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Subject: Community cHumpday 02 Writeup 1/19/08

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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
Click for Saved Film


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
Click for Saved Film

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]

  • 01.20.2008 1:33 PM PDT

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Wow, nice writeup.

[Edited on 01.20.2008 1:41 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2008 1:41 PM PDT

Posted by: EvilEye
Q: Do you want to smack Anelf3 right now for asking so many questions?

A: That's actually a constant desire of mine.
[Edited on 4/29/2006 by Marty the Elder]

I have to agree, hearing the announcer constantly say "Hill Controlled" and "Hill Contested" every 2 seconds got very annoying; but other than that it was fun.
Also, why didn't you use the picture of me running you over in our own warthog by mistake? = D

Oh, and I have room in my fileshare I can put them in.

  • 01.20.2008 1:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: EvilEye
I have to agree, hearing the announcer constantly say "Hill Controlled" and "Hill Contested" every 2 seconds got very annoying; but other than that it was fun.
Also, why didn't you use the picture of me running you over in our own warthog by mistake? = D

Heh, I actually forgot about that. Actually, quite a few screens I DID take didn't show up. Darn. I had some great ones we don't get to see. :P

Oh, and I have room in my fileshare I can put them in.

Please, if it's not too much trouble. And publish them too, while you're at it. ;)

  • 01.20.2008 1:45 PM PDT

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You forgot to mention half of our team (Shot Spartan and SniperStealth) were the only people above commander on our team and the only people that knew how to work their mic. But it was fun none the less.

[Edited on 01.20.2008 1:51 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2008 1:47 PM PDT
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Nice write up zag, hmph, annoying target...

I thought I was supposed to come to this game, and I forgot about the game that I was actually supposed to got to... >_<

Oh, and its K1RK H4MM3T with a 4.

  • 01.20.2008 1:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wildman will22
Nice write up zag, hmph, annoying target...

Seriously, I swear I saw you like, once the entire game. I had nothing else to put there. You were just this elusive annoyance I had to deal with. >_>

Oh, and its K1RK H4MM3T with a 4.

Oops, let me fix that. ;)

  • 01.20.2008 1:49 PM PDT
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It is 5 p.m. atm

at 6 30 i'll stop playing THC and do the second game.

[Edited on 01.20.2008 1:53 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2008 1:53 PM PDT

Posted by: EvilEye
Q: Do you want to smack Anelf3 right now for asking so many questions?

A: That's actually a constant desire of mine.
[Edited on 4/29/2006 by Marty the Elder]

I have them up.
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3

  • 01.20.2008 1:55 PM PDT
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Haha, yea that last game was just hill contested, hill controlled over and over. Good thing it wasn't slayer, I had wayyyy too many kills.

  • 01.20.2008 1:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: PyRo Tek NikS
It is 5 p.m. atm

at 6 30 i'll stop playing THC and do the second game.

Sounds good, anyone want to start a Community Humpday group? So we can discuss what to do for our next Humday and such. Or do we already have one?

  • 01.20.2008 1:59 PM PDT

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Wow Zag, your team pretty much annihilated the Blue team! Nice writeup and very interesting.

  • 01.20.2008 2:01 PM PDT

Posted by: Crimson Scuba
Posted by: PyRo Tek NikS
It is 5 p.m. atm

at 6 30 i'll stop playing THC and do the second game.

Sounds good, anyone want to start a Community Humpday group? So we can discuss what to do for our next Humday and such. Or do we already have one?

Of course we do.

Nice writup Zag. =)

[Edited on 01.20.2008 2:09 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2008 2:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: American Recoil
Wow Zag, your team pretty much annihilated the Blue team! Nice writeup and very interesting.

Of course we won, we're the read team.

  • 01.20.2008 2:28 PM PDT
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Now I kinda wish I was not busy that day. I probably would have at least spice things up a bit like the crouching lizard I am.
Though even if I was, the outcome probably would have been the same.

  • 01.20.2008 2:31 PM PDT

Posted by: EvilEye
Q: Do you want to smack Anelf3 right now for asking so many questions?

A: That's actually a constant desire of mine.
[Edited on 4/29/2006 by Marty the Elder]

You should have played. I felt strange being the only Elite.

  • 01.20.2008 2:40 PM PDT

It sucked having no mic. But mark my words: I will be back next week and I WILL have a mic!
It was fun even though we got owned every time. Though I did pretty good time-wise on the team king game.
Surely you know who Kirk Hammet is?

Well, at least we had sniper rifle on our team no matter what (how do you do that SniperStealth?)

  • 01.20.2008 3:14 PM PDT

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2B || !2B - Why don't you look Inside the Machine?

My house got hit by a lightening strike 1 hour before the Humpday was supposed to happen. A blue fire ball shot out of my TV and I thought that the TV and the 360 were broke. Funny enough, this is the second time that my TV has emitted a blue fire ball after a power surge from a lightening hit and has lived to work another day. I would have been playing, but our ISP got knocked out of commission and we didn't get Internet back up until several hours after the Humpday.

Yes, exactly like this minus the twister. Even though we were under a twister watch for a few hours >_>

  • 01.20.2008 3:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: K1RK H4MM3T
Surely you know who Kirk Hammet is?

Vaguely. It's still fun to make fun of your name with all it's 1337. >_>
Well, at least we had sniper rifle on our team no matter what (how do you do that SniperStealth?)
Didn't we already clear this up? He cheated. Plain and simple. The man was spawning with a sniper in hand.

  • 01.20.2008 3:31 PM PDT

Someone remind me to sign up for the next on of these.

  • 01.20.2008 3:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: Chibi 27
Someone remind me to sign up for the next on of these.

I think signups will be Wednesday. Just check back then ASAP on Wednesday. ;)

  • 01.20.2008 3:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Chibi 27
Someone remind me to sign up for the next on of these.

I think signups will be Wednesday. Just check back then ASAP on Wednesday. ;)
Okay, I'm trying to get more involved with the people ho actually know what they are talking about on these forums, so this should help.

[Edited on 01.20.2008 3:58 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2008 3:57 PM PDT

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I enjoyed both sets of games, my favorite was the second set though. The gametypes played in the second set were a bit more interesting. Although I really did like the CTF match on The Pit, I think I had about 30+ kills. The teams need to be a bit more balanced next time, It felt as if only me and Shot Spartan put up a fight... As for the sniper, a Pelican drops one off every time I spawn. You guys didn't see it overhead?

[Edited on 01.20.2008 4:19 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2008 4:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: SniperStealth
I enjoyed both sets of games, my favorite was the second set though. The gametypes played in the second set were a bit more interesting. Although I really did like the CTF match on The Pit, I think I had about 30+ kills. The teams need to be a bit more balanced next time, It felt as if only me and Shot Spartan put up a fight... As for the sniper, a Pelican drops one off every time I spawn. You guys didn't see it overhead?

Hey, firstly, everyone signed up against "The Red Team", and no one was cheated out of a win. You know what you were getting yourself into. Mostly. >_>

And yes, I saw your stupid pelican airdrops.

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Here´s something Ive always been wanting to ask, what justifies these kind of threads in here? Members in other forums are getting warned and directed to the classifieds left and right for trying to get a game going with other members but it seems to be ok in here as long as one or a few of the involved has been here for a while. This is about as interesting to me as it is watching paint dry. Members are playing together all the time but theyre not posting the results in a forum that is there to discuss site and group issues, neither are they using it as the classifieds (which is pointless since 90 % of the people in these games are always the same).

You can argue that its not hurting anyone and that its just for fun but in the end it isnt right when not everyone is allowed to do the same.

[Edited on 01.20.2008 6:44 PM PST]

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