Please read

[hellbilly_deluxe]

http://egamer.co.za/2010/09/clan-review-bound-by-honour/

:P

[Megageth]

That review got it all wrong, nowhere there does it even mention that you lot are all geriatrics on hax.

- Its not 'BBH', its 'GoH'.

[Paul]

I can't access this, can you post the contents in this thread?

[hellbilly_deluxe]

What makes entering a tournament worthwhile? The after-party of course. And this is all according to Bound By Honour — a team that bases their will-to-kill on friendship and not die-hard competitiveness.

Back in 2008 a league of extra-ordinary gentlemen gathered round to form something different, something more adulterate. And I use adulterate loosely, not only to denote that these guys don’t kid around, but to also emphasis they don’t play for keeps.

After being involved in the Battlefield scene for a number of years, BBH is pretty much a team which broke away from Big Fat B*stards — a squad we recently spoke about. Regardless of this, their respect for one another, and other teams, is somewhat uplifting and strange at the same time.

For example, they love to beat team Grrr which are, apparently, whiny little girls. But at the same time, Grrr is like a sister clan — only because they’ve known them for ages. There’s a rare bond.

According to one of the founding members Vinko ‘ChaosADPumpkinHead’ Soldo, Grrr provided for one of his best gaming memories where “they capped all our flags and killed everyone except for Bounty. He climbed up on the roof of a building and it took their whole team forever to kill him. It was epic sitting there watching as it all unfolded. After the game we had a huge laugh about it. That’s Grrr, a great bunch!”


Left to right: Toofy, Spr1gg4n, Bounty, Rambino, XennoX, ChaosADPumpkinHead, KRYGORIAN. In the front – Death
Now we’ve featured a few serious teams in the past, but BBH, they are something different. I mean, between Greek Sizzlers–don’t ask–and alcohol-related bonding, these guys do mean business. They are currently battling through the DoGaming First Division where they’ve won one, lost one and drawn one.

It’s not often that we come across teams who, and I’m guessing here, judge tournaments and events on a scale of fun, instead of the competition. I was told that although rAge 2009 was a bit poor for BBH, the “party was EPIC!”

Regardless of all the above–if you didn’t catch the hints before–Bound By Honour is a slightly older team. They were friends before they were gamers, and they hope to keep it this way. And I guess that’s where Bound By Honour comes in.

The name is an interesting concept, and unfortunately we cannot give them all the credit as they got it from a movie which released in America known as ‘Bound By Honour’. It released in South Africa as “Blood In Blood Out”, but if they used this as their name they might have been portrayed very female-like. If you understand what I mean.

The Members:

■Almar “Spr1gg4n” Schutte
■Francois “Rambino” Kolbe
■Paolo “Death” Giannini
■William “Bounty” Ermen
■Jason “Toofy” Hutton
■Damien “XennoX” Hawes
■Rob “KRYGORIAN” Foden
■Vinko “ChaosADPumpkinHead” Soldo
■Sean “Dingbat” Macdonald
■Herman “HellBilly_deluxe” Erasmus
■Walters “WAJKiller2″ Muller
■Bruno “StuKKenD” Edelinski
■Erwin “DirkieUys” Erasmus
■Brendon “Sgt Nugget” Viljoen
■Shane “BeoTeK” Van Eck
Management:

■Vinko “ChaosADPumpkinHead” Soldo
■Herman “HellBilly_deluxe” Erasmus
Bound By Honour aren’t only a fun bunch of guys who game, but they are also activists in the community. They do have gaming’s best interest at heart, and they’ll probably be a great advocate for anyone willing to get on board by sponsoring. It seems like these guys know how to go out there and promote gaming as much as possible.

While there are no serious plans for the the future, BBH would like to keep playing some sort of Battlefield–can’t get away from those army days–and also ‘get Bounty a wheelchair with a fridge to keep his rum cold.’ Yeah, it sure is a different approach to gaming alright.

Apart from playing the odd tournament and participating in DoGaming Cups, Bound By Honour have aimed to ensure that everyone’s having fun, and to maintain positive relationships with other players and clans.


Back (L to R) Spr1gg4n - Rambino - Death - Bounty - Toofy | Front (L to R) XennoX - KRYGORIAN -ChaosADPumpkinHead
According to Vinko, South African gaming is long-past that whole ‘anti-social’ tag, as it has come to the point where large companies are getting involved to help the growth of eSports. There’s still a far way to go, but every bit helps and who knows what the future will hold — apart from a wheelchair with a fridge for rum.

Without touching too much on improvement for local gaming, Vinko tackled an even better subject: the publishers themselves. He said, and I agree, that companies are moving away from competitive play to support a more lucrative endeavour — casual gaming. While casual gaming is good and all, it’s eliminating a great past-time which many enjoyed. Some people don’t like casual gaming, some are just born to compete and unfortunately greed is starting to limit this tremendously. Gone are the days of Counter-Strike 1.6 — one of the most famous competitive-team games, ever.

Following this, the decision to remove fundamental multiplayer support for various games has shown that publishers seem be killing off a good market for money. With regards to console gaming; it’s a great market, however you cannot neglect the basics. Computer games started the trend, and it’s a basic you’ll need to keep around.

After a lengthy chat about upcoming games (Medal of Honor, a new CoD: Black Ops), Vinko feels that publishers should stop and think about what they are doing. And I too feel that publishers should step back and create something competitive. Then leave it be — go on with your money-making schemes and just offer a few updates here and there for those that want to play for keeps.

Now we know that Bound By Honour isn’t ultra-competitive, however their attitude shows they are serious about what they do. They have good morals, they respect gamers and they offer a brighter side to what can be called a dull community — only because of organisations which try to control the market for the wrong reasons.




eGamer Overview:

How do you even decide what kind of team Bound By Honour is? Their attitude to gaming is light-hearted but serious at the same time. They have strong morals to what the big players are doing to gaming world-wide. They believe that respect and honour is important, but more importantly they are activists for fun-gaming and friendship.

Without labelling them as fun-only gamers, BBH seems to have a slightly competitive side as well. While it’s not on-par with top-teams who put their heart and soul into gaming, they still have something to offer anyone interested in entering the gaming market.

Naturally you need to play tournaments to strengthen your bond; scream at each other for missing a vital shot; and also keep pushing your ability to play and learn. BBH are doing just this.

So, why don’t you put your drink where your mouth is and challenge these guys to a good night out, and maybe a game of Battlefield Bad Company 2.. If you can handle the battlefield, that is.

Oh, and they have a sick logo.

[Phatso]

Saw this awhile ago, Vinko posted the link in the shoutbox.
Really cool article and here's to hoping we can also has some of the exposure too :D

[SlipperyDuck]

Ja, epic article. GRRR are like a sister clan......more like Dirty molesting uncle clan.....rewrite required, stop the press

[Paul]

They need to profile us as well infact here is how our article would read

"grrr is the most awesomest clan in the whole wide world, there is no better clan, this is all because they have Paul as a member (even though they don't treat him very well and he is planning their downfall)"

[Megageth]

they love to beat team Grrr

- Another error there, should be "Dream one day of scraping a narrow and lucky win over Mighty GRRR whom they worship and admire".
You really should have given it to a member of GRRR to proof read first, such sloppy journalism.

[pmurgs]

all this whinny little girl has to say after the match :bitchslap:

[SoSheOhPathix]

'Whiny little girls' seemed pretty accurate to me.

[s3xy_j0nny]

The grrr article:

What started out as a simple gesture showing others that Jonno “s3xy_j0nny” Wickwar and Gethyn “Megageth” Gilmore simply knew each other, Clan Grrr has grown to a complete Battlefield squad with 20 players.

In the beginning, Jonno and Gethyn were friends and they often played together but on different teams. They always faced the problem of other players bad mouthing the opponent, and funny enough, it was either Jonno or Gethyn being badmouthed. To show that the two knew each other, and that they were friends, they created the tag [grrr]. About a year after their campaign to show friendship, someone approached them asking if he could join because despite all the clans in the local scene, [grrr] suited his personality.

Shortly after they allowed Lawrence “gr@v1ty” McKelvin into the squad, they posted on the SGS Forum that they had added another player. And so the applications and invitations to join [grrr] had officially opened.

Soon after this the team recruited Lee “SlipperyDuck” Logan, Jarrod “Dragonne” McElhinney, and Mike “Flycatchr” Fletcher. But then, one day, “a chimp masquerading as a human” slipped through the application system and joined the team. After showing that he was incapable of actually being human, Paul “Candidate” Du Plessis was kept in the squad, but things changed thereafter, for the better of the team.

Because of the breach in maturity and logic, [grrr] started a more rigorous application program, only allowing members that have been screened. The screening requires a lengthy Q&A which involves questions “from the completely inane, to the downright incomprehensible.”

Team [grrr], to date, plays Battlefield Bad Company 2 seriously, where fooling around takes place in Worms, Left 4 Dead and even Titan Quest.

Management

Management in [grrr] is a lot different to every other team we’ve ever focused on. Grrr constantly changes their fearless leader each year because with maturity there’s “being opinionated, set in your ways, and stubborn.” To counter the stubborn-opinionated factor, each member has a chance to lead.

The Players

* Jono ‘s3xy_j0nny’ Wickwar
* Gethyn ‘megageth’ Gilmour
* Jarrod ‘Dragonne’ McElhinney
* Lee ‘leelo0270′ Logan
* Sheri ‘NiteShade’ Buchner
* Odette ‘Onyx’ Margrate
* Mike ‘flycatchr’ Fletcher
* Darin ‘SloDaz’ Kent
* Christo ‘Voetsek-Mikey’ Struwig
* Paul ‘Paul’ du Plessis
* Stuart ‘Icenflame’ Davies
* Ion ‘flufster_wolf’ Marais
* Lawrence ‘-gr@v1ty-’ McKelvin
* Ignatius ‘Jackal-GI’ Marais
* Dirk ‘Leprechaun’ Buchner
* Johnny ‘Phatso’ Romanos
* Denis ‘Skouperd’ Dell
* Peter ‘pmurgs’ Murgatroyd
* Greg ‘baselineac’ Lewis
* Jason ‘Scorpyon’ Davies

At the moment [grrr] isn’t sponsored, however they have been before. Notice the glasses in the picture below, yeah – that’s a sponsorship. While [grrr] has “flirted” with sponsorship a few times, they’ve never landed anything as great as teams such as Pantheon, Bravado, miNt or Ventus. Regardless, they offer the opportunity to promote gaming on a more social, different level to those that eat-sleep gaming.
Competition is not the main goal behind [grrr]–as the history suggests, it’s more friendship–however they do compete in a few of the AGASA and Do Gaming cups to show the kiddies just how it’s done. Oh and most of them are in their thirties, so by kiddies we mean school-goers.

To [grrr], gaming is social. The spouse should take care of the kids.

The Name

Grrr is the sound made when “another player is consistently beating the snot out of us in-game.” Or, it could “be that our beloved wife, child, girlfriend, dog, cat, goldfish or pedigree Siberian hamster just jumped on us from behind causing us to miss that ultimate humiliation kill,” but whatever the case: Grrr!

The Past

The fearless leaders are happy with the development of the team, and they enjoy the players in the team. They are always up for a competition, and always up for a party. Every year [grrr] attends the rAge Expo, where they create their very own video of their experience at the event. You can view their latest clip here, it was created by their very own SlipperyDuck.

From playing in the LAN to having braai’s and consuming copious amounts of alcohol, it’s the plan for the first week of October – year after year.

Grrr is renowned for their participation and commitment to the event, despite the events inability to pull-through with competitions.

The Future

Basically, Grrr will exploit every opportunity given to them. Whether it’s a new game, or a new market – they will try their best to be involved. The main idea behind the team is to be more involved with the local community, and naturally create more friends and relationships with people who share the same interests.

The Competition

Remember BBH? Well, it seems these guys are mutually competitive, but also friends. They’ve helped each other grow and succeed in everything they do, and the competition here is pretty much the equivalent to Old Boys games at school.

And to throw the ball back to BBH, Megageth, one of the founding members said: “We love to beat BBH, it keeps us warm at night. I am still smiling from our last victory some weeks ago. There is a strong brotherly rivalry between the clans, we are both well-established and consist of comparatively chronologically gifted gamers who have played against each other many times over several years.”

The Community, and Gaming in General

South Africa’s gaming division doesn’t receive much support, and it was disappointing for everyone that there were no official tournaments at rAge. Players play every type of game around, however no-one supports these games.

Grrr loves gaming, and they understand that it’s not a financial payout. Not yet, and not for long anyway. It’ll take a few years before we see this.

To improve gaming, players need to be involved in competitions all over the world, for more international exposure and experience. But to pull this off, it’s tougher than we all know and think.

With regards to console gaming, and Grrr. It’s not going to happen unless you can incorporate a keyboard and mouse, sorry.

eGamer Overview

The idea behind was [grrr] was to initially show that Jonno and Gethyn knew each other. There was never the intention of a team. And it’s funny how these things just seem to work out. To date Grrr is a long standing team which boasts loads of dedicated members who are all friendly. They play to enjoy, which counts the most.

Furthermore, they will do almost anything to support the community and grow what the community has to offer. There’s no selfishness just a bit of stubbornness because of old-age.

No active sponsors at the moment, however their strange outlook at gaming will be able to promote companies and brands which aren’t focused on competition and competitive gaming. Look at the sunglasses for instance. Can you say drug cartel?