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	Although the JNC 2013 produced some very memorable games, it still wasn't looking good for JKA as a whole. The ladders were barely active at all anymore; the 1v1 one was almost entirely filled up with people who hadn't logged into their accounts for months, while the TDM and 2v2 ladders had only a few games played per week. Ontop of that, the then MLA Toaster retired on the 20th of September and did not appoint a successor. An ESL supervisor took charge of the section and noticed the poor state of the game. This began a series of high-level discussions between the existing JKA admins, the supervisor and some core ESL admins as to whether the section should be closed. Fortunately, the admins managed to make their case well enough to prevent an immediate closure ~~was prevented~~, so that JKA was given a second chance.		Although the JNC 2013 produced some very memorable games, it still wasn't looking good for JKA as a whole. The ladders were barely active at all anymore; the 1v1 one was almost entirely filled up with people who hadn't logged into their accounts for months, while the TDM and 2v2 ladders had only a few games played per week. Ontop of that, the then MLA Toaster retired on the 20th of September and did not appoint a successor. An ESL supervisor took charge of the section and noticed the poor state of the game. This began a series of high-level discussions between the existing JKA admins, the supervisor and some core ESL admins as to whether the section should be closed. Fortunately, the admins managed to make their case well enough to prevent an immediate closure, so that JKA was given a second chance.

	An Autumn Cup was organized in early November, but despite the low number of participants, the tournament dragged on into early 2014 due to ~~the~~ general ~~problem~~ of inactivity. Other attempts at trying to breath some life into the scene were only temporarily successful: In mid-December the single-only ladder was closed and the original 1v1 ladder was replaced by a best-of-3 one, doing away with the controversial ELO system that determined the victor by comparing the score ratios of both rounds to one another.		An Autumn Cup was organized in early November, but despite the low number of participants, the tournament dragged on into early 2014 due to general problems of inactivity. Other attempts at trying to breath some life into the scene were only temporarily successful: In mid-December the single-only ladder was closed and the original 1v1 ladder was replaced by a best-of-3 one, doing away with the controversial ELO system that determined the victor by comparing the score ratios of both rounds to one another. This helped spark some activity for a short while, but after a few weeks the bo3 ladder became as inactive as its predecessor had been.

	It is, ~~however~~, ~~unknown~~ as to for ~~how long~~ the admins ~~can stave off~~ the ~~closure~~ of the ~~last remaining~~, ~~well~~-~~organized competitive league~~ in ~~JKA~~.		Ontop of all that, the British player Sabu was banned in early February for using a cvar unlocker to give himself an advantage over others in his matches. This sparked a large controversy over whether the ban was justified at all, how the admins managed to figure Sabu out and whether having banned one of the most active players in the scene would doom the place to inactivity. In the aftermath, all of Sabu's 1v1 matches for 2014 were deleted and all of the matches of the teams that he played in were declared void. This raised uncomfortable questions over the legitimacy of UK's victory in the JNC, seeing as Sabu had played a significant role in securing that victory in January 2014.

			Whatever the case may be, Sabu's team WarMachines withdrew from the ladder shortly after he got banned. This had left the place to the newly established eForce, which had returned in early January and was recording a perfect score against everyone else on the ladders - with sole exception of team WarMachines itself, which had defeated eForce on two separate occasions, but after it was found out that Sabu had been cheating, those matches were declared void and consequently removed. Team eForce was left to reign supreme in the ladder, but their first spot was becoming more hollow as more and more teams were withdrawing - at one point in time, the TDM ladder was down to only three teams.

			This state of affairs changed dramatically in March 2014 as the competitive community experienced a significant surge in activity. It was in this context that Tiber had brought Jerdor and rzr together and had formed team tryHARD to take on eForce - and so they did, as they defeated eForce twice in a row on the ladder. Team eForce eventually did manage to beat tryHARD once as well, but they suffered a significant defeat in the 2014 Spring Cup, where tryHARD took them out with close scores. They had more success in the 2v2 format, as eForce's grimmhold and Spiritz took on Jerdor and rzr twice in a row with incredibly close scores. Team eForce had still retained their first place on the TDM ladder, but it was clear to everyone that they had found a worthy contender.

			The overall activity spike in March lead to the ESL supervisor in charge of the section to appoint former admin Pingu as the new MLA for the JKA section, with Toaster making a return as a co-MLA admin. This lead to a new staff of admins and put the section back into the hands of the community. This also saw the introduction of an evening cup series, the first of which Jerdor managed to take over Tiber in the finals. However, the activity spike was just that: a spike, and although it inspired a lot of new players to join the ESL and form new teams for the various ladders, the state of competitive JKA was slowly beginning to once again grind to a halt. In mid-April, barely any matches had been played in any of the ladders and the running tournaments were dragging on for months.

	==The Best of the Best: The Big Four==		==The Best of the Best: The Big Four==

Masta at 08:26, 20 April 2014

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Masta: /* Fear the HUNs: Late 2010 to Late 2012 */

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 It was around that time that Violence Perfected established itself as the most dominant team on the ladder. With the ESL loosening the rules around the amount of time that a team had to wait before they could rechallenge their opponent, vP took the ladder by storm. Despite the existence of other successful teams like Warmachines, Jedi Knights, Vintage and 7Lives, vP barely met any opposition at all and their core players were unmatched as a team, which included s3cht, rzr, Till and dni. By May 2011, they had a score of 81 wins to 7 losses, 3 of which were against TuA. Indeed, it was only against TuA's main team that vP did not have a positive win ratio on the ladders by that point. TuA even managed to defeated vP in the grand finals of the 2011 Spring Cup with scores of 32-27 and 26-25, which also marks TuA's first ever championship victory since their conception in 2004.
-Despite vP's great success on the ladder, the team was generally unlucky when it came to tournaments: They had already lost to Vintage in the semi-finals of a previous cup in early 2011, which Vintage went on to win convincingly against ensium, but they were now facing inVision in the grand finals of the 2011 Autumn Cup in November. Violence Perfected managed to take the first round 42-30, but in an incredibly close game they went on to lose the next two rounds 44-45 and 26-27, suffering another tournament defeat. The loss was one of the reasons as to why some of vP's members broke off from the team to form their own, dooming vP to inactivity. They called the new team 'Metric' and despite some early successes, it ran into a losing streak in December 2011 and disbanded shortly therafter. At around the same time, vP left the ladder and its players dispersed; some of them went to short-lived teams like BEAR, some others to 7Lives aka neTwork, the latter of which became the dominant force on the ladders in early 2012
+Despite vP's great success on the ladder, the team was generally unlucky when it came to tournaments: They had already lost to Vintage in the semi-finals of a previous cup in early 2011, which Vintage went on to win convincingly against ensium, but they were now facing inVision in the grand finals of the 2011 Autumn Cup in November. Violence Perfected managed to take the first round 42-30, but in an incredibly close game they went on to lose the next two rounds 44-45 and 26-27, suffering another tournament defeat. {{multiple image
 Team neTwork's player rzr had himself a very successful tournament run in the April 2012 1v1 Spring Cup that the ESL organized. He most notably defeated Spiritz in the semi-finals and went on to play against Itachi in the finals, where he won a very close match with scores of 3-2 and 10-7, taking the entire tournament. Seeing as the previous handful of tournaments were all very well attended, the ESL decided to try something more daring: They hosted a Premiership for JKA, full with qualifiers, group stages and playoffs.

Masta: /* The Beginning of the End: Late 2012 to Early 2014 */

2013-12-26T19:41:42Z

The Beginning of the End: Late 2012 to Early 2014

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	Team eForce had a rather successful but short-lived run on the ladder, staying only for two months till January 2013 when they left with a score of 17 wins to one loss, beating most notably Abyss twice. Both eF as well as vP participated in the 2013 Winter Cup that took place between January and March. As tradition has it, Violence Perfected only made it to the semi-finals of the tournament, where they lost against team Rise of the Phoenix with scores of 35-17, 20-30 and 23-16. They went on to forfeit their third place match against Warmachines, dropping out of the tournament entirely. On the other hand, team eF had a much more successful run, defeating{{multiple image		Team eForce had a rather successful but short-lived run on the ladder, staying only for two months till January 2013 when they left with a score of 17 wins to one loss, beating most notably Abyss twice. Both eF as well as vP participated in the 2013 Winter Cup that took place between January and March. As tradition has it, Violence Perfected only made it to the semi-finals of the tournament, where they lost against team Rise of the Phoenix with scores of 35-17, 20-30 and 23-16. They went on to forfeit their third place match against Warmachines, dropping out of the tournament entirely. On the other hand, team eF had a much more successful run, defeating{{multiple image
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Masta: /* The Beginning of the End: Late 2012 to Early 2014 */

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The Beginning of the End: Late 2012 to Early 2014

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	While the UK's national team, mainly consisting of Terra, Sabu, Temok, Osiris, Viking and Spiritz, had managed to defeat both Polish teams in quick succession, the Hungarians had to face Romania. In an impressive show of force, {{multiple image		While the UK's national team, mainly consisting of Terra, Sabu, Temok, Osiris, Viking and Spiritz, had managed to defeat both Polish teams in quick succession, the Hungarians had to face Romania. In an impressive show of force, {{multiple image
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	}}the Romanian players Trey, Tiber, Razerer and Stone managed to beat Hungarian's first team 47-41 and 53-39, before they faced and defeated the second team 27-26 and 44-27. In the lower bracket, the Alpine Regions went on to eliminate the Czech and second Polish team before facing off against Hungary #2. A true clash between the older and newer generation of players was about to occur, and in one of the closest game in the history of JKA, the Alpine Regions scored 22-23, 23-22 and 33-50 against the Hungarians, losing their shot at the championship in the process. Thus did the three oldest teams in the JNC get eliminated by the Hungarians: Germany, the previous champion; Poland, always a strong contender; and the Alpine Regions, a team made up entirely of older generation players. A sign that the times had truly changed.{{multiple image		}}the Romanian players Trey, Tiber, Razerer and Stone managed to beat Hungarian's first team 47-41 and 53-39, before they faced and defeated the second team 27-26 and 44-27. In the lower bracket, the Alpine Regions went on to eliminate the Czech and second Polish team before facing off against Hungary #2. A true clash between the older and newer generation of players was about to occur, and in one of the closest game in the history of JKA, the Alpine Regions scored 22-23, 23-22 and 33-50 against the Hungarians, losing their shot at the championship in the process. Thus did the three oldest teams in the JNC get eliminated by the Hungarians: Germany, the previous champion; Poland, always a strong contender; and the Alpine Regions, a team made up entirely of older generation players. A sign that the times had truly changed.{{multiple image
	\| footer = ~~The Aurochs at their best: Victories against roYality, fiDelity, Insane (for~~ the ~~third time) and Jedi Sentinels~~.		\| footer = Team Alpine Regions got eliminated by the Hungarians' second team.
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Masta: /* Jedi Premiership: JPS 2012 */

2013-12-26T19:29:49Z

Jedi Premiership: JPS 2012

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Masta: /* Jedi Premiership: JPS 2012 */

2013-12-26T19:29:06Z

Jedi Premiership: JPS 2012

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	}}It was hard to predict who would take the victory, as no clear favourite could be established. Both VICE as well as 4.3.4 had excellent lineups that they could rely upon, but team Fast Five was quickly making a name for itself during the previous two rounds and had become a serious force to be reckoned with. All three of them had no problem getting through their respective brackets in the playoffs, until they faced each other. The first great match took place in the semi-finals between VICE and 4.3.4, where VICE just barely lost the first round by a single point, going into the second round with a deficit of 11-12. They managed to win the second round 19-16, and since the format was a classic best-of-3, the game went on to the third round. In another incredibly close game, 4.3.4 finally managed to come out ahead 26-22, securing their spot in the finals against Fast Five.{{multiple image		}}It was hard to predict who would take the victory, as no clear favourite could be established. Both VICE as well as 4.3.4 had excellent lineups that they could rely upon, but team Fast Five was quickly making a name for itself during the previous two rounds and had become a serious force to be reckoned with. All three of them had no problem getting through their respective brackets in the playoffs, until they faced each other. The first great match took place in the semi-finals between VICE and 4.3.4, where VICE just barely lost the first round by a single point, going into the second round with a deficit of 11-12. They managed to win the second round 19-16, and since the format was a classic best-of-3, the game went on to the third round. In another incredibly close game, 4.3.4 finally managed to come out ahead 26-22, securing their spot in the finals against Fast Five.{{multiple image
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	Fast Five fielded Trey, HellRaiser and Spiritz, while VICE fielded Abaddon, rzr and fusion in the first round, {{multiple image		Fast Five fielded Trey, HellRaiser and Spiritz, while VICE fielded Abaddon, rzr and fusion in the first round, {{multiple image
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Masta: /* The Beginning of the End: Late 2012 to Early 2014 */

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The Beginning of the End: Late 2012 to Early 2014

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 Early in January of 2013 it was decided that team Violence Perfected would once again rejoin the ladder with their initial core players rzr, Till, dni and S3chT. Their run was largely successful, but they were far from invincible anymore and most notably lost a few games to such teams like Abyss and Warmachines. Trey on the other hand, inspired by his victory in the JPS, re-founded the legendary team eForce that had been successful in the early days of JKA. He got Ozone Dark's blessing for that, a former eF player himself, who became an important part of the new team and helped out with the administrative aspects of the clan. Alongside Dark, former Ozone player Osiris also joined the team and made a few cameos in some of the matches, but eF's core players mostly consisted of former Fast Five members with a few additions.
-Team eForce had a rather successful but short-lived run on the ladder, staying only for two months till January 2013 when they left with a score of 17 wins to one loss, beating most notably Abyss twice. Both eF as well as vP participated in the 2013 Winter Cup that took place between January and March. As tradition has it, Violence Perfected only made it to the semi-finals of the tournament, where they lost against team Rise of the Phoenix with scores of 35-17, 20-30 and 23-16. They went on to forfeit their third place match against Warmachines, dropping out of the tournament entirely. On the other hand, team eF had a much more successful run, defeating Abyss, Haste and Warmachines before having to play Rise of the Phoenix in the grand finals themselves. Trey, Spiritz and Grimmhold won the first round 16-13 and the second one 39-28, taking another championship.
+Team eForce had a rather successful but short-lived run on the ladder, staying only for two months till January 2013 when they left with a score of 17 wins to one loss, beating most notably Abyss twice. Both eF as well as vP participated in the 2013 Winter Cup that took place between January and March. As tradition has it, Violence Perfected only made it to the semi-finals of the tournament, where they lost against team Rise of the Phoenix with scores of 35-17, 20-30 and 23-16. They went on to forfeit their third place match against Warmachines, dropping out of the tournament entirely. On the other hand, team eF had a much more successful run, defeating{{multiple image
 As previously mentioned, eForce was short-lived and disbanded sometime after the Winter Cup championship. With eF gone, Trey picked up his inVision squad again, recruiting DentoN, Suwwi and Grimmhold, which quickly rose to the second place on the ladder. He challenged vP a few times, but it never came to a clash between the two for a variety of reasons, but mostly because inactivity made scheduling a match difficult for both sides. Team vP eventually left the ladder sometime in June 2013, never to return.
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 ESL's JNC was surprisingly well attended for 2013: For one, team Alpine Regions made an unexpected comeback, bringing back some of the great players from the previous JNC, namely Warhammer, Serra and kAmui. It was, however, the only team to be entirely made up of players from the previous generation; wonder joined the Polish national team, but he played alongside Almi and d'light. The former champion team Germany was now, for example, entirely made up of new players, with none of the original greats making a return. Due to the large amount of players, both Poland as well as Hungary were allowed to field two teams each; Hungary's first team consisted of rzr, Till, zara and Jerdor, the second one of Borka, Hitless, Ropa, shinzo and Torrento.
-Despite some early default wins against mostly inactive teams, like Team USA, almost all of the matches throughout the tournament had been played. Team Alpine Regions allegedly suffered connectivity issues in their match against Poland's first team and lost with a rather high score count, whereas Germany convincingly beat Turkey, but suffered a no-show against Hungary's second team. Germany got through Serbia in the lower brackets before being eliminated by Hungary's first team 49-45 and 62-55. But how did the Hungarians, the favourites to win the tournament, get into the lower brackets to begin with?
+Despite some early default wins against mostly inactive teams, like Team USA, almost all of the matches throughout the tournament had been played. Team Alpine Regions allegedly suffered connectivity issues in their match against Poland's first team and lost with a rather high score count, whereas Germany convincingly beat Turkey but suffered a no-show against Hungary's second team. Germany got through Serbia in the lower brackets before being eliminated by Hungary's first team 49-45 and 62-55. But how did the Hungarians, the favourites to win the tournament, get into the lower brackets to begin with?
-While the UK's national team, mainly consisting of Terra, Sabu, Temok, Osiris, Viking and Spiritz, had managed to defeat both Polish teams in quick succession, the Hungarians had to face Romania. In an impressive show of force, the Romanian players Trey, Tiber, Razerer and Stone managed to beat Hungarian's first team 47-41 and 53-39, before they faced and defeated the second team 27-26 and 44-27. In the lower bracket, the Alpine Regions went on to eliminate the Czech and second Polish team before facing off against Hungary #2. A true clash between the older and newer generation of players was about to occur, and in one of the closest game in the history of JKA, the Alpine Regions scored 22-23, 23-22 and 33-50 against the Hungarians, losing their shot at the championship in the process. Thus did the three oldest teams in the JNC get eliminated by the Hungarians: Germany, the previous champion; Poland, always a strong contender; and the Alpine Regions, a team made up entirely of older generation players. A sign that the times had truly changed.
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 But was this really a Hungarian age? As the two Hungarian teams clashed in the lower brackets, it was to everyone's surprise that the second team managed to come out ahead, defeating the fan favourites rzr, Till and zara 42-36 and 47-37. Hungary #2 had now to rematch Romania, which had lost against the UK before. In a very tense standoff between the two, the first round was lost by Trey, Tiber and Stone 23-36, the second round won 38-22 and the final one as well with a score of 28-22. The Romanias had single-handedly eliminated Hungary from the JNC - they had defeated the Hungarians three times in a row, twice in upper bracket and once in the lower bracket.
-It is truly astonishing to consider how far Romania had come as a scene. Between Trey's continuous victories in tournaments and Tiber's seemingly endless stay on the first rank of the international 1v1 ladder, they had proven once and for all that Romania had merit equal and above that of Hungary, and that they could not only hold their own against the very best that Hungary was able to throw at them, but were able to actively challenge, if not consistently defeat the greatest that the Hungarians had to offer.
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 Now the Romanian national team had a second shot at the ESL's world championship: They were now allowed to replay the UK in the grand finals.

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 Nevertheless, the Premiership was very well attended, featuring a full 32 teams bracket for its qualifiers. Besides the obvious contenders, both FoR as well as Ozone's team qualified for the group stages, but failed to get into the playoffs. FoR's team lost all of its matches, whereas Ozone's won against Prismatic, but lost against Haste and Fast Five. Most notably team Abyss, whoCares and JediMindTricks did also not make it out of their respective groups, leaving the then most promising eight teams to fight it out amongst themselves in the playoffs.
-It was hard to predict who would take the victory, as no clear favourite could be established. Both VICE as well as 4.3.4 had excellent lineups that they could rely upon, but team Fast Five was quickly making a name for itself during the previous two rounds and had become a serious force to be reckoned with. All three of them had no problem getting through their respective brackets in the playoffs, until they faced each other. The first great match took place in the semi-finals between VICE and 4.3.4, where VICE just barely lost the first round by a single point, going into the second round with a deficit of 11-12. They managed to win the second round 19-16, and since the format was a classic best-of-3, the game went on to the third round. In another incredibly close game, 4.3.4 finally managed to come out ahead 26-22, securing their spot in the finals against Fast Five.
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 Now it was up to Fast Five to prove their mettle against the French team. Trey, the team captain of Fast Five, made sure to have his team practice a lot before the game, and to everyone's surprise, despite fielding their very best team, 4.3.4 was taken out in both rounds with scores that were not very close at all: 31-27 and 29-24. The sole fact that team Fast Five had so far closed all of their won matches with a 2-0 was becoming more and more impressive: And now they even took out one of the strongest teams in the entire tournament with another 2-0, making their way to the grand finals.
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 In the meantime, VICE got through Vintage and wctbl in the lower brackets and got a default win against 4.3.4 when the French team failed to show up. Fast Five had to get through another one of the strongest teams in the tournament to claim the championship. Due to the high stakes, it took VICE a long time to agree to a fixed date for the match. With tensions rising between some of the players of Fast Five and the problem of inactivity that were starting to plague the team, it was not looking good for them at all. Despite team captain Abaddon's best efforts, VICE was beginning to show signs of inactivity as well, so when the match got finally started in early November, both teams had been out of the loop for a while. They both tried their very best though, which lead to a tense standoff between the two.
-Fast Five fielded Trey, HellRaiser and Spiritz, while VICE fielded Abaddon, rzr and fusion in the first round, switched fusion for zara in the second round and rzr for Jerdor in the third. Fast Five took the first round with scores of 31-27. Abaddon, playing the game of his life, single-handedly carried his team in the first two rounds and earned a total k/d ratio of 17:11 in round 1 and 22:13 in round 2. He managed to win the second round for his team with a score of 34-30, but even someone like Abaddon has his limits: By the third round he was so exhausted that his performance dropped severely and he was getting killed left and right. This in turn resulted in Fast Five taking the final round 36-28 and winning the entire championship.
+Fast Five fielded Trey, HellRaiser and Spiritz, while VICE fielded Abaddon, rzr and fusion in the first round, {{multiple image
 ===The Beginning of the End: Late 2012 to Early 2014===