Meadowlands was a very bitter sweet tournament for me. On one hand, we got 2nd place so its hard to be too upset about that. But the finals was ours to lose as TD had to beat us twice, and they not did that but it wasnt really a match from the get go. They were just dominating us and most of the competition. I think our team was fairly satisfied with 2nd because going into this tournament, we definitely didnt feel as prepared as we would have liked or normally are. We didnt have a lan as the team we planned on lanning backed out closer to the tournament and everyone else had already had their lans set by then. This was unfortunate because I feel like lanning before each tournament is crucial practice that gets all of the last minute kinks worked out and can really have an effect on how a team places. Knowing that we wouldnt have a lan, we all decided to fly to Masons house so we could all play side by side while we scrimmed on xbl, so I think that helped us in getting used to sitting next to each other, watching each others screens, etc. It was a lot of fun hanging out with each other right before the tournament. We even got in a 2v2 basketball game. It was a relatively close game but me and Mason took home the gold, old man Walsh just couldnt keep up lol. As for the tournament, we played relatively well up until the finals. I dont remember much of round 1, except losing game 1 and then taking the next 3. Round 2 was against Ambush. I knew they would put up a good fight because we played Tizoxic the week before at a local and he impressed me a lot. So once again we drop game 1, and take the next 3. I remember playing pretty well this series, but every game was close. Round 3 put us up against Final Boss, a team which has a lot of history with ours. Their is always a fun rivalry between me/Roy and Mackeo/Victory because we teamed in the past. As well as with Walshy. As was our ritual this tourney, we lost game 1 i believe and took the next 3. I remember this was a pretty good series with Mason raping as usual. Next was BTH, who took us to 4 games with us edging it out 3-1. They played well against us but we were very confident in this series and it showed i think. This was the first time me and my brother had made it to the finals through the winners bracket so that was a nice accomplishment, but we still had one more match to play before we could celebrate. We then got to sit and wait to see who would make it out of the losers bracket and face us in the finals. TD ended up beating BTH and made it to the finals. They were just too much and ended up beating us pretty handily. I give them props, they played very well. Pistola seemed to be on fire the entire tournament. After the tournament, none of us seemed too down, we were all just excited to prepare even harder for the next event. The day i got back from the tournament, I dug my xbox out and began gaming immediately. Im extremely tired of coming so close, yet so far from winning a tournament. We already have a lan set up with Carbon May 15th-20th, and might be setting up another one. I cant wait for Colombus and hope all the Instinct fans are coming out to support us! You guys have been so awesome and be on the lookout for some goodies from the team :) Sorry for the long block of words. Lunchbox