[LadyGamers]:  What year and game did BadGirls play in their first tournament? Are there any memories you'd like to share about it?
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[aNouC]:  BadGirls started on March of 1998, and started as a Q1 female team. It seemed a crazy and stupid idea for some people.... but started to work, to go on and to grow up in the next 5 years. :)

There are many things to explain about the clan and the members (old and new). We had also good and bad times, like every clan. We had to tryout girls with stupid questions to find out fakes... It could be possible to write a book with tones of histories. :) Our first event was in Spain, the biggest LAN we ever had there, and I remember two of us were there, playing the Quake1 tournament.

[LadyGamers]: BadGirls began as an all female Spanish clan playing Quake. What made you change your mind on spreading throughout Europe? Did you find out that Spanish Girls aren't as 'bad' as other girls through out the world? ;)

[aNouC]:  Well the main reason I moved to Europe to check what was going on there, was the situation in Spain. The Quake community was very close and everybody was known there... and every single thing that could happen to one or another, was like a big stuff to explain to the rest... so all that gossiping, all that stuff, made the community really boring. That's why I tried to find new opponents and know new people. The thing that we were that close, was about our connections. But with new infrastructures, like Cable, ADSL, etc... for me, was my salvation. I pushed my 56k modem away, and took the most powerful connection. Anyway, Spanish Girls weren't bad. We just were a few girls playing every single day... and so once I was asked to join SK, I took with me, one of the best players I know who is also from Spain, SayakA.

[LadyGamers]:  Your clan has three channels spread through out three different gaming related servers on IRC. Who brought you to the wonderful world of IRC world? What was it like to be so new to that chat program?

[aNouC]:  Well, before starting in the gaming world, I was part of the iRCop Team in a Spanish network. I've been working for an important ISP and so I was used to IRC. Once I started with gaming, I was quite experienced using that program, so I didn't have big problems. I was in charge of the old Spanish bot system, and so I was used to check commands and work with it. When I decided to create BadGirls channels in other Networks I just had to take a look at what kind of system were they using, and create it. :P

Btw our channels are:
 #BadGirlsClan in Quakenet (irc.barrysworld.com)
 #BadGirls in Gamesnet (irc.gamesnet.com)
 #BadGirls in ETG (irc.enterthegame.com)

[LadyGamers]: I personally have tried to visit the BadGirls clan forum various times the past 3-6 months. Is there a reason why it's all in German?

[aNouC]:  Yes, our Forum sponsor was from Germany and they promised to translate the forums, but that never happened since we have it up :( Anyways right now doesn't matter cos our Bad Girls 3.0 Version page its going to die, and a new and better one will born soon... so I'm really sorry if the one we have right now, stays inactive some more time. We hope you all like the new one :)

[LadyGamers]:  You seem to know English and German very well. German is a language I have always wanted to learn. How long have you known other languages besides Spanish?

[aNouC]: At school I always had really bad grades in English. It was like Math, impossible to get it, impossible to write it and even more difficult to talk it... Thanks to gaming and that I really needed English to talk to everybody in the different Networks, I've been improving the language day by day. Thanks to that I got my 1st Certificate paper and also can study English Philology in University.

About German, it is a language I love, as well as really difficult, and it takes more time than English to learn it. I study at University what we call "Germany Philology" and then you can add a second language, so once you finish the first, you can take 2 more years and have the other one (in my case, English). I talk at home Catalan, which is another language in Spain, only talked in Catalonia (Barcelona for example). And thanks to that, I'm able to understand Italian, Portuguese and French quite fine, cos Catalan is like a mix of them.

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