TIA Tribes 1 History
TIA's experience with Tribes 1 was the start of something great. Its beginnings and roots were some remains of a previous tribe called {WAR} (We Always Rock). These folks, led by the Godfather of TIA, GABRIEL, set to start competing on the very popular OGL with over 100 teams playing Tribes 1 base at the time.
Around late November of 1999, GABRIEL had his base of his players and began recruiting, and quite successfully at that. Some of the names that about this time were Dr Moocowz, comatoast, and Prometheus. This matters later into a leadership change which helped keep TIA afloat and a structure that made TIA grow later and be a long standing gaming organization.
Our very first match in OGL happened sometime in mid December of 1999. Anticipation was high and learned a lot about online gaming in that first slaughter against us :). TIA was defeated multiple times, but each time we grew smarter are the drive to succeed grew each day.
Eventually, TIA became very successful and made it all the way up to #4 on the OGL ladder. We learned we can still have fun win or lose, or whatever the circumstace(The 56k ladder in the summer of 2000 for example was a good time :)). But more importantly, we learned how much fun it is to play with an organized team and online friendships grew and are still growing today.
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