Budgie Studios originally started life as a Call of Duty 4 clan on MLG Gamebattles, where it competed unsuccessfully in the Summer '08 European League. It took the transformation into a Grifball team when the captain, MallardQuakson and two of his team-mates, IoI Gazza IoI and Tango Lemon played a few weekends of Grifball on Doublexpweekend. During the christmas break of 08, MallardQuakson discovered the Grifball website run by Roosterteeth, and signed up Budgie Studios. MallardQuakson invited all of his CoD4 team-mates to join the Grifball team. Those team-mates were IoI Gazza IoI, Tango Lemon, I Shaun Spurs I (originally shauny boi 15), alexs inferno, xXxWO0DYxXx (originally AdvanceSlasher) and JshadowknightP.