I first want to preface this FIRST with I am not a complete and true representative of the Northern Shiverpeaks Server. I am a guild leader for Phoenix Battalion and a person like many on any server.
—WARNING— way to long wall of text coming. everyone in NSP makes fun of my novels but I like to ramble and I am old so stick around Sorry Curo, Gabe, Oz, Omne, Razzy, Boom, etc….
When friday 4-11-14 at reset hit last week we were all gathered on the various TS’s, Vent’s and other Voip’s talking about how we are going to handle probably the toughest week we have ever had. We had hopes that IoJ was going to be beatable and that YB probably was not. We have had 2 successful weeks now and this was going to show some folks that we can do it. Friday was a non stop fight and we thought we weren’t doing so bad.
ON Saturday, we gathered again and spoke more of our strats and things that we all thought we could do to pull out a 2nd place victory. Confidence was high and we felt a 2nd was within our reach. Fights were again tough and abundant. Push here, lose there, re-take, fight, ALL Saturday long……. Sunday was the same thing. A non-stop fight for 24 hours. Some doubted our chance to take 2nd, but in NSP we are very strong endgame people. We fight till that last breath. I stood up and said I would put money on it and that we would take 2nd. In this chess match we are strong finishers. I owe some peeps $20…and that’s ok with me.
The Monday, Tuesday fights saw us bring the pain and we took 2nd and rocked it !! People knew we were going to do it and all the doubters were shut up. I was going to win my bet because (like Fairy Tale) I believe in my Server, Guild, Comrades, WvW team and we never give up on each other no matter what. We have come from facing Outnumbered odds from the VERY beginning. We have struggled to make a Server Community into a FAMILY !! We have turned defeat into an accomplishment on SO many things that I can’t tell you the difference I feel about our NSP pride. Those days we soared on being in 2nd place and we went out and rocked that WvW world once more, GUNNING for 1st !! Yea, we wanted to beat YB REALLY BAD.
and then wednesday happened…..
I think half of the IoJ people were mad at the WvW crowd or something because it seemed like IoJ completely doubled their numbers and their coverage and they have poured over us like a freakiing avalanche…. and I mean !! We started to see our much comfy lead dwindle until we woke up one morning to a completely IoJ BL and us ticking 0…… The doomsayers are now crawling the streets “toldya we can’t win… blah blah blah” “the end is near…..” " you can’t play "….. signs waving everywhere about how we couldn’t have done it anyways….
SO to you Isle of Janthir and also to you Yak’s Bend, I want to say thank you !! Human nature has proven time again that which does not kill you will only make you stronger. You guys haven’t killed us. Northernshiverpeaks Server has made so may internal changes at the community level that getting ourselves this far is an accomplishment in itself. We now have a group of solid, check that, VERY solid hardcore Guilds proving they can stomp some people in open field fighting. Our communication and response times when we are on, are solid and effective. We have 2-4 BL channels with people in them almost 14-18 hours per day and 1 channel has at least 5-10 people 24/7. We have old guilds and our new transfers working hand in hand with each other as if we had been partnered from the beginning. Our population on reset night saw us get 4 maps qued for the first time in NSP HISTORY !! They were small ques… all less than 50 but that was a turnout that was fantastic !! NSP has come a long ways……
I have taught Jujitsu for 10 years now and I also get to speak a lot in our Server meetings, hahaha much to the boredom of some I am sure. I teach 2 things to my school when I train them for tournaments —- that you never really lose, you only win or learn—— and —— it’s not how many times you get knocked down that count, only the times you get back up.
NSP will be there at reset tonight. We get back up EVERY TIME.
Les H. – Avatar Dreximir(ele) Mezmuroenius(Mes) Deathby Smashing(Grd) Prodigy of Artemis(Thief). These are my Commander toons that I help lead the NSP Server Team. I am proud to be a part of a great Team.
HAIL NSP !!!
