- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
OK. The beginning of this year, a fellow peer of mine and I decided there had to be a gaming club in this God-forsaken school. But the principal wouldn't buy it, we knew, so we added in movies and the school's radio station into the mix - and called it the Shead (school name - pronouncewd just like "shed") Entertainment Media Club.
Our first event was organized by me, spontaneously, without any higher-up's consent. I made like 30 flyers (VERY small school - 200 students tops) and posted them all around, bellowing "HALO TOURNEY! Three straight days of sheer multiplayer madness!! SIGN UP!" and so on. It was $2 to sign up, so we could provide drinks and snacks. Munchies are a must, here, people.
The first afternoon, a Wednesday, was the Heroine's Cup. 3 girls and two guys showed.
Then the Newbie's Cup. i'd say...12 people showed.
Then came the Legend's Cup, on Friday. No less than 21 people showed, and it was GLORIOUS!!!
Well, it was great, and all was said and done.....until Monday. I had at least half the people that participated come up to me and ask "Hey, Tucker, what's goin' on, buddy? Hey, listen, when yah gonna have another one o' dem Halo meets, eh? EH??!!" and so on. So, thursday we had a small meet with a 2-liter of Coke and 2 bags of chips. 16 people randomly showed up after school - we stayed til 6.
I don't know how, i don't know when, but i DO know WHAT drove these people to play again -
[color=white] The love of the Game.[/color]
We've held Halo meets damn near every Wednesday and/or Thursday since then. And that was the beginning of second semester. We'd stay until 6, or until the Principal kicked us out. you don't know HOW many meetings we disrupted, how BIG a mess we made and how much FUN we had all the while.
Basically, we'd gather Everyone's equipment, steal the network hub out of the Library, and host a game using the TVs in the ATM room - the ATM is this school-to-school network where classes are hosted and watched between schools, with video AND audio, but there's like a 7 second delay to our school. It sucks. - So anyways, people would bring their own controllers and games and consoles, and duke it out mainly in Blood Gulch or Sidewinder CTF - later, we got into Team Deathmatch, and King of the Hill. I tell you, 16 people in Battle Creek free-for-all KotH is utterly INSANE. The BODIES, and the BLOOD, and the...the...the.........APPLESAUCE................horrifying. ..........
*ahem* WELL anywho, I wanted to know if anyone else out there - In the good ol' continental U.S., or even in Europe or Canada or Djiboudi had made a club dedicated to video games - HALO in particular.
[color=orange]SOUND OFF!!!!!![/color]