About Rasta-Gaming
Welcome to Rasta Gaming! If you have made it this far you are probably doing a little research or perhaps looking to join a team and getting your background knowledge. Currently the about us is slightly limited (a lite version if you like) while the full about us is completed. Below the information is the previous About Us pages so you can see our history ;)
Im going to keep this relatively short and sweet and expand as time goes on. Rasta Gaming was established in Jan 2007 by Ryan "Arky" Kingsley and Adam "Damage" Parkins, both with similar interests in computer games and competing professionally. Why did we start Rasta? Well it was simple really, if you want something done right, do it yourself. We didnt want to be the same as a lot of the UK clans. Known for our insolence, rudeness and inability to be friendly to anyone. The dawn of an era was at hand.
Its incredible to think how far we have come. From 1 team of 7 players to a community of well over several hundred members. Rasta Gaming currently competes at CS:S, CoD4, CoD6, L4D, L4D2, SF, HoN and WoW (casually rofl). We attend as many LANs as possible from iSeries to CentraLAN or PCGamer LAN and take anywhere from 20 - 60 people with us at each event. Currently their are 10+ teams within Rasta Gaming all active and competing.
The leagues we compete in/support can be found in the banner but also here:
www.enemydown.co.uk
www.thesgl.com
www.esl.eu
www.pro-hl.com
www.coltkillaz.co.uk
These are great places to get games and play against some top teams and great people. Feel free to drop in and challenge us to a game ;)
Wrapping things up we are now viewed as one of the larger UK organisations, we have one of the most popular DeathMatch servers in the world (connect 85.234.148.190:27015) and an AIM server in the top UK range (connect 85.234.148.190:27025). We are rated as top 10 UK for CS:S and soon to be top 10 EU.
I would like to take this opportunity also to thank our friends and supporters/sponsors:
INX Gaming - Where would we be without you. The best Server Provider i have used to date and will never change.
Alpha Networks - Great BNCs :D
ClanBug - What a Clan Management System! Still lots of work to do but it never ceases to amaze me how good it really is. Dont have it? Get it!
All our members and friends! Without your support/donations and kindness we wouldnt be here. We will keep striving for excellence as long as you guys keep wanting it to be provided. Your the reason we are here.
On that final note, this is Rasta Gaming!!
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PREVIOUS ABOUT US PAGES:
Chapter 1:
Rasta Gaming was born in January 2007. Founders Arky and Damage put it together after a fortunate twist of fate which made it viable for Damage to get back into CSS and Arky to furthur his CSS gaming.
Originally going to be called The Rasta Initiative [TRI] Rasta Gaming had several developments with some of Arkys RL friends joining being Solda, Ian and Pacman but due to either lag, gayness or his Dell none of them three have really had the opportunity to play full time and so we expanded the team which brings us to where we are today.
Rasta Gaming is now a fully operational sponsored CS:S Team. We are currently sponsered by Power-Frag.co.uk and are looking for furthur sponsorship from the likes of Razer Gaming and Commodore Gaming. We now consists of at least 15 Rastas and several honorary Rastas from old players to new and have just entered into EnemyDown.co.uk to finally put our stamp on the CS:S world. Be prepared ladies and gentlemen because the Rasta machine is coming and unless your holding appeasing Blunts i suggest you move over.
Much Love
Damage and Far-Eye (Arky)
A big Thanks goes here to our friends who have enabled us to progress so far so quickly. Element Gaming, www.elementgaming.co.uk #e.gaming, have been a pillar to lean on especially Rastaman (<3 you too Foxeh). 4Kings Ritch with the extra help and the backup PC when one of ours went at i30 *passes blunt* when your done im putting you in my pocket and keeping you. Last but not least Revol, #revolclan, as our friendliest clan, thanks for the games guys im loving teh sex and our sponsors Power-Frag.co.uk, #power-frag (brilliant servers), who gave us somewhere for our debauchery.Team-Carrick, our online mates and lan drinking comrades Love you all!
Chapter 2:
Just to update the About Us page as some time has passed now and various things have changed. We are no longer sponsored by Power-Frag as they were bought out. Currently our dedicated servers are hosted on the INX Network who have been extremely helpful with server info and management with the integration. Our LAN sponsor is from Baggies who really looked after us at i32 and we look forward to seeing them all again at i33. There are now 3 Rasta Gaming teams in CSS and 1 in Guild Wars (Inactive atm) which are Rasta| Rasta|| and Rasta. for CSS and rG for GW. We now have 25+ members and even though some laugh that we may have large numbers and therefore cannot be taken seriously.... well LOL at that haha come challenge our Rasta. team and we will see whos not serious. Rasta Gaming compete in TheSGL, EnemyDown, iSeries, Recoil Cup and any other event that comes our way with invites to GBGL and CCSSL keep your eyes open.
Updates on the Thank Yous: All the teams we have met and played! You guys are the reason the game is so good. LANs have been an experience haha. To the Rasta Gaming players. Keep it up. You make us proud every day
Chapter 3:
Various opportunities to furthur Rasta Gaming as a whole have been taken leading to what we have today. Rasta Gaming now has 4 competitive CSS teams of which 3 are in EnemyDown and 1 is still waiting for their Players to get out of their respective Packard Bell teams so they are free to play. We do have a CoD4 team but they are pretty inactive with how busy it has been on the CSS front. I will give you a rundown of the teams thus far:
Rasta|| - The Original
Jinx - Boss
BlackTear - Boss
Blanks - Boss
Omy
Chaos
Smurfeh
Mooney-Toes
TheCatSat
Reserves:
DoubleDragon
Memnoch
These guys are the founding members of Rasta Gaming and have been with it since time began. Currently 44th in EnemyDowns Open Ladder they are basically the grunt behind the machine.
Rasta| - The Newbreed
Quid - Boss
Symo - Boss
Tubs
Glaxy
Arcail
Mo
Marvin
Sammo
Welcome our newer, younger, leaner killing machine. These guys are pretty much the youth of Rasta Gaming that need their teeth cut and a bit of guidance so they have the eldest and wisest of Rasta to guide them in Quid.
Rasta. - The Sword
Porky - Boss
.pRs - Deputy
xen_-
ConfessioN
dirtymagiC
ZippY
Gaski
Matt0o
What can i say. These guys are intense and passionate about their game. Certainly the most ferocious amongst the Rastas and a side i certainly would never want to play.
Finally |Rasta| - The Learning Curve
Damage - Boss
Arky - Boss
DarkAngel
Mort
Tacca
Biggie
Holy Cack! A very unique dynamic with some awesome flare. With some time and some focus this team can certainly go a long way. Jumping straight in at 10th in ED Entry (Yes i know its not the most amazing feat) they look to have a steady lineup. UPDATE: They took silver in Entry holding first for the 24 hours before promotion.
Rasta Gaming have quite a few more members not listed here that are all a massive part of Rasta and what it brings to CSS and the teams as a whole.
Chapter 4:
Rasta goes 360! The latest development is the stretch not only into multi gaming but multi platform w00t. We have recently aquired a new CoD4 PC team which are currently putting things together as we speak but the main news is the new Xbox360 team we have acquired. Marvin from Rasta| has grouped up some of the lads he knows and formed rG.360 resulting in a very very sick CoD4 360 team. Playing their first game today (17/3/08) and winning hands down without breaking a sweat things look promising for the future. Welcome to all the new lads and GoodLuck to all teams with LAN in the next 4 days. Keep tearing it up.
On a lighter note Rasta. have been accepted into the OSPL (http://www.theospl.com) and look set to tear some heads! Played boys
Im going to keep this relatively short and sweet and expand as time goes on. Rasta Gaming was established in Jan 2007 by Ryan "Arky" Kingsley and Adam "Damage" Parkins, both with similar interests in computer games and competing professionally. Why did we start Rasta? Well it was simple really, if you want something done right, do it yourself. We didnt want to be the same as a lot of the UK clans. Known for our insolence, rudeness and inability to be friendly to anyone. The dawn of an era was at hand.
Its incredible to think how far we have come. From 1 team of 7 players to a community of well over several hundred members. Rasta Gaming currently competes at CS:S, CoD4, CoD6, L4D, L4D2, SF, HoN and WoW (casually rofl). We attend as many LANs as possible from iSeries to CentraLAN or PCGamer LAN and take anywhere from 20 - 60 people with us at each event. Currently their are 10+ teams within Rasta Gaming all active and competing.
The leagues we compete in/support can be found in the banner but also here:
www.enemydown.co.uk
www.thesgl.com
www.esl.eu
www.pro-hl.com
www.coltkillaz.co.uk
These are great places to get games and play against some top teams and great people. Feel free to drop in and challenge us to a game ;)
Wrapping things up we are now viewed as one of the larger UK organisations, we have one of the most popular DeathMatch servers in the world (connect 85.234.148.190:27015) and an AIM server in the top UK range (connect 85.234.148.190:27025). We are rated as top 10 UK for CS:S and soon to be top 10 EU.
I would like to take this opportunity also to thank our friends and supporters/sponsors:
INX Gaming - Where would we be without you. The best Server Provider i have used to date and will never change.
Alpha Networks - Great BNCs :D
ClanBug - What a Clan Management System! Still lots of work to do but it never ceases to amaze me how good it really is. Dont have it? Get it!
All our members and friends! Without your support/donations and kindness we wouldnt be here. We will keep striving for excellence as long as you guys keep wanting it to be provided. Your the reason we are here.
On that final note, this is Rasta Gaming!!
--------------------------------------------------------------
PREVIOUS ABOUT US PAGES:
Chapter 1:
Rasta Gaming was born in January 2007. Founders Arky and Damage put it together after a fortunate twist of fate which made it viable for Damage to get back into CSS and Arky to furthur his CSS gaming.
Originally going to be called The Rasta Initiative [TRI] Rasta Gaming had several developments with some of Arkys RL friends joining being Solda, Ian and Pacman but due to either lag, gayness or his Dell none of them three have really had the opportunity to play full time and so we expanded the team which brings us to where we are today.
Rasta Gaming is now a fully operational sponsored CS:S Team. We are currently sponsered by Power-Frag.co.uk and are looking for furthur sponsorship from the likes of Razer Gaming and Commodore Gaming. We now consists of at least 15 Rastas and several honorary Rastas from old players to new and have just entered into EnemyDown.co.uk to finally put our stamp on the CS:S world. Be prepared ladies and gentlemen because the Rasta machine is coming and unless your holding appeasing Blunts i suggest you move over.
Much Love
Damage and Far-Eye (Arky)
A big Thanks goes here to our friends who have enabled us to progress so far so quickly. Element Gaming, www.elementgaming.co.uk #e.gaming, have been a pillar to lean on especially Rastaman (<3 you too Foxeh). 4Kings Ritch with the extra help and the backup PC when one of ours went at i30 *passes blunt* when your done im putting you in my pocket and keeping you. Last but not least Revol, #revolclan, as our friendliest clan, thanks for the games guys im loving teh sex and our sponsors Power-Frag.co.uk, #power-frag (brilliant servers), who gave us somewhere for our debauchery.Team-Carrick, our online mates and lan drinking comrades Love you all!
Chapter 2:
Just to update the About Us page as some time has passed now and various things have changed. We are no longer sponsored by Power-Frag as they were bought out. Currently our dedicated servers are hosted on the INX Network who have been extremely helpful with server info and management with the integration. Our LAN sponsor is from Baggies who really looked after us at i32 and we look forward to seeing them all again at i33. There are now 3 Rasta Gaming teams in CSS and 1 in Guild Wars (Inactive atm) which are Rasta| Rasta|| and Rasta. for CSS and rG for GW. We now have 25+ members and even though some laugh that we may have large numbers and therefore cannot be taken seriously.... well LOL at that haha come challenge our Rasta. team and we will see whos not serious. Rasta Gaming compete in TheSGL, EnemyDown, iSeries, Recoil Cup and any other event that comes our way with invites to GBGL and CCSSL keep your eyes open.
Updates on the Thank Yous: All the teams we have met and played! You guys are the reason the game is so good. LANs have been an experience haha. To the Rasta Gaming players. Keep it up. You make us proud every day
Chapter 3:
Various opportunities to furthur Rasta Gaming as a whole have been taken leading to what we have today. Rasta Gaming now has 4 competitive CSS teams of which 3 are in EnemyDown and 1 is still waiting for their Players to get out of their respective Packard Bell teams so they are free to play. We do have a CoD4 team but they are pretty inactive with how busy it has been on the CSS front. I will give you a rundown of the teams thus far:
Rasta|| - The Original
Jinx - Boss
BlackTear - Boss
Blanks - Boss
Omy
Chaos
Smurfeh
Mooney-Toes
TheCatSat
Reserves:
DoubleDragon
Memnoch
These guys are the founding members of Rasta Gaming and have been with it since time began. Currently 44th in EnemyDowns Open Ladder they are basically the grunt behind the machine.
Rasta| - The Newbreed
Quid - Boss
Symo - Boss
Tubs
Glaxy
Arcail
Mo
Marvin
Sammo
Welcome our newer, younger, leaner killing machine. These guys are pretty much the youth of Rasta Gaming that need their teeth cut and a bit of guidance so they have the eldest and wisest of Rasta to guide them in Quid.
Rasta. - The Sword
Porky - Boss
.pRs - Deputy
xen_-
ConfessioN
dirtymagiC
ZippY
Gaski
Matt0o
What can i say. These guys are intense and passionate about their game. Certainly the most ferocious amongst the Rastas and a side i certainly would never want to play.
Finally |Rasta| - The Learning Curve
Damage - Boss
Arky - Boss
DarkAngel
Mort
Tacca
Biggie
Holy Cack! A very unique dynamic with some awesome flare. With some time and some focus this team can certainly go a long way. Jumping straight in at 10th in ED Entry (Yes i know its not the most amazing feat) they look to have a steady lineup. UPDATE: They took silver in Entry holding first for the 24 hours before promotion.
Rasta Gaming have quite a few more members not listed here that are all a massive part of Rasta and what it brings to CSS and the teams as a whole.
Chapter 4:
Rasta goes 360! The latest development is the stretch not only into multi gaming but multi platform w00t. We have recently aquired a new CoD4 PC team which are currently putting things together as we speak but the main news is the new Xbox360 team we have acquired. Marvin from Rasta| has grouped up some of the lads he knows and formed rG.360 resulting in a very very sick CoD4 360 team. Playing their first game today (17/3/08) and winning hands down without breaking a sweat things look promising for the future. Welcome to all the new lads and GoodLuck to all teams with LAN in the next 4 days. Keep tearing it up.
On a lighter note Rasta. have been accepted into the OSPL (http://www.theospl.com) and look set to tear some heads! Played boys
