and begun concentrating on LoC full time - a recruitment drive happened and LoC's regular faces established themselves as Darff, Sozo, Storm, Soul99, Target, Nuggy, S8n, Pingu, T-Bod, Thirdman, Sparky, Valcrag, and probably a handful more that have slipped my mind.
We soon graduated into the UKCL and I think we did OK, probably our best performance was reaching the quarter finals of the UKCL Cup - I think we were due to be promoted a division in the UKCL too. There was one practice we played against QPD on E1M2 where we were in the lead for the first few minutes, Storm being many frags above everyone, but that was short lived. There was a rivalry between LoC and HSC, with accusations of cheating bouncing back and forth, not least when HSC leaked a demo of their game against LoC to show that we over-camped the RA side of DM3, only to disclose that they were using an illegal quad timer (therefore explaining why we were struggling to nab any quads and take over the map!). LoC won that round with score of something like 70-50, in what was most likely a 30 minute game.
Much hilarity was had in #loc on QuakeNet, including an infamous bath related story from Darff, a cutout of Storm's head being inserted into a porn picture, and amusement when we discovered Sozo pronounced his name differently to how we all thought. The Loughborough Confederation, closely linked to Amiga Power, who were big fans of the game Cannon Fodder, for a time in their prime adopted aliases relating to the classing point & click war shoot-em-up;
- Jools = Thirdman/Brett
- Jops = Darff
- Stoo = Target
- RJ = Nuggy
- Ubik = T-Bod
- CJ = Soul99
- Elroy = Sozo
Brett (Thirdman) left for Uni in 2000 to become a dentist, and is now more powerful than you could possibly imagine. Target went to uni at around the same time, so disappeared, but not before having a bust up with S8n. Darff and Storm had some kind of a row which neither of them can remember the cause of and stopped talking to each other. T-Bod went to Asia and later became a musician (you can buy his work, by Jeremy Warmsley, in most UK music stores). Sozo got into Q3CTF and joined some top class clans. Nuggy I think went the Q3 way too, or perhaps to real life, Soul99 to Action Quake 2 (or maybe he came from there & went elsewhere), and as this was happening LoC was feeling the drain, tried to merge with Vanish's LCS clan, saw a brief revival under the original LoC name, and then laid to rest at some point in 199 I think, always to be remembered fondly in our hearts.