I landed in Cologne, Germany at 5:30pm. After walking around a bit and making a few phone calls through the pay phone, I found that Naruto and company were not able to pick me up as planned so I needed to get myself to WCG on my own. I found that the Köln Bonn Airport wasn't very foreigner friendly as I got lost trying to find currency exchange and the way to the S-train. There was no customer service to ask for help and the ticket machine was confusing as ever. However, a friendly German helped me get a train ticket and even bought it for me since I had no coins. He escorted me to my stop and told me which way to go. I had a map but I still got lost since I couldn't find any street signs. I walked around and asked for help from some Germans but I found that a lot of them couldn't speak English very well so I ended up getting a taxi to drive me a mile or so towards the event for 5 euro.
I finally got there and zatic spotted me! I'm so glad since I had no clue what to do if I didn't find anybody I knew there. The TL group was about to head out for dinner and Ilvy was among them. Nyovne was kind enough to drive us to the Hostel to drop off my bag. Tasteless led the way, gathering people and finding a place to eat, drink and be merry. The first place we went to couldn't fit all of us but Ilvy led the way across the street to eat so we finally could have dinner.
Friday Night Dinner
Dinner with the group was great. It was my way of getting to know people from TL for the first time in a smaller group setting.
Meat, PuertoRican, Nyovne, Ilvy, Nazgul, Zephyr, ret, Draco, Naruto
Draco made fun of the food server's accent when she was serving them coke so it became a running joke that Draco and ret ordered cock and weiner (Wiener Schnitzel).
Wiener Schnitzel
ret was also crazy drunk to the point that he couldn't stay sitting up straight.
ret
Friday Night Hotel
We continued the night back at the Hostel.
Draco, baal, Energies, Ilvy
Ghardo, Meat, ErkenBrand, ret
We headed to bed around 2-3am since he referees had to get up early the next day. Ilvy was kind enough to let me sleep on her bed. Thanks so much Ilvy!
Saturday, November 8, 2008:
StarCraft: Broodwar Area
I headed over to the event area at around 10am with Ilvy, baal, and the other referees. Nothing was going on yet so baal and I had cookies for breakfast at the press area. Later, more people showed up and I spotted JohnRambo and Lamer and talked to them for a bit. Strelok stopped by momentarily and I told them all about the TL Meetup Dinner later that night.
JohnRambo, Lamer, Strelok
lilsusie and Midian showed up. We couldn't really watch the player's screens very well. I think WCG still needs to find a better way to help spectators view the gamer matches. At least feature one at every round.
mnm and lilsusie
lilsusie and I headed over to the Guitar Hero band area and grabbed snowbird and Harry along the way. We rocked out with me on guitar, lilsusie on vocals, Harry on drums and snowbird on bass. Some guy at the area liked how lilsusie sang so he got her to sing on stage later that day to showcase a new singing game. She ended up announcing the WarCraft III game later on too since the announcer wasn't around.
lilsusie
Main Stage Match: Jaedong vs Stork
We headed over to the main stage to watch Jaedong vs Stork. They weren't supposed to go against each other so early on but Legend left the game before Stork could have a chance to throw the game so Stork ended up taking first in his group round and had to face Jaedong in the bracket round.
Jaedong vs Stork
Tasteless and Daniel Lee were commentating for English speakers but unfortunately, as much as I tried to talk to several people about this, there were rules and other obstacles in place that prevented any English from getting through to the main stage audience. All we heard was German commentary.
Tasteless and Daniel Lee
We tried to do the fighting cheer for the koreans but some tl guy interrupted lilsusie, who was gonna lead the cheer, so she could write some korean on their poster. The cheer failed but we were gonna try again later on.
Energies, ret, baal, PuertoRican, ?, Nony, zatic, snowbird, Harry
StarCraft: Broodwar Area
We were hoping to get an interview with the Koreans but we didn't have a camera ready.
lilsusie, Jaedong, mnm
lilsusie ended up translating for MYM on the condition that she was introduced as lilsusie from TL and we could post the video on the teamliquid site.
Crow, Luxury, lilsusie (thx to Ghardo for taking these pictures)
The crowd was getting huge around the StarCraft:Broodwar Area as people tried to see as much of the action as they could. zatic did a great job of updating the teamliquid threads with live battle reports.
It was down to the match for third place and someone had the great idea of setting up the idle big screen monitor at the corner of the SC area as an obs station for Tasteless so people can watch from the bean bag area. WCG wasn't happy with this later on but oh well what can they do now.
Tasteless, Draco, Nony, Ghardo, ret, ?, zuqbu waiting for TL to gather before heading out to Karibik Cocktailbar
Tasteless was really antsy and ready to go an hour before our scheduled departure time. I walked around the entire venue looking for TL people to gather them up so they could walk together towards the venue. We decided to go in two groups. Tasteless, Naruto and company headed out first at around 6:45pm while I hung around until the referees were ready to go just in case there were stragglers. We probably got there at around 8:45pm, fashionably late =P.
Deutzer Brücke
Karibik is somewhere in this picture
I didn't know a few people in this picture, please let me know if you can fill in the question marks.
Actual Liquid players showed up to a TL event. The heart and brains behind the website. Much thanks to Nazgul and Meat for being the driving force behind teamliquid.net!
Meat, Nazgul, Zephyr, ?
I believe this first guy in the picture below was the guy who interrupted our cheer earlier on =P. Still no clue who he is although I talked to him for a bit.
The great thing about the event was that we had our dinner and drinks, and people had the freedom to get up, go around and mingle. For the first time, I looked at this event from the inside rather than just from the outside in. For the most part I hide behind my camera but as I felt more included in the event, I also included myself in my own pictures feeling like I wanted to preserve memories and make the statement that I was there too. I met some great people and it was awesome getting to know each and every one of them.
It was great hanging out with Nick as I know he has my back and vice versa. It was also a little piece of home hearing the American accent as I was surrounded by Europeans for the entire week.
Nick and mnm
Ilvy was very kind and hospitable to me. Thank you so much for taking care of me!
mnm and Ilvy
baal was my press buddy and guide for a good part of the time. It took me a while to get used to the French accent, but it was pretty fun chatting in Mandarin ^^.
baal and mnm
I was able to practice the little bit of Chinese I knew with the China players as well. Talking to emucxg and Phoenix motivated me to learn as much Chinese as I can within a year's time. I definitely want to go to WCG Grand Finals in China next year!
mnm and Phoenix
It was great that JohnRambo, my fellow South East Asian, showed up as well. I interviewed him last year (I still have yet to post that o.O) and he's a good fellow to get to know.
mnm and JohnRambo
zatic was a hard worker at the event. He was the epitome of Teamliquid Staff. I wish I could have contributed more but I was glad he was around to keep that connection to teamliquid.net alive. I feel bad that someone sat on his laptop and screwed up his monitor =/. Hopefully he could get that replaced without much of a problem.
zatic and mnm
There was a big change with Energies from the time I saw him last year. Great job with that! And thanks for letting me borrow the adaptor. Sorry that your phone died and you had to charge it the next day =x.
mnm and Energies
I don't think I got to talk to ret while sober very much so I only know his drunken self. I squirmed out of his way for the most part but that interview was great. ret, let me know if you want to show anyone =P.
ret and mnm
Draco, I talked to a little bit. I hear he has a hot gf. Pics pls.
Draco and mnm
Ghardo looks soooooo different from his gallery picture. I never would have guessed it was him. He isn't as scary as I thought he was gonna be. He's actually a pretty cool guy. Later that night at the hotel after Ilvy, Nick, Energies and I headed home, Energies knocked on our door saying that there is a guy sleeping standing up in his room. When I headed over there (I couldn't find my camera), I saw Ghardo about to piss on Dknight. lol Energies guided him to the bathroom.
mnm and Ghardo
This guy, Tot)Left, started talking to me as I was walking somewhere. He ended up having several parallels to my life which was so coincidental it was hard to believe. He lived in the Philippines for a bit so he talked a lot about the places he went and the culture he experienced. He also was in New York for work and talked about where he worked and such.
Tot)Left, mnm, ?
G.s)NarutO was a great help with finding this location for the meetup and making the reservation. All I did was create the massive post with as much detail as I could about it. He's a very friendly guy who was willing to help out when he could. He housed Nyovne, snowbird and Harry as well. Props to him for a great turn out for the event!
Naruto and mnm (Nyovne put that candle there o.O -_-)
Much thanks to Nyovne for taking me to the airport. It sucked so much just trying to get to the event from the airport that I greatly appreciate the ride! It was great hanging out with you guys as well.
Nyovne and mnm
Naruto and Nyovne
Nony, I watched you make your way to the top through the WCGs. I wish you the best of luck in Korea!
Nony and mnm
Harry hooked me up with a photo with the progamers all together later on. As I said earlier, he is a fun and entertaining guy. I hope he had a great time hanging out with TL and I hope to see more of him in future events. Hopefully he'll be around if I go to Korea some day. I seriously need to learn more Korean.
Harry and mnm
It is great to have the support of the Teamliquid staff at these events. They are what drives the site. They are also the people who led the cheer during the finals round later on ^^. Rage helped me remember everyones names by constantly quizzing me =P. Xeofreestyler sang a beautiful Con Te Partiro that night.
mnm, Rage, Xeofreestyler, zatic
The girls of TL. (wtf who is that in the middle of me and Ilvy?)
Stork, mnm, Luxury
Jaedong, mnm
Stork, Luxury, mnm, lilsusie, Jaedong (lilsusie popped into this picture while I was trying to get a pic with the Korean progamers =p)
Later that night I saw the announcer lady who was on stage with lilsusie earlier. She looked really familiar and I asked if she was Athena or Athena twin. I knew Athena from the Fragdolls and I knew the PMS Clan through her and Brookelyn having tried out for the first round of Fragdolls and having gotten a job as an Associate Web Producer for Ubisoft. Turned out she was Athena twin and she spoke a little about her Ubisoft and MTV contacts after I told her how I knew Athena.
mnm and PMS Athena twin
Later on though she went through her marketing speech on how great the PMS Clan is, being a sponsored female clan that encourages gamers from casual to pro as well as how they advocate females playing among males. She asked if I was interested in joining as a StarCraft player but I honestly don't see what I could gain from this considering I can and have already played WCG Qualifiers among guys and it costs nothing to play locally. There isn't anything else really beyond WCG. It was nice to get invited though but I felt a little trapped in the marketing speech and Tasteless helped by breaking the stream a little bit.
Tasteless, Ilvy, Armin and I were among the last few to leave the place. We walked back on a high. Well, at least I did. Tasteless felt lost since he didn't know how to get back to his hotel. Ilvy was drunk I think, or very tired or sleepy. Armin was disappointed because we got him to leave right in the middle of him talking up some females at the bar. I was just happy that it was a successful night =).
I walked away from the hostel kinda sad that I was leaving the place. My time there was short but quite fun.
We arrived via taxi at around 11:30am, ready to watch the finals match between Luxury and Stork. Teamliquid sat right at the front row, ready to cheer.
I hope Stork and Luxury weren't too affected by the night before!
I, of course, cheered for the zerg, Luxury. People said they were disappointed with the games because Stork was messing up or something. I guess the games weren't quite as epic as people hoped. Nonetheless, we have a new champ this year.. Luxury!
He is sticking his tongue out at us.
Team Liquid!
Towards the end, we scrambled with interviews. Xeofreestyler and Rage helped me collect some questions from Teamliquid to ask the progamers and I wrote it out. We had trouble keeping track of the Koreans but Jaedong showed up after Harry interviewed me for fomos so I ran out to get lilsusie and Meat since Meat had the camcorder and lilsusie got the koreanness.
I held the camera while lilsusie interviewed Jaedong with the questions from Teamliquid. Jaedong's coach interrupted in the middle of the interview and it was cool to find out that his brother is from Manila, Philippines so I spoke to him through lilsusie about that a bit afterwards.
lilsusie and I had to head out after that so hopefully zatic, snowbird and Meat were able to get some interviews of the other two progamers later on.
Nyovne, Naruto and Harry took me to the airport so I could catch my flight from Germany to London and London to New York. I was sad to leave but happy to get back home. It's always great to go to these events. The teamliquid community proves time and time again that they are full of awesomeness. This energy, this passion, this camaraderie is what keeps me coming back for more.
It was great fun guys! Let's do this again next year =).
Dknight was a total asshole and slapped my face moments after I took this picture, completely unprovoked. He said "In Europe, men can hit women." What the fuck. I wanted to seriously injure him at this point. My fist flew to his face but my personality and Christian self prevented me from having my fist plow through his skull. Plus, I didn't want to cause any trouble and get kicked out of the bar or something. I decided to be nice and punch him in the arm. That didn't feel like enough revenge so I tried to choke him with my arm around his neck and I really wanted to at least make him pass out but that didn't work. Seriously, Dknight, learn some respect, Motherfucker.
Hm, wtf? ed: I mean wtf at the original slap, not wtf at the being pissed about it. [hopefully that's obvious, just wanted to make sure I wasn't misunderstood]
She slapped Tasteless in the face I think for interrupting and Tasteless didn't appreciate it one bit. Friendly or not, joking or not, drunk or not, mad or not, slapping is unacceptable.
Another wtf.
Nice read, was worthwhile going through it all! (5/5 obviously)
Awesome blog Michelle. I actually regret now not having a conversation with you at the meet, you are an awesome person. Our first meeting was kinda awkward at the Starcraft area haha =]
Btw was DKnight actually serious? Or was it jokingly? What the fuck.
umm PuertoRican update added.. just for clarification..
dont know if dknight was serious or not or drunk or not.. but whatever i dont like him. he was insulting everyone left and right as well so he's not really fun to hang out with anyway.
On November 11 2008 08:05 ret wrote: lol, it was nice to meet u after following ur coverage of events for many years, btw im nice when sober, or at least i think so. (:
great blog!
p.s send me the interview! lol
plz just let her make it public It can't be so bad.
On November 11 2008 08:05 ret wrote: lol, it was nice to meet u after following ur coverage of events for many years, btw im nice when sober, or at least i think so. (:
On November 11 2008 08:05 ret wrote: lol, it was nice to meet u after following ur coverage of events for many years, btw im nice when sober, or at least i think so. (:
great blog!
p.s send me the interview! lol
plz just let her make it public It can't be so bad.
I'm pretty sure it was REALLY REALLY bad man.
and <3 nyovne!
jij kan ook behoorlijk grappig uit de hoek komen, ik kan die studenten humor zeer waarderen, respect :D
Wow wtf @ Dknight and the Athena twin slapping Tasteless. Just... wow.
As for PuertoRican, I don't know what he expected to happen (as if people wouldn't have turned against him en-masse regardless of Mani), but whatever. =P
Harry's a lot of fun isn't he? He's been really great and helpful to me and my friends over here and we often see him at SC finals etc and go for food afterwards. Nice blog - It's really interesting to see the foreign scene for me seen as I'm usually not involved in any of it except posting here. I wish I could have gone too - it looks like it was a lot of fun.
On November 11 2008 09:26 nevergg wrote: Harry's a lot of fun isn't he? He's been really great and helpful to me and my friends over here and we often see him at SC finals etc and go for food afterwards. Nice blog - It's really interesting to see the foreign scene for me seen as I'm usually not involved in any of it except posting here. I wish I could have gone too - it looks like it was a lot of fun.
Dirty Harry was friggin hylarious, especially friday night with the vodka in beer shots rooffllll. And then he puked out of my carwindow while we were driving so there was this huge jetstreamtrail of puke on the side/back of my car hahaha. Next morning he was so cute with bottles of water and tissues cleaning off this huge pukestain with snowbird naruto and me laughing our asses off and him going "so solly so solly!" haha.
Srly Sun Moon Kim is a really really really nice and funny guy, he helped us so much with the translations, questions and just made us laugh ALOT. Plus when playing BW with him in the room its like having your own private korean commentator looooooooooooooool.
Dirty Harry <3.
edit: there will be pics of the puked under car and him trying to clean it at night but instead wiping the puke on his own pants.
btw srly people shouldn't make a deal of the slapping, you weren't fucking there and it was nothing. It was just a brush and a taunt and a joke, srly wtf are people going all nazi about here, pathetic. Michelle can take care of herself just fine.
What an amazing blog. Thanks so much! There pictures were fantastic, loved the writeup too. Interesting seeing the faces behind the names here on TL; for example, IIvy....I always knew she was an older generation female gamer but she looks so nice and motherly that I was still surprised haha. Her and Tasteless' mom would probably get along really well!
Nyovne, I'm usually pretty easy going. People can say whatever they want and I can brush it off no problem. I don't care about that. But once he lays a hand on me, that's when he crosses the line. It may have been just a brush or a joke to you but I clearly felt a slap on my cheek. It wasn't a hard strike me down kind of slap so you may have thought it was nothing but I don't advocate that kind of behavior and it is completely unacceptable. People react to things differently and maybe it would have been okay to slap you on the cheek but at the end of the day, I was the one that got slapped and it's just not funny to me.
On November 11 2008 11:26 ilovezil wrote: So it's basically mnm over-hyping the little "slap" incident.
I was sitting next to Scott and was talking to him when it happened so imho yeah, but the post/piece of the blog is prolly just a overstatement anyway. But each his own interpretations and girls remain girls :p.
Oh lol posted at the same time, but like I said each to his own and it was you not me but I think its way over the top to paint him off as a womanbeater or w/e in your blog here.
Plus saying he crossed the line is fine but punching him as hard as you can plus chokehold hanging on his neck in the middle of the restaurant..? Thats taking things from a bad attempt at humour and provocation to an attempt at real violence against him and thats ok cause you're a girl or..?
Srly you could just say something about it but instead you have a physical go at him and now hang him at the public shamepole for touching you. I mean, sup?
Don't make this a 'girl thing'. I don't want to make it more than it is. All I am saying is, I don't want people slapping me and what he did isn't funny. That's it. I didn't say he was a woman beater.
I should have retaliated verbally instead of physically but my instinct was a direct result of what he did. I wanted to hurt him. I didn't go over the line with hurting him in that I didn't do any permanent harm but I wanted to hurt him back.
On November 11 2008 11:22 Nyovne wrote: btw srly people shouldn't make a deal of the slapping, you weren't fucking there and it was nothing. It was just a brush and a taunt and a joke, srly wtf are people going all nazi about here, pathetic. Michelle can take care of herself just fine.
well, you weren't the one slapped either, so you're right... it's NOT your business. You have no idea how hard the slap was or wasn't. Your opinion on "what" the slap was is ultimately irrelevant. You can state your peace just cuz u were there... but in the end, you come off to me as being just as ignorant as Dknight by defending him. Taunt, joke, or whatever... you don't cross someone's boundaries or personal space like that period. And that's what mnm felt. and that's what's important here.
So you think she's overreacting, or making it more than it is... well, that's your perogative. But don't try to sway others with an argument you can't defend. That's between DKnight and mnm.
Otherwise, great blog post mnm! Too bad some guyz are just clueless... esp on how to treat women.
On November 11 2008 11:22 Nyovne wrote: btw srly people shouldn't make a deal of the slapping, you weren't fucking there and it was nothing. It was just a brush and a taunt and a joke, srly wtf are people going all nazi about here, pathetic. Michelle can take care of herself just fine.
I'm her boyfriend
Just so we keep things fair and balanced. Scottie save your slaps for me in future please .
I've met Dirty Harry in Korea... I can definitely vouch for him being an awesome guy. 'Dirty' Harry is quite appropriate too (ㅋㅋㅋ), especially after meeting his girlfriend...
oh another cool thing about meeting in europe is seeing how everyone interacts with each other even if they know just a little bit of English. Everyone tried harder and was patient enough to cross cultural boundaries just to communicate with each other while talking with hand movements. Although sometimes, as rage and xeo mentioned at the meetup, you just have no idea what the other person is saying and you say 'yeah' and nod at them. =]
On November 11 2008 14:15 mnm wrote: oh another cool thing about meeting in europe is seeing how everyone interacts with each other even if they know just a little bit of English. Everyone tried harder and was patient enough to cross cultural boundaries just to communicate with each other while talking with hand movements. Although sometimes, as rage and xeo mentioned at the meetup, you just have no idea what the other person is saying and you say 'yeah' and nod at them. =]
haha i had a lot of this over the whole week. but yeah, definitely cool how everyone tried their hardest to interact. i even told this to stork and lux so that they wouldn't feel so overwhelmed. towards the end of the night stork said that he was starting to actually understand a little and he was surprised himself.
jd definitely did his part sitting in the corner without a translator.
awesome blog entry! really captured many of my emotions connected with the event as well.
and to the slapping thing: you should talk it over with him. he's not a bad guy - these are just his kind of jokes and the people he normally hangs out with are prolly harder to offend. but you are right: "people react to things differently" and if he oversteps a personal line you've set for yourself it's ok to retaliate, only "verbally" would really have been preferable so he may have understood he can't do these kind of things with you.
i'm also gonna do a little blog entry later (atm i lack the time) with a few of my personal experiences and shoutouts but i can already say it was a really cool time hanging out with you ; )
Great thread and great pictures. Its a shame I couldnt e there, living in cologne but not being there exactly this weeked! Nice to see so many people having fun!
On November 11 2008 20:16 CharlieMurphy wrote: Wtf, that is that a different Baal? He looks nothing like that in his old pic with the angry face and piercings.
lol this baal is French
the other baal who doesn't post here anymore (due to liquidpoker) is Mexican
On November 11 2008 11:26 ilovezil wrote: So it's basically mnm over-hyping the little "slap" incident.
Without a doubt. I may be a bit of an asshole sometimes and by the way she wrote about it, she makes me look like some MCP who hits women. She had made some comment about me and I jokingly tapped her - like I would with anyone I'm friends with or an acquaintance of. I'm really surprised how she took the "In Europe, men can hit women" line way out of context. How you handled this is just as immature. Your response to my tap was putting me in a choking headlock for a good ten seconds. The following day, Petra, Armin, myself, and mnm took a taxi to the venue. Not once did she mention what happened. Had I known how upset she was over this, I would have apologized. But to call me out like this in the manner you did is just horribly immature.
And I fail to see how you can just judge me, calling me an asshole without even having a conversation with me is amazing. The guys I hung out with when you were around I've known quite a while. Seb, Armin, Frank, Kevin, and Petra I've known for 3 years. They know how I am, my sarcasm, and my jokes. And they give it right back to me. The same to the TLirc guys I talk to that were there - Nyovne, Rage, and Xeo as well as Zatic, Naruto, and a few others to an extent.
dont know if dknight was serious or not or drunk or not.. but whatever i dont like him. he was insulting everyone left and right as well so he's not really fun to hang out with anyway.
dont know if dknight was serious or not or drunk or not.. but whatever i dont like him. he was insulting everyone left and right as well so he's not really fun to hang out with anyway.
makes you sound like a twelve year old
i totally disagree, she has every right to be upset and every right to voice her frustration. and granted ive only met mnm once, but dam shes like the nicest person ever, you must be a total douche to somehow get on her bad side
A lot of people have an opinion here who weren't even there so what the fuck is up with that. Only the ones who were there are entitled to have an opinion about it imo. I didn't see it so I don't know whose side to take.
The way I see it, someone made a bad joke that was interpreted way wrong by Michelle and she kind of overreacted/could have solved it the other way by saying she didn't appreciate it. If it was handled like that I'm sure DKnight would've apologized right there on the spot AND he would have sincerely meant it. This is all a bunch of drama over nothing.
twisted this is an internet forum .... the only things people more or less do talk about the vast majority of the time our things that happend without them being there .....
Lol @ the drama about the slap incident, its quite clear the mnm is just as immature as Dknight, just judging from how she dealt with the issue, not talking to Dknight about it personally but rather hang him out in public as an asshole is just such a 15 year old girl kind of thing to do.
On November 11 2008 22:54 Senx wrote: Lol @ the drama about the slap incident, its quite clear the mnm is just as immature as Dknight, just judging from how she dealt with the issue, not talking to Dknight about it personally but rather hang him out in public as an asshole is just such a 15 year old girl kind of thing to do.
More like she didn't want to make a scene out of it. It's just weird to touch anyone you don't know well because things like this happens. To presume it's OK is not good enough. Didn't your parents teach you not to touch people what the hell. And to blame her reaction when you crossed into her personal space is hilarious. Yeah, she's a buzz kill because some strange dude from the internet touched her and she didn't like it.
Didn't your parents teach you not to touch people what the hell.
What freak culture do you come from that's so afraid of physical contact? I nudge people all the time when they do something cheeky. It's like rubbing someone's hair.
It's clear here that mnm is being a drama queen. She didn't like dknight to begin with, and so because it was him who touched her face, she got all pissed off. Had it been someone else, I don't think this would have happened. Dknight is partially to blame for not reading her correctly (it's anybody's guess how easy/hard that is), but to try and humiliate him in front of the whole community is unnecessary and bratty, regardless of how she feels about the incident. This reminds me of a certain someone who recently got banned for handling things in a completely douchy and indirect manner.
It's not cool to act cool around someone, and then when they're 'not around,' to completely trash them. But other than that, nice photos and blog
I try my best to stay professional and mature around the Teamliquid audience. I wrote my story here as a blog with some rants about things that frustrated me. I should have realized that Teamliquid isn't the best sounding board for this sort of stuff.
I don't know Dknight very well at all. I talked to him a bit in the beginning and I had the utmost respect for the admins, the referees, the hard workers within the community. I am usually the most reserved person and I don't usually mind joking around. A button was pushed that set me off to behave in ways I usually don't and I apologize for the punch and the choking. I should have just spoken out and said that the act wasn't cool with me. It's hard to sort out my thoughts within the few seconds. My frustration just simmered within me because I didn't do or say anything, hoping to just let it go. But of course, bottling things up inside isn't the best all the time so I let it all out in the blog. I needed some sort of release. I shared my concern with Tasteless and he said we can talk to Dknight about this but I didn't really get much alone time with him to talk it over. Anyway, I didn't mean to make it such a big deal. My point back then and even now is that I don't dig the slapping. That's it.
Now I would appreciate if we could just move on and stop milking the incident. It is between Dknight and me and I hope to talk to him directly. Yes, TL, I momentarily lost my composure because someone did something to piss me off. Big deal. Get over it.
By the way, I've updated some of the names. There are still a lot of question marks left though so please help me identify these people! Thanks!
michelle, you should give credit to mondragon for holding the movie camera (in the photo i took) he was writing a sms while filming for the interview.. that's multitasking
oh, and on a sidenote: i suspect you were the one who paid the remaining 100 euro bill after the meetup? at least that's what i understood from the guys at the karibik bar when i went fetch my jacket. i owe you 7,20 euro in that case x_x (i was piss drunk as stated earlier and forgot to pay.. as well as my jacket)
On November 12 2008 03:10 Ghardo wrote: michelle, you should give credit to mondragon for holding the movie camera (in the photo i took) he was writing a sms while filming for the interview.. that's multitasking
oh, and on a sidenote: i suspect you were the one who paid the remaining 100 euro bill after the meetup? at least that's what i understood from the guys at the karibik bar when i went fetch my jacket. i owe you 7,20 euro in that case x_x (i was piss drunk as stated earlier and forgot to pay.. as well as my jacket)
It was not her, but i will contact the person and i hope more ppl show up that didn´t pay their bill since she is not exactly the right person to pay for our drunken cowboys :D
This event was great fun, really happy to meat all these ppl, specially the dutch gang after all these years. The sunday was so sad, when almost everybody was gone in the evening ;(
On November 11 2008 18:01 SilverSkyLark wrote: I'm so envious.
Great, and epic blog btw, should be somewhere else I think..:D
yeah i was thinking this too, i'm guessing there's going to be an official news from the other staffs that went and that's the only reason this itself isn't in news
Just got back from another night out with Zatic, he is a super cool guy, lets hope we can meet up again in Frankfurt to party in a few days!
I'll add more later, but everyone at WCG was awesome, mnm, nazgul, ghardo, tasteless, just to name a few, you guys were so much fun, thanks for the memories.
On November 12 2008 06:53 WGT-Baal wrote: ok i understand now why you said belgian (which is close to insult for a french or a dutch :p ) and papersign whore
I m WGT-Baal from France and i m not here often that s why you prolly dont know me. Better chances to meet me in LANs over europe
On November 12 2008 09:26 Energies wrote: Just got back from another night out with Zatic, he is a super cool guy, lets hope we can meet up again in Frankfurt to party in a few days!
I'll add more later, but everyone at WCG was awesome, mnm, nazgul, ghardo, tasteless, just to name a few, you guys were so much fun, thanks for the memories.
Was great meeting you. Hopefully I'll be able to attend more events like these in the future so we can meet up again sometime (not only mnm, but all of you guys!) : )
EPT
![[image loading]](http://www.esports.is/uploads/1202746057/gallery_77_16_13007.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://calbearmnm.smugmug.com/photos/414182051_ojENV-M-1.jpg)
.
