When W:A came out around 1999, it had its own bng scheme again without rules in its own ranked bng channel, and it was nothing like how it is today. I don't have the exact scheme anymore, but I remember it being more spicy than the current bng scheme, as it had petrol bombs I think among other things (if anyone can find this old bng scheme, others may like to see it), but again the main point is that it was still fun.
After W:A's ranks and ranked channels got destroyed around 2000, that's when the W:A community leagues started making their own bng schemes. That's largely where our current bng comes from. Between 2000-2008, I will try to describe the progression of bng. With every worms league WACL/cl2k/WL/FB/xtc/TUS, it felt like more and more 'fairness' rules were being added to bng up till today. Someone also decided that all bng maps had to be flat and horizontal, so that stuck as well.
This is incorrect history.
Before the ranks were destoried you had your own bng schemes being popular and played in games outside of the bng channel. The bng channel existed and MaxDamage won it to get his red flaming bar but it was a fairly inactive channel, just as much as ropeleague channel was played on cavern style maps like the one where you have to rope around and collect the cr8s in single player missions.
There were ropers in #rh who weren't playing games in the special roper league because they disliked the scheme, their rope scheme was on the traditional maps we use today but included dyno and sheep in the scheme (probably influenced by w2 players making the cross over)
The same goes for bng. There was the bng league channel but there was also the traditional bng scheme being played. It was just as popular as forts. I know because was the first scheme i learnt to play and i was bng'ing when the ranks were still up. In the clan league HoS, TEA, EiF, DFA (massive bng clan with sk8n) and BnGks (Psydome, Reddo, RexNocte) were all picking bng for clanners while bng channel was about.
In that version of bng you only had two rules, no sitters and no straight zooks. There was nothing about reaiming, nothing about close teleports, darksiding wasn't illegal, people would drill into the map and torch into land with no possible shots. You also had petrols, clusters and mortors. If you find an old bngers even from the 2002 era you'll notice they don't reset their aim because they didnt have to in their bng period.. Reddo was on the other day and he wasn't resetting his aim and didn't enjoy seeing low gravity in the bng scheme as it wasn't in the old one.
BnG evloved in a good way in my opinion and like i said in my other post, if you want to enjoy it again then relax on what is considered lame/cheap or illegal, allow closer teleports, allow for griders and abit more darksiding hides that promote banks and a selection of zook shots.
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