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Meru United States218 Posts December 01 2013 18:23 GMT #1 Greetings lovely TL! Meru here with my second post live-event blog. My first post ever was on IEM NY at NYCC, where I met a ton of awesome people and fell in love with the game even more. This past weekend I went to Redbull Battlegrounds NYC, and was once again blown away by the love and passion demonstrated by everyone around. I love you all. It started weeks before the event. When battlegrounds NYC was announced, I immediately and successfully persuaded some friends to go see it together. I even managed to get an extra ticket, where I held a mini contest here on TL and gave away the ticket to spread awareness of eSports. I never updated the contest blog with the winner due to the lack of response in the thread, but I’m happy to report that someone AWESOME did spent 3 hours teaching a friend how to play SC2 and won my ticket, and now the friend is enjoying the game as well. Spreading eSports love one baby step at a time! Fast forward to the event. The night before battlegroudns, there was actually a meet and greet with all the players and hosts presented by Redbull and ONOG. There was a lovely panel discussion, signing and mingling with all our favorite eSports personalities. One thing I would like to point out is the lack of advertising and PR for the event. Throughout the weekend I keep running into people that go “WHAT? There was a MEET AND GREET? I didn’t know and wish I could’ve been there!” I’m pretty sure I unlocked a major life achievement at the meet and greet. The barcraft meet and greet had a SC2 themed menu, and I got to share a drink called the “Oracle” with Day 9! Oh, and My friend and I got to kiss day j, and we absolutely loved it. It never occurred to me that Day 9 is that tall! Panel at Barcraft meet and greet Derp Day J is Derp. Panel at meet and Greet at Barcraft Day9 drinking my oracle like a pretty princess! So much taller than I expected... Stole someone else's teemo hat. Wrong game buddy! Mr Bitter and I! And now, the day of the event. The stage was beautiful, the games were awesome. Some of the best Starcraft games were played on that stage that weekend. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the epic Bomber vs. Scarlett game. The link takes you to the daily on that game. There were familiar faces in the crowd, and I was fortunate enough to meet many new people! I now have faces to go with so many of the names I’ve only heard of online. I met our own TL’s Wax and monk, and TL writer CosmicSpiral, the man himself Mike Morhaime, Rob Simpson, Temp0, just to name a few. I also got to meet Ben (and Ben) that wrote the article on Motherboard on Vice , which was an awesome summary of the whole SC2 scene from an outsider’s perspective, with an open heart. Below are some of the pictures, and I do want to sincerely apologize for the quality. I didn’t have my fancy DSLR with me this time due to technical issues, so all the photos had to be taken on my potato of a phone. I know they are nowhere near the quality of my IEM pictures, but still thought they are interesting. I’m sorry and I will do better next time! View from VIP Mezzanine Mike Morhaime, Co founder of Blizzard We all love Temp0! He said his real name means "Born on a saturday" The champ! I asked golden to also sign his korean name, and golden pauses and goes... " EHH I FORGOT HOW!" Sign I made for Snute! Reunited with Yoshi!! Theresa from CSL and Zombiegrub. Lovely gals!!! Wax being wax... Grumpy-lax. xVixen and Adama from Clarity Gaming TL writer Cosmicspiral. There was a better picture, but I think the derp photo speaks to him better. Everybody crowding around the TV watching an intense game. We got daniel photographer extraordinaire, spiral, wax, QuanticSchAmToo, Zombiegrub, Theresa, and Deric from ONOG. Wax and monk working hard. Interview with Snute and Yoshi Adama, Yuna, and xVixen, Golden Adama and Zombiegrub! The afterparty. Have you ever seen Starcraft on the screen at the sportsbar at the same time as Monday Night Football?? Because I have! Snute had to wait outside of the bar to finish his delicious tasting MCDonald's... haha Wax and monk were fed up with me at this point I think. I'm sorry you had to put up with me. Wax why are you always so grumpyface! So towards the end of the night, Day 9 showed up to the afterparty. It was below freezing weather and he only had a hoodie, but Day being Day stood outside for forever greeting fans. Freezing cold weather? doesn't matter. Greet fans. My friend Jeff who went to the event with me :o Handsome Rob! Some better stage photos taken by my friend Jeff. Below photos are creds to him!

solidbebe Netherlands4387 Posts December 01 2013 18:28 GMT #2 Very cool to see :D, thanks for the pictures! I love how day9 looks when he gets a kiss haha.

Mothra United States1431 Posts December 01 2013 18:29 GMT #3 Great pictures, thanks for sharing.

Valiver Caldeum1968 Posts December 01 2013 19:26 GMT #4 Awesome pictures, and the caption of golden forgetting his korean name made me smile, I'm gonna miss him

Chairman Ray United States11523 Posts December 01 2013 19:30 GMT #5 lol @ the dude kissing day 9. Thanks for sharing, awesome photos!

Roe Canada5999 Posts December 01 2013 19:30 GMT #6 Well I kissed Day9 but I didn't brag about it!

Meru United States218 Posts December 01 2013 19:37 GMT #7 On December 02 2013 04:30 Roe wrote: Well I kissed Day9 but I didn't brag about it! You should! It's a privilege that not many can experience during a lifetime. Such moments should be treasured and be in the category as: treading on the back of an angel, being bombarded by a hoard of corgis, being surrounded by fluffy kittens, riding a unicorn into the sunset, etc...

NovemberstOrm Canada15958 Posts December 01 2013 19:43 GMT #8 nice photos & blog, thank you for sharing :D

Stratos Czech Republic6104 Posts December 01 2013 19:55 GMT #9 apparently both me and day9 liked this one + Show Spoiler + better

Clazziquai10 Singapore1936 Posts December 01 2013 19:57 GMT #10 You lucky girl!

gg_hertzz 2152 Posts December 01 2013 20:36 GMT #11 yup. you lucky asian girl you.

tuoli9 Finland210 Posts December 01 2013 21:18 GMT #12 Such a great blog, I expecially love all the "backstage" photos of all these awesome SC people! A kiss to you!

goody153 9853 Posts December 02 2013 02:13 GMT #13 awesome thanks for sharing ! and finally i know the face of the infamous waxangel :D and lol to golden forgetting the korean to golden(if that makes any sense)

NeuroticPsychosis United States322 Posts December 02 2013 07:38 GMT #14 Lots of pics, love it

FFW_Rude France10180 Posts December 02 2013 11:37 GMT #15 Your blogs are always awesome. Thanks for sharing and keep up with them EDIT : Also Happy birthday !

figq 11851 Posts December 02 2013 11:57 GMT #16 Cute stuff, haha. Conclusion for fans: go to Red Bull events! Do you see how much a fan can get there? In the more massive events you can't really get to so many esports personalities, because of huge crowds, admin security and so on. To me Red Bull is like the NA version of HomeStory, even though it's not in a house/bar. That's because it's more player-oriented than other events, and is rather unique for the local scene. It delivers some things you can get anywhere else.

Kommatiazo United States579 Posts December 02 2013 18:33 GMT #17 Meru you're the best! I'm so stoked you got to go do this! Lovely blog, brings back a lot of MLG nostalgia and also makes me super jealous that you got to do so much at RBBG since it's so small. New life goal unlocked: attend ALL the Red Bull events.

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