  So on saturday, the 3rd of July, we got 16 people together and hooked up the xboxes. Halo was the game and fun-to-be-had-by-all was the goal... ACk! AErrhgh HWGFAHKgwafg Whew! Boy, that was starting to sound all weird and everything. Ok so yeah, we got a TON of people together and the only bloopers to be had was a small transportation/permission issue in the morning about getting Tim here. Unfortunately the way to solve it was that I had to drive over and pick him up, thereby leaving my team during a Blood Gulch CTF match which we MIGHT have won. Apparently as soon as I left the defense started to crumble and by the time I returned with Tim it was almost over. Anyway, that was just one of many games we played. We tried just about everything in the arsenal of gametypes (not rally though, bleh), including a new addition that I actually really enjoyed (though it might need a bit of tweaking). It's called wargames and it's fashioned after a tactical squad-based idea. You leave shields on, knock the health to 150% and put it on "No Sniping" weaponset.
We left it with just warthogs. It's based on the CTF gamemode, though with the assault variation added in. Only one flag, so each team takes turns trying to take their flag into the enemy base. I thought it worked better when we had a 4v4 going then when we had 8v8. For some reason all those people had a tendency to actually make things just way too difficult (at least not without seriously increasing the respawn time).
Ok, so we played rockets, shotguns, classic FFA and TS, CTF, Assault, Team Shotguns, Oddball, Goldengun, Team IronHide, and a few others I can't remember. One of the most memorable was when Tbone challenged everyone else to take him on by himself. We chose a shotguns game in wizard to try it and he basically owned because he had so many targets. The second time, and this time we were determined to beat him, we played ironhide in prisonor (sp?
) and it quickly deteriorated (sp? ) into a game of who could betray the most of their own teammates *laugh* My brother and I also took on eight or so people and came out on top (I think) for most of the few games we played like that. We never did get around to trying the Bug vs Marine idea with 16 people... it just didn't last. Speaking of not lasting, we also got to play Ultimate frisbee (about 8 of us) partway through the day. Honestly most of us just needed a quick break... so we went down to ACS and played some fribsy (Ben C, Aaron, Jordan, and Carter vs myself, Ben A, Ben P, and Jesse). I'd say it was an awesome game basically because I'm not used to playing it with all people who know how to run and play. Than left somewhat early (he was really tired), and Peter was only here for a few hours (I barely remember seeing him) but I think they both had a good time. We ordered pizza around 5:30 and consumed ALL of it (not hard when you have 16 hungry boys there)... and also consumed ALL of tim's soda (3 12 packs I think). I would be much amiss if I neglected to mention the playing of a surprise 1337 gamer. Aaron (also known ingame as AFLO and Lil Jon) was certainly good enough to gain the "Legendary" skill ranking I think and even gave me and my bro a run for our money a few times. I'd actually known him through the BG (not blood gulch you g33ks...) youth group, so it was cool to run into him again. Also impressive was Carter's playing skills after having only owned an xbox and halo for about 2 weeks. He must just be another natural. *grin* As for my own playing, I'd say that I played about normal about during the middle of the day and got better as I went (meanwhile everyone else seemed to be playing better than I'm used to).
As a result, I didn't do well during the start but sorta picked up towards the end. During the huge CTF games one might say that I was the MVP for my team, simply because whenever I left it went downhill almost immediately (really, just ask). For the FFA and TS I think Antilles (my bro) really shined the brightest. He cleaned up for the whole beginning of the day and pretty much kept up the momentum throughout the day. Tbone (though much ridiculed throughout the day, sorry tim! ) I think also really shined brighter than ussual.
He beat me quite a few times and I don't think unfairly, so perhaps he is finally moving himself out of the "3rd place" position. In regard to the MVP of the entire day I'd hope that everyone will agree when I award it to my brother. I honestly think he played the best of all of us, even if he slowed down a tad at the end. Here's the end player list for who was there: Daniel Ben C Ben M Ben A Ben P Tim Nolan Weilin Paul Than Aaron Dad Peter Carter Mark Jordan Jesse You'll note that there we 17 names on that list, though we never did have more than 16 (than left and peter showed up).
I would personally like to give a special thanks to everyone who brought equipment and helped chip in for the pizza. Stats: Most kills - Rendar - 138 frags in a targetted killing game Most deaths - Don't remember this one... though it was definitely over 100 MVP - Antilles Most surprising player - AFLO Most improved player - NCM (he's been promoted to the heroic rating by the way...) I can't think of anything else, so... adios. 
