Once a week Bungie has a "Humpday Challenge" where they play members of the XBOX Live community to their own game (Halo 3). This week they selected GeezerGamers.com and I was lucky enough to get to play. This is the piece that I wrote for the site rehashing the events.
October Thirty First of the year two thousand and seven, a day that will forever live in infamy. O.K. maybe not, but it is the day that Geezer Gamers got to play Bungie during Bungie’s weekly Humpday Challenge (Again).
The site worked really hard (read: bugged Bungie until they finally gave in) to become this weeks participants in the Humpday Challenge. Bungie responded by giving us a days notice to throw some people together and do our best by trying to create a formidable team. And they left out a few details.
Meet our team – The Focktards
JameyT – Site Founder
Hawk75 – Site Founder
Jester76 – User Moderator and member of Geezer Gamers West
FireMedic41 – User Moderator and member of 911 Geezers
Hogw1ld – Overlord of Geezer Gamer Southeast
Furgus – Overlord of Geezer Gamer Southeast
Stratinator – User Moderator and member of Clan Elysium
JCBains – User Moderator and member of Clan LMB
Team Bungie
New0001 – Joe Tung
Thug Larz – Lars Bakken
Frankie – everyone’s favorite person to tea bag
TJ Scoot – Luke
We were invited by Frankie into a very eerie lobby. Have you ever walked into a room where everyone was talking and as soon as you entered it went deathly quiet and you knew right away they were talking about you? It was like that only worse. Team Bungie was up to something. We had a short little meet and greet, Team Focktards asked a couple of stupid questions and we divided up into two teams with Stratinator, Hawk75, Hogw1ld and I(JCBains) going first. Then Team Bungie said “You guys pick the game and map”. This was one of those little details we should have been informed of before hand. We knew it was coming but we hadn’t really thought about it. So I said “How about King of the hill, guys?” which was responded to with silence. So I thought, maybe we don’t want to play king of the hill, I then said, “Let’s just play some slayer and one of you guys pick the map.” Someone said, “Guardian.” Of course that meant none of the lobby setting needed to be changed because team Bungie already had it set for Slayer on Guardian. That was convenient. So much for that older and wiser saying, you know the one.
So we proceeded to get stomped into the ground by the Bungie Machine 50-39 with Hawk and Strat leading the way in kills and Hogw1ld and I trying to get out of the way. The game left Hogw1ld and I hoping that maybe we’ll get a chance to redeem ourselves later for our poor performances.
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Feeling terrible, we invited the better half of Team Focktards into the lobby and the first team retreated to the safety of our own lobby. The second team was comprised of JameyT, Jester76, Furgus and Firemedic41. It was Team Bungie’s turn to select the game and map and they chose Capture the Flag on The Pit. Team Focktards came out strong with a quick flag capture to take the 1-0 lead. But Team Bungie responded by putting down the hammer and turned the next three flag captures to win the game 3 captures to 1.
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After consecutive defeats Team Bungie took two members of Team Focktard (Stratinator and Furgus) onto their team, and played the remaining six of us in a game of Team Slayer on Construct. Furgus, being the good soldier tried his best to throw the game but someone forgot to tell Stratinator to do the same as he helped carry Team Bungie to victory. Hogw1ld and I did get our redemption as we lead Team Focktards in kills.
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Bungie was then kind enough to play a Geezer favorite – Zombies. We played a couple of rounds before saying thanks and see you later. Team Bungie was awesome and we appreciate the opportunity to play the Humpday Challenge and the chance to get to tell them thanks in person, well online anyway, for creating such an awesome game (well, 3 games).
Zombie Carnage Report
The site worked really hard (read: bugged Bungie until they finally gave in) to become this weeks participants in the Humpday Challenge. Bungie responded by giving us a days notice to throw some people together and do our best by trying to create a formidable team. And they left out a few details.
Meet our team – The Focktards
JameyT – Site Founder
Hawk75 – Site Founder
Jester76 – User Moderator and member of Geezer Gamers West
FireMedic41 – User Moderator and member of 911 Geezers
Hogw1ld – Overlord of Geezer Gamer Southeast
Furgus – Overlord of Geezer Gamer Southeast
Stratinator – User Moderator and member of Clan Elysium
JCBains – User Moderator and member of Clan LMB
Team Bungie
New0001 – Joe Tung
Thug Larz – Lars Bakken
Frankie – everyone’s favorite person to tea bag
TJ Scoot – Luke
We were invited by Frankie into a very eerie lobby. Have you ever walked into a room where everyone was talking and as soon as you entered it went deathly quiet and you knew right away they were talking about you? It was like that only worse. Team Bungie was up to something. We had a short little meet and greet, Team Focktards asked a couple of stupid questions and we divided up into two teams with Stratinator, Hawk75, Hogw1ld and I(JCBains) going first. Then Team Bungie said “You guys pick the game and map”. This was one of those little details we should have been informed of before hand. We knew it was coming but we hadn’t really thought about it. So I said “How about King of the hill, guys?” which was responded to with silence. So I thought, maybe we don’t want to play king of the hill, I then said, “Let’s just play some slayer and one of you guys pick the map.” Someone said, “Guardian.” Of course that meant none of the lobby setting needed to be changed because team Bungie already had it set for Slayer on Guardian. That was convenient. So much for that older and wiser saying, you know the one.
So we proceeded to get stomped into the ground by the Bungie Machine 50-39 with Hawk and Strat leading the way in kills and Hogw1ld and I trying to get out of the way. The game left Hogw1ld and I hoping that maybe we’ll get a chance to redeem ourselves later for our poor performances.
File share
Carnage Report
Feeling terrible, we invited the better half of Team Focktards into the lobby and the first team retreated to the safety of our own lobby. The second team was comprised of JameyT, Jester76, Furgus and Firemedic41. It was Team Bungie’s turn to select the game and map and they chose Capture the Flag on The Pit. Team Focktards came out strong with a quick flag capture to take the 1-0 lead. But Team Bungie responded by putting down the hammer and turned the next three flag captures to win the game 3 captures to 1.
File Share
Carnage Report
After consecutive defeats Team Bungie took two members of Team Focktard (Stratinator and Furgus) onto their team, and played the remaining six of us in a game of Team Slayer on Construct. Furgus, being the good soldier tried his best to throw the game but someone forgot to tell Stratinator to do the same as he helped carry Team Bungie to victory. Hogw1ld and I did get our redemption as we lead Team Focktards in kills.
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Carnage Report
Bungie was then kind enough to play a Geezer favorite – Zombies. We played a couple of rounds before saying thanks and see you later. Team Bungie was awesome and we appreciate the opportunity to play the Humpday Challenge and the chance to get to tell them thanks in person, well online anyway, for creating such an awesome game (well, 3 games).
Zombie Carnage Report
