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The first Norwegian Quake clan, and one of the most influential.
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The very first Norwegian Quake clan and also the longest running. Arguably the third best clan in Northern Europe in 1999. Dominant in the Norwegian Quake scene in the 90s by arranging ten [[AskerLAN]]s and playing over 200 matches in virtually every competition and tournament. Made a short comeback in 2007 in the 5th season of [[European Quake League]].
  
== Information ==
 
 
[[Image:061297-1.jpg|frame|The Vicious Vikings vs. Nasty Beasts Inc., 06.12.1997: NBI had a comfortable lead after the first leg on DM3.]] [[Image:061297-2.jpg|frame|The Vicious Vikings vs. Nasty Beasts Inc., 06.12.1997: VV showed no mercy in the second leg, on the unusal map choice of E4M3, and won 339-265 on aggregate.]]
 
[[Image:061297-1.jpg|frame|The Vicious Vikings vs. Nasty Beasts Inc., 06.12.1997: NBI had a comfortable lead after the first leg on DM3.]] [[Image:061297-2.jpg|frame|The Vicious Vikings vs. Nasty Beasts Inc., 06.12.1997: VV showed no mercy in the second leg, on the unusal map choice of E4M3, and won 339-265 on aggregate.]]
 
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{{Clan-info
 
  | foundedyear = 1996
 
  | foundedyear = 1996
 
  | foundedmonth = August
 
  | foundedmonth = August
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  | foundedday = 28th
 
  | foundedby = [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[BM]]
 
  | foundedby = [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[BM]]
  | disbanded =  
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  | disbanded = 2001
 
  | nationality = Norwegian
 
  | nationality = Norwegian
 
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  | ircnetwork = port80.se.quakenet.org
 
  | ircnetwork = port80.se.quakenet.org
 
  | ircnetworkname = QuakeNet
 
  | ircnetworkname = QuakeNet
  | website = http://web.archive.org/web/19991127170041/http://www.vv.no/
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* '''Website:''' [http://web.archive.org/web/19991127170041/http://www.vv.no/ Old home page (working)]
  
The Vicious Vikings was Norway's first Quake clan. It was formed by a small group of Norwegians, led by [[BM]], most of them had grown up in the same neighborhood. They had been playing Quake via LAN since the test-release, and formed their own clan after hearing about clans being formed abroad.  
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=== History ===
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Norway's first Quake clan was formed by a small group of friends who had grown up in the same neighborhood, playing lots of Doom II via LAN between their houses - and Quake since the test-release. [[BM]] took the initiative to form the clan.
  
The Vicious Vikings was never the best or the most successful Norwegian clan. Usually it was rated as third best in Norway. However, it was still one of the most active and influential ones, partly because they were arranging the infamous AskerLANs. VV was also probably the biggest clan in Norway, with more than 30 members at one point.  
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The Vicious Vikings was never the best or the most successful Norwegian clan, but one of the most influential ones, mainly because they were arranging the infamous [[AskerLAN]]s and playing matches virtually every week for three years. In 1996 The Vicious Vikings was rated as third best in Norway, behind [[Carnage Clan]] and [[Spawn Clan]]. Three years later they were 3rd in [[NECL]] and arguably the third best clan in Northern Europe.
  
In the most active period, from the summer of 1996 to the fall of 1998, The Vicious Vikings played around [http://web.archive.org/web/19990202134028/http://home.sol.no/~kjelloe/vikings/news/news2.html 140 clan matches]. Unlike todays [[TB3]], back then the matches were decided over a two-legged tie, the winning clan being determined by aggregate score.
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From the summer of 1996 to the fall of 1999, The Vicious Vikings played more than 200 clan matches. Unlike todays [[TB3]], the matches were (usually) decided over a two-legged tie, the winning clan determined by aggregate score. VV had the unusual map choice of E4M3, which often proved an advantage against supposedly better clans. VV perfected the E4M3 team play and won big against many clans who's players were of individually superior skill. By controlling a few key points on the map, VV could time and control all four (!) Quads and at the same time RA, YA and GA fairly easy. As there are few spawns, the frag count on E4M3 would get pretty high, which of course was essential to winning matches on aggregate score.
  
VV had the unusual map choice of E4M3, The Elder God Shrine, which often proved a big advantage against better clans. This is a fairly easy map to control if you know it well. By assigning each player to key points on the map, you can keep time of and control all four (!) Quads and at the same time RA, YA and GA fairly easy. In addition, you have a fair chance to control the two RLs and LG most of the time. VV perfected the E4M3 team play, making it possible to win against clans who were of individually superior skill, but not used to playing E4M3.
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The Vicious Vikings peaked in 1999, finishing 3rd in the [[North-European Clan League]]s top division, winning against clans like [[Image:flag_de.gif]] [[Schroet Kommando]], [[Image:flag_se.gif]] [[Teddy Bears]], [[Image:flag_uk.gif]] [[Demonic Core]], [[Image:flag_se.gif]] [[Orkney Clan]] and [[Image:flag_dk.gif]] [[Nasty Beasts Inc]]. The league was won by [[Image:flag_fi.gif]] [[Clan Z]].
  
Their most notable wins was against the legendary danish clan [[Nasty Beasts Inc]] and the short-lived danish clan Color Web, starring [[Cataclysm]], who won the [http://www.quakeworldfans.se/2013/05/mer-cots-lan-98-showdown-pa-death32c.html FFA tournament on COTS LAN 1998] ahead of players like [[DOOMer]] and [[Nikodemus]]. Both clans were well above VV's skill level, but didn't cope on E4M3. In fact, the defeat to VV was Color Web's last match, as their players got into an argument after the match and dissolved the clan shortly after.
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Along with the general QuakeWorld scene, VV's activity slowly declined during the fall of 1999 and 2000, when many players moved on to Counter-Strike and Quake III Arena. The occasional match was played until 2001, when it was officially dissolved. A few former players resurrected the clan for a comeback in [[EQL]] in 2007, but it was unsuccessful and short-lived.
  
The Vicious Vikings' activity slowly declined during 2000 and 2001, along with the general QuakeWorld scene. The clan hasn't been active since, though some of its members - most notably [[Rikoll]], then known as Zyntifox, and [[Trygve]], then known as Leon, made combacks some years later.
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Three former members are still active as of 2014: [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Rikoll]], [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Trygve]] and [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Erlend]].
  
[http://web.archive.org/web/19991127170041/http://www.vv.no/ The Vicious Vikings' old web page can be viewed here.]
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=== Original members ===
 
 
== AskerLAN ==
 
The AskerLANs, at one point the heart of the Norwegian Quake scene, were arranged by The Vicious Vikings in Asker, close to Oslo. The first LAN-party, held from February 14th to16th 1997, [http://web.archive.org/web/19990503130742/http://home.sol.no/~kjelloe/vikings/lan/askerlan.html (more on AskerLAN I here)] turned out to be a huge success and spawned about 10 more LAN-parties over the next couple of years, with visitors also coming from Denmark and Sweden.
 
For more information, see these pages about [http://web.archive.org/web/19990503130742/http://home.sol.no/~kjelloe/vikings/lan/askerlan.html AskerLAN I], [http://web.archive.org/web/19990503134131/http://home.sol.no/~kjelloe/vikings/lan/askerlan3.html AskerLAN III], [http://web.archive.org/web/19990503135945/http://home.sol.no/~kjelloe/vikings/lan/askerlan5.html AskerLAN V], [http://web.archive.org/web/19990503141804/http://home.sol.no/~kjelloe/vikings/lan/askerlan6.html AskerLAN VI], [http://web.archive.org/web/19990503143623/http://home.sol.no/~kjelloe/vikings/lan/askerlan7.html AskerLAN VII] and [http://web.archive.org/web/19990503145352/http://home.sol.no/~kjelloe/vikings/lan/askerlan8.html AskerLAN VIII]. (The reports from AskerLAN II and IV seem to be lost.) Most of the participants at the earliest AskerLANs were members from The Vicious Vikings and the other three big Norwegian clans at that time, [[Carnage Clan]], [[Dead Presidents]] and [[Spawn Clan]]. Members from the latter have also written reports from [http://web.archive.org/web/19990221085138/http://home.sol.no/~eskjellu/spawn/askerlan.htm AskerLAN I] and [http://web.archive.org/web/19990221101535/http://home.sol.no/~eskjellu/spawn/askerlan3.htm AskerLAN 3].
 
 
 
== Achievements ==
 
* 1999: 3rd in NECL (North-European Clan League) division A (won by [[Clan Z]])
 
 
 
== Members ==
 
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[BM]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[BM]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Leon (Norwegian Player)|Leon]] aka [[Trygve]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Leon (Norwegian Player)|Leon]] aka [[Trygve]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Dustman]] aka [[Erlend]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Dustman]] aka [[Erlend]]
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Zyntifox aka [[Rikoll]]
 
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Hotlick]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Hotlick]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Bushman]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Bushman]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Nin-Nin]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Nin-Nin]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Icey]]
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Icey]]
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Stigi]]
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* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[ByteMaster]]
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* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Eaze]]
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'''Other members:''' [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Rikoll]] (aka Zyntifox), [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[ByteMaster]], [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Doink]], [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Eaze]], [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Stigi]], [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Tr0ll]], [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Argh, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Askeladd, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Coroner, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Explorer, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Frostbite, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Gjesdal, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Glasfiber, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Hellspawn, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Highlander, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Huzla, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] ICE Flare, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Ims, [[Image:flag_se.gif]] K-rist, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Little Soldier, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Lynx, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] MacGibber, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Man1ac, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Motorsag, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Observer, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Pain, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Pipen, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Piranha, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Royster, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Satan Claw, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Sni, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Snitch, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Snurre, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Spark, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Spawn, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Spiff, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Stein, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Vargtass, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Ventrue, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Vicenza, [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Wildthing]] and [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Xenomorph.
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Tr0ll]]
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* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] [[Doink]]
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=== Demos ===
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Argh[[Image:Webpage-vv.jpg|frame|The Vicious Vikings' home page]]  
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* [[1999]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS4FTGB0D1Y The Vicious Vikings vs. Color Web, E3M7]
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Coroner
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* [[Image:flag_fi.gif]] Diabolos
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=== Achievements ===
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] DJ-Beast
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* [[1999]]: 3rd in [[North-European Clan League]] Division A
* [[Image:flag_dk.gif]] Electric
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Explorer
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Flare
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Frog
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Frostbite
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Gibbit
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Highlander
 
* [[Image:flag_se.gif]] K-rist
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Maniac
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Mosuf
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Motorsag
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Observer
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Pain
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Pipen
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Piranha
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Reptile
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Sni
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Snurre
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Spark
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Stein
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Vargtass
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Ventrue
 
* [[Image:flag_no.gif]] Vicenza
 
  
 
[[Category:Clans]]
 
[[Category:Clans]]

Latest revision as of 20:44, 29 February 2016

The very first Norwegian Quake clan and also the longest running. Arguably the third best clan in Northern Europe in 1999. Dominant in the Norwegian Quake scene in the 90s by arranging ten AskerLANs and playing over 200 matches in virtually every competition and tournament. Made a short comeback in 2007 in the 5th season of European Quake League.

The Vicious Vikings vs. Nasty Beasts Inc., 06.12.1997: NBI had a comfortable lead after the first leg on DM3.
The Vicious Vikings vs. Nasty Beasts Inc., 06.12.1997: VV showed no mercy in the second leg, on the unusal map choice of E4M3, and won 339-265 on aggregate.

History

Norway's first Quake clan was formed by a small group of friends who had grown up in the same neighborhood, playing lots of Doom II via LAN between their houses - and Quake since the test-release. BM took the initiative to form the clan.

The Vicious Vikings was never the best or the most successful Norwegian clan, but one of the most influential ones, mainly because they were arranging the infamous AskerLANs and playing matches virtually every week for three years. In 1996 The Vicious Vikings was rated as third best in Norway, behind Carnage Clan and Spawn Clan. Three years later they were 3rd in NECL and arguably the third best clan in Northern Europe.

From the summer of 1996 to the fall of 1999, The Vicious Vikings played more than 200 clan matches. Unlike todays TB3, the matches were (usually) decided over a two-legged tie, the winning clan determined by aggregate score. VV had the unusual map choice of E4M3, which often proved an advantage against supposedly better clans. VV perfected the E4M3 team play and won big against many clans who's players were of individually superior skill. By controlling a few key points on the map, VV could time and control all four (!) Quads and at the same time RA, YA and GA fairly easy. As there are few spawns, the frag count on E4M3 would get pretty high, which of course was essential to winning matches on aggregate score.

The Vicious Vikings peaked in 1999, finishing 3rd in the North-European Clan Leagues top division, winning against clans like Flag de.gif Schroet Kommando, Flag se.gif Teddy Bears, Flag uk.gif Demonic Core, Flag se.gif Orkney Clan and Flag dk.gif Nasty Beasts Inc. The league was won by Flag fi.gif Clan Z.

Along with the general QuakeWorld scene, VV's activity slowly declined during the fall of 1999 and 2000, when many players moved on to Counter-Strike and Quake III Arena. The occasional match was played until 2001, when it was officially dissolved. A few former players resurrected the clan for a comeback in EQL in 2007, but it was unsuccessful and short-lived.

Three former members are still active as of 2014: Flag no.gif Rikoll, Flag no.gif Trygve and Flag no.gif Erlend.

Original members


Other members: Flag no.gif Rikoll (aka Zyntifox), Flag no.gif ByteMaster, Flag no.gif Doink, Flag no.gif Eaze, Flag no.gif Stigi, Flag no.gif Tr0ll, Flag no.gif Argh, Flag no.gif Askeladd, Flag no.gif Coroner, Flag no.gif Explorer, Flag no.gif Frostbite, Flag no.gif Gjesdal, Flag no.gif Glasfiber, Flag no.gif Hellspawn, Flag no.gif Highlander, Flag no.gif Huzla, Flag no.gif ICE Flare, Flag no.gif Ims, Flag se.gif K-rist, Flag no.gif Little Soldier, Flag no.gif Lynx, Flag no.gif MacGibber, Flag no.gif Man1ac, Flag no.gif Motorsag, Flag no.gif Observer, Flag no.gif Pain, Flag no.gif Pipen, Flag no.gif Piranha, Flag no.gif Royster, Flag no.gif Satan Claw, Flag no.gif Sni, Flag no.gif Snitch, Flag no.gif Snurre, Flag no.gif Spark, Flag no.gif Spawn, Flag no.gif Spiff, Flag no.gif Stein, Flag no.gif Vargtass, Flag no.gif Ventrue, Flag no.gif Vicenza, Flag no.gif Wildthing and Flag no.gif Xenomorph.

Demos

Achievements