Career
Ramsey co-created Red vs. Blue (voice of Grif) with friend Burnie Burns in 2003. Since then, he has gone on to become an Internet celebrity, regularly appearing at conventions such as PAX and Comic-Con. Ramsey, besides working on Red vs. Blue, used to frequently join Gustavo Sorola, Burnie Burns and Joel Heyman on the Rooster Teeth Podcast, tentatively titled "The Drunk Tank" (renamed to "The Rooster Teeth Podcast" in October 2011). He has not appeared on the podcast since September 2011, due to being busy with Achievement Hunter. He is a regular in the RT Shorts and video podcasts.
In 2008, Geoff Ramsey started a new series at Rooster Teeth productions called Achievement Hunter. The site is run by Ramsey and colleague Jack Pattillo, who regularly release achievement guides, easter egg videos and other game-related videos. Unlike many other achievement-dedicated websites, Achievement Hunter is highly dependent on public contributions and so has guides across many different games and platforms, allowing the site to expand its focus from Xbox 360 games to those on PC, PS3, Steam, iPhone and even Windows Phone 7. Achievement Hunter also releases a weekly video highlighting the next weeks news in gaming called Achievement Hunter Weekly Update. Abbreviated to AHWU, the show has fan-submitted openings, and features guest hosts such as Gavin Free, Michael Jones and Joel Heyman.
Geoff and Jack created a game through Halo: Reach's Forge mode, called "Achievement HORSE", new episodes every Wednesday. Gamers send in maps they have created and Geoff and Jack play them. The first to complete the map wins while the other loses. The loser gains a letter (e.g. Geoff wins round 1, Jack gets the letter H). The loser overall is the person to have lost five rounds first, completing the word "Horse". Sometimes due to limited time a replacement called "Pig" is played with the same rules as Horse but only spelling out "Pig". In October 2011, a company-wide HORSE tournament was held; Geoff was eliminated early on. Also in 2012 another tournament was held, he was once again eliminated early on in the tournament. On April 18, 2012, Geoff Ramsey and Jack Patillo started playing Achievement Horse on Trials Evolution. The same rules apply, except now they play racing maps submitted by viewers.
In addition to "Achievement HORSE", Geoff and Jack started the highly popular "Halo: Reach Fails of the Weak" series. Here, fans can send in funny or interesting videos clips containing gameplay footage from Halo: Reach, Halo 3 and Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Each Friday, Geoff and Jack organize a montage of failures and narrate them with their usual antics. Many used to be on Halo Waypoint. Since they've received so many videos from people, they made a YouTube channel called GameFails, where they put all of the other videos, as well as fails from other games. They are also available on their website. The GameFails channel has quickly expanded to a large sensation on YouTube.
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