itwuzmagik
12-15-2010, 02:00 PM
Ok guys so this has kind of been a long time coming so I figured I'd take some time and get this over with :p
Pre NGL Cincinnati
Before the tourney BtR had nowhere near the amount of practice we needed coming into the tourney. Although we did scrim the team that took the second seed at NGL we were still unprepared. When we did practice half the time there were arguments or just playing around going on and a lot of this I can attest to being my fault. However I feel that even though we are all a bunch of good guys we just couldn't get what we need to get together during tournament time.
NGL Cincinnati
So Minor pain, my GF, and I all hop in a car on a early early Friday morning and start our journey to Ohio Cincinnati. After hours of driving we arrive and check in to the air port and wait for Havkins flight to come in. When his flight nears we pick him up. (We had this sign with hearts and his name written in my GF handwriting waiting for him ;p)
After we pick him up our minds turn towards practice, the best practice is definitely one where you can sit beside each other and communicate face to face. So after a few mishaps here and there and being a teammate short for almost all of Friday, we invite Brixxx to come to our room and help us practice. Brixxx again I thank you so much for everything man. Being a man short didn't help us at all but we managed to scrim another team, coincidentally the team that won the tourney, and got destroyed. I can't say I wasn't expecting this but hey you keep going. So at about 3 or 4 in the morning we hear a knock at the door. It turns out to be Rasha and a couple of his buddies. So now with a full team here we all try to settle in and get some rest before the early wake up to get ready for the tourney. Tournament time, we are all eager to start our warm ups, I'm pumped because at the warm up stations top four always stay and I never stood up :) So far I'm feeling we might do well seeing most of the competition there was on the same level I was. After about and hour or two the 2v2's start and Minor and I get put on station one. I was so pumped and ready to destroy and little did I know Minor had brought his A game as well to the tourney. We ripped through round one with little effort and advanced to round two and again destroyed our opponents. So on to round three. This was the tough round we played some decent people but we still took game 1, but then something happened in game two and we lost all our communication and we lost. The team we were playing took that momentum and also took game 3, removing us from the 2v2 tourney. It was a tough loss to take but hey I had fun the whole time, especially with StrongSide watching me rip heads in our Sanc TS game. So after the 2v2 tourney came the FFA's nedless to say none of us on BtR had any good FFA placings so I'll just skip to the 4v4's. Our first matchup in the 4's was kind of a joke and we beat them in less than what felt like 5 minutes. So we had a long wait until our next match. When our next match was announced I'm pretty sure all of our hearts dropped a little because it was team offset, the team with the second seed and the team that we always scrim online. Well game 1 I can really say we tried our hardest but it was to no avail and they beat us like always and ended up taking the whole series and knocking us into the losers bracket. We got a bye in LBR1 and ended playing a friend of mines team in LBR2. We shouldn't of really had any struggle with these guys but somehow they managed to take one game of the series away from us but we still ended up advancing to LBR3 only to face the Ogres, Strongside, and Nistic. Well I was actually excited for this because my team was gonna be on the stream and I was playing halo at almost the top of my game :) So game one was TS on Ivory Tower and we really didn't stand a chance and lost 32 to 50 if my memory is correct. I was proud however b/c I dropped 11 kills 2 assists and 11 deaths. Lol funny to proud of that huh? Needless to say we went on and loss the next game and were kicked from the tourney. Well all I can say is I learned a lot and I can't wait to compete in another tourney. :)
Post NGL Cincinnati
So as most of you know after the NGL Cinc. tourney members of BtR disbanded. Most of the time me and Rasha never got along and I had problems with the teams performance. Yes I may have let if get out of hand, but it is just really frustrating when everyone can't play on the level they need to be on to compete. So after NGL I posted on here to find people to tryout. The feedback was insane at least 24 people wanted to tryout in the first 3 days. Unfortunately both Minor Pain and I had a lot going on at school with finals coming up so we decided to take a few weeks break from just running tryouts and practicing. Both of us would still get on but just to play. However now things are now looking up and we are getting some solid people to tryout and will hopefully have a team up and running really soon. I just want to thank all of the guys and gals (shelly :p) here at the TLNC for supporting me and BtR to the fullest. Thanks Mr.P for the amazing website you have built and thanks to everyone else for w/e else I need to thank you for :) Also i would understand if you didn't read all of this b/c even I would post TL;DR ;) I would also like to apologize to Rasha for all those stupid fights we had and to Havkin for putting you down when I shouldn't have, also to Allen for ever getting even the slightest bit mad at you cause you out of all people, you don't deserve that one bit. Shout outs to all my tln customs buddies and everyone else :p PS Please excuse my spelling and grammar because honestly I DONT CARE! ;)
--Magik
Pre NGL Cincinnati
Before the tourney BtR had nowhere near the amount of practice we needed coming into the tourney. Although we did scrim the team that took the second seed at NGL we were still unprepared. When we did practice half the time there were arguments or just playing around going on and a lot of this I can attest to being my fault. However I feel that even though we are all a bunch of good guys we just couldn't get what we need to get together during tournament time.
NGL Cincinnati
So Minor pain, my GF, and I all hop in a car on a early early Friday morning and start our journey to Ohio Cincinnati. After hours of driving we arrive and check in to the air port and wait for Havkins flight to come in. When his flight nears we pick him up. (We had this sign with hearts and his name written in my GF handwriting waiting for him ;p)
After we pick him up our minds turn towards practice, the best practice is definitely one where you can sit beside each other and communicate face to face. So after a few mishaps here and there and being a teammate short for almost all of Friday, we invite Brixxx to come to our room and help us practice. Brixxx again I thank you so much for everything man. Being a man short didn't help us at all but we managed to scrim another team, coincidentally the team that won the tourney, and got destroyed. I can't say I wasn't expecting this but hey you keep going. So at about 3 or 4 in the morning we hear a knock at the door. It turns out to be Rasha and a couple of his buddies. So now with a full team here we all try to settle in and get some rest before the early wake up to get ready for the tourney. Tournament time, we are all eager to start our warm ups, I'm pumped because at the warm up stations top four always stay and I never stood up :) So far I'm feeling we might do well seeing most of the competition there was on the same level I was. After about and hour or two the 2v2's start and Minor and I get put on station one. I was so pumped and ready to destroy and little did I know Minor had brought his A game as well to the tourney. We ripped through round one with little effort and advanced to round two and again destroyed our opponents. So on to round three. This was the tough round we played some decent people but we still took game 1, but then something happened in game two and we lost all our communication and we lost. The team we were playing took that momentum and also took game 3, removing us from the 2v2 tourney. It was a tough loss to take but hey I had fun the whole time, especially with StrongSide watching me rip heads in our Sanc TS game. So after the 2v2 tourney came the FFA's nedless to say none of us on BtR had any good FFA placings so I'll just skip to the 4v4's. Our first matchup in the 4's was kind of a joke and we beat them in less than what felt like 5 minutes. So we had a long wait until our next match. When our next match was announced I'm pretty sure all of our hearts dropped a little because it was team offset, the team with the second seed and the team that we always scrim online. Well game 1 I can really say we tried our hardest but it was to no avail and they beat us like always and ended up taking the whole series and knocking us into the losers bracket. We got a bye in LBR1 and ended playing a friend of mines team in LBR2. We shouldn't of really had any struggle with these guys but somehow they managed to take one game of the series away from us but we still ended up advancing to LBR3 only to face the Ogres, Strongside, and Nistic. Well I was actually excited for this because my team was gonna be on the stream and I was playing halo at almost the top of my game :) So game one was TS on Ivory Tower and we really didn't stand a chance and lost 32 to 50 if my memory is correct. I was proud however b/c I dropped 11 kills 2 assists and 11 deaths. Lol funny to proud of that huh? Needless to say we went on and loss the next game and were kicked from the tourney. Well all I can say is I learned a lot and I can't wait to compete in another tourney. :)
Post NGL Cincinnati
So as most of you know after the NGL Cinc. tourney members of BtR disbanded. Most of the time me and Rasha never got along and I had problems with the teams performance. Yes I may have let if get out of hand, but it is just really frustrating when everyone can't play on the level they need to be on to compete. So after NGL I posted on here to find people to tryout. The feedback was insane at least 24 people wanted to tryout in the first 3 days. Unfortunately both Minor Pain and I had a lot going on at school with finals coming up so we decided to take a few weeks break from just running tryouts and practicing. Both of us would still get on but just to play. However now things are now looking up and we are getting some solid people to tryout and will hopefully have a team up and running really soon. I just want to thank all of the guys and gals (shelly :p) here at the TLNC for supporting me and BtR to the fullest. Thanks Mr.P for the amazing website you have built and thanks to everyone else for w/e else I need to thank you for :) Also i would understand if you didn't read all of this b/c even I would post TL;DR ;) I would also like to apologize to Rasha for all those stupid fights we had and to Havkin for putting you down when I shouldn't have, also to Allen for ever getting even the slightest bit mad at you cause you out of all people, you don't deserve that one bit. Shout outs to all my tln customs buddies and everyone else :p PS Please excuse my spelling and grammar because honestly I DONT CARE! ;)
--Magik