I am a pretty late blogger. Why? Because I am pretty lazy. Well it’s been sometime since the Dyuthi ’06 events. And I have been lazing around. My friends planned to go to Model Engineering College’s Technical Festival Excel 2006. But I decided not to, mainly because I was trying to give up attending technical events and going to them. I was on a hunt to get a Logitech MX518 Gaming Grade optical mouse for Counter-Strike. The plan was to make some money by selling F.R.I.E.N.D.S Seasons DVD that I ripped. And let me tell u it wasn’t a smooth journey. Everyone wants things for free; no one was willing to pay the price for the hard work.
In the meanwhile there were rumors about an Unreal Tournament (GOTY Edition) competition that was going to be held on 4th Sunday of February as a part of Colloquium – The Technical Festival of Mohandas College of Engineering. Duttan, Stryker and Shocky called me to join them on their trip to the competition. I being out of touch from the old UT was hesitant at first but then I joined them. Our main aim was to beat a guy named Rubin. He was the consecutive winner for the last two UT tourneys and we needed to kick his ass. Moreover Rs. 2500 was up for grabs and it cost only Rs. 2600 for the Logitech MX518 mouse. My hopes of winning was pretty faint as I was the least experienced of them, all 3 were mad players of UT2k4 and I was no were close to their skill so I knew I dint stand a chance.
The trip to M-CET wasn’t a pleasant one either. I collected Duttan from his house and traveled to Kesavadasapuram and kept my little sunny there. Then we waited for Stryker and Shocky to come in their bikes. Duttan got on to Stryker’s bike and me on to Shocky’s. Then the trip to college began Stryker rode ahead of us and got to the college very early. We lost our way on to the college and Ended up on the way to Araynad instead of Anad lol. Not a good omen especially when going for gaming.
Later on we reached college a little late. There events had not yet started so got ourselves a seat and waited for our turn for registration. I registered for UT as I did the last 3 times this time though it was only UT. I dint register for any other events. The catch this time was that there were no registration fees. We saw the list of participants it was around 41 with just the 4 of us from outside. I haven’t seen this many participants in a single gaming event expect maybe of course in games arena in Drishti ‘05. Well we knew that most were noobs but there could be the exceptional hidden talent just like Rubin the first time we played him.
The game rules were pretty set, we did argue for a fair competition with game speed being set to 100% and usage of external peripherals like Duttan’s MX510 and Stryker’s MX518. We had made a plan ahead of time that we all would not play in one single round to get eliminated by each other. The rules were 2 from each prelims goes into the next round. Duttan made it quite easy and he got his home ground Liandri. Stryker got Deck16][ and we could hear a lot of head shots. Shocky and I got in the same round the map was Phobos, I put my nick as “sdmf” which meant (Suck Dick Mother Fuckers) obviously nobody realized it. I was placed first and Shocky became second. We kicked their asses combined with Duttan’s Mouse I felt very godlike. And then there were 16 people left in the competition the rest 25 eliminated. We did face a crisis in the next round with me being put in the same heat with Stryker and Duttan, while Shocky was to play alone in the next heats. Obviously I dint stand a chance with both of them in the same round. So I made the excuse that I needed Duttan’s mouse and the coordinator put me in the same round as with Shocky and the map was Cybrosis][ . It was frag time and Rubin was there in that round. Shocky and I bashed the hell out of them. But in the middle of the game the server crashed and the game had to be restarted. And the same thing repeated Rubin was pushed to the third place by Shocky and I combined. I ended up second and Shocky first. After this it was Duttan’s and Stryker’s turn. The match was played in Liandri. Duttan’s once again proved why he is the lord of Liandri. He got 55 frags with just 30 deaths. It was pretty amazing. I termed that Duttan had a “Frag Lust”. The next were the semi finals. We had successfully eliminated all the external competions with Me, Duttan, Stryker and Shocky in the semi we had eliminated all the possibility of M-CET winning any prize in gaming.
The Semis were fixed as 1 on1. The two semis were to take place simultaneously this posed a great problem. I was using an MX510 during all the matches and suddenly to shift to a wheeling optical mouse and compete against Duttan with MX510 is not that easy. Both the semis were started I played against Duttan and Stryker against Shocky both in Deck16][. Shocky was raped by Stryker. As for Duttan and my game, odds were in favor of Duttan. I put my good old name (|053|2)^4_Fox for the semi. It was a 10 minute match and I had a hard time controlling the mouse. But I knew Duttan would be aggressive so I played my game a bit defensive allowing him to make the approach. Then I got him near the slime pit and flaked him and drew first blood being frustrated he began chasing, I just held my spot and played naturally. Frags kept coming and Duttan kept making mistakes so bad that he killed himself in the slime pit. I won the match with 3 to -1, Duttan had lost against me. I did say that this was bad luck and my lucky day since I haven’t won an official match with him.
The final was a battle between me and Stryker. I knew that Stryker is good in any arena with a Sniper Rifle. So I had to play dirty and asked him to host my home ground Ice Station Zeto. Now Zeto is a very closed map with excellect ability for reflective flaking. Also I had the advantage of knowing where the 150 shield was hidden. With map in my favour the odds were for me. It was just a matter of getting one frag. But there was a problem Stryker also knew this and he demanded for a toss. Duttan tossed and I won the toss, nothing could go wrong this day and the match began. About 5 minutes into the match I fragged him with a reflective flak and drew the first blood and from then on the game was mine. There were very good attempts by Stryker to frag me but all were in vain. Then when 2 minutes remained I fragged him taking the lead to 2. Finally the match ended with a 2- 0 score and me winning the match.
It was a moment of triumph for me, I had won my first tourney. After so many defeats and close calls I finally got my long awaited victory. Also with Rs. 2500 as the prize money now I could afford to buy me a Logitech MX518 Gaming Grade Optical Mouse.
All of them congratulated me on my victory and I was still in my fantasy world of winning. We all went to have lunch and then we took off from the college giving the responsibility of collecting the prize to a junior. On our way back we remembered that we dint give the registration fee and then Duttan and Stryker went back while Shocky and I were on our way home. Shocky dropped me off at Kedaram in Keshavadasapuram and I took my Sunny home. Later on Duttan told me that he had also collected the prize and there was no registration money. The rest of the day went without many events. I was dreaming of buying me a MX518 soon hopefully.
