Clan Rename, New Recruits and Competition

SWAT renamed to AEF

The clan, having grown in number due to new recruits coming in, has had its name changed. There were various suggestions to the name but the winner was AEF. Originally standing for Allied Expeditionary Force, which landed on the Normandy shores on D-Day on the 6th of June 1944, it was chosen to mean Army of Elite Fraggers (after truder jokingly said it stands for Army of Elderly Fraggers since the then members were all "old" by the Maltese ET Gaming Community standards).

This name, as I might have mentioned earlier, had been used a little by me and my students while playing on COD. Back then we had used nicknames representing the names used for the Normandy Landings - Utah, Omaha, and Juno. But now each had his own nickname already so ...

We have set up a website for our clan at http://www.aefclan.com

New Recruits

The first new recruits were T.N.T. and The Rock, a couple of players who had not been playing it for long. They turned out to be colleagues at school and in fact more of their colleagues joined our lines. At a point my friend Brokklu joined the clan too (he's the one who had been using the nickname Juno in COD) as well as my workmate Lockhart. In time, quite a number left us for another fun clan (which had been created by one of our clan leaders as his fun clan) seeking more professionalism, but a number came back to us wanting to rejoin us after they were disappointed. A number of them were refused re-entry as they had been warned that once they leave they cannot join back.

We were also blessed by the joining of veteran members such as Equinox who have skill to show and to teach.

Competition

AEF joined the November Extigy ET 3v3 Competition spread over a number of weeks. Clearly the underdogs, AEF showed improvements from week to week. It was during this competition that many new recruits left us for other clans - we see this as our filtering phase.

Yes a filtering phase because clearly, AEF is not aiming at having highly professional players - though we aim to improve - but at having a tightly bound team of friends. Thus, when a new recruit wants to join us, it is not the 1v1 test which counts mostly, but rather his Ventrilo communication skills and his friendliness and respect towards other members of the team. The lack of such skills in Prof Kucho/Kumbo and his younger brother are a perfect example of what we don't want in our clan. Good riddance.