Friday Night Fights: Return to glory edition

Longtime community member dyslixec, or as he now goes by, WastelandTraveler, has spearheaded the movement to bring PC gaming back into Friday Night Fights in a huge way. For that, I am eternally grateful.

If I have ever come off as insincere because of how hands off I tend to be with the planning of these weekly online get-togethers, I apologize. FNF started off as an idea from the community, and I’ve always wanted to move forward with that same sentiment in mind.

For the community, by the community. That’s how I want it to be. Always have. I’m simply the guy who embraces and helps to promote it.

And now that you’ve learned a little Destructoid history, let’s play some games! Well, you can play some games. I can’t — darn broken Xbox! Hamza says he’ll be doing it up Modern Warfare 2-style, so at least there’s one editor who will be in attendance.

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Quick guide to FNF for new players: Each week, a bunch of Destructoid readers and usually an editor or two get together to play some videogames online. Fun times!

The planning for FNF takes place in the forums, where Dtoiders volunteer to host by posting their information (gamertag, time to meet up, game, etc.) in the forum post corresponding to the system they’re interested in playing on.

Then, every Friday, reminder posts for those who don’t read the forums regularly go up in the community blogs section all thanks to a dedicated group of cool individuals. And for everyone who wants their info all in one place, they have got my weekly recap posts which you are currently reading.

Now that you’re here, just scan the list below and find a game you want to play. All that’s left to do after that is to join the match by contacting the host below using any means necessary. For Wii, you might have to be a little creative, but for 360/PS3 a simple “invite plz” message will be fine.

If you want to get your gaming done later on in the evening, scroll on down past this section, otherwise hit up the following European hosts/early FNFers for a good time.

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from EuroFNF):
• Steam ID: Subenu (Team Fortress 2 @ 7:30 GMT)
• Gibbo – JGibbo08 (Left 4 Dead 2 on 360 @ 10:00 GMT)
• Fusion – Fusion Elder5 (Modern Warfare 2 on 360 @ 10:00 GMT)

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from power-glove):
• DJ Duffy – DJ Duffy and storyr – MrStoryr (Modern Warfare 2 all night long)
• Redface – RedfaceNG2 (Halo 3: ODST Firefight @ 9:00 EST)
• KD Alpha – MichelleMata85 (1 vs. 100 @ 10:30, 11:00 EST)

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from Y0j1mb0):
• Santanaclaus89 – Moosehole (Marvel vs. Capcom 2 @ 8:00 EST, Modern Warfare 2 @ 10:00 EST)
• Y0j1mb0 – k0wb0y-b33b0p (Borderlands @ 9:00 EST)

Tonight’s Games (more info from SPNKr):
• The Ship
  IP: 72.233.56.10:27017
  Gametype: Elimination
  Play Time: Whenever (Official start time is 6 PM EST)
• Team Fortress 2
  IP: 63.209.35.100:27015
  Map rotation: Stock only rotation with customs in Rock The Vote.
  Play Time: Whenever (Official start time is 6 PM EST)
• Counter-Strike: Source
  IP: 64.69.39.176:27015
  Map rotation: de_dust2 and cs_office
  Play Time: Whenever (Official start time is 6 PM EST)
  (Thanks to TewDee for the server)
• Serious Sam HD @ 10:00 EST

Beyond FNF:
• Destructoid’s Steam group