Sheol,  

Some OZTF news for you on the demise of Loki, and some useless Loki statistics. :)  

As most people already know, Loki is now dead.   During its 16 months of life, Loki played a total of 55 wars and scrimmages, losing 8 matches overall, meaning we won or drew over 85% of our games. We played 101 maps during those 55 games using 12 different maps, these being 2fort5, 2fort5r, well6, wellgl1, bam4, bases, rock1, rock2, muskrat4, 2nuke2, blords2 and spit.  

The most disappointing aspect of Loki was that it never reached its full potential. We lost 8 games in total, mostly when we were fielding far from our best team. The AF game this year was probably the most frustrating, as we ended up having 8 of our best players unavailable, and we had to use people who had never played with us before etc. This is no excuse, of course, but it was always frustrating to lose to the top clans when we were at half strength. Probably the only game where we can say we were comprehensively outplayed was against FtB. We had been together for only a short time when we played them, and they hit us hard. We actually almost won 2fort5, but they gave us a solid hiding in well6. This was, however, a great experience for us, and we came back much stronger as a result.  

Loki kept a pretty low profile throughout most of its life, meaning that many of its players went unrecognised. Karl, co-founder of Loki, was probably the best TF player I have come across, yet most people would not have heard of him. He was just a total freak, both in TF and in life. It was big loss to Loki when he lost interest in TF and found sheep instead. Hetzer was a terrific hwguy, both in TF and in life, being the cornerstone of our TF2.8 well6 defence. Our well6 became impregnable when Hetz was sawin' and storin' the opposition. Victim, once coming in the top 3 in a British DM competition, is up there with the best soldiers in the country. After one clan game, he was accused of cheating by using super rockets or some such crap. Zel was once accused of having an 'impossible aim'.  

Over the last 6 months, Loki had been in a decline. People were busy with school, work, life etc, and we just never were able to get together to practice. We'd go into games under-prepared or with too many players absent and end up having to use people in the wrong positions etc and we'd struggle to win. It was very fustrating. In the end, a number of people realised that things were not going to improve, so it was better to pull the plug than to let Loki slide even further down.  

Thanks to all the clans that Loki played, particularly Dad's Army for the many fun games we had. QG were probably the most inconsistent of all the clans, sometimes being totally pathetic, yet other times being extremely strong. FtB were probably the toughest clan that we played.  

[ex-Loki] Fenrir