Message from Cybernator

Heres some NEW NEWS that Cybernator, winner of the Bungie M1 & M2 tournament just emailed me




>From hmc.edu!mgarriso Wed Jan 17 18:27:16 1996
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 15:24:43 0000
From: Michael Garrison
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: joshwill@rc.net
Subject: tourney info.
X-Url: http://amug.org/~marathon/roland/bungie.html
the tournament thats floating around so I'll give you the complete story, just like I told ManNBlack when I talked to him on the phone before I left for school. I knew that I'd be playing against all the other people who played in the Kill the Man with the Skull game for their first round so after I passed through my first round, I watched the two other rounds to see the type of competition that I'd be facing in my semi-final round match. In one of the rounds, I saw 2 guys working together with the result that both of them advanced to my semi round. They also had another friend who played in the next round so, combined, there were 3 of them who would be in my round from which only 1 could advance to the 'Sudden Death' round where 2 people would face off and the first person to get 1 kill would advance to the final round of 3 people. Anyway, before my semifinal round started, the 3 guys were blatantly plotting together saying how so-and-so would hold the ball while the other 2 guarded him. Naturally, my friend Gus complained to the Bungie people saying that this was unfair tactics. Matt Soell(the Bungie guy who was running the tournament) said that this was fair tactics and that he can't and won't do anything to stop it. The computers were set up on 2 banks with each bank consisting of 3 machines. Those 3 guys filled one of the banks on their side while I played on a different bank. Even though they did team up, i still overwhelmed them getting over 2:30 time with the ball which was more than a minute over 2nd place. I won my sudden death match so i was in the finals. I was the last of the 3 people to advance to the finals. My friend Gus was the first one who advanced. MNB was there that day so he can corroborate all that I've said so far.

Bungie said teaming up was allowed, we decided that we'd work together in the finals. There were a total of nine rounds for the finals which took over 3 hours to complete. After the first round was over, the Bungie guys now claimed that teaming up would not be tolerated. We quoted Matt from the day before saying how he allowed teaming up against me in my semi-final round. The end result was that the first round would be counted but Gus and I would be seperated with Gus playing over by the other guy in the finals on the other bank of machines and me left by myself. In the rest of the rounds, Gus and I were renamed and recolored as per Bungie's wishes and no more teaming up occurred since we did not know who each other was. Ryan Martell(another Bungie guy) watched me in all of the rounds after the first one and clearly saw that I was going after everyone and never made any comments to me whatsoever. I was essentially isolated all by myself the entire time and missed out on all of the excitement occurring on the other bank of machines. Unfortunately, Gus was knee deep in it from what he told me. Since the other guy's friends were also over by Gus, they ended up taunting him the entire time that he was playing. About halfway through the tournament, Gus was getting very annoyed with them and had had it. he asked Matt after one of the rounds if he could come and talk to me and Matt consented. At the time that Gus approached me, I was sitting on the ground resting my feet. I had been walking around Macworld for the past 3 days. So, in order for Gus to talk to me, he had to kneel down. The reason that Gus wanted to talk to me was that he was considering withdrawing from the tournament since he was taking so much unwarranted abuse. I told Gus that it was fine with me if he withdrawed since I strongly felt that I was better than this other guy and would be more than happy to prove to this other guy that I was better than him in a round where none of his friends could claim any cheating was occurring. After working at Apple during the summer, i played against some godlike mouse players, the best of which I am convinced that I can not beat in Thunderdrome type games since he has too much of an adavntage with the mouse. "Bob Saget" is only competent when compared to the best mouse players at Apple.

complained and said that he could disqualify us. Gus immediately got up, looked at the bungie guy, and said that he was withdrawing from the tournament. the bungie guy was a little surprised at this and then 2 other bungie guys came over and conferred with Gus, trying to keep him from removing himself from the tournament. it was decided that a 20min. break would occur and if gus still felt like withdrawing after he had a chance to cool down, than he would. I simply remained on the floor resting under my Marathon terminal while Gus went off to get a drink.

won six of them including all 3 skull games(I had over a minute on 2nd place in each of the skull games so they were clear victories), 2 carnage games, and 1 hill game. I would've won more of the hill games but after the first hill game on One Hit Wonder, Gus complained about the level and so they changed it. in fact, Gus quit out of that first hill game. So in that game, it was actually a 1-1 game between me and "bob Saget' where i had over 5 minutes on the hill compared to just over 3 mins. for him. The other 2 hill games were on the Giant Flaming Pit of Lava map where both games ended up in fist fights with "Bob Saget" taking clear victories of over a minute while gus and I each took a 2nd and third with less than 10 seconds between us in each case. "Bob Saget"'s one strength was his punching ability and with the mouse, he could outturn both Gus and I and used it to his advantage.

amazingly enough, both Gus and the other guy tied for 2nd place so they did a sudden death match on the map Lack of Vision with the winner being the one to get 3 kills first. In a sort of poetic justice, Gus dominated the match getting 3 kills on the other guy without getting hardly a scratch. I thought it was good that the match between Gus and the other guy came down to a mano-a-mano game in order to settle the dispute.

He seemed nice to me and all and commented on how well I played. He barely even shaked Gus' hand and essentially gave Gus the cold shoulder. Even after everything was over, Bob Saget's friends were still ragging us which I think is sad. It seems like they'd much rather think that they were cheated instead of thinking that they were beaten. In fact, one of the friends of Bob Saget was trying to get Gus' home address after everything was over for some clearly malevolent reasons. My sister actually told the guy that that was not Gus' address but was in fact our address and she'd be willing to give it to him if he really wanted it so bad(I had preregistered both gus and I and since they send the tickets to the address listed on the badge and I didn't know Gus', I simply put down my address). In response to that, the guy declined so my take is that they felt wronged by Gus and not me. i think part of this stems from their lack of maturity. Gus and I are both over 21 while some of those other guys were barely in their teens.

some intense games of Marathon, the bottom line is that soemone has to lose. I reminded Gus that even last year, this one guy claimed that I was cheating by somehow looking around the 21inch monitor sitting in front of me in order to see just his viewscreen even though there were 5 people playing simultaneously so carnage was everywhere which required one's complete attention. At least in the final round last year, both Shadow and I were completely engulfed by people so it was impossible to claim that any cheating occurred.

occurred and if anything is unclear or you have any further questions, I'd be more than happy to discuss them. There are a few last things that I'd like to add. First, after the first final round, the Bungie guys were "coaching" Bob Saget on how to play Thunderdrome. The tactic that they were promoting was one of camping in one of the rooms and waiting for people to run by. Secondly, I'd like to add that Tuncer Deniz was there to take in the final round of the tournament. At first, he complained to Gus that he was cheating. After everything was over, Tuncer apologized to Gus saying that he was wrong and Gus was playing fair. Finally, Gus is not my current roommate nor has he ever been my roommate. This year, we don't even live in the same suite. And yes, I am confirming that I won the tournament. Unfortunately, because of the film bug in M2 and that Bob Saget always gathered, you won't be able to watch from my perspective in any of the films once they are released. I actually made some pretty good moves in the skull games that I'd like to see again :)

work for Bungie doesn't automatically make you worthy),

Michael Garrison aka "CYBERNATOR"