Secret was started in January 1999 by Fiery and Kinetics who invited a few close friends to the squad to have fun in the game under aliases. It was always our intention to play in SVS leagues, and we applied for Euro League, United League, and the newly restarted Amateur League.

We continued to invite friends and had quite a respectable roster by the time of our first ever league mach, in Euro Gamma league.

Our first season was moderately respectable. We finished second in Gamma (the euro 3rd division) after leading it all season (heh) and wound up sort-of mid table (4th tier?) of United League. We had taken Doomsday' s spot in pro league and were having fun bit not much luck at 1-3 when we decided to give our spot to Addicts.

The next season aml finally started up, and became our primary focus. We lost interest in UL cuz of our pings and all the gay teams there, we ended up in tier 8-9 I think. AML went well in the regular season, we were 8-2 including a 12-10 win over the top team, Demonic :) Again we had led our Euro (Epsilon, 2nd division) league for most of the season, and this time won the finals vs those laggy flaggers, RedShift (we love you really!). Unfortunately we got knocked out early in aml playoffs, but due to a lot of pro teams dropping, we made it back into pro.

Our 3rd season, we mostly got batted around as many players became inactive and many more left the squad in pro (go check our aml roster vs the euro one) but we had a memorable win over FuN! in pro, perhaps our best result as a squad so far.

Back to Amateur League for the 4th season, as we did terribly in the pro tourney. Indeed this season was our worst ever, with only Who? being properly active. We had a good preseason in aml but it was a false dawn as we limped to a 2-5 record (in aml!) and euro was even worse as we were 1-8 or something, only avoiding relegation by squads dropping. However, there was a turning point as Who? sent out a squadmail saying that he might be forced to leave if noone became active, and that week 12 people showed up for the match! As we'd done so poorly in the upper tier of aml, we entered the playoffs for the lower tier. With everyone suddenly active again, we pracced hard (100 hours or so in a month) and came through some very tight games vs Final, Vector, Blasphemy and No Data to win the Hercules Finals! We're finally back on track!

Our 5th season - we were active in Euro, AML and Glad, with most emphasis on aml. The preseason went well (3-0 in aml) but we lost some of our intensity somehow in the regular season, and ended up 5-2, with disappointing losses to the 2 eventual aml finalists, .foo. and controversially to Starfire Elite. Don't even get me started on that but basically the bot made a little mess, the referee didn't notice it, and we were told there would be a full replay. In the end we didn't get it, but it was all academic in the playoffs - we AGAIN lost in the first round, with a very weak showing against a strong .foo. team.

Gladiator was a write-off, apart from a pleasing win over SFE in the preseason, we were blown away time and time again. Teamwork not strong enough, and it showed against the pro players in the unforgiving 3 on 3 Gladiator Arena.

Euro never did start up again, and we await it still, but it's sort of on a permanent sabbatical it seems - unfortunately :(

After the bad loss to .foo., months of almost total inactivity followed, but we picked up just before the season started, and were probably the best Secret team ever assembled as we slaughtered all challengers in the preseason, and although we dropped off noticably as the season went on, we had enough momentum to win our division and be a lock for the playoffs. The inactivity struck again however, and the interdivisional games saw us being rolled over by the same teams who couldn't get a foothold against us in the preseason.

Gladiator entered a second season too, and it seems to be going like the first - namely over our heads :) I suppose it's good to get our butts kicked from time to time, our egos can't inflate tooo much, but in Glad it happens every week! We'll see if we can do anything about that.

The current time shows Secret coming up to our 3rd birthday - a magnificent achievement! With some extremely influential recruits coming along after the current roster lock (unfortunately not until the end of the season) to replace the inevitable losses to inactivity, Secret's future will most likely be even brighter than the past. Oh and Fiery has ADSL!!! Woohoo!