Another interview, another administrator. We haven't done an interview in a long time, so thought it would be great idea to finish with Arie as we plan to release a new interview and Ask Series very soon. So take a look at the interview below and enjoy.

We've done interviews with both kalhimeo and ChickeNN, so this time we wanted to hear your side of the story, but first can you introduce yourself to the GN members on who Arie is and what he does besides being an Administrator for Gather-Network?

I'm Arie, 26, from the Netherlands. I work as a programmer, nearly exclusive web applications with Ruby. In my spare time I play Team Fortress 2 (scout) on fairly high level for FakkelBrigade (http://fakkelbrigade.eu).

I heard the story from kalhimeo that there was no major plan on making a network as big as GN is, but in the end you all ended up being one. Could you share us your side of the story on how all began and how you were leading at that time one of the bigest gather-networks in Holland?

There were about 3 reasonably big Dutch gather channels back in 2001 or 2002 when I got approached by kalhimeo. He proposed to merge my channel and another one to form #cs.gather.nl
We (the other .nl channel leader and me) were a little skeptic at first, but with the support of GN the channel quickly grew to 350 users.

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Dear members,

Here are our 10 winners for March 2010.

Here is the list:

1st adio2k win the 50 EUROS CASH !! with 1255 points and 7 premium gathers played.
2nd Mudovishte win the QPAD|CT Black Giant Mousepad + QPAD Glidz + QPAD Wristband with 1202 points and 1 premium gathers played.
3rd WATFSpecter win the QPAD|CT Black Giant Mousepad + QPAD Glidz with 1163 points and 12 premium gathers played.
4th zeerf win the 3 Months of PREMIUM membership + QPAD Glidz with 1145 points and 21 premium gathers played.
5th RICARDOO win the 3 Months of PREMIUM membership + QPAD Glidz with 1132 points and 0 premium gathers played.
6th Hs2kill win the 1 Month of PREMIUM membership with 1114 points and 31 gathers played.
7th eaiGeN win the 1 Month of PREMIUM membership with 1109 points and 23 gathers played.
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10th Bodyboard win the 1 Month of PREMIUM membership with 1085 points and 9 played.

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Regards,

The Gather-Network Crew

Arturo "n1ce" Balbastre has announced his retirement from professional gaming.

Initially he was playing in wtm-Gaming but in 2008 he was recruited by Ledpc and since then he occupied an important role in the team.
His "last battle" was at the EPS Finals where Ledpc defeated x6tence with the score of 19-17 on de_nuke and 16-8 on de_dust2.

"The main reason for my departure is without a doubt my lack of motivation, although it may sound like a cliche, since it it is something that had been dragging for a while, particularly since the break after GameGune," Balbastre told the team's official website.

"When we resumed trainings, past that month's break, when I did not have the obligation to be at home, I had personal problems and some changes in my life that made me change a bit everything I had done before.

"I still had the satisfaction to travel with my team-mates to international events, which really hid my lack of motivation, but after some months, and after winning the EPS against x6tence, and the consequent departure of some players, I stopped to think, and realized I had almost no incentives to go forward."

Next I'm gonna show some samples of n1ce and his team:





The new Ledpc line-up:

 Jonathan "MusambaN1" Torrent
 Adrián "sioK" Rodríguez
 Carlos "xhiroz" Puente
 Rafael "FeldmaN" Barroso
 David "Kairi" de Miguel

Hi all! After 2months we're back. First of all: please help us get started by joining our channel > #CS.Gather.FI @ Quakenet < Im glad to inform you, that we are sponsored by good finnish company www.GameNet.fi atm we have 2 servers, IP to check ping is: 194.187.214.25:27015 We're recruiting now ACTIVE-admins. If you would like to get an admin access on #cs.gather.fi channel you simply have to join #cs.gather.fi.recruit, wait for voice and talk with our Leader and/or managers. (You need to have 40+ played gathers & low amount of banpoints) Best regards, #CS.Gather.FI 'ocreeN' leader.