Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 1.

By request.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left for Dead 2.

There was a request for some brain on brain action, and it seems like interest in Halo has waned.  ZOMBIES TONIGHT.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

Brainy fun.  Looks like we'll have just enough to maybe sprint through some campaign.  I promise to only molotov saferooms when I'm the first one in.

Clan night poll reset

Go and vote!  Zombies campaign has mucho fun this week.  Because what's funnier than a molotov in the safe room?  lolz

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

Thanks for voting kids.  It's another zombie night.  Brainy.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

OK, we're back in business.  Will try to establish a more regular cadence for clan nights again.  Watch for a poll on the blog later this week to pick the weekly game that we play.  Please only vote if you actually plan to show up to play that game.  I'll pull the game list from the games that are showing up in people's Xbox Live accounts, feel free to nominate others.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

I miss the Spitter.  Zombies tonight.  Duke Nukem coming soon, so get your zombie fix while you can.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

It's been fun playing L4D1 for a couple weeks in a row, but people mentioned they missed the spitter.  So L4D2 it is this week.  I'm still traveling, so will be out.  Coordinate amongst yourselves.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 1.

It'd be really nice to actually get some versus in this week.  If we don't get at least six people to show up tonight, I'll consider dropping L4D from the rotation because it's just not drawing the crowds required.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead ONE.

Pounce me.  Tongue me.  Barf on me.  Get me some brains in the L4D original game.  9pm PT.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead ONE.

By request of MrsM, we'll be playing L4D classic tonight.  Put in your original game disc, not #2.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

Zombie zombie zombie.  The last couple of zombie nights, the clan has very effectively self organized, so I trust that you all can do it again.  I am sadly in Houston this week and won't be able to participate.  But that should leave a free spot for somebody else to sneak in.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

Sorry for the late update.  I'm hungry for some gray matter.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

BRAINS.  9pm PT.  First come, first eaten.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

It's braaaaaaaiiiiinnnnssss this week.  I'm traveling, so moving the time back to 9pm so I can get home.  Remember to join both the XBL party and the game lobby.

Clan night tonight. 8pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

By popular vote, we'll start playing zombies every other week now, intermixed with Halo Reach.  Today is my wife's birthday, so I'll be out, but OmniscientDeath will be hosting games starting at 8pm.  Be sure he's in your friends list.  You should be able to join both the XBL Chat Party as well as the Left 4 Dead 2 game lobby on the fly, even if they're already in game, as long as there's less than 8 players.  Remember that it's first come, first served.

Clan Night Postmortem

Here are some highlights from last night.  Since we had a bunch of objective games, I didn't filter them out this week.  Also worth noting, even though it's not highlighted in the table, is Mean Mrs Monkey's career best game with 8 kills and +4 spread on Anchor 9 DMRs.  Most people seemed to really enjoy zombies last week, and there is talk of playing Left 4 Dead more than just once a month.  I've put a new poll up on the blog, go and vote to voice your opinion if you'd like to play L4D more or less.

Clan night tonight. 8pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

Hope everyone had a spoiled Christmas and got lots of fun toys.  I sure did.  =D  Zombies this week as it seems like everyone is in town.  Due to popular demand, I'll try to host one zombie clan night a month, targeting the last Tuesday of each month.  Remember that we use an XBL Chat Party with zombies so that we can talk to each other.  If you've forgotten, review some of the old clan posts:

• Parties, Parties, Parties
• L4D2 Weapons and Items
• First Come, First Served
• Clan Night Waiting List
• L4D Etiquette
• L4D n00b Q&A
• L4D Party Management

Clan night feedback

Last night was the first night that I started picking playlists based on the poll results.  It was somewhat of a unique clan night because we had four people on split screen at my house.  The split screen prevents us from playing Big Team Battle (limited to 2 local players) and also locks in teams - Reach matchmaking does not appear to break up split screens anymore, so all 4 local players were always on the same team.  This won't really ever be an issue in the future, so we'll get to play BTB and teams will shuffle more when we're in 4v4 playlists.  We did however play much less straight Slayer and Invasion than we do on a normal clan night:

• 4v4 Team Slayer - 7 games (35%) wins pretty evenly split 4 and3
• 4v4 Team Objective - 7 games (35%) wins split 5 and 2
• 6v6 Invasion - 3 games (15%) with 2 out of 3 wins/ties
• 3v5 Living Dead - 2 games (10%)
• 4v4 Team Snipers - 1 game (5%) wins split 0 and 1

Despite knowing that Invasion causes strife, I chose the playlist a couple times so that we could all play on the same team.  In the future, we'll have BTB as an option instead and can avoid Invasion more.  It felt a little monotonous to always have gt, OD, BeerMonkeee and doodz vs everyone else, so was trying to break it up.  Party chat seemed to make games more humorous, and assassinations were the highlights of the night.

The feedback is great, I'm interested if you have more thoughts.  Remember to vote in the poll on the blog, and be ready for zombies next week!

Clan night tonight. 8pm PT. Halo Reach.

The poll has closed and the winning results are (in order):

1. Big Team Battle
2. Team Slayer
3. Team Objective

Custom games were rejected handily, so I'll be happy to not spend anymore time trying to find fun games for n00bz to play.  Since my family is gone, a few of us will be playing split-screen at my house tonight and getting drunk.  Unfortunately for the vote, BTB only supports a max of 2 local players, so we may not be able to play much of that tonight.  I'll bring us into plenty of Team Slayer and Team Objective games though, while avoiding Invasion, which people seem really uncomfortable with.

I've also posted a new poll.  Many people have asked for zombie night to break up the Halo monotony.  I'll try to schedule one zombie night a month to see how that works out.  Please vote in the poll on your preference of L4D1 or L4D2.