Clan EarthQuakers (Founding Clan)

eQ was formed on CompuServe in 1996 by Deathace and some friends who played a pre-release version of Quake.

Earthquakers are thus the oldest European gaming clan recognised officially by iD-Software.

Early 1998 saw Paul `Locki` Wedgewood take over as Clan Leader. During 1998/1999, Clan EarthQuakers won a number of cups and leagues in Team Fortress, before moving over to Quake 3 and Counter Strike in 2000. Come late 2000 Counter Strike was dropped and EarthQuakers became solely a Q3F clan.

With many of eQ also working for the game designer Splash Damage, eQ changed games again and played W:ET under the guidance of DoBBs, we also played in the ClanBase Enemy Territory ladder & BWQ3Proball Cup.

eQ is proud of its contributions to the online gaming community - still today, many members are columnists on various gaming sites. These include four on Barrysworld, two on challenge uk/eu, one on QuakeNation, one on Planetarion and one on B0rk.

Other members of eQ work for MOD teams (such as Q3F - www.q3f.com and WT - www.wolftactics.com) or help out as IRCOPS on networks such as Quakenet and Planetarion.

Now, 12 years after its founding by Deathace, Earthquakers is one of the largest and oldest gaming clans in Europe and one of the only gaming clans that can claim to have influenced the foundation of a well known and successful game design firm such as Splash Damage

Currently captained by Salteh and Tsujigiri, both long term members, eQ has a large squad playing Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and has started playing CoD 4 as well.

You can visit eQ on their website at www.earthquakers.info, or on Quakenet IRC in #earthquakers or find many of us in #thegroupthing

Connect Gaming (Founding Clan)

Previously known as Team [ICU], the clan was founded by Canine, Degas and CryoGen and has later been taken over and renamed by Canine.

The clan has played Unreal Tournament 2004, Battefield 2 and Project Reality - a BF2 modification, but has since chosen to play Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty 5 and Left 4 Dead.

Connect Gaming's members are a friendly bunch who display the true sportsmanship and spirit that we look for in members of The Group Thing.

Maintaining a strict policy of never going into personal confrontations or inappropriate interactions on the servers and to keep the player roster mature with no member under the age of 18, Connect Gaming has earned the respect and friendship of other great clans you see listed here.

You can visit Connect Gaming on their website at: www.connect-gaming.com or on IRC Quakenet #connect-gaming and of course #thegroupthing

Ghosts in Gloom (Founding Clan)

This is a clan of dedicated gamers focused mainly on Enemy Territory Quake Wars. We are a fun loving clan with members from all over Europe. We are always looking for other like minded people to game with so the chance to team up with our closest gaming allies and form The Group Thing wasn't one to be missed.

=GiG= was founded by Shelly in 2007 and grew from the ashes of =SDR= when several members split to follow Shelly to new frontiers, they are a popular international clan with players from a many different age groups.

Known for their flamboyant and yet friendly style the members of =GiG= have achieved acceptance and popularity throughout the ET:QW community.

You can visit =GiG= on their website at: www.gig.spruz.com or on IRC Quakenet in #=GiG=, and of course in #thegroupthing

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