I'll keep it consistent with the rest of my blogs and issue a warning real quick, my blogs are usually quite long and in depth, this one will continue that trait. I like to do a blog every couple of events to sort of chronicle my life as a Professional Gamer, so I will start where I left off from Post-Columbus all the way to my current situation.
Pre Raleigh :
So I was still a F/A at the end of my last blog, a lot of shady shit went down trying to figure out my team situation. The first team I was serious about teaming with was Active Rush, I ran games and it went well so I told them I was down to join up. Unfortunately the next day I get an AIM from Clutch asking me to join up with Darkest Hour along with Legend and Twylight. I felt guilty about bouncing on Active Rush but I just felt this was an opportunity I couldn?t pass up, so I took it. After a week or so of teaming Clutch was offered a spot on Classic and took it, so it was Legend, Twy and I looking for 1. We started playing with RyaNoob(when all the Warriors drama went down and he split) and things felt really good. However a few nights later when I?m out at my buddies I get a call telling me I am dropped and Goofy will be joining DH along with Ryan. Now I?m pissed because it is like 1 week or so til the deadline. I end up joining with Brake and NK on Warriors and next thing I know Goofy is leaving DH to join back up. I was still pretty upset about what DH did, so when they expected me to join back in place of Goofy I said no and stuck with Warriors. However a day or two later I find out Goofy no longer wants me on the team and Ryanoob rejoins. ?Jesus wtf? is what I?m thinking at this point, since I was out of options. Then 2 days before the lock Goofy and Noob leave yet again to join DH, so I end up rejoining Warriors and we pick up Snakebite. A really rough road but I guess it all worked out in the end because we raped =D. Next stop was Raleigh!
Raleigh 2010 :
So Pre-Raleigh we fly to Kenrys dad?s house to chill for a bit and had some fun. On Thursday we drive down to the venue and get dropped off and right away I?m stoked because of how sick the area is, I knew I was gonna have a blast once I saw the city. Friday we get down to the venue and do the usual, check in, pro meeting then get to warming up for our match. First up is tD WBR2 on the Feature Station. Now we started feeling really good before this match when we were warming up, so we were super confident going into this series. Now I?m sure most of you already know how this series ended but I?ll take it from the top. We win game 1 pretty easily and game 2 by a fair margin. Up 2-0 we start to choke and lose really close games 3 and 4. Next up is Pit TS game 5, halfway through the game at 35-30 or so Brake dies with a snipe our s1 and I pick it up. From here til the end of the game I caught fire and was droppin domes like crazy. I?m sure many of you have seen the game but if not I suggest you check out the VoD for it, the last shot on Hysteria to tie it was crispy as shitballs. Anyway we win that game as well as the series, so we were all stoked as hell about it the whole night.
So we show up Saturday and play Final Boss WBR3. We lose 3-1 and had a real good series, small mistakes cost us 2 of those games but we did get really clutch game 3 to win by like 3 seconds. Next up was Darkest Hour in Placement. We lose the first 2 games and start to realize we need to step it up. We win game 3 and 4 easily and then it comes to game 5 Narrows TS. At one point we are up around 40 to 25, overconfident we start to play stupid and give up our lead. Next thing we know it?s a standoff 49-49. I?m thinking screw this let?s be aggressive, so I say ?let?s do 3 cannon while someone watches us with snipe?. We lift and the crowd behind us starts to ?ohhhh? and ?ahhhh?, Twylight later told me that he thought one of us had fallen off when this happened because none of them heard us cannon. So 3 of us go over and charge their lobby, I find myself in a 1v1 with Legend half shield their back lobby but I came out victorious and we won the game.? This close game got us really pumped again and we were ready to check out our bracket for the following day to plan out the rape fest that was gonna go down.
Sunday we show up to play Ambush for top 8. We lose game 1, win game 2, lose game 3 and win game 4. All I?m thinking at this point is ?No fucking way we are getting top 12?. Game 5 Construct TS we just start destroying off the start and never looked back, the final score being like 50-35. At this point me and Snakebite are psyched about getting our first top 8, but we weren?t ready to stop there. Next up was Purgatory and we gave em a hot 3-1 sandwich. Top 6 felt even better but I really wanted top 4, that was my goal before the tournament. We play sQ for it and lost 3-0, the first 2 games we had on lock but we made small mistakes and choked the games away. We beat BtH in conso and finished 5th, overall I was happy but I was still kinda mad about choking for top 4. Sunday night we partied it up and had a great time, we all decided we were sticking together so I was already looking forward to D.C.
Pre-Washington D.C. (Red Bull LAN baby):
This time we decided we really wanted to get a LAN in. Luckily Walsh aka. The Man hooked us up with the Redbull LAN last minute. We all flew out to Santa Montica California to Redbull HQ for a 3 day LAN with Carbon and sQ. All I can say is this? Redbull Is The Shit, bottom line. They put us up in an awesome hotel right on the beach and had an amazing set up at the Headquarters for us to game at. I had also just turned 21 before this weekend so I knew I was gonna have a great time, and to add to it my ninja? DMAQ came through to chill for the weekend. The first day they threw an awesome party for us with a DJ, open bar and all the Redbull Workers attended, then watched us game for a bit in the theatre where we were set up in. After I had a few Redbull Vodkas/Jack and Redbull Cokes I was ready to game. The next 3 days were amazing practice and we got what we wanted out of it. Huge thanks to Walshy and Zach(Sayper) for hookin it up and Sam from Redbull for making it such an amazing weekend. Everyone make sure you check out the Redbull Rap that we all laid down, straight fire sonnn lol.
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Washington D.C. :
So I fly out to D.C. on Thursday, and Kenry picks me up along with his Mom. She let us crash at her house for that night and was insanely chill, I love you momma Kenry =D. Friday morning I head to the venue to do a rehearsal for the seminar I was doing Saturday and WOW was all I could say when I saw the venue. I mean the view was beautiful and it was one of the sickest venues I?ve ever been to. I do the rehearsal then meet up with the team to check in. Next was the pro meeting followed by a little nappy. We get to the venue 2 hours before playing Str8 to warm up and that?s when I heard I won the Matador bold player. I was really stoked cause I wasn?t sure if I was gonna win it or if Neighbor was going to. Before our series they gave me the award on the main stage and I was extremely proud to receive it. I got the sick custom back pack, a crispy G and more beef jerky than any one person should ever receive lol. I had so many sticks that I decided to hook up a lot of the spectators with some complimentary jerky, I hope you all enjoyed. Huge thanks to Matador for the award and for the jerky, my friends and family were loving life cause of the jerky for the next week haha. Anyway we play straight after and I?m really pumped to put on a great show for everyone on Friday Night Kickoff. I was so certain we were in for a great match but it turned out to be a slaughter. After losing that series we gamed a bit more and spent the night talking about what we needed to do for Saturday.
Saturday we get to the venue and have to play Aries' team first. We still played pretty awful this series but I was playing amazing individually, I remember pulling off a couple crazy plays this series and talking a whole lot of smack. We win the series 3-2. After this series I did the Breaking Out seminar with Strongside and had an awesome time. It was really cool to do something like that and I enjoyed giving out some advice to try and help up and comers, thanks to everyone who stopped by for it. Next up was Heaven and Earth for Placement Round 2. We wanted to win this because we knew we would have to play them again later in the tournament, however we received yet another spanking. They swept us 3-0 and we were still playing like straight doo doo butt. After which we talked about it, got pumped up and all came to the understanding that things happen for a reason. That?s when we looked at our bracket and saw our first match the next morning, CARBON. We realized that we literally had the road to Nationals in our hands, all we had to do was rape on Sunday. We decided to switch the seating up, a decision which helped us immensely the following day.
Sunday we get there early to warm up. We get called to main stage to play Carbon. The crowd was pretty small since it was so early but there were a couple Warriors fans out there. I did hear the cheering during this series and I just wanna say I appreciate all our fans and it really does mean a lot when I hear people supporting us. Especially momma Snakebite, we would go nowhere if we didn?t have you shoutin out there Tracy =D. Also thanks to Paul senior aka Paulo you?re the man! So we lose game 1 to Carbon but after the game we get pumped up and realize what?s on the line. We win the next 3 games and take the series. Game 2 on Narrows TS I had a nice trip, picked up snipe and blained Walsh 2 seconds too late for the over then sniped SK when he cannoned for the double. This would have been the sickest killtac, I still need to see if Lenox has the VoD.
Anyway next up was Warriors vs. Purgatory round 2. I know they were extremely confident but we were able to win 3-1 to get us top 8. We realized at this point since Str8 had been knocked out by sQ that we needed to win one more match to make nationals. Unfortunately that match was vs. HaE and we were down 3-0 from the placement match. We get right into it and lose game 1, down 4-0 we win the next 2 but then lose the following game to bring the overall series to 5-2. The next game is Guardian Ball and we go down 180-80. At this point I feel us starting to play as though it?s over and we?re done, I scream ?We?re not fucking losing this, we?re not getting top 8 we are going to Nationals, let?s go!? We get 4 alive, break their set up and start clawing our way back. All of us just turned up the heat and clutched it out, we end up winning the game by around 20 seconds. Next was Narrows Flag and we win easily, followed by Construct TS which we won by a decent amount. I couldn?t believe what we were doing and we had so much momentum going into game 11 which was Heretic TS. Right off the bat we get a huge lead and once again never looked back, final score was something like 50-35. After this game we all went nuts, none of us could believe what we had just done to get into Nationals.
Still wanting more at this point we got ready to play FB. They win game 1, we win game 2 and game 3 is Construct King. All the way through it was back and forth, however we choked on a few crucial plays and this time unlike Raleigh they were able to pull out the win by 1 second. Game 4 was Pit Flag but thanks to Fear going OFF with the snipe and putting up +18 they were able to win the game as well as the series 3-1 . If anyone hasn?t seen that VoD I suggest you watch it? disgusting. So we play Instinct in conso and get 5th again. We get the official report that we?re in nationals and we were all just loving our lives . However I was yet again pissed that we choked for top 4. Sunday night ensues as most do at MLG events and we party our asses off, I love being 21 btw lol.
Post-D.C. To Now :
Since D.C. we took about a week break from Halo and then began practicing on XBL. Unfortunately we were not able to get a LAN in however we feel confident going into Dallas. I also hope to get into the All Star Classic so I can have a shot at pulling some crazy tage clips off on main stage haha. I'll wrap this blog up with some shout outs, first up is NK and Snakebite's awesome families for hookin us up with places to stay and just for being awesome people. Shouts to Walshy and Redbull for the amazing experience in Cali and to our coach for Raleigh/D.C. Charlie aka Th3 Lord. Shouts to my boy Special Sauce and to my brother Joey Bizz the new coach of Warriors for Dallas. Again thanks to Matador and MLG for the Bold Player Award. Also shouts to my teammates as well as DMAQ and Nexy. Finally thanks to all of our awesome fans who supported us on our way to making Nationals, keep it up ladies and gents I love you all =D. Warriors top 1 at Nats baby let's gooooooooo!!! Pce everyone thanks for reading and see you at Dallas.
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