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the Gravedigger Roughnecks history :: gaming since Jan. 2000
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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the Gravedigger
Roughnecks lan chronicles
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1999
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Sep
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Crunchinator 1
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Private, Oberdorf
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10
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2000
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April
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Gameparade
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Munich
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250
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June
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Gameparade II
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Munich
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250
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15. – 17. Aug
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Circus Infernus 9
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Appenweier
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220
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24. – 26. Nov
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Circus Infernus 10
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Appenweier
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340
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2001
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2. – 3. Mar
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Circus Infernus 11
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Appenweier
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280
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22. – 24. Jun
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Circus Infernus 13
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Appenweier
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150
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21. – 23. Aug
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Starkstrom IV
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Grailsheim
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350
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16. - 18. Nov
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Datagroup Lan
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Private, Waldorfhäßlach
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20
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28. - 30. Dec
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Schwabenlan
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Fellbach
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200
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2002
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8. – 10. Mar
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Circus Infernus Maximus
III
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Mannheim
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1300
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23. – 25. Mar
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WoLP 5
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Stadtbergen
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600
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31.5. – 2.Jun
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Dimensions II
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Reutlingen
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400
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26. – 28. Jul
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unknown
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Biberach
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250
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23. – 25. Aug
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Lan-Force II
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Stockach
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350
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9. – 11. Aug
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Darkx
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Private, Burladingen
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20
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30.08. – 1.Sep
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Datagroup
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Private, Waldorfhäßlach
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30
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27. – 29. Sep
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Dimensions III
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Reutlingen
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400
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22. – 24. Nov
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Gigahertz Lan XIII
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Bruchsal
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400
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20. – 22.Dec
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Crunchinator II
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Privat, Hannover (!)
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10
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2003
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7. – 9. Feb
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Dimensions I`03
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Reutlingen
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400
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7. – 9. Mar
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Circus Infernus 24
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Appenweier
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300
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9. – 11. May
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Networx Lan
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Mittelbach
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200
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27. – 29. Jun
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Welfenlan
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Wetzisreute
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530
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25. – 27. Jul
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Starkstrom VII
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Grailsheim
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150
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22. – 24. Aug
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Lanforce III
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Stockach
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470
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14. – 16. Nov
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Dimensions IV
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Reutlingen
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300
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2004
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2. – 4. Jan
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Zockparade 8
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Karlsruhe
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150
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3. – 5. Mar
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Lan Network #2
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Kresborn
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140
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17. – 18. Apr
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Lanbada
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Reutlingen
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400
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25. – 27. Jun
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Welfenlan
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Wetzisreute
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500
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6. – 8. Aug
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Lanum
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Ladenburg
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353
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13. – 14. Sep
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Heinz open-air
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Trochtelfingen
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10
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17. – 19. Oct
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Convention X Treme
6
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Karlsdorf-Neuthart
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410
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17. – 19. Dec
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Circus Infernus XMAS Lan
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Appenweier
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333
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2005
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18. – 20. Feb
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Lan-Fact
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Giessen
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1200
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1. – 3. Apr
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Netsession
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Erding
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200
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20. – 22. May
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eXception
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Wetzisreute
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550
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29. – 31. Jun
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Convention X Treme
VII
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Karlsdorf-Neuthart
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410
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2006
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3. – 5. Feb
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Zockparade X
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Karlsruhe
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300
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12. – 15. May
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Welfenlan
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Wetzisreute
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550
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3. – 5. Nov
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TT - Lan
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Offenburg
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304
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2007
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23. – 25. Feb
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Fighternight
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München
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500
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27. – 29. Jul
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Convention X Treme
X
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Karlsdorf-Neuthart
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336
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5. – 7. Oct
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Allgäuzocke 8
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Maierhöfen
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224
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2008
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28.3. – 30.3.
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Convention-X-Treme 11
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Karlsdorf-Neuthart
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336
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25.7. – 27.7.
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Convention-X-Treme 12
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Karlsdorf-Neuthart
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600
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2009
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24.4. – 26.4.
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Schwabenzocke 8
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Memmingerberg
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300
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31.07. – 1.8,
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Knastlan
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Landshut
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402
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2010
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16.12. – 19.12.
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NorthCon
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Norderstedt
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2000
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2011
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24.6. – 26.6.
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breaking the rules
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Bad Kreuznach
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500
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