A lot has happened with the team in the last few months and I am pleased to announce that our CoD 4 and Urban Terror divisions are kicking off their opening weeks this week in their respective divisions. Our CoD 4 team picked up their first win of the season last night beating Fluency 16-3 on mp_strike. Sunday the Urban Terror team will kick off the opening week for the FTW Gaming League starting with CTF on Sunday, followed by the Team Survivor division on Monday and Bomb Mode on Thursday. We have a strong lineup in all three divisions with two teams competing in Team Survivor this season.

On another note, I am extremely pleased to welcome back gERm and Vinsanity to ]BoS[ and their return to competition. Both of these guys have been in the ]BoS[ family for quite some time and I was thrilled to see that they had returned. In my mind these guys had never left the team, they were just taking a break as life took priority. I'm looking forward to the upcoming weeks as we get together on our second TS team and get back to old times.

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Black Ops Squadron would like to wish all the fathers and soon-to-be fathers out there a very happy holiday! It's not easy being a dad, and most of us don't express our gratitude enough, so please spend some time with that very important person today.

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Even though we use the Gamebattles Spring 2009 Ladder for L4D more as an organized scrim, it is still nice to grab a win. Last night we went head to head against OZ on Dead Air. It was a match where we were able to control the tempo and the lead for pretty much the entire game, all but sealing the win after the 3rd map. It was also a great opportunity to let Stylez's play in his first match with the team.

All in all a solid win adding to our current 7-9 record, 3 game winning streak, and 4th place ranking on the ladder. Good games to Xenethyl, Bengal, Dagger, Stylez, and Whizperz for their group effort tonight. Final score: 5787-2360.

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As much as it pains me that we're getting forfeit wins instead of actual wins, we're still progressing through the CEVO tournament. After Monday night's forfeit win, we're 6-0 and at the top of Group O and have all but locked in a spot in the single elimination playoffs. Thursday will be the last group match and it will most likely be a forfeit win as well as the other team has been inactive for quite some time now.

On a good note, we played our butts off in two scrims last night against our friends in Iono and O|Rev. Both scrims were really close and we were really impressed with O|Rev's 4 cap ability on Dead Air. It definitely gave us some things to think about and do differently in our upcoming scrims. I'm also very pleased with some of our old and new members who are new to L4D competition. Dagger and Stylez both did very well last night and I look forward to getting them more playing time to round out our roster.

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Our L4D team had another good match night tonight as we ended the night 2-0...kinda. Unfortunately, the forfeit wins keep coming in CEVO which moves us to 5-0 with two more rounds to go. The team we play in CEVO on Monday has previously been active early on in the tournament. However, their record basically eliminates them from moving on within our group as it will either be BoS or Team FNG moving on. Here's hoping they get back to us in match comms...

However, we did get an actual match in on Game Battles tonight against O|Rev. The match was extremely low scoring on Death Toll as both teams brought their All 4 Dead pants. We traded the first two maps with us taking the first and them taking the second while we split the 3rd. The fourth map was definitely where the action was.

We entered the fourth map up by about 300 and played survivors first. The second we stepped out of the safe room (the 2nd floor of the church) the tank spawned. We were totally unprepared and he ended up taking a medkit away from us early. Because of that we struggled all map and ended up getting all four killed not long after passing the crescendo. So we started the infected side of map four knowing we had to get some good damage in with the tank. Unfortunately for us the way it played out (tank spawned late), we did almost no damage with the tank.

Coming up on the crescendo for them we knew we had to make a move as we only had two survivors down to half health and time was running out. We setup for an absolutely clutch four-cap just as they were going to trigger the crescendo. The timing couldn't have been more perfect. We ended up killing all four on the first half of map five and at that point we knew we had the match sealed. All in all an amazing match and well played teamwork by Xenethyl, Bengal, Dagger, and Whizperz.

Final score: ]BoS[ > O|Rev 2662-2359.

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There are a lot of mixed feelings surrounding the CEVO $1K tournament for Left 4 Dead right now. While some groups are better than others, every group from A to X in the tournament is having issues with teams dropping out or just not showing up at all. CEVO hasn't removed any of the teams nor restructured the groups probably out of fairness.

We received our second forfeit win last night bringing us to 4-0 in the tournament and one step closer to the single elimination playoff bracket. The next three matches don't look promising either as we face two teams who haven't played a single game yet and another team who is 2-2 and could easily stop playing by the time we see them in round six.

So for the next week and a half, the team is gearing up for the start of the TWL season in hopes to get some actual competition in. TWL has been delayed for weeks before the actual preseason start and then a restructure of the groups put the season on hold for at least another week.

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