Please skip this if you're not interested in competitive gaming, Halo 2 or me.

Today has been my greatest day in my relatively short career of a competitive gamer. For those who don't know, the self-initiated evilSWAT aka Siddiq sent a proposal to Rapture Gaming (organiser or WCG Nationals) regarding a Halo 2 competition. Apparantly, with his cleverness, he managed to win Rapture's approval and thus, today's competition happened. It would be, in evilSWAT's words, "the fairest compey in Singapore". Sounds kinda ambitious? But it turned out to be true.

A bit about my team's background. Hellfire/Jia Yu has quit Halo 2 so my best choice was CDagger. CDagger was my teammate in GXL and we've been playing together for almost the whole year now, therefore we have the teamwork there already. He's also one of the best Halo 2 players in Singapore (not that there are many). Yup, so I approached him to team up with me and he agreed. And sometime last week he told me that he had church so he couldn't go with me. Feeling very indignant, I sent him a 3-page long SMS about why he should join. Thankfully, he agreed by saying "Ok lor. But I dont think we can win." That comment was oh-so untrue. We decided on the team name "klasjfklsjgjajdjfskjf"...something unique and hard for evilSWAT to pronounce. Anyway, we had very little practise because CDagger skipped tuition and his father confiscated his controllers so no training.

Alright, fast forward to today. Woke up at 0830. Slacked around then went to take bus to Serangoon MRT and reached Dhoby Ghaut at 1030. Warmed up for about 1 hour. At about 1130, SWAT had to brief the Marshalls (Swat, Sublade, Lala, me and JB). Blahblahblah...blahblahblah. Match drawings...my team was against Rumble Pit All Starz. Was kinda worried cos Rumble Pit All Starz consists of JB and Stizel who are rather pro. The drawing, althought random, was very screwed up. All the "better" teams had to fight each other while the "noobier" teams had to fight each other.

Fast forward to our first match. I had first game jitters. Was very nervous and couldn't aim properly. We won our first match, second match we lost by a mere 1 kills and the last match we won by 10+ kills. The first round was very important because I realised that I couldn't be too tense. That realisation would later lead me to my victory (lol, sounds damn dramatic).

Second round was Constipated Dolphins (Sublade and Swiftnight Fox) aka 2nd place at WCG Nationals. Needless to say, my team was very worried that we would lose. We won the first game by quite a lot. Second game we lost, wtih swiftnight doing a lot of trash-talking, or in his case, trash-shouting. Sometimes when he got a kill he'd go,"HOW YOU LIKE THAT?!?!" Wasn't really affected by that. Just made his throat sore. Third game was one of the most cruical and nerve-wrecking, mind-blowing match. Jaron aka CDagger started off with an early killing spree which made one of the 7th Sin guys go,"CDagger on fire." Then they caught up, we kept taking the lead, losing the lead, taking the lead, losing the lead until it was tied at 49-49. I had an unbelievably tyco/lucky spawn and I spawned behind Swiftnight Fox. I meleed him but missed the assasination. Meleed again but missed, then I headshotted him and the announcer went,"Game Over." After that, I could hardly stop shaking. Was damn shaken by that match (pun intended). Damn tyco la. Constipated Dolphins was our hardest opponent of the tournament. After that victory, we were in the semi-finals against 7th Sin.

To cut it short, we 2-0'ed them. Warlock was pretty close, 50-47. We seemed to be in the right place at the right time most of the times and hence were able to double-team them. Second match was Lockout, our best map. We had a stellar defence (inspired by the OGRES). We won them by about 50-25 or somewhere around there. And we were in the finals against...Team Maple Story.

Nobody expected them to advance into the finals as both of them (Jack and BoonKiller) were not really regarded as "pros". Jaron and I went on to win them 2-0 and we were DSC Champions!!!11shiftone!!!1 When the second match ended, we didn't have much reaction. No victory dance, no roar of triumph. After all, we exptected to win them.

By that point of time, my throat was very sore and I was mentally exhausted. Shall cut the ending short.

Results:
1st place: my team
2nd place: Team Maple Story (a very gay game)
3rd place: 7th Sin

We played 10 matches and won 8, lost 2. I was the one doing the leading and I am very satisfied with my team's performance, since it was the first time we teamed up and I didn't expect to win. We walked away with a Logitech Internet Desktop each (keyboard and mouse). While the prize wasn't very good, it felt damn good winning Constipated Dolphins and 7th Sin and overall winning the whole competition.


PS: I'll never hear the end of it (people calling me kuanpro)
PPS: I earned $8 being a Marshall.
PPPS: This super long post was typed using the Logitech keyboard

Look forward to more compeys in the future!