My g1 diary

ixmike88

United States67 Posts

May 29 2013 01:54 GMT

hello, here i will upload some of the photos i took with descriptions and some thoughts about the tournament at the end

fancy ass lights that my city dont got:
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alliance plotting to go 7-0:
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the basketball stadium that the tournament was held at:
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korok repping his razer headset:
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alliance + carson (our g1 translator pwner guy):
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orange:

bulba being stupid:
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korok during replay review session:

lgd int at the dota super league studio:

brax + korok

swedish reunion:

dota super league studio:

g1 posters:

g1 team posters:

g1 stadium:

country flags, wheres canada guys:

chuans left cheek:

xiao8 + bulba:

chuan + korok:

chuan + bulba:

chuan leaving after forced to take pic with bulba:

yao + bulba:

g1 booth:

walking on stage rehearsal:

i couldnt get the best pic of what happened but this is actually how people drive:

player pass:

indoor train tracks thing:

trophy:

the drummer girls:

tc with american flag, what a patriot:

opening ceremony:

korok caught with glasses:

flamewheel waking up late:

pajkatt + bulba + brax:

pajkatt + korok:

g1 staff sleeping on the job:

g1 staff sleeping on the job + brax:

can u imagine they actually pee on walls:

akke + kyxy birthday:

bulba + tc gosugamers interview:

alliance victory:

pajkatt + me:

carson + me:
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bulba + carson:
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xtinct + korok:

some club with fancy ass lights:

xtinct + me:

this is a hot pot where u put the food in:

the gender distinguisher bathroom thing:

weird hotpot shit:

i got told this was chicken but its actually frog:

octopus and some other shit before its cooked:

a leaf design in my coffee like kato from the green hornet movie:

regarding the tournament, i thought overall the whole thing was good. playing on lan again was a lot of fun and the production quality seemed pretty nice, though there was a ton of downtime caused in between games and pauses, valve handled this at ti2 by having each player give their peripherals to valve in the very beginning of the tournament and they would set them up in between games, along with an SSD (hard drive) for each player to make sure there was no previous config/setting problems.

i thought the opening ceremony with the glitter girls banging on drums was nice, this is something that the international lacked last year completely, an opening and closing ceremony.

before i got to the tournament, i didn't expect to do well at all, there's always a lot of hype behind the chinese teams, and we had created some of our own irrational fears for their ability to excel in late game situations. however once we got there, we quickly learned that the chinese teams are no different than anyone else.

none of the matches except the game against lgd were one sided enough for me to believe that we can't compete with the chinese. the orange, alliance, and dk games could have very easily gone in our favor with a few small adjustments, and though its common and easy to say 'shoulda/woulda/coulda' won, we didnt. we still have a lot of improving and refining to do before ti3 comes along, but in between that is a dreamhack tournament (which i think we can do really well in) and a month long bootcamp. regardless of our end result, it's comforting to know that the chinese are human.

congratulations to alliance for winning this tournament, its a huge stepping stone for a western team to win a tournament with chinese competition, and im glad they did it in such a dominating fashion.

id like to thank/shoutout to carson and flamewheel, both of these fine gentlemen were a big help to us all throughout the tournament and we probably would have died without them (except flamewheel tried to kill us three times)

Dubzex

United States6994 Posts

May 29 2013 02:05 GMT

Thanks for the blog mike!

Also korok definitely could pass off as Brax's older brother.
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icepick37

United States5 Posts

May 29 2013 02:10 GMT

Very cool. Thanks Mike! :D

TanGeng

Sanya12364 Posts

May 29 2013 02:10 GMT

WELCOME HOME!!!

YourGoodFriend

United States2197 Posts

May 29 2013 02:11 GMT

Nice pics and can't wait to watch more Liquid'Dota

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

May 29 2013 02:12 GMT

thanks mike, you're awesome, glhf in dota to come!

climax

United States1088 Posts

May 29 2013 02:12 GMT

Great photos and good to see you guys are getting into a better state of mind.

styley

United States1 Post

May 29 2013 02:15 GMT

cool pictures. im glad to see what you guys got out of it!

GhandiEAGLE

United States20754 Posts

May 29 2013 02:18 GMT

So many pictures o.o

Welcome home, Mike~

ZidaneTribal

United States2800 Posts

May 29 2013 02:18 GMT

#10

is that what hotpots look like now

Heyoka

Katowice25012 Posts

May 29 2013 02:19 GMT

#11

Nice blog! Hope we don't kill your server with all those pics.

crms

United States11933 Posts

May 29 2013 02:22 GMT

#12

ixmike blog would bang, or rate 5 or whatever.

Thanks for the pictures and the write-up!

Dreamer.T

United States3584 Posts

May 29 2013 02:25 GMT

#13

Looks like he's been busy during the stay..so many pics! Once again, happy for the the experience that everyone who was involved in the G-1 league had.

shizaep

Canada2920 Posts

May 29 2013 02:25 GMT

#14

Love all these Liquid pic blogs! Moar!

top impressions from this blog:
-bulba is a player (and not in just dota)
-brax...daaaym
-G1 was fucking awesome

s2pid_loser

United States699 Posts

May 29 2013 02:29 GMT

#15

mike, people pee on walls like that all over the world
they have those at sports stadiums too

thanks for the blog post! :D

Diaresta

United States597 Posts

May 29 2013 02:39 GMT

#16

Thanks for the pictures, Mike!

a-game

Canada5086 Posts

May 29 2013 02:41 GMT

#17

great stuff thanks

renfree

4485 Posts

May 29 2013 02:48 GMT

#18

Pictures not loading for me, weird :S

giftdgecko

United States2126 Posts

May 29 2013 03:16 GMT

#19

So... many... photos...

Sounds like Alliance went to make a statement and Liquid went for experience and confidence. +2 western doto!

Mustache Fighting!

Jarth

United States14 Posts

May 29 2013 03:24 GMT

#20

pictures aren't loading for me, I guess we broke mike's server?

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