KiwiClones at MLG Providence

I decided providence was close enough to where I live that I could drive out to MLG. So I set out early on thursday morning so I could meet up with my teammates as their planes got in. As this was my first MLG I had been to in awhile, and one where most of my teammates were flying in, there were a lot of new faces to meet. I got to the hotel, met heavonearth and binski, and got my things hauled into the room (including a setup for them to practice and warm up on).

Since I wasn't playing in this MLG, and because I drove in, I was going to be a gopher for most of the tournament weekend. I picked up gotc and caliber from the airport, and all the kiwiclones were gathered. My first impressions of the guys weren't too far off from how I imagined them from knowing them online. All of the kiwiclones were very manner people, easy to talk to and polite throughout the entirety of the tournament.

The rides for them weren't exactly luxurious though. Plans fell through for me taking a car up, so I had to take a small pickup truck with a half cab. The clones were awesome enough to put up with squeezing into the truck, as many as 5 of us being in this thing at one time. Also at the end of the first night, the truck was stuck in the parking garage we parked at, so we had to take a cab there and back. The management for the garage was nice to us though, and gave us free parking for the whole weekend, including the first day being free.




Throughout MLG I was supposed to take pictures of the team because I wasn't participating in this one (look out for me in the future though!) Unfortunately due to some technical difficulties, or me being inept at working the camera I was loaned, I lost a lot of the pictures I took during the weekend. Outside of that, I got to see a ton of high quality games and learn a lot throughout the weekend whether it was from watching games, or discussing things with my teammates.

The last day had me shuttling all the clones and kawaiirice to the airport as their flights came up. Kawaiirice gave me a hug on his way out~ After that I had the same 8 hour drive back home to finish up my weekend.

o k so mlg, kiwiclone TEAM UP WOO
MOTHERFUCKIN mall inside a convention center connected to a hotel, HOLY SHIT!
then we pimped out binski by gettin him a haircut that was inside the mall INSIDE A CONVENTION CENTER DAM
but he had to ruin it by saying he was gonna be the prettiest pricess at the ball. WTF DUDE ?
and so on and so forth.
anyways instead of describing how badly i got anally pentrated by artist's 2rax to get knocked out of mlg 1 before champ bracket(brag). i will tell you guys a lovely story. And by lovely i mean a pile of shit. Enjoy !
tl;dr version
- mexican steals my dads phone, figures its funny to prank call me
- talked to cute chick on plane

so for real this nigga was hitting up my cell when i was tryin to get on a plane. fuckin nearly missed that bitch but ima let u know whtsup b4 i continu .
I politely moved over to an empty area so i could watch THE WALJKING DEAD FUCKIGN DARYL GOT SHOT SCENE SO TENSE MAN in peace to myself. After about 15 minutes through the video i got a call. "Hm",i thought to myself , " i reckon mah dad is calling me wtf thats weird he never calls me"
suddenly a fucking mexican was on the other side of the phone
"ES TU BLOO BLLAH PUTO "
"motherfucker english? " , i replied, " also who the fuck is this and why are you calling me from this number ? "
"HEY HOMIE FUCK U"
Now i was fucking PISSED. i unleashed the nerd rage that suddenly lit up from within
"HEY FUCK YOU PIECE OF SHIT WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU CALLING ME BITCH"
it suddenly dawned on me that my dad could be in trouble, because these guys had his phone. So after a few more minutes of conversing i abrutly hung up on the bitch as he was asking me if i was north or south vietnam. And by conversing i mean,
me: "SHUT THE FUCK UP aND ANSWER MY QUESTION, WHY DO U HAVE MY DADS PHONE" " dirty mexican: "hey kid, u wanna die? im from the blah bloo blah mafia son, now north or south vietnam"
me: fuck this -hang up-
so i dialed my mommmy <3 , and unleashed a huge shitstorm on her poor unexpecting soul.
mommy <3: "Oh heyy nam its so nice to hear fro-"
me : "Hey ima let u finish BUT HOLY BUTTFUCK WHERE IS DAD?
zomg a mom: "Oh hes at work, son" my mom replied undaunted by my screaming, clearly used to my bouts of insanity by now
me: HOLY SHIT CALL 911 MAKE SURE HES OK I THINK SOMETHING HAPPENED TO HIM
scared mommeh: "OH OMG WHATS WRONG OK I WILL"
- few seconds later-
silly dumbfuck mommy: "Oh hey he was actually in his room, haha, ill put him on for you"
"WOMEN U SAID WHAT?"
sleepy dad: " GRr"
"OMG DAD ARE YOU OK IS EVERYTHING ALRIGHT"
rubbing of le eyes dad: "hmprphs."
" I GOT A CALL FROM A MEXICAN ON UR PHONE DID U LOSE IT ?"
slightly awake dad: "hyuk."
" OMG HE WAS THREATEN ME AND SHIT DAD WHAT SHOULD I DO . BUY ME A GUN ? "
not a morning person dad: "calm the fuck down son"
so after some father son bonding aka him reminding me how much of a fucking retarded son i am and how he wonders he ever spawned me, i hung up after wishing him good night.
I check the time : "5:07"
Oh hm. HMMMM
hm.
OH FUCK MY PLANE LEAVES AT 5:10
HOLY SHIT FLY MOTHERFUCKER i thought as i ran to the airport gate. I had relocated earlier because a bitch was complaining about the noise and got the police on me.
Hey i was lost in omg bRaIINs walking dead. Between that and a fucking mexican i didn't realize that everywhere was sitting where it was previously empty and i was being the biggest louddest douchebag ever ( lol).
So naturally i move to inside a TGI fridays , the only goddamned fuckign place where u cant hear your name over the loudass speakers.
Luckily though , i make my flight.
As i was busy clearing the combined shitfest of emotions running through my head of rage , fear, and relief from not missing my plane, a cute girl said" Heyyy. MLG ?"
Suddenly all my worries washed away and later on we fuck and get married and live happily ever after
LOL GET REAL -plays bic commercial-
"yeah", i replied, " starcraft, you? "
it later turns out she was kelley or w.e from CoD. Really fun chick to talk with. honestly i haven't ever had a conversation for that long , not even with my gf as i do most of the talking usually.
ok i needa layt down.. writing blog while lit up is pretty taxing.

hi i play ffx acoustic thingy

Also these reps are from the past 3 days of me laddering on KR and NA. Im a top 30 Z on NA www.sc2ranks.com/us/2290485/HeavOnEarth
if u arrange them going by date, the more recent ones are me playing at my best(hopefully)
http://www.mediafire.com/?9eadx00qjgqvcc9
http://www.mediafire.com/?w4w72iynl3z345n
also heres a link to my stream thread for more information on me
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=256856
id like to thank my sponsors, tespa, kawaiirice

Day1
Got off the plane, met my teammate heavonearth. Hes really nice. I left the plane with only a $20 bill in my pocket. He spotted me for my entire stay at providence. Really stand up guy. Much better man than me. Oh , we stayed at a nice hotel, that was fun. Fox mizore came by later, he does good impressions. We ate at TGIF. I had noodles. It was a good day and I slept and dreamed of better days. i woke up in the middle of the night, binspired by something within my dreams, but as with most dreams, I quickly forgot about it and went back to sleep.




Day2
So we had to be at the center before like 5pm I think, so we left the hotel room at 1pm. I met the rest of the team, kawaiirice and Patrick. We talked it up, and I did a poor interview. It’s always nice meeting familiar faces at mlg. During my games I noticed my chair was really wobbly, one of the legs was way too short. Luckily I had remembered that kawaiirice gave me his pandemic mousepad, so I folded that into 4ths and used it to prop my chair. Good stuff. I ended up 2-0’ing all my games in winners up until spades where I lost 0-2. I wasn’t very happy about those games. I threw game one with an enormous econ lead and lost g2 to a 1-1-1 push. Not a good day at all. I didn’t make very many bintelligent decisions. Me being so hard on myself was like adding binsult to binjury. Man.




Day3
I woke up after I dreamed I was a narwhale in the ocean. We all got dressed and ready and went to the convention center. I don’t really remember who I had beaten in losers aside from hasuu and liquidtyler. Eventually I lost to FXOz in losers round of 6 I think, but it was fine; he’s really good. So I spent the rest of the day hanging out with my friends and eating at the food court, yum yum yum
All in all I had a lot of fun, and shoutouts to my sponsors kawaiirice , mizore, and ironkal(thanks for the mysterious $10 donation!) haha




Afterthoughts:
I had fun, met and befriended a lot of cool guys (SUP CAMERON AND KIWIJOSH LOL), and I hope to do a lot better in the future
Btw if you guys haven’t heard of Louis Armstrong, I recommend you listen to this song; ahhhh so good.
Remember guys, when you’re feelin’ sad and down on your luck, it gets better
Rain rain go away come again another day weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thurs - I flew out of Seattle with GotC and my girlfriend. However, our flight was delayed by 1.5 hours for maintenance. Due to the delay, we missed our connecting flight in North Carolina. They put us in a shitty hotel for the night and booked us a flight at 7am. This made me very tired.

Fri – We woke up around 5am (2am our time) and flew out of Charlotte. CatZ was on our plane, I gave him a full aisle to himself by moving to sit next to my girlfriend. CatZ fell asleep on the plane in a funny position. When we landed in Providence we were picked up by a fellow kiwiclone, fox/mizore. He drove from some other city on the east coast and acted as our personal taxi for the weekend (<3 u fox). I went and checked in with the gf at our hotel after visiting the kiwiclones hotel room and played 1 ladder game to get warmed up – I was 6 pooled. Afterwards, we ate at Panera Bread and then headed over to the venue. Round 1 I played xSixaquanda and won 2-1. Round 2 I played some other zerg and won 2-0. Round 3 I played FXOz and lost 0-2. Game 1 I went T and tried to allin – very close game because I misengaged and should have won. Game 2 was PvP and he did a very nice blink harass strategy in my main while forcefielding my ramp and killing my expo. Sad panda. Gf and I then went to hang out and eat dinner.




Sat – Woke up bright and early to find out I had a few more hours before I played. I played an extended series vs aquanda and lost to him 4-2. This was disappointing – not that aquanda is bad, but just that I had higher expectations coming into the tournament. PvZ is my worst matchup atm and I am struggling vs muta switches and late game broods/infestors. After the great depression that was my loss, I hung out with the gf and we tried getting into PF Changs for dinner to find the wait was 2-3 hours long. Instead, we went to the foodcourt and ate with the kiwiclones. Later we returned to our hotel room and watched Horrible Bosses after seeing no movies at the movie theatre worth watching. I liked that movie.

Sun – We slept in and had a few snacks in the hotel room. Later, we went to the mall to eat. We decided to try PF Changs again, but this time we had more luck and were seated promptly. I had some honey roasted chicken and she had some tofu, we shared some soup. The meal was nice and it was a good way to wrap up a “meh” weekend. Our flights out were fine (almost missed our first flight though : /). We connected in Chicago and an awesome roommate of mine picked us up from the airport.

Overall, I had a great time meeting people and introducing my gf to the SC2 scene. Unfortunately, I regret not playing better vs. FXOz because I knew I should have won the games. Furthermore, the games vs aquanda day 2 were quite sloppy and did not represent my true skills. O well, there is always next year.

thurs-
After close to a two hour delay (~20 minutes of slow boarding, and then a 90 minute maintenance delay) I flew out of Seattle with Caliber, and his girlfriend. We had a tight connecting flight in Charlotte, which we missed because of our initial flight's delay (our connecting flight was late as well, so we still almost caught it). So the airline we were flying on gave us free overnight hotel brochure. We took a taxi to the hotel and got some food delivered. I drank Mellow Yellow for the first time in my life, then we went to sleep.

fri-
Woke up at 5 in the morning to take a shuttle to the airport to catch our new flight. The flight was very uneventful apart from sitting in the same row as CatZ. After landing in Providence we got picked up by mizore and taken to the Kiwiclone hotel room where we hung around for awhile before going and getting lunch at a pretty good sushi place and then going to MLG.
After checking in at MLG I managed to get a computer in the open bracket to practice on before the tournament started (Gretorp gave me his one). I played some very silly games, in one of them my opponent went 5rax speed reaper, I don't think it was very useful practice - I did however find out that marine split challenge is one of the best maps to get your settings set up properly on.
When the tournament started I had a bronze player called JumpmanJ in the first round, who was not very challenging to beat, but who seemed pretty nice. After that I played and lost 0-2 to NesTea, but I was not very impressed by him. The games were both pretty one-sided, but he played very greedy against random (16hatch 17pool) and if I had spawned as zerg and did either a 6pool or 10pool all-in with a spine (which was my plan if I got ZvZ) I think I would have had enough of a build order advantage to win. However I got T twice, and did some strange variant of a reaper expand I had never done before both games because I wasn't thinking very clearly , and lost pretty convincingly both games.
After losing to NesTea I hung around and watched my teammates games for the rest of the day (one of the series was played on the feature stage) before we went back to our parking garage to get mizore's truck and go back to the hotel room. We got there ~1:30am, we were told the garage closed at 2am, but there was noone there, and they had mizore's truck keys. So we ate dinner at a little place and one of the people there volunteered to drive us back to hotel (<3).

sat-
After waking up we took a taxi to the convention centre (mizore's truck was still in the parking garage). Because we got there at 11am for HeavOnEarth's match and the rest of us all played later we went out and got some food. On the way back we still had extra time before our matches so me and binski were told/decided to get a hair cut. Binski went first even though his match was later, and by the time he was finished I didn't have time to get my hair cut anymore, so we left.
After getting back to the convention centre I played vileHashe, in a series that I think I should have been able to win if I played better (I played quite poorly), but I didn't play better, and he played fairly well (maybe not as well as he could have played either), so he deserved the win and moved on.
After losing to Hashe I hung around and watched my teammates games again. I was watching HeavOnEarth practicing with KawaiiRice to get prepared for his match against RGNArtist, which was coming up in a few hours. After they had practiced for awhile they both got up and left and I wasn't sure where they went, but they left their equipment, so I stayed in one of their chairs and watched the games on the main stage while they were gone.
During this time I got a text from my best friend who hadn't talked to me in three weeks that said we weren't friends anymore, which was a mood-ruiner for the rest of the day. I continued to watch my teammates games until they all lost and then we went and had dinner. After dinner we took some team photos with KawaiiRice, then got KawaiiRice's laptop and went back to the Kiwiclone hotel room with him. People stayed up pretty late and had fun there, but I went to sleep pretty early.

sun-
Slept in for a long time, got out of bed and got packed and then got back into bed. Finally got up and left to have lunch. After lunch we drove to MLG and dropped off KawaiiRice/Caliber/HeavOnEarth, mizore and I went back to our hotel room to pick up my stuff because it had taken us longer to get there than expected, and didn't have a lot of spare time left.
We picked up Caliber and his girlfriend when we got back into Providence, went to their hotel room to pick up their stuff, and then drove to the airport. The entire trip back was pretty uneventful apart from us accidentlly driving into Massachusetts on the way to the airport.