Casual
AI Monday's Event: X4
1Rhein Friday Siege: X1
IVe | 31e Thursday Conquest: X3
19th Saturday Linebattle: X3
Total casual events attended: 11From the get-go, it was key for us to give casual events an important place in our weekly schedule. During the first three weeks of the 13e, we played a total of 8 casual events for only 1 competitive and had an absolute blast doing that. It allowed us to take a chill approach for our first steps as a new regiment, while actively recruiting & promoting the 13e in the meantime. The lack of pressure that often comes with the competitive aspect was extremely beneficial for the 13e while also serving as the perfect team bonding environment. From these four events, we therefore decided to keep three within our regular weekly schedule but insisted on making these events optional for the whole regiment. With a large part of our initial roster more inclined towards regimental 1v1 LBs or group fighting and our recruitment also being orientated to make the 13e a competitive structure from scratch, we wanted these events to be a way for anyone in the regiment to relax and play without caring for results and individual performances. As such, making these events mandatory would have served the exact opposed purpose. In only one month, we already have a lot of wonderful moments to reflect on from these events and would like to take the time to thanks the staff from the AI, 19th, 1Rhein & 31e for taking the time to include us within their event, often at the very last minute and regardless of our numbers. For now, we will likely always average between 7-9 players for these events but in due time, we hope to be able to muster a regular force of 15 to 20 men even if it will probably require us to adapt our schedule somehow.
| | Competitive
Friendly] 1v1 LB vs The Connaught Rangers | 9-1 | 19.02.21
[Friendly] GF vs 92nd Gordon Highlanders | 15-11 | 23.02.21
[Friendly] GF vs 15th Yorkshire "The Snappers" | 11-15 | 24.02.21
[Friendly] GF vs Connaught Rangers | 15-3 | 28.02.21
Total competitive matches played: 4 | Average attendance: 79%Although the casual aspect of the 13e was more enjoyable than what we expected it to be, the 13e always had high competitive ambitions, if only by looking at an initial starting roster filled by some of the most decorated players of the french scene. Our recruitment was and will always remain open to everybody but we obviously knew a regiment like ours was bound to attract more NW veterans than completely new-to-the-scene players. Very quickly, we received a large number of applications and decided on recruiting a batch of British players that we knew would allow our roster to tackle with the best regiments of the scene. This was proved very quickly by the results we managed to achieve in our first practice matches, which very encouraging for such a young structure. The interest from the European scene was actually so overwhelming that one week only after we had started competitive events, we already had to refuse European players to keep the 13e's structure predominantly french. Moving forward, this will be one of the most important goals of our staff, keeping the 13e a french regiment and not turning it into a European stack like some will inevitably pretend it already is. Obviously, we can't deny that the afflux from this group of British players is what will allow us to compete with older, more established regiments and for that reason, English communication has already taken a huge role in the regiment, in groupfightings especially. But when looking at the future, we also want the 13e to remain competitive, with or without them. If they are meant to stay with us for as long as the 13e exist, we'll aim at making the regiment feels like home for them but if we are to take different routes, we can't give up on competitive ambitions simply because we no longer hold the same amount of skilled players. As such, developing the competitive french branch of the 13e (which we will start doing through our academy team) is what will make our regiment fully competitively viable on a long-term basis, and avoid repeating the break-downs similar French structures had in the past regarding these issues. |
