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My name is Trevor “qu1k_sh0t” Henry, clan leader and captain for =BFB= and the laRd team, this is the third part of the MPLD competition that took place over the weekend of 5 – 7 September 2009!

As a sponsored player with one of the strongest teams in Call of Duty 4 Online in South Africa, I took some new Logitech peripherals to a monthly LAN in Pretoria. Part 1 introduces this small series and why I am here. Part 2 looks at a few of the games and this the final part, is a small testament to the Grand Final between team xP and team sG.

A brief recap of the tournament so far, shows that =BFB= Trevor “qu1k_sh0t” Henry and =BFB= Andrew “xiR” Harper competed alongside 3 other gamers against some of Joburgs strongest teams! Coming out undefeated so far, xiR’s Pimps had made it to the Grand Final of the tournament. With no losses to their name, in order for sG to win, they would need to beat xP twice! (more…)

My name is Trevor “qu1k_sh0t” Henry, clan leader and captain for =BFB= and the laRd team, this is the second part of the MPLD competition that took place over the weekend of 5 – 7 September 2009!

The competition kicked off with some exciting games, in addition to the xP wins, sG beat UBS in commanding fashion, while sKy gaming beat the all girl line-up of Feisty Females. After a few games Synergy Gaming came up against sKy Gaming.

The game was greatly anticipated as sG were one of the favourites for the tournament, and the winner would qualify to face off against xP in the winner bracket final! As the game kicked off, sKy just never gained momentum, they struggled to find a grasp of the game and went down 13 – 3 to sG.

So that meant the last game in the winner bracket groups would be between xiR’s Pimps and Synergy Gaming. As the game kicked off, map elimination came into play with both sides removing two maps. The final battleground was decided to bemp_strike. This was the map that xP had bested Element on earlier in the tournament. With some confidence from that game, and the fact that sG line-up had trepidations going into the game it meant xP had the advantage when the game commenced. (more…)

My name is Trevor “qu1k_sh0t” Henry, clan leader and captain for =BFB= and the laRd team, I was lucky enough to be given a whole heap of Logitech goodies to take with me and test out at the September 2009 MPLD Call of Duty 4 Tournament!

The idea was to field test these gadgets and gizmo’s and see if they could keep up in the heat of battle! The Logitech G19 Keyboard, the Logitech G9x Mouse, Logitech G35 headset and the Logitech G13 What better way to do this than by using Incredible Connections sponsored players!  This is part one of the three part story following last weeks events.

MPLD, or Montly Pretoria Lan Day, is a LAN party that takes place the first weekend of every month. This event plays host to 150 gamers each month and is widely regarded as one of the LAN’s to attend if you wish to compete in high level competition! September was no different and the Call of Duty 4 (COD4) tournament played host to a wide variety of teams, most of whom have many hours experience competing against the best of the best. This months event included some of the strongest teams in the country, Synergy Gaming, Ubersoldaten, sKy Gaming and Element. Against all this competition is where I would test out the Logitech products. As most of the =BFB= players are based in Cape Town for this event, I played alongside Andrew “xiR” Harper, a fellow =BFB= member and 3 players from a rival team known as the Cyborgs. This mixed team is known as xiR’s Pimps and they have won the previous event hosted here at MPLD in June. Could it be done again? (more…)

As we were expecting, some of the rumours from yesterday’s post about the Apple event were true, others not so much. The iPod classic is still around, Beatles still not in the iTunes store and the entry level iPod is still the 2GB shuffle.

So what’s new then?

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The 9th of September Apple are holding a press conference / event and in true Apple marketing style, the title of the event is:

It’s only rock and roll, but we like it

So, have you got any thoughts on what products or news Apple will be talking about? Here are a few rumours that have been doing the rounds:

• iPod classic will be eliminated
• The highest end iPod will be a 64GB iPod touch
• The lowest end iPod will be a 4GB iPod shuffle
• The iPod nano will only come in 8GB, but will come with a camera
• Apple may finally announce the availability of the Beatles on iTunes
• An appearance by Steve Jobs

Not sure how many of these are true, but as things go, you can never be too surprised by Apple – they always pull rabbits out of their hats.

Stay tuned to the blog as we will be posting all the information the minute we know!