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21st Century Warfare
21st Century Warfare (21CW) is a free online tournament currently using Battlefield 2. 21CW is different from other online tournaments in that instead of clans battling against one another the battles take place between divisions. The divisions consist of players who are randomly assigned when they sign up (or transfer themselves for a fee).
History
21CW was first conceived back in March 2003 and began initial sign ups in April 2003. The tournament was created by MFOTS and was administered by a single Tournament Admin back then, Sedric. The original player base for 21CW came from Battle for Europe: World at War, a Battlefield 1942 tournament run in a similar style.
When 21CW first started up, it began with one division per side, 1CD and O2. As time passed, by the second week of sign ups, two more divisions were opened for both the Coalition and Opposition, 3UK and O4. The campaign began in May 2003 with official battles, but not before the battles remembered by many players as the Bocage and Tobruk Scrims. A few weeks into the campaign, two more divisions were opened, C5 and O6, with a total player base of more than a thousand players.
The first campaign was completely run on vanilla Desert Combat, the following campaigns included modified balanced maps, until the 21CW Mini-mod was created, which gradually introduced more new content.
Since 21CW opened in April 2003, the tournament has gone through ten campaigns of Desert Combat starting at version 0.25 and ending at version 0.7. In BF2 the tournament saw further success with BF2 campaign 18 ending just before Christmas 2007. A new campaign began on 11th January 2008 with the KAOS release of Frontlines: Fuel of War but after two beta campaigns 21CW switched back to the Battlefield series due to lack of playerbase for FFOW. Campaign 21 of BF2 began May 10th, 2008 with a total revisited mod.
21CW is owned and operated by MyIS as well as all other former MFOTS Tournaments.
Previous Campaign Scores
| Game | Coalition/WC | Opposition/RS | Final Score | |
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| Campaign 22 | BF2 | | | |
| Campaign 21 | BF2 | | |
Coal 5-4
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| Campaign 20 | FFOW | | |
Campaign cancelled - Return to BF2
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| Campaign 19 | FFOW | | |
Opp 7-5
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| Campaign 18 | BF2 | | |
Opp 14-6
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| Campaign 17 | BF2 | | |
Opp 15-7
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| Campaign 16 | BF2 | | |
Opp 13-9
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| Campaign 15 | BF2 | | |
Opp 12-8
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| Campaign 14 | BF2 | | |
Coal 9-7
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| Campaign 13 | BF2 | | |
Coal 9-7
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| Campaign 12 | BF2 | | |
Coal 10-6
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| Campaign 11 | BF2 | | |
Coal 8-6
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| Campaign 10 | BF1942 | | |
Campaign cancelled - Release of BF2
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| Campaign 9 | BF1942 | | |
Opp won 7-3
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| Campaign 8 | BF1942 | | |
Opp won score unknown
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| Campaign 7 | BF1942 | | |
Coal won score unknown
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| Campaign 6 | BF1942 | | |
Coal won score unknown
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| Campaign 5 | BF1942 | | |
Opp won score unknown
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| Campaign 4 | BF1942 | | |
Opp won score unknown
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| Campaign 3 | BF1942 | | |
Opp won score unknown
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| Campaign 2 | BF1942 | | |
Coal won score unknown
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| Campaign 1 | BF1942 | | |
Opp won score unknown
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Overall Score
- Coalition 9
- Opposition 10
Structure
At the highest level the tournament consists of two sides, Coalition and Opposition. In the Desert Combat days, the Coalition took the Coalition side in the game while the Opposition took the Iraqi side. Originally in the BF2 tournament the Coalition played as the USMC only. After the release of the Euro Force expansion pack, 21CW added a Euro division to the coalition. The Opposition plays as the Chinese People's Army and the Iranian Army. Varying with the number of players per campaign there are typically two or three divisions per side.
Division
Each division is composed of three or four line companies, a special forces unit and an air force. The high command consists of several divisional officers (e.g. General, Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, SMA) who are responsible for developing strategies, running divisional practices and of course commanding the division during the battle.
Line Company
Each company is run by a Captain who has several men below him in a hierarchy. He runs the company, organizing practices and training and maintains the roster of players. The role of the line company is to either attack a flag in order to capture it or to defend an already captured flag. The backbone and blue collar workhorses of the division.
Special Forces
The Special Forces Company is usually composed of 21CW veterans who have proven themselves in previous campaigns and their skills show. They are typically used for difficult missions such as taking flags deep in enemy territory, stealing equipment or holding a front line flag. In Battlefield 2, they can also be assigned to destroy the commander assets (radar, UAV trailer and artillery). While most divisions had a dedicated Special Forces Company, one opposition division didn't have one. In Campaign 3, the Opposition Division 15NE introduced the Parateam, a combined special operations group from different companies, but it was disbanded at the end of Campaign 3. Until the BF2 Beta Campaign there were no Special Forces in that Division, nevertheless Special Operations took place, done by individuals from the Airforce, the Commanding Staff or line company members.
Armor
The Armor company of the divisions have the responsibility to provided Armor superiority on the map. They are the only players who are allowed to use Armor from main base and must be proficient at one or all Armor vehicles in game.
In order to join a Armor company "some divisions" require that you pass a certification test. You are always expected to be a "rifleman" first.
Air Force
The air forces of the divisions have the responsibility to fly the air assets provided on the map. They are the only players who are allowed to fly the aircraft and must be proficient at one or all kinds of aircraft (i.e. fighter planes, bombers and helicopters). In order to join the air force, a player usually has to pass a certification test.
The Mod
The 21st Century Warfare Mod is one of the unique features of 21CW; the tournament has its own team of developers who have just recently developed a mod for Battlefield 2 to better fit the needs of the tournament. The mod changes are things such as balance issues, weapon additions, vehicle additions, custom maps and other things. The ultimate goal of the mod is to expand the game while keeping it fair and balanced. As of 3 September, 2008, 21CW is using mod version 1.95. This includes a tactical nuke and mobile player controlled artillery.
Communication
21CW uses many different ways to communicate, officially Teamspeak and forums are used, unofficially many people use GameComm, Xfire, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo, or IRC.
Teamspeak
Teamspeak is used mainly to communicate while playing in battles, practices or during practices. It is also used for meetings of the Tournament Admins (TA) or divisional staff. The Teamspeak server is divided into a hierarchy, each division gets their own section, within their section it is split up with sections for companies, company COs, and divisional staff. In addition, the mini-mod team, the tournament radio, TAs, and other games get their own sections.
Forums
Much like Teamspeak, the 21st Century Warfare forums are used for communication, but because forum posts can be read anytime, it is useful for posting announcements, news, and other useful information which may need to be accessed from time to time. Again like Teamspeak, the forums have sections for each division and their respective companies. In addition there are forums such as the mess hall, the public forums, and the announcements forum.
These can be found at http://21cw.totalgamingnetwork.com.
Remarkable Persons
Tournament Owners
Administration
Internal Co-Ordinator
DWillis (IC)
Tournament Administrators
Snipe (TC)
Shox (TA)
PiCkUp (TA)
SeanDrabek (TA)
Trijicon (TA)
Ack_Ack (TA)
Tournament Operations Staff
MrSmith (DO)
Stu (CO)
JamesBond007 (PO)
Lurx (MO)
Pandoras (DV)
Gun4Hire (CR)
Cowboy (FA)
Past Generals
The history of divisions their respective Generals through all campaigns is listed below. Also listed is the respective [reference/Commander-in-Chief Commander-in-Chief] (CinC) of the force for each campaign.
