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Defy

Walshy

Naded

I know a lot of people are probably wondering what has been going on with our team (although it’s not like MLG hasn’t done enough articles) but I wanted to write a blog explaining our situation and our decisions. I guess we need to start from the beginning. I gave this quote to MLG for their article “Straight From The Source.”

This was true until last Friday when I learned that StrongSide was leaving to team with FB. During my drive to Talent’s house to LAN, I missed a call from Defy about fifteen minutes before I got a call from StrongSide. When I answered Side’s call, I saw the missed call and had a feeling it wasn’t going to be a good conversation for me. While we were trying to get StrongSide to team, he kept going back and forth between joining our team and joining back with sQ. Two different times he told us that he was officially on our team, only to call us later in the day and tell us he was going back with sQ. After the third time, it was made official. When something like this happens, as a teammate you are kind of worried in some ways about that teammate and his commitment to the team. Not that StrongSide isn’t committed, he’s one of the most dedicated players I’ve ever had the pleasure of teaming with, but there is going to be a little doubt in your mind. Needless to say, I didn’t expect the move to FB to happen but I wasn’t overly surprised by it. Like I said in my quote, I’m never going to get angry at someone for making a decision they feel is in their own best interest.

After getting off the phone with Mike, I gave a call to Walshy and Defy and we began to discuss the replacement but the one thing we did agree with was that we wanted to take as much time as we needed to make a good decision. We didn’t want to rush into anything, so we were prepared for a good time period to weigh our options and make the right choice. One of the people I wanted to team with was Naded, but I knew that none of us wanting to make a decision until we all were sure. Later that night, I got a call from Walsh telling me he had been playing with Naded all night and loved it. We all decided to sleep on it and the next day we all talked again and decided we wanted to team with Naded. Even though we agreed not to rush any decision, we felt it was just the perfect situation. We talked with Brett, and it was decided later that day. So going forth, the new Carbon looks to be a pretty exciting team and I look forward to teaming with Naded again.

Talent’s LAN

Last weekend, a bunch of players ended up at Talent’s house for the first of hopefully many LANs. The players Friday night for the LAN were Talent, myself, Defy, Demon D, Seb, NocturnalKernal, Maniac, JP, and Burns. We only really got one series in Friday night because we were a little disorganized and didn’t begin LANing until almost midnight. Saturday, Twylight and Decliner arrived but JP and Burns left. We got in at least 30 games on Saturday starting at around 6 that afternoon and it was really fun. I want to thank Talent’s Mom for allowing us to LAN at her house and for Talent for inviting all of us. I can’t wait to do it again, and this time we’ll make sure it is more organized.

My Life

Last weekend, I didn’t make out too well on the overall scheme of things. On Thursday, I was playing basketball and managed to break my ankle. This comes after I have been running and playing basketball every single day of the summer and I felt I was starting to get into really good shape. So of course, I had to be injured. I’m beginning to think it was my teammates praying for it, because now that I really don’t have anything else to do I’m going to be playing Halo pretty much exclusively all summer. And of course, the news of StrongSide coming during my four and a half hour drive to Talent’s LAN, those two days had to rank as some of the lowest I’ve had in a while. The good thing is that my first summer session classes end on Monday. Unfortunately, that begins a new set of summer classes that begin on Tuesday but I’m at least halfway through my summer of catching up in school. Either way, I’m excited for our new team and I’m going to be playing every day while my ankle heals. Good luck to everyone at Dallas.