Strike team sent to upset UCL. Mission successful.
Gaming Society go to UCL... Tl;dr: Imperial possibly beat UCL at a bunch of video games, with a score of 2-1 or 3-2. Or maybe we drew with 2-2 - I don’t know. Just read the article.
It’s been a question that has floated around Imperial College Union’s Gaming Club for years now – why don’t we play anyone else? This year, gears actually started moving.
On Thursday evening, in a quiet area of UCL, pizza was delivered and the party started. The LAN party. League of Legends (LoL), Team Fortress 2 (TF2) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (CoD/MW3) were downstars, whilst the revellers upstairs Brawl-ed and kicked a ball around in FIFA 13.
The event was well attended, even after the free food had vanished (about 5 minutes in) and then the games began. Kinda. One of the UCL Tech Soc’s new (I hesitate to say ‘shiny’ as it looked like it had been used to buff a pavement) Xbox 360s had broken, resulting in some slightly awkward 2v2s., rather than the planned 4v4s. Despite that, Imperial beat UCL in all CoD games played, bar one (as their best player had to leave after the first game). LoL in the corner was dominated by the Imperial cohort, with the UCL team conceding (read: rage-quitting) in the middle of the second game, giving the Imperial team a 2-0 match win. One stalwart Imperial student spent all day playing FIFA, winning 5 out of the 6 games played (and only losing when it came to penalties) bringing great success to the motherland.
There wasn’t much success however, in the land of Super Smash Bros., with UCL wiping the floor with us. Finally, TF2 finished and the scores rolled in. However, all was not well in the land of inflatable unicorns and hats. The UCL view is that they slaughtered us, fair and square. The Imperial view is that they slaughtered us, but cheated by bringing in someone with banned weapons and so UCL should be disqualified.
Regardless of the rivalry, everyone was still in high spirits at the end of the day and wonderfully, not a single shout of ‘n00b’ rang throughout the building.
For the first (of hopefully, many) tournament, things went surprisingly smoothly and when it’s time to host the next evening, on the home turf, we should have the food shortages, console shortages, UCL rage-quitting shortages and “Imperial won” shortages fixed.
When the date and time are known, it’ll be posted up on the Imperial College Union Gaming Club’s Facebook group and you can put your name in for the Imperial team, for the games of your choice.
