the guys around Murdock ( VEF) and Adi_Galland (IOW)were faster than remembered, heres some talk about these onlinewars from 2002
http://www.battle-fields.com/commsce...n-2-Online-War
yes, they were made by the community, they improved a lot during their running times (i can remenber the crude reportsystem in the first IOW where you had to stay in game till debriefing screen to give your results to the host manually via chat
).
Future will tell what will happen to this series...