History of JOG (A Brief Glimpse)

[jogjeff]

This is a working history of JOG. Thoughts and perspectives from other members of JOG are welcome as our history can not be told by just one individual. With that said I shall give my best account from JOG's beginning to present day.

Beginning:
JOG began in april of 2006. It was founded by myself, (JOGJeff) and Chicali. Prior to creating JOG, Chicali and I played as a team, without mics, against those in public servers. This is in a time in which no one really new how to use villians and pullers were used widely. Chicali was the best of the pullers. He would get tk'd alot in public servers, and I persoanlly thought this was distateful. So I helped defend him, and eventually we began to watch eachothers backs. We fastly became the games toughest duo, and to this point we never had yet even spoke to each other. Eventually that would change, as one faithful day we did get on mic together and on that day we formed JOG. At first we didn't know what to call our new clan, but after a few minutes we came up with JOG, bringing my brother Orion into the mix. The clans name uses our intials, either our real names or in game tag to form JOG.

Our clan did grow quickily as the best of the assault world came to join us. The first to join were porchmonkey and Jbizzle. Our first site was that called teamjog.forumwise.com. It was created by myself and project thief. Prior to the site going up we all communicated via email or telephone.

AS the clan grew, several members would join the clan that would even further our reach. They were the likes of Mr Clean and eventually Frantic and Nerd Vader.

We initally made our first move to make a name for ourselves against DSA. DSA was an older clan and very well organized. The carried many servers for every aspect of the game. At one point they must have controled five to six servers. Their Jedi server was perhaps the most active of all the jedi servers. Theirs. . . and nerd vaders. We challenged them at assault. At this point assault was not considere a main part of the game and its players were looked down upon by the main whole of the community. JOG would change that.

A battle never came about between DSA and JOG over issues that had arose between both clans. Soon JOG and DSA was at war. The war ended in a draw but with JOG becoming a legitamate power ffrom it. During this war, JOG implemented a new way to communicate what was going on a spew propaganda against the more well known and popular DSA with the advent of our holonet. It was the first holonet of its kind, using story telling elements to bring a role playing style to what JOG did.

JOG did get to fight a heavy wieght for that time in assault, a clan called SWA. It would handily defeat them, not looking back since. JOG would go on to fight a two other wars, one called the Super War andf the other called the JOG War. We would win both. During this time JOG became a super power amoung the clans. We were the father of what the assault was and is today. 99% of all clans at that time in the assault world could derive their liniage to us, and most were started by former JOG members.

Several months into our exsistance, JOG changed its website to teamjog.com. This site would become the main center of the assault community for many years to come. We defeated in assault all clans that came our way. The margain of victory was always large. We were either hated or love, and we were fine with either one.

During our time of dominance in assault, JOG did dabble into conquest and space. We place second in a tournament in the spring of 2007, an accomplishment for our any mainly assault clan at that time.

During the summer of 2007, Mr Clean, a leading member fo JOG left. With him went our current site of teamjog.com. A new one was created by Arggie and Exile called emergencyjog.forumwise.com, so our members could regroup. In Mr Cleans departure, we also lost Nerd Vader. A lost that would go on to create UDN, and become one of our main allies.

As part of JOG's cause,. JOG wasnted to reclaim member lost during our earlier time when our leadersip was still in its infancy stage. So around the time that Mr Clean would leave, others would rejoin. One member, Bookofthel78 would be a most important gain, as not only did he come back, but he brought many members with him, most notably Deity, who would go on to become one of JOG's leaders in later years.

During our time at emergencyjog.forumwise.com , JOG reinvented itself. It took two months to accomplish, however we created awhole new website, using a flash banner, and an intro reclaiming that indeed we were back. We came back with a bang, with Deity taking Clean's spot in the main lineup of Jedi.  We would go on for another 6 moths to the begining of 2008, in which we would retire from assault. In our entire time fighting as Jedi, JOG was perfect in clan battle, going undefeated the entire time.

At the end of 2007, JOG's holonet reached its height in popularity as it helped tell the story of a galactic war between SOR/ UDN and its allies.

In the early months of 2008, JOG went head first into COD4 on PS3. For the most part JOG had left SWBF2 and was focusing its efforts in the next gen arena.

However in JUne of 2008, JOG would come back to SWBF2. But not in the way it once was. JOG had indeed retired fromSDWBF2. However the love for the game had not died. Lead by JOGJeff, JOG revamped its Jedi, most of whom had left to help fight in the PS3 Sector. This became a time of training for JOG's Jedi. JOGJeff, took the mantle of teaching the next generation of JOG's Jedi the ways of the Jedi. Many greats would come from this training, such as Mr Barney, Jmeeey, ews venom, jub jub and viking. Even though JOG stayed true to its promise of retirement, it did keep an eye on the community. It even backed LSAJ in becoming the next best thing. The friendship would turn sour however, as the lack of competition would make LSJ do its best to bring JOG out of retirement. It did not.

JOG, even though not fighting in matches any longer would remain a major player in the community.

Meanwhile, JOG dominated in the game of COD4. But times were changing. JOG had brought in many great leaders from many clans, to help bolster its leadership and gear up for the next gen platform. First it brought back Mr Clean during Christmas time of 2008. Then later it would bring in Anitfreeze and many of the SOR greats. Combined with other great leaders such as Leonardo, Mastaisac , MO, Off Zarex and Scorpion. But even still JOG was headed for some dark time. PS3 had become a different beast all together with its players staying in game, building its community there. Meanwhile, older JOG members had a thrieving community on its site and in swbf2. The tear woudl come when JOGjeff and Chicali could not reconcile how they wanted the clan to be precieved and operated. In the end a small but brief civil war broke out, bringing about two JOG's. One woudl remain on the teamjog.com sitew with chicali and would consist mainly of cod4 players, while the main part of the site community came with myself Clean, and Frantic to the nationofjog.com site.

The change in venue for us here would see the return of JOG to more of a Star Wars feel for a few months. The Jedi trainied during the prior year finally were seasoned enough that when combined with older members such as JOGJeff, Mastaisac Deity and Leonardo, became aforce to be reackoned with once more. But it wasn't until a new Jedi, by the name of Neji that JOG had found its true foothold in abttle once more. Yielding to a few members wishes to see battle once more, to make their own name for themselves, JOGJeff granted it.During the seond half of 2009, JOG once more truelly battle clans, defeating those that stood in its way once more. This time however, JOG did not flaunt its victories. It did not display them on its holonets. Instead, it quietly won matches and went on there way.

By the end of 2009, JOG had once more retired, as it started to gear up for CODmw2 in the PS3 Sector.

To this day JOG still plays both SWBF2 and CODmw2. Although it is no longer active in clan battles in SWBF2, it still as always keeps its hands on the pulse of the community, keeping a faithful watch on what it had started so many years ago.