Surgical isn't the only one in iNeX that has a knack for putting out quality videos, his teammate Visceral also has a set of videos that are pretty good.  His latest video has a lot of footage of dead air and death toll vs, so it is pretty cool to get a glimpse of some early tactics on those maps.  Other than that there are definitely some cool tricks you can pick up from the video, if you don't get sick from all the twisting and turning he does that is.

You can check out his youtube page for the…  More

A friend just linked me this article and I've been on the floor laughing for a good 15 minutes staight.

ShamWow gets arrested after confrontation with prostitute:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.html

There is so much funny contained in the article, I don't even know where to begin.  From paying 1,000$ for a arguably average prostitute to having his tongue bit to the point of bleeding, which he in turn punched the prostitute in the face.

From his mug shot it looks like he…  More

So in this newest "My Top 5" edition, I'm going to bring light to some of the blogs that I read on a regular basis.  I'm leaving out certain gameriot blogs (oradol, slapnuts, hellforge), and radikalnoise.com simply because I'm sure you guys already know all about them.  I would much rather bring to light some blogs that you might not know about that are worth reading.

#5 Bitterlawyer.com

Link: http://www.bitterlawyer.com/index.php

It has always been a general consensus that people hate lawyers, and…  More

Brackets:
http://communityl4d.com/images/tournaments/ic2/ic2_bracketa.png

http://communityl4d.com/images/tournaments/ic2/ic2_bracketb.png

Round-Up:
Although there are still two matches waiting to be reporting no real upsets took place in the second round.  Well I lied underWorld lost, so I have to find another excuse to post about Kate Beckinsale pictures.  I did take a little pleasure in predicting Salience would mop the floor with The Oscillation Congregation.  Other than that Reason, and Hausen l…  More

So I completely forgot about the TWL tournament, which is currently in the 3rd round of 5.

Brackets:
http://www.teamwarfare.com/tournament/default.asp?tournament=Left+4+Dead%3A+NA+-+Spring+Cup+2009&page=brackets

There aren't really any big surprises, save for maybe paraGon beating MoB.  This puts MoB having early exits in the second round for two diff tournaments after having a very strong showing in the RIP CAL league.  Are they having issues, or are they simply getting unlucky bracket draws?<…  More

So I came to a realization today of something about society and people that has been brooding my subconscious for some time.  I was studying in what is known as the "HUB" at my school, I was slightly away from one of the wall plugs at the table I was at so I was forced to stretch my power cord for my laptop a bit on the floor to reach it.  About every 5 minutes someone would walk down the row between the study tables and trip over my cord.  So I experimented a little, every other person I would …  More

Enjoy, there are some nice quad caps in this one.



Extending pounces through bunny hopping.
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Link to Brackets:
http://communityl4d.com/images/tournaments/ic2/ic2_bracketa.png

http://communityl4d.com/images/tournaments/ic2/ic2_bracketb.png

First round recap:
Not too much to talk about from the first round, it went largely as expected with no top teams getting knocked off.  I had trouble predicting the teams I had no info on, and didn't know anything about, but it was essentially a crap shoot.  17-10 isn't a bad prediction record for the first round.  There are a lot of great second round mat…  More

Here is the bottom half of the IC2 Brackets:



Predictions:

MoB Deep > The Crazy Clam

Even though MoB finished second in the RIP CAL tournament, they were blown out by area51 in the finals.  Unfortunately they have by far the hardest path to make it to the finals with teams such as, Common Infected, pSC, QQuit, Anomly, and Salience all in their way.

Common Infected > Frodgers Friends.

Lets take a second and look at CI's roster:

1. Griff
2. psylynt
3. adma
4. CramblocK
5. Blindphaze
6. Haplo.

If th…  More

As you may or may not know, communityl4d.com has come out with a pug bot.  You can find it at #communityl4d.pug on gamesurge.

The first thing this reminded me of was how esea has a pugging system, which became wildly successful.  I personally think, especially with a game like L4D, something similar could greatly improve the quality of experience players can have in this game.  Lets be honest pubbing ******* sucks 99% of the time if you aren't playing with friends.  You generally are playing with…  More