...the best men win!!

I would like to start this blog with congratulations to Mani for his sister's wedding which took place this Saturday and a huge round of applause for Mr. Khurram for winning the challenge.

The last week was a very busy one for everyone. The new chatmail, has become the source of weekly entertainment for all. Two threads that were started, both managed to pull in 100 posts each. Free-flowing replies, colorful appearances and a conference environment, made it a perfect base to discuss important issues like, all gatherings, current affairs and other issues that need group discussion. All thanks to Mr. GecKo for the ingenious invention *though Mani claims that it all started somewhere else, but the real beginning of its true usage started with Mr. GecKo’s post “CS on Wednesday?? *Holiday on account of Hajj*, anyways, it is a speculation that Google might adopt and introduce it as a product soon!...Lol!*

The main topic of discussion last week was Mani’s sister’s wedding invitation, which concluded on a one on one challenge between the GecKo and Khurram *at Counter Strike!! =P*.

Due to wedding being held on Saturday, the CS Nights®© program was moved to Sunday evening. Hashmi as usual was ON the peak of excitement *I can visualize him jumping there too!! CS Dada CS!* for the CS on Sunday…though I am sure he wont like to remember it for much long. The fresh features of the Special gaming session were; A new line up and the Main Event “GecKo vs Khurram”. This gaming was a highly anticipated one, with many predictions and a great WAR OF WORDS *a little bit of gambling was involved in it too! Yeah who else except the corrupt Boss!* fought between the two adversaries and compatriots.

Late as usual GecKo reached the GZ panting, and was greeted with a big round of abuses and curses =P *wats new in it?*. Khurram was being handed a walk over, but some people thought it would be better to have the Match instead. Here I would like to mention one thing and that is, GecKo is not a very good pressure handling person rather I should say he is very poor at it. The main reason as I see it, that GecKo lost the match to Ghost Rider was the same one due to which he lost yesterday’s one on one challenge. Trembling, shivering, conscious, these are not the things you would want to have in you when you are playing a match publicly. And not very surprisingly all of these were present in GecKo to the extreme. As GecKo says, “I need to learn how to hold a mouse in a match without making it shake like a vibrator =P”. What Mr. Khurram said proved true, that he is a player who can handle the pressure well and I agree with that. It all comes down to one thing here and that is the exposure to pressure. GecKo being a very non-sportish person, has never appeared before a crowd *he did skits and even recited a naat, even though his voice sucks! And he says he used to give speeches in assembly in junior school, but since middle school it has been a no show for GecKo!*. Whereas, on the other hand Khurram is habitual of pressure situations as he is an avid cricket player *and a damn good one for that!*.

Trembling and shaking, GecKo managed to sweep in the first round of the 1o1 match with a score of 10 – 6, and got a huge push of confidence, which served him well in the upcoming team matches. He trampled the opposing team, with spectacular game play and demonstrated superb skills. The team Hashmi with one person lacking, never managed to put up a decent fight. They got outclassed in de_dust2 and the first round of de_inferno, in both of the rounds GecKo scored tons. GecKo then went downstairs to play with team Hashmi and it got proven that lack of one person makes a lot of difference for the other team. Team Hashmi managed to win the last round of de_inferno, and both rounds of the de_dust2 (limited rounds). The main point that was to be noted in all the matches was the low score of Mr. Ghost Rider, his rival “pronounced as re-val”, Seema on the other hand was in top notch and was leading his side very effectively. Mr. Ghost Rider’s claim that he is a slow starter claimed to be a false one as he never managed to get going.

After the team matches it was decided to wrap up the 1o1 challenge match. GecKo was not that much trembling but still was very nervous, Ghost Rider tried to pressurize GecKo with his nerve-breaking-shitty talking, but apparently he didn’t knew GecKo was extremely nervous already and had no room for any more nervousness. GecKo lost the second round of the match *played in afk_6killer* to Mr. Khurram with a score of 6 – 10. Mr. Khurram then suggested that, a tie breaker should be played between the two competitors. Fy_snow was suggested and a single round was played. GecKo started real well, 6 – 2, at one time, came down very heavy to 8 – 8. From there onwards, GecKo got the ‘shake’ back and lost the round to 8 – 10. Not a very surprising thing for him, as he was anticipating the defeat, he said the day he challenged Khurram, “I know I will loose this match, after seeing myself play against Ghost Rider. I might have a lot of moral support but I don’t need that, it’s the nerval support I need. But nobody knows I might pull it off too! But still I would say, May the better man win!”.

GecKo lost, Khurram won. This was not just the only 1o1 played that day. Another new thing brought to public attention by GecKo*what would they even do without him..sheesh!* were the 1o1s, matches between, Hitman and Chunnu, Ghost Rider and Chunnu, Abis and Capt, and Sameer and Abis, were eagerly watched and heartily appreciated. The results were as follows;

Macth - Winner

Hitman Vs. Chunnu - Chunnu

Sameer Vs. Abis - Abis

Capt Vs. Abis - Draw

GhostRider Vs. Chunnu - Chunnu

In all of these matches I would like to bring only one thing to your notice and that is; GhostRider is a very incompetent player, who relies heavily on FBs and camping, who also plays only for the points. This is said with no intention to hurt his feelings, this is just a general opinion about his game from my side. This fact was evident in his one on one against chunnu. He did not use the FBs in the first round of the 1o1 match and he lost that round. The very next round he used the FBs excessively and managed to Draw the challenge. The tie breaker to be played in fy_snow *suggested to chunnu by GecKo – he was going to start another round of afk* disabled Ghost to make any purchases. Thus, Ghost became helpless and was down 5 – 0, he then managed get a few shots but was outclassed by Chunnu, who indeed is a much better player and has a much better game sense. The defeat of Ghost was nothing new, you cant expect a man of his age to have lightening fast reflexes and ability to fight without paralyzing the opponent in front *FBs – Flash Bangs, wipes out the visibility of the effected person, making him/her blind*. A blinded opponent I dare say can put up a fight against a person with full visibility *Sameer lost to Abis because of FBs and Bombs*. And that is how Ghost managed to pull off the match against GecKo, though this is not the only reason GecKo lost, as he won the second round of that 1o1 match with Ghost flashing as usual. There have been moments when Ghost has surpassed all his team members with some superb gaming skills, but again those moments are not very usual.

In the end, I would like to say that, GecKo is perhaps a House-GecKo and there is no doubt that he has a much, much better game there. With very accurate sniping skills and one-two bullet sure shots, he is almost invincible. But perhaps this 1o1 match thing at a remote location is just a too big ball game for him to handle. But as he says, “I am sure, the CS would die soon if I stopped bragging about my skills, and as a Chief Organizer I have to make sure that does not happen, besides whose bragging you bi**h that’s the truth, I am the Game! So bring it on!”.

Saquib Hyder,
Official Correspondent to
GecKo™
Chief Organizer CS Nights®©