EXcessum
Originally an alliance formed by QuantumG and daddy inbetween r3 and r4 of planetarion, eXcessum developed into a thriving chatting channel on netgamers over the next few years, before returning as an alliance in r24 and r36. Notable members over the years have included JC (ex PA Team), A2 (ex PA Team) and Appocomaster (PA Team).
PA Origins
The exact origins of eXcessum are unsure, and vary from who you get told the story by. It has become increasingly apparent that haz has the most accurate story so here it is in newt's words.
eXcessum was formed by two groups of players, lead by QuantumG & daddy. QuantumG started playing pa in r3 with a few of his real life mates (eg, iDLEKiD, newt, and later, JC). After several emphatic failures to make an alliance (notably, amorebaabaa (ABB) and suicide), they joined The Strike Force (TSF). Also in this alliance were daddy, haz and pommeh. I think haz would like it to be pointed out he was actually hc, and TSF was his first alliance in pa. Early in 2001 QuantumG and daddy left TSF and formed eXcessum, with the immediate induction of newt and haz as fellow hcs. Other important founding members include JC, pommeh, trigger (iDLEKiD), Cheek, appocomaster and serra.
From the very outset, eXcessum's chances of winning r4 were dealt blow after blow by first QuantumG becoming inactive and secondly the presence of two rival factions in its member-base - one led by daddy & pommeh, the other by newt. It should be noted for historical purposes, that newt eventually won when he realised (thanks to appocomaster) that he had had more access to P than the others.
Despite eXcessum quickly reaching 30 members, its future as a PA alliance was doomed and indeed before the end of r4 the alliance disbanded. Both daddy and QuantumG, wearing their hearts on their sleaves, immediately announced their resignations from PA alltogether, with others following suit. As for the other HC, haz went on to achieve fame and not so much fortune as a dedicated NoS member, whereas newt opted to follow in the footsteps of daddy and become a cunt. JC joined ND with the help of Mooseh, before eventually becoming t&p in r7, his last round of PA before becoming a dedicated forums spammer and, as a result, a not so dedicated pa team member. Cheek formed formed his own alliance called synaptid which, despite having a few high profile members, never reached the same dizzy heights as eXcessum and quickly disbanded, with him joining WPO as an officer at the end of r5.
It should be mentioned that during the in-channel wars (frequently involving P and lasting until well after the alliance disbanded), #eXcessum was banned by cservice and so QuantumG lost his ownership. After many failed attempts by newt & co, eventually JC struck gold, reaching the pinacle of anyone's internet life - he became "the channel owner". Squabbles were immediately settled by a 4yr long policy of giving everyone 498 access.
Other notable eXcessum members from that era include Byronious (awesome american geek), clau777 (romanian guy who kept getting girls pregnant), theflyingdutcham (our only top100 member who gave his account to hcs to play with), villageidiot (the alki-prototype), lesbiansmurf (scottish wanker that could code).
Over the next few years, #excessum became nothing more than a chatting channel. While many people came and left, most of the core remained in some capacity - newt, JC, iDLEKiD (trigger), Cheek, Pommeh & Appocomaster. Arguably, the immediate survival of the channel can be put down to newt & JC discussing every aspect of their real life friendship in the channel. In 2003, the first excessum meet took place (JC, newt, pommeh, cheek), and #excessum has never really looked back since.
The channel has turned into one big revolving door. Plenty of people have left (most noticably JC & cheek), but have been replaced by the likes of Wishmaster, Mitre, Jupp, Alki, Stoom, Rember, ricoshay and so forth. Many others have tried and since been banned :(
Round 24
I'm not sure how eXcessum came to be in r24 - it was certainly a very late decision, around 1week before the round started. Our chances of being a decent alliance were massively bulstered when VS disbanded, resulting in Lockhead doing tech for us (Cabeza r00lz!). The HC team was newt (HC of defence & everything, initially), jupp^afk (politics + internal), Mitre (politics), Wishmaster (sex appeal) & Lockhead (tech). Although managing to recruit to 50-55 members in no time at all (mostly thanks to wishmaster, against mitre's wishes), eXcessum was really an alliance of 30 or so with insanely active hc. 2weeks into the round, there was an intervention to save newt, resulting in jupp overseeing most things in the alliance, and mitre effectively becoming head dc with ricoshay as his sidekick.
That said, the eXcessum hc had one aim that round - to make it fun politically. After CT took a massive early lead, jupp, newt & mitre did all they could politically (and internally) to organise a block of alliances to stop them. What happened next is almost a mythical tale, but needless to say jupp was amazing and all but gave ND the win that round. Since I'm writing this, I'd best add that some of the target assigning newt did during the war was epic too!!!
Nuff said? I think most would agree the alliance was decent for what it was, and a fun place to be. The HC chan certainly was - alas, we disbanded after the round. It was either that, or play half-assedly, or recruit non-excessum as hc..... which would have taken away most/all of the fun!
Round 36
eXcessum returned for round 36, playing as a small tag of only 27 in a round where the alliance member limit was 100. Despite being small they had a very sucessful round, with 8 out of the 27 players in the tag finished in the top 100. Their highest ranked planet this round was risto, who finished 24th.
eXcessum meets
There've been a lot of them! Ranging from newt's student house to amsterdam to berlin to cheek's house. Its hard to say what counts as a meet, since many people in the chan either started out as, or have become, real life good friends. But here we go:
- ??? 2003 Nottingham - JC, Newt, Moled, Appocomaster
Mini meet where JC and Newt took Appocomaster around Nottingham university. Meet also included admiring Moled's "brownies", sheets of unfunny jokes provided by Appocomaster, meeting up with Sephrenia and being chucked out of her house before her parents came back, and Appocomaster leaving his phone in Newt's car. Appocomaster still owes Newt and JC a pint
- March 2003 Hitchin - JC, newt, Pommeh, Cheek, A2
JC was the motivation behind this meet - he was pa team by now and desperately wanted to meet other super pa nerds. He forced newt along, who in turn forced pommeh. God the meet was diabolically dull - thankfully cheek eventually turned up, and we all jsut mocked everyone else 24/7 - that was fun. Almost killing that guy with absynthe was cool too.
- May 2003 Nottingham - newt, pommeh, cheek, FT
So, after the success of the previous meet, pom, newt & cheek met up again. Since FT lived in nottingham, he also joined. It was a bit of a lowkey event, a bit of weed was done and we got to sample some of cheek's legendary spliffs/cigars.
- July 2003 Nottingham - JC, newt, Pommeh, iDLEKiD, A2, captaindread, Moled
The first big excessum meet! Big story was pommeh & idlekid the first night, did they have sex? did they do stuff? All we know is that they slept in the same bed and pommeh vanished the next morning citing a sily lexcuse, before being forced to return. The other highlight also included pommeh - being sick in weatherspoons on the 2nd night. He's such an attention whore.
- September 2003 Nottingham - newt, pommeh, FT
Newt wanted weed - so travelled down to nottingham and ended up spending £400 on oregano. First he gave FT £260, which he stole. Then £150 to pommeh, for which he got oregano back. The day was awesome though!! Especially driving round the drug area of nottingham with a car full of 16yr olds, getting pulled over by the police, etc.
- December 2004 Nottingham - JC, newt, Pommeh, Cheek, Wishmaster, CybDev, A2, captaindread, emma
THe first excessum meet with foreigners, and importantly, wishmaster. The main highlight was probably sunday night, when JC went to bed we realised he'd left himself logged into his pa admin account. We had a pretty lollerific time fucking around on the forums!
- January 2005 Blackburn - newt, pommeh, JC
Pommeh came up to bburn for the weekend. Made those gay youtube karaoke videos!
- August 2005 Berlin - newt, Mitre, jupp^afk, CybDev
met up in berlin for the weekend, newt was living in dresden at the time. God, where to begin. The first night was dull - berlin was dead. Saturday night was entertaining! stuff happened.
- November 2006 Leeds - newt, Pommeh, Wishmaster, Alki, Rember, CybDev
This was the next big meet (several mini meets inbetween).
- March 2007 Amsterdam -
- March 2008 Amsterdam -
- October 2008 Nottingham - newt, pommeh, cheek, CBA, Alki, iDLEKiD
- March 2009 Nottingham - newt, pommeh, wishmaster
- January 2009 Amsterdam x2 - newt, pommeh, cheek, stoom
- May 2019 Leeds - Pommeh, iDLEKiD, Hannah, newt
- October 2010 Leeds - iDLEKiD, Wishmaster, risto, stoom, newt, Pommeh, Rember
- June 2015 Newquay - Pommeh, newt, Wishmaster, buddah
- July 2016 Germany - Wishmaster, Trez, Pommeh, buddah, Hannah, newt, lockert
- June 2017 Oslo - Wishmaster, Pommeh, newt, Trez, buddah, sandvold, lockert
- February 2017 Manchester - Wishmaster, trez, newt, pommeh
- July 2017 Nottingham - Pommeh, Hannah, newt, Wishmaster, buddah, Trez
- December 2017 Manchester - Pommeh, Trez, Wishmaster, Hannah, newt
- May 2018 Manchester - newt, Pommeh, Hannah, Trez, Wishmaster
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