The day before..

Its Friday about 7AM and me and my friend are getting breakfast and we're about to leave Germany. We took the plane which was late at about 11:20 AM and we arrived in Paris at like 12:40 PM. Even though the stewardess told us to shut down all our electronic devices I took pictures while we were starting. Oh boy.. I love to fly.

When we arrived in Paris at Charles du Gaulle we wanted to go to our hotel first - its obvious, isn't it? Ok, here we go. We wanted to take the train and the metro to get our hotel, but you can only pay the ticket automates with coins and credit cards. The tickets were about 16,20€ and we didn't have that many in coins so we decided to use the credit card of my friend which didn't work because he forgot his secret pin code. I was like "what the fuck"! After being at the airport for like 1 hour now we decided to take a taxi. While we were searching a taxi we found out that there's an airport named Orly! You don't believe that? Here's the proof:

Also notice it says "Buy your tickets in advance, On sale here" -> ORLY?

The rest of the day we wanted to meet up with retsukage but actually he chose to meet up at "Gard du Nord" which is a massive (I'm not kidding here-_-) station. He wanted to meet at a "Relay-Store" when I called him I was right next to one so I thought I'm going to meet him any second, but he wasn't there. After I asked the person selling things there and he told me there are like 12 Relay-Stores in the station I was thinking "You'll never get to see your friend from Californa". After literally 40 minutes of searching we met outside at the Apollo Hotel. We (G.s)NarutO / noob)hot( / retsukage and two friends of him (lurkers)) was walking around, getting some food and talking about whatever we liked to talk about.
Paris got some cool buildings..

Retsukage was staying at our hotel this night and we went to bed early because we wanted to stay up at like 5 AM to get to the event as soon as possible.

Day 1 - Awesomeness and failure

The first day when there were like lots of Starcraft matches it was really exiting. We went to the event at like 5 AM by metro and we were like 1 1/2 hours too early. Yet there was already a quiet big line. One of us went to get some food and coke. When it started at around 8AM we were freaking excited about playing Starcraft 2, watching the games and just everything.

Here we go!

Huge banner in front of the building, epic!

Starcraft 2 Area, I guess there were about 300 computers with Starcraft 2

There were a nice area for fan artwork, check this

This is one of the 2 smaller stages

When we went upstairs.. we found that.. the MAINSTAGE

Also, when I was about to watch something on stage 1 I saw Stork and took my chance

Small note here: I also met IdrA but here comes the failure: My camera ran out of battery so the rest of the day I was relying on other peoples cameras. I'll add the rest of the photos from this day later on.

Day 2 - No words

Like the day before we got really early to the event, because we didn't want to wait in a huge line. I didn't mention the 2v2 community tournament yet so I'll do it now. On day 1 we went to the finals in the 2v2 tournament and we got told that we're going to play the final on stage. I was really excited about that as you can imagine. Also the 2v2 tourney gave us the chance of playing Starcraft 2 as long as we want with no limit :-)! Here you go with a few shots of the awesome starcraft finals!

After the - unfortunately - too short finals of Starcraft and the Warcraft 3 finals we got told that we're going to play 2v2 Starcraft 2 on stage (actually they asked if its fine for us, because they wanted to make sure its fine and its better for publicity to show a new game or to be exact Starcraft 2). Well, the plan changed and we went to play one on one on the internet live stream in Starcraft 2. This was the first time for Starcraft 2 to be ever live broad casted.

I'll add another broodwar picture and the rest of the pictures will speak from themselves.

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UPDATE (GOODYBAG / STUFF)

More pictures to come, comments please! :D I'll also upload a package of all the photos in full size / quality later.

micronesia

United States24676 Posts

June 30 2008 21:24 GMT

On July 01 2008 06:23 G.s)NarutO wrote:
Even though the stewardess told us to shut down all our electronic devices I took pictures while we were starting. Oh boy.. I love to fly.

Wtf is wrong with you...

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

June 30 2008 21:28 GMT

Savior with the epic EZ Button.

Nice pics.

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

June 30 2008 21:30 GMT

nice pics ^^

Nyovne

Netherlands19135 Posts

June 30 2008 21:31 GMT

Niiicceeeee narutooooo :D:D.

Amazing how on all pics ive appeared from everyone I just show up as looking away haha best :D.

Nyovne

Netherlands19135 Posts

June 30 2008 21:33 GMT

That EZ button absolutely owned btw haha Zatic and me were abusing it during the EC finals up in Tasteless his room ^^.

B1nary

Canada1267 Posts

June 30 2008 21:43 GMT

So many pics with Ma Jae Yoong!

aqui

Germany1023 Posts

June 30 2008 21:53 GMT

ah look at us, toasting with our old buddy Yum Bo Sung...
since he is to modest to write about it:
naruto pwned the 2v2 community finals 1v2 two times. ( after he and hot ( his 2v2 partner) took the blizzard guys apart in sc2( apparantly they did send their best)).

MeriaDoKk

Chile1726 Posts

June 30 2008 22:02 GMT

man... im so sad because i live so far

the pictures are great ^^

nofAcedAgent

United States952 Posts

June 30 2008 22:02 GMT

#10

Im lovin this.. keep em coming^^

zatic

Zurich15326 Posts

June 30 2008 22:11 GMT

#11

Awesome pics Naruto, thanks so much! The EZ button pic wins :-) can't wait for high res

Haha, yeah, I was laughing too about the ORLY? airport

Holylight

Korea (South)460 Posts

June 30 2008 22:13 GMT

#12

On July 01 2008 06:24 micronesia wrote:

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Wtf is wrong with you...

lol yeah thats a bit stupid

nice pics though!

SayaSP

Laos5494 Posts

June 30 2008 22:23 GMT

#13

Best

useLess

United States4781 Posts

June 30 2008 22:32 GMT

#14

whos the girl and whos the guy with the shirt with all sigs?

HeavOnEarth

United States7087 Posts

June 30 2008 22:33 GMT

#15

YA RLY

also savior!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that game vs sea was fun

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

June 30 2008 22:35 GMT

#16

On July 01 2008 07:32 useLess wrote:
whos the girl and whos the guy with the shirt with all sigs?

The girl (not the 2 next to me, these 2 are actually part of PMS (counterstrike proteam)) is ToT)Ore( (Eleonore) and that guy with the mYm shirt is Chosi. He's German, but he's not known. He traded shirts with mYm.Dreiven ( ToT)Dreiven( now hahahaha^^) and got EVERYONE sign it. Yes, I signed it too! :D