Alright, so I just wanted to clear up the situation of us losing Xil3 from our team. We formed as a local team around mid June. Echelon originally was Xil3, Alex, Echo, and Whytee. They got 6th round at Meadows, and 5th at Columbus. After the event, there was some beef between two members and Whytee left to pursue something else. Meanwhile, I was figuring out what I wanting to do. All I would do was play constantly, and wait for something to fall on my lap. Alex messaged me about running games, and from the start we meshed well.

We beat very good teams online. People started predicting us, but for some reason Xil3 didn't like to be predicted. He took the predictions too hard, and didn't think we were that good. That type of self doubt made me cringe, because it should give us more motivation. Our scrims started to get more hectic, because there were teams that would not be so good, but would pull out the win against us. We tried to extinguish the losing attitude by telling ourselves we are practicing to get better, not to win. We are all locals, and I knew we were going to do well on LAN, since we LAN about every week.

About a few weeks ago, I instilled in my mind that this would be the best team I could go with. I knew we would do well, as long as we didn't have self confidence issues. Those issues didn't go away, and it would show in our scrims. We would lose composure, the will to win, and we would stop having fun. We had a rough night of scrims, and all I would hear is bickering. I would quit out at the end of scrims and get off, because I wasn't having fun anymore. I kept telling myself to just bear with it, and we would be fine once we played together face to face. However, Xil3 had other plans and decided to throw the ultimate curve ball and leave the team.

All the hard work, and good times, down the drain. As team leader, we don't care about stats on Echelon. We would 3-0 kids and get outslayed. We didn't care. It didn't matter. We just wanted to execute and perform well. Xil3 felt he was a weak link because of a few bad games, and made a hasty decision to leave us. It screws us over now, and now I have countless PM's and message on XBL from people who wouldn't give me the time a day before. It's annoying. We don't know what we plan to do. Alex has a local friend that is close to us, and is very good. And he is our first priority to run with. We care about knowing people we trust, more so than someone wanting to get a free ride to Dallas.

So now it's 2:30 am. I'm not even tired. I'm upset to know that we have 16 days to try and make a miracle team happen. Good luck to everyone at Dallas. Try to stay together when you have something good, and you know you have something good. It goes a long way.