Just an update on the teams current standings..

After the loss of our LATEST member meki and long term member and friend cxb, The css team has hooked up with to past Cevo Profesional players from sydney and invited them to join our team, fulfilling the 6 player spot with a full team in sydney.

We would like to welcome icex and etric to the team !

bf2 guys, we are still missing heaps of signups for tonights game with AvA. Please get to the match room now, or ill call the game off.

Thanks,

Atari

 

 press released here!!  It states as follows....

 

AUDION gets their game on with gaming team sponsorship

 

October 2008
Melbourne, Australia  

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Audion Innovision is getting their game on! The national distribution company, who represents a number of brands Australia-wide including Akai, Edifier, AVLabs and Razer, has just announced they will be backing one of Australia’s largest gaming clans – Australian Field Operatives. 

Australian Field Operatives (AFO) has a massive online presence, represented in games such as BF2, TF2, COD4 and CSS. As part of the sponsorship, the lucky lads will be provided with all new Razer gear to help in their continued search (conquest) for glory. The sponsorship will also see support from Canadian-based loudspeaker brand Edifier, who specializes in high-end speaker systems ideal for gaming. 

Daniel Dainton, National Account Manager, comments:
       “By sponsoring a gaming clan, we acknowledge the channel as an expanding and important area in entertainment. AFO have members all over Australia who are all gaming enthusiasts and ecstatic about our brands, so we look forward to developing a mutually beneficial partnership with them.” 

The Audion-backed team will be appearing at the upcoming Call of Duty: World at War launch at Swinburne University, Melbourne on the 8th of November 2008, where Audion will be showcasing the latest products from a number of vendors, including Akai’s LCD televisions, gaming speaker systems from Edifier and high-end gaming peripherals from Razer.
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As Captain of AFO i would like to extend a warm welcome to Team #Blackout, who will be representing AFO in the Call Of Duty franchise.

Blackout join us with a short, but very distinguished history. Already at the top to the CyberGamer CGO ladder, we will no doubt continue to see great things from this team that has accomplished so much in a small period of time.

Please join me in welcoming the following players to AFO.

 Ant, Rogue, Andy, Cryptik, Malarkey and Showtime

Just writting this article to wrap up Australian Field Operatives success in the css Cevo-Intermediate season.

The season has been a long one, containing ups and downs throughout the 12-13 weeks of the season itself, the guys have been praccing through the hardship of their hsc trials.
The season has not been an upset, this was the first Cevo-Intermedate the team has ever gone through, and it was not a failure.

After the teams loss tonight against the established old team 403, due to unforseen internet issues and bad scheduling, AFO finished the season up in 3rd place, and taking home the prize of a server.

AFO looking to be attending nationals if it is set up this year in melbourne (if it is on), and many other lans around sydney. With the next Intermediate season starting next year, there is a chance we could move up to proffesionally but very unlikely.

Well done and good luck to AFO in the next season of cevo-Intermediate / Professional next year!

After heavy discussion amongst the Pinnacle members, we had come to a conclusion that for the benifit of ourselves and for the benifit of the representation of AFO, we found that changing the team name from Pinnacle to Australian Field Operatives would be a success.

The tag we currently help was "pcL shaunske AFO" But the representation of AFO here was often treaded upon, and was never taken seriously by the community.
We feel that changing our name would better represent ourselves amonst AFO and AFO as a community gaming team amongst the css communities.

Congratulations to Pinnacle [AFO] :D

We have 2 upcoming 10v10 games guys, Please get to the matchroom and signup for both please.

Thanks,
Atari

Hi all...

I need you ALL to update your passwords. There is NO NEED to manually create a vWar account!

This can be changed to your same password, however to create your logins for vwar, a password change is required.

1) Login
2) Click My Profile on the LHS
3) Hover over "Edit" > Click "Update Your Profile" > Click "Contact Info"
4) Enter in your new or existing password in the relevant fields and click "Update"
5) Log off, and log back in.
6) When clicking on "VWar", this should now automatically log you into VWar.

Captains, I will be fixing your profiles up to add members to the relevant teams.  This means that we are the first Joomla 1.5 web site to have vwar intergrated and bridged. 

A BIG thanks goes out to Wilco Jansen for making this possible!

Thanks,

Daniel

AFO's Battlefield2 team has been playing in the $8000 netGameRadio BF2 Masters 16v16 Tournament. The decision to enter a team was made 2 days before team resgistrations closed, we had noticed that some of the teams that were going to enter initially had not registered by then, and we thought we could easliy get into p4,5,6 and take home some money to pay for servers and the like.

This was short lived as a few hours later we saw the likes of AvA, *AUS* and =NSOF= enter a team. The scramble to find 24 active players began, and we had asked every member within AFO of their availability and commitment for the tournament, the ones which could not dedicate themselves were left out and the people that could were put in the team.

Our total active numbers at that stage was ~17 which was not enough, we needed to fill the 24 man roster to fill the team and allow us to have reserves, the call went out to a few people we knew and respected that were keen to play and had no team to play in, subsequently the final spots were taken by these active players and the team was formed. This had bolstered our team and had provided us with a fairly wide skill set. , we had:

* Invader from A$$,
* Bourne, Shaunicles and Chook from (db]]
* SteveIrwinCrocHunter from |NmE|
* Demonee from =RAAF=
* Althalus, Arthur Dent, mick, sammy and Sevearass from =DcS=.
* SJSKitz from bJ
* Bingaz from uN*

After a grueling 9 rounds, we had made it into the finals finishing up Position 5 at the end of the rounds. In the Semi Final we came up against *AUS* an original and seasoned 16v16 team with their origins dating back to BF1942. The map was dragon valley and we were in with a chance, there's been a lot of rivalry with this clan and I can only say it has added some spice to the matches, we had won the first round by 27 and the second by 77 taking the total to 104-0 to AFO.

We had then proceeded onto the preliminary final where doom was certain, we were going up against the favorites to win the competition and a team managed by one of the most hardest working and dedicated captains in the community. We were playing against ak^, the team that has won pretty much every money competition for BF2, and has been at the forefront of Australian competitive BF2. The talented Australian Battlefield 2 team, known as ‘Team awaken^,’ has succeeded in accomplishing the following:

* 1st in the GameArena 10 v 10 $40,000 Battlefield 2 Competition
* 1st in the Cyberslam 10 v 10 $40,000 Battlefield 2 Competition
* 1st in the OGN Infantry 10 v 10 $800 Battlefield 2 Competition
* 1st in the GameArena 8 v 8 $46,000 Battlefield 2142 Competition
* 2nd in the Taipei APAC 8 v 8 $30,000 Battlefield 2142 Competition

For the first time in history at AFO, we have beaten aK at nGR in the 16v16 semi final 47-43 AFO!! We certainly couldn't have done it without the AFO's core group and some epic lads from dcs, db, a$$, bJ and RAAF. Never have we beaten aK before, and rightfully so, as they are a team to be reckoned with and have been for years.

I am so proud to be apart of such a fantastic team and the effort that has been put in to at least show up when needed. We have always put our lives before gaming and yet we still get a thrill from competing and are very content to be where we are at today.

We most certainly have a big match ahead of us, against x5. It will be a tough one indeed and we hope to be able to get some prac in, in time for the match on Sunday.

Either way congrats on the win fellas, truly is a historical moment and a treasured win indeed.

Game face guys, and lets get g'ed up and ready to pull out all stops to give x5 a good run for there money.

AFO FUCK YEAH!!!!