Dear Gabe aka Mike Krahulik,
I am e-mailing you on the behalf of the Gaming-Age Forum, a little corner of the Internet inhabited by decent common folk working hard to earn a living and enjoy the pasttime of videogames. I'm not sure if you've heard of it, but we've heard of you and we read your comic strips constantly. Civilized discussions follow.
Recently, we accepted a challenge from an obnoxious outsider who posts under the alias Leguna and a sanctioned match ensued. Our best six against his so-called "Dream Team". The forum clan thrashed his team completely. Destroyed them without mercy. There was much defacation and/or humiliation. If you have some spare time and are in dire need of some instant humor, I suggest you view the gigantic thread on both the initial challenge and the equally hilarious rematch:
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=24507
http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=24509
Our bellies full of pride after a delicious feast of victory, we've decided to move past our little forum and stretch our land legs. Quite simply, we desire a new challenge. A truly challenging challenge. My suggestion? To formally request a sanctioned match against our Internet brethren, and as one of our most recognizable icons (and I'm pretty sure you play videogames as well), you'd represent one of our most daunting matches yet!
So it is with great pleasure, that as an official representative of the Gaming-Age Halo 2 clan, that I formally invite you to a sanctioned match pitting your best six Halo 2 contestants against our best six at a time of your earliest possible convenience. In a best three of four format, which will alternate gameplay modes, maps and settings depending on an outline of conditions that is to be drawn up by both parties following an official confirmation, the contest will simply put our best against your best (whether it be forum cronies, friends and/or family).
To the victor goes an overwhelming pride that they beat the best that the fellow opponent had to offer and to the loser goes neverending shame that only seppuku can erase.
Eagerly awaiting your response,
Will Federman, Gaming-Age's Don King.