It is hard to summarize the really great night of racing that we had last night. Like Mil said, the server was full before our regular start time. That started pretty much four hours of constant 6v6 of all experienced racers. The things that happened covered the full spectrum of the Halo racing experience.
We had a running of Death Island that came down to probably a fraction of a second in the any nav format as the 14-14 tie was broken by a Red racer as a hog with two Blue racers was hitting their last nav at the same instant. It made me think of the days when we had people running time trials to figure out how to shave parts of a second off of their lap times.
We had a string of maps won by the Red team as Mil mentioned. The list of racers did not seem to be that one sided, but one team got hot and the other did not. But even in the middle of that run of probably a dozen maps there was a 15-14 win on Timberland by Blue. (Dusaro had 4 laps to lead that.) And the run included three 15-14 Red wins. Style had 10 kills on Sidewinder in one of those losses and AJ had 11 kills on a later 15-14 running of Sidewinder in his first map of the night.
Have you ever had one of those maps where you just can't get in a hog and moving without getting killed 2 seconds later? It happened to the whole Blue team during a 15-2 drubbing on Geph. Fuzzy had 10 kills in that one and must not have felt too guilty because he had about that many during his first lap of the next map on his way to 17 on Blood Gulch.
We had two runnings of Danger Canyon in which no one reached double digits in kills or deaths, though in one of them there were four Red racers with 8 kills each. During that, Bob Marley and Whipreck had 4 laps each. On a different running of it, Invert led with 11 kills and 1hitkillr had 10 while Style somehow snuck through with 4 laps and only 1 death.
I missed a lot because of not being able to get into the full server. I still saw a lot of great play besides what was already mentioned. This included Mil with 12 kills on Ice Fields and 11 more immediately on Death Island, Devin with 11 kills on Sidewinder and immediately with 12 more on Geph and then 12 more later on Ice Fields, and Style with a 16-kill domination of Blood Gulch.
Hopefully the overflowing server on Saturday means that we will get some more full-server racing on Monday and Wednesday. We look forward to seeing everyone on the tracks then.