This is a very interesting contest.. one of the only ones that I could actually at least have a chance on hitting at least 10th place :P
Well... I have quite some history, thus I will write my little "Essay".... let's hope it's not too boring, or sheepwell will disqualify me.

Allright then
It all started in June of 2007, funny really, how I found out about this. I was searching up the word "Power" on google.com... and I dunno, just randomly picked page 15. In page 15, there wer mostly advertisements, but then there was "Power Soccer". I decided to give it a go.... There were some players moving around the screen. They mostly looked like puppets.... I wasn't really sure on whether or not to create an account, but I decided to give it a go.

Choosing a username was probably the hardest part. I was originally going to choose my name: Marin.eder for a username, but I wasn't really sure I wanted to give that info out. I was also a member in candystand.com..., at the time I loved that game, and had an account called "coolguy44". I was going to put this as my username, but decided it was pretty damn corny. (Pfft... I know.. radicalguy44 is corny too, but hey look how I turned out :P)

After choosing my account, I decided to explore this new website. After feeling a bit familiar with it, I played a match. (Or tried to...) The version check took me 1 hour and 30 minutes, since I had no idea what to do. Turned out, all I had to do was press GO... ( I was looking for somethnig that said NEXT... but GO was right there, and poof I could play).

A few weeks later, I turned level 10. My rank was 681, and it kept decreasing. I was almost ready to throw in the towel, but I decided not to. Dunno how it happened, but another few weeks later, I decided to change my tactics from 5-4-1, to 4-3-3... I kept winning, and was on a 35 game winning streak. Amazingly, I was at 1005 rps. Then came luivemx (an admin at the time), and well, let's just say that game didn't turn out so well

At first, I was all for the gamerooms, but I hadn't read the rules properly, so I used caps lock, and got some consequences.... After I reached level 40 or so, I was in an official match, and I was matched against user "mishap1995". I ended up winning 3-1, and he offered me a space in x-Star Strikers-x. I accepted, at the time not knowing what a clan was. Over the months, mishap became inactive, bestrin taking over captain. Bestrin left x-SS-x, and I got the captainship

Then, I saw floddy make a clan.. there were two people, but we wanted floddy in xSSx, so we merged, and CSXI was born.

Over the 2 years, I kept loosing, and I got to like the forums. I have to admit, I was spammy, and maybe still am, you judge me.. I decided to apply for Forum Admin, (yes.. FAs rock), and got denied. I knew that this would happen.. and never thought that I would get an admin position. Until October 31st, sipwell came along, and talked to me and gave me a chance for FA..

For this I am very grateful. Thank you sipwell. Then, I became LA (Thx kingtim), then came RA, (thanks anionic), and finally CA. (Thank you dainsanefh + bigdaddyat)

I really don't know if I deserve all these positions, I am not the most mature person out there, I admit. But whenever we need to be serious, you can count on me. Don't think my career is over... with less than 500 XPs to go for level 99. There is a goal that I have always wanted to achieve, and frankly, I don't think it'll ever happen. MAship.

I'll keep my chin up, and let's let the future unfold, we can't do anything about it now, but keep on going. Life is a Highway, there are bumps in the road, but you have to overcome these obstacles. Sure there will be people who wont approve of my actions, but we have to learn that nothing should stop us, that even though we have made mistakes, we should work and work until we fix them... If you don't get something.. keep trying, never give up. I'm CFLRA, something that if you would have told me 1 year ago, that I would achieve this, I would not believe you.

Sure, everyone says this, but this is coming from someone who was probably the last person sipwell would contact for FA, but he eventually did. Keep going guys, there are always rewards at the end of the road, you just have to find the correct way to get there.

~Radicalguy44 (CFLRA)

Wow Rad, These Two are the best quotes of the article..

Amazing Story... kinda Funny how you Found Power Soccer :P

I'll go check Page 15!

You are very lucky to be CFLRA, i wanted to be RA but got rejected... Now i move on to FA.

I wish you luck in the contest.

Great thread! Really interesting! Wow CFLRA! You must be busy 24/7! Good luck in the comp ;P

Rad old bud!
I'm sad you didn't mention me :p jk
But anyways great thread mate!
Not much in here I didn't know though but still very nice to read and I'm sure you'll become a MA someday your a great player and deserve more than basically anyone I know.)

Note: I dont think rad wants this in the contest because he already gets the CM. He is mearly informing us about his history for fun.

:p Jk

On top of that his the captain of CSXI, Mexico, and some other club i dont know, His kind are rare to find :P

Great thread, Enjoyed every second of it.

i know right

great job radical

Good luck!!!