I’m out of the game- CHICKAMUNGUS
Last Friday, I was unusually super excited about playing DoA4. You see, I’ve never been very good at that game; to be honest, I totally sucked at that game. So I was always reluctant to join a room full of S and SS level players with my big E- clearly telling everyone that I was a HUGE NOOB! But not that day, I was ready to go kick some Kasumi and Ryu butt! I had been trained by my team mate, and awesome Kokoro player, Liefje the Great, and I had been punch-grabbing and punch-punch-grabbing my way from an E- to a B+ in less than 2 weeks!! I was on the roll!!
So I pop in my DoA4 disk, and pick my primary character, Christie (suggested by Liefje), and joined a room full of B+ level players. I easily took down the first player who thought he had me with Kasumi, by 3-1! As I was fighting my second match with against a Brad Wong player, and something weird began to happen to my screen. The color of the characters started going bad. Brad Wong’s tattered grey shirt started to look an awful dark green, and the entire screen began to get darker and darker until the screen went black! I couldn’t believe it! My Xbox couldn’t be failing me now! Not for the fourth time! Not when I was training for an upcoming local DoA4 tournament! Noooooo!!!!
So I figured, this could be fixed. I’ll just remove all the cords from the back, and let everything rest for a few hours. But when I came back and replugged everything, it happened again! So then I figured, maybe it’s the game, so I popped in Rainbow Six Vegas 2, and it happened AGAIN!! So THEN I figured, maybe it’s the cords, so I switched the cords out with a friend of mine, AND IT HAPPENED AGAIN!!!! It was true, my Xbox had breathe it’s last breath for the fourth time since I bought the 360 on launch day in ‘05!
I was immediately furious that Microsoft would keep sending me this shabby piece of machinery! And worst of all, the Xbox repairs people are charging me $99 to get it fixed!! So that puts my Xbox 360 tab to $500 since I bought it for $400 on launch day! And do I think it’s worth it, NO! Why should I have to pay for Microsoft’s mistake and faulty piece of equipment? I wouldn’t spend $400 on anything unless I was planning on keeping it forever, meaning I would take care of it like it should be taken care of and make sure it wouldn’t break. Nevertheless, I have to be subjected to the carelessness of a company that I trusted to invest $400 in, just to get screwed over and robbed for more money!!
As much as I love Halo and XBL and all of my Xbox friends, I’m never spending my money on any other console that Microsoft creates! So once I get enough money, I’m buying myself a PS3. Most game are multiplatform these days, and I’ve always been more of a Sony girl anyway. Sorry Microsoft, you put me out of the game for the last time. Screw me over once shame on you, screw me over four times……..
2 commentsCGS Combine in less than a week!
Hey everyone! I’ve been really busy these past few months honing my DoA4 skills for the upcoming CGS combine. Oh dear, now it’s less than a week away! I’m leaving on Monday to go to the UK and bootcamp for a week before the tournament and fingers crossed I can kick ass back into the league!
If anyone is interested in going, it will be in Birmingham at the Omega Sektor (yes, the internet cafe Sujoy helped create) from the 16-18th of May. Don’t be afraid to come and play, meet some gamers and just have fun! 
Coochie Dimes in a video at the premiere of “Frag”
Watch our own Yvonna in a video from the premiere of “Frag”, a documentary about gaming and e-sport. Fatal1ty and her are talking about the movie, but also about gaming in general. Watch it here:
4 commentsGaming in the mall - trito
Some weeks ago I was in Skellefteå, a town in the north part of Sweden, where DreamHack arranged LAN and ESWC pre qualifier. Now it’s time to pack the bags again and go to the next gaming event. Right now DreamHack is having a LAN in the middle of Nordstan, a big mall in central Gothenburg. I will go there over the weekend to film the LAN and the ESWC pre qualifiers in CS and WC3.
This picture is taken from www.dreamhack.se
girlz 0f destruction in everyday gamer
Everyday gamer has posted an interview with girlz 0f destruction on their website. Among other things you can learn more about our team, our members and what games we are looking forward to play.
Head over to theeverydaygamer.com to read the interview.
3 commentsDreamHack Skellefteå movie - trito
Some weeks ago I attended DreamHack Skellefteå to make a video about the LAN and the ESWC pre qualifier for CounterStrike. The video was shown yesterday in GamePlay on channel TV7. You can watch the video if you head over to their website (it’s all in Swedish though):
DreamHack Skellefteå video part 1
DreamHack Skellefteå video part 2
No commentsSuper fun flash game - trito
I’ve found a really addictive shockwave game called Fuse Moshbox. Colored cubes are coming in from the sides, stopping in the middle when they hit something. Your job is to connect cubes of the same color with each other to make them disappear. When the screen is filled up with blocks it is game over. You have to connect at least three blocks at once, but the more you get in the same connection the higher score. There are also power blocks, they can be both good and bad. Give it a try. My high score right now is 423 060.
Update: My new highscore is 1 312 960
Cute TF2 video - trito
I’ve found this awesome video today at lavalevel.net and I just have to share it with you, it is so fun and cute. It’s someones girlfriend playing TF2 for the first time and she makes the funniest comments ever. Enjoy!
3 commentsHow it is to play Counter-Strike!
Hi everyone. I haven’t had the time to write anything for a while. Actually I didn’t have much to say but I think it’s time to update my situation. I’m aNouC and I’ve been playing Counter-Strike much more than Quake during the last years, even I started with that game and is the one I like the most.
Last summer 2007 I went to the ESWC, as I used to do every year. I represented Spain together with four girls, because Counter- Strike is a game played on a 5 vs 5 modus. We’ve been kinda unlucky with our lineup because since we made the Top3 in 2005, we went through some lineup changes that made very difficult for us to fix our teamplay and to have a team stability which in this game is quite important aswell as having the right motivation. That’s why in 2006 and 2007 we only took the 5th place due to our own mistakes.
After the last tournament, we all took a break till the new season started. I decided to step back for a while. Told my mates I needed to focus on some other things and so I did. We finished the ESL Major Series playing very badly, due to the lack of activity and motivation, even we were doing great at the beginning. Then everyone got lost. We left the organisation that was supporting us and we all took different ways. I needed at least two or three weeks far from the game and from most of the people till I finally recovered some energy. On that point I decided to play with males instead of starting over with a female team. Actually one of my former mates and best friend, joined another team so I thought we would never be together again and somehow I thought I would be retired from the Counter-Strike female scene. I didn’t feel right with all that, because I still wanted to go to the ESWC but I couldn’t see an option to get there. It was almost impossible to fix a competitive team on that situation so I forgot about it for some time. Last february, my friend iRene was kicked from her team and she was clanless again. She came to me to talk about it and the idea of being together again and prepare something was on the air. But we knew it was very difficult. We weren’t talking to some of the other girls since last summer, some others have been inactive for a couple of years and another one was going to be very busy on her new job so it seemed almost impossible to do anything. Suddenly somebody announced a LAN Tournament in Madrid, with a female combo on it. That was pretty interesting and we both tried to put together some old friends to give it a try. If we had the chance to meet up, would be much easier to talk about our future too, in case there was any.
The event was small but the feeling I had there was amazing. I had fun, I met some old friends and we’ve done well together, even without preparation. We managed to beat all spanish and portuguese teams and end up being the winners and leaving the place with 1.000 Euros and a big smile. We had time to talk and we decided we wanted more of this, we wanted to be together again. That’s how once at home we decided to announce our comeback. Celebrating the 10th year of a community I started once as a Quake team, we became the new spanish badGirls for now. We are playing the ESL Major Series II, where we already won our games against Defeaters, ALTERNATE aTTaX and Endless Inspiration. We still should have to win extenSia and Les Seules if we want to go to the brackets, but we will see what happens. For now we are just trying to get some teamplay back, doing some tactics and practicing a little bit every day from 22.00 CET.
Now we can just hope to have a ESWC Qualifier in Spain, that gives us a slot to go to the big finals in California. At the same time we applied for the ESWC Masters in Paris, just in case we don’t have the qualification, we will have to win the Masters and use the money to go to America. And that’s it… that’s how everything happend during the last half a year, what I’ve done and how I felt. I’m motivated again about the ESWC, which is the top event for a CS team. I would also like to reinstall Quake 3 to play it again on my free time, but since my computer is not working very well, I prefer to wait first. I love to teamplay and I would like to see some Q3 or even Q4 TDM tournaments, so I could play together with my lovely girlz 0f destruction! Damn it, I miss the rail…
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