Location:  St. Louis

Participants:  Compton, Steve TALL, Num13e12s, Sugamon.  (Poops also attended.)

Standings:  We are not positive but we think we placed in the thirties.  There were 62 teams total.

On Friday I woke up at like 10 in the morning and got ready and started waiting for Poops and Suga to get here so we could leave for St. Louis.  Poops got here first and he was bigger in person then he was on his profile picture.  It was kind of weird to finally see Poops in person because up until now he was only an orange icon and a flashing light to me.  Once Sugamon got here at around 2 we piled into his car and were on our way.

About 20 minutes into the trip we were in the fast lane going about 80 mph when this SUV came up pretty close to Sug’s bumper.  We were right next to a semi at the time so there wasn’t much that could be done.  Once we were clear of the semi the SUV darted passed us and as they did we looked over and there she was.  It was a crazy road rage filled soccer mom and she was flipping us off.  I found it humorous, Sug thought it was slightly annoying but Poops just wanted to get even.  He convinced Suga to pull up next to her so that he could moon the women.  So he sped up to try to get even with her but when we were about two and a half car lengths away from her she flew over into our lane so we couldn’t pass her.  We moved over to the other lane to make a second attempt but she closed the gap in front of her and rode like two feet behind the car in front of her.  Once traffic broke up a bit more she took off and was gone.  I would just like to apologize to her kids because I am sure they got an ass whoopin for nothing when she got home.  After that it was pretty much smooth sailing.  Although, Sugamon claims that he hit a snake on the road but it was just a piece of tire that was one of thousands along I-70 but this particular chunk of tire was “shiny” so in Suga’s mind it was a snake and there was nothing we could say to convince him otherwise.  Okay have it your way crazy.  The last thing worth mentioning that happened along the way was that I missed the 117 mile marker.  I was planning on taking a picture of it as we passed it.  Well when the time came I couldn’t get it lined up so I started to put it away.  As I was putting it away Poops says hey there it is again so I said oh well I missed it.  As soon as I got done saying that we passed another one.  Yeah I felt like a dipshit but I was able to get two pictures of it on the way back.  The rest of the trip we spent just talking about all kinds of stuff mostly Halo stuff though.

Once we got to Num13e12s’ girl friend’s house we just sat around for a while.  Then we went to go get a room at a local shitty ass hotel because Num13e12s can’t be depended on.  We checked in and sat around for a while.  I hooked up my Xbox to the crappy TV there and we just ran around in containment for a while.  Then we went back to Num13e12s place.  On the way we stopped at a grocery store and picked up some Jack for Poops and Suga dumped a pocket full of change into his new found love… the coin star machine.  When he saw it he looked like a kid in a candy store.  “Oh man this thing gives you dollars right?”  Yeah he was happy.  We spent the night playing Halo 2 at Num13e12s house and at around three in the morning we decided that we wanted to play Halo 1 but we only had 1 copy so we took a trip to Wal-Mart.  Of course Wal-Mart didn’t have any copies of Halo 1.  Apparently it was twilight zone night.  So on the way back we stopped at Steve’s house and he got his copy.  We decided to just go to bed and play Halo 1 later the next day.

The day of the tournament we got up around eight in the morning and Shawn and I took turns taking showers.  After we were done with that we were waiting for Numbers and Steve to get to the motel when Shawn asked Poops if he left his insulin in the bathroom.  Poops looked at Shawn like he was insane and Shawn then asked me if it was mine.  Once we all figured out that none of us were diabetic we went into the bathroom to see what the hell he was talking about.  There it was on top of the shower.  It was a freakin exposed needle just waiting to bestow aids on the next person to accidentally prick themselves.  It was pretty damn gross.  Anyway Numbers and Steve finally got there and we went to the tournament.  Once we got to the tournament it was in a pretty big open room, with Xboxes setup everywhere and two big screens setup in the front for the video on demand stuff.  We had like 20 minutes to practice before the actual matches would take place.  I think we played like 2 practice games and lost both of them. Things were looking good.  While we were waiting to get on a practice station one of the Ogre’s came up to Numbers and said hi.  Numbers and Shawn proceeded to get all sparkly eyed and Numbers dropped to his knees and blew him right there in front of everyone.  He walked around the rest of the day pointing out that Ogre 1 jizzed on HIS face. It was time for the qualifying rounds to start so we all went near the center of the room to listen.  One game they announced Ronin, AYB Fonzi, and Athena Twin and once they said Twin I started laughing because she had to play Ronin and Fonzi.  Guess who the fourth name was?  Yeah Compton.  So for my match I had 2 goals.  One was not to loose to Athena and two was not to loose to the screen watchin bastard next to me.  At least I accomplished that.  As for the rest of us, Steve got 6^th in his match too and Numbers and Shawn both got 7^th in their matches.  After taking a nice beating in qualifying we went to go get some food from Goodcents.  The food was good and our sandwich preparer was gorgeous.  When we got back to the tournament and we walked in you could just smell the nerd juices in the air it was pretty funny.  The rest of the time you could see random staff walking around with cans of air freshener.  Our team did ok we placed somewhere in the middle.  We beat like 2 teams and took it from the third.  After being eliminated from the tourney I couldn’t wait to get the hell out of there.  We went to White Castle on the way back because Poops had never been there.  The food was horrible and there was a crazy old lady that wouldn’t stop starring at Shawn.  We went back to Numbers’ place and played Halo 1.  All of us except for Numbers didn’t like it.  But because Numbers is an mlg groupie he had to love it.  (He has since started playing H1 on XBC)  The rest of the time we spent playing custom halo 2 games that Poops was still getting pissed at.  The final day we went to the Arch to get pics under it.  It kinda pissed me off cause in front of it they had the damn St. Louis and Missouri flags flying at the same height as THE American flag….. Bastards.  But the picture taking went well as you can tell from the videos.  After that we gathered our stuff and headed back.  The trip back was pretty uneventful. I got pictures of the 117 mile marker and Shawn’s car tried to kill itself but other then that nothing much happened.  They dropped me off and I returned to normal life feeling a bit better about my nerd like ways.  I know this write up is lacking in spice and detail but hopefully Poop’s will be better.  Steve’s will be even better but it will be quite some time before he has time to do it so bear with us guys.