Others have certainly noted that perhaps LeBron showed a lack of loyalty and character in making this decision, we here at Ranger Squad will not join in the choir.  No, we wish him the best of  luck and when we see him in the virtual field of combat we will not intentionally teabag him after the inevitable frag.

With the money freed from LeBron James not signing, we would now like to announce or full efforts will be towards signing Ilya Kovalchuk to the squad.

Thank You,

Ranger Squad Management and Trained Monkey Clowns

Ranger Squad is somewhat spread out right now as many members are paying a lil attention to real life.  A couple folks even are heading back to Afghanistan…  We’re playing multiple games, but none competitively right now.  As things settle down we’ll see what develops.

But, no more!  We’re now 100% hack free.  This will be a big change for some, but we expect everyone to comply.  Even you Loveofprofit person who wanted to remain anonymous!

I don’t expect any differences in our incredibly dominating play.  So, if you need to practice more without the pre-aimer, post-aimer, in-flight-aimer, please start doing so ASAP before we meet up in Washington for the Regional Semi-Finals of Champions Competition of Excellence.

Good luck everyone!

Though the sources are unsubstantiated, we believe this operation will give him a thirty foot tall cybernetic harness which will allow him to crush cars with his feet.  Oddly, the unsubstantiated rumor goes, he did not opt for the heat ray option and intends to use his homemade bows to rain pain on those who smite him.  And of course, his new thirty foot tall cybernetic harness.

Even if those rumors are not true and we will, perhaps,  not be subjected to his all powerful cyborg rule – good luck, dude!  Every RS member is asked to eat a ceremonial ham in his honor.  Preferably from a swine you felled yourself with homemade archaic weapons.

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This streak of success is unprecedented in the 6+ years RS has been around and I hope everyone appreciates that success.  It’s also the first time we put so much work in preparing for so long.  So, I’d like to thank all members of of RS present and past for making this all work.  Setting up nightly scrims (Bo, and GenG early on) is a pain.  Walking through maps in gory detail trying to find every firing angle from every position to lay out the spread is time consuming.  But, it all paid off.

For those curious why this run was so successful, I can point to a few specific factors that were different from other times in RS’s past:

1. Keep the core team small.  If you’re picking a 8 person roster from a pool of 25, not everyone is going to be prepared.  The downside is you are often scrambling to make the minimum to play a match!
2. Corollary to the above  on keeping the team small.  Have a team.  RS doesn’t recruit for skill nor do we have an open door.  It’s hard to explain it any further than to say – you have to fit in.  We’ve told more highly skilled players to take a hike than people who couldn’t hit the side of a barn.
3. Work.  Intra-squad scrims are good for fleshing things out, but playing other teams are essential to see different plays.

Obviously, we couldn’t have scrimmed every night without the help of other teams in the tactical gaming community.  So, thanks to everyone who played us and helped us get our act together.  I can’t even begin to count the weeks where our first couple of scrims we got it handed to us only to make us better come actual match play.

Right now RS is looking forward to the release of the latest Battlefield game, Bad Company 2.  The Medal of Honor relaunch might be interesting.  All we know is that our cuises will demand we find something to play.