EPTI woke up at 6am on friday for my work, and stayed awake until 3am sunday morning, 45hrs of NO actual bed-sleep. Although I did nap a little after-work for 30~40mn and then slept in my friends car on the drive back for 20mn.
WALL OF TEXT:
Although the only 3 people from TL I actually met it was Kennigit(was supposed to act mad at you because I hadn't got my Wemade shirt but forgot until shortly after I left), Hot_Bid, who I asked "where can I charge my cell phone at" because I didn't want plug it in the wrong place or something and mess up the whole stream setup and become instantly infamous as the party-crasher and last but most certainly not least, Mikilatov who was kind enough to guide me to the OSL party, which I then set promptly next to him like the lost little gamer I was. Later met him at the Diablo III booth and we akwardly talked about it and then we parted ways.
All of the RTS tournaments were fun, though I kept hoping for comeback wins from the people who were expected to win(Zero over Savior, and Effort over Zero(IMHO)) what sucked was I was totally going to make up lack of meeting TL members by just sitting in front at the finals and chilling (as aers, recommended) but I came late because my friend insisted on eating beforehand, which I couldn't refuse as I was also hungry.
Starcraft 2 was fun, after I met up with my RL friend we did a two 1:1's one ZvP and one ZvT(me Z for both) we tied in ZvP, after I tried to kill him with 10pool(which felt weird and a lot slower compared to SC1 9pool) he defended with zealots and probes and I tried to mass hydras to push in, killed his two gates outside his choke and found out he had carriers, I ran back teched to corruptors (zergs new anti-air) and went to attack again but he had mass cannons there. By this time it was almost 20mn,the time limit FYI,(I didn't notice) so he just A-moved his 4 carriers and mothership(omg imba) and the carriers died and the mothership didnt make it too my base before the match ended. The ZvT I did 10poolgas, and ran lings in who got destroyed by the scv, marines (theyre so much better this game) following my friend tried to be cool and tech to thors but I just massed hydra/ling and broke his ramp and won. I tried cataclysm, it was dumb because there was so many people and I wanted to see was the lore but couldn't do anything thanks to the 200 others playing. Doubt I'll even buy it if its release is too close to SCII. Diablo III was MEH I played a monk, he was tite but I didn't get enough time to grasp what he did and didn't feel worth it to wait in line again for it. I died a few times and felt rushed with the 20mn time limit and didn't explore much. Not to mention I played multiplayer so the mobs(Im assuming it has the same stronger mobs when more players in game mechanic as Diablo II) were too buff to solo. The SC2 exibition matches were kind of a let down, I wanted more progamers to play but beckham vs lyn seemed very lackaluster.
THE OSL PARTY
This was fun, and a very painful experience for me, I came in late so no time to show off my SO AWESOME shirt
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THE FRONT:
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THE BACK:
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THE BACK:
The progamers arrived, and I discovered the my phone REFUSES to use the camera if the battery is low. I wasn't going to go up to Savior or Skyhigh and take off my shirt and ask them to sign it. Also I didn't want to have them sign it while I was wearing because I'm just such a shy little creature.(Which I later contradict) So I just sat there and watched people get their signatures. After this they had the progamer quiz which after one question was answered by the 'korean fan-group' I saw the shirt was 20 sizes too small for my lanky self, and just sat and watched.
NEXT, they had the showmatches in which drunk incontrol could play anyone who raised their had fast enough, I THOUGHT (everyone does) I raised mine faster then mOnion but alas he got up(and he won the Savior flag lucky bastard) played for a bit and ret kicked him off(if he had asked me to, I still don't know if I would've A)just submitted because its ret B)Joked and said lol who are you and kept playing, C) B followed quickly by A. Then the other matches followed, and since I doubt any of the mentioned people will read this much(or any of) my blog I'll slip this in here, quote it if you want too. I expected Chill too be taller and more 'intimidating' but he was quite short, which isn't saying much since I'm 6'2". Totally didn't expect aers with the man-beard that was suprising, and thats about it. Then afterwards their was Day[9]'s standup comedy which was just standup masturbation jokes, disturbingly amusing which I should've expected no less from "Bear Semen Man" (a working title). Then we watched aers work his magic and set up the stream of the OSL, which ended all TOO soon. Why? Because pathetic Monokeros had no hotel room and was figuring he'd just chill the last 4 hours, so I just camped outside Blizzcon and made my pathetic pleading blog-post of loneliness, which aers replied to surprisingly fast. Which I then walked over to the closed Carl's JR(it was 5:45AM), cried inside, and went into AMPM bought a bag of Pringles and a packet of gum(part of this balanced breakfast)and sat outside blizzcon.
Summary:
Met Mikitov, Kennigit, Hot_Bid and the not mentioned LosingID (asked him between games 2-3 why they said 6am when it looked to end very soon.)
Didn't get anything to show-off meeting progamers(for my friends that cared)
Played all 3 games WOW sucked, SC2 was pretty tite and D3 was meh. Saw tournaments but didn't get to hang with TL people as much as I would've preferred(ALL MY FAULT).
Spent money and had an overall good time.
WOULD DO AGAIN, next time I'm planning the fuck ahead so I can hang out with TL people.
