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Considering were scheduled to play week 3s game tonight, I figure its about time to update the happenings on week 2. Last week we had the opportunity play th3midnighters team (3 Canucks & Rambo), which felt kind of strange since hes the guy running the tournament. Id liken the experience to playing basketball at a friend of a friends house back in high school. Hes got the best driveway court & while its all fun, in the back of your mind youre hoping you dont do something stupid & get yourself banned...

Recently,  while checking up on some Michigan basketball recruiting, I ran across a petition that opposes adding luxury boxes to the University of Michigan football stadium.  For those who dont follow college athletics,  The Big House is the largest football stadium in the country, capable of holding over 111,000 people (for what its worth, NFL stadiums average around 70,000).  Whats even more impressive is the schools strict policy that prohibits advertising of any kind within the stadium (as long as youre not counting the hundreds of Nike swooshes on the un

After over a week of trying to put the thing together, we managed to pull out a win against Mother Goat s squad in the first week of the season.  Given the circumstances (Missing a couple key people & general Halo rust for at least 2 of us that played) I m pleased with the outcome. Specifically the win was the result of a few solid performances:

1. Fetal killed a lot of people (thats what he does)
2. Phreaks played solidly all around (killing when needed, going after objectives)

A couple of weeks ago I ran across th3 midnighters thread regading an unoffical spring Halo 2 league and considered joining it.  Id been away from Halo playing a good bit of GRAW & Burnout: Revenge (the only game the wife plays, mind you) on the 360 & thought I should return to the roots.  When Fetal expressed an interest as well I thought itd be a good time to join up with an old running mate & get back to it.  Not surprisingly, our goals were pretty similar:

A while ago I was kicking around the site chatroom (always a good time) when the topic of the upcoming Street Fighter II Turbo game for LIVE Arcade came up. Of course the discussion degenerated into some good-natured smack talking (common in the chat room) on who would destroy who when it was released.

Not one to back down from a challenge, I stated that I was pretty sure Id clean up against them. Now I was a pretty good Street Fighter player back in the