Hey everyone long time since i blogged been really busy with school and what not but im gonna go ahead and sum up MLG Vegas from my perspective! First The shoutouts!!

Astro-seriously I cant thank Walter and the guys at Astro enough they have the best customer service and amazing headphones they are way worth the money and I don't know if we could achieved a victory without these headphones!!

MLG- Definitely all the staff and thanks to Mike Sepso and Sundance for making such a amazing league and Ray for all his pro player support its awesome what you guys have done and I cant wait to see whats in line for 09!

Gears of War Players- From pros to amateur players its we helped make the community and Gears of War what it is today so all Gears of War players definitely get a shoutout!

The Fans- Without the fans MLG would never be what it is now and all our fans that I heard cheering us on during the finals you guys are awesome and we wont disappoint in 09!!

       Alright so start out our trip to Vegas! Killa,Pred, and I arrived in Vegas on Friday thanks to HQ's awesome air flight finding to make it so I could attend one of my college classes before flying out.We got to thehard Rock about a hour or so before the start of the all star game which I must say was a amazing venue location. Since my whole team lives in the midwest region we were all on the West Coast team and the first West Coast team to actually play was me, Zkiller,RMAN, and Atmo. We ended up beating the East on War Machine which was a lot of fun to play. I really cant remember the rest of the scores but I really thought it was neat to watch one of the Allstar games for Gears on the MainStage. It just seemed right seeing Gears of War up there and I was really hoping our team would be the team to play in the first Gears Finals that would be on the Mainstage. Long story short West won the Gears of War Allstar Game 3-2 which whent to the last round. Also want to say congrats to my teammates Predator and KILLA for getting the Allstar game MVPS they really deserved it!

      Well on the second day we got to the Venue and was warming up and feeling pretty good for the upcoming games even though we started later than normal since only 6 Gears of War teams were at Vegas and us and Infinity had a bye first round. We stuck around and watched High Caliber upset Retaliation and saw that we would be playing high caliber next right off a huge momentum game. We played them and I think they took the first map and then we took 3 maps to win the series 3-1 but man they were some close matches. We then learned that Infinity had also beat Prophecy 3-1 and that we would be playing Infinity for the Winners Bracket Finals match.

     this is what we were practicing for playing Infinity. We were all on our game and ready for this match. The First map was close but we squeezed it out and won on their host. The next map was our host and I think we won pretty well and the last map their host I think remember being 4-1!! We had Just 3-0 number 1 seeded and heavy favorite Infinity in the winner bracket finals!! We were all stoked and definitely ready to see how they would do in the loser bracket finals. They end up beating High Caliber which congrats for them they definitely deserved third place!! 

 Sunday

This was the day everyone on Infinity and my team The NSAN3Z had been waiting for all year. Not only as a rematch of Toronto but as a rematch of last seasons Finals at Vegas. We were ready and couldn't wait to play on the Mainstage and make sure we could hold our 3-0 lead to take us to our victory. During the intros im not gonna lie I was really nervous. Heck I was nervous during the whole first map. But after we lost that map I forgot everyone was around me just that I was playing and thats all that mattered. We then lost the second map but i wasnt really too worried but the first two maps were weak maps for us and really strong maps for Infinity and knowing the next map was Gridlock on our host I knew the momentum would be stopped right then. We end up winning that match making it 4-2. We play fuel depot their host and win taking the series 5-2. We were all starting to feel that we were close to winning it. But Infinity fought back and took Canals our host tightening up the series to 5-3. Next map was Mansion.

     Now any Gears player will tell you Mansion could go either way but we really wanted to get the win here and not let it go any farther but Infinity fought hard. I just remember trading rounds with them tell it got 3-3. Then we ran our all rush strat at them and I run the middle and had no resistance. Predator got the boomshot with ease and whent to shoot and I ran right into his shot killing me then Zkiller died shortly after. We were down 2 men in the first 30 seconds. But Predator and KILLA clutched it killing everyone and winning us the 4v4 GOW MLG NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!!! 

 It was awesome to get this win after 2 years of playing gears of war and with Gears of War 2 out now this was the last time Gears of War 1 will be on the circuit and to win the last tournament for it is just unexplainable. I once again want to thank everyone that has helped us get to where we are now there is so many people and they know who they are that did and I just want to thank them and know that without you we would have never made it here. Been playing Gears of War 2 and its definitely taking some getting use to but I think with some practice we will definitely be a top team again!!