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Last weekend, Gretorp and Never drove up from New Jersey, picked me up in Boston, and we continued to Vermont to Never's Uncle's place near Mount Snow.
So the night before the trip I pulled an all-nighter as I often do because I was up too late and I knew I would miss my early class if I went to sleep. Thus we're driving up and I had been up for like 36 hours and was tired as hell. It was like 4 am and we're out of gas somewhere in New Hampshire or something, but all the gas stations are closed. After we get to like the third gas station which is also closed, a cop pulls up and apparently thinks we're doing something fishy because "everyone knows none of the gas stations around here are open this early." He came over to look in the back seat and sees me hunched over essentially passed out and accuses us of drunk driving (lol). He then does like the background check on the car or whatever, and apparently the car is registered to Never's mom who has a different last name or something so he thought we had stolen the car. Good times.
Anyways, the entire trip long we discussed Starcraft 2 tactics and such. Mostly since we were P/P/T we just bashed on Zerg constantly for being ez mode and OP lololol. Gretorp and I heavily discussed PvT and we finally agreed on a conclusion that the matchup was balanced if colossi don't exist (and I don't use colossi when I PvT usually) but imba in favor for toss with colossi.
So we arrive Saturday morning at like 6:30 or 7 am and we're all exhausted. We go to sleep and end up waking up around noon. Through getting ready and going and eating breakfast (lunch) at a diner as well as I'm sure some other crap that must have slowed us down, we didn't actually get to the ticket counter at the slopes until 3pm, and the slopes close at 4pm. The fail place wanted to charge us $60 for an hour of skiing, to which we said fuck that. We had already rented skis though (mine were in Maryland so I didn't have access to them) so we wanted to use our skis, so we just snuck on the lift that wasn't scanning tickets and did a couple runs before leaving.
Andre had brought his Estro jacket with him, and when we were eating dinner at a bar, the waitress basically started hitting on him because she thought it was a racing jacket (LOL). So lesson learned guys: Progamer swag gets you chicks!
Anyways, we had a great time. We played some pool, played some poker, did a bunch of skiing (the next day at least), and overall just had a blast.
We had this one really memorable poker hand in which I had A5o and Gretorp had AJo. Gretorp had raised pre-flop and I had called (3 handed yo lol... if this was a bad call sue me I'm not great at poker). The flop comes T47 (rainbow) and Gretorp and I both check. The turn comes a 7, we both check, and then the river comes a 4. At this point I can't remember exactly what happened betting-wise, but I think what happened was that I bet a bunch knowing I had ace high for the 2-pair, and gretorp raised me all-in. I then spent like literally 10 minutes talking out loud about what I thought he had (lol), discussing how I was worried he had a higher pocket pair, but that that probably wasn't the case because he probably would have bet on the flop, and then that he might have had something like AT, but that again he probably would have bet on the flop, and then I finally put him on having essentially exactly what I had (just the A high for the two pair on the board), called, and found he did and we split the pot. It was pretty funny just from me talking aloud for like 10 minutes going through all the options lol.
Anyways, on to the pictures!
Here is Never (Spencer) on the left and I (Jake) am on the right at the poker table.
Here is Gretorp (Andre) on the left and Never on the right. We didn't have chips so at the store we bought skittles and used them as chips hehe. As you can see by the pile in front of the camera I was doing pretty well hehe.
Here we are on the slopes! Left to right: -orb-, Never, Gretorp
Here we are on the slopes again spelling out TL with our poles! Left to right: Gretorp, -orb-, Never
In case it's hard to see what we were spelling, here you go lol:
^^ Until next time!
 
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sweet mini tl trip lol. so half the the time you guys talked about playing beta and pwning nubs i suppose lol
so now with the patch things still sweet?
also does this mean if i wear my Oz jacket i'll be hit on?
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HAHA TL! Love it.
Looked like fun times. 
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On March 31 2010 05:25 StorrZerg wrote:
sweet mini tl trip lol. so half the the time you guys talked about playing beta and pwning nubs i suppose lol
Yeah most of the time. After we snuck on the lift we kept saying we had DT dropped them and they just needed to scout better. When we then went to another lift that was scanning and had to leave and go back to the first lift, we called it 1-1 until we got up that first lift again so it was 2-1 and laughed at how they didn't see that coming when we had just DT dropped them 2 games ago heh :D
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I've gotten stoned with 1/3 of those guys. I feel like a celebrity by association.
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On March 31 2010 05:31 LordWeird wrote:
I've gotten stoned with 1/3 of those guys. I feel like a celebrity by association.
Haha the most memorable part of that LAN
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Looks like fun!
How were the conditions? This was the weekend of Mar 20/21? I wrote off going skiing after Mar 6/7 due to the monsoon-level rains and 60+ degree weather the following week. I would have liked to get out once more this year but I assumed I would have to go to Northern VT/Canada (I live in New Haven, CT... about 2 hr south of Mount Snow).
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On March 31 2010 05:41 sutureself wrote:
Looks like fun!
How were the conditions? This was the weekend of Mar 20/21? I wrote off going skiing after Mar 6/7 due to the monsoon-level rains and 60+ degree weather the following week. I would have liked to get out once more this year but I assumed I would have to go to Northern VT/Canada (I live in New Haven, CT... about 2 hr south of Mount Snow).
Actually it was the 27th/28th. The conditions weren't great for sure, it was pretty icy and where it wasn't icy it was pretty hard-packed, but it was still fun with friends.
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On March 31 2010 05:31 LordWeird wrote:
I've gotten stoned with 1/3 of those guys. I feel like a celebrity by association.
Daaamnn I should really start going to these things
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these things are the dc lans 
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It is quite difficult to see TL..there are two more poles on the photo XD
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On March 31 2010 05:57 StorrZerg wrote:these things are the dc lans
Cant seem to find a single person here who doesnt disapprove of the good stuff, i'd probably even go that far for some
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On March 31 2010 05:28 -orb- wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2010 05:25 StorrZerg wrote:
sweet mini tl trip lol. so half the the time you guys talked about playing beta and pwning nubs i suppose lol Yeah most of the time. After we snuck on the lift we kept saying we had DT dropped them and they just needed to scout better. When we then went to another lift that was scanning and had to leave and go back to the first lift, we called it 1-1 until we got up that first lift again so it was 2-1 and laughed at how they didn't see that coming when we had just DT dropped them 2 games ago heh :D
So corny, but I can't stop laughing - LOL!!
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On March 31 2010 06:18 TheAntZ wrote:Cant seem to find a single person here who doesnt disapprove of the good stuff, i'd probably even go that far for some next one will probably be on May 22nd, see u there
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You guys didn't LAN it up??
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On March 31 2010 06:31 Exteray wrote:
You guys didn't LAN it up??
Nah the house we were staying at had no internet (apparently in that town all you can get is dial-up anyway) so it wasn't worth bringing laptops since sc2 has no LAN mode
YET AGAIN ANOTHER REASON BLIZZARD NEEDS TO STOP BEING JERKS AND PUT LAN MODE BACK IN
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ahh shuda invited me
i love skiing :o
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Very cool trip, liked the pics. Just shows that starcraft players do have a life!
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/Jealous 
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i want in on the next mini excursion
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team liquid meets ups are always so friendly and awesome lol!
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I look forward to another Toronto LAN sometime this summer hopefully ;D
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