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This is going to be a much different blog than what you're probably
used to from me. Normally, I just sort of bounce from topic to topic,
attempting to condense an entire few days of experiences into a few
paragraphs, to be digested by you, the OptX fans and the greater CGS
viewing public. But this is a special blog, if I do say so myself, so
please bear with this detour from the normality.
Even though I'm a staffer for the San Francisco OptX, and I work
directly under the amazing Kat Hunter, and (naturally) am a bit biased
towards San Francisco against other opponents, none of that matter when
it comes to my feeling towards the now 2-10 Los Angeles compLexity.
I've questioned Jason Lake's draft decisions in the past, but to think
that he wouldn't see a win for 10 straight matches is beyond me. And
I'm sure that other franchises would agree with me that while we all
felt for Los Angeles and wanted them to win a game, none of us wanted
it to be on us. It's an interesting dichotomy, supporting the team
that's getting knocked around, while still working to avoid being "The
1st Team LA beat." Coupled with that of course, was their Dead or Alive
Female belle. Winless in 22 straight matches, vilified and trolled on
nearly every Internet forum, including her own franchise site, seeing
rounds and wins but being unable to capitalize on them. Understandably,
Jason Lake has gone on record as saying that the whole season was a
result of his poor choices, and while I did agree, I just got sick and
tired of seeing the trolls continually kicking the proverbial man while
he's down, so I waited for a small personal vindication as the matches
went by...
Sunday, June 29th. My team is currently preparing for our match versus
the Chicago Chimera, and being that Chicago and Carolina are both
playing that day, I check into the CGS website to make sure that the
playoff picture remained as murky as ever. I celebrated a bit when
Chicago lost to Dallas, tempered of course by the fact that they would
throw everything they had against us on Monday. So I wait for Los
Angeles and Carolina...and imagine my surprise when the live blog is
reporting that belle is out to an early 2-0 lead on Carolina's Mystik.
And in fact, the live blog is now reporting that belle has a 4-2 lead!
She's on the brink of her first victory for only the second time this
season! I'm feverishly refreshing the live blog while looking for the
latest on IRC, and there was no small amount of jubilation when
Landodger Mike and ReDeYe confirmed what we all hoped: belle had
officially won her very first CGS match. After that, LA went completely
buckwild on Core in CSS, clinching a round down 4v5 (silly Steamfriends
freezing up Rambo), and taking the match 11-7, while Forza followed up
with a great race to keep it close for Perfect Legend.
An interesting trend began taking over the CGS IRC Channel, started by
none other than Furia GM NoobZaibot, who tagged up as simply "GO-COL."
All of a sudden, random IRC idlers, rival players, and even yours truly
had added themselves to the online cheering section for Perfect Legend
and Los Angeles. And IRC logs don't lie, we flipped, positively
FLIPPED, when PL won his second round and clinched LA's very first
victory. Now, we can't be TOO crazy here. Even with the win, belle
improved to a career 1-22, and Los Angeles was mathematically
eliminated two matches before. But for the moment, it didn't matter.
Los Angeles had found victory, and belle had a win under her belt.
I titled this blog, "We've all got a little Jason Lake in us," because
I saw a coL fan's forum signature bearing the same phrase and found it
oddly appropriate on a day when rival franchises tagged GO-COL, belle
finally silenced the critics, and for a day, the talk of the proverbial
town was the Los Angeles compLexity, who stepped up again today to
defeat the NUMBER ONE team, 3DNY, although belle was unable to capture
her second victory (imagine what that would have done!).
Go coL, indeed.
