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WEG Story Part 2, From after Sky to Grubby~
I can't exactly remember what happened next i think we got back to the hotel and were suposed to go to club, but we ended up being REALLY tired so we didnt go ...
As i saw Zacard he asked me if i won vs Sky, i said no .. i lost 0/3 ... and made a sad face .. he looked at me sadly then i said JK i won 3/0 , he congratulated me and seemed to be happy about it.
I went to sleep early but was still sick and always very thirsty.... that's one feeling i can clearly remember about my stay in China, the weather was really dry and i always was thirsty.. and as we didnt have any fridge in our room i never had any cold water so i wasnt drinking much....

I was also pretty surprised at the fact that we had really hard time finding a restaurant that could provide us with ice for our drinks ... i kept making some jokes about opening my own ice company in china and becoming a millionaire :)
As i had hard time falling back asleep again, i got up a few times and got something to drink ... the next morning i had to wake up VERY EARLY to go to some kind of embassy to renew my visa cuz it was going to expire... was kinda mad about this ..

only me and JacziE had to do it cuz we arrived earlier than everybody .. Had so hard time geting up and going outside ... the weather was really hot this day which made it harder, when you're extremely tired you dont wanna get up and go do some paperwork for your visa in such a sunny day...
Anyway i got downstairs aswell as JacziE, KEN from weg staff and somebody from our hotel's staff which i kept wondering on why the hell is he going with us ...We tried to get a taxi for so long ... it was rush hour and all taxi were already in use, traffic was looking terrible ... i started to get mad and complaining ... the guy from the staff went back into the hotel and i got quite angry and asked why the hell is he going back ,it's not like we hadnt waited enough outside already without finding a taxi .. if we find one now he wont be here to take it with us ...
I went back inside the hotel and asked at the receiption where this guy just went .. they didnt understand ofc and just looked at me weirdly .. shortly after he came back and we went outside again and couldnt find a taxi still ..
Started to be long just to get a damn taxi ... i got mad and said "FUCK IT , let's just go back to sleep, if we dont get a taxi soon i'm just gona go back to sleep, dont care about this damn visa"

Then miss JacziE had to handle things and make me stay, KEN said something like "we're very lucky for this season of WEG to have you handling ToD, you're the only one who can do that" which made me smile cuz i knew it was partly true, i know i complain alot!

We finally got one damn taxi after using some imba strategy, both KEN and the guy from the hotel's staff went to one corner of the street to double our chances to find a taxi ! we drove to the place we had to go to which was like 20min away, luckily i had my psp to listen to some music and i got to sing some with JacziE in the car which made the guy from the hotel's staff smile alot, just looking at us singing together :P
As we got here we walked into some building and somebody said it's not here, i asked why is it not here and someone said, because here is for domestic issues we have to go the foreign area which was just like 3min walk away so that was ok ...
During the walk i asked KEN why is this guy from the hotel's staff going with us, and he explained me that if we stay longer that our visa allow us to, and in this hotel we will both get fined, and the rate will be pretty high so the hotel's administration really doesnt want that.
There wasnt many people at this place luckily so we didnt get to wait much before starting to fill papers with our informations but something was missing ... ID pictures!! so we had to go out again and make some in shop photo shop which didnt take really long.... Got back at the main place added our pictures and finally gave em all the papers required to extend our visa. We finally went back and i think we first ate with JacziE and the western food restaurant before going back to hotel where i rested more....

As i got up in the afternoon this day was filled with boringness/lazyness, i didnt feel like practicing or doing anything, i just chatted the whole day while and didnt do anything special except at night when some people had previously mentioned that they wanted to go to a massage ! We talked about who wanna go and that was me/Zacard/Sweet/Jaczie/Grubby but in the end Grubby didnt get to go .. so we went all the 4 of us but Zacard forgot something at the hotel so he had to go back , we walked here me/Sweet/JacziE, we had previously agreed that this one would be my treat for being in final..
As we walked into the place there were like 3 attendants who started talking to Sweet/JacziE in chinese as they look asian ..

they tried to explain that they cant speak chinese ... then we just waited on a sofa for Zacard, some girl came and asked "what are you guys looking for?" we said that we're coming for a massage and we're waiting for a friend.As soon as Zacard arrived things got shaped up, he started screaming "MASAGI!!" and being crazy funny as usual, Sweet and Zacard had already tried this place earlier so they already had the classical massage and decided for this time to have another one... a "feet massage" we said ok me and JacziE will take the normal one... they went in a room , us in another, as the massage started i started talking with JacziE while looking at the roof and we talked for the whole time which was like 1H, i was pretty sleepy in the end and that girl working on me seemed to be damn tired, i dont think she often had to work on somebody as tall as me.. :P we ended before Zacard/Sweet and we didnt know how to find them so we just walked around the place until we saw their shoes outside of a room in front of the door, we knocked and walked in , they both were siting like 2 pimps on long chairs, Zacard was asleep while the girl was still workin on him .. we chatted some with Sweet then suddenly Zacard suddenly moved up and screamed "BOUH! ! !" the girl who was workin on him got scared so much that she didnt move for the next minute haha :D
after this i paid , we left and went back to the hotel and i wanted to practice some.. I played like 3 games vs BerA who's one of the players who helped me alot during my stay in China, i'm really grateful for that i'll have to treat him when we meet at next wc3l playoffs i guess.

I wanted to get some more practice but Zacard was not around .. i heard something like he went to club...
I hadnt played a single game vs him since i knew i was gona play against Grubby in final which isnt really logical to me as we're rooming together...
I played a whole bunch of games against Moon too earlier this day , and again at night ... but i needed to get some practice vs Orc so i asked many people to help me find some opponents... Sky was very kind and helped me alot, he found me an opponent named Fly100% and helped me install CGA which is like a private server for chinese people, it took a while but he seemed to really wanna help .. I finally played a few games vs this unknown orc player which was actually pretty good...
(one of our game on TM was uploaded by somebody on RNET) and i went to sleep after this.During the night, Zacard who went to club earlier and who was leaving today came back in the room turned the lights on and
started packing his stuff ... it was really loud , i couldnt sleep anymore ... i got quite mad and i was also sad and thinking that he prolly doesnt care about me being in final if he's that careless about my rest ... but in the same time i cant blame him , he lost in first groupstage and it doesnt feel good .. all he wanted was to have fun for his last night ...;
I remember geting up and saying something like " couldnt you do this earlier ? i have a final today ...", he didnt say anything, finished packing and left the room until he would have to leave for real.. his luggage was still in ...
Later on he came back in to pickup his luggage, i told him bye and told him to go and say goodbye to JacziE even if he has to wake her up .. !

Finally the game time day came ... We went to the gaming area in the bus me/JacziE/Grubby/Sky, Moon was a little late so we left without him .... in the bus many jokes flew around.... we had good fun along with Sky~
As we arrived at the stadium we got in quickly before geting surrounded by fans... started to chill.. was pretty boring .. we started to setup asap ... it only takes me like 3~5min nowadays to be fully ready for a match ... I just plug in my keyboard/mouse/headset/usbstick, copy my customkey file in wc3 folder.. change language of keyboard into french .. remove actual mousedrivers, install my own.. reboot, set my sensi ... start wc3 , activate customkey , turn off music sound, go to LAN , host a game vs computer on any map, try if my customkeys work and if the sensi is good for 10seconds, then if its good ( it usually always is unless big hardware problem like in USA )im rdy.

I knew that for this match the audience would probably cheer more for Grubby than for me, as he's like SUPERFAMOUS in China and his fanbase is probably much bigger than mine .. so i was prepared for it.
My match against Grubby started on TerenasStand, i lost last time twice in SEC on it, i didnt really know what to expect, he made something new to me, geting mercs with orc, i had never seen it , it was pretty ok but i handled it well i think, not losing much .. but then we added second heroes and fought in the middle it didnt go very well for me , i lost my mk and had to tp my mage ... but as he went for barack/lodge i figured he would have no anti air and went for 2 aviaries and mass gryphyn ... He attacked me later on and tried to tower, i already had a couple of gryphyns, won this fight clearly, he had to run away ... then i attacked his burrows and killed nearly all of them before tping .. that game was over unless i did a huge mistake ... i crept some knowing he was going to attack me really soon since it was now his only chance ... i fought and won clearly this one.

Starting with 1/0 is always good, but i have lost so many times vs Grubby before, even when i won the first game ... I tried to forget about winning the first game and only focus on the 2nd one which was going to be on TurtleRock.
I Spawned top left and he top right ... Many people says that TurtleRock is good for Hu vs Orc, i dont know if i agree with this but i agree that on close pos its very hard for orc... I went for a pretty unconventional creeping route, i first rush my small ogre spot and found lightningshield there, while he stole my small turtle spot and went to his own .. I got lvl 2 before him while he was 5xp from his lvl 2 but he killed a WE and got lvl2 then killed a footman .. i pulled back, hired a beastmaster and ran into his base ... he was gona creeping a big turtle spot near my base so i took down a burrow quickly before pulling back .. killing this burrow was very important , he was at 31/30 population and i was geting casters, he had only grunts/heroes, i had a huge advantage at this time i attacked again but he counter attacked me as he couldnt fight me ... i put up 2 scout towers in his base earlier, i ran back to my base and made him tp after he murdered a bunch of paesants.. , i attacked again while he sent 2 wyvern to harass my peons .... and killed a few burrows, this time he had to fight and took the fight which i won ... 2/0 !!

Third game on TwistedMeadows, my most hated map in this tournament by far... He played with Blade this time, and had a pretty good mid game, then in the late game he beat me pretty much like he beat Sky, with an expansion and much more units.

Fourth game was on EchoIsle which is one of my fav map, i made a classical start with some creeping while he came to harass me right away, i got to lvl when he was still lvl 1 with 0 xp, added a beast 2nd while my am was almost lvl 3 while his fs wasnt lvl 2 yet, and harassing my base~ i went to his base to try to cancel some building but came in too late as he already had 2 lodges .. i sniped a burrow again ! before tping , he had 29 pop on 30 !! i got up to 40 pop including a few casters, and towered attacked again .. 3/1 !! ~

I felt relieved and he typed "gg gratz", finally won a major tournament after so much practice and hard work ... i felt like it was well deserved even tho i know i got pretty lucky with the groupstage ties thingie... We went on the stage and thanked the audience for their support as Grubby seemed pretty happy for me ... I didnt show too much of my happiness as i'm not sure if it's really nice for my opponent ... I remember a few times when i lost to Grubby i felt bad .. like in SEC i was quite disapointed ,i kept thinking about how i would like to be #1 and be the one who's happy .. then during the ceremony he jumped and showed his happiness after we received our check and medals, he was the winner, the superstar ... and me the eternal 2nd !!!

When i was in Korea i once watched the final of a league where BoxeR lost 2/3 to his "student" iloveoov ... BoxeR started crying as he lost ... iloveoov felt bad and couldnt show any sign of happiness, as one of his best friends was crying for losing against him... but even tho BoxeR felt bad for losing he tried to be happy for his friend and while crying he smiled at his friend and put his arm on his shoulder ... then iloveoov smiled too ... it was very representative of their feelings and ... sad and happy in the same time, for me and Grubby, we have met many times i think it's pretty much the same thing but maybe without the tears... I cant be angry at him for showing his happiness whenever he beats me.. it's like a normal thing .. but a normal thing that i dont think i would do.
From one side not showing your happiness could be insulting for my opponent ... like if i considered that its purely normal to have beaten him.. but from another, there's what i just explained previously .. :P

So then came the ceremony, everyone got on the stage but before had to go in KEN asked me to dance while enterin as i won .. i considered it .. but i dont think im good enough at dancing so i said no ! so he asked me to do something special, something like a "move"... i thought about it and couldnt imagine anything special i could do but as my music started i entered the stage while jumping and with my fingers in the air haha ... i think the audience found it funny and so did the WEG staff..:)

We got our check/flowers, took alot of pictures and that was it .. i had to do a couple of interviews ... i was asked things like what do you think about winning this tournament , i said that i was pretty sad that one of us (Me/Grubby) had to lose today as i believed that both of us deserved to win this tournament ... but overall it was not so bad since we got #1 and #2... while doing those interviews some guys started packing up things right away ... The event was clearly over .. and the doors of the stadium were opened everywhere .. some fans started gathering all around the place during my interview ... there
were so many of them....
They waited long time just hoping for an autograph or a picture so i decided to make them happy, i went outside and shortly got surrounded by really alot of people.. i started to sign autographs but it was really hard , there was no space .. ! so many people ... i made so many signatures that my arm started to hurt badly.... in the end. I was surpised that some guys wanted me to sign their shirt as it seemed to be like coton shirts or something .. I even had to sign 2 purses of 2 girls which surprised me even more ... I most signed posters... In the end i could barely read what i was writing anymore as my hand was hurting so much .. ! KEN came and told me to get into the bus so i did .. didnt have time to take pictures with the fans but they nearly all got an autograph so its not so bad .. i waited for a while inside until the other players rejoined me and we headed to a restaurant pretty close to the stadium...

We started ordering food .. but as we were waiting for it .. i drank some beer even tho i didnt want to and started to feel really bad again ... I had to leave and go back to the hotel by myself which kinda saddened me cuz all the others were having a meal together and we didnt have much time left to spend together ... as i arrived at the hotel i slept a few hours and rested .... Some noise in the hotel's hall woke up me up ,i could hear people talking loudly " WE GOING TO KARAOKE", i got up and checked what was going on , everyone seemed to be already gone and i understood that they were going to a KTV...
I tried to find somebody i know around to go with them but couldnt find anyone ... Except Sky who was in his room .. and Snow on MSN, i asked if they wanted to go .. but i wanted to eat before .. they both said ok .. we went to the western food restaurant and on the way Sky decided that he wasnt hungry so he went to the KTV alone right away while i went to the restaurant with Snow to have some food .. i ate then we headed to the KTV where everyone was ..! as i got into the room where everyone was , Craven from readmore.de had the mic and started screaming like "WEG 2006 CHAMPION!!!! 4KKkkkkkk TODDDDDDDDDDDDD" and many people screamed .. i checked both tables which were like covered with beers .. Everyone seemed to be quite fresh in here ! they wanted to make me sing but i wasnt really in for that ... then many people left as it was late

.. we were only few left here so i decided to sing some ... then I COULDNT STOP anymore, i kept on singing and singing with Grubby, we did all the classic, all the britney spears ... etc. Grubby was maybe a lil drunk so he was doing much better than me .. Craven was pretty good .. after a while we went outside and were suposed to go back to the hotel until somebody proposed to go to SOS ( nightclub ), after a while a few people agreed to go, that was like me/Grubby/vesslan and a swedish guy which i forgot the name of...
We went there and had some fun .. but not for long then went back to the hotel and slept ...The day after JacziE left in the morning to Shanghai with some american guys, NO MORE ZACARD ... NO MORE JACZIE ... THE

TRIPLE IS BROKEN !! i was so sad !:(
for my last day in China i went to SOS ( again ) ... so me and Grubby tried to gather as many people as we could to go there together ... at the restaurant we got to know more a girl from the WEG staff who was named Jolie, she was from malaysia but living in China.. She agreed to come along with 2 of her friends. We gathered in the hotel later on and were gonna go to head to the club as we walked in front of the chinese restaurant nearby the hotel just before geting a taxi ... the whole WEG staff was eating here... I asked a few of them to come ... CAN refused :( but AMI accepted surprisingly~ vesslan went with us again and he was so damn funny this one night .. he had like some mini-pink-gun that could shot bubble and a charger full of soap and he was saying stuff like "guys, if you like girls ... stay close to me" or "i got it covered guys." with his very serious sunglasses.

As we got here, one of the manager Angel saw us and came to us, we asked if we could get a table ... she said ok but it was expensive this one night i paid like 200y, Grubby 200y, and Vesslan smtg like 800y .... -_- cuz we didnt wanna ask for money to the Koreans. I talked to AMI most of the time while Grubby was talking to Jolie, we went to dance a couple of time and had fun .. :) I previously wrote about those girls dancer who dance over the dancefloor and work here .. Well vesslan knew some of them and brought em to our table .. ~
He also knew one of the managers of the club but one that i had never seen before, who was more like ... into special substances. He got us some stuff to smoke, i smoked along with Grubby and vesslan, it was not bad quality... more dancing, a few more drinking and we finally headed back to hotel .. but before leaving we couldnt find vesslan anymore ... last we had seen him he was looking pretty badly fucked up so we were worried but there is nothing we could do .. we just left without him ... Went back to hotel .. I said goodbye to AMI as she was going to sleep and me too and i went to bed ... the next morning had to wakeup early to take our bus for the airport... We went there with a few Europeans guy from the staff, 2 swedish and a finnish guy, they were pretty cool during the whole event so it was nice. The bus ride to the airport was quite boring and long .. and this bus was old, going up & down all the time it was pretty rough :P

We got the airport said bye to the staff guys who had to catch their plane asap , i went to get some food with Grubby.. Then went to catch our flight to Amsterdam... we had sit far from each other so we didnt get to talk during the flight , but it didnt matter as i slept most of the time.. As we arrived in Amsterdam Grubby went home right away while i had to wait a few hours before catching my flight going to Marseille,France .... I was pretty damn bored during this time .. thx to vivian and few other friends for entertaining me on MSN while i had to wait .. :P i finally flew home and got home and it felt great ..
What happens next has already been told previously :)

Overall WEG was a quite great experience i would say and im seriously considering taking part into the next season.. I'm missing all the people i had fun with right now and i hope to meet em again soon ~

ps: IS THIS A HUGE ENOUGH ENTRY FOR U JACZIE ? DAMN U.

pps: thx to Doso for making me starting to write this, i finally feel like i took something heavy off my shoulders as i knew i was gonna have to do it soon anyway.

This is ToD4K Signing off! hope you enjoyed the read =) give some feedback in comments~