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After having one of the best weekends of my life in MLG Columbus, three friends of mine and I have bought tickets to MLG Raleigh, and we have already purchased reservations for the weekend at a hotel. Until recently, all of us were extatic at the opportunity to take a road trip and to see the best of the best duke it out in some crazy insane competition. We planned for about a month to hammer out all the details, call of work Friday, clear schedules for the weekend, etc, and were putting the final touches on what we were going to do specifically that weekend (we wanted to have a sick-nice dinner in Raleigh for $20/$30 a plate) when we heard about Hurricane Irene.
For those who don't know what "weather.com" means or just don't care very much about American weather, Hurricane Irene is a level 3 Hurricane moving north from the Pacific Islands towards the East Coast of America. It's supposed to graze along the East Coast of North Carolina before heading up towards New England, turning into a level 4 Hurricane in the process at some point. The worst part is that it's supposed to land on the North Carolinian coast around Saturday morning. Raleigh is about 120 miles from the Atlantic, and the hurricane has a 210 mile radius. Long story short, there's about a 20% chance that Raleigh will encounter sustained winds of 40+mph assuming the hurricane doesn't change directions, which they've been known to do.
![[image loading]](http://i.huffpost.com/gen/336399/HURRICANE-IRENE-PATH-NOAA-2.jpg)
Here are the things that suck about Hurricane Irene and MLG Raleigh now:
Firstly, one of my friends for whom I bought a ticket isn't sure he wants to go now. He feels as that it's too dangerous and that there is too great a risk to warrant a 500 mile road trip to Raleigh. I've been trying to calm him down, and convince him that it probably won't be a big deal, but he hasn't budged yet. He keeps talking about past hurricanes that have just changed direction mid-course-- he argues that if that happens to Irene, it may mean that the brunt force of the hurricane will come into Raleigh.
Secondly, even if the hurricane stays on course, and the worst that happens to Raleigh is sustained winds of 40+mph and heavy rain, I'm not convinced that the 9001internets that MLG brings to their competitions will be enough to sustain all of the battlenet connections and streaming that a competition of this size brings. I'm worried that even if it's safe to go to Raleigh, that it won't be as fun as Columbus was and it will be more like Dallas all over again.
Finally, if my friend is right, and Irene suddenly shifts her course and carries Raleigh in her gentle arms to the depths of Hell, there will be a Convention Center full of people I have learned to love buried within her wrath. If the worst happens, and God knows with my luck it probably will, and Raleigh is consumed under water and wind, it will leave a community in shock, disarray, and misery.
For these reasons I have two requests:
My first request is to the MLG Staff. I ask that you take extra precautions to insure that: a) there is a swift and safe method by which you can evacuate or otherwise secure the convention center should the need arise; b) should the competition go as planned, that the quality of both stream and internet is optimized to perform at the highest possible level to insure both entertainment and fairness to competitors regardless of weather; c) if necessary, MLG and the staff therein can have the wisdom and grace to recognize a time such that, despite your best efforts, the competition simply cannot continue, and postpone or cancel the rest of the competition before it's too late.
My second request is to the competitors and StarCraft Community who will be at Raleigh: If worst comes to worst, please stay safe. I ask all of you, Day9, Husky, JP, Tastosis, Dignitas (SeleCT, NaNiWa,SjoW), ReIGN (KiWiKaKi, SLush), EG (HuK, iNcontroL, IdrA, Machine), Liquid (Tyler, Jinro, TLO, HerO, Ret, HayprO, Sheth), and our Korean guests (TricKsteR, Rain, Bomber, NaDa, DongRaeGu, CoCa) to keep safe. And I pray that this post becomes a testament to the needless worrying that I do.
I will continue to talk to my friend, and continue to try to convince him to join us at MLG, because despite the risk, this weekend is worth it.
+ Show Spoiler +to mods: I wanted to make this as a blog, but I couldn't find a way to make a blog after literally a half hour of trying.
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Hopefully the storm kills all the Terran players at the event.
User was temp banned for this post.
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oh no. im almost glad mvp didnt come then
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On August 25 2011 09:41 Joey Wheeler wrote:
Hopefully the storm kills all the Terran players at the event.
Wow.
Fuck you sir. Even if you were trying to be funny, just... no.
Stay safe guys, I'm keeping an eye on it as well. I second that if it gets too bad, postpone the damn thing. Please!
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Hope everything winds up going well, but I don't think a big, well-structured convention center will take too much abuse from a Cat 3 Hurricane.
Here's to hoping Raleigh is a great event.
Also, more info on Hurricanes here: http://miami.about.com/od/weather/a/hurricanecats.htm
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I totally thought Irene was some reporter chick or something, funny how you worded that title.  Hope that storm doesn't ruin the even for everyone though, bad weather sucks.
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On August 25 2011 09:41 Joey Wheeler wrote:
Hopefully the storm kills all the Terran players at the event.
not cool dude
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On August 25 2011 09:41 Joey Wheeler wrote:
Hopefully the storm kills all the Terran players at the event.
Highly insensitive and inappropriate to even joke about. It wasn't even funny in the first place.
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On August 25 2011 09:41 Joey Wheeler wrote:
Hopefully the storm kills all the Terran players at the event.
Shitty post, shitty name and not funny about your location either.
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On August 25 2011 09:41 Joey Wheeler wrote:
Hopefully the storm kills all the Terran players at the event.
What's wrong with you...
Also, to the OP, we already have a thread about this. If you want this to be moved to Blog, pm a mod and they will help you. 
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This actually really scares me now that I see this thread post..
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people cant take a joke about psi storm ? :o
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On August 25 2011 09:41 Joey Wheeler wrote:
Hopefully the storm kills all the Terran players at the event.
I hope your mom is eaten by a sea otter.
In all seriousness, as far as I've heard this really shouldn't be much of a problem. Let's hope it stays that way.
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Enjoy the awesome hurricane parties, it's what NC is known for. ^^
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On August 25 2011 09:41 Joey Wheeler wrote:
Hopefully the storm kills all the Terran players at the event.
What a fool you are. Do you realize how useful an orbital command would be for this situation?@!?
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On August 25 2011 09:50 kankerganker wrote:
people cant take a joke about psi storm ? :o
A "joke" about hoping people to die isn't a joke.
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Dude, at worst it's going to be an outer band hitting raleigh. There will be be some 30mph wind and probably a few thunderstorms but that's it. Seriously, it's no big deal.
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I didn't find Joey Wheeler's comment funny but I find the responses to his comment hilarious for some reason.
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Raleigh is going to experience nothing of this, the most that'll happen is it will rain the whole time. It's too far inland.
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i don't get why people are treating this like some catastrophic event. the biggest issue will be flight delays from areas that are actually affected by the hurricane.
My first request is to the MLG Staff. I ask that you take extra precautions to insure that: a) there is a swift and safe method by which you can evacuate or otherwise secure the convention center should the need arise
are you serious? it's going to rain. that's it.
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