The Finals for Modern Rumfare, one of AGE's largest and longest running leagues, are tonight. Get on board the hype train with a video preview of the finals matchup, as well as interviews from players of the contending teams. Even if you're not in the league, check them out and get in on the hype!
The Trailer:
The interviews:
Rum Bowl Interview with Admiral Nelson:
1. Introduce Yourselves.
SurrealPanic: Hi, I
am Surreal. I aim low. Nope, even lower.
ChewySmokey: Buon
giorno, I am ChewySmokey. I also answer to "CampySmokey",
"ChewyCampy" (see a trend, here?), "that guy who will leave you
for dead when the shit hits the fan", "That Canadian" or
"Hoser". Apparently I am co-captain for Team Admiral Nelson in the
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 league "Modern Rumfare", I guess
slapping together maps to formulate strategies and bossing around my teammates
entitles me to some authority. 
2. Share with us, all your hopes and dreams.
SurrealPanic: I
dream of a world free of Screech and Screech-related merchandise, imagery,
badging, and paraphenalia.
ChewySmokey: I
hope to finish my schooling this year and enter the workforce, the "real
world" work force, as some sort of graphic designer. Fuck that free-lancer
shit, I want to work for an actual company with steady pay. I want to make
things, animate (2D or 3D), graphics, all that fun shit, though it is quite
ambitious. Oh, and I hope we win!
3. Tell me about your team.
SurrealPanic: Great bunch of guys. Everyone is
willing to eat bullets FTW. Not a stinker in the bunch. A good well-rounded
unruly mob.
ChewySmokey: My team is like a well oiled machine
that can cuss and swear with the best of 'em! Communication is never a problem
and we've become very good at adapting to changing conditions in gameplay.
4. Any teammate you think deserves a special shout-out?
SurrealPanic: Chewy has played well all league,
but everyone on the team has had good games and made clutch plays.
ChewySmokey: Fuck, I don't know, they all do
their part and contribute, but I think I'll give a shout out to
Pittenger5 for scoring the only point on the decisive CTF match against Sailor
Jerry last week. Of coarse, without good defense and massive efforts made to
retrieve our flag that point would have meant nothing, which everyone had a
hand in.
5. Give me your thoughts on the upcoming match Thursday
night.
SurrealPanic: We will sweep. Over in 30.
ChewySmokey: It will be brutal and close, but I
think we are ready.
6. What are your plans after your Rum Bowl victory?
SurrealPanic: I am going to Gatorland.
ChewySmokey: Change my avatar on these forums,
prestige after I work on some other guns and sleep.
7. Finally, define your team in 7 words or less.
SurrealPanic: Cuddly tiger cubs with big teeth
(rawr!)
ChewySmokey: Strategic, adaptable, cussing, blood
thirsty manly men!
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Rum Bowl Interview with Newfoundland Screech:
1. Introduce Yourselves.
Gunner McGrath: Hello.
My name is Chris McGrath, and I live in Hoffman Estates,
Illinois (which is a suburb of Chicago...
excellent!). I'm 31, married for almost 2 years, and we have our first
child coming in July. Back in my early days as a singer for a punk band,
my friend's sister decided that Gunner McGrath was a cool nickname, and after
putting it on our web site, people thought it was my real name and it
stuck. It means absolutely nothing and certainly has nothing to do with
my prowess behind a virtual FAMAS.
Vcize: 16/f has webcam want 2 chat?
2. Share with us, all your hopes and dreams.
Gunner McGrath: I
don't have that many, really. I hope to be a good husband and father, and
I dream of the day when I am completely out of debt. But most
importantly, I really desperately want to get 1000 headshots with the
aforementioned FAMAS, and of course, spank Nelson hard this Thursday! (It
is a little known fact that my only Call of Duty badge was earned by subbing in
the last match of a tournament finals game, and wasn't actually my team, so
winning this one would be the first that I properly earned!)
Vcize: I
currently work in software development. As everyone around here probably
knows, I want to get the hell out of that god-forsaken field and get into the
video production field someday. Maybe Chewy and I should start our own
company. That is, if he'll talk to me after we destroy his team tomorrow
night.
3. Tell me about your team.
Gunner McGrath: I'll tell you what I really like
about my team. We may not be the best shots or know the maps better than
anyone else, but everybody takes the league [reasonably] seriously and when we
decide on a strategy, we execute it. Nobody's running around doing their
own thing (though if anyone would be guilty of that, it'd be me).
Vcize: We're a bunch of jokers who, when
combined, form the perfect meld of ass kicking brutality. Kind of like
when the planets all align just right and cause the world to end in 2012 (I saw
it in a movie, there's no stopping it).
4. Any teammate you think deserves a special shout-out?
Gunner McGrath: I like my whole team
equally. Though I will say I'm impressed that Vcize has held his own even
though he's only level 35, and Wiglag prestiged on a weekend and pushed hard to
get himself back up into the 40's again before the last match. That's
dedication to the league AND the game!
Vcize: Everyone on our team plays an important
role and without any one of us we're worse off. For instance our success
on domination on our home map has everyone playing a key role and without any
one of us it would leave a huge hole in our strategery for that map.
Lackwit's 184:1 K/D ratio during the tourney hasn't hurt either.
5. Give me your thoughts on the upcoming match Thursday
night.
Gunner McGrath: Well, I was pretty worried about
our ability to win last week, and that worked out pretty well for us, so I'm
going to go ahead and continue to be worried that Nelson has learned enough
from our previous encounter to give us some real trouble. They may not
have been the top seed, but they earned their way into the finals and that's
nothing to sneeze at. I expect to have a racing heart and very tense
muscles when I go to bed Thursday.
Vcize: We've played Admiral Nelson before so we
know it will be a hard fought, nail-biter. We will prevail though, our
awesome level is just too high to keep us down.
6. What are your plans after your Rum Bowl victory?
Gunner McGrath: I'm going to prestige! (Just
as soon as I get that 1000th headshot.)
Vcize: I'm going to try to find the room for
another badge without AJ bitching about it.
7. Finally, define your team in 7 words or less.
Gunner McGrath: Dustin Diamond has got nothing on
us.
Vcize: Destroyers of dreams.
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