Brief History

In 2001 a mod-called Natural Selection was released for Half-Life engine. It soon became very popular because of its very unique and profound gameplay of fast-paced RTS and FPS combining elements from Alien vs Predator and Starcraft. After its initial release, several NS competitions were launched in Europe, namely by Gamingorb, Clanbase and UGL.

In 2005 ENSL was launched by core competitive players: Naxo, Mike, Freeze, b1 and Fana. Later Bob_Slayer and frG took an important role in hosting and updating the website. After five seasons frG left and jiriki took the hosting of the website and new generation of admins started running the league.

In 2010 major NS1 leagues and competitions officially ended. The result was:

1. 15 ENSL Seasons,
2. 16 Night Cups (newer, older)
3. 2 Nations Cups (2009, 2007)
4. Some exhibition matches like Team EU vs USA
5. Other small competitions

Thanks to the team leaders, players, referees, donators and admins we've been able to run for 15 seasons and about 20 cups between them. There're dozens, maybe almost hundred contributors who made this possible.

If you have any questions or problems with the website, matches and so on, don't hesitate to contact any admin for help. The best way to reach us is through this website, forums, contact form or #ENSL on Quakenet.

Notable Admins

• jiriki 128 (also server admin, plugin author, website developer)
• Bacillus 42 (also predictor)
• b1 39
• GibbZ 31  (also predictor, shoutcaster)
• Voodo 27
• Admirable 26  (general admin, predictor)
• Danny 25
• lump 20
• EisTee 20
• Elvisq 19
• sherpa 19
• Fana 11  (forum admin)
• frG 9  (also server admin, webmaster, website developer)
• Mike 6
• Skyice 6
• Tweadle 6
• Naxo 5 (NSFR origins)
• PoMMe 5
• noway 5
• FreeZe 4
• bHack 4
• Doctor 4
• ben 3 (also predictor)
• tjo 3
• Gerhard 3
• blind 2
• TrC 2
• M 2
• huhuh 2
• aA 2
• BOB_SLAYER 1 (website)
• danster 1
• Stewy 1

The list doesn't include formal positions, all admins took part in the normal administrative tasks such as refereeing, division making and planning. The list is ordered by number of news posts made. Its hard to quantify people's contributions to scene. Some made news posts and articles like Bacillus, some helped enforce rules and do administration like most admins, some coded the website like BOB_SLAYER and myself, some ran servers and paid a lot for it like frG. This also misses the clan leaders like Fana, Morvie and Peach who ran teams for very long time.

Notable Predictors

• Admirable
• Bacillus
• Fana
• Benjamin
• lump
• sherpa
• Gibbz
• b1

Thanks also to atleast 15 other guys who have posted predictions.

Notable Shoutcasters

Shoutcasters made live and offline shoutcasts of matches. Download some here.

• blind (check blindNS)
• Admirable
• Tweadle
• Gibbz
• b1

Notable Referees

• jiriki 26
• Elvisq 21
• Admirable 21
• aA 17
• noway 13
• frG 10
• Voodo 9
• GibbZ 9
• Vision 9
• nEBu 8
• Stewy 8
• pyro 8
• fitoX 7
• kurze 7
• hdahda 7
• F4 7
• saep 6
• C-mies 6
• mentalist 6
• Risme 6
• Nephotep 5
• BybyPhoke 5
• tjerge 5
• UnKn0wN 5
• Apo 5
• Pulsar132 5
• Nova 5

This includes all the referees (and admins!) who refereed at least or more than 5 matches.