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no sir, I don't like it...
Posted By: nof <nof@ninjasonfire.com>	Date: 2/26/04 1:30 p.m.
In Response To: MLG writeup, sorta...A party...... ('Nosolee) Man it's been a long time since I've been to a tournament but I think your exagerating the zealoutry of it's attendees. : My cousin overheard a conversation where on guy asked how many hours a day he : should play to get really good, the other guys reply: 8 hours, EIGHT : HOURS! Hmm...It makes me wonder. I know for a fact that anyone one reading : this doesn't play 8 hours a day and has at least some interest in the halo : storyline/other aspects of halo except: "red circle, shoot, red : circle kill. Money" No, no, no. A lot of players don't play at all in between tournaments in a competative nature, and I doubt anybody plays XBC for eight hours a day. : Besides the fact that team DM(fourth place) was in our pool, we were able to : hold our own in CTF Sidewinder for quite some time, all that practice on : COERCE ;). Now sidewinder CTF, to those at the tourney is a sin. They all : got flustered and angry when we mentioned CTF Sidewinder. So what did they : do, make up new hand-signals and plays to capture our flag. Sick, but : understandable. All they wanted to do was play TS hangem, I hate that : level now, all I remember from playing in that grey hell is: BOOP BOOP : BOOP BEEP! Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not bad, these people are just : playing for a profession, I mean, nothing wrong with that, I guess. The : only thing that unnerved me was the fact that they probably didn’t know : who the Master Chief was, other than the man that runs around on screen. : They are probably still wondering what those crazy symbols are in the : Covenant base levels such as Damnation and Chill Out. I'm beginning to sence a sort of rationalization going on in your head about why your really better than those guys. Consider that us HBO forumites are a niche crowd too. Most Halo players I get together with on a regular basis don't know shit about Halo's storyline. There's nothing wrong with that. They still love the game and we have a great time playing it. A lot of top players do visit these forums. I speculate that a lot don't post or get more active in the community because of the serious elitism that this forum is starting to show. They are active on other forums, just not here for some reason... : So back to what happened to us… : The people who we played that hated Sidewinder began to camp. They took a : sniper to the back of our bas where the flag is(was). And had him take our : heads off as we respawned. 10 second respawn time + four of us + four : clips=hell. As revenge, when the computer decided to respawn us outside of : the base, we decided to kill the camping bastard, a reasonable : vengeance…However once the kid was dead it was time for some 10 second : humiliation. About 20 people were behind their screen watching as we : swarmed over his body and did a ‘lil corpse humping and gave him a some : smacks, all four of us. Those sitting behind him saw this and began to : laugh at the poor camper. Someone on the opposite side screamed: “Its like : a party over there, I wanna get into that!” My cousin’s response: “Oh, : It’s more than a party!” That was the only time I ever saw anyone there, : other than us, smile or laugh. Then some biach busted in w/a rocket… Your missing something then. I've got a good amount of "friends" that I've seen time and time again at some of these tournaments. We laugh, drink, and have a blast hanging out. All you gotta do is put aside your anger from getting pwned and offer your hand out. Someone will shake it. I remember a lot of the more secluded teams. They were the ones who didn't look happy too me. : The second to last game we played was Boarding Action where we hid and : waited. But when they started racking up the kills, a new strategy was : implemented. As we were on the verge of tears with laughter we threw : ourselves off the ships into the void of space where we watched the : enemy’s futile attempts to snipe our corpses. Haha, wasting ammo. Nice, instead of being like a Roman you mocked the competiveness of a tournament. Acting like that is not going to improve the opinions of other the competative players. Halo tournaments are a established gathering now. You wouldn't sign up for a 3v3 basketball tournament and throw the balls out of the court because you sucked. Just imagine somebody doing that! I can understand why you met some mean, disgruntled and bitter individuals now... : We encountered several mean, disgruntled, and bitter individuals. One : instance was when we were in the middle of a simple free-play game, Blood : Gulch CTF to be exact (sooooo much snipe-camping it drove us just to sit : in our base). Anyway, this kid comes over and is like: Kid: “What is wrong : with you?!” : All: “What?” : Kid: “Why are you playing this level, no one will ever play this level in the : pool play. What is wrong with you?” : Cousin: “Because we want to play it.” : The kid walks away shaking his head and saying, “what a waste of TV space”… It's not to fun to them playing a game that isn't tournament worthy. You were wasting the TV time. There were other teams present that would of loved to practice some HH or Damny. You have to understand that because of distance a lof of these teams don't get many chances to practice on a LAN all together at once. BG CTF also takes too long. When other teams are playing short lived matches you were the one that looks like the asshole. BG CTF will probably be completely removed from tournament play after what happened to StK at AGP3. : Just another example how the word FUN had been diluted from their minds. No, it's just fun for them to play competively. There's a certain level of respect and comradere after finishing a close tournament match between two teams. You'll talk about the map control, tactics, and cool shots you made afterwords. : There were a few games with close scores, but we lost and went home. We were : neither mentally defeated nor were we sad. Actually, we were quite happy. : We at least knew that we could see in the light, one kid asked the Reff to : shut off the lights b/c they were burning his eyes…Gollum! Gollum! We were : glad to know we saw the real sun, and not the one in Blood Gulch or : Sidewinder. Please don't take this as a flame post. I'm one of THEM ( mig... ) but I'm also one of you. I like umcompetative play a lot. It's fun not worrying about K/D rations and spawn camping, but it's also fun struggling against a good team for map control. I'm kinda sad that this post made the frontpage. I think all it will do is widen the gap between Halo creeds. I bet a lot of you will not go to a tournament now when it really is a fun and exciting event. Even if you suck too. Remember Team HBO had a blast at 50k and we did terrible. We played a match against DM too and lost 50-8. JYNX and I were completely shut out too, not one kill. Look at the pics. There are TONS of smiles everywhere.

Message Index

MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	'Nosolee	2/26/04 9:10 a.m.
Wow... I feel bad...	Malcoren	2/26/04 9:32 a.m.
It's a HOLY war...	TriGun	2/26/04 12:23 p.m.
Well THAT narrows it down...	Malcoren	2/26/04 2:50 p.m.
Re: Wow... I feel bad...	Caelux 1	2/26/04 1:59 p.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	Some Random Guy	2/26/04 9:44 a.m.
fun, hmm...	'Nosolee	2/26/04 10:01 a.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	Alabast	2/26/04 10:24 a.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	XLNC	2/26/04 10:36 a.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	Infininja	2/26/04 7:47 p.m.
Some related OT XBL thoughts	Free at Last (at work)	2/26/04 12:03 p.m.
Re: Some related OT XBL thoughts	DooDudoo	2/26/04 8:42 p.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	KookyBastard32	2/26/04 12:12 p.m.
consider yourself lucky	Miguel Chavez	2/26/04 12:40 p.m.
you sure?	godsownantisonofabitchmachine	2/26/04 1:36 p.m.
Re: you sure?	Miguel Chavez	2/26/04 2:05 p.m.
Re: you sure?	Malcoren	2/26/04 3:02 p.m.
Re: you sure?	XLNC	2/26/04 4:33 p.m.
haha, i love causing controversy	'Nosolee	2/26/04 3:28 p.m.
Re: haha, i love causing controversy	nof	2/26/04 3:53 p.m.
Re: haha, i love causing controversy	'Nosolee	2/26/04 4:30 p.m.
Re: you sure?	'Nosolee	2/26/04 3:42 p.m.
typo	'Nosolee	2/26/04 3:47 p.m.
lol	godsownantisonofabitchmachine	2/26/04 3:54 p.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	Lebowski	2/26/04 12:45 p.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	da_master_chief	2/26/04 1:00 p.m.
no sir, I don't like it...	nof	2/26/04 1:30 p.m.
Re: no sir, I don't like it...	godsownantisonofabitchmachine	2/26/04 1:42 p.m.
Re: no sir, I don't like it...	Dan Chosich	2/26/04 2:40 p.m.
Re: no sir, I don't like it...	Syracuse022	2/28/04 11:55 a.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	CheesyBread	2/26/04 2:44 p.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	M9-HE_DP	2/26/04 8:09 p.m.
Yes, I do	'Nosolee	2/26/04 9:22 p.m.
Re: Yes, I do	M9-HE_DP	3/25/04 12:10 p.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	Ducain	2/26/04 6:48 p.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	DrunkCoW	2/26/04 10:53 p.m.
Halo=life//YourPost=SourGrapes	Scipio	2/26/04 11:25 p.m.
Re: MLG writeup, sorta...A party......	IAmDelta	2/26/04 11:27 p.m.