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Re: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*
Posted By: CortanaVII	Date: 9/26/11 5:23 p.m.
In Response To: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID* (pete_the_duck) : The local clans and custom nights have certainly done much to get this : community to pick up our controllers and fight amongst ourselves. I must, : however, humbly suggest: nothing is as awesome as Team HBO vs. The World. : What is Team HBO? I am. You are. All of us. It was said that this ring will : make us brothers. I say that this website will make us Team HBO. : What is The World? Anything and everything that matchmaking can throw up at : us. : What is Team HBO vs. The World? I'll tell you: Game 1: Neutral Bomb Assault : on Hemorrhage - AFK.O. : It's been a little tough for me to find time for Halo, so getting my ducks in : a row for the occasion meant I was AFK for the first 2 minutes of this : game. When I actually picked up the controller to play, I found a ghost : sitting suggestively before me. "Paint me," it said. "Paint : me like one of your French ghosts." : : I couldn't turn down an offer like that. Boosting across the map, I found : Team HBO in the middle of Doing It Right: : Jennos armed the bomb, with The Irony and I arriving immediately after to : guard the countdown. : : You and me, Blue.. we're going down together. : : 2:55 - HBO 1, Blue 0. : Our explosive delivery service was doing some grade-A logistics: Kalamari/The : Irony picked up the bomb while Jennos/I got a head start on clearing out : Blue base. With UnrealCh13f controlling mid-map, Avateur/Antithesis721 : were free to ruin the Blue spawns. : : Although Blue rallied and managed to disarm the bomb, Team HBO had a strong : enough presence at their base that Jennos promptly REarmed the bomb only : seconds later. : 4:20 - HBO 2, Blue 0. : Shortly after, Avateur and I had a front door delivery for Blue team. And we : didn't need a signature. Game over, Blues. : : 7:37 - Team HBO wins against Team Your Item Has Not Yet Shipped, 3-0. : Game 2: Assault on Wayont - Avateur, Be A Hero. : Team HBO rushed like a pack of fools, getting a solid assault team into Blue : base. Bomb, rockets, hog, Avateur. We had everything we needed to make it : happen. Apparently, Blue had everything they needed to make it NOT happen: : As I respawned along with the rest of my team, an alarming message greeted : me: : 1:18 - HBO 0, Blue 1 : Ouch. : We rallied again, leaving our bomb laying, ready, among our broken, bleeding : bodies in the heart of Blue base. We used our free hands to keep pressure : on, preventing our offensive run from bleeding out. : With blood, sweat and tears, Team HBO was beginning to maintain a constant : presence in Blue base, right when it mattered most: : 5:55 - HBO 1, Blue 1 : Several Blues had sacrificed themselves trying for the disarm, leaving Team : HBO's All Your Base Belong To Us strike force intact. We owned their base. : It was time to win this mess. : Jennos and I ran the bomb while the rest of our team continued to keep the : Blues out of their own base. : : 6:25 - HBO 2, Blue 1 : On a side note, I did think Blue team was trying to compensate for something : with the size of their bomb.. : : We were playing our music way too loud, but the Blues just couldn't shut down : our party. : : Jennos FTW : : 7:54 - Team HBO wins against Team No Base Belong To Us, 3-1. : Game 3: Neutral Bomb Assault on Abridged - Messy. : It was a messy start, with falcons meeting rockets in an explosive romance. : It quickly became a foot battle, leading up to Jennos and Kalamari scoring : after several minutes of skirmish. : 5:00 - HBO 1, Red 0 : With a fresh falcon in hand, Avateur and I began suppressing the Red team : while Jennos started on another bomb run. : : 6:00 - HBO 2, Red 0 : With that much HBO in yo base, you know it wasn't going well for the Reds. : Team HBO pushed again, delivering an easy win. : : 8:16 - Team HBO wins against Team Born Yesterday, 3-0. : Intermission! Our party of 8 jumped into another matchmaking playlist; it : was HBO vs. HBO for a game of Team Snipers on Reflection and Snipers : Pro on Highlands . Don't worry, Team HBO won both times. Refreshed, we : took The World in Game 4: Elite Slayer on Hemorrage , 100-86. : Game 5: One Bomb Assault on Boneyard - Hogtacular. : I was standing on top of the bomb, wondering why I could not pick it up. Then : I realized: we're on defense. At least the rest of Team HBO knew what to : do: the Warthog Contingency was enacted. : : Perhaps we were overconfident. A single Blue broke our seemingly impenetrable : defense.. : : And while a large part of our team was running amok in the rest of the map, : the Blue team managed to score in the last 30 seconds of the round. Noo!! : : Round 1 (defense) - HBO 0, Blue 1 : On offense, we needed to redeem ourselves. I'll let you be the judge: : Round 2 (offense) - HBO 1, Blue 1 : We were tied. This next round would be the most important--our chance to : secure victory. But the Blue team had been paying attention. They tried to : imitate our successful strategy from the previous round: : Round 3 (defense) - HBO 1, Blue 1 : Back on offense, Team HBO overwhelmed for the win. : : Round 4 (offense) - Team HBO wins against Team Failed Drivers Ed, 2-1. : Game 6: Capture the Flag on Hemorrhage - Let's Make Magic. : Here's what you need to know about the first half of this game: 1. Jennos had : been on fire all night, focusing on the objective part of these Objective : games while the rest of us seemed to think we were playing Slayer. You've : probably noticed her RAWR callsign in a few screenshots already. : 2. The enemy got into our base a lot. A LOT. They took our flag. A lot. They : never actually got OUT of our base with the flag, though. : 3. I played defensively with the Wraith. It was working pretty well. : : 2:20 - HBO 1, Blue 0 : 3:43 - HBO 2, Blue 0 : Jennos was making short work of the Blue team, getting our first two captures : easily. But Blue team was starting to get their act together. They took : out my wraith, weakening our defense. Then a complex and fortunate series : of events came together. I'll let you see it all from my perspective : first: : There was actually a lot going on here that you couldn't pick up from the : clip, so let's walk through it again: -Cortana and I rushed right side of : Blue base. Cortana stayed low, making herself a target for the enemy : wraith and giving Jennos and t6ram the chance to slip in the front. : : -Moments later, Avateur and Emdeess rushed the enemy Wraith, dropping a : grenade a second before eating a plasma mortar. : : -That grenade is what finally killed the Blue wraith. : : -MEANWHILE, Blue team was speeding across the map with our flag. : Antithesis721 took 3 perfect sniper shots: : ..which left our flag out in the open. The distraction I needed to escape : through the teleporter. : : Had CortanaVII not distracted the enemy wraith, Jennos and t6ram wouldn't : have made it into the enemy base. : Had Jennos or t6ram not made it into the enemy base, there would have been : too many enemies for me to take on. : Had Avateur and Emdeess not destroyed the enemy wraith, it would have taken : me out when I came out the back. : And had Antithesis721 not stopped the enemy warthog, our flag would've been : driven straight inside and not been the distraction I needed to escape. : It all came together perfectly! : The Blues did capture our flag, but it didn't matter. : 9:10 - Team HBO wins against Team Jennos'd, 3-1. : Game 7: One Flag CTF on Spire - Cake. : Apparently Blue team forgot there were falcons on the map, leaving them both : for us in round 1, defense. : : : When it was our turn on offense, we put together a pretty good plan: : The remaining rounds were more of the same. : 12:03 - Team HBO wins against Team What's A Falcon, 2-0. : Game 8: Slayer on Spire - DNF. : I guess word was getting around matchmaking that Team HBO was on a : winstreaktacular. Blue team must have been intimidated when they saw us : roll up, as 5/8 of their players quit almost immediately. : What was going to be a game of Slayer on Spire quickly became a game of Hide : and Seek on Spire for the remaining 3 Blues. : : 15:18 - Team HBO wins against Te-, 83-0. : I finished up the night with two more HBO vs. HBO games: Slayer on : Powerhouse and Slayer on Reflection . Once again, Team HBO managed to : win both games! Incredible, I know. : It was one of the best Halo nights I've had in months. I had a blast with : everyone who participated and was quite sad to leave, but unfortunately : the baby doesn't sleep in just because I play Halo until 2AM. In the end, : Team HBO had a flawless 8-0 win streak against The World. Maybe next time, : World. Until then, keep being awesome, HBO. : Thanks to everyone who participated: Antithesis721 : Avateur : CortanaVII : CrazedOne1988 : Emdeess : Jennos : Kalamari : NsU Soldier : t6ram : The Irony : UnrealCh13f : Wilshire2 : Awesome writeup, Pete. We had a pretty good run in that Wraith, thought we were indestructible until we got blown up, oh well :) It was still a fun night, especially dropping a bunch of people into the enemy base with the Falcon. Pretty sure the other team had no idea what had just happened.

Message Index

Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*	pete_the_duck	9/26/11 5:02 p.m.
Re: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*	Urban Reflex	9/26/11 5:11 p.m.
Nice post, wish I had been there. *NM*	Sqorck	9/26/11 5:11 p.m.
Re: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*	CortanaVII	9/26/11 5:23 p.m.
Team HBO vs. The World!!	Jennos	9/26/11 5:37 p.m.
Team HBO... FTW!	t6ram	9/26/11 5:45 p.m.
SUCK IT, WORLD. *NM*	SonofMacPhisto	9/26/11 5:47 p.m.
Re: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*	Kalamari	9/26/11 5:53 p.m.
This gives me an idea...	General Vagueness	9/26/11 7:59 p.m.
Re: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*	Avateur	9/26/11 8:55 p.m.
Re: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*	General Vagueness	9/26/11 9:07 p.m.
Re: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*	Avateur	9/26/11 9:09 p.m.
Re: Team HBO... rises from the ashes! *IMG/VID*	Beckx	9/27/11 8:52 a.m.
The most fun I ve had a while *NM* *NM*	The Irony	9/27/11 11:55 p.m.