I will explain if it means that this gets put to a rest.


Round 1
We poop on team.

Round 2
We poop on team.

Round 3
We poop on team.

Semifinals vs. CRU
Match #1: We win convincingly.
Match #2: We lose by 0.5.
Match #3: During this match, one of our players (Trip) remains frozen at the top of the spar for roughly 5 seconds. Zeross gets owned and is crying to the host as if it somehow advantages us that one of our players was frozen for an extremely brief period of time (which resulted in us getting teamed up on by multiple members and taking several hits). We win convincingly with both Ares and myself left alive.

Finals vs. Deity
Match #1: We lose by a few hits. Please keep in mind that up until this point, Rufus is not even online and participating. He logs on because I message him on Skype and tell him I feel more comfortable if he is in the lineup rather than one of our subs.
Match #2: During this match, Red Leo (for Deity) gets warped out of the arena at 2.5 HP. Let's go ahead and pause here to rewind to the 2012 Fall GST where the same exact thing happened to me and nothing was done about it. During this match, Rufus witnessed that I was warped out of the arena yet refused to intervene because (even though it was the fair and right decision) it'd look biased. Nonetheless, we agree to give Deity a rematch.
Match #3: We win pretty convincingly and Deity is again claiming that one of their members was warped out of the arena at 1 HP. I'm too busy killing everything to care or notice if this does happen, but we manage to win the round by 3-5 hits or so.
Match #4-5: We split the matches, I don't remember in what order.
Match #6: We win with me still alive and at 1.5 HP.


So, from the perspective of an idiot, it seems as if Rufus magically comes online to save his horrible sparring guild from doom, when in reality I asked that he come online to spar for US because Trip's brief freeze made me uneasy and I feel like he's a safer sparrer.

If you guys think Rufus (or just about any of other US member, for that matter) cares enough about a GST to manipulate it in a way to make it easier for us to win then you don't know guild's personalities. Rufus actually did not want to participate at all, and only did because Ares and Deophite decided they wanted to participate a day before the GST was to be held. We needed him so that we had a full team of 7.

As for the others:

• Ares stops to type in the middle of GST spars
• Trip comes online once in a blue moon
• Dave cares so little that he literally has left the server in the middle of GSTs before
• Crono would rather play Dota 2 or sleep than participate
• Shannon only agreed to play after we tried hard to convince her to change her day's plans to be at the GST

Anyway, GG.