No "Beat The Yeti" This Week

Sorry guys. Due to a horrible turn of fate (GTA IV), the team that was going to fight us last night fell victim to a horrible disease (GTA IV). We wish them the best of luck in recovering from this sickness (GTA IV) and look forward to playing them in the future.


Also, future "Beat The Yeti" challenges will be held on Mondays starting next week.

GTA IV out

I'm sure it's a good game. ten out of ten everywhere. I just won't buy it because I don't wanna invest the time. But, hey, you go buy it. Looks beautiful!

"Beat The Yeti" for 04/23/08

Alright! Beat The Yeti has officially taken off, everyone! This week, we've got a good match for you.



TEAMS

Team Yeti

HeavenlyYeti- 'n00b'
PoD H3x Corona- 'lolollollolollollol'
T Clay1- 'Only 90 minutes?!'
JABADAPOLLARD- 'Sailor Mouth'
Avocado Theory (ALT)- 'The Dude who became a veggie'
xAPxLx Vick (ALT)- 'Sorry I'm late'


Team Flaming Tampons (??)

sniper219- 'I made the name!'
Shark331- 'Why am I here?'
bobtackular- 'Is there such thing as an "overbob"?'
eestraz- 'The bane of all mankind'
At4User (ALT)- 'No-scope!'



As you can tell from the roster above, we had to call in Alternates this time. Oh, it was so chaotic. You're lucky you weren't there.
Anyway...


GAME 1

We played One Flag on Trial By Fire, a map made by yours truly. It is basically a fort I threw together in about an hour one day, but turned out to be really solid gameplay. The defenders have a fortress built over approximately half of Foundry. There is a set of stairs in the courtyard, leading to the battlements. From here, you can loop around into the Keep, where the flag is located. The attackers have an open field, back entrances to the fort, grav lifts that spawn after a minute in, and a sniper mountain.
Anywho, the match started with us on offense. Having made the map, you'd think I'd have a little advantage, right? ahahaha, wrong. The other team did a stupendous job defending their castle, and did not yield. We didn't move the flag once.
Next round, we were defending. The other team moved like exotic acrobats, coordinating with each other perfectly. Multiple times, we would chase down an enemy that turned a corner, and be pummeled by three more. Somehow, though, we held them off.
Third Round. No scores had been made. So,what did we do? We RAMBO'd them, of course! Like swift shinobi we moved, slaughtering Team FlamingTampons, and making off with the flag.
In Round Four, they essentially did the same thing as we did and scored rather quickly, resulting in a tie.

Final Score: 1-1, Tie.
Download the film here: http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=32087788


GAME 2

We played Team Snipers (ZOMG!) on High Ground here. You can guess how this went. Lots of no-scopes and craziness. It was a close match, and describing the flow of this battle in text would make no sense. So, I leave it up to you to watch the film and determine how good (horrible?) we all did.
By the way, their team won this one.

Final Score: 50-44, Team FlamingTampons wins.
Dowload the Film here: http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=32088101



GAME 3

Team Slayer. BR start. Blackout. You know the rest.
What? You thought we lost? Haha, the joke's on you this time, fair reader! We totally used our 1337 jumping skills and BR smarts this time. This match also marked a lot of frustration and tension between the teams, due to the excessive trash-talking generously provided by JABADAPOLLARD in the previous matches (he's not on my team anymore...). Lucky us, we won and calmed everyone down. You see, for the first time ever, we were at an impasse. As far as scores were concerned, we were tied, 2-2. You wanna download this film, because, well, it's probably the only documented footage of ME actually going okay on Blackout/Lockout...

finals Score: 50-41, Team Yeti wins
Download the Film here: http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=32088271



GAME 4 (wut?)

Ah, Valhalla, the place of legends. Battlefield of gods. Heehee, we won!
:D

Final Score: 50-27, Team Yeit wins
Download the Film here: http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=32088421






Thanks to everyone who participated. If you would like to face Team Yeti in the weekly Beat the Yeti challenge, please shoot an E-mail to mcnealylindsey@gmail.com. We welcome getting our butts whooped (again).We play next week on TUESDAY (notwednesday), April 29th, 2008, at 7:00 pm est.Thanks!!
Also, you can check out Team FlamingTampons at their new website, found at
www.flamingtampons.spruz.com

BIG Year For Xbox 360

Hey, just a quick post here.
I was looking around the interwebz today, and I noticed that there are two, yes, TWO, Halo games coming out this year! That's, like, six years worth of Halo content based on the past!
Plus, there's Gears of War 2. Woot!


Halo Wars: winter 2008
Halo Chronicles: winter 2008
Gears of War 2: fall 2008


(NOTE: Due to these all coming out more or less at the same time, I personally expect something to be delayed a bit. But, who's to say?)

"Beat The Yeti": 04/16/08

Well, here it goes: my little "Bungie Humpday" ripoff, "Beat the Yeti". This week, my team and I battled against Team Dec3ption (ZOMG). Did we do good? Umm....not really. Read below for our tale of misery and woe.




Teams


Team Yeti

HeavenlyYeti- "Can't wait to play Ghost Town!"


xAPxLx Vick - "Pick me up at midfield!!"


PoD H3x Corona- 'All smiles'


T Clay1 - 'Trash talker'




Team Dec3ption

xl SYN3RGY lx - 'Pro'


xl DEC3PTION lx - 'Uchiha Itachi'


xl BURNID3 lx - 'late to the show but ready to go!'


x BeZeRK x - 'Uchiha Sasuke'




GAME 1




In game 1, we fired up Multi-flag on Yetilanche, a slight moderation of Avalanche. Immediately, we get in the vehicles, and rain fire and brimstone on the other team. We take over their base, and they start spawning in the mountain passes. This made for an explosive standoff indeed. While Corona and T Clay were locked in epic combat, I escorted Vick with the flag via Hornet for a classy flag cap. Then we did it again.


As the battle raged under the mountain, blue team eventually fought their way out and into some vehicles. As I was going for the sniper rifle, an enemy Banshee hovered close by and tried to splatter me. Bad mistake. I skyjacked him quickly and, as hee flipped this way and that, hoping it would help shake me off, I kicked him out, sending his body tumbling into the icy ocean below.


As Vick went for the last score, we met some coordinated resistance at our base. Tanks and Wraiths and Warthogs, oh my! But through true spirit, we pulled through, scoring the winning point.





Final score: 3-0, Team Yeti wins

Download the Film here: http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=30552724




GAME 2


So, we won that one. Don't start thinking we're just some awesome team of soldiers who can coordinate people to do exactly what we want. Don't believe me? Check this one out!
Okay, it's time for Blackout. Everyone's favorite map. We thought we just might have this one, but little did we know that the other team was comprised of up-and-coming MLG pros. There was a BR start, so you know the rest.
We ran around like headless chickens in these narrow corridors, listening to people calling out stuff like "They're at R2D2!" or "Sword's at C3PO!". It ended in our shameful defeat, and a Steaktacular medal.

Final score: 50-27, Team Dec3ption wins

Download the Film here: http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=30551509




GAME 3


Here we are. Ghost Town. Arguably the best map of the Legendary Map Pack. The gametype was Assault, and we knew we'd lose this one. So, before the other team had arrived prior to the beginning, we had gone into Forge to kind of tip things a little in our favor (3 sniper rifles, 1 turret watching Bomb Plant point, Rockets, and a few other victory guarantees). What we didn't realize, though, was that when the other team inveitably took us by surprise, we would be forced to spawn outside our base.
What happened next was utter hilarity. We tried to rig this game, but it backfired on us completely. They scored 3 bombings in under 5 minutes, causing us to lose the Beat The Yeti challenge this week.


Final score: 3-0, Team Dec3ption wins

Download the Film here: http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=30551992


Thanks to everyone who participated. If you would like to face Team Yeti in the weekly Beat the Yeti challenge, please shoot an E-mail to mcnealylindsey@gmail.com. We welcome getting our butts whooped (again).
We play next week on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008, at 7:00 pm est.

Thanks!!

Legendary Maps coming this Tuesday!

Just a reminder...

Halo 3: Legendary Map Pack

Cost: 800 Microsoft Points

Awesomeness: 12 out of 10

Available: April 15th, 2008

Yay!