Learn your history - Tales from the greats

[Doomtrain]

[color=#000000]First of all, I'd just like to say that, if you don't know who the hell I am, it's probably because you don't visit Battle Grounds. I make an average of like 2-4 posts here a year, so i don't expect you PX people to know me very well. =/

With that being said, my history:

I began playing XvsSF somewhere around October of 2001, and like many of you, I had no idea what a forum was. So naturally, PX forum confused the piss out of me. Besides, it looked waaay different back then O_o. I can't recall how many of the fights i fought turned out back then, but, needless to say, i sucked just as bad as everyone else did. I remember hadoukens being extremely hard for me to learn at first. I sat there wondering how the hell I could do it so well on a damn console, but could barely get Ryu to shoot one out online. Besides that, there were some freaky ass rules. I remember that, while you were doing a super, you could still throw out your helper, thus magnifying the damage. Oh, and who could forget the lobby music "powerwithin", and our old friend Barney. I miss that lovable bastard. The one memorable fight I had back then, that i can remember, is of course what we all would. When some guy named TarkanX challenges you to a fight, and you suddenly see that "1st Place Champion" poop come up. Then you think, "uh-oh", and your ass gets plastered (and ranks didn't show up on your name when you entered the chat back then, which made it a lot more easier to get ass-kicked by someone good). Ouch. Lesson learned.

Around January of 2002, I suppose it was, I started hearing about the rise of clans. Now, let's not forgot i had no idea what the forum was for still, so I had no way of joining one. Eventually, though, I did join, but had very little to do with the forums still. Sometime around around May, I believe it was, I had the pleasure of fighting a person, who, I guess you could say was sort of a tyrant. dark-link. Surprisingly, I had beat him in our match. I thought he was pissed at me because of it, and hated me. Much to my surprise, though, he invited me to join his clan, Chaos Core. I joined under the name "MacDougall", a name long forgotten, I'm sure. Fortunately, it was only a temporary switch. At the time, I had gotten bored with my original name =/.

Chaos Core suddenly became the greatest thing about XvsSF. I had the pleasure of befriending some of the greatest fighters of that time, such as georgepong, Strider42, Blaze985, Zyerx, iTALY, xfaderx, AngelWings, DcMaX, and etc. As far as clan battles went, we were undefeated, and the large group of individuals who wanted in couldn't have been higher. After a while though, clan battles slowed down a bit because of Senshuk's destruction.

When Battle Grounds was created by mastaq and The Shiz, I think i can remember either Zing or Quass talking some poop about it. That didn't bother me, though (or anyone else, really). I thought it was great. Clan battles again, woo hoo O_o. And I think it was around this time that I actually met KidKrazyshit. Sure, I had played him before, but never really talked to him. We were matched against each other in a tournament (unfortunately, i can't remember which one. I know that Hardcore18/CaSe won it, though. =/). Aanyway, I remember it being pretty funny. Our schedules kind of conflicted, so it was hard for us to battle. He ended up calling me a little kid, or something, lol. To this day, I still can't remember how we even became friends O_o. Maybe by the miracle of alcohol, who knows =P

Good times came and went of course, and so did BG. Does anyone remember how many different BGs we've had? Seriously =/ (and sometime during then, I was tied with mastaq in the "greatest fighters of all time" vote in the PX forum. ). Anyway, with the clans coming and going, and CC still at large, the times couldn't have been better. Until near the end of XvsSF of course, when our clan underwent a huge change. As many of you well know, Chaos Core and Dark Knights combined to produce Chaos Knights. The merger was okay for a while; in fact, our very own AngelWings even made a few cool clan-related comics (feel free to ask me if you're ever interested in seeing them =P). However, good times would cease to last, as XvsSF DID eventually fall, and hence marked the ending of CK as well. At the same time, my best online buddy at the time, dark-link, decided to end our friendship, as well as his friendship with some of his other online buds (to this day, i still am not fully sure why). In its time alive, CK had only a total of 2 battles, and both of them were wins. Chaos Core, before it merged, had a total of 18 wins and 0 losses (and we won clan wars once). The clan retired with the best record ever achieved, and hence was named best ever to grace the community of