It was time for the World QuakeWorld League to land in South America. The division tooks place only in Brazil because our territory is so big that it's almost bigger than all other latin countries together. A Brazilian division could easily exist next to a South American division. Different from all other QuakeWorld scenes worldwide, here the whole country is focused in less than a dozen servers across our biggest city, Sao Paulo.

Some people for sure wouldn't have the same speed connect as others but this made our Quake with no frontiers, literally. From this and more facts than I can remember our scene raised a healthy rage over the players' minds, building happenings and histories creating what I believe to be a unique folklore inside our remaining community. Quake started in Brazil already in 1996, but only took the country by storm little before the middle of 1997. Surprisingly at that point we already had heroes and dynasties inside the Quake.

The joy and the gratification of being united with the current and valuable epic of Challenge Smackdown didn't reflect in the arenas and battlefields of Brazil. Our division group-games resulted in a big spectacle of walkovers, about 85% of games ended this way. Historically QuakeWorld in our country always faced problems in the first half of past years, since 1997, and more specifically in the leagues and tourneys segment. Through that I did the impossible to postpone the beginning of the league insofar as possible without injuring the other general resources of the world league. In this time plenty pressure came from teams and players to start games, since it was coming from newcomers I knew it was "trashtalk" because they would prove to be exactly the transgressors of the league.

I can't deny my frustration watching this after working to get things at least a little more favorable to everybody. But I can't deny Challenge Smackdown entered our scene in a bad time either, I prefer to believe it was bad luck than anything else. Twelve teams set the brazilian division, Rage Clan then 8th Command of Brazil, Quakers in Black, Clanalhas, Hell Raiser then Black Hawks in group 1, RS Terminators, ClanBrazil, Papa-figo and Blood Revenge in group 2, Lords of War, Animaniacs, Full Connect and Grave Diggers in group 3. Almost all games played were done inside group 3 because it is the group where you have a bigger number of experienced teams than the others. I could have a complete season without walkovers but then I would count with a minimum number of teams, and this was not the idea, but now looking at the result, it's time to think again and think with reason and not with the heart.

The objective now must be develop the playoffs (read here) and wait for great games and then start all over again. After all, one day is for hunting, another is for fishing.