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[Ozyton]

I don't think this can be overstated: Practice in the VR training room for a few minutes whenever you log on in order to get a feel for the guns and how they aim at range and CQC. Back when I started we didn't have the VR training, and it would have been a massive help to know how to handle recoil in a non-combat environment.

What I used to do was stand at an infantry terminal, preferably out in the open (at a warpgate) where I'm not likely to shoot teammates, then choose a reference point (the corner of some geometry in the distance, for example) and practice on that. (EDIT: I wish there were an option to log in directly to VR training instead of automatically being dropped into a continent's map screen. The first thing I'm usually trying to do is seeing if there's any organized squads up.)

Somebody may or may not have won the server smash

Good grief, just merge them and wall it Watermath or something

[MasterFancyPants]

Waterson won the Server Smash. After Matherson thought they won.

From [DA] Cheese: http://i.imgur.com/Q63Ls6S.png
Heh. Final count Mattherson won. 46-45

[Ozyton]

That was the greatest two hours of Planetside that we have ever witnessed here at ServerSmash, and we are all impressed by both the skill and intensity that Waterson and Mattherson brought to this match!
It came down to the wire, and we actually had our first overtime in ServerSmash history! After all the dust settles, and we have recounts of recounts of recounts, the winner is:
MATTHERSON!!!
How we got here: >>THIS<< image shows what bases were capping at the beginning of overtime, and were then in contention.
This clearly shows that EMC was under contention: http://i.imgur.com/9behAt2.png
Overtime rules as stated in the match doc:
If a base is secure at the 2 hours mark, it is no longer in play. If a base is under contention after 2 hours, the base must be fully captured or fully defended before the match is called.
By the end of overtime, Mattherson had defended Freyr Geothermal, and captured both the Traverse and Esamir Munitions Co.
Waterson defended The Octagon, Ymir Mine Watch, and Ymir Eastern Waystation.
According to the point capture system in place, the final score is
46-45Unfortunately in all the excitement after this incredible match, one of our team miscounted and mistakenly said that Waterson was the winner. We apologize for this mistake and take full responsibility for any confusion that this may have caused.
Going forward, in light of how close and hard fought the match was, as well as at the insistence of both servers' representatives, we have decided to petition SOE on the community's behalf for the option to rename the server to neither Mattherson or Waterson, and instead move forward with a new name that is to be determined.
Whether this is something that SOE will be amenable to is yet to be determined. The ServerSmash team, as well as the servers themselves, feel that it would be a disservice to either side to do otherwise.
Speaking as part of the ServerSmash team, I can't imagine a better match. Both sides should be proud of how they performed. It was incredible to witness.
MergerSmash garnered over 2000 concurrent viewers, surpassing games like World of Tanks, Battlefield, Titanfall, and Call of Duty! Thank you to the Planetside Community for supporting this amazing event, and we look forward to showcasing more in the future!
HERE is the OFFICIAL STREAM: http://www.twitch.tv/inicast/c/4504246

Basically: somebody goofed while tallying the score. The match was still close enough that the servers may just choose a third name anyways, but it's up to SOE.

EDIT: So... Emerald then??
What is this Emerald I keep hearing of? Is it referring to some other server that used to exist?

[Skyrunner]

I think it used to be a continent..?

[Tiruin]

Bad net-can't load most stuffs there.

...Emerald was a Continent?

[Jim Groovester]

I think it was a Planetside 1 server. Possibly even a US East PS1 server.

[Kanil]

From what I gather, Emerald was the name of the east coast PS1 server... (and I think the name of the sole existing PS1 server?)

[Ozyton]

Holy crap. I've been in some pretty big battles before but what I'm seeing on this stream is... completely insane, and I'm only ~30 minutes in so far.

[Aklyon]

From what I gather, Emerald was the name of the east coast PS1 server... (and I think the name of the sole existing PS1 server?)

The current lonely PS1 server is Gemini.

[Kanil]

Ah. Someone on forumside claimed Emerald was still active, but I bounced off PS1 so quickly that I didn't really remember and just took their word for it.

[Ozyton]

Due to the controversy surrounding the results in the otherwise INCREDIBLE @PS2_ServerSmash #MergerSmash event... [] We have decided the new US East server will be named Emerald. Merge will be early next week.

Works for me, green happens to be my favorite color anyways. Hopefully this will keep the peace as a lot of people seemed to want to keep their server names pretty adamantly. I watched the stream and somewhere in the middle of it their countdown timer stopped by accident. You could probably go through and do math and adjust for the time discrepancies and all that jazz, but at the end of the day it's just a server name.

Can't wait to see what all the Matherson NC people think of PHX, hehehe.

[MasterFancyPants]

To be frank I'm a little disappointed with our new Waterson "friends."

Acquisitions of cheating, rigging, overpop, etc. are running rampant. When we (Mattherson) heard that we lost, we were content though disappointed. In fact some of the Waterson players came into our TS channels and trash talked at us. Now, we are trying to be as sportsman like as possible.

In reality there is a reason that everyone in my squad finished with 3.0+ K/D's.

We planned on winning (Though, we didn't steamroll as we thought we would), and decided before hand to ask for "Emerald" to prevent hurt feelings. I wonder if Waterson would have done the same?

/rant

[Jim Groovester]

In reality there is a reason that everyone in my squad finished with 3.0+ K/D's.

Mass rez nade usage by both servers?

[zombat]

When are the EU servers getting merged?

Fights pretty much dead at all hours now

[Duuvian]

I had a feeling it would be close when I heard Waterson was actually practicing for it. Glad to see Mattherson won though, sounds like a good time. I might have been there but Goon wasn't invited last I heard.