On a day full of April showers, the weather decided to clear up just in time for another Halo Night! The pizza arrived on time this time, but stinklikeonion had some difficulty getting his network going, so we had the usual extra time to socialize and meet some newcomers, as bubbagump and scuba both brought first-timers (bubbagump also brought John again, who joined us last month for the first time). Also, fartbubble brought his son again, who once again held his own quite well, albeit quitely (except for the one time he proudly announced, "I just killed you, Dad.")

The first match saw fartbubble's son get double kill after double kill, taking the early lead and exchanging it several times throughout the match with others. He ended up in second place, though, after hitting a bad streak lasting a couple minutes, surrendering the win to Riley Craven. He did manage to kill fartbubble on many occasions, though. It was fun to watch.

A second game saw a Killing Spree for Riley Craven, but it, along with his hope of winning the match, were terminated by the ever-more-impressive bubbagump. The common motif of this match seemed to be mutual beat-downs, and scuba, for some reason, excelled (and might have won the match if he had survived two or three of them). Several of the players seemed to have this problem on this match, from the new players to the veterans to fartbubble.

Despite some early losses and mistakes, the night was not an epic fail for Riley Craven. On a round of Swords on Guardian, he tasted victory thanks to repeated assassinations, excellent timing, and a dash of unadulterated button-mashing. The match saw heavy competition in two brackets, with three players vying for first place, and a second tier of everyone else (except fartbubble who was away from his controller for most of the match) separated by only three kills.

During a round of the Gauntlet, Riley Craven won but fartbubble and son had another set of highlights, with one smelling of success, and one reeking of fail. Managing to grab the custom powerup (or superhero as it's being called now), fartbubble could not find a better weapon. As a result, he found himself flying around the map with super speed and unlimited pistol rounds, and did not survive the wrath of Zamurai 278's machine gun. His son, however, found himself to be quite effective in a sniper tower, using both the sniper rilfe and the Spartan laser to reach a killing spree.

We also played a match on Heavens Above, which has seen a lot of Elephant-driving shenanigans lately. This time, however, we played Team Slayer, which brought about strategic value to driving the Elephants, which serve as half of a team's base (along with the towers on each side), providing spawn points and teleporters to the team's tower. As always on this map, the dull hum of explosions all over the map were accompanied by the frequent sounds of Riley Craven lasering stinklikeonion out of the sky.