nL vs CAL-ac

As im sure most of our supporters, as well as members, are aware with what has been going down in CAL these recent weeks, we feel its our obligation to explain our situation to the rest of the public.

On January 28, 2006, CALeague decided that with the amounting "evidence" of a few of our starters (Krav3n,Arias,Uber) that we must be banned from CAL for aimbotting/wallhacking. Some respectable teams in CAL were providing CAL-AC admins with what seemed to be proof of these few players doing some unusual movements. Unfortunately, this proof was actually a butchered, slowed down version aimed at making the accused players look like they were aimbotting or snapping their gun. What surprised everyone, including nL, is that these demos have slight character lag, as well as gltichy movement, not present in actual game play. For whatever reasons this may occur, bad bf2 netcode, or poor coding in general, this little EA screw up almost entirely ruined Next Level's positive image. After a few smart video editors pointed these demo glitches out to us, we had 2 professional video editors comprise enough footage as evidence that the same players CAL thought hacked, actually didnt.

After our evidence was presented to the CAL-AC department, it brewed a very large shit storm that not only caused one of the AC admins to retire, but had half the community in CAL very confused on why Uber, Krav3n, and Arias were banned so abruptly in the first place, especially a week before our CAL 5v5 Championship game . After CAL sorted through our visual evidence in support of our plea regarding our players innocence, they automatically unbanned uber, and kept Krav3n and Arias under "review". Just yesterday, after a 1on1 conversation with the head admin, Arias finally got the admin to see how the demos supported no accuracy in their hacking accusations, and thus was unbanned immediately as well. Now after these two were unbanned, with the third (Krav3n) being the only one left on review, its a shame that nL had to sacrfice their entire undefeated record in CAL and the 5v5 Championship for what we already know was a CAL screwup. We will continue to push for Krav3ns innocence in the mean-time. Unfortunately, this is a price we are going to have to pay for CAL's lack of knowledge to distinguish a very smart player using UAV to its fullest advantage, from a hacker whos using a aimbot.

We oursleves are still in awe at how all this happened, in the prime of our game, with a team we all loved to play with, day in and day out. A team thats skill and level of play was unmatched. After this CAL season the competition will move on to bigger and better things, as we now will too. We feel that this entire experience ended up making us stronger as a team, as friends, and we look forward to proving ourselves to many of the teams that ever doubted our legitimacy.