My alarm clock and I aren't getting on. At least when I saw it last as it flew through the bedroom window and out into the street we weren't. Having had many a bleary Saturday morning saved by my long standing and reliable metal friend I was understandably a little disappointed when the first time it decided to let me down and not go off was the last night of testing for Zoid`s Quake 3 Arena CTF maps.... In retrospect it was probably a little harsh to dump the poor thing into the middle of Cotham Hill cos it's bound to be nothing more than a pile of scrap by now, flattened by some articulate lorry trying to cut through and avoid the jams on the main road, and the idea that I might actually be of some use getting up at 5am to play on some server in west Canada is a bit far fetched, but then such is life.

My alarm clock is no more. J

Zoid`s CTF maps, however, are complete, and will be released in the next couple of days. As I'm late for work and shattered now I don't really have time to say anything in depth about them, so I'll hopefully remedy that situation tonight. I'm not aloud to release screenies either, but hopefully that will change today too, or some will emerge somewhere. But in short, they're huge, well designed, clean and well clipped to stay reasonably pretty without making it impossible to move without getting caught on sommit sticking out of a wall somewhere while on your flag run. Multiple entrances and exits, layered in different styles in each map. One up one down in one for instance or parallel and split in another. No BFG thankfully, and each weapon and power up included has been placed specifically to keep the action moving at all times.

But enough, I'll update with sommit meaningful tonight if the maps aren't out already.

Ta to Zoid for the change to help and big shout out to Esso and Tox and CC-Red and the others I got to meet on the first night. Like Phant said, no newbies... Was F'ing top. J