A young female Singaporean flight attendant takes the microphone behind a stand. With her dolly make-up and well presented uniform, she speaks in an American-esque accent:

"Flight Q315 is now ready for boarding. I ask all passengers to please proceed to Gate 53 to board the plance as we will be taking off shortly."

The sound of aeroplanes landing at the airport are but ambient whispers in the background as five young Australian men get ready to board their planes.

They're half way to their destination. There's no going back now. Where are they going? How do they all know each other? They came from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. As they fly to Singapore, they are but merely five individuals who met in a very unique way.

To their fellow passengers who also board that plane at Gate 53, these five men are but regular people who have a deep and dark secret. You see, they are carrying something strange in their carry bags.

Thousands of people know why they are on that plane, and what they are planning to do. In fact, these thousands of people know their deep and dark secret.

They are going to be planting and defusing the most important bombs of their lives up to this very day. And they're travelling to Los Angeles to do it.

Their weapons of mass destruction? Each one carefully selected pair of headphones. One mouse. One Keyboard.

They call themselves Team Immunity. And in 2010, they carried the Australian flag on their backs at the World Cyber Games 2010 International Tournament, the Olympics of E-Sports.

It goes live on three in Los Angeles. The Australians fear nothing, and want a result to show for their hundreds of hours put in over their strenuous boot-camp sessions leading up to this international tournament. Gareth (gazR) must have felt an extraordinary feeling of butterflies and emotions just as the first match went live.

Not because it's competitive. Not because he's in another country. And not because he's up against a tough opponent. But because he now leads the very team that he was nutured in. And he remembers being interviewed two weeks prior, saying that this is the team that needs to 'progress' for the rest of the country to 'progress'. This is the team that spent four weeks practicing and preparing around the world with the world's finest. This is the team that hopes to show the rest of the world what the Australian spirit can do...

And surely, one would expect that the amount of hours endured were enough for the finest teams in the world to rub off at least some of their knowledge and skills onto the young Australians.

With this in the back of his mind, gazR leads Immunity head on into that first match of their group stage against the Swedish 'Lions' with-in the WCG Tournament...

And with a bang, it's soon over.

As the debris settles and dust get swept off, Team Immunity return home empty-handed.

If an intense 250 hour boot-camp session spent on team-work and chemistry building in Counter-Strike isn't enough to pierce through the tiniest crack of these international teams, then what is?

I don't know the answer.

Team Immunity represents the illusive dream of every Australian gamer. The dream that everybody competing claims to have never had, or be the reason for entering Australian National Counter-Strike Tournaments. If representing your country is the pinnacle of Australian Counter-Strike, then toppling the number one Swedish team would have been like having a bad session with Katy Perry... and then winning an international tournament must be like finding out dreamR (NSFW) is your seperated-at-birth twin brother. Just kidding.

With the intense ambition that Immunity had, it has done little to change the competitive scene of Counter-Strike in Australia. The very same people who support them every step of the way, are now going to be brushing shoulders with them and chest-pumping their way to try and claim the Number 1 sport at the next national tournament: Dice National Cup 2010.

On the weekend of Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd of January 2011, Counter-Strike teams from around Australia will emerge in the City of Melbourne and compete against each other at the MidCity Internet Cafe.

For the past decade, every national event seduces teams to be inundated with heave practice schedules, new strategies and tinkering of line-ups. It is this preparation that has ensured that the highest level of play that Australia has on offer, is jam-packed with all the drama and action any soap opera television show writer can dream of.

Dice National Cup, for the past four months, has been the lifeblood of the competitive Counter-Strike scene.

And after the Grand Final on Sunday 23rd, only one team is going to hold the chalice... hoping that it will eventually take them all the way back to the Singapore airport, where they will ultimately venture off to the currently-unknown World Cyber Games 2011 battleground.

All of this, to carry that Australian flag forward and show the rest of the world what Australia can do.

Now that's the Australian spirit.