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Lan Player/Team Rundown
HRG
You’ve been pretty much our only practice for the 2 weeks leading up to the lan. I don’t think we won a single map (might of tied a few times). It is pretty obvious that you/HT/Jeden are on different level than the rest of the teams in our version. Hopefully you can find some financial support and make it to China. Paying your own way is just more motivation for success.
Ubad- You playing shadow on mexico made us choose eagle eye.
Ralf- You’ve come along way since eotL. Keep it up.
Erick- Sucks about the mouse. Class act, and a good team leader.
Harvey- Played hard at the lan. Hence why he passed out as soon as he got back to the hotel.
Brando- Proved quite easily that you were the better impact sniper. Eagle eyes was a nightmere at B.

HammerTime
Congrats on winning the LAN. You guys were clearly mechanically the best team there. You were downright nasty on Mexico. I think all the teams there accepted that playing you on Mexico meant defeat.
15- Beat me in CF. Beat me in bowling (tripled my score). Beat me in pool. Lay off, I get the point.
Mav- Standup guy and a great player.
Umad- Clutch. Was nice meeting you in person after talking to you on xfire forever.
Gandhi- The plays you make only you can do. If anyone else would try that they would die instantly.
Albert- You made me sad. I made a bet that you would out frag Gandhi on mexico and apparently you didn’t. Did you play so good against LPK in qualifier 1 just because you hate us? Not cool bro.

Jeden
By far my favorite team of the lan. The energy and passion you guys show for cross fire is awesome. It is a shame I am not a bit more tan. I feel like playing with you guys would be a blast. I enjoyed the walk through jersey. I noticed the next morning that if we would have turned at the highschool we would of saved about 30 blocks.
Twerk- You called me terrible, kind of hurt me feelings. Bad yes, terrible no.
Banks- Add me on LoL- lpkdoop
Twinny- A lot better than I expected.
Wizdom- Glad I ran into you on the way to Times Square.
UltimatePOV- Sucks I missed your matches. Really wanted to watch you play (I thought you cheated online).

LPK
This roster wasn’t even supposed to be called LPK. Our financial support fell through so, it is what is. The one and only LPK was jbiel/0z/sype/mrn/doop in summer of 2010. 26-0, enough said. Anything else has been an attempt to mimic the original. Hence, why all of them failed.
Remix- People won’t believe this I actually enjoy playing with remix. Our personalities did clash at times, but it is nice to have teammates who wear their emotions on their sleeves. His passion and desire to win is unrivaled.
Sype- Been a great teammate for the last 2 years. Shame I keep making terrible roster decisions. So many missed opportunities, my bad.
Jon- Nutty rifle, even crazier driver. Really showed up the day of the lan. GL in CSGO and CF in the future.
Minty- Mr. Peter Minh. You blow. Just kidding bro. I know you consider her an investment, but just remember it’s called jail bait for a reason.
Doop- By far the best player at the lan. He was able to get a kill with 7 different weapons (deagle, m4, ak, awm, k2, mp5, he grenade) a Cross-Fire lan record.

Devious
Shame you guys didn’t have time to practice more. Was awesome to meet you all in person. You’ve all been around forever. <(-_-)> was the only team to almost beat LifeLine in the WOGL-Launch Tournament and you had only been playing for a short while at that time.
Popz- Wanted to play gay chicken. Forgot that I live with 40 dudes.
Chrissy- The original k2 warrior. It’s been on the gun list 2 years in a row. No need for you to pick up the SG.
Leapy- Stop saying yolo. Maybe you and your new wife can have an Age of Wushu / Cross-Fire themed wedding.
Chubrub- According to quack, you and I would love playing together. Maybe that can happen.
Quack- Most awesomest person at the lan. Needs a new pc so he can pewpew. I entrusted him with all of LPK’s strategies for the last 2 years. Hopefully he starts “The Art of CF” and makes a ton of money!

Thoughts/Opinions
The tournament structure was very frustrating. It went from double elimination to single elimination randomly overnight. Also all the maps were played instead of just the 5 from the previous 2 qualifiers. This is not an excuse, just a frustrating fact.

The laptops were awesome and the headset was top notch. I still prefer my beyerdynamic mmx300 over the Plantronics commander. The server was restarted the night before and the tournament began relatively on time with very few delays.

During our match vs HRG we noticed that sometimes the shoutcasters could be heard over the speakers. I should have been a good sport and paused the match right then and there until something could be figured out. Unfortunately I am much more ethical in hind sight. There were a few rounds were I adjust calls based on the little bits of information I could pick out from the muddied cast.

The client error that HRG had versus HT hurt them big. Also, I am sure hammertime at least heard some of the things the casters were saying. It makes you wonder considering how close the matches were. Was it a perfect situation no. It was the best possible at the time and I hope it is fixed if there ever another event for cross fire.

Overall all the teams that went to lan came to play. I am pretty sure no one saw Jeden as a legitimate dark horse.

doop51

Trip Blog
Wednesday
I got out of class around noon after taking my first mid term of the day. I was fortunate enough to see a text from minty where he was freaking out about something (he didn’t specify what). I glanced at the forums and found out that jarrod wasn’t going to come to lan. I got a hold of him on facebook and he gave me some of the reasons on why he wasn’t showing up. I made a post on z8 forums hoping someone would be able to stand in to be our fifth. I didn’t want to not go, even though at that point I gave our chances of winning to be next to 0. We arranged for drel to be our fifth. He was going to take a bus and meet jon. He would then carpool to the city with him.

I went on campus to print out all of the information for the lan. I made a binder with the player packet, bus schedules, my plane itinerary, as well as my shuttle info to LaGuardia on Sunday. I had tons of parking options as well. Once I had my binder assembled I left for St. Louis. My mom’s birthday was Thursday so I had tons of relatives in town to celebrate it. After eating dinner with the family I checked my phone and noticed that jarrod had changed his mind and was coming. As excited as a kid on Christmas I went and texted all of our team that we would use jarrod and not drel. Minty didn’t believe jarrod and thought he was trolling us. I went to bed expecting the worst.

Thursday
I got up at 7 am and packed my luggage. I headed out to the airport with my uncle and my dad. We stopped for some doughnuts from a local shop and then left for the airport. About 5 minutes from the airport I realized I forgot to pack my camera so we went to a nearby walmart where I bought a cheap digital one (~$20 for a 7 megapixel). I got to the airport and went through security. Luckily they weren’t running the xray death machines (seriously look into it, those scatter scanners are deadly). Once I got my shoes back on it was off to wait at the delta terminal.

I was bored and thought about how we could possibly beat HRG on mexico. They were stomping us all week. What I came up with is they had the tendency to cheat ralf/Harvey towards long A so they could put pressure on bridge. This left Erick alone sewers. What we would do is as soon as I felt them at long Remix and myself would hit shadow to quad to b (ramp would be smoked by remix). I would use a mp5 to kill twelvez (the shadow player). The other 3 would hit sewers and focus collapse into B. A doors was going to be smoked by me from near bridge. Excited with my theory crafting I got on the plane to NYC.

It was a relatively short flight. When I landed I turned my cell back on and had some texts from the teammates. They said jarrod was still posting he wasn’t going and was trolling us. This was it the moment of truth. Was he trolling us? Is he not going to be at the airport? Well luckily after 10 anxious minutes we were able to meet up. We headed towards the air tran to take the ACE blue line subway to Penn Station. NYC’s subway system was so easy to use it was amazing. It blew the crappy metro bus/train system St. Louis has out of the water. Once we were at penn station we headed to the javitz center to pick up our passes.

Sype was bumming around at his cousins bicycle repair shop in mid town. He said he would meet us at the hotel. Jon was driving in from Albany and was hitting serious traffic. It took him nearly an hour just to make it through the Lincoln tunnel. He ended up meeting us at a Mc Donalds on 32nd st. Jarrod and I got hungry, we were waiting outside javitz for jon/minty and the constant smell of the street venders drove us nuts. After seeing how over priced and crappy the food court was we walked around to find an alternative.

Minty decided to take his own route to penn station instead of taking the airtran/subway like we suggested. He ended up taking some local bus to grand central where he switched to another bus. Eventually he made it to penn station (about an hour and half after when he would of if he took the subway).

Jon drove us around as we delt with the endless 1 way streets in an attempt to find minty. Eventually we got him to stay by a street corner and with jon’s gps we got to him. The 4 of us headed over to North Bergen to check into our hotel.

We got our gear into back packs and searched for a LAN café near where we were staying. There was one in Fort Lee. Remix got a hold of them and asked them to install crossfire so we could practice there. As we waited for sype to get to the hotel we went over some of the replays I had been saving and labeling in an attempt to figure out how to win more rounds. Eventually sype got to the room (he got off at the wrong bus stop and had quite the hike to get to the hotel).

We all packed our stuff and headed to the lan center. It was a pretty sweet setup and the staff was very accomadating. Check them out at http://localbattles.com/

We played some Br team on eagle eyes and won quite handedly (had some issues first half but people were sorting out pc issues). We decided to set up skype so we all had to rent headsets from the café. We then played Avarice and lost 3 out of 3 maps. This was quite disheartening. We found another scrim and played a half. We realized we were getting no practice by playing the crappy teams that were left online once avarice got off so we packed out stuff up and headed back to the hotel.

Jon had a phobia of sleeping 3 to a bed so he elected to sleep on the floor. We planned on getting up at 7 and heading to javitz in hope that we could get some practice in.

Friday
We had found out the night before that we were the first match of the day and would be playing devious. Sadly we also found out that they changed the tournament from double elim to single elim. This had us worried as we weren’t very good at some of the maps and we felt like with a double elim bracket we could make it to the finals no problem.

It took us abit to find our way to a parking lot I scoped out the night before on the internet. It was a few blocks from the javitz center so along the way we stopped at subway for breakfeast. The dude burnt all of our subs so it was kind of annoying.

Once we got to the lan most of the teams were already there. We weren’t able to jump on the pcs early so we all just waited around. Finally everyone started getting there setups going. I had some monitor issues, but they were fixed in abit. Jon unfortunately had 1 issue after another. Eventually his pc was working when sype noticed his pc was lagging hard. The organizers were getting a bit frustrated with us because we were causing a delay in their tournament.

The first map versus devious went quite well. I felt we played about as good as we could. It was quite apparent we had a lot of rough edges as we lost a few rounds we should of won easily. The second map was port and we demolished them. Was a bit of a surprise to me, because we hadn’t actually practiced port and we went over everything mid round in game. It’s funny because people watching the cast noticed what we were doing. We ended up winning port handedly and advanced onto the next round to play HRG.

Our first map vs HRG was factory. We came out to an early lead and should of won the map ~9-3. Unfortunately we let them sneak back in and get a few rounds. Although happy with our performance considering we had never played factory as a team and we had just gone over what to call spots moments before we went live, I knew that we had little to no chance on T side. Sure enough we just weren’t able to get anything going. We were attempting to rely on getting picks at B, but it just wasn’t working for us. We ended up losing the half.

We had to decide what map to play for the second map. The maps we came up with were: eagle eyes, Ankara, mexico, black widow. We had won an eagle eye scrim the night before (against that Br team) and I felt we played decent. On the hand we had not won any of the Ankara, mexico, or black widow scrims and even worse we hadn’t beat HRG on any of those maps for about the 2 weeks leading up to WCG. We chose to go with eagle eye (even though we had only scrimmed it once, where as we had played mexico probably 20 times vs HRG). We got absolutely destroyed. At one point I was so frustrated I lashed out at remix when he was complaining telling him, “if you are so good why don’t you play B then ******”. Kind of a low point, and soon enough we had been knocked out of the tournament. Like I do with losses I put them out of my head asap. I suggested we play mexico next, when I was reminded that we had already lost on factory (I completely cleared my mind of that map). I just sat there and hung my head for abit. I was frustrated with myself, because if I could of got more entries at B on factory we could of easily won that map. My bad play on GR on eagle eyes along with not being able to dominate garden/b halls on factory lead to us being ineffective.

I had to get out of the lan center. I don’t take losing well, especially in that fashion. Jarrod said he would come with me to check out WTC and down town. We left the lan and he sold his pass to a local (he was flying out early Saturday so he had no reason to keep it). We chatted with the guy as we walked to an atm near penn station. Jarrod gave me some money to cover the hotel and we ate burger king for lunch. Hopped on the subway and headed down towards ground zero. While at the memorial jarrod called the delta number to try and see if he could get an earlier flight home. They told him it would cost money over the phone and to just come to the airport and they will work something out. Unfortunately for him they weren’t able to so he ended up waiting something like 14 hours at the airport for his flight.

I headed back to the javitz center to meet up with my teammates. I got back in time to watch the last 2 maps of HT vs HRG. I made a small bet with leapy that aL (the mexico monster) would out frag Gandhi. We both ended up distracted and never caught the final score of that half. I still maintain aL did better. Leapy decided he was going to come with us to the hotel instead of going back to where he was staying the night before.

After the matches we headed back to the hotel. We invited HRG to come chill with us. Leapy, sype and myself had a few beverages and I taught leapy some drinking games (life is tough when you live in the middle of nowhere). Sure enough leapy, lost his first pong game ever and didn’t do too good at three man or purple either.

Everyone was dead tired so I put the beer in the tub and covered it with ice and blankets to keep it cool. We all went to sleep. The best part was we didn’t have to get up by a certain time as we had lost.

Saturday
We got back to javitz around 12:30 pm. We hung around for a bit watching world of tanks. Leapy was salivating over one of the age of wushu chicks. Leapy kept talking about it so I told him to just go ask her out. He was too shy and didn’t have the confidence at the time so I told him I would do it for him. We walked over there and I took a picture of Leapy and the wushu girls. After wards I walked up to the one and talked leapy up. I invited her out to the VIP party at lucky strike later tonight. She gave leapy a look over and then wrote her number down and gave it to him.

We went back over to the WCG booth and leapy was like an excited puppy. Everyone just bummed around comic con for abit. Eventually we all met up and headed out to view NYC. None of the other teams wanted to come with us, but that was alright. We headed to Times Square, Rockefeller plaza, the fashion/shopping districts, and eventually up to central park. Leapy bought some clothes to wear that night from Hollister (I told him Hollister was for high schoolers but it didn’t phase him).

At the subway at central park something funny happened. The metro card machines were busted. Some random guy came in after us and opened the gate. We all walked through. He asked people for some money. Leapy/Minty and the Chinese girls next to us all paid the random guy like $5. He made a quick $50 and we went on our way. After wards I mentioned that there was no way that guy worked for MTA and that he was just some random guy. We took the subway down towards WTC. We walked around for abit and stopped at a Duane Reade so leapy could get stuff to shave to impress his future wife.

I took us on the wrong path while trying to get back to the ACE blue line to penn station. We wandered around for abit before we were finally able to find the station (thank you smart phones). We headed back to javitz and met up with everyone. For some reason everyone was following me on our walk to lucky strike. I took us to what I thought was a short cut (it looked like it dead ended). We cut back through javitz (shortcut successful!) and made our way towards lucky strike.

At the door the bouncer informed us that it was going to be 21 and up only (Hurray team LPK + leapy party). The bouncer was awesome and had a great sense of humor. He really loved talking about his mommas titties. Eventually the wcg crew showed up and a compromise was made. The people not of age to consume were handed wrist bands and had x’s marked on their hands.

I was quite happy with the unlimited drinks and food. It was nice to drink a long island with premium ingredients and not the crap I mix at school. I also had some scotch on ice (johnny black and a glenlivet 10 yr), some other mixed drinks. The food was awesome. Various appetizers and what not. I suck at both bowling and pool so that was whatever. A low point was when tyler (15oL) tripled my score in bowling. It also didn’t help that his girlfriend beat me quite handedly as well. I played some pool, chatted with the different people there, and so on.

Jeden was awesome. They had such a passion for the game when they were talking with various people there. It’s was quite apparent that they were now addicted to competitive gaming were going to do whatever they can to make sure they were the top team.

Eventually we decided to leave. It was LPK and jeden. We were gonna head back to our room and chill. We took a short walk over to port authority where the bus crisis began. Some people got distracted from the goal. We finally got to port authority and bought some tickets for the 125 (Jeden took this to get downtown). The port authority staff had us going all over the place. No one there had any idea what they were talking about. Eventually we figured out we could hop on the 163 instead. After nearly 2 hours at the port authority we were all on a bus (not the right bus, but a bus) heading into jersey. The bus was heading the opposite way of our hotels. We got off in the middle of the Hispanic part of town. There was very few people up (it was nearly 3 am at this point). We walked some 40 blocks or so to where the hotels were. Half way through we freaked out cause we had lost sype. Sure enough he had split off and was already at the hotel. Joke was on us. The next morning I noticed a familiar corner from the bus shuttle to down town. We could have made 1 turn about half way through our walk and been at our hotels in less than 5 minutes. Whoops. Anyways we all went to a shell station to get some food/drinks. Leapy, minty and myself headed back.

Sunday
Minty decided to stay up since him and leapy had to leave for the airport in an hour. Leapy’s annoying alarm went off every 5 minutes (I almost broke his iphone the rest of the way). After they headed off I cleaned up the room (didn’t want random charges on my credit card). I noticed it was getting to be decently late (7:30 am) and I woke sype up. Apparently one of the alarms that went off was his and he didn’t remember turning it off. He was gonna be late for his flight. We headed down to the lobby. He tried to get some cash for a cab, but the ATM in the lobby was broke. He had the cabby drive him to another ATM nearby.

I finished checking out of the hotel and I told the concierge about the left over ice-cold beer in my room, so that he and the staff could enjoy it. I checked out of my room and waited for my shuttle to down town. On the shuttle I was with some overly annoying comic aficionados. As geeky/nerdy as I am, even I felt out of place at comic con. The whole cosplay thing confuses me as well. All I saw was old guys taking pictures of young girls in costumes. Pretty gross. Luckily the bus dropped me off before them. I walked from times square to grand central stopping occasionally along the way to look at stuff. I made it to the NY Airport Service kiosk and waited for my bus to LaGuardia.

Once I got to the airport I learned my flight was delayed. Unfortunately I didn’t know how bad due to my voicemail distorting everything important. I got to the terminal and went through security (I walked around until I found an airline that had the shortest security line). I didn’t feel like waiting in line for an hour or more (the delta line). I found one with only 10 or so people and went through there. I got to the gate and began my hour and half wait. After being up for as long as I was this was agonizing. Finally I got on the plane and on my way home to St. Louis. Sure enough the little CRJ700 was getting thrown around like crazy so getting any sleep at all on the plane was out of the question.

I got back in St. Louis an hour after I was supposed to (not bad, we made up time on the flight). I met up with my dad and uncle and headed home. I talked about NYC and whatnot, but in all honesty I wasn’t to happy. I came to Comic-Con to win a tournament. This wasn’t a vacation for me. I had a family reunion all day Sunday and I eventually headed for school just after mid night. I made it back made my teaser post and went to do a take home test and get some sleep.

doop51

Camera Dump
http://s1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag103/Charles_Conway/

Replay / SS Dump
WCG Event Replays
http://www.mediafire.com/?i699p8cy8ziw6io

WCG Event Screen Shots
http://s1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag103/Charles_Conway/WCG%20USA%202012%20LPK%20Screen%20Shots/

Doop’s Replays
http://www.mediafire.com/?299cbn2dv0yj4qy
http://www.mediafire.com/?3e7oy9611nuv07l
http://www.mediafire.com/?ttdkm79wmddx43b
http://www.mediafire.com/?2w9kg1oym1a137h

Doop’s Screenshots
http://s1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag103/Charles_Conway/Cross%20Fire%20Screenshots%202009-2012/

Doop’s Stats in Events/Tournaments
http://i50.tinypic.com/1256zpe.png IGL/ESL/VSGL
http://i45.tinypic.com/5pef4z.png WOGL-Launch
http://i47.tinypic.com/dq5gz4.png WOGL-O/P s1
http://i49.tinypic.com/11tmyip.png WCG 2011/Online Leagues
http://i49.tinypic.com/244sdxi.png WCG 2012 Online Qualifier
http://i50.tinypic.com/k3m8np.png WCG 2012 National Finals
http://i50.tinypic.com/rtgh8p.png Updated WCG National Finals

http://i49.tinypic.com/1088dv9.png Doop's Overall Match Stats (2009-2012)

doop51

Cross Fire History w/ Mistakes and Lessons Learned
March 2009: Team cDrive
It was fRost/toddsquad/myself/Justin/some chick. We were new to the game and weren’t quit considered a top team. We played everything pretty much 4v5 cause the chick was well a chick. The team worked well, because I knew fRost/toddsquad from source. I was noticed by some of the top crossfire players and later invited to my next team.

Lesson Learned: Play well and you will be noticed.

Spring 2009: Skull Gaming
My first top team in Cross Fire. This team was led by the infamous vN1H. We went out to a quick 3-0 record in IGL. The league was also ran by vN1H and ended up dieing due to corruption. We eventually found out vN was cheating and the core of Skull Gaming left to make Area 51.

Lesson Learned: Even the most known players in Cross-Fire can and will cheat if the opportunity arises.

Summer 2009: Area 51
What a joy this team was. A nearly perfect record (except a 16-14 loss to aMpt that was mainly due to my unfamiliarity with Cross Fire). A collection of the top players at the time: shogg, infy, xpa, ava, jbiel, 0z, doop, budd. To this day I have never seen a sniper as good as infy. Once vsgl died before playoffs our roster went inactive.

Mistake: Quit playing when the competition dried up. Allowed other teams/players to catch up.

Summer 2009: Serenity
Ava and myself tried to join serenity to compete in the z8 Games tournament (the one frozen throne won). We weren’t allowed to play by the GM’s so we tried to help serenity with some strats and what not. Later on in late 2010 I would reunite with some old serenity teammates in LPSNSDK.

Mistake: Not fully understanding the rules and failing to get clarifications ahead of time.

Fall 2009: sLackerZ
A collection of top NA and EU talent. My schedule was abit weird at the time so I played more with the euro side than the NA side. This is where my friendship with many of the ROC EU players began. I eventually went inactive.

Winter 2009-Spring 2010: LifeLine
I made my return with arguably the top team at the time. It was a perfect situation, roth called. All I had to do was play, and play I did. I put up some gaudy numbers that tournament (I was out done by malte). After I got my prizes for the WOGL-Launch Tourney I ended up getting banned for forum trolling. This was pre –WEM announcement.

Mistake: Trolling. It almost prevented me from being able to play in the WOGL-O/P Season 1. Luckily, I had a friend who was an associate with wogl at the time and she convinced Kain that I wasn’t a bad person. GJ smokey, you #1!

Summer 2010: LPK
This team, where do we start? Our first roster was doop-sype-0z-mrn-jackals. Jackals didn’t really pick up crossfire well, and didn’t mesh with our team. We traded him for grzyp1nktaco. Taco was an old teammate of mine from CS:S who had played premier/invite in 1.6. His weapon of choice was the ak-74, but he ripped with it. He eventually went inactive which led to Jbiel stepping up to be our fifth for the tournaments. We beat LifeLine in a controversial match in the WOGL-P finals to earn our spot in Hangzhou. A few weeks before our trip 0z became extremely shaky. Eventually leading to him disappeared completely. I called polo one day and asked him if he could go to China with us.
He responded with, “Charlie don’t troll me.” We made the roster change and got as much practice as we could. We ended up going a disappointed 0-2 claiming 7th/8th place.

Mistake: Not having a set backup in place, and playing with players who main goal wasn’t to win internationally.

Fall 2010: LPSNSDK
This was a very enjoyable team to play with. It was the LPK core minus 0z + slant/cypher/reck. We had good results in WOGL-P season 2 as well as fun ingame. Unfortunately there was strife between MRN and the SNSD players. This eventually lead to us going inactive right before WOGL-P playoffs and switching back to CS:S to play with HSW. This was a huge mistake and set in motion the events that snowballed for the next 2 years.
Mistake: 1) Killing the team instead of working through problems. 2) Switching back to CS:S in an attempt to build better team chemistry for Cross Fire.

Spring 2011: LifeLine/HSW/LPK
Needless to say I did not enjoy playing CS:S that season, and I ended up distancing myself from the team. I began to play with LifeLine in what looked like a super roster: malte-blitzd-kaz-minty-jbiel-0z-doop. We had a great time and were mainly playing to have fun. Rumors about WCG 2011 began to surface and it came time to start thinking about what I wanted to do for a team. Roth talked to me about leading the LifeLine.USA team. The roster was going to be brando/Harvey/minty/0z/jbiel/sype/myself. I kept pushing for polo as I had the upmost faith in him and I felt like he could do better than he did in China with more practice. We never ended up meeting eye to eye and this lead to me bailing on vVv once again to make my own team. This sort of burned the friendship that we had.

Mistakes: 1) Picking friends over better players just because they were friends. 2) Instead of coming to terms, I acted childishly and split completely from Life Line. We didn’t talk for quite a while.

Sype, polo, and myself picked up kie/sea1 from HSW in source. MRN was odd man out, because he was Canadian and we were making a wcg usa team. After a few weeks of disappointing results I made a play on 0z. I got him to leave vVv and rejoin us. This caused kie/seal to leave the team after a heated argument to make HSW. Basically I said that both of them would compete for the fifth spot and the other would be our 6th. This didn’t go over well as kie wanted both him/seal to start and not 0z. With them leaving we played with tom for abit.

Summer-Fall 2011: LPK
With doubts about his citizenship we got Remix from CS:S. He had messaged me before when we were looking for players a long time ago. I messaged him and he said he was in. We had great success with our team. We stomped everyone in the first wcg qualifier. We kept playing all summer and I would say we burnt ourselves out. Even though we were still winning the majority of our scrims we had some divide on our team. Polo wasn’t performing at an acceptable level at all. This led to us replacing him with Minty. After some more poor scrims, we continued to fight more and more. I was under tons of stress in “real life” and one night I just snapped. Killing the team and throwing away any chance we had to go to china in 2011. LPK went inactive and I looked to join other teams. We came back and pugged the national finals with 0 practices and still put up competitive results. Ended up losing on down town in game 3 versus instinct (what a dumb map to have as a third in a bo3). 0z dodged again. If he shows I tend to believe we win the national finals, but that is beating a dead horse.

Mistake: 1) Not managing my stress from real life and letting it affect my performance as a leader ingame. 2) Giving people too many chances. If I would of went with the LL.USA roster who knows what would of happened that summer.



Spring 2012: Hammer Time
WCG got “canceled” and Hunter lost interest and I was going to fill his spot. I pretty much never played Cross-Fire and only got on occasionally and when I did get on I was very unimpressive. Eventually it lead to them playing with other people. Although I was never officially “cut”, it was pretty apparent they didn’t want to play with me. Would I be on the Hammer Time roster this moment if I kept playing? Don’t know.

Mistake: Not having faith in the system. Without WCG I didn’t see a reason to play. During these months of not playing I lost a lot of skill. It’s pretty apparently looking at my replays from 2010/2011 that I am not the same caliber of player I was back then.

July 2012: nstinct
This was easily the most talented roster I had ever played on. I would rank it higher than the LifeLine super roster of early spring 2011. Sype-Doop-Jaime-Pablo-James We were tearing everyone up, with very little effort/organization. Everyone was motivated to practice and go to china. All of that changed 1 night when Jaime/Pablo said they had family coming in to town and wouldn’t be able to play till Monday. Little did I know that was the last time I would ever hear from them. That Wednesday I head from Jon that Jaime/Pablo had quit cross fire and didn’t want to play anymore.

Lesson Learned: Even the best roster still has to live long enough to win.

August-September 2012: LPK
With nstinct dieing so abruptly and WCG looming right around the corner I had to make things happen and quickly. First thing first, I got minty to play. This left our roster at sype/doop/minty. Next I got ahold of Jon. Jon had impressed me on instinct and HSW. I knew he was east coast and pinged decently well to new york. Once we got 4 I was able to get polo to join. Fortunately his schedule was much less busy this time and I felt like this time, we could count on him. Well we get stomped in the first qualifier and shortly after polo’s computer get fried.

I picked up mykl because mickeys recommended him and I trusted mick’s opinion. Most people said mykl sucked and I hadn’t actually played with him before I let him on the WCG roster. Our first scrim with him he impressed me a lot. It was pretty apparent polo wasn’t going to be back any time soon so we decided to work with mykl and make him our fifth for WCG. We had some success in the qualifier but got embarrassed by HRG in the finals as well as on mexico a few matches earlier.

This put serious doubt in my mind. Should I trust this young kid, or should I go with remix who shined the year before? I ended up choosing lan experience, and went with remix. We played for the next few weeks and didn’t win 1 scrim versus HRG/HT. Very, very frustrating.

Lessons learned: Lan experience means nothing if you can’t get good enough practice in to fix your mistakes. Our schedules went to hell and we started to fall apart as a team.

2012-Beyond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLJTtXomkg

doop51

Doop’s Plans
I plan on playing Cross Fire in 1 last event. There will be an invitational tournament being announced in the following weeks and I will be leading a mix team for this event. This is most likely my last Cross-Fire event. I have no plans in leading a Cross-Fire team. I might be open to playing for other teams if events/tournaments return.

I plan on switching to CS:GO. I will be playing for a friend’s team. Jsxy and I go back and I blew him off last season when he wanted me to call for his team in cs:s. Instead I rode NeXuS’s roster and went out partying. The plan is for me to learn the game during the off season/regular season and be ready to call by playoffs. My goal is to make invite in GO in 3 seasons or less.

I enjoy borderlands 2 and LoL casually. If you play both of those with a low stress relaxed attitude feel free to add me.

Outside of video games, I have decided it is time to start taking care of myself again. I am going to cut down to ~165 lbs and then bulk up to my target weight of 185. It’s about time to find a dime.

If you want to contact me:
Steam: tkebrick
Xfire: kingdoop
Esea: http://play.esea.net/users/238887
LoL: lpkdoop

doop51

Space reserved for shout outs.

will be posted at a future time

Joshwah

Lol story of your life. If you really want to win i would highly recommend DEDICATED PLAYERS. even if they are sub par you know they will show up

imERICK

Good read
Had mad fun at the event. Glad i got to meet you.

sukodaworst

nice read.. and invite tourney?

a3waewfweafw

I think the best part of LPSNSDK was Sype and Polo witnessing the power of 38 bullet AK 47 prefires.

Also I still find it jokes that we nearly tied Ins after giving them ~3-4+ free rounds in the 1st half and essentially playing with a handicap the entire time (you really cannot understand the pain I felt, if only I didn't freeze when flashed).

Also that match Serenity vs Emotion: PLAYING EE 4-5 times in a row ending up as a tie every single time, lose match in TDM Mexico... /sigh no wonder I played so much TDM after that experience

ps: At least you didn't play with Dweez/Reck/Pwilouz/Derrick/WoTip/H etc I suspect they would have driven you nutty.

Hylios

good luck and once you leave you will most likely be missed

dreL_KTT

good read. good career

hammer_mav

interesting read, was nice meeting you as well. You should consider sticking around more but if not good luck in cs:go.

AYCE1

Charlie you always been a great player it true u can't replace the original lineup.but Besides that you guys played well though you were unprepared.

on a side note : i wish yeah best of luck in what path you take. i learnt a lot during my time in lpk and as you pointed out how i played irrational in some situations and got to nervous for a match. But, you, Oz and sype/polo helped me out giving more insight and also gave me opp to play in matches in wogl/esl. So thank you xD.

#LPK

Falloutt

doopLPK wrote: »

http://i49.tinypic.com/1088dv9.png Doop's Overall Match Stats (2009-2012)

i notice a trend.

SimFlash22

Goodbye Doop, for me 1 of the best competitive player.

taeyeoNNNNN

a3waewfweafw wrote: »

I think the best part of LPSNSDK was Sype and Polo witnessing the power of 38 bullet AK 47 prefires.

Also I still find it jokes that we nearly tied Ins after giving them ~3-4+ free rounds in the 1st half and essentially playing with a handicap the entire time (you really cannot understand the pain I felt, if only I didn't freeze when flashed).

Also that match Serenity vs Emotion: PLAYING EE 4-5 times in a row ending up as a tie every single time, lose match in TDM Mexico... /sigh no wonder I played so much TDM after that experience

ps: At least you didn't play with Dweez/Reck/Pwilouz/Derrick/WoTip/H etc I suspect they would have driven you nutty.

Where have you been caveman?

sLaNtkums

Good luck!

Definitely one of the more social people in the game!

I still mad I didn't get my roster riding prize in WOGL s2.

Twerknboii

Twerk- You called me terrible, kind of hurt me feelings. Bad yes, terrible no.
Banks- Add me on LoL- lpkdoop
Twinny- A lot better than I expected.
Wizdom- Glad I ran into you on the way to Times Square.
UltimatePOV- Sucks I missed your matches. Really wanted to watch you play (I thought you cheated online).

LOL, did i really call u terrible? when?

HEADsucks

Twerknboii wrote: »

Twerk- You called me terrible, kind of hurt me feelings. Bad yes, terrible no.
Banks- Add me on LoL- lpkdoop
Twinny- A lot better than I expected.
Wizdom- Glad I ran into you on the way to Times Square.
UltimatePOV- Sucks I missed your matches. Really wanted to watch you play (I thought you cheated online).

LOL, did i really call u terrible? when?

dude, your the best player in this game, everyone is terrible in comparison to you. you even got THEM COLORED PEOPLE on ur screen ...... GET EM!

Saidin

Thanks for posting this Doop! Was a great read and congrats on all the stuff you've done and for being a part of this community.

Good luck with whatever you do, hopefully you'll still come by from time to time!

blackoutALT

read it all, sick read

really sounds like you guys had fun, i lol'd at the part about jon and 3 guys in a bed

MitchRB

best of luck in all future endeavors Doop.

I'll be sure to add you on some form.

May I ask why your switching to Go as opposed to Source/1.6? (This is more a matter of me curious/hating go and loving source)

doop51

Twerknboii wrote: »

Twerk- You called me terrible, kind of hurt me feelings. Bad yes, terrible no.
Banks- Add me on LoL- lpkdoop
Twinny- A lot better than I expected.
Wizdom- Glad I ran into you on the way to Times Square.
UltimatePOV- Sucks I missed your matches. Really wanted to watch you play (I thought you cheated online).

LOL, did i really call u terrible? when?

Like 20 blocks into our walk back to the hotel. When I brought up us beating you guys when you had jdawg.

[GM]Saidin wrote: »

Thanks for posting this Doop! Was a great read and congrats on all the stuff you've done and for being a part of this community.

Good luck with whatever you do, hopefully you'll still come by from time to time!

I'll be around. I just won't be leading any teams.

MitchRB wrote: »

best of luck in all future endeavors Doop.

I'll be sure to add you on some form.

May I ask why your switching to Go as opposed to Source/1.6? (This is more a matter of me curious/hating go and loving source)

The game doesn't really matter. I am just reuniting with an old teammate. I had a blast in 2007 when I played with him and I was going to play last spring with him and raheel, but I ended up passing it up.

Bertstare

text to pics ratio is off

gG__uuci

a3waewfweafw wrote: »

I think the best part of LPSNSDK was Sype and Polo witnessing the power of 38 bullet AK 47 prefires.

Also I still find it jokes that we nearly tied Ins after giving them ~3-4+ free rounds in the 1st half and essentially playing with a handicap the entire time (you really cannot understand the pain I felt, if only I didn't freeze when flashed).

Also that match Serenity vs Emotion: PLAYING EE 4-5 times in a row ending up as a tie every single time, lose match in TDM Mexico... /sigh no wonder I played so much TDM after that experience

ps: At least you didn't play with Dweez/Reck/Pwilouz/Derrick/WoTip/H etc I suspect they would have driven you nutty.

afff come back noob

ImUndefined

Great read. I watched my first ever American CS:GO match earlier today... I'm pretty sure you won't need 3 seasons to move up to Invite. Anyways, best of luck in all your future endeavours, and let's hope you end your CrossFire career with a bang.

phubez

It was a good read good to know there are still guy's like you around here, makes it worth scrolling the forums even a year after I stopped playing.

All the best to you and the other guy's that competed, well done!

lol___Quack

Doop, I must say, that was THE BEST troll post ever. 9.9/10 - there is always room for improvement though.