On the 28th of December, 1996, Tribe of Tjernobyl was founded by CapCop,
RipperRoo and SeaShark. Originally all members came from
Västerås, but that soon changed when the Tribe got an American division as well
as a few more Swedish members. In the summer of 1997, ToT
joined impulse's Clan Bloodfeast of the Triad and became it's b-team. CbT
disbanded during the autumn of 1997 and the ToTers went
separate ways for some time...
ToT was reunited in June 98, original members CapCop, PacMan and Sgt.Pepper and
new-comer fekkz found eachother and took up where most of them had left little
less than a year ago.
Later on that summer impulse joined up, and the idea of having a team entirely
from Västerås was borned. The chase was on and after some
LANing Oddjob was discovered. When impulse, Oddjob and CapCop went to gymnasiet
(high school?) they ended up in the same class, and QW became
their mayor. ToT arranged a few QW-competitions at a local netcafe trying to
discover additional local talents. The efforts paid off when
Stykkz was recruited, autumn of 1998.
In 1999, ToT hosted two rather large LAN-parties in Västerås; ToT-Camp #1 &
#2. This was nothing new, but these events became the largest yet.
At TC1 in March 99, ~100 QW-fanatics attended and a great 4-4 competition was
played. The rest of the year was dedicated to playing random
online games, most notably ToT managed to defeat the feared Norwegian clan Game
Over in an official battle just one week before they attended
the elite competition Fusion 99 accompanied by teams like Clan UK & Clan Z.
In 2000, ToT once again got their hands on a connection after some time of
inactivity. After an agreement had been settled with Teknikbyn
in Västerås during the summer, ToT found themselves owning a small room with a
2mbit connection. "Lokalen" still remains and is occupied... a lot. With the
introduction of Lokalen, ToT's new generation;
Slabby and Psycho_Dad, really started their training. Playing for ToTb together
with Belgarath, sibbit and a few others they started to pick up the small
details of QW 4-4.
Signing up for Challenge Smackdown,
ToT made their first appearance in an important league. Although forced to
disappear after a close defeat, 2-1, against Finland's Clan MalFunction in
the quarterfinal, ToT managed to turn a few heads by beating the finalist Euthanasia in a group game. The game was played at
Cottelan 2000 (a truly great LAN, as all the Cottelans have been) and must be
one of ToT's most memorable moments, winning 2-1 after a thrilling decider on
e1m2.
In Challenge Smackdown 2 ToT was somewhat a favourite but
although the performance was rather convincing during the group games, ToT once
again
found that the quarterfinal was the end station. Facing Flaming Fist, last season's winners as well as SD2
champions, ToT at least lost honourably.
In SD3 the new generation of ToT finally took over completely. With impulse and
CapCop away doing their military service in the north of Sweden, ToT trusted
Oddjob, Psycho_Dad, slabby and lethal to defend it's name.
Winning the necessary games, ToT qualified for the playoffs as usual. This year
became a small drawback in performance since the first game resulted in a loss,
but of course we'll be there next year, hungrier than ever!
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