PRG said:=vÐ= is sure as hell not scrimming anyone in UTXMP's current state. The whole idea that this build is good enough for competitive play is a joke. Sorry to flame you Phatazz, but it's true. Way too many bugs. Not to mention what's the point? There's nothing practice as things will be different by the gold build and there won't be ladders or leagues until around then too.
1) Competitive play that's officially recorded and placed in the ladder is not possible - I agree.
2) Competitive play that's friendly and fun is possible with this build.
3) There are many bugs but you can still scrim.
4) The point is to play XMP with clan members and have fun. For some reason people look down on clans that stack in pubs. The answer to that? Scrims.
5) When is the Gold going to be released? The only clans that were purely XMP based that are still alive right now are Alpha, DE, and XClan.
Anyhow, that's it. It's really a way to keep clans like ours alive through the process. A lot of other clans have many other FPS' to fall back to. DE doesn't have an "official" other FPS or game it plays.
Somehow, I think that people will think that the XMP community will just spring forth out of the ground and start playing when the gold version comes out. Some of this might be true. But I don't want to see people that I love to play XMP with go to other games and just not want to come back.
I can tell you now that some clan members are going to MMORPG's like WOW and EQ2. That's a one way street.