UNITED RETROTHON

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The servers are still up.

Five games from the years when you met people in a server list instead of a lobby. The stats have been counted since day one, and once a year we meet for real.

Live 0 of 6 servers occupied
Server Game Map Players
Hamburglar Hill Retouched Call of Duty: United Offensive minas_morgul_mtl 0/24
Hamburglar Canyon Quake III Arena q3dm11 0/24
Hamburglar Temple Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy mp/duel3 0/24
Hamburglar Quarry Unreal Tournament Niven Experimental Lab 0/24
Hamburglar Delta Unreal Tournament 2004 Torlan 0/24
Hamburglar Cove OpenTTD 4096×4096 · 5h 54m 0/25

The gang

Since 2004

It started on a server called Universal Fun Fighters. It is long gone. The people are not. That is where Buraz and Marduk turned up, and with them the rest of GKBears, who after a while invited us over to their own server instead.

That is where I installed TeamSpeak without knowing my webcam had a built-in microphone. Which means the others heard every single swear word I produced each time somebody shot me, long before I worked out that they could.

Hamburger Hill came a bit later. We were a mix from across Europe and Israel, most of us without a clan, and nobody played for anything other than the fun of it. That is the server that stuck.

The group has held together since. We have met up a few times for real, and some still play when there is time. The servers are up for their sake.

Counting since
2026
Active servers
6
Players on record
178
Matches logged
4 975
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From back then

Hamburger Hill, mp_uo_harbor_brit. Twelve players, Axis take it. The server name sits in orange along the bottom edge.
Hamburger Hill, mp_uo_harbor_brit. Twelve players, Axis take it. The server name sits in orange along the bottom edge.
The GKBears public server. Shimshi, TerpentN and BrassMonkey — some of them still turn up.
The GKBears public server. Shimshi, TerpentN and BrassMonkey — some of them still turn up.
mp_harbor with nineteen players. Half a dozen nationalities on one map, nobody keeping track of which.
mp_harbor with nineteen players. Half a dozen nationalities on one map, nobody keeping track of which.
Killcam. Scoped Kar98k, six seconds left of the round.
Killcam. Scoped Kar98k, six seconds left of the round.

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Retrothon 2026

Registration open
19days
09hrs
10min

One weekend, five games, one result

The tournament runs across all five servers over the same weekend. Points are combined across games — being best at one game does not win it. Being least bad at all five does.

Leading right now

All games · 30 days
#Player Game Kills K/D
1 hjsdhdunu Unreal Tournament 172 8.19
2 G Quake III Arena 104 1.96
3 (sXs)-Root Unreal Tournament 55 55.00
4 UnnamedPlayer Quake III Arena 38 0.55
5 g1 Quake III Arena 35 2.92
6 Haljazme Quake III Arena 33 1.22
7 Robin Unreal Tournament 29 2.07
8 Kuytar Quake III Arena 26 3.25
9 Pingvin Quake III Arena 23 4.60
10 LuDOeD Quake III Arena 22 0.65