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~~Pardon Our Dust.~~
Members vs. Members CHUMPday Challenge Rematch
That’s right. Chumpday. Buncha chumps.
Unfortunately, ZeeJollyRoger was unable to show due to some weather difficulties, so Shadow Recon117 boldly took his place. As for the Blue Team... Well, most of them showed. The rest are just some last moment fill-in chumps.
The RED TEAM
SS Zag1 – Talkative, as usual
x Matt Murder x – Made fun of, as usual
SS Crow – Angry, as usual
Evil Ey3 – Deadly, as usual
Shadow Recon117 – Trash talking, as usual
The CHUMP TEAM (Blue?)
Coffey4780 – Regretful, as usual
Stealth Sniper – Spawns with a Sniper Rifle, as usual
Shot Spartan – “Wow, my team sucks!”, as usual
Wildman Will22 – Annoying target, as usual
“No Mic” K1RK H4MM3T – Was the gamertag ‘Kirk Hammet’ really taken?
Game 1
Team Slayer on Valhalla
Tone of Game: Loooooooooooooong
This game Red Team picked the maps and the Chumps picked the gametype. Valhalla, to 100 kills. Little did we realize, with only 5v5, this becomes very long, very open game, and the Wraiths are just about the only thing to really make it exciting. On top of that, we didn’t try BR start, which is likely why the vehicles reigned supreme.
Beginning of the match the two banshees took off from either base and immediately flew to the middle of the map in an epic duel. Red Team swarmed the central hill while Blue Team took a much more indirect route around their left side towards the Pelican. I pick up laser, I fire, I miss, I die. It was a sad start for Red Team. The rest of us were running about aimlessly while being picked off by Sniper Stealth, who found a nice little spot by the crashed Pelican. As his name suggests, he spawns with a sniper and cheats.
After I noticed the Wraith was there and had a small mortar battle (which I lost), Crow and I took up one of our favorite Halo 3 past-times; Warthog Shenanigans. And shenanigize we did. Of course, little did we know, Blue Team had packed their own frolicsomeness in the nicely packed form of missiles. Apparently they got fed up with our endless circling of the map, tearing apart their team. How were we supposed to know it bothered them so much? After our warthog was destroyed, one great moment was when their warthog came tearing through our midst, only to come barreling over the hill and have their deadly gunner smacked right off the back of the ‘hog by Crow. Laughter was heard.
From Red Team, anyway.
Crow would also like us to make note that he did, in fact, stick the enemy banshee. Strangely, it lived. Only to die another day (err, way), that is. Is it symbolic of this Chumpday rematch? Keep reading to find out.
Final Score: 100 – 55
Red Team Wins
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Game 2
1-Flag CTF on The Pit
Tone of Game: Tent-Pitching Goodness
Fast-paced and full of snipes, this game was probably the most enjoyable of the three. We start off pretty basic. I run off to the rockets, grab them with no opposition, and run back to defend our flag. There I stayed for the first 2 minutes or so of the game.
Then things started picking up. The Chumps came in with deadly force. Sniper Stealth appears to spawn with the sniper rifle. Every time he was felled, he came back within thirty seconds to snipe us again. And again. And again. Anyway, when he was finished making us cry, he whipped out his sword and invaded the base. His first attempt remained unsuccessful, as I countered with a Bulltrue to the face. With my rocket launcher. Still, like the tide to the shore, he came back and retrieved his weapons. With that, Blue Team had our flag. Luckily, we high-tailed it to their side of the map and stopped them in their tracks, returning the flag only meters from the scoring zone.
On the next round, Red Team managed to snatch the flag (with some difficulty), leaving a trail of red bodies from the shotgun tunnel to the rocket hallway as we threw ourselves upon the flag, only to be killed moments after grabbing it. This particular screenshot failed to upload to Bungie.net, apologies. It was quite hilarious.
The third round, Blue Team failed to move the flag more than a few yards, and their biggest accomplishment was having someone one their team who walked around saying “Hai guys, I r has sniper all teh time”. I suppose something fun to note is that Shot Spartan was heard repeatedly hurling insults and varying gamer-related slang. At his teammates, that is.
During the fourth round Red Team moved across the map rapidly, and with some tribulation (but the satisfaction of already having won the game), snatched the flag. On my way there, I tossed a grenade from the Sword room bridge. It bounced off the high upper wall and landed on a hilarious spot. A double kill by any other name would be as sweet.
With that, we swarmed the base, took the flag, and were stopped only 10 feet from our zone. I showed up a bit late to the fight while my teammates yelled at me to grab the flag and score, which I did, only moments before it returned. Flag Captured.
Of course, one question does remain to be answered: When will Sniper Stealth stop cheating?
Final Score: 2 - 0
Red Team Wins
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Game 3
Team Crazy King on Epitaph
Tone of Game: Hill Controlled. Hill Contested. Hill Controlled. Hill Contested. Hill Controlled. Hill Contested.
You know that guy who does the announcer voice in Halo 3? You know how he’s all cool and epic? Yeah, well…
Tell him to shut the heck up.
If one team wasn’t in the hill, the other team was contesting it. I don’t believe the hill had more than 30 seconds combined where no one was stepping in it, bleeding in it, or hiding in it. You’d think there could be at least more than 4 hill locations on such a small map, and all within sight of one another. Kudos to Wildman will22, who managed to catch three of the Red Team members with a rocket launcher whilst they were making out in a corner. (Yes, we had time for that)
There’s very little to say about this game, except that it was chaotic, angry, and caused Crow to comment; “Is there any way to turn off the announcer voice?” It was surprisingly close at times, and for a moment, just a small moment, there was hope that Blue Team would walk out with dignity.
Nope.
Final Score: 250 – 232
And just for kicks, the game was exactly 8 minutes long, with an astounding kill count.
Red Team Kills: 131
Blue Team Kills: 105
Red Team Wins
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Thanks for being good sports, Blue Team. ;) It was a lot of fun.
(Note: If anyone has the file shares for these, feel free to let me know.)
[Edited on 01.20.2008 1:58 PM PST]