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What's going on guys?! Holy cow it's been exactly a month today since I wrote the last blog. We've been incredibly busy with so much I just about forgot to continue blogging since it takes up a bit of time and what not. However, I haven't completely forgot, so here I am and have a ton of exciting stuff to share with every one including the composure of Team NrS, our experiences here with our lovely Romanian friends, my gameplay and alot more. I had to actually re-read my last blog to remember exactly where we left off.
I'm going to start by jumping straight into the juicy stuff. Team Newrosoft has been exploding over the past few weeks. We've recruited 2 players including former LG Protoss player ReSpOnSe (R.I.P. LG) and a Romanian Zerg named Fishlips. We are also trialing 2 other players right now to see how they perform over the next week or 2. It's taken a while to actually get some players on board due to financial issues, however, Andrei "Zeroskill" Gireada was able to pull some strings and get us our first sponsor. S.A.V. security is officially sponsoring the team. Yes, that's right, being sponsored by a security company. Why, you ask? Because the owner Mark Abraham has an insane passion for Starcraft and E-sports. We couldn't be happier because this means we'll all be able to play a quite a bit more while keeping our heads in the game instead of else where or at another dead end job. Austin "RaNgeD" King has been consistently placing in the top 8 in multiple online EU tournaments, including a few 2nd places with amazing finals games, while eliminating big EU names along the way (not going to mention names as I don't want to step on anyones toes). As far as my personal game play goes, I can't really explain how much I have improved. I see the game in a complete different aspect than I did before and am performing quite well. It's kind of hard for me to give you an exact on how much I have improved since the reset, but currently on EU I'm sitting at 900 points and US about 840. Apparently, I haven't been playing US as much. We've been running in house team practices as well as giving each incite in certain areas that we're blind in. A lot of hard work and studying has been coming out of all of us and will show very shortly in EU / US online tourneys. No big LANs are on the agenda for the time being but as I said before, be sure to keep an eye out.
Over the last month we've also been busy outside of the office, visiting more parks and taking a trip to the Carpathian mountains. I'm not going to go into huge detail, but we were lucky enough to pay mother nature a visit and check out the beauty Romania REALLY has to offer outside of the city. The mountains were about a 2-3 hour drive from Bucharest. We stayed at a villa which was pretty much a 3 story house on the mountainside and pretty much just relaxed, hiked, ate, drank and just enjoyed the time outside of the office. The villa was surrounded by green hills, trees, ponds, mountains and creeks. From the villa we took a trip to this fortress that Dracula would retreat to (i'll post pictures at the end of the post). IT was crazy because there was about 1,500 steps to the top. After about 100 steps it made me realize how out of shape I was and how much of a pain this stair climbing to the top was going to be! The trip up was definitely worth the amazing view we got a glimpse of. It was really neat because at the top it was completely quiet and you could just hear all the trees around us blowing in the wind. The pictures I post wont even be able to justice to the real thing. After the visit to the fortress we took a trip to a dam which was further up the road along some windy paths. I've never really been to the top of a dam, so being afraid of heights and all didn't go over too well. ^_^ We really enjoyed the time at the villa and it cleared our minds. On the way home we stopped at one of our friend's uncle's house. Oh man....They kept offering us wine and a very potent alcohol called Palinca which kicked my butt after 6 shots >,< I got pretty sick and was throwing up, luckily I didn't get alcohol poisoning on top the the wine since I'm a little guy. Long story short, I blacked out and don't remember much.
I don't feel like overdoing it here with writing too much so I'm going to cut it a little bit short actually. A lot of people see a huge post and are overwhelmed ^_^ Overall, the team is looking incredibly solid and will continue on even when the day comes that RaNgeD and myself leave Romania, which is very exciting. The thought of being able to play full time still back in the states while going to school really excites me. If you guys have any questions or anything, feel free to send me a PM. Don't forget to check out my stream that I've been running daily, I'd love to get featured =D And of course, the photos below!!
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Photos Below:
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Again with my fetish and big wood doors (no homo)
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sLeEpy says "What up Romaniaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
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Lake near the villa
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A cool church build inside the side of a mountain
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holy tadpools!
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Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee3eEe3e3ek
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Eerie looking tree.......hmmmmmm....sLeEpy hollow ^_^
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L33ch
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This is why little dogs aren't cool.....lol jk....i've got 3 little ones at home
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The Epic climb begins! 1,480 TREPTE!!!
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Fortress from afar
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RaNgeD at the top of the climb!
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A view to save
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This is where they ambushed their enemies
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ummm Idk
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Yupp
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RaNgeD sippin' on a cold one in the car LOL
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As close as id get to the edge
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RaNgeD chillin' with a random dog at the top of the dam
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neat signs
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Mother nature
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Barbeque Romanian style
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It's the small things in life =)
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Old lady fishing with her best friend
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Inside of curtea de arges church
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the Great Saturday Gospel Resurrection, written in gold by Queen Elizabeth
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altar inside one of the many churches we visited....looks scary
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RaNgeD and I outside a church in the curtea de arges courtyard
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LOL
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mhmmm
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LOLOLOL hope RaNgeD doesn't get mad....
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Arch of Triumph!!!!
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This game of thrones throne was chillin in one of the parks we went to haha
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cool bridge in the park
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What tiiiiiiiime
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RaNgeD, Maddye, sLeEpy ^_^
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