We’ve joined UGC for 7v7, but we might drop it due to lack of people (had 3 arrive for Sunday’s 8v8), not sure yet.

But for now, hell yes, it’s another match I didn’t play in:

Round 1 (by bus-mechanic)

Ok so you’re not gonna fuckin believe this. Today at work one of the units, #203, to be exact was found leaning on the lot. LEANING! This was unacceptable so I told my fellow coworkers that it needs to be fixed, I did not want to do it because replacing a rear air bag is a bitch. So we brought it in and started to lift it up on our lifts, they cost $40,000 and there’s 4 of them you can see them here. If you want the product literature you can download it here. Ok so anyway our lifts fucking own they hold like 15k lbs each and there’s 4, again they cost $40,000 and they own. Ok so we lifted the bus up and put big jack stands under the rear part of the frame and then lowered the rear axle as to have access to the bags. The air bags are made by Goodyear and are probably the worst manufactured pieces of rubber I have ever seen. They dry rot pretty fast and blow out occasionally, and love to leak. So we took the 2 clevis pins out of the bottom and lowered the axle as to free the bag, then we took the air line off and the 4 bolts holding it on, this requires some stretching because it’s jammed in there. We then took the back shock off in order to get the bag out with ease. We took it out changed the fittings and put the new one in and thought to ourselves “this will last 3 weeks.” So we aired it up and it was level again. Then we lowered the bus down with our lifts and started it up and drove out and parked it on the lot. It was a hard days work but someone’s gotta do it.

Round 2:

This is how the match looked from my perspective, using BooTx’s advanced TFC virtualization software:

[22:28:43] < @BooTx> MM cap count: 1
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[22:40:58] < @BooTx> MM cap count: 7
[22:44:05] < @BooTx> MM cap count: 8
[22:46:06] < @BooTx> MM cap count: 9
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[22:51:54] < @BooTx> MM cap count: 11
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[22:53:53] < @BooTx> MM cap count: 13
[22:55:09] < @BooTx> MM cap count: 14

[23:09:21] < @beoba> the guy who was talking shit in #cs is suddenly ignoring me when i’m asking for hltv’s

Also worthy of note, I got called a fag! In IRC! Holy shit! allerbemaf!thesenuts@cpe-024-211-252-105.nc.res.rr.com TOTALLY OWNED ME!

We got bumped down to bronze, we’re fine with that. We might be dropping STA and moving to UGC 7v7 instead. After tonight though, might not be any rush to leave STA necessarily. I guess it depends on what people feel like doing. Who knows if we’ll be able to dredge up 7 (8 this week) every Sunday though.
Tonight’s results against UK:
rd1: 60-140
rd2: 290-170
total (for those who flunked math): 350-310

Here’s the writeup, written by pyro/bus:

So today at work I was doing a PM C on unit 59 when I noticed something terribly wrong with the air brakes, the return spring on the passenger side shoes had fallen off. So after finishing the PM C I had to manipulate our $40,000 lifts in such a way that they lowered the bus down to the ground and then I put a 22 ton jack stand under the front axle on the passenger side to suspend the tire in the air.

I got our .75” impact, which puts out about 1,000lbs of torque, and removed the lug nuts to get the tire/wheel off, and after that was off I bear hugged the 70lb drum and set it on the floor with a finesse found only in the path to daegalus. The shoes of course fell to the ground because there were 2 springs left (out of 3) pulling them the opposite way. I had to find the return spring and then place the shoes back the axle and adjust the slack adjuster so the s-cam was in the appropriate position to put the rollers back on the shoes. After I did that I put the drum and tire/wheel back on and tightened the lug nuts faster than a pit crew and was done. Removed the jack stand and set this unit back on the floor under it’s own power of suspension and someone else parked it back in its space on the lot because I had better shit to do.

– bus-mechanic