The Weekend Round Up – August 28, 2009.
This weekend was filled with some great games. Friday night during our regular bi-monthly practice several of the SoF members got together and battled it out in Halo 3 matchmaking.
Over the course of the night we played 14 matches and lost only 3, which is a huge improvement over the previous weeks practice session. The games that we lost were close matches and were successful in achieving our goals of working better as a team.
Our first match was land grab on Narrows where SoF prevailed 11 to 4 in total domination. The match was as exciting as land grab can get on Narrows. We secured all the power weapons each round and easily dominated the opposing team.
We then went into Neutral Assault on Valhalla where we lost 0-1 in a close match. We did have 2 random players playing alongside the SoF group with no mics making it difficult to coordinate and conquer. It was a close match with the bomb traveling from one end of the map to the other during the whole match. They ended up getting the laser which kept Crazed from being effective in the banshee.
Our next BTB match was Slayer on Rat’s Nest where we won in a close match 100-93. Overall as a team we went only plus 7, however our two random players went an outstanding (-18). In this match we racked up a nice 66 assists not as many as other matches but definitely a good start to the night.
At this time SoMP had to drop out for the night, so the remaining group went back into social slayer where we had BR’s on Foundry. The group did not disappoint winning an outstanding 50-25. The group racked up 17 assist on our 50 kills with almost everyone going positive in the kill death ratio department. From there we got a BR match on Assembly, since this is one of the newer Halo 3 maps I think we are all still finding our way around, the best strategy, and how to best work as a group. We ended up winning 50-31, with 29 assists and a plus 19 kill death ratio for the team.
Ghost town, where we were dealt our second loss of the night, losing to a group better prepared and coordinated on this map. The opposing team took control of the center room after opening up a huge lead and camped out there taking us down as we entered. This is a smaller map that our group does not see that much and it showed in the end result.
Since we still only had five members we kept playing social slayer where we once again found our group doing battle on Assembly (BR’s). This time we faced a group of highly skilled opponents but were able to emerge victorious with a score of 50-38. We managed to go plus 12 in the kill death ratio department and had 33 assists as a group.
The mythic maps seemed to be weighted heavily during our night of matchmaking as Assembly (BR’s) came up yet again in social slayer. This was one of the most heartbreaking games of the night losing 49-50 in the last seconds of the match. It was a hard fought battle but our opponents had our number in the end.
Adding a sixth member to our group we headed back into BTB for one of my favorite games of the night. Neutral assault on sandbox with two random people with yet again no mics. We racked up an outstanding 252 kills, 216 assists, and a few betrayals. We had a positive kill death ratio of plus 54 as a team. Although the match ended in a tie it was a very one sided match, the opposing team catching us out of position and storming our base resulted in our entire team spawning across the map unable to diffuse the bomb in time.
For a change of pace we got a 6v6 social big team match, a nice change of pace that allowed the SoF group to play together without the impact of matchmaking randoms. 2 flag heavy on Standoff was the match where our group went plus 28, had 91 kills and 46 assists. The light show and I (JDubbs) racked up some great stats in the Gauss hog. Spark and Brussles provided support on the flag runs while Crazed manned the banshee and angel used her plasma grenades to defend our flag.
With elpolloguapo joining the match the SoF team was now up to 7 members and only forced to deal with one random member of matchmaking at a time. Our first match with 7 was BTB on Rat’s Nest. The SoF group won 100-86 with yes I am not kidding 97 assists!! This was a match played against a similarly skilled team but with great warthog driving the match was won.
We had a good match on Valhalla in a CTF game we ended up getting 70 kills as a team with 45 assists to go around. That’s 64% of our kills came with assists. With the sniper, laser and banshee it is hard to get assists on each and every kill. That game we ended up going plus 50 in the kill to death ratio department showing that we were working and communicating as a team.
One of gupo’s favorite matches was our CTF game on Rat’s Nest. Where we had already managed two flag captures and needed a quick third to ensure victory. The other team was pressing our base hard, so guapo and I (JDubbs) got a hog up and running. I was on the chain gun while he was driving me. We arrived at the opposing base, I jumped out got the flag and got back in the hog. This left us a little exposed since we had not thought to bring a gunner and the other team was on to us. Sure enough guapo splatters our way back to the base for a skilled but somewhat easy capture.
In our last game of the night we had a BTB slayer game on Sandbox we won 100 – 41, with an amazing kill death ratio of plus 58 as a team. In addition, our 100 kills came with an outstanding 77 assists.
That rounded out the formal part of the SoF night but did not finish the weekend. Most of the group attended the general HMB forum night on Saturday night and a few of us got together on Sunday for some additional action. Guapo and I hit up team doubles for several successful matches. Then we switched over to team snipers with GreySpark for several matches. At the end of the night Mendi even joined us for a few matches.
It was a good night of gaming on Friday and a good weekend full of Halo 3 fun.
Written by Jdubbs11.
ah yes. the Gauss Hog is my lover… =D
and it was a great “first official practice”! lookin forward to the next one!