Game I: 1 Flag CTF on Terminal - Their Choice

    During our first game we learned a very important lesson: Always, always know what the rules and settings are before you go into the game. We thought that we would be playing a four round game, it was first to three. We assumed that we'd have motion sensor enabled, we were wrong. We planned and practiced strategies for a sub-machine gun weapon start, we planned poorly. We anticipated for the normal round time, the rounds were longer and they clocked in at four minutes each.

    The small amount of confusion caused by the unusual settings coupled with the inconsistency in Team Schooly D's point of attack left us unable to anticipate their moves with any sort of accuracy. They took our flag and ran, we stopped them half way. At that time Schooly D had already maneuvered behind our spawn point and began to pelt us with sniper and battle rifle fire while the rest of his team made a second assault from their base. Our planning proved disastrous because we had built habits based on erroneous settings. After six rounds, no points for the Winged Warriors, and two for Team Schooly D, they ended the match prematurely after mutual agreement.

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Game II: MLG CTF on Beaver Creek - Our Choice

    The second game was on Beaver Creek with the official 2006 MLG CTF rules. Things didn't start out well for the Winged Warriors as we had a few miscommunications at the start that hurt us and gave Team Schooly D an advantage. We were able to overcome our mistakes and found ourselves tied at two points earlier than expected. Immediately after our second score Russell stole their flag and was running toward our base and what would have been a Winged Warriors victory. TSD quickly rallied to stop us with everything they had, they managed to stall us long enough and extract the flag out of our base for a Team Schooly D victory. After this game it was evident that we had foregone our plans in favor of our natural instincts, and that hurt us much more than anything that Team Schooly D did.

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Game III: MLG Team Slayer on Lockout - Their Choice

    This was a close game in the first half, we took the lead and the advantage right from the start. Team Schooly D had to fight an uphill battle. TSD is very good at fighting uphill battles, and they eventually tied the Winged Warriors at approximately 25 points. From then on they began to pull the lead farther away, little by little. We pulled an all-out, multiple-front offensive to break their setup at the sniper tower. We were successful and eliminated all four TSD players with only one casualty. Even after our aggressive attack they retook the sniper tower and threw us into a confusion of awkward spawns. With the Winged Warriors unable to reorganize an effective attack Team Schooly D went on a deadly streak that brought our last hope of victory to an early and frustrating end.

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Game IV: 1 Flag CTF on Zanzibar - Our Choice

    1 Flag CTF on Zanzibar is usually our best game, but Team Schooly D played a very good, very belligerent stlye that thwarted our efforts. They scored on both of their attempts and managed to stop us from scoring. On our second offensive round we took the flag all the way to the beach, just feet from scoring when Schooly D arrived and sniped our flag carrier. Those two sniper shots gave his team enough time to arrive and put up an incredible fight that ended in an unproductive sudden death.

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Game V: Team Slayer on Coagulation - Split Choice

    The Winged Warriors really wanted to earn a mark in the win category for the night and this was our last chance. We pondered why TSD chose one of the larger maps for a 4v4 game but that was their part of the deal (this game was a split choice, meaning that one team chose the gametype and the other chose the map). For the second Team Slayer game of the match the Winged Warriors found themselves in another really close game that was decided in the last thirty seconds. After fifteen minutes of sniping, defensive dig-ins, aggravated attacks, and ridiculous banshee whoring; Team Schooly D pulled slightly ahead. Time expired and the Winged Warriors were finally faced with their first loss of the 2006 season. If I had to choose one game that reflected the entire match, I would choose this one. We made some mistakes and came up short, we certainly had the opportunity to win, but because of our own errors we missed it and lost.

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