06-19-2005, 06:36 PM
Completely don't remember when I started playing... I believe it was three summers ago... basically the summer after the game started. I think it was august, and I pretty much sucked, didn't do well. Played on whatever servers there were (KAH was a big one I recall) and I remember encountering people that would be big names in this community (i.e. rulepool, beastie). I stopped playing... wasn't doing well. Came back to play more in the fall/winter following that summer, and all of the sudden I started figuring out the jumps and midair shots, and I blossomed as a player. I think it was a few months after that (february 2003 I notice from my membership thing) that grits and her server got big. I immediately joined up at the forums, and was a presence that entire time. I would say I really got into the community from just talking to the regs, most of them now admins or were at some point. Of course I graduated later that year, stayed active in the summer of 2003, then started playing minimally once I was in college in fall. Stopped playing entirely later in 2004, pretty much because of lack of desire and a messy computer. Then a few weeks ago, I decided to get back into it... and there ya go. Feverishly active for about 9 months, a few of them I was, in my opinion, one of the best players.