What's up everybody I found some free time and figured I'd write up a blog on everything that has gone down since my last blog. I know my last one was pretty long but I don't write blogs very often so I like to keep them as interesting and detailed as possible. This one is pretty long as well but i hope you enjoy.
The Offseason Up Until PGL Toronto :
Okay so where did I leave off in the last blog.. ahh of course I was saying my team was Source consisting of Myself, Decliner, Tusick and Megah. Well after a few more weeks of that team things just weren't working out like we wanted and we decided to drop Megah(no offense to Thomas though he is a very skilled player we were just looking for something different). So we ended up trying out a bunch of different 4ths and eventually settled on picking up Fearris. We gamed for almost a week straight and I was feeling very confident in this team. Scott brought a lot to the table, he doubled our teams points giving us a much better seed, had a very good knowledge of the game and had a really chill mess around attitude so we meshed very well with him. The only problem was that after only a few days of scrimming I had to leave for a weekend for PGL Toronto with Virtuosity(Jetty, Painless and Krew at the time) because Gated couldn't make it. I told my team that no matter what happened even if we won the PGL tournament that I would be sticking with Source and we had all agreed to not be shady whatsoever and stick it out together until the opener. So i left that weekend to go to PGL.
PGL Toronto FFA and 2v2 :
Now this was the first time i had LAN'd since Dallas and I love the city of Toronto so i was very excited for this tournament. We drove down Friday to the venue at the Rogers Center(Skydome) and got set up for the FFA which was taking place Friday and was to help seed the players for the 2v2 and 4v4. The top 3 also got paid out so i was looking forward to this. I made it to the finals(top 6) Along with Gilkey, Moniz, Darkscorpion, Krizen and ShameFactor and as I was walking up to the main stage some kid stopped me and said "Hey are you Robbie B from the Montage? Dude I just saw it on MLG it was awesome!" I proceeded to thank him and went on to tell a lot of people about that little encounter. I thought I would just let you all that haven't heard of it know that that's where that little statement "Are you Robbie B from the montage?" comes from haha. Anyways I got 5th in the FFA and helped to get my team some good seeding in the 2v2 and 4v4.
PGL Toronto 4v4 :
So we play our first match against some kids and steamroll em 2-0. Next up is Dyno's team who i vaguely knew from XBL. They were talking a lotta smack but we go on to 2-0 em easily and i get 3 triples this series. Next up is the match we were looking forward to, it was against North of 49. Now everyone knew they were sponsored by AMP and they were expected to do very well seeing as they had dominated the other PGL events in the FFA, 2v2 and 4v4. We were on a side station but man there were there a lot of spectators, anyways the first game was Construct Slayer. We keep a good lead all game and it gets to the point where it's 49-47 us and we have them trapped back gold. I see one of them slip down from open ramp to laser and right away I think back to the XiT disaster in MLG Toronto where my team choked up a 49-43 lead game 3. I think to myself we have a 4v3 back gold and we only need 1 kill, so i tell everyone we need to rush NOW but Krew is R1 while me and Jet are C3 and Pain is O3. I just say lets go figuring Krew will be right behind Pain if he jumps to O street. Me and Jet get 2 one shots and one weak but both die and the crowd goes nuts. It's 49-49 and then I see Pain still open street, he decides to rush in and clutches the last kill, at first I thought we lost but then I hear him yelling YEAH BABY and I see we won. Next we play Narrows flag and we win 3-0, i went +14 with a lotta blains I was tearing it up this game.
Our next match is Sunday against eR, we lose 2-0 but I got a nice triple on Guardian Oddball and gave up the over exterm bottom gold so I could go get some ball time(dammit why aren't I a stat whore lulz). For some reason we end up having to play a shit ton of games in LB and after winning 2 series have to play N49 again. We 2-0 them and I do really well both games getting a cross map stick on Guardian when it's tied 19-19(look for it in Montage 3) and going +8 with most hill game 2. Next up is Get Vicious for top 3 which is for the money. Game 1 is Guardian slayer and there is A LOT of shit talk going back and forth but we end up winning by like 7. Next is Narrows Flag, now this game has been the cause of a lot of hate for me that I get from clueless douchebags. Many of you may have heard about it because I end up going -21, basically it was 15 minutes of me trying to spearhead rushes top middle and getting ripped apart. The previous night vs. N49 I was controlling the snipe most of the game and was picking off domes and dropping shields like crazy but this game didn't play out at all like that. Through most of the game I knew I wasn't doing well stat wise but it didn't really matter to me because I knew what needed to be done to win Narrows CTF and you NEED top middle. So yeah that game happens and they're talking all sorts of shit going into game 3, needless to say I wasn't effected because I knew we just weren't playing as a team that game. We win Pit TS by like 10 or so and after winning 4 series straight on main stage we're in the money. Next series is against Brake, Sheer, Micro and Shotmakerz. We lose 2-0 to them in really gg's, the Flag game was like a 22 minute game and I gained a lot of respect for Shotmakerz after this series. Anyways after the series is over I'm shaking hands with all of em and Kevin and Shaye (Brake and Sheer) tell me that they heard Scott had left Source to start up DGK with Acid. I wasn't really too bummed cause we had only teamed for like a week with him and because I had just made 200 dollars so I just planned on getting a new 4th and preparing for Meadows if it was true.
The Rest Of The Offseason :
So I get back and find out the rumor is true and Scott had left to team with Acid. I didn't really hold anything against him though it was all good. At this point Virtuosity contacted me and told me they were thinking of dropping Krew and wanted me to take his place. Brake and Sheer were also interested in starting something with me but I told both of them that I had given my word to stick it out with Source until Meadows and both teams understood completeley. A few weeks before the event we contacted Fugo about teaming and found out he had a pass as well. We ran games and the first night was awesome, we destroyed DGK and another good team so we decided to team. The next few weeks of practice were inconsistent at times sometimes we were on fire and other times we weren't but overall going into Meadows I was extremely confident. This was the first time i was going to an MLG event with somewhat established players(besides Mando on AbR for Dallas) and had a good seed.
Meadowlands 09 Thursday and Friday :
Me, my brother and my buddies PJ and Joe drove down to Meadows the thursday of the event. We didn't get there until like 11 p.m. and we met up with my team at the hotel. Friday afternoon we ended up getting a 4v4 LAN going against Built To Spill (Trojan, Voodoo, Massa and Docta). We play one series and lose 3-1 I think but the side we were playing on was kind of whack. What I noticed was how ON I was already though, I was 4ing kids with half shields consistently and was just on fire. We switch sides and play them and go 5-0. The one Narrows CTF game i went +24 and pulled off some sick snipes, I still regret not having my memory card. Anyways our confidence was high now and we went to get signed in and what not. The day goes on and we find a LAN at the Holiday Inn against TmA, so we play them and 3-1 pretty badly. We were feeling great at this point and went back to the Venue for our match. We got a bye round 1 and 2-0'd the team Round 2 easily. Decliner and both I drop 16 kills going +9 and +7 respectively. I also do very well the flag game and I can tell this is going to be a good event for me.
That night we have dinner at Outback for Raidens birthday and then go on to make the biggest mistake of the tournament. We spend hours trying to get a LAN going in our room and finally get enough monitors and boxes to LAN against Raidens team and Sieges team. By this time it's like 1 in the morning and the Hotel staff is kicking out everyone in excess of 4 people per room so we have to be really quiet and can barely call out. We play like one series and it's just the biggest waste of time ever, we end up wrapping it up and don't get to bed until like 3:30 a.m.
Meadowlands 09 Saturday and Sunday :
We wake up like an hour before our WBR3 match and we already knew we were playing Crossfire. I decide that it's more important for me to eat breakfast and make sure I'm energized as apposed to warming up(I don't really need to warm up). It was just me and Brendon in our hotel room so I tell him and we decide to go down to the lobby and eat breakfast. Alex(Tusick) meets us down there but none of us had heard from Nick(Decliner) yet. About 30 minutes before out match I get a phone call from Nick telling me his mom never woke him up and that he's gonna shower then meet us at the venue. We all meet up about 10 minutes before our WBR3 match at the Astro station and find out that they are all out of splitters and we won't be able to use our A40's.
We get called to our station, get set up and have to start game 1 Construct TS right away. We start of with an 11-7 lead with top control and I have rockets. I'm in lobby going to C3 meanwhile Nick is already in there getting pressured from C street. I say "Nick come to me I got you", I shoot a rocket at the guy C street but he doesn't hear me, he jumps out to challenge the guy getting hit in the back by my rocket. The street guy then gets at a weird angle and my 2nd rocket doesn't kill him, so they get rockets and top control. This was just one example of where not being able to hear each other really screwed us and there were many more instances where our teamwork suffered because of it. We lose the slayer 50-42ish and I go 17-10-13 while everyone else goes neg. Game 2 is Pit CTF and much of the same thing ensues, there is very little teamwork and we're having trouble baiting and switching or getting organized pushes going and we lose 2-1.
We were really pissed because we knew we should have won the series but we were determined to make it out through losers. The first thing we did was go to the Astro station to get some splitters so we could use our A40's and then talked about how we would take each series game by game. We go into LBR4 and we 2-0 quickly, we were a completely different team with our headphones and I could feel the drastic difference in our teamwork. We play LBR5 and I go massive in game 1, 20-10-8 in Guardian TS to win 50-43. Afterwards we play Narrows CTF and beat these kids in literally 3 minutes. LBR6 is up next and is the first full screen game, this was all Nick's series though. We win the first game Pit TS, we lose the Narrows CTF game 2-1? Brendon had an off game and went -9. Game 3 is Con TS and the other team starts to talk A LOT of shit and is t-bagging/smacking my dead body when they kill me. It's like 49-41 us and I put like 3 or so shots in a guy in sword then drop down, I screen look and see Nick is about to kill him so i scream "YOU KIDS ARE GOING HOME" right before he kills him lol. Nick went huge this sereis. Next up was LBR7 against High Society.
Now we knew HS was a very aggressive team but we felt confident we could win. Game 1 was Narrows TS and the game was going back and forth until it got into the 40's where we took a 46-41 lead. Now at this time the game clock was at about 10:00 so i assumed they would get snipe to Aries or Gregor and slow it down but instead they just bum rushed our lobby again. They got us spawn trapped and went on to win 50-47. Game 2 was Pit CTF and it started very fast. Within the first 2 minutes they had our flag pulled and on their side but Nick got a clutch double to stop them while they were in their base about to cap. We then went on to hold em off and counter cap. The next 10 minutes they must have pulled the flag like 8 times, they capped once but I was able to stop them 3 times with some nice ass nades and Brendon stopped them once with two nice snipes through the shield on our S2. At 15 minutes the score stood 2-2 and we went into OT. About 5 mins into OT they got a flag inched about halfway through camo but were 3 dead. Their last guy got them needle spawns with about 5 seconds left before our flag returned. Nick was the only one in position to hold em off and made a mistake of trying to throw a nade when he didn't have one instead of rushing through camo. They get a touch and he kills the runner but the spawners go on to kill Nick and get the final cap. I had the only negative game of my entire tournament at -1.?
The rest of Saturday consisted of me watching all of my friends that were still in the tournament, mainly my niggies Kash and Seb who placed top 28 with SHK and all the members on both Envy and Virtuosity who placed 26th and 18th respectively. After the tournament was over we went back to our room and hung out for awhile. We had a shit ton of fun for a few hours just laughing our asses off and talking about how crazy the tourney was playing out. Later that night we got in a prank war(thanks to our shenanigan causing coach Evan aka Infamous) with Saucey and some other kids who were like 6 rooms down from us which was pretty loltastic. Then we LAN'd for the rest of the night, well at least me, Venom, Siege, Curry and Mando did. We left Sunday morning for Buffalo after saying peace out to everyone, and that pretty much concluded that weekend for me. Meadows was a pretty big disappointment overall because I know how much potential we had as a team and how it was a dumb mistake that resulted in us placing top 48. Also because I played amazing that event but I was ready to move on and redeem for Columbus.
The Aftermath :
Right when I got back from Meadows I had to finish leveling an account, so I played MLG as soon as I got my shit hooked up and I was tearing it up. I pulled like 4 or 5 montage clips that first day and I was just getting myself psyched and ready to prepare even harder and redeem at C-bus. Then some shit went down. Me, Alex and Brendon are in a party and Brendon says he doesn't really wanna team with Nick and feels we should look for a new 4th. At the time I agreed but the real reason why I think was because I just wanted someone to blame for our placing when it really came down to not preparing for WBR3 then running into a hot HS LBR7.
So we dropped Nick and started running with a few people. We were doing good but the attitude of the team was different and I realized we should just team with Nick again. I approached Nick late one night and asked him if he would want to team again, he said he would want to team with me and Alex again for sure but was pissed at Brendon and didn't want to team with him anymore. I knew Alex still wanted to team with Nick so now i was put up to an ultimatum between Nick/Alex or Brendon/Alex and the way things were going it seemed like it would eventually be just me and Brendon. So I chose to stick it out with Nick/Alex and we went on to run with Insaiyan. After a few weeks of teaming he told us he was set with us and wanted to team so we knew it was for good. Then one night IT happened, DUNN DUNN DUNNNNNNN.
I had spent one weekend just leveling like crazy and I got a total of like 6 hours of sleep over 3 days. So after the weekend was done(cooincidentally the same weekend Virtuosity was having issues with Moe) I ended up sleeping for an entire 24 hours straight. During this hibernation of mine my house was called like 8 times, my cell was called 5 times and my sister AIM'd about 100 times asking for me to get online. Even though they were being told by my brother and sister that I was sleeping they for some reason thought I was being shady and running with Virtuosity behind their backs. Well at one point my dad wakes me up for like the 4th time at like 11:00 p.m. and is like "Rob tell these fucking kids to stop calling the house" and I say no I'm too tired and to tell my sis to relay my message to Decliner that I was not getting on at all and I was exhausted. I start to fall asleep again and 10 minutes later I hear the fucking phone ring again except this time my dad answers it and bitches out Alex. At that point I was steaming mad and was ready to get up and get online just to flip the fuck out on them. That was when I started telling myself that if something happened with Virtuosity I would contact them about joining.
Well the next morning I get on my comp to see that I have like 50 missed aims, and the latest of Nick's aims he's telling me that Bryan was being shady and running with FJ. I also find out on the forums that Virtuosity was having issues with Moe but nothing was set in stone yet. So I'm like fuck this my team was being extremely immature the entire previous day and now Bryan is running with other people I'm asking if I can run with Virtuosity. I PM Jetty and tell him everything that was going on and how I feel asking if I could run with them. About 15 minutes after he aims me and we talk about it and he tells me they would all be interested in teaming with me for sure. So I tell him I would let my teammates know that afternoon and he says he would do the same for Moe. Turns out Bryan wasn't running with FJ Nick had just jumped the gun but I still felt this was an opportunity I couldn't turn down. I told them I would be joining Virtuosity and they were all very cool and understanding about it. Good luck to you guys.
So now Virtuosity consists of myself, Jetty, Painless and Gated, all Buffalo boys that are feeling extremely confident for Columbus. We are planning on having a LAN against Flatline Memorial Day weekend. Also my friend Josh(Revival) will be staying at my house the week before C-bus and I think we might spend a few of those days at Jetty/Painless' house gaming it up, so I'm 100% Virtuosity is going to be more than prepared come tournament time. Shout outs to all of my friends and all the people I have met at events, apologies to anyone who I can't add but there's only 100 spots on a friends list and I know a lot more than 100 people. Also shout outs to all my fans thanks for your support and keep a look out for my next montage as well as Virtuosity on MLG, we'll be rising up the rankings in no time ;) Thanks for reading and sorry about there not being pics in this blog, some scumbag stole my camera at Meadows. Pce out janks.
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