Gaming & Commentary History

My gaming history started on June 22nd 1994 (that's over a decade ago now, god I'm getting old). I got an Atari 2600 with 3 games for my 16th birthday and had 5 mates come over and we played it all through the night. I specialised in Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator and I was good. Probably CGi standard or the equivalent, lol. Fast forward 10 years and I'd had experience with games such as CounterStrike and Red Alert. A few years break from gaming was ended with the release of Battlefield 1942 but more importantly with Battlefield 2. I became a GameOp with Gamespace just after they ran Australia's first Battlefield ladder and since then have been involved in successfully running the next six community-based leagues with them.

It was in August 2006 that I joined Gamestah and helped Glimmer in relauching Battlefield shoutcasting which had been dormant since 1942. My first cast on the XGN Capture the Flag ladder between Bravo 2 Zulu and the Aussie Universal Soldiers. I just had another listen to it then and well.. it was my first cast. I must something right because a few months later I was booked on a flight to Sydney to commentate the $10,000 Prey Tournament.

I soon teamed up with Harry and together we really launched Battlefield casting culminating in our first GameArena cast and the BF2 Grand Final. The Harry and Momo Show soon resulted and we went through with 20 episodes of the following 5 months. BF2 was replaced by BF2142 and my involvement at the AEF became more competitive with the 6th Kokoda team. Due to having no skill, my commander abilities helped us through to the top 8 finals where we lost in our first match by 9 ticks - a very small margin in Battlefield.

Battlefield started to die down and thus I expanded into other games including CounterStrike and CounterStrike:Source. Fast forward another 6 months and now it's all about Call of Duty 4. I flew down to Reloaded LAN in Adelaide for Australia Day 2008 and enjoyed casting Battlefield, CounterStrike and Call of Duty  4. CyberGamer went full throttle with what I consider to be the most professional ladder system I have seen anywhere in the world (It's not rocket science but listening to the community delivers results). Over the last two months I've done live commentary at three LAN events in Brisbane, flew to Melbourne for a CS 1.6 tournament, flew to Auckland to cover WCG New Zealand and ran the QGaming COD4 Tournament at LanSmash; aka momoLAN. From an online perspective, recently there has been CSS at GotGames CEVO and Reality Gaming; and COD4 at CyberGamer, GamingSA, GameVault NZ, NoHax Network, GameArena and the Samsung King of the Hill Tournament with coverage of teams from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Phillipines.

What next... WCG Australia coming up in a few weeks in Sydney followed by momoLAN part 2 maybe in September.

Gaming Team /  Clan history:

• HSF - Hell's Special Forces (Battlefield 2)
• AEF Inc (Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Call of Duty 4)
• Royal New Holland Company (Pirates of the Burning Sea)

Commentator for the following Game Types:

• Battlefield 2
• Battlefield 2142
• Call of Duty 4
• Prey
• CounterStrike
• CounterStrike Source
• Halo 3
• Project Gotham Racing 4
• Pirates of the Burning Sea

Live Event Commentary

• Jul 2008 - World Cyber Gamers 2008 New Zealand - National Qualifiers (Auckland, New Zealand)
• Jul 2008 - GenCon QLDCSS CounterStrike Source Tournament (Brisbane, Australia)
• Jun 2008 - World Cyber Games 2008 Australia - Queensland State Qualifiers (Brisbane, Australia)
• May 2008 - Elympics CounterStrike 1.6 Tournament (Brisbane, Australia)
• May 2008 - DICEVIP IBISQ CounterStrike 1.6 Tournament (Melbourne, Australia)
• Apr 2008 - GotGames VA LAN Call of Duty 4 Tournament (Melbourne, Australia)
• Apr 2008 - World Cyber Games 2008 Australia - Autumn Cup (Brisbane, Australia)
• Feb 2008 - QLDCSS CounterStrike Source Tournament (Brisbane, Australia)
• Jan 2008 - Reloaded LAN (Adelaide, Australia)
• Jan 2007 - FragFest SummerLAN (Sydney, Australia)
• Oct 2006 - GameSphere $10,000 Prey Tournament (Sydney, Australia)  

Online Tournaments, Ladders and Leagues

• Battlefield 2 - GameArena 10v10 (Seasons 1-3)
• Battlefield 2 - GameArena 16v16 (Seasons 1-4)
• Battlefield 2 - Gamespace 10v10 (Seasons 3-6)
• Battlefield 2 - Oceanic Gaming Network (Infantry Tournament)
• Battlefield 2 - Xtreme Gaming Network (Catpure the Flag Season 2)
• Battlefield 2 - Xtreme Gaming Network (Point of Existence 2 Season 1)
• Battlefield 2 - Xtreme Gaming Network (Special Forces Season 1)
• Battlefield 2142 - GameArena 10v10 (Seasons 1-2)
• Battlefield 2142 - GameArena 8v8 (Season 3)
• Battlefield 2142 - GXL Singapore International
• CounterStrike - GotGames (Aussie Invitational)
• CounterStrike Source - Reality Gaming (Amatuer Tournament)
• CounterStrike Source - Gamespace (Season 5)
• CounterStrike Source - GameArena (Season 2)
• CounterStrike Source - GotGames CyberEvolution (Seasons 2-3)
• Call of Duty 4 - Samsung King of the Hill International
• Call of Duty 4 - CyberGame Invite (Seasons 1-2)
• Call of Duty 4 - CyberGame Main (Seasons 1-2)
• Call of Duty 4 - CyberGame Open (Seasons 1-2)
• Call of Duty 4 - CyberGame (Trail Ladder)
• Call of Duty 4 - Gamevault (Sabotage Season 1)
• Call of Duty 4 - Gaming SA (Sabotage Season 1)
• Call of Duty 4 - GameArena (Season 1)
• Call of Duty 4 - New School Gamer (Clan Wars)
• Call of Duty 4 - No Hax Network (Season 1)
• Gamestah Show - Harry & Momo Show
• Gamestah Show - Inside Battlefield
• Gamestah Show - Sailing the High Seas
• Gamestah Show - Craptastic Chatback