Goodbye leagues...

Goodbye Seasoned Gamers leagues. Been crappy knowing you.

2 more weeks and I'm out. Yeah! Unless we win. Which would be nice, but...

Don't get me wrong, I'm still playing as hard as I can. Of course it isn't a great performance, but I'm still trying.

I've played in 2 leagues previously and been the 'D' player on all 3 teams. It's not a lot of fun. Gaming with other SG'ers requires a level of competitiveness that I just don't have.

The first season was a Rainbow Six league. That was probably the most fun, as the team I was on wasn't terribly competitive, but they were still pretty quick to point out when I made a mistake.

Halo 2 was the next league. It was different in that mistakes were not as obvious as in a lot of other games. They had the same horrible impact, but more often than not, your teammates are too engaged in whatever they're doing to notice anything else. The thing with Halo is that SG has a healthy compliment of almost-professional Halo players. Want an ass-whooping? They'll be more than happy to hand one out.

Gears of War 3 may be the exception to my 'no more leagues' policy. I really like Gears of War and episode 3 is coming out on September 20th. Gears isn't as popular at SG as some other games, so there's a slightly higher possibility that I would not be the 'D' player. Just slightly though.

I'm trying not to be thin-skinned about this. Which is probably the primary reason I signed up for the current Left 4 Dead league. That and my optimism. But at this point my optimism is pretty much dead.