I hasd a shoulder injury which laid me off work for 9 months. During that time I needed something to fill my copious amount of free time with so I bought a laptop and tried some online gaming for the first time.
I was playing unreal tournament with some members of a clan called Forbidden Snipers. After a while I became a member and was introduced to COD4. Everything was fine for about a year until one day less and less members joined the servers and I found myself having no one to compete against.
One day when no one was on I explored the available servers list from around the world trying to find somewhere to play and found XI's original freeztag server. Intrigued by the mod name I joined the server and found myself addicted in no time!
Due to my old clans inactivity and my savage appetite for freezetag I left Forbidden Snipers and pursued membership with >XI<. About a year later Sonovabich recruited me and so here I am, nearly 7 years on the servers, close to 6 as a member, still playing freeztag through all of its variations to our current version today.
From sit and snipe to run and gun shotgun whore freezetag addict I'm proud to be >XI< and glad I found our server that fateful day