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Community Tourney Match

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-Written by Poops (1-21-07)

“Ok Poops we’re recording these and we need to try and scream less.” My mic had cut out so I hadn’t heard any of that and Compton had to tell me again.  After that it was only once where I had to be reminded to use my inside voice.  But if there could have been screaming and nail biting this would have been the match for it.

O7AH Lineup

  Compton O7AH

  T A steve L L

  The PoopsMcGee

  Nomar83

Cavegirls Lineup

  Zoom Demon

  Venus Envy

  bs angel

  RaHikaru

  Crazy King on Midship

(Cavegirls' Pick)                                                     Download The Video Of This Game:                      Game Stats

O7AH faced off against the The Cavegirls Sunday night for the community tourney.  It was a close one and both sides played excellent games.  After a no show for our 9 o’clock match Steve, Compton, Nomar, and myself, grouped up and hopped in a lobby with Zoom Demon, Venus Envy, bs angel, and RaHikaru.  For reasons unknown to me, team O7AH took pink as their team color upon entering the lobby.  Although some of The Cavegirls were taken aback by our color choice, they graciously turned to blue and we begun their game type “Hello O7AH”.  Despite its name, it turned out to be a KOTH variant with a crazy hill, 3min to win, a time limit, and Human weapons set.  “I’ll be the hill bitch!” Nomar exclaimed, that turned out not to work well at all as they overtook us.  It went back and forth for a short while then the girls pulled ahead steadily.  However O7AH set up a staunch defense in the last minutes and the Cavegirls were unable to hit the 3 min mark.  “At least they didn’t get to 3…”, said Steve.  Which Compton replied, “It’s the small things.”  Nomar lead in hill time and Steve had a murderous 14 kings killed and 41 total kills.  But it wasn’t enough to pull out the win.

O7AH-2:07 Cavegirls-2:53.  Cavegirls Win.

  1 Flag CTF On Terminal

(O7AH's Pick)                                              Bungie.net Stats                                                 Download The Video Of This Game:

With a quick change of team color (Pink wasn’t workin out for us and it didn’t match Steve’s assless chaps that Nomar was wearing). Up next was our choice and just like a prom in the 50s we went with our steady, Terminal 1 Flag CTF.  A solid defense in the first round by O7AH left the Cavegirls scoreless.  On the offensive side we seesawed back and forth for the beginning of the round and Nomar went in for the grab.  He managed to advance it up the ramp a ways, but was cut down.  With Compton and Steve mopping up I grabbed the flag and scooted under the tract and out into the open.  A torrent of bullets and Cavegirls rained down on me from the top of the garage as they respawned.  I was swept up in the deluge, as well as Steve and Compton, but we took them all down.  That left Nomar to finish what he started and he capped unmolested.  O7AH D in the next round was almost unflinching but the one time that the girls managed to get it out into the open the D shone.  Under the bridge in the courtyard, Nomar and Steve were manning BRs and cleaning up the waste, I went on a spree with the sword and BR by the Sniper spawn.  All the while Compton was sitting back rubbing his hands together and snickering something about minions.  With the flag returned, round over.  O7AH Offense really had teamwork in mind for the last round.  Steve swung the Hog around the corner and provided some good angles for me to go to work with the Gauss and assist Compton in the ghost. Compton’s voice came across the com “Keep firing on that base constantly so I can get in there”.  After some good kills Compton was able to sneak in and grab the flag and work his way out into the open.  I said, “Go park the Hog so I can post up and cover him.”  So with a relentless stream of Gauss shots slamming into the garage spawn hole, I was able to keep the Cavegirls pinned down and Nomar and Steve took out the ones that managed to squeak by. Compton found himself capping the flag to cinch up the win for the game. 

O7AH 2  Cavegirls 0.   O7AH Wins.

  Slayer on Lockout

(Neutral Slayer Pick)                                     Download The Video Of This Game               Bungie.net Stats                                         

The tiebreaker round was an agreed slayer match on lockout to 50.  Two evenly matched teams spawned into a game that went back and forth like a rabbits hips in the spring.  “Lost the lead, Tied the leader, Lost the Lead Tied the leader….” So on and so forth.  Neck and neck we edged into the 40s and found ourselves down by one. After a struggle the score came out to 49-48 with the Cavegirls leading.  From the BR tower I managed to kill bs angel to tie us up.  The tension was palpable as Compton said, “Stay away from anyplace a grenade could go off… Poops get down from there!”  But it was too late my last kill betrayed my position and I was unable to escape the arcs of blue plasma hurled at me, and the BR fire from mid sniper. 

O7AH-49   Cavegirls-50,   Cavegirls Win!

Good games guys!

It was a standout match worthy of fireside tales or a crotchety old Nomar telling his grandkids in a Sean Connery voice.   The tourney is all about having fun and meeting the members and founders from other clans, and although victory escaped O7AH we did manage to have a great time.

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