Fish Heads are Back
Sunday, June 11th, 2006Ireland’s most experienced gaming clan, Clan FH, are now playing Warsow. The clan has been going since August 2000 and has played hundreds of official matches. When Quake 4 turned out to be such a disappointment, I thought that FH’s days were over but we’ll give Warsow a crack and see if its worth playing. I moved the website into Wordpress and got most of the news / match results archives imported.
It’s funny to see that after 6 years, the lack of broadband is still the major issue for me. FH had 21 dedicated Irish gamers in its teamlist. Looking through the news archives, it wasn’t until 2003 that any of us were able to get broadband. On 6th Jan, 2003, quozl was the first of us to have more than 128k bandwidth. He was living in Dublin 4, actively involved in Irish WAN, an engineering graduate with broadband a major priority. But like the rest of us in Cork City, Carrigaline, Bray, Malahide, Galway City, Dundalk, Ennis, Limerick, Portlaoise, and er.. *cough* Ballymore Eustace, it was simply impossible to get any kind of broadband (bar satellite) until this time.
Some FHers still weren’t able to get DSL until just a couple of months ago - Spacey went to extreme lengths including bribes and intimidation in order to get his line to pass and it finally paid off. Out of the blue, Eircom upgraded Vincent’s local exchange. Anyone else who still couldn’t get broadband had long since resigned themselves to the Xbox I think, so that now in the middle of 2006, I’m the last remaining ISDNer. I think I’ll write a song about it.
