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Me and Xeo got up just in time to get good seats for the SC finals, along with the rest of TL. Stork vs Sea it was, and except for Taiche, everyone was rooting for Sea. When we did our nice little pregame shout, the MBCGame camera crew came to film us. They made us do it another 3 times, and asked us 'Who's a fan of Stork?'. Everyone remained silent. In the end, they interviewed Taiche why he is a fan of Stork. The finals were pretty anti-climatic, featuring 2 pure build order wins.
After the finals we went downstairs to play SC2. I played a LOT of SC2 on the second day. In one of my PvZ's, a Blizzard employee stood the entire game behind me, commenting that I played nicely afterwards. I did the gayest thing. Cannons at Zerg's natural choke, with warpgates. Then proxy Colossus and gayed a bit around with its ability to traverse cliffs and rape up drones (thanks for teaching me the gay ability of the Colossus, Idra). We went to see the SC2 game with Naruto and his partner, which was actually a nice game, convincing me that SC2 could become a nice spectator sport. SC2 of course didn't have any observer functions yet, so they had to switch between FPViews, and Mani and Tasteless had to commentate off the big screen. The producer didn't realize this, however, and sometimes took shots of the crowd, leaving Tasteless and Mani to commentate about nothing haha.
We saw sAviOr and his coach again, as well as Sea. They both apologized for not making the TL meet cause of their very long games, but promised they'd come to the hotel lobby that night.
I played some more SC2, until a Blizzard employee came to inform us the event was closing. A very short day.
A very long night though..
Me and Xeo went for some kebab with DKnight, Chill, Kennigit and haji. Afterwards, they all went to the hotel lobby, while me and Xeo went to our hotel to smoke and grab the liters of beer we brought from Belgium. Around midnight we arrived at the hotel lobby. Everyone was there, drinking and chilling. Some WoW and CS people were already shitfaced. We however, didn't see nor Sea[Shield], nor sAviOr anywhere. Chill told us they'd come in 15 minutes. 45 minutes later, I almost gave up hope, although the amount of alcohol I had downed wouldn't really make me sad. Right then, sAviOr and his very cool coach walked towards us, with sAviOr wearing his TL shirt. Following them, Sea and the MBCGame coach.
What ensued, was like July vs Rock on RoV. Hordes of people spawned from EVERYWHERE just swarming towards them. After the dust settled a bit, sAviOr was just walking around greeting everyone a bit, while Sea sat down at the head of the TL table, taking pictures and talking to us.
One of the most notable conversations was one that I already described in one of the newsposts:
Me: Sea, you know B.Net Attack?
Sea: Huh?
*writes down MBCGame B.Net Attack on a napkin*
Sea: Ah yes, (insert weird b.net attack pronunciation).
*draws an arrow MBCGame B.Net Attack -> TeamLiquid Attack
Sea: YES, ME PLAY! Mingu no manner! Me play!
He was so excited to play, it was unbelievable.
I did a wodka shot with DKnight, sAviOr and Tasteless. Later we did a "wine shot" too cause we were out of wodka. Talked to the CJ Coach about various things. He was reaaaally cool. That mean diserves a lot of respect. Talked to Sea about various things too, till he asked if I played on west, and we all began exchanging accounts.
We kept talking with the progamers and with eachother. It's hard to tell all we've been talking about, since we really talked for about 3 hours. At around 3AM Sea brought me and zatic to his room. On the closet there, the TL cheerful lay. He grabbed us 2 MBC Game shirts out of his luggage and says 'U no sleep? Strong' 'Me sleep now'. We said goodbye after he took pictures of me, zatic and him, sporting the MBC shirts.
I went downstairs, laughed at a lot of overly drunk people in the lobby. One of the more funny situations was probably when Tasteless wanted to go sleep in his room, but lost his room key. He went to the hotel reception desk. Unfortunately for him, no one was standing behind it, so he just picked up the phone and started punching in random numbers. Xeo got behind the reception desk, and used a clean, near-British accent to immitate the fancy receptionist.
Xeo: "How can I help you?"
Tasteless: "Im looking for my room key"
Xeo: "Now, usually when I need to find a spare room key, where do I look?"
Tasteless: "I have no idea man.."
*Xeo starts looking in random drawers behind the counter for keys*
*Tasteless picks up the reception telephone and starts punching in random numbers again*
*Another reception telephone starts ringing, Xeo picks it up, thinking it was Tasteless*
Xeo on the phone: "Hi Nick!"
Random business man staying in the hotel in french: "Can I get room service?"
*Xeo shocked and wants to hang up the phone*
*Real receptionist comes half-angry to the desk, takes the phone out of Xeo's hands, and demands Xeo to leave the reception desk*
After that, me Xeo and haji took a cab to our hotel. The WWI adventure had ended. It was great, but short. Way too short =[
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