I know let's start off with this... Team PainX is team that's always looked down upon not being able to go to events. Always being pushed down saying they are XBL All-stars, although charlotte was hardly the case! My team consisted of Wonka, a good time friend of mine who i've been teaming with since orlando. I relate to Wonka because all of our previous MLG Tournaments we have taken locals or last minute teams and have yet to show our potential with a full team we actually love playing with. I have to thank wonka for getting me back into halo, after calling me and after a 2 hour phone call, i agreed to come back to win some money @ MLG's This year. Factor, easily one of the kids i hated most back in the old days whenever I played him, this kid would literally abuse his host so hard and talk so much trash! Don't know why, he just always did, who would of thunk before the 07 season we'd be teaming eh? Censored a.k.a Fak3 Tittys, another player i hated who i felt was an XBL All-star before Orlando 06'. I always remebered thinking.."Why is Tupac on this kid's D so hard? He's so bad!!" after his early Chicago 06 am ffa and pro 4v4 exit haha! Now i'm teaming with him after realizing why pac was on his D, because Censored is truly disgusting... His Jaw dropping skill and claw is easily enough to turn around a crowd of fat slobs booing us into cheers of desperation and excitement wanting their underdog team to win!

Ok enough about me talking about my team let's talk about Charlotte. My team had high expectations going to Charlotte, we're all very confident in our team(People may see that as arrogance, but going into a series confident is much better going into a series nervous or pessimistic.) Our goal at charlotte was Top 12/Top 8. We decided that if we did not get that placing we were going to quit halo, under any circumstance even if we lost to CbN by 1 kill on game 5 or something. So weeks leading up to charlotte we find ourselves beating top teams on our host and destronzel popping good teams on their host, yet still being called XBL All-Stars(which was a shocker to me since i hadn't been called one since before anaheim 06 in ffa!) I felt our team was very lan-oriented, i really worked my ass off to make up these strats/show them to my teammates and i felt they were ALL very lan-oriented(They had yet to fail me at orlando, so what they hey!) Anyways, weeks leading up to charlotte I had become great friends with all my teammates....Literally, i know every pro player says this, but i truly think our team's friendship is greater than anyone else's on the circuit, we really love talking/playing halo with each other. I had a great feeling about this team....Only problem is every event i've been to when i've had a full team it has been screwed over last minute, such as last minute flight cancellations, last minute teammates not going, last minute teammates fist fighting the night before am 4v4. I just seem to have terrible luck with these things you know?

So you can ask factor how surreal the experience was to meet him and finally talk to wonka and censored again. We arrive at the venue long ass line, i cut in front of everyone find 5K and get a spot close to the front( As always... Thanks MLG Staff and callmegod! :-) ) Anyways, ffa is about to begin and i get knocked out 2nd round and wonka gets knocked out 4th round...We're supposed to be known as the most consistent ffa players on our team, but i'm not gonna lie i played like i was better than the world that i didn't need to try, so that hurt me in the long run. Jeremy(Censored) and Chris(Factor) ended up destroying am ffa and making pro ffa! I was very proud but i had the feeling in me that i needed to step up, because on live my role is very very shitty. I get the worst stats etc. I do most of the dirty work as a supportive/objective player, only times i have an amazing ratio is if i have to slay or it's a TS that's about it. But i've had a feeling for a while that factor might of thought I was bad, even though he didn't I just hate feeling like i'm the worst one on the team ya know? All i know was that was about to change!

Am 4v4, we wake up early stoked as heck we run into wonka's room and tackle him / tea bag him, with procto pirate recording(Didn't know he was!) and wonka does his usually lazy sloth novice voice "uhhhh....GOD i'm trying to sleep!" we all laugh and get ready. We sleep a lot and eat a very healthy breakfast and go down to the venue to destroy our teams. Little did i know am 4v4 would lasttttttttt foreverrrrrrrrrr. So anyways boring matches until we play CyP round 4 WB, we'll skip to then! So much shit talking was going on in this series from previous grudges against CyP from online scrims. I won't mention any insults being said because they were very unprofessional and most of them me and Jeremy regret saying. Anyways i get a technical for my team after we win because i stand up and say "This isn't XBL you stupid fucking XBL all-stars!" something to that extent, so we lost host to Dookie Blasters(Who had just got done beating VvV), but we didn't care it was full screen we know we weren't going to lose! so we play dookie, 2-0 them, pretty quickly to advance on. By the way everyone on dookie blasters are so chill, easily one of the funnest kids to hang out with during the am 4v4's congrats on ya'll's placing by the way! Anyways On to pro 4v4, i felt like i had been performing up to par, but i keep telling Chris on lan against good people i'm amazing don't worry about it. So i hear our station being called and i hear "Vanity vs PainX," i look over to see the expressions of my teammates and i have yet to ever see a gleeful face from jeremy and chris, their smiles could of easily brighten up the venue if it were all dark, desolate, pitch black. The reason for this was we had played them on XBL (Our host ) 5-0'd them middy ctf and they booted us from their party calling us XBL All-stars....So to get back at them we decided to get the gameplay at a Halo Forum (Which will not be named!) and it was seen by thousands of people and a huge flame war occured between vanity and this Halo Forum! anyways so we begin the series middy bomb, (Easily our worst gametype don't think we ever practiced it much! we were so bad at it!) and we get 2-0'd with ease with smoltz/on-host going huge as usual. I tell my teammates guys... we suck at middy bomb but if we're going to do anything in pro 4v4 take every series one game at a time! No doubts from here on out! so we make a comeback and end up taking it to game 5 Lockout TS, the score is 47-47 as we're making a comeback and there is easily a huge crowd around us, looking at all of our screen's we're off-host this game 5 and we're so pumped. So my teammates tell me, dyno you have to rush, so i end up rushing top mid getting cover from BR 3, with shotty(at this point jeremy outmelees a shotgun kid under glass? Br1? don't remeber and the crowd goes crazy as it's 48-47) I realizing this right when i jump over shortcut say "Fudge it! let's just destronzel pop em!" i catch nitrouss off guard shotty him while he has snipe to put the score at 49-47, as this is all occuring fossik is shooting me in the body/face and i was able to grab nitrouss' sniper, jump in the air and no scope fossik to win the game, quite possibly the most exhilarating moment i've ever had playing halo. Crowd goes wild, i go up to shake their hands...(No one shook my hand..) and we got ready for our next Pro 4v4 Series.

So we get called against Legendz, i look at my teammates and they all look so pumped, at this point i felt we could beat them in 5 games and it would be even tougher than our Vanity Series! So i just say "Guys let's fuck up legendz!" my team getss pumped and we get ready at our station.. First gametype warlock ctf..I tell my teammates..Please let me host i'm destroying on it, no one else argues so i host our warlock CTF game..I believe i've never hosted so much ever in my life we all went huge and ended up beating legendz 2-0 warlock ctf. Game 2 we end up losing 50-35 sanctuary TS...another one of our WORST gametypes ever! and we're down and i just tell my team... "Guys it's sanc ts, one game at a time, LET"S DO THIS!" so we start off lockout ball.....Literally i felt like we had control of the game in every aspect there was possible... we were literally up 3:00-:10 midway through the game and ended up winning 5:00-1:18 with the crowd going crazy over everything we were doing. Game 4 Middy CTF, easily our best gametype if we're not tired we end up 5-1'ing legendz finishing the series and getting ready to play str8 in WB Round 3 for guarenteed top 6!

So we start off getting called out in the back stations near agency and CbN, our team exchanges with Agency saying, we're both going to win and celebrate afterwards..mackeo and victory tell us that they always knew we were going to top 12 and i told them i always knew they were going to get top 3. Even though mackeo had corrected me saying "We're not top 3 right now, we about to playing Carbon!" So both of our serieses start..Needless to say i'm not the one to make excuses but factor had just lost his voice before our str8 series, so it was more work for me to screen look/call out for envy. Nonetheless this str8 was a REALLY good str8, they ended up 3-0'ing us, although i had the warlock ctf game of my life and we lost 4-3 :-(, than we lost 50-45 lockout TS, and by 18 seconds on middy ball! it was a good series, T2 was easily destroying us much more than i thought he would...Like literally he was pulling up like naded statitistics na mean? Anyways we go to sleep after being content with top 12, telling each other top 8, is oh so close boys, let's grab it and never turn back!

So we get at the venue early sunday morning waiting for the winner of NLR / Redemption, i keep telling Nathan(Wonka) that i'd rather play redemption as it seemed like they played much more individual than NLR, and we always play REALLY well against teams that challenge you know? anyways NLR ends up beating redemption so we have to play them in LB Round 4 for top 8... First Gametype middy bomb--We decide to host this, i dunno why but i regret it with all my heart now, because i felt truly...NLR sucks we'll rape them if we're host on this gametype, we went on to lose 2-0 on middy bomb..Next gametype lockout TS.. what a game we ended up winning lockout TS, and then playing middy ball and winning by 2-3 seconds on their host! it was a great feeling. I kept telling my teammates "LET"S FINISH THIS!" Sanctuary CTF game 4.. we were literally up 1-0 the whole game until they got two very well coordinated caps leaving us at 2-1. This is where the DynoWonka comebacks tend to occur. Just so you all aren't confused DynoWonka comebacks consist of outrageous comebacks on any team on any host on XBL or LAN. For some examples Orlando 06- Me, Wonka, RABAD3UX, 8 ball vs Xit Omega, Nitrous, Legendpimps, Talent Beaver TS, we were down 49-36 and ended up winning the game 50-49. PainX Vs 5K, we were down 46-32 lockout TS in an online tournament and ended up tieing 49-49 with the time to run out. Some small examples.. anyways there are 20 seconds left and i dunno how but we seemed to cap the 2nd flag to tie it right when the timer hit 15:00 remaining, making the crowd behind us go wild. Preceding afterwards Ray stands our carbine hosting us and NLR spawns us and caps on us :-( Sad end to sanc ctf to tie the series 2-2. Game 5 warlock TS, we've always felt we've been bad at this gametype i dunno why, just have. we were down 47-40 against NLR and end up tieing it 48-48 to lose 50-49, all because i jumped out thinking ray was bottom mid green no shield, while i was blue needles....You have no idea how much that kill haunts me to this day... :-( anyways congrats to NLR top 8!

so we go on to play consolation with factor still with no voice after our legendz series :-(! we're barely trying and we beat xit and lose to type-z, sorry to make it sound gay but we were all just depressed over our loss to NLR, nothing more to say about it.

ANYWAYS all in all we placed 10th pro 4v4, and i appreciate all our fans out there always believing in us, i'm glad we didn't let you down, but i promise at meadowlands something even more spectacular will happen and i'll make sure ya'll jump out of your seats! Thanks to my teammates for being the funniest/best kids to hang out with, spainard for just being spainiard, mackeo, vic, halogod for always knowing we'd do this good! and mason for....being mason? i dunnno but sorry if i missed ya, i know i missed about like 100 people, but you all know who you are so go ahead and show your presence make a comment! BTW Billy Carbonated Soda Collister, gran calc, ryu, puckett > every MLG STAFF in the VENUE! btw thanks for the mcchiken collister, i think that's the main reason why we beat legendz!

PainX will not be making any team changes AT ALL, our new coach is : IX Snake XI, not to be confused with xSn4ke. He's an amazing coach wouldn't been able to do it without him!

SEE YOU ALL in meadowlands!