Forming a Halo Player - Part 4

I wasn't home last night so Mato played alone. She sent me a screen shot of her going 4 and 4, It's a 1.0, although it's low she was at least focusing on staying alive which is good in Slayer.  This morning I checked her stats to see how well she had done and she went down to a .36 k/d (.39).  She also went down to a .44 w/l (.45).    So I called her and I asked her simply "Did you have more fun last night than you normally do?". My thought was, if she enjoys herself then I'm not going to pressure her, I enjoy playing with her and her having fun is far more important than her having specific stats.  She told me that she didn't though, that it was frustrating for her.  She admitted she wasn't watching her radar as much as she normally does because she didn't feel the pressure from me being there.  Not feeling the pressure is good but because she wasn't focusing on it as much she was dying more frequently and she was getting more frustrated.  So I definitely think she has the desire to get better, I just don't know if I'm ideally the person to get her there in the long run.  For the time being I'm having fun working with her though and at some point I'll discuss with her getting additional help from more qualified people if needed and she desires.

We started out with the XBox that's in the bedroom on the 60" LCD in the living room.  But if you'll look through my past blog entries you'll see some posts about a television I bought for my office a while back and how it was rubbery or sluggish when I played.  The 60" has that same issue so we haven't been using it for gaming, and we usually end up watching movies in the bedroom because we can close the door to not disturb other people in the house.  so the 60" rarely gets used.  What I think I'm going to try this weekend is  I did finally find a game mode on it (because everything I read said it should have one, I *think* I found it, we'll see - It's a Sharp Aquos Quattron?) so I'm going to see if that works, if it does I'm going to move the 60" into the bedroom hook the hava into it and then we can game, watch movies better and record our games too! I'll take pics if I do it.  But I will for sure get some videos this weekend of Mato if anyone is interested.  At the least I'd like to log her progress for our own personal future reference if anything else so feel fee to come along for the ride if you'd like to. :)

On another topic - the guys I used to play "competitive" halo 3 with (I quoted it because we were horrible, lost every game on GameBattles we played) is getting back together and going to start practicing on Sunday nights so I may have some stuff to post about it in the near future.