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A Tale of "LAN plz" and Fruit Dealings

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GimbleB
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Scotland178 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-29 12:56:36
December 02 2010 15:19 GMT
#1
So after a long day in korea, one of the best nights I've had out here took place. But before the awesome stuff, here's an overview of my time before GSL (if you want to skip down to GSL itself, it's 4 paragraphs down).

Woke up at like 11am and had to meet cArn at 1pm in Balsan so we could go to Superdanielman's pc bang for practice. So I get up, take a shower ect. But there's no bread left so I find some pastry at a nearby family mart that tastes bad and head on to meet cArn.

Get to the station on time and cArn shows up as I'm eating my pastry and the plan for recording the first video of the day "a video guide to getting to Sante PC" starts. But stops shortly as my camcorder battery goes out (think I need to charge it overnight), so no videos today.

So we head along to Sante PC to get in 3-4 hours practice before we go to GSL. We get there, say hello to SDM and start laddering. I do badly, making a bunch of mechanical mistakes but improve slightly and move up through plat some more. Since I'm cursed and every computer I use at Sante PC locks up after 40-50 minutes while playing SC2, I decided taking a small break to eat some noodles and watch cArn play would be a good idea. I really like watching cArn play, he's better than me, will explain what he's doing and gives me pointers on what I can do to improve. Although he struggles in TvZ which I personally find strange, but whatever.

So after some more losing due to dumb mistakes/lockups and winning due to not forgetting my second gas, we head to GSL (by this point, I'd written off my day as sucky). We get some pizza because there's an awesome pizza place near the gomtv studio, buy some drinks and head onto the studio.

We arrive at the studio's building and I procede to be puzzled by the amount of middle aged white guys there (I've been going every day and rarely see anyone I'd consider "old"). I then remember that there is some blizzard people in Korea so figured they must be blizzard employees. We get some seats and then are joined by Eugene(sp?) and Lewis. At this point, there's a lot of people there, including the front row filled with Blizzard employees.

We talk for a while and I notice that Eugene has an awesome Nestea sign and say "I wish I'd done a 'LAN mode please' sign". So Eugene being the baller he is, turns his sign over and writes it down. Now, as awesome as this is, I'm afraid the large row of blizzard employees might not take this so well and we'd get kicked out. But it turned out ok, some people laughed and the blizzard people didn't seem to mind.

So Nestea kicks arse in a close series and we got to take a small jab at the lack of LAN, let the good times roll. Thinking about the success of my sign idea (mad props to Eugene), I said to Lewis during the last game that I'm gonna go buy some fruit for Fruitdealer's games. So Lewis, the awesome guy that he is goes "If you get some, I'll chip in", follwed by, "I'll come help you get some". So after Nestea finished, we ran to the nearby fruitshop, letting Tasteless know of our plans on the way. We get 30,000 won worth of bananas and oranges and get back in time to have only missed some of game 1.

After we got back, we asked Junkka if it was ok to hand out the fruit, which he ok'd and tasteless tried to tell me something with improvised sign language which I didn't really understand. So we left our fruit with Junkka and went back to our seats. After Rain won, Tasteless and Junkka asked for some fruit and gave us the ok to start handing it out. He also mentioned he'd put some in Fruitdealer's booth, which made me smile. By this point, I was having such a good time, I'd forgotten about my crappy breakfast and getting hammered on the ladder.

My original thoughts with handing out fruit was that people would wait until the camera had panned over with people waving fruit in the air before they'd start eating, but they just ate it all straight away. I was ok with this however, since they all smiled and thanked me for the fruit. When the camera came back on, me and Lewis raised the second bunch of bananas above our heads (and a couple more for banana grins) and Eugene held up with sign with an apple drawing on it.

There was much cheering as fruit dealer won and afterwards the TSL coach came up and thanked me for bringing fruit and asked if he could have a banana. Shaking his hand made me feel pretty awesome and we asked if we could get a photo with Fruitdealer after his interview which he seemed happy about. So me, Lewis and Eugene went and got our photo taken with Fruitdealer and the bananas by some journalists. Fruitdealer and me exchanged thank yous and we went back to catch HongunPrime beat the crap out of TheBestfOu.

Man, I love the GSL.

****
"What's the point of it all, when you're building a wall and in front of your eyes it disappears." -pigwiththefaceofaboy
Dust14
Profile Joined March 2010
Belgium490 Posts
December 02 2010 15:35 GMT
#2
Dude, you're awesome ^^
Yello
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany7411 Posts
December 02 2010 15:46 GMT
#3
Nice one! You are on TV now xD
Just ahead of time, know your addiction's not a crime. It's just a smaller part of who you want to become in the end.
nekuodah
Profile Joined August 2010
England2409 Posts
December 02 2010 15:52 GMT
#4
The layout of the fruit in the booth was truely epic, thanks for these blogs too really interesting reads :d
Tomken
Profile Joined January 2010
Norway1144 Posts
December 02 2010 15:53 GMT
#5
Coach Lee is sooooooo awesume!
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Goshawk.
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United Kingdom5338 Posts
December 02 2010 15:54 GMT
#6
Epic fruit story. ^_^
Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
December 02 2010 15:57 GMT
#7
Thats pretty awesome. Was pretty cool when fruitdealer ate the banana after the 2nd game, and the comical arrangement of the fruit in his booth.
junnka is so damn awesome sometimes if it was him who arranged it^_^ haha
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LazyMacro
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
976 Posts
December 02 2010 16:01 GMT
#8
Man, that's awesome.
Slakkoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Sweden1119 Posts
December 02 2010 16:05 GMT
#9
cArn , is that the CS player?
Cadgers
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States514 Posts
December 02 2010 16:17 GMT
#10
epic story man
Benecol
Profile Joined January 2009
Finland82 Posts
December 02 2010 16:23 GMT
#11
On December 03 2010 01:05 Slakkoo wrote:
cArn , is that the CS player?


No, he's french(?) sc2 player. Was on one of the artosis GSL videos.
Firereaver
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
India1701 Posts
December 02 2010 16:39 GMT
#12
That must have been so cool. Next time pass around the Ganja for Zergbongs match please..
"They drone drone drone , me win" - JangMinChul(Iron/oGsMC)
Zozo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Brazil2579 Posts
December 02 2010 16:56 GMT
#13
put that picture up!
awesome blog
EGM guides me
GimbleB
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Scotland178 Posts
December 02 2010 17:03 GMT
#14
On December 03 2010 01:56 Zozo wrote:
put that picture up!
awesome blog


Trying to find out who took it and where it got uploaded to. Fomos doesn't have it so no idea where it might be.

Thanks for comments, hopefully I can bring some more stuff worth reading/watching here. Hopefully my camcorder battery actually charges tonight so I can get some filming done.
"What's the point of it all, when you're building a wall and in front of your eyes it disappears." -pigwiththefaceofaboy
Emtee
Profile Joined August 2010
58 Posts
December 02 2010 17:10 GMT
#15
Great blog, find those pictures and put those up.
DoXa
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Switzerland1448 Posts
December 02 2010 17:24 GMT
#16
very cool story, would love to see a picture with FD and do you have any with Coach Lee? i love coach lee since "Hyung Joon Becomes A Progamer"!
BeMannerDuPenner
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Germany5638 Posts
December 02 2010 18:19 GMT
#17
well done sir. saw the fruit and signs, gz on exchanginging thankyouuus with cool ~
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N3rV[Green]
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1935 Posts
December 02 2010 18:41 GMT
#18
I saw you! you were right in the middle of the shot after fruit won it, holding up that bunch all proud like.

People like you are why starcraft is so fucking awesome xD
Never fear the darkness, Bran. The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.
MrCon
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
France29748 Posts
December 02 2010 18:48 GMT
#19
Haha, so you're the one to blame for the fruitydick :D
Good job, it was awesome :D
mikeymoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada7170 Posts
December 02 2010 18:57 GMT
#20
Here's one from the LR thread:
[image loading]
loooooooolllll
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FunkQue
Profile Joined October 2010
United States165 Posts
December 02 2010 18:59 GMT
#21
Nice read :D
Najda
Profile Joined June 2010
United States3765 Posts
December 02 2010 19:00 GMT
#22
On December 03 2010 01:39 Firereaver wrote:
That must have been so cool. Next time pass around the Ganja for Zergbongs match please..


^^ :D that'd be something
Loophole
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States867 Posts
December 02 2010 19:08 GMT
#23
On December 03 2010 03:57 mikeymoo wrote:
Here's one from the LR thread:
[image loading]
loooooooolllll


lol! Is that shopped?
"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak." -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
HollowLord
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States3862 Posts
December 02 2010 19:23 GMT
#24
We love you Gimble.
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Illyrian
Profile Joined March 2010
United Kingdom1 Post
December 02 2010 19:45 GMT
#25
Yo Gimble I hear you're possibly the best player in Scotland?
derp
sammler
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United Kingdom381 Posts
December 02 2010 20:29 GMT
#26
On December 03 2010 04:08 Loophole wrote:
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On December 03 2010 03:57 mikeymoo wrote:
Here's one from the LR thread:
[image loading]
loooooooolllll


lol! Is that shopped?


Sadly not! FD was blowing his hands and his mouse to warm up. I did lol when I saw that arrangement, and the banana ceremony. GJ!
"I wish I was good enough to be called bad by IdrA." - Moa
Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
December 02 2010 20:31 GMT
#27
Gimble, you're a cool guy. You're also ALWAYS on camera. Hahaha. Thanks for sharing this with us. Use some spoiler tags, though!
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adeezy
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1428 Posts
December 02 2010 20:38 GMT
#28
While I was watching gsl with my brother today we were imagining how cool it would be to be able to just watch gsl in person and eat pizza and stuff. Though this blog I got that feeling!! Thanks man one of the best TL blogs I've read.
I asked my friend how the ratio at a party was, he replied. "Let's just say for every guy there was two dudes."
rally_point
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada458 Posts
December 02 2010 21:53 GMT
#29
haha GimbleB is actually a fruit dealer!!

Great story, so you were the one responsible for all that fruit :p

I can't wait to one day go to Korea and attend one of these in person
abunai
Profile Joined October 2010
Scotland103 Posts
December 02 2010 22:34 GMT
#30
On December 03 2010 04:45 Illyrian wrote:
Yo Gimble I hear you're possibly the best player in Scotland?


Hey

Nice blog! so jealous
Fritti
Profile Joined July 2010
Netherlands52 Posts
December 02 2010 22:36 GMT
#31
That is so cool!
bkrow
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia8532 Posts
December 02 2010 23:00 GMT
#32
This definately goes down as one of the "best of's" i have read in a while!

Awesome story! Go the fruitdealer!
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Starfox
Profile Joined April 2010
Austria699 Posts
December 02 2010 23:04 GMT
#33
Haha, awesome :D
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mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
December 02 2010 23:11 GMT
#34
So YOU were the cause of the phallic symbol in FD's booth. AMAZING
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zor.au
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia270 Posts
December 03 2010 03:08 GMT
#35
so if FD gets to final, we have to organize a fund raiser for gimble so he can buy enough fruit for the stadium audience right?

wow
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25987 Posts
December 03 2010 03:15 GMT
#36
On December 03 2010 03:57 mikeymoo wrote:
Here's one from the LR thread:
[image loading]
loooooooolllll

LOL i burst out laughing at this
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GimbleB
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Scotland178 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-03 06:25:45
December 03 2010 06:14 GMT
#37
On December 03 2010 08:11 mizU wrote:
So YOU were the cause of the phallic symbol in FD's booth. AMAZING
<3


Actually, that was Junkka, I just gave him the tools to make it happen.

Also, I still have no idea who it was that took our picture and don't know any koreans sites that cover such events except Fomos. But there were 2 photographers so it should be somewhere. I have a really bad habit of letting people take my picture then saying "I'll find it if you upload it somewhere" without giving the photographer any details how to contact me. I should really stop doing that.
"What's the point of it all, when you're building a wall and in front of your eyes it disappears." -pigwiththefaceofaboy
PartyBiscuit
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada4525 Posts
December 03 2010 16:54 GMT
#38
Just want to say you're such an awesome dude for going out and constantly supporting the foreigners (and just gamers in general), love seeing you and your buddies' signs
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