First Annual Xbox Live STAR'D Tourny

Today I am pleased to annouced the FIRST ANNUAL STAR"D TOURNY for XBOX LIVE. Details below:

What:A Multi-Game Tourny played over Xbox Live
Who: Any Xbox Live memeber with the games listed below.
No, Really, WTF?:The Tourny will be multi-game, double-elimination and will consit of around 5 or so rounds. Games will include:

• Whacked!
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow (New Maps, purchuse req'd)
• MechAssult 1 and 2
• Unreal Championship
• Halo 2 (New Maps only, purchuse req'd)
• A "Random" Game

It will be an invidual based tourny--NO TEAM GAMES.

Amount of rounds played will be based on amount of players.

The final showdown will be played on a random game.

When: As soon as players sign up. I'll send e-mail notification one week piror...but I'm thinking of around late June to starts.

How: Send an e-mail to StarDrummer@gmail.com with your name, GamerTag, gameslist, and your CURRENT Halo 2 highest level. I will send you both a confirmation e-mail, and a F/R from StarD (You must accept so we can find each other). One week before the start of the tourny I will e-mail you with the ladder, which will include challenge dates and times. Failure to show up within 5 minutes of a challenge will result in YABKO (Your Ass Being Kicked Out).

Prize: TBD. Really going to depend on how many people show up for this thing.

MTV Lets Out a Cat

Just one day after shotting the MTV/Xbox 2 event, MTV has blown some of the buggest surprsies.

First, TeamXbox "found" the next Xbox logo from pics of the event. The logo keeps the "full circle" desgin element, but takes away the wierd text from the orginal Xbox logo, so no no more X80X.

Then, a description of the event has given the world the first, real confirmation that 2005 will indeed see the next Xbox, as the description reads something about see the games of Fall 2005 for Xbox 2.

Next time, maybe MS will go with VH1? Or how about BET?

AP English Test

So, on Monday I took the AP English 11 test. It wasn't too bad, pretty much just waht I expected it to be.

Anyway, one of the essays I had to write about involved the online comic house, the Onion. I still can't talk too much about the test...but I was pleasently surprsied to be working with a funny onion article (circa 1999), over a boring Purtian essay (circa 1660).

(College Board people: I published this way after the 48 hour period...my class has alreadl discussed the essays...please don't burn me alive!)

I'm a Level One!

It's great to start all over again!

The 2V2 playlistt is alot of fun. I'm going to put in some serius hours with a freind this weekenbd, after AP testing is done.

The other things are nice, but they really do change the game around, luckiy mostly for the best.

Again...Bungie rocks.

Heres hoping Valve will be just as freakin' cool with Half Life 2...

The End of a Statistical Era

Stats for Halo 2 will be deleted Tomorrow morning.

The Playlist update will also go out tomorrow morning.

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IMO, I still think its stupid to reset the stats. I still think that most stats were not gained by cheating, and that they still represent the level of any person playing Halo 2 right now. But apparently Bungie thinks otherwise, so who the hell cares what I think.

As far as the Playlist, I love it. Removing the radar from 1V1 will be nice. 2V2 will also make for some tight games. I'm not a huge fan of the BR, but, I can definatly see how it's neccessary for maps like Coag. The new includsion of vechiles should be nice as well.

Taking the combo out was a great thing, althoguh I don't like how they did it. I still could have used the Plasma Riffle.

All in all, it should make the game more fun. These last few weeks, we really have recived a Halo 2.1 in alot of ways. I have yet to see ANY devloper support ANYTHING the way Bungie is supporting Halo2. You guys rock.

Major...I Smell Fish

Over at the "offical" Xbox forums...Major just got my attention.

Under the XBL forum...at about 2 PM he made a post about the Halo 2 stats being reset TOMORROW. The evidence is still there as other are talking about it.

However, at about 3:30, he locked up that first post, and reposted saying the stats will be reset "this week". The old post now reflects this change.

What happened MN? Jump the gun? Count your chickens before they hatched? (I'm J/K-ing...I actually think MN is the best thing to happen to XBL)

Wheres the Posts?

Sorry about the few posts oer the last week. And I am also sorry for the few posts there will be this week.

This week is AP Testing. Which means, well, I'm dead. Yesterday I took AP English...I can Officaly talk about it tomorrow (weird AP 48 hour rules). Friday I am tacking the AP USH test.

Ahhhh!