I missed a week of school, so I'm currently getting my ass double kicked from backed up work. Can't be super in-depth as I'd like.

HuK vs. BoxeR
This couldn't be possibly with everyone in the community. From the TLers who spawned the idea, to those who had BW on their USB sticks or downloaded it through 3G, to the people who decided to call BoxeR up, and of course the pros who volunteered to play the game. I think everyone's read the full story by now, but it was really unbelievable watching HuK, BoxeR, Ret, TT1, and Socke play. I remember the nerd chills I got when I first met BoxeR in person, but to watch him play StarCraft Brood War was surreal beyond words. I immediately went to grab his signature afterwards, and it's very special to me since I associate it with his games I managed to witness live. Shoutouts to thegunrun, Albert, Kibbit, and that guy from regina university who's name I forgot. Also thanks to CaucasianAsian and Rauculn for casting, and of course the roaming IGN interviewers with the LiveU backpack who put it on stream.

Mafia with the TL crew
Again, you've all heard the stories, but here are my favorite highlights:

"This is a glass, I'm not mafia"
-Sheth's defense

"Ok, so we'll just call them Red Cop and Black Cop"
"Can we call the Black Cop, Shaft?"
-Hot_Bid

TheMango pointing at me right after the first night and accusing me of being Mafia based off a hunch. He was right

Update:
If you meet d3_crescentia at future events...do not buy him drinks.

A list of famous players off the top of my head:
Hot_Bid, TheMango, Nazgul, Liquid`Sheth, orb, Spanishiwa
Sorry if I missed anyone!

Moments before Varoosh votes off Sheth, allowing p4ndemik (red) to win as Mafia.

Motbob, Hot_Bid, and Shaft. Looking good!

The infamous Krukar. "Bullshit!"

Naz knows whats up.

After we widdled down the town a bit. We had up to 30 people playing, kill em all!

The Mafia crew on the last day. TheMango generously treated us to dinner, where we ESPORTS gossiped like no other.

Hanging with the TL Crew
We all kept in contact through an app called Beluga, which is basically an easy way to mass text. The entire event got a lot more fun when they all showed up. To be honest, TL crew basically ran the entire qualifiers!

Learning Go!

A wild Snorlax appears!

Flamewheel draws a crowd with his Tetris playing skillz. HD and Painuser were talking about turning IPL4 into a Tetris event.

CaucasianAsian in an intense meeting about the future of ESPORTS...aka another night of Mafia.

tofucake doing what he does best

Food blog

Thanks TheMango for the super fancy "Asian fusion" food. What if we played Mafia over the glowing table?

Into the ether with motbob, and other mancrushes
Motbob is a kind fellow that I'd like to highlight. During dinner he tried to make a joke, but fell short. He then bantered about Plato's concept about the ether, and how he wished to reach further into the ether to retrieve his joke. He spoke softly but directly. During the rest of the event, we all did our part to help motbob reach further into the ether.

"I made a batman" - matbab

Intrigue was also a really awesome guy. So cute. Good voice.

You look just like KawaiiRice, but 15 years into the future
-Heyoka

HUGE shoutout to azndsh who treated the TL staff working IPL + Naz and Haypro to a very nice steak dinner. We felt guilt like no other. There are no pics of him, but eating a fancy meal + discussing the future of ESPORTS was one of many "is this really happening" moments. Truly a nerd baller!

That's all for now, I'll upload the entire album someday, and maybe continue posting pics by request for those who have their pics on my camera.

Special thanks to evoli (@gosutrolling) for letting me have this grand opportunity to attend IPL 3 as a press handler, and big thanks to Tiffany Chia (@tifachia) to letting me borrow her camera for the event and helping run the IPL/CSL promotion!

ComaDose

Canada10357 Posts

October 13 2011 05:12 GMT

5/5 yay more pics!
thanks for the other view into things.

DivinO

United States4796 Posts

October 13 2011 05:15 GMT

Super sexy. Nice to see everyone. :D

Waxangel

United States33554 Posts

October 13 2011 05:15 GMT

well at this rate I don't need to write one...

Phelix

1931 Posts

October 13 2011 05:16 GMT

"Ok, so we'll just call them Red Cop and Black Cop"
"Can we call the Black Cop, Shaft?"
-Hot_Bid

I was Shaft during the Red Cop/Black Cop game, and I had to pick the black guy to kill because he was mafia.

d3_crescentia

United States4054 Posts

October 13 2011 05:17 GMT

I am holding the Ace of Diamonds.

Also, you should post some pics of the food we ate.

Ares[Effort]

DEMACIA6550 Posts

October 13 2011 05:23 GMT

haha nice

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

October 13 2011 05:25 GMT

always nice to see the people behind the names!
who's the "snorlax"?

d3_crescentia

United States4054 Posts

October 13 2011 05:26 GMT

it's waxangel, whose icon is a snorlax

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

October 13 2011 06:26 GMT

#10

Omg ): You're so lucky you got to go D:

Also, is that duck I see @________@?

DarthThienAn

United States2734 Posts

October 13 2011 06:29 GMT

#11

On October 13 2011 15:26 Torte de Lini wrote:
Omg ): You're so lucky you got to go D:

Also, is that duck I see @________@?

I don't think we had any duck... I think it was lamb.

RogerX

New Zealand3180 Posts

October 13 2011 07:06 GMT

#12

OH GOD im so hungry..!!!!

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

October 13 2011 07:16 GMT

#13

wax has cool hair. i am jealous. i will kill wax. and take her hair.
+ Show Spoiler +

jjjjjjjjjjjjjj k <3

catleaves

United States506 Posts

October 13 2011 07:20 GMT

#14

awesome blog and cool photos of food! :D

Venus.exe

United States285 Posts

October 13 2011 07:41 GMT

#15

I enjoyed your very cool blog entry. I'm glad you put up these pictures for us to see. Thanks so much!

Nyovne

Netherlands19137 Posts

October 13 2011 07:42 GMT

#16

Finally pictures of Motbob and Tofu! Both not at all what I expected xD. Good writeup, cheers!

p.s. The food looks good

hazelynut

United States2196 Posts

October 13 2011 08:46 GMT

#17

so many good quotes. can't remember them all, possibly too drunk.

should i write my r1ch x flamewheel slashfic??

edit: also! nice blog haha :D

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

October 13 2011 08:49 GMT

#18

On October 13 2011 17:46 hazelynut wrote:
so many good quotes. can't remember them all, possibly too drunk.

should i write my r1ch x flamewheel slashfic??

edit: also! nice blog haha :D

r1ch x flamewheel? Please do!

flamewheel

FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts

October 13 2011 16:51 GMT

#19

On October 13 2011 17:46 hazelynut wrote:
so many good quotes. can't remember them all, possibly too drunk.

should i write my r1ch x flamewheel slashfic??

edit: also! nice blog haha :D

-___-

Also what I missed the batman sandwich?

d3_crescentia

United States4054 Posts

October 13 2011 16:54 GMT

#20

there is no tail on that bat

tofucake

Hyrule19192 Posts

October 13 2011 17:11 GMT

#21

On October 13 2011 14:16 Phelix wrote:

Show nested quote +

I was Shaft during the Red Cop/Black Cop game, and I had to pick the black guy to kill because he was mafia.

I was the very first Shaft and god randomly killed the first night by mafia :\

DrCoffeeBean

United States10 Posts

October 13 2011 17:51 GMT

#22

Finally! The mafia crew pic...I was wondering who took that.

Crumblekins

United States11 Posts

October 13 2011 21:32 GMT

#23

Needs more pictures! You had that damn camera with you the entire event, there had better be a gigantic photo album follow-up to this or I'm gonna be pissed. I'm counting on you shindigs.

In all seriousness, good blog :D The other food picks made me feel extra like an idiot for leaving that dinner in an anxious haze >_>