Well a lot of people have been posting up blogs recapping their 08 seasons and i felt mine was pretty interesting so i thought i would share it all with you mo fo's. Its a pretty long read so if your expecting it to be short sorry but i wanted to give it some depth. Enjoy.
Pre Halo 3 :
Before Halo 3 my main concerns were my job, chilling with friends and partying, but thanks to some dumb decisions that lead to a jail cell and 12 months probation, i decided i needed to go down a different road before things got even worse. Leading up to Halo 3 I had very little knowledge of MLG or how it worked. The only reason i even knew of it was because i had seen its show on USA a few times. The only competitive game i had played was Socom, which was the main title on Gamebattles.com, i loved the concept of competing with others in online ladders to prove who was the best so i was immediately hooked with Socom. Towards the end of the Socom 3/Combined Assault ladder i was considered by many other top players at the time a top 10 sniper and top 10 gunner(which was very good), while at this time MLG had just acquired Gamebattles.com and this is when i really began to learn about it. With my ability in Socom in the back of my mind i felt i had the natural talent to become a top player in another game, except this time with the goal being to gain money in return. I already had a 360 and a copy of Halo 2, so i began to play it more frequently, especially now that i had knowledge of the MLG gametypes, THC playlist and the button glitches. I began to become very good very quickly, with the goal to have a decent knowledge of the game before Halo 3 came out.
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Halo 3 Release :
Well i was just playing some H2 the night of the release and was bored, so i figured what the hell i'll get it now. I drove over to a GameStop that was doing an all night release, when i arrived there was no line thank god, i walked in grabbed a copy and left. I started playing and noticed considerable differences immediately even with my limited knowledge of H2. I quickly started learning what was different and how you had to play differently, most notably that the short game of H3 was no longer as skill based as in H2. So i went over to GB and signed up on the team ladder, i didn't know many people so i decided to get a couple Socom friends that played Halo to join as well. We played together for the first couple of weeks on GB and got ourselves a decent record at best, but i noticed that i was doing the best almost every game i played in, i won't forget my first GB match in H3 on Isolation vs. the number 1 team at the time, i went 19-9 (Lol even though there were no MLG rules yet and it was AR start =P). I was also on almost every day and noticed that i was much more committed than anyone else on my team, so i decided to try something else with this guy i had met, BorderlineBenny aka FiveStar BR.
GB Ladder / PCL 1 :
So i finally had some people who were also in Halo 3 for the long run, looking to actually do something and compete in events with it. I played damn near every day and went through a few team changes, eventually landing me my team named Rise Of Randoms which included Myself, FiveStar BR, cKaSh and KillOut(yea i know who the hell are these janks, especially this Robbie B scrub). We mashed practice in as much as we could, amassing an extremely ugly 120-60(or something close to that) record on the PCL 1 and a terrible Rep as cheaters even though we didn't. We managed to beat a couple good teams including NLR twice, so i was as confident as someone with a 120-60 record could be and wanted to keep this team til Meadowlands.
The Months Leading To Meadowlands :
The months after the PCL 1 was done little had changed, we were still getting on everyday to practice. I had begun leveling accounts with my teammate Benny and we had found a system (that i'm not willing to share) of gaining a massive amount of customers, so if we weren't practicing we were leveling... basically it was H3 12 hours a day. We both made enough money to pay for Meadows and we were also getting better by the day. Eventually we decided that Killout was our weakest player and replaced him with one of Benny(5star's) locals who had placed 5th in an ffa at the TGN Kentucky tournament, finishing behind players like Venom, Elamite and Strongside, his name was WeapoN. With Weapon we found we were much better and even more confident as a team, so we finalized this as our roster for Meadowlands.
Meadowlands 08 :
I arrived in New Jersey the Thursday of the event with my brother Joe and let me tell you i was excited.? We saw a little bit of the city and met up with my teammates IRL for the first time which was kind of awkward but still fun. Anyways straight to the action, warmups on Friday. I had never played splitscreen or LAN, so i didn't really know what to expect, the first team we matched up with were my Buffalo arch nemesis' Virtuosity. We hopped right on and lost all three games we played against them. Feeling kind of demoralized we moved on to another station, and won every game we played from there on. LAN was like a dream for me, and i liked the way splitscreen felt for me as well. So WBR1 we play some Janks and have to go to game 3 Guardian TS, i hit some clutch snipes and we in the series 2-1, next its WBR2 against a name i recognized, SA1NTLY's team. We're playing Con TS and quickly get out to a lead, at one point its 38-24 or something, anyways they get lobby control and we just keep lifting up and it turns into a nightmare, they win 50-48. The king game we win easily, next is Narrows TS, we lose by like 4. Lets just say Friday night was a loooooonnnng night. Saturday starts, LBR2 we go in with new strats and a new mindset, and quickly 2-0 the team. With new found confidence we continue to LBR3 and 2-0 that team. We were really coming together as a team, LBR4 is against Lammie's team, we 2-0 them pretty fast as well. We have momentum and confidence. We're making it out of AM! LBR5, Rise Of Randoms vs Florida Jackalopes. I remember turning to Kash laughing, Florida Jackalopes who the hell are these scrubs? Then they sign in and i see Eleven, Killer N, Mando and Tupac. Anyways we keep the games respectable at best but they win 2-0. Top 64 first event, i'm not totally disappointed but i really wanted to make it out, the Meadows competition was just too hard.
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Orlando 08 :
None of us went to San Diego except Kash who went with a team that got screwed over by a no shower. So we all decide to keep the same team and just mash in practice during the month leading up to Orlando. By now i had also met a customer whom i leveled that also wanted to sponsor me(thanks Jesse), so i no longer had to worry financially about getting to events. We arrive in Orlando and its much the same as Meadows, we play in warm ups and are working teams hard. WBR1 comes, we 2-0 the team. WBR2 comes against Fr1lock's team, i'm expecting us to do pretty well this series and take it down. We lose the first, win the hill game, and lose the third. Once again, a long Friday night ensued but we had been here before and knew we could do it, just had to get our heads on straight. Saturday starts, LBR2 starts we 2-0 the team. Then it's LBR3, we win the first game barely with Benny(FiveStar) doing really bad, game two is Pit KoTH and i go huge, +16 with sick snipes and 3rd in hill time, we barely win the series 2-0. At this point i know we need to do something differently because i knew this wasn't going to fly in the later rounds. We all decide to get some food to try to replenish energy. We start talking about how were going to proceed, when Benny says he's thinking of quitting H3.. I came close to yelling "WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT" but instead we all just talked him out of it and said it's not over lets clutch it out of AM. LBR4 is a disaster, me, Kash and Beau(WeapoN) do well but Ben did bad and overall we weren't playing well as a team. We lose 2-0 in the series and get top 12,584 at Orlando, i was furious, I just didn't understand it, i knew Benny was capable of being a great player and he did well in WBR1/2 and LBR2 idk why he suddenly lost his spirit. Anyway it was time for a change.
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Toronto 08 :
This was the first time since the beginning of H3 that i was a f/a. I ran games with Ability(Vile, Deke and Cancer) and i really wanted to make that team since they had just gotten 27th at Orlando, but that didn't work out. Beau(WeapoN) had a sponsor and was teaming with Active Rush, but something happened and he got dropped so we became a t02. We ended up running with Beau's friend FoX who was a t02 with FuzzyBunny who i learned was quite well known in during the beginning and middle of H2. Anyways we hit it off from game one and were amazing and decided this would be our team for Toronto. We all get to the hotel and do some 2v2's in the hotel room to warm up for LAN/splitscreen. Warmups come and we're whoopin on teams. We play DbA and absolutely wreck them 3 games in a row, which was especially satisfying because we could never beat them online. We also split games with JRG's team so we were already feeling really good about how our team was playing on LAN. We get a bye WBR1 and 2-0 the team in WBR2. Saturday is WBR3, we play these kids who look like randoms but are actually pretty good, we win 2-0 but the games are close. Next is WBR4 against XiT Woundz.
Toronto 08 : WBR4 vs XiT and The Aftermath
Now this is a series i will never forget, we went in with so much confidence to the point where we were all positive we were winning it. First game narrows TS, we win 50-41 everyone goes positive. Next game is Con King, they win by 50 seconds or so, Powwow goes +23 with 2nd most hill time.. absolutely insane. Third game is Pit TS, we start off strong and gain a big lead, we are up by around 10 kills the entire game. Towards the end FoX trades kills with someone and makes the score 49-43, one kill from upsetting the 4th seed in AM. What ensued was pure mayhem, Luck gets OV, we are trying to organize a push once FoX spawns, we get ready then OV pushes green we all focus on him, Powwow has snipe in sword and pulls off 2 kills, OV finishes another guy 49-46, im in court so i rush up sword to pressure Powwow, he pops out and rips my face 49-47, Luck/Bon push through Green/Camo respectively, FoX is the only one in position to fight and almost out BR's Bon in a 2v1 but luck saves him 49-48, Bon is 1 shot running down Camo, Beau spawns needle pit and messes up the jump to needler, he then gets up and only gets 2 shots in Bon's back instead of what would have been 3 to 4 before Samurai charges through Camo to save him. I spawn court and see Powwow on our sword ramp so i scream "I GOT HIM" but before i can kill him Luck/Samurai finish Weapon and Powwow pulls off a clutch snipe on Fuzzy to win 50-49. IMO the clutchest comeback in H3 except maybe the Str8/Ambush Pit TS game, all i can say is Powwow is amazing. LBR6 comes and even though me and Fuzzy give a pep talk to get the pit game out of all of our heads it doesn't work. I am the only one who doesn't go neg in the first slayer and i pull a 12-15-12 performance. Then me and Fuzzy dominate the 2nd game but it's not enough, we lose to some scrubs. This was the best tournament of my season, i managed to go even/positive every single game of the tournament. Top 64 again, all that was left now was getting drunk and walking around Toronto which i must say is an awesome city.
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Leading up to Dallas 08 :
After Toronto i continued teaming with Fuzzy and FoX under the new team AbR (All Bout Redemption) in reference to the XiT disaster. We picked up Vile and were absolutely amazing, he was just a better version of WeapoN with points, i still wonder how we would have done at Dallas. But unfortunately there was a lot of fighting and at one point dedication issues played a part. After dropping and picking up FoX over and over again, we ended up officially dropping him about 2 or 3 weeks before the event. At this point Sheer told us Mando was a f/a, so i messaged him and he was willing to run games, we absolutely slaughtered from the get go and decided to team. I found it kind of funny that a random like me was teaming with Fuzzy an amazing H2 player, Mando who knocked me out at Meadows and Vile who's team i didn't make before Orlando. Anyways this was our team, AbR was heading to Dallas.
Dallas 08 :
We arrive and for the first time we actually LAN the night before the event. Mando drove down with a lot of peeps from Florida and they all brought their gear so we had a full 4v4 LAN going on. Right from the start i was impressed by Mando's skill talk about a 4 shotting machine, his sniping was good as well. So Friday comes and we go to warm ups, we don't lose a single game out of like 15. WBR1 and 2 are a bye and we 2-0 the team in WBR3. Going into saturday we knew we had to play Virtuosity WBR4, my Buffalo boys. I knew they were good but i was confident we could take this series, we win 2-0. WBR5 is the first full screen round so we were getting used to it, we play my boy Whodini who upset Reload After 4. We proceed to 3-0 them in fairly respectable games. We hadn't dropped a game all tournament. Next up is WBR6 against Impulse, Batmayne and CMG were chillin in our room earlier that day and we were messing around in 2v2's, me and Vile were doing work on em and this kind of boosted my confidence going into this series. Game one is Narrows Flag, i do kind of bad going -7 but i make a clutch move at the end that gets us our last cap, we win 3-1, Fuzzy went off this game with a sick triple. Game 2 is Con TS and i am just going off on them, we get a pretty good lead of about 8 kills and are getting really pumped up and start talking trash, when the ref warns us and says one more time you forfeit this game. This kinda kills our momentum and as this happens we get 3 downed and someone spawns us open ramp and we get 4 downed. They end up coming back and winning 50-47, I went +5 with 10+ assists, Vile went -10 which really hurt us. The next two games were Pit KoTH and Guardian OB, we lost both by decent scores, we just weren't playing with the same intensity. We really felt if we could take it to Amp TS game 5 we woulda won, but shoulda coulda woulda doesn't matter. By the way Fuzzy played really well the whole Impluse series.
Dallas 08 : Losers Bracket And The AfterMath
Next up is LBR9, we play Virtuosity up 2-0 first to 4. They win the first game Narrows TS 50-48. We win the 2nd game pit TS 50-49, this series is way too close for comfort. Next game is Con KoTH, the game is going back and forth and is forced to the last hill, they have hill control down 10 seconds with about 20 left in the game, i get a kill basement and lift up C3 with low sheilds, i meet jetty up there and jump around like the shinobi ninja that i am and give him the shit sandwich after he misses his beatdown, recharge and kill Krew saving what could have been a hearbreaking loss. We win the series 4-1, i went big this series. GG's boys y'all are gonna do great in 09. Next up is WBR10 vs GLTS. Game 1 is Narrows TS, they come out insanely aggressive, they go 4 for 1 off the bat and get every power weapon. After getting up by like 15-20 in the first 3 mins they end up winning 50-30ish. Next is Con King it goes to the last hill, theres about 20 seconds left and they are up by 10 with control, we break there set up and get it so were 2 alive and they're 3 dead. Down about 5 seconds, the last piece of shit gets em gold spawns and they nade the balls out of our 2 guys and win it. I went -7 with 2nd hill time and most assists, Vile went huge with +5 most hill time and Fuzzy had an off game -13 with least hill, GG's GLTS. I really wanted top 16 but i was happy with what we got. Afterwards we went around Dallas a little and had dinner at Dicks(Hilarious Restaurant). Had a nice H3/H1 drunk LAN party going on in our room, got to chill with Karma a little, and had Mando get trashed and climb an elephant LMAO.
After Dallas To Present Time :
After Dallas we had some problems as a team and broke up, i teamed with Fuzzy for awhile and ended up continuing AbR with Decliner and Tusick. An argument occured on XBL while Fuzzy was staying at my house regarding his dedication after he would leave my house. Some really fcked up things were said between Fuzzy and Decliner/Tusick, anyways it came to the point where it felt like the team wouldn't work out and i would have to choose between Fuzzy or Decliner/Tusick, and i chose to continue with Decliner/Tusick. Me and Nate are still on good terms though, i'm sure he's gonna do well in 09. Also good luck to PoV, Vile, Haggie and Venom are gonna beast it out at Meadows as well as Mando what ever he ends up doing. As of now i have been focusing on getting back in shape and working with my new team. Our name's Source which consists of myself, Decliner, Tusick and Megah. Hopefully were gonna break into the top 16 at the opener.
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