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Subject: My School's Halo Faction, hosted by Yours Truly
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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. ..........

The only thing better than playing Halo in school.......[color=white]will be playing Halo 2 in school.[/color]

*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]

  • 05.26.2004 6:53 AM PDT
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LMAO, you lucky bastard lol, your schools rich, and I take it your from Canada too with all the "EH's" in your post.
Well, so am I, how aboot that eh?
anyways, I wish that was in my school, we dont have a radio station, we dont have any T.v's bigger than 15 inches, we only have VCR's made in the seventies (you put the video into the TOP of the VCR) we have no books pulished after 1987, we only have crapped up macs that are so slow it would kill you if you used them because you would die of oldage before they booted up, every compuer in the school is hooked up to 1 router (which is like 7 comps)
Our furnace broke so we had to wear winter clothes in the classes all winter, the srinkler system blew up and like oily black water that was in them went everywhere, also, we have no cafeteria, we have to eat on the floor in the gym, we used to have a microwave, but they had to take it out for insurance reasons or something, so we can only have sandwhiches., its pretty crappy school.
I wish we had any of the stuff you had =p some buddies of mine will get together (like 30 of us and have halo tourneys though, outside of school)
I take it your from some rich school in ontario or something as we have over 400 people in our school.
lucky,lucky,lucky.....

  • 05.26.2004 12:54 PM PDT
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Spartan 021...if there was a Master Chief of the year Award...I'd give it to you. That is one of the greatest things I've heard about Halo in years. I hope things stay cool between you and your school so you can keep doing this. More power to you man.

  • 05.26.2004 1:07 PM PDT
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Im like SO jealous

  • 05.26.2004 1:14 PM PDT
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Oh...hey...

"The School of Halo" Like the movie! Get it?! "The School of Rock"..."The School of Halo." Okay....I'm leaving.

  • 05.26.2004 3:12 PM PDT
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Great idea, man...I wish I thought up of something like that when I went to HS

  • 05.26.2004 4:21 PM PDT

I'm trying to arrange a 16-player tourney over the school network. It's hard finding four TVs and two spare networked rooms.

  • 05.26.2004 4:22 PM PDT
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Spartan 021 do you live in Texas?

  • 05.26.2004 4:58 PM PDT
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Wow. no idea this got refreshed.

First off, if BeefySleet EVER reads this again, i'd like him to hear this:

The DEEPEST extent of my sympathies and pity goes out to this individual. The description of his school's daily routine damn near made me hurl my recently digested bean burrito - and THAT would NOT have been pretty, but certainly more bearable than going to this young lad's educational "establishment." May you find peace, happiness, and cleanliness in the future.

Now, on to your praise. Thank you all, IMMESNSELY - but it was simply a little over-obsessive motivation and an almost scary initiative to get my club up and going. We're pretty laid-back here, and i'm extremely lucky to have such an opportunity.

Now, for the update:

You guys aren't going to believe this, but a neighboring town's school has followed my idea (without asking, but nontheless excusable) in forming a "multimedia" club, and we're going to have ADVERTISED MATCHES next year, LIVE on HALO 2.

Please, clean up your own involuntary excretement.

Horizon - i LOVE the idea, because School of Rock kicked SO much ASS.
mjolnir 22 - sorry. I live in Eastport, Maine - THE eastern-most city in the continental U.S.A. ah-thank-YOO.

[Edited on 6/9/2004 1:52:16 PM]

  • 06.09.2004 1:51 PM PDT
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Your are a very lucky person to have your school do this. At my highschool all your televions, Xboxs and food be stolen in a week or less.

  • 06.09.2004 2:14 PM PDT