Good Luck Unky Warthog!

As many of you know we will be missing the services of our best driver. That's because Unky Warthog has left for Malta, the small island nation in the Mediterranean Sea. The geography of Malta is what the maps Valhalla and Standoff were modeled after and Unky is spending the next semester mastering the terrain in a real world setting.


I think I speak for everyone at the Knights of Cydonia, when I say "Good Luck Unky" and I am sure you will be an even better hog driver when you get back in the summer.

To read more about Malta check out the following links.
Wikipedia Malta
CIA Factbook on Malta
Official Tourism site for Malta
University of Malta

This is also my prediction for the new vehicle on one of the new maps. Unky get ready to own in this guy.

Notes from Monday

There is actually a lot to talk about today, which normally would get me all excited. But for some reason I am not in a posting mood. Yeah, it's crazy, I know. So while much of this could be expanded on, I am going to make this post relatively short, and hope you guys pick up some steam in the comments.

First and foremost, I think we are all in agreement on this, but Pablito and I wanted to make it official. We would like to formally welcome Adeclipse to the Knights of Cydonia. [Hold for Applause] Pablito and I had the pleasure of playing with him on Friday night. We played 7 games of a mix of Team Slayer and Team Doubles and we won all 7 games.

Here was Adeclipse's averages for the night: 11.5 Kills/Game, 6.7 Assists/Game and 10.3 Deaths/Game. I can say with honesty that he is a good player who communicates well and will fit in nicely with the KofC style. I was worried at first that a possible southern drawl would come off difficult to hear or annoying but, to be honest, it was quite soothing.

Although he does throw like a girl.

But anyways Christmas is getting closer and if anyone out there wants to get me anything they could get me this. It's pretty sweet but I am hoping they come out with a needler version soon.

Speaking of things getting closer, the three new maps will be released tomorrow. I am not sure how it works. Will they be released at midnight tonight? Sometime Tomorrow? I am not sure, but what I am sure of is that we should all play tomorrow night and test them out.

A lot of people have been talking about all the matchmaking shit that goes with the new maps. Well, I really suggest you read the latest update from Bungie. Looks like there are a lot of things that are going to be changing on matchmaking within the next few months. Nothing made me upset, which is rare.

A few things that actually effect us:
- They are going to be "some long requested BR Start variants and a wider map selection in the ranked play lists." I am not sure what maps they are going to change the BR start points but hopefully it will be beneficial to us.

- Team Objective will be focused on CTF (both One Flag and Multi Flag variants) and Assault. Territories, OddBall and VIP will be taken out of TO and moved into a different Matchmaking called Team Control.

- They hope to have a ranked BTB sometime in January.

I don't know how much stuff you guys read on the internets, as many of you have far better things to be doing (SB winning monies, Tilla getting married, Adeclipse being married, Josey tanning, etc.) but here are a couple of good videogame blogs I often check during my day.

And last but not least, I would like to revisit the idea of standard KofC emblem. Seems we ran into a little wall a week or two ago. I really don't care what it is and I am not sure who actually does. I think the person who cares the most on what emblem it is, might be Josey (no disrespect). So what if Josey determines his emblem (Green Wolf perhaps?) and we can either adopt it or then determine what should be the common theme.

I also, if I have time plan on making a few sample ideas and posting them so be on the look out for that! Exciting I know.

Congrats to Unky!

I would like to express my congratulations to Unky Warthog for passing the rigorous entry process into the KoC. This is BY FAR the most illustrious moment in Unky's Halo career, yet it still pales in comparison to this man's list of achievements, most notably this.



For all those wondering, my Halo 3 plans for post-work are as follows:
1. end work
2. happy hour with coworkers
3. play Halo 3 moderately drunk
I will be online with Tilla and maybe a guest or two around 7pm CDT, possibly earlier.