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I'll be playing Halo :)

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I'll be there. ^_^

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I'll be there. Might as well, it's not like I have anything else going on tonight.

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I'm too disgusted with the way I look to attend.

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Well it seems like it's mainly based around the tournament and there won't be any swag for just attending. So I won't be going. Figures. I finally get a Gamestop close to my house, and the event is meh.

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My wife and I might attend. One thing that caught my eye though, on the official rules it says something about the weapon swap option and how the gamestop employees are supposed to "remove" all of the power weapons. What is up with that?

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Just got back, it was fairly lame. Execution, first to 1 with a 20 second bleed-out and no power weapons. But the really lame part was that it was splitscreen on like a 20" monitor (it was played on one of those little demo stations they have in the store with the controllers that have been sitting out there for a year with only like half the buttons working).

I finished 2nd in our tourney and got a t-shirt. Free stuff and it didn't take long.

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I walked over to my local Gamestop at 8:30. Guy behind the counter said no signed up for the tournament. So I asked for a T-Shirt, and I got one for free. I have another Gears T-Shirt from the first game, as Best Buy was giving it out with pre-orders.

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Yeah, just got back too. My brother and I both went to different Gamestops near our house. Like another poster said, it was pretty lame considering that it was splitscreen on some 20" Samsung lcd tv. Not only that, but both my brother and I are about 6'5" and the controllers were extremely low to the ground. Plus, to add, both people are host. I came in first, getting both the t-shirt and gamer points. Went to see my brother and he was just finishing the tourney up. He also came in first, getting the gamer points and t-shirt. What was funny was the fact that the gamestop employee challenged my brother to a game and said he was really good.....hahaha. My brother won that game too, and walked away.

For those wondering what the t-shirt looks like, it is a black shirt with a pretty big GoW logo (red of course) on the left side hip area. There's also a Gamestop logo (or sign, whatever you wanna call it) on the left shoulder, and finally a Gears of War 2 sign on the top middle back area.

Overall, it was decent, free stuff is always good.

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I went and lost.
Why did I loose?


I was on Gridlock in the open field where the grenades would normally be.
My enemy had out his shot gun and I my Lancer.
I unloaded my entire clip into him and he didn't down.
He hit me twice with the shotty from about 15 feet away and I was downed.
So why did I loose?

This problem bugged me all the way home when just before I reached my front door it came to me why I lost.
The GOW played in this tourny was the unupdated version.
If you all remember they updated the title to improve the Lancer and even out the shot gun.
This is the version of Gears I have been playing the last year and a half.

I was intent on staying away from shot gun battles in this tourny due to the sometimes random nature of the battle and hell bent on using the Lancer. As when I play the game normally, if you hit someone consistantly with a Lancer for more than 3 seconds they are down.

It never even crossed my mind that this would be the older version of Gears and I'm kinda pissed off about it and the fact that NO-ONE even bothered or thought about that factor in this event.

REALLY REALLY GAY Cliffy. I'm angry with you and mad at myself for not even considering that. I was more worried about wether or not it was gonna be a split or fullscreen event. Turns out the main factor was something not even anyone at Epic thought about or anyone else for that matter.
Bottom line, the Gears we all play on a daily bassis was very much different from the one that was at this tourny.

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