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Special Operations Tournament Held
T his week saw the remnants of the UN make a move to quell the post war grudges rising between pro-SCI and anti-SCI groups. A small tournament for elite special operations teams was set up by UN representative Haruky. Teams were encouraged to draw members from both of the former armies. In total ten elite squads, including the notorious “The Nipple Inspectors”, signed up to contest the €1 million prize fund. TNI was known for being highly efficient and arrived intent on proving they were still the best in their iconic black uniforms with two rad handprints embezzled onto the breast. The event was broadcast live around the world with live commentary in over 50 languages.

The tournament took place in the deserted town of Agdam, Azerbaijan. Several stations, dubbed M-COMs, were hidden throughout the town. The objective of the tournament was to destroy these M-COMs by planting small explosive charges. Teams were paired off and took turns to attack the M-COMs while the partner team attempted to stop them. Each defending team was set a number of kills they must make on the attackers to perform a successful defence. Blank rounds were supplied to all teams along with standard laser training equipment with Haruky monitoring the teams’ electronic kills.

The tournament was held over the course of one day. Great skill and courage was shown by all of the spec ops teams with notable success of the “Angry Beavers” who managed to beat TNI in the semi finals. As night fell, only the Angry Beavers and Team Scrublnauts were left to fight it out for victory. The final was a long and intense battle with both sides performing admirably. However, as the match progressed, Team Scrublnauts began to take the upper hand. Despite AB’s best efforts to turn the game around, Team Scrublnauts managed to grasp victory and take away the €1 million prize fund.

The event was not without its difficulties. The Super Dan1mal Action Team arrived dressed in pure black in evident support of Ghoul’s Legion of Doom. There was notable complaint from many teams claiming that it was intentional provocation. Haruky dismissed these complaints. He claimed that it would be against the intensions of the tournament if SDAT were not allowed to take part. SDAT themselves complained about the use of armbands with the Starfisher Coffee logo worn by numerous teams in the tournament.

There were also complaints throughout the tournament with the electronic kill system. A member of Angry Beavers protested after the final claiming that some kills made on Team Scrublnauts were not counted while AB received too many injuries. Commenting to Global Conflict Weekly, one member claimed “those guys were not so great. Give us real guns that have proper hit detection and get rid of this electronic nonsense. Then we’ll see how good The Scrublnoobs really are” adding “Come at me bro! Any time, any day. We’ll have you!”

Despite the slight controversy over the final, the UN proclaimed the event a huge success. Haruky hopes that further events like these will happen in the future to help to quench the growing violence and tension in this post war era.

Special Operations Tournament


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