History of 21CW

From 21CW Wiki

21st Century Warfare (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 player-base for FFOW. Campaign 21 of BF2 began May 10th, 2008 with an updated and revised mod. In sommer 2009 21CW is still playing BF2 with a gradually upgraded mod and is waiting for a successor of BF2. With the start of campaign 27 in January 2010 a new game called Battlefield: Bad Company 2 had its open beta released. While continuing playing BF2, 21CW is also invastigating on a possible switch to that latest game of the battlefield series.