EPTHi guys.
Here's part two :D I don't know what i will be writing about. There's definetely Day1 GSL in here, some more eating stories and one random kiss. As lucky as I was it finaly starts to pay back. I feel like shiat (hangover), kicked some aspirins and tried to give myself some rest today. My stomach still feels kinda shaken. Definetly have to get something good to eat. I only realised now that the GSL games are at 13:00 and 19:00
But I will attend the later games.I wont go through it by an event to event basis. I think by now if you ever want to go to Korea, just fucking do it! You wont regret it!
GSL Day1
It took me about 6 stops in total and a walk of 5 minutes to get to the studio. By the help of a TL thread and a GOMTV newspost it was a piece of cake. I still felt kinda tired after the night before and went through a hot & cold sweat rollercoaster. I made a few pictures but my camera was in total retarded mode and didnt know how to handle the overblending spotlights.
There are about 5 or 6 cameras in total. Two shouldercams walk around and take shots of the players and crowd and one on this tower that you see doing the flying shots. Once in there you have about 3 big screens infront of you plus 2 projectors so even if you stand / sit kinda offcenter you always have at least one free screen. Tastosis have their little podium on the right side of the screen and if you get close enough you hear them incase you want english commentary
I've read one post about how the demographics changed from Brood War fans who are in their late 20's and now watch SC2 (it was Boxer-time after all) and i can definetly agree. I saw a good mix of old and new. When i came in the games just started and one old guy in a suit next to me screamed like it was a boxing-match. It's a pitty that you cant hear people that well on the english stream because the vibe was good. I saw quite a few foreigners in there too. Since all seats were taken i leaned more or less to a wall. It was hard to concentrate for me and i didnt try to approach anybody. Damn really got to cut back on the drinking...
Anyway. I saw that Tasteless greeted the foreigners next to him and talked to a few people whenever he had that interview break. I don't want to spoiler any games for you, but Boxer...oh boy. I don't know if he came through a sideroom or walked past me one time (i took cig-breaks between sets) but you knew he was in there just by watching all the photographers & camera guys suddenly speeding around and everyone walking in the studio (there is a preroom where you can sit and watch games).
And then he finaly was on camera. The place went madness! I know it is quite hard to understand for some of you guys who didnt follow Brood War and everyone telling you how he's the emperor and this famous figure. But just seeing him in there made me smile. To have him in SC2 felt so great. And I was like the "playing SC2, watching BW"-type of guy. Needless to say the air was electric. Guys left and right who stood there like greek-statues throughout all the games started to get all giddy and nervous. A girl next to me couldnt pull her hands down her face. I mean you see that shit on your stream all the time, but in there i just couldnt stop smiling. He is the beloved one. I started to get worried, was he good enough?
3.2.1 - Boxer Fighting!
Loud. Everyone was ready. In anticipation. Nervous. I started to stay straight. Then i passed out. Nono just kiddin. When he pushed with his first marines and build a bunker people screamed. When he sniped the banshees they clapped. When he did his patrol-thing people laughed (everytime). His lead became evident when he had his third. The man had game sense. I realised this could be the perfect game for him. The endbattle set you back in time where gladiators fought and people screamed like hell is gonna break loose. Explosions everywhere. Can Happiness break it? Are they on even grounds now? NO THE EMPEROR WON GG milk me an albino rat and put me into jail FUCK YES!
Fuck this is so awesome, i want more, game two go! God damn when Happiness moved out and it looked like Boxer had to play defensive the Emperor FUCKING STIM RAN UP AGAINST HIM to meet Happiness halfway and the room went bonkers! This was the Boxer you knew from SC. Fearless with his marines. This was the moment for me where i realised I had the same feeling just like when watching Brood War. I was a fan and i hope more than 700'000 people are aswell.
This SC2 thing could work i said to myself and as i looked to my left I saw a girl crying. Boxers girlfriend.
Hugging her I must...no you cant...but it would be like hugging Boxer her sweat tears ov....NO!!...damnit.
Eat This!
Ah I've been writing for about an hour now and now that I think about this next bit I feel so hungry. Ah my stomach.
It was about 23:30 and I was hungry for something. Anything. There are so many restaurants but i didn't want to walk into any big ones so i looked for the smallest, dodgiest place and found it. On the corner of some street, somewhere haha. It was barely the size of my hostel room. I walked in and the first thing i heard was: "Hi man, what's up?". I replied "Hi mate, listen man im starving do you have food?". He laughed. "Only two dishes. Some (something in korean) and (again korean)", he said. "Is it good?", I asked and smiled. "It's very popular here, you want?". Hell yeah i wanted. So two sidedishes and a soup like dish later my stomach started to calm down. He was mad friendly and we talked about all kinds of topics. He had great interest in anything we eat in the west and so in the smallest simplest place ever I had the best time talking to a total stranger. Suddenly he goes: "You know what? Want to taste a dish from my hometown down south in (korean, im so sorry guys I'm bad with names haha)? I bet you like it!". "Bring it on!", I said. And then he disapeared for a good 10 minutes, came back with 3 tupperware of unrecognisable content and started this jamie oliver thing talking on and on about food from all over asia while cooking and I sat there sipping my beer in anticipation.
POW! I dont know what it was, but it tasted like god had sex with a unicorn and their little baby got chopped up and thrown into this dark sauce. I was in heaven and he was pleased that I liked it. Fuck i love you korea. I payed like 15k total. We wished us both all the best and I slept like a baby that night. Just one example of how insanly friendly koreans have been to me so far.
Kiss me
I'm kinda hesitant to write this now but fuck it. I think it shows what can happen if you embrace the randomness. So I was coming out of like the 3rd bar (shouts out to eco_one I really started to dig white russian), it was already after two. I remember because I got an SMS from someone i used to date. Nothing serious, she's just checking once a weak probably to keep me on the side. The poor idiot I am I write back everytime. And as I walked and read my text I saw a group of young girls and guys sitting on the bench. One girl in that group was dancing to the sound that was banging over from a bar on the other side of the street and she was looking straight at me and smiled. She was good looking. I mean fihiiiine! A bit shorter then i was and her eyes followed me. She said something but I had my earphones on so I stopped pulled em down and, well tbh i expected her to be a prostitue but her friends let me to believe otherwise (i had hope). I walked up to her and said: "Hi, whats up?". Her english was broken. Not much to understand sometimes but she kept her eyes on me all the time. After a few lines of jabber she asked "you like korea?". And I was like hell yeah. So she put her arms around me like you do at a prom dance. Ok guys, she was drunk, no doubt about that, but fuck it. I looked at her friends and some looked amused, one girl looked rather shocked and what must have been the cool guy looked away. Her hair smelled nice. She asked me right in my ear: "What do you like korea?". And I felt kinda stupid but still amused. This was probably a big joke to them fucking with a foreigner or they were going to beat me up in a dark alley and rob me. So i smiled and tought to myself 'mind aswell go big'. If I think about it now, this was kinda careless and stupid I know, but I was in happy-drunk mode so i said: "Kiss me and I can tell you what I like about korea".
And kissing there was. I tell you if we were in a room we would have definetly moved some furniture around. Damn! Fuck, just everything, everywhere. And what felt like 10 minutes was probably around 30 second. I heard something that sounded like "Oooii!!" and she got pulled away by one of the guys and they all walked away. She turned her head back and gave me a wink and showed her thong in a childish teasing way and gone they were.
I pulled up my headphones, tought about the possibility of her being a trap, smiled and walked to my hostel...
Fuck gotta go!! GSL. Dang going to be late. Later guys take care! Hope it was readable no time to go over it.
