What i've been up to!
Well ever since i got my motivation back i've been trying to be less lazy and play more =)
on 14-15-16th of July there was a LAN tournament in my town gathering around 400 players. There was a WC3 Tournament in which many of the best French players signed up for, such as Sayen , eLqua, PhenX, FreD and Lege.
This was like the 3rd edition of this tournament which is like a BYOC ( bring your own computer ) I missed the 2 previous ones as i had some big tournaments to attend outside of France. Whenever i signup for a French tournament it goes pretty badly, half of the players don't showup and the other half tries everything they can not to meet me before the final and those tours become real chaos. So .. as i know the organisers of this tour i talked to them and decided not to take part in the wc3 tournament so many people would still come. Instead i would be playing showgames, AND if anybody beat me they would win some prizes such as my own mousepad for example, and alot of other things.
There also was another showmatches thingy organised for Counter-Strike named Qtour. A player came from Sweden, his nickname is Quick, he won ESWC2003 in Poitiers with Team9, he's quite famous, rather good at cs and pretty humble, i got the opportunity to chat with him and he seemed to be pretty relaxed all the time and not nervous at all about his upcoming games. He played against alot of challengers, all on them on aim_map and the first who reaches 10 frag wins, he won all of them but a few challengers managed to take a few frags from him, the max somebody reached was 9 then i think it was 6 ... the 4 that made the most frags vs him would then play against each other in a mini tournament to win a processor.
Quick & Me during a photoshoot for a local journal.
For my own showmatches, i didnt lose a single game and gave away alot of stuff to my opponents according to how good they did against me. The first day was Friday, no tournaments got played here and eLqua PhenX Sayen arrived this day, we played until late pretty much of anything wc3/dota/cs then headed back to my home where they all got to sleep at. The 2nd day The warcraft III tournament started and went on slowly with only the groupstages played all the favorites advancing logically. Then at night we headed back to my home me/NoX/D4v1D/Sayen/eLqua/PhenX at around 5am when they had to be at the playing area the next morning at 11...
I decided that since i had so many friends at home it could be funny to joke some on webcam, i launched my webcam with some friends on MSN and my friends at my home started to do some crazy things , such as fighting in the background on my bed or making faces ..... :D Then some of them went to bed in the next room and some others started to play cards on my bed so i couldnt sleep ! i used the computer some more then kicked them out telling them i want to sleep =D The next morning waking up was too hard ... Everybody except me&Sayen managed still to get up have breakfast and leave to the tournament while me and Sayen slept some more. Later on my cellphone rang and we were requested to get up and head to the LAN's location.
eLqua/D4v1D/NoX playing tarrot on my bed Me chilling Me playing Me & RoScO a famous french CS player
So we went there again. I had alot of challengers to play this day and played almost non-stop. While in the WC3 Tournament some major upset happened with NeD- beating Sayen, and Lege had beaten PhenX too earlier in the groups. PhenX met eLqua in 1/4 of the WB and knocked him out in the LB too. In the WB semi finals PhenX(OR) vs Lege(NE) were tied 1/1 and PhenX who had already lost to Lege in groupstages decided to go Elf vs Elf for the 3rd game and won =) In the other semi Fred(UD) beats NeD-(HU) clearly ( .... imba ! ) The WB Final was won by PhenX quite clearly and in the LB eLqua>Lege , but then FreD>eLqua ( bo1 but still major upset!! ) So FreD had to play against PhenX again and got smashed again =) Final rankings 1. PhenX 2. FreD 3. eLqua Everybody went home this same sunday after the tournament was over except FreD & Sayen who stayed 1 more night at my home before leaving the next day when they had their train.
After they left i pretty much got back to my daily routine, some games, alot of chatting =p I've recently got to know some more very interesting people on MSN (they know who they are !) And i been spending alot of time talking to them:)
On the 19th i got to play vs SaSe in Eurocup and lost rather badly, he played very well so it's no surprise that i lost and i'm happy for him and hope he will go far in this tournament. Later on i decided to quit playing it as im rather tired of playing on either TM or GW in every bo3 and get almost like a 100% freelose on it and also because of the organisation which isnt that good at all. I always am ready for my official matches at least a few minutes before its going to start and i always end up starting to play 30min after the scheduled time.
On friday 21st 4Kings vs SK.Ger in NGL took place, i played first and won my 4 games in a row doing my 2nd allkill. On Saturday 22nd Grubby won against mTw all by himself too.
Today is Thursday 27th and i went to the beach. It had been so long time i didnt go there and it was great! not many people since it's a weekday. It wasnt too sunny and there was some nice wind which made the air fresh and alot of nice waves! I really had fun even tho i was swimming pretty much all by myself :D there was still a few people swimming too and at one time i started to get on the waves and did some body surfin on my stomach and people started to copy me ! !
Me at the beach Me at the beach again 4kings Fighting ! view around the beach view around the beach2 On my way back a mountain of Salt!
then i went back to home where i had received a new modem, i subscribed for a new broadband connection, 8MB instead of my old 512kb so it should be better for downloading and such now. Took a shower to wash out all the sand and salt then tried to make this thing work. It seems to be working right now as im online ;> im looking forward to see how powerful 8MB is later on.
after showerin!
My schedule will be pretty tight in the upcoming days with 4K vs SK.Int in NGL on Saturday 29th and also a French tournament with 100e cash to win this same one day. On Sunday 30th i'll be going to Marseille for my nephew's birthday which i havent found a gift for yet =P
My nephew Kérân
On Monday 31st 4Kings vs WorldElite for the WC3L Playday1. Then on Tuesday 1st i'll be leaving to Paris then to Beijing then to QingDao for the upcoming WEF tournament which sounds like a fun tournament. I was suposed to be practicing alot for this tournament but when i saw the map pool which includes TM&GW it kinda killed my motivation so i'm more taking it as a fun tour than something else, i hope i will be able to do some shopping, to visit as much as i can of the city and go to the beach with & club with Kim ! :D
Ill prolly write a report later about my experience in Qin Dao if i aint too lazy!
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