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Home > My 2008 Experience
By Gilkey | Published: November 10, 2008 12:48am EST
2008 was a good year for me Halo-wise. I figured this year I would put my name out there, and maybe next year I could be placing well all season. 2008 had it's ups and downs for me, but I had fun all the time.

MEADOWLANDS My team for Meadowlands was Olmec's Posse, it consisted of DSx Ozzy,Killtrocity,ClipseR, and myself. It was a last minute team, we practiced for less than a week. Our bracket was pretty rough, and we managed to get only 4th round.

SAN DIEGO Knowing that I played well at Meadowlands and didn't place well, frustrated me. I played a LOT of halo before San Diego. I didn't think i was going until about a week before the event. Phobia who got 16th at Meadowlands asked to team with me and I saw it as an amazing oppritunity to show my skill at the top. Our team consisted of, Squirrel,Assault,BFox, and myself. We got top 24 losing to Breaking Point game 5. San Diego was not my best event.

ORLANDO Here it is again, before an event and I still have no team. I played even more before Orlando beacuse I knew I was better than how I played in San Diego. I was forced to rely on a sponsor, instead of teaming with a team I was confident in. Our team was WuChabFinnancial, which was ElectriK,Sneak E Beaver, and GunStatus. We practiced for less than a week. I more or less went to Orlando to have fun. We placed last round AM.

TORONTO Here's where the fun begins. I looked high and low for a team. At first it was Ghost Attack, ThRuSt, Aries, and myself. We were solid, but we seemed to argue a lot and all had a differnt mentality as how to play. After that I looked for two players with MyTh, for a few days and couldn't find anyone who was worth even running games with. I asked End Result to drop DARKscorpion for me and MyTh, and they said no. They asked if I wanted to run games with Moniz,Max, and DARKscorpion. I knew they had a ton of potential, I knew Meadowlands was a fluke. I happily agreed, and right off from the first day I knew we were good. We played Instinct and took the majority of the games. We all seemed content with the team, so we decided to team for Toronto. This was about 2 weeks before. We lanned against That's Rough (YungCity,Argyle,True, and KriZeN) at Max's condo before the event. The final score was 33-7 and I was so pumped to play the following day. We ran through AM with ease. Then came PRO bracket. We took AtG to game 5, we lead 2-1 and we sort of fell apart. Now for top 24, we played Sick By Definition. I was really confient I knew we were the better team. We 3-0d them. For top 16 we played Chilled Reality who placed 6th at the last event, and just got done LANning with Final Boss for a week. I'm not going to lie I was nervous haha. We were on fire this series and won 3-0. The following morning we played Status Quo, we were not playing anywhere near our potential and lost game 5.

2008 was an exciting year for me and I can't wait for 2009 to begin ;)
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suck a dil and chill, gil (11.10.08 3:16am)

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Hey, alot of people think bad of you Gilkey, but I believe you represent alot of young players trying to get somewhere. You may not have the skills of a veteran player, but you have just as much fight in you. If you can get in MLG and play with the "Top" players you give me hope to one day do the same. Good luck in future events.
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