EPTShortly after the TI5 American Qualifiers I was asked by Dominik (Black) if I was free to go hang out in toronto with some friends, I think this was maybe two days after Mouz was eliminated from the Qualifier by NAR. I took some pictures and figured I'd share them for those who might be interested.
First and foremost we traveled in style. My friend (and driver) Joshua just bought a new vehicle three weeks ago, I had no clue what we were driving in till he showed up and I was quite surprised when this came into my driveway.
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It made the greatest sounds imaginable when he floored it. Anyway we went and picked Black up.
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We had a few hours to kill before our other friend was done with his road test so we decided to go to the Vaughn Mall and had a late lunch, we ended up in a Bass Pro Shop for some reason where we unfortunately made the decision to try out some of the hats.
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We left after Black complained about being in a mall for over an hour and a half (as well as making him go into a Shoe Store, trying to convince him to try to buy Lingerie and other things) and went to pick up my friend.
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After we picked him up we actually had no plans for what to do next, so after some discussion we decided I would get a hold of another guy who lost in the TI5 NA Qualifiers, Jaron (Monkeys-Forever) from ROOT Gaming and go to where he was staying. This meant another hour and 20 minutes of driving roughly (to Oshawa from Vaughn for anybody who is familiar with Toronto) but nobody really voiced any objections. Many interesting stories were told on the road but I don't know if I should repeat any of them here... for multiple reasons lol
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Thinking back on it this was kind of a strange way to greet Monkeys. I've known him for over 2 years but we've never met, and he only has a 6~ year old picture of me so he opened his door to some stranger taking a photo of him.
We all talked for awhile inside (huge shoutout to Becky aka Kizzmett for dealing with us being loud while we were there and not kicking us out
)Also. Black and Monkeys are giant clowns.
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words might have been said about losing the Qualifiers in these next pictures.
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We eventually decided to go out for dinner, Monkeys being a vegetarian made it slightly difficult to decide where to go, so we naturally decided to go to a Steakhouse to show him what he was missing out on.
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We ended up leaving and going to an East Side Mario's which is a type of pasta place, unfortunately I forgot my camera in the SUV so no pictures of the food for the people who are into that type of stuff.
Here's a picture of a kitten named Gondar and Black showing us how Smoke ganks work in real life or something.
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Also despite Black's earlier complaints about having the EU Qualifiers on when we got there, Monkeys and Black watched and commentated on them for a little bit.
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Just before we left we took one group photo (Thanks again Kizz), I have NO IDEA why Black is holding a brick or why Joshua has their kitten Gondar but whatever.
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best of luck to both of these guys in the future, losing in the qualifiers was pretty hard on em both.
