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Our pre-Xmas show is a busy episode as we discuss quite a few topics with our assembled roundtable. This week consisting of Garetjax from codtv.tv and PST*Joker from mycallofduty.com.

Here are just some of the topics:

Community Activity:

1. The fallout from BASH 90 being posted on callofduty.com

2. The following mods have been released: CompetitionMod V1.0b Public Release and Fkmod.

BASH Mail:

1.  Pride from Victory Stratagem is upset with Jock. 2.  Gianluca - ita -  from www.codtime.com.ar

Call of Duty Hall of Fame Inductees - for Dec 08

a) The man is Legendary in Australia, his involvement in Competitive eSports and Shoutcasting and in the SE asian community itself is astounding, with 90% of the votes, inducted as a builder, it’s Momo Wang aka Skip Fulton

b) He made the innovative Heat of Battle mod (http://www.heatofbattle.net) in COD1, which featured alot of things that were later incorporated into the expansion pack and even now into CoD4. I have the priveledge of saying that Giovanni has been inducted into the Hall. He did so with 100% of the votes.

c) And also with 100% of the votes is another Modder. Bell. Who was nominated for making the ORIGINAL AWE mod and various others.

d) Fellow Torontonian and member of Team|EG (formerly the Doctors), the latest inductee into the Hall is Ted “w!$eGUy” Geogoudakis in the player category.

e) Inducted as a Builder…CaptCom dedicated his life to the community by providing a huge web site, the biggest in the world for Call of Duty series maps needs. He’s on Codutility more than 12 hours a days, every single day. he also offer online direct help to the community. Codutility advertises and supports mappers and other related web sites such as clan servers. CaptCom doesn’t only provide or advertises others maps, he’s also a great mapper himself.

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In this ‘cast, we explore a new CoD4 competitive mod for the serious e-competitors out there. The mod is called DAMN:MW and we have on its lead modder: MavLP (Stephen Groat).

We are also joined on this episode by BASH competitive guru, Nabore from Team Pandemic.

The CoD competitive community has effectively bailed on World at War and headed back to CoD4. However, they have not been content to stick with CoD4’s Promod - the previous competition ruleset. The Europeans especially were interested in raising the skill bar with CoD4 and the result is DAMN:MW.

Backed in Europe by the renowned former MyM manager Morg, the mod was assured of success in Europe, but it took CEVO to give the nod to DAMN for the next season to ensure that this mod will become the defacto competitive mod for CoD4.

If you will be playing CoD4 competitively in the new year, chances are very good you will be playing on DAMN.

In this cast we spend most of the time picking apart the mod and trying to figure out what you need to do as a player to be successful at gaming this mod.

It is not PAM. It is not Promod.

You will have to learn the differences - and this cast will tell you what those differences are.

Find the secrets to success in DAMN MW from this cast by listening to MavLP, the creator of the mod and from one of the premiere players and best strategist in the game, Nabore.

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Relationships are difficult to maintain without good communication.  Lack of a frank and honest exchange can lead to friction and discontent.

Lately, it seemed to us that the CoD community and Treyarch were heading down a rocky road as the conversation between the two groups was strained. For that reason we thought we would invite both parties to a communication session where both groups would engage in straight talk.

We had the session last Sunday and we are happy to say that it went off amazingly well. Of course we recorded it and are proud to present it here for all to enjoy.

Josh Olin, JD2020 from Treyarch gave us answers to all the questions that my roundtable guests, PST*Joker from mycallofduty.com, Rudedog from fpsadmin and Garetjax from codtv.tv could think up.

If that was not enough, our BASHpit chatroom was filled with folks hungry for answers as well.

To his credit, Josh stayed an hour after the cast was over to answer each of those questions, leaving no one wanting.

It was a great evening and I hope we were able close the gap between Treyarch and our community.

Thanks to everyone involved.

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This is the first half of the marathon recording session we had on Sunday the 7th of December.

Far from infamous, that date will be fabulously remembered in the annals of BASH as the day of the two Joshes.

In this episode, which we pared down to half an hour, we present the fabulous strat program GTactix. It was developed by the west-coast gaming enthusiast and ace programmer Josh, aka VR6R.

VR6R comes on our live webcast to describe how to use his now-famous drawing package for experienced and wannabe online-strategists.

The usual group was in our roundtable on that date: PST*Joker from mycallofduty.com, Rudedog from fpsadmin.com and of course Garetjax from codtv.tv.

Later in that session we had JD2020 from Treyarch on the program. You will be able to download that interview, which will be found in BASH 90, soon!

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This week we discuss the news of the day in the CoD Community in an informal way with a few special guests.

Representing server admins, we have one of the best in the biz, Oliver (Taco) of the 420th at fritzmods.com is on the program.

Talking about the competitive scene - or lack thereof this month, is Nabore from Team Pandemic.

And broadcasting straight from his garage in beautiful and sunny California, is PST*Joker, modder and scripter extraordinaire who will give us a tiny bit of insight of what is up with the PAM mod for competition.

We cover a range of topics with Joker, including the status of other CoD:WW, mods like DAMN and Promod.

As well, Taco and Jock theorize that the un-dead are stealing away players from online multiplayer and reducing server numbers across the world.

The show was recorded live in front of a mostly ravenous studio audience - and you could be in that audience too, join in on our LIVE STREAM, every Sunday night at 7pm EST (Eastern Standard Time in North America).

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