the Gravedigger Roughnecks history :: gaming since Jan. 2000

On january 2000 the GDR clan was founded by Arkan, Captain Crunch (his big brother) and Fightermarko (Crunchs best friend).

"We were a 3-man lan-clan that simply gamed on some lans in germany and we knew nothing about what a "clanwar", "clanpage" or something was. Our first big Lanparty was the Gamparade in Munich on april 2000. On that lan we saw, how the other guys played and that it must be great fun to do a 5on5 match with special tactics and things like that. But during the time between april and october 2000 our first few clanwars on the different lan-parties haven't been very successfull, because we always had to fight a 3on5 since no one wanted to join up a n00b-clan as we were =). On october 2000 everything changed, because 3 of my best friends with the nicknames "Papus", "The Evil" and "Deerhunter" began to do fps-gaming and joined up the Gravedigger Roughnecks! They had never played an ego-shooter before but got pretty high skills soon. On november 2000 my little brother called "Mohjo" and his school buddies called "Pyroben", "Hirogen" and "Protoss" joined up the mobile infantry of GDR! It was incredible! We really had nine members! Now the clan had to be represented by a clanpage on the Internet. Our first homepage got online on November 2000.

January 2001.

The Clan had an age of one year! At his time, Papus decided to get our official warranger and to register us in an online league called "The Clanbase". This was the begining of our online gaming career. We had some few clanwars and we played very often on an 20-Port public server called "Babylon's Whores Monster Butta Fuka". It was the clanserver of the "Masheads" clan. Another server called "Motodrom" from a clan called the "Boese Schweine" got our second most used meeting-point.

On june 2001 was a very important Lan-Party for us. We met sR6-Imperator who taught us who to make a real cw. He teached us some tactics and revealed our biggest mistakes. And he told us how to use tools like „rcon“ and „script“. We also watched sR6 playing against TAMM on the map de_nuke and learned a lot about pro-gaming. From this lan onwards we were much more successful in following cws.

From summer to the very end of the nice year 2001 we got better with every week we played. Sometimes we had one or more clanwars every day. The players "Mokiloc - da Boogieman" and "Doomlord" joined up during this time. On november 2001 our totally new page got online using php-technology and a new domain called team-gdr.de. By this time the very cool and strong fighter Animal joined up!

At the End of the year 2003 Valve decided to release the Counter-Strike version 1.6. The version was distributed using a new system called „Steam“ that was very slow and buggy in the beginning. It was such an annoying system that we made the decision to stop the Conter-Strike era.

But the less CS we played, the more fun we had! We still like to play and we still are visiting a lot of lan parties in southern Germany! And finally, in 2007, the new member „Dejus“ joined up!

the Gravedigger Roughnecks lan chronicles