yoanm5 ([info]yoanm5) wrote,
@ 2006-08-10 18:09:00
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Current location:Arles, France
Current mood:geeky
Current music:Jedi Mind Tricks - And so it burns

World E-sport Festival~ Story of a clubber!
I wrote my last entry on July 27th and mentioned that my schedule would be pretty tight in the upcoming days and it was!

On saturday 29th i had to play a French Tour named wc3t ( www.wc3t.net ) and this same afternoon i had to play 4K vs SK in NGL but i was going in first, Grubby was and took out HoT Deadman and Sweet in this order but then lost to Zacard. I then stopped my tournament just before the semi and went to talk to Grubby and Zeus about who would be best to send vs Zacard in the end they both thought that'll be me so i said ok let's play.

I played against Zacard on TurtleRock and he used the same strat as in Blizzcon to my big surprise, but well since then i think i have dramatically improved vs Orc so i countered the strategy quite perfectly and won to make the score 4/1.

Back to my French Tour i won the semi 2-0 and in the WB final i met the best French Orc player AoD-PhenX and won 2/0 again. He had already beaten AoD-eLqua who's the best French Undead player in the WB so they probably were going to meet in LB again and so did they, this time eLqua took his revenge and he had to play me in the grand final but couldnt play this same evening so we postponed the game to the next day. You can see the whole bracket here :
http://www.esportsfrance.com/actualites/8299/

The next day i had a hard time waking up as i was going to the city for my nephew's birthday
It lasted the whole afternoon my sister really invited ALOT of her friends over so i got to know a few new people as i dont visit her that often. I got back home in the evening and i had to play against eLqua shortly after, didnt have much time to warmup but i still won 2/0 taking home the 100e prizemoney.


Me and my nephew at his birthday

On the 31st was the clanwar 4K vs WE, i thought i would get Sky on temple but i got to play vs Check. I was aware he recently beat Rainbow 2/0 on LT but it didnt scare me, I like playing vs Check he is a very good player and when i enjoy the game i play very good i think. I ended up winning 2/0 being a lil lucky sometimes and was happy with the overall score being 4K 4-1 WE.

This same evening i tried to fix the inet for my 2nd computer and completely messed up the whole thing, nothing was working anymore, i spent half of the night trying to fix it , even calling a 24/7 assistance phone number to help me fix it, some guy told me to do a shitload of stuff like reseting my ips n stuff and after 30min i think he ran out of solutions and just hung up the fucking phone, i was so mad.... I tried to install the inet thing on my old computer and it worked but it's pretty laggy so i couldnt practice this last day. I turned it off and went to sleep for a few hours.

Next morning when i woke up i was getin ready to leave and wanted to check some stuff online turned on my comp and guess what ... the internet was not working on this comp too now!

Anyway i just left to the train station where i waited like half an hour before geting on my train. Took a first trip to nîmes which was like 30min then had to wait there for like 1hour+ before my next train to Paris which took 3hours and half to get me to the airport.
As i got to the airport i had 5hours to wait, that's pretty unlucky if i took the next train from my town to the aiport i wouldnt arrive in time to catch my plane so i had to arrive long in advance. I want to a good restaurant and enjoyed my food pretty slowly, listened to some music and finally got to checkin for my flight.

Before flying i was sitting and waiting at the gate and some guy saw that i had a laptop with me so he asked me in english if i knew if there is any wireless around, i said that i asked when i checked in and they said theres none so i didnt try. So he went like ok lets try and turned his laptop on to check it out by himself. As he opened explorer he did make it to a wireless subscription page but apparently he had to pay for it and wasnt too happy about it. I made a joke about how you have to pay for everything in France even going to a public restroom, he seemed to agree.

My flight took off and i was able to sleep some, there was 2 French girls next to me who were just a little older than me, i started to talk to them some, they were going to China for 3 weeks to visit it entirely. Since i have already been here a couple of times i told em the name of some goodplaces for markets or clubbing :)
As we landed i thought Grubby and SaSe should already be waiting for me as they were suposed to arrive at around 8am for both of em and i arrive at 10am, but to my big surprise they hadnt arrived yet, some WEF guys picked me up and told me that SaSe's flight was late and that Grubby missed his flight.

So i waited for SaSe for a while and as he arrived we talked a whole bunch and headed to another Terminal to take our flight to QingDao. Some staff member told us that as Grubby missed he flight he would be coming the next day "maybe".
We joked around about how Grubby "accidentaly" missed his flight due to having 5 Elf players in the tour out of 8 players =p

Anyway we flew to QingDao and as we arrived we had to wait for SuhO to get there, it was so hot in the bus, i watched a few replays with SaSe, then SuhO arrived and we got going aswell as a TV crew who rode with us.

We finally reached our hotel which seemed to be pretty decent only by seing the lobby, we got told there would be no internet nor wireless as it was broken apparently.
went up to our room, rested some, then at night we decided to go to club.

And there it got pretty painful as the people working at the reception could barely speak any english, we asked them where we could find a Nightclub and i knew thei'll send us to a KTV so i said NO KTV !!! i even showed em some dance moves to make em understand that we dont wanna go to a god damn KTV but to a Nightclub. Anyway they gave us an address we took a cab to there and guess what ... ? it was a fucking KTV !

I stayed in the cab and tried to explain to the driver that what we wanted was to go to a nightclub and not a KTV, what one of the KTV waiters who was outside came to open the door and was like "come on in!" i said no thank you, we do not want KTV we wanna go to a dance club. Then he said to me ( with a perfect english accent ) " I suggest you come inside and take a look at the beautiful chinese girls" , i bursted into laughs. I knew KTV are well known to have many 'working girls' there but i never thought some waiter would ever tell me such thing.

Anyway we said no and and kept asking about a normal Club, there was one very close according to this guy, we headed here and it suckt it was more like a bar with a band playing drum&bass&guitar , i was like wtf.. lets get out of here.

As we got out of this place i noticed a few hundred meters away a pretty nice hotel which i had already seen the name of in another city and knew it was 4 stars, so i thought that for such a nice hotel they must have some people at the reception who can speak english.
We headed there and i was right, the guy could speak perfect english, we asked for a NightClub he said "sure , at the 2nd floor of this hotel" i checked the writings next to the elevator "KTV nightclub" i went back to him and said that we do not want KTV just a normal club, he said okay then you should go to "feeling"

And there it was, we headed here and it was a real club just like we wanted it, the dance floor was pretty ok and it was quite filled for a Tuesday night i think it was ?
Had a few drinks and headed to the dancefloor, there was like this huge round surface in the middle of the dancefloor that could go up&down all the time, like for the people who does gym i dont know how it is called in english but anyway it was really nice unless you get tired in the middle of it, then you can never pullout cuz you body keeps going up&left and you are surrounded by people.

It was our first time out and we got to meet some girls already, im not going to give many more details about this because i dont know if they wish to be mentioned aswell as SaSe, but let's say we had lots of fun geting to know new people.

The next day Grubby arrived in the afternoon me and SaSe were still sleeping and as we got up Grubby had already eaten and was now sleeping so we went to eat ourself with wufan and some other guys. I recognised one of them from the PLU team video and talked to him some, he gave me his business card.

After eating we headed back to the hotel and later on we got to go to a pc cafe where we spent the whole afternoon, a CS tournament was going on here so many people were screaming really loudly but it ended quickly luckily. I won most of my practice games, just lost 1 vs Keda on TM.
SaSe won most of his too , just lost 1 vs a local Orc.

After being done with gaming we went to eat all together with the local players and the owner of the pc cafe too. In the middle of the dinner me and SaSe said goodbye to everyone and we headed back to the hotel where we rested some before going out again to the same club. We called Grubby and asked him if he wanted to come but he wanted to sleep more, it was rather early in the evening at this time, so i told him how to get to the club in case he wants to come later, i also heard Wizard would be arriving soon.

We just went to the club and enjoyed it just like the previous day, SaSe had an apointment there with the girl he had met the day before. Later in the evening i forgot how exactly but we got to know that Wizard had arrived, prolly through SaSe's girl phone. I decided to go back to the hotel to pick him & Grubby up to bring em to the club ( it was 10min drive away )
I got the hotel and Grubby didnt feel like going, and Wizard was hesitating, he kept repeating that he has a girlfriend blabla.
I told him that it doesnt matter he can just go there to dance & drink doesnt need to necessarily rake some girls....
Ended up convincing him and he came back there with me and i dont think he regreted it.
Most enjoyable part was when at around 1am they threw those green lights which are like sabrelaser , looks so nice in the dark and if u dance with it.

We stayed for a while more then headed back to the hotel to get some rest for the next day where we would have to play.

At this point my memory is pretty confused, it's hard to remember in details a trip like this or what happened every day, but i think we got up and had breakfast then headed to the place we would be playing at.

At first when we entered the building it seemed like an exposition about mangas and stuff like this. We reached the room we would be playing in, it was pretty nice, no bad reflects on the screens, every player had his own assigned computer and they seemed to be pretty good.

The Starcraft bracket drawing was first, then came the drawing for Warcraft III. I got to play Moon first and i almost threw up when i saw what maps were going to be used for every round, TM & GW being the main reason of this.

I wasnt too happy about having to play Moon first, its single elimination, the loser would be out after 1 match and i dont think that Moon vs myself should be a 1/4 final game but anyway that's how things are this is just disapointing i would say.

I had to play GW first, i hate this map with the bottom of my soul, so i decided that instead of playing Human and probably losing and geting mad, i'll just try to have fun with random. I got to play Undead in this game and it was pretty fun, i surrounded his hero twice early game , then didnt really know what strategy to go for and the experience talked for itself in late game i got outplayed and lost :)

In the 2nd game on TS, as the random game on GW gave me lots of fun i decided to random again and got Human -_-.... I played a pretty classical game and won rather easily in the end.

3rd game on Echo... i thought it's a pretty ok map for Human even tho lately it's been really hard to play against the mighty panda, so i thought i'll give it a try with Human and i ended up winning.

I was partly happy and partly sad about this, happy because i won ofcourse but sad because i wasnt planning on playing seriously at first while Moon was, and just for that he probably deserved more than me to advance so i felt bad for him.. went up to him and said "sorry ... im so lucky"

After this game i heard that Check had lost to SuhO which kinda saddened me, i know SuhO a little but Check is a very good friend so ofcourse i wished for him to advance. Grubby and SaSe logically won over Wizard & Anas.

We had to wait the whole afternoon before playing one of the semi at night.... This semi was going to be me vs SaSe.
The maps were like GW/EI/TM..... with GW & TM in .. i felt pretty angry about being forced to play those maps and wanted to random it up again but i had to play on the stage .. like 2hours before the game i decided that i was going to play serious and with Human, because i dont think its very respectful for the public in QingDao or watching MBCgame to watch some guy fooling around playing random when they expect to see nice games.

During this whole day i was complaining about the maps and how unfair it is and i think that in the end it shall have made SaSe play worse. In the first game on GW i got some luck as i spawned next to him i went for am rifle naga and push , he made some mistake early game and lost both of his heroes, then i just pushed & finished it.
In the 2nd game on EI he didnt play like usually , played much more aggressive, was scared of my expo or not confident at all and i won again.
I felt pretty bad about this because he's a very good friend , and all my whine probably made him play worse than he should have so i proposed him to share the prize with me wherever we would end, he said he doesnt care about the money and is happy for me winning.

We headed back to the hotel and agreed to have a nap then get up later and go to club all together, we had the nap but woke up at around 2am and were too damn smashed so i said, let's not go tonight lets just sleep ... and so did we ... we slept around 13hours in a row, we were so tired ... and still had hard time geting up.

This one day i cant really recall what we did, Ha yeah i think it was this day me/Wizard/SaSe asked to get some western food as we were pretty disapointed at everything we ate earlier ( was mostly chinese ) we wanted something different. Wufan found us a French restaurant, we went there and ate some really nice food, it was expensive but definitely worth it. None of them could speak french tho ! :D

Later on we wanted to buy some DVDs so we went to a suposedly "market" but it wasnt really like the market there is in Shanghai at all... it was just like some shops on the streets and very spaced up in between, So we walked around and couldnt see any store that looked like anything that would have DVDs, so i decided to try my chance taking a random way and we ended up in the food area and completely lost ...
I was tired of always leading so i told Wizard to lead the way and that we would follow him now, we ended up walking into some dark street where there was some constructions going on and the workers looked at us like if they were going to jump on us and rob us... :D

We finally reached a decent area and then i told SaSe to take the lead, then at one time i just got into a shop and asked if they knew where we can find some DVDs. They pointed at a street just across the store, we headed here and finally found like music CD& DVD shop we asked for English movies, they took us in the back of the store where there was a secret room with shitload of copies
We chosed a whole bunch each of us and went back to the count. I told Wizard he was in charge of the bargaining part for this one and i have to say he really let me down. Bought those for so much more than we should have, i spent the rest of the trip back to the hotel whining about his bargainin skills.

As we got back to the hotel we watched the first half of a movie (Final Destination 3) and we left to the WEF gaming area. The last scene of the movie we saw was hilarious, it's when the black guy who's going gym gets cocky and something bad happens to him for those who have seen the movie ^^ we laughed so much about this and kept joking like screaming "FUCK THAT, I JUST WIN" or "DEATH IS SCARED OF ME".

As we arrived the gaming area Grubby vs SuhO was already going on, it was the 2nd map and it looked pretty good for SuhO.. He ended up winning and we had no idea of what the score was until they started the 3rd game. In this game it looked pretty good for vs SuhO until he got those chimeras going to Grubby's base where i thought he was just gona splash those 6 burrows and win the game but then something funny happened. The chimeras shot and didnt do shit to the burrows. Me/Wizard/SaSe got completely cracked up by this we couldnt stop laughing and joking about it the whole time.

Grubby finally won the game, I went up on the stage to congratulate him and said let's go to the club, he said sure. Many fans were here and many of them wanted to get some signatures, so i said let's stay and sign some before we go.
We sat down next to each other behind tables and asked Wufan to tell the fans to line up behind it and come get signatures one by one.
I took around 15min before we left, some people asked me for signatures and said really nice things such as "no matter what the result is, i will always support you" it's really cheerful to hear this and im very grateful to the fans who said that.

We headed back to the hotel and then went to the club, i called the Korean girl i had met earlier and told her i'll be at the club again tonite. We headed there pretty early, first sat down at the bar had a few beers, and cocktails.
Grubby played some drinking game with Wizard, while me and SaSe went to the dancefloor already.
Later in the night my Korean friend rejoined us and i stayed with her most of the time from there on.
At one time i was sitting here doin nothing and some guy at one table close took up one beer and put it up like cheers, and he took another one and poored it to me as a present. I took it said GAM BEI and drank some. Grubby/SaSe/Wizard had been invited by some old guy who was with 2 younger girls at the next table to play some drinking games, they seemed to be having fun.

At around 3am things got crazier, the guys had more alcohol in their blood than ever and i checked the dancefloor from my table i saw all the 3 of them dancing on the stage next to the deejay. I thought i was halucinating at first but no those guys were crazy, it was my 3rd time to this club and never had i seen anybody being allowed to dance on this stage. I thought "Why not ?" went there to dance with em too, the whole club was looking at us but it didnt matter.
Later on Hiki from mbcstaff came with some Starcraft players and some others people from the MBC staff. Tried to bring him in the middle of the dance floor to have him try. Ho and i bought some of those fireworks that you should hold in the air and theres like fire coming out of it on top , i gave some to everyone :)

The guys left the club at around 5 i think it was or 5:30, i stayed with my friend some more time outside of the club and went back to the hotel later on where i chatted with SaSe for a long while before finally sleeping.

The next morning the phone rang pretty early ( 1pm is very early for us !) SaSe had to get up and get ready to go to play SuhO... Which he did.
Think i slept some more, then met downstairs with Grubby & Wizard where there was some wireless internet apparently some i brought down my laptop and checked some news & my e-mail, during this time we read about some thread in sk saying that SaSe had lost 1-2 :/

Brought back our laptops to our room and went to the playing area where we got to play later in the evening.


Waiting to play

WEF Stage outdoors

Me setting up

Joking around with Grubby before the finals

warming up

On the first map being TurtleRock Grubby went for Undead and even tho i knew there was high chances for him to pick Undead on this map i had nearly no mental preparation for this game at all .. I ended up playing very badly, geting alot of footmen surounded by ghouls, then at one time i thought i was teching to tier3 already so i made an aviary to make gryphyns later on but i didnt tech .. so i made aviary pretty much for nothing and couldnt start my tech to tier3 for so long time due to lack of lumber, i had an useless aviary this whole time doing nothing -_-, I lost that game pretty badly.

The 2nd game being GW, we drawned close position and i logically won with some am/beast caster push.

In the 3rd game he picked Orc on TS and i played rather poorly again, forgeting to buy boots on my mage i had to use my tp early and from there on i was screwed, too scared to cross the bridges and get caught by raiders & co and lose badly, so i tried to play as safe as i can, but against a blade lvl 3 running around knowing constantly where iam and a tc powercreeping to the max there is not really any safeplay possible. I lost that game and finished #2.
Just like always i felt like if i could have been able to focus and play like i usually play at home i would have win this easily just like i did in WEG.

But isnt that what this game is about ? puting up with all the conditions all the time and being able to play your best in the tournaments. The players who does the most mistakes lose, that's how it is. Better luck next time i guess. I was still pretty happy about my performance for someone who wanted to play the tour "for fun" at first i finished #2 which is pretty good.

After the games finished we had to wait for the cs finals to be played and had to be at the closing ceremony where we got our checks.


The casters

2nd -,-

^_^

Who looks more disapointed, me or SuhO?

-_-

That one night i wanted to go the same club again and pretty much invited everybody i knew, there even was this cute one girl who was cs caster, so many people kept talking to me about her, at one time i even asked one guy who was talking about her "do u like her" and he was like " YEAH SURE who doesnt ?!!" so i decided to invite her to come too. The Koreans were suposed to come too but i couldnt get a hold of them.. somehow. Anyway that night was messed up, as we went downstairs we were gona go to the club but we got a phonecall from the Korean girl i had met earlier who went there and she said that there was no electricity at the club and it was closed tonight .. Downstairs was also NiP and Fnatic cs teams. We got downstairs and heard that they already left for the club ... we decided to follow to all meet in front of the club and see together where we would go next, we had like 6 cabs following each other driving us around trying to find another club .. We ended up in a fucking KTV and it didnt take me long before i left to go back to the hotel feeling extremely disapointed concerning this last night in QingDao :/


Sexy Counter-Strike caster!

I packed my stuff and got ready to go the airport, went there with Wiz/Grubby/SaSe and we flew to Beijing all together. As we arrived in Beijing we had to part ways with Wizard who had to wait a few hours before catching his next plane, so we hugged him 1 by 1 and said goodbye and parted ways.

Me/Grubby/SaSe and Matt from WEF went to the hotel WEF had booked for us, it was my first time in Beijing. We made it to contact xiaOt and agreed on meeting in the afternoon, went to our hotel where we took a nap of a few hours, xiaOt was suposed to arrive at our hotel at 5 but he arrived at 3, we were so damn smashed we asked him to sleep some more, he agreed and he ended up geting up last...! This hotel was quite ok, there was internet in our rooms.

I talked to some friends on MSN and particulary to Jason who lived in Beijing for a year i think and he told me about some good clubs. We wanted to get some more DVDs so we asked xiaOt to take us to a place where we could find some. We went with him to a mall .. and were pretty surprised because we had said that we wanna go to the "market" to buy dvds, in the mall we went into a supermarket in the dvds area... they had no copies ofcourse and this wasnt what we wanted, then we realised how huge the language barrier can be sometimes... from a market and dvd copies we had gone to a supermarket with normal dvds.

We just got out of here searchin for some food and on our way outside we saw a "TGI Friday's" restaurant! sign of wish it must have been, we directly agreed to go to eat there. We all took the ribs with fries it was so damn good ! During this dinner we talked alot about every player's salaries in Europe/Korea/China, talked about which one were the best, who was geting more than they deserved etc. I paid for xiaOt's food then as i hadnt seen him since WEG so it was kinda like a "thank you" gift for him:)

Time for more clubbing, we first went to MIX which was in front of another club named Vics
The music here was hiphop, at first i didnt think we would be drinking anything strong so we didnt take a table, just went to sit at the bar and had some tequila sunrise. But Grubby didnt like this club, dancing on hiphop is probably harder than dancing on trance where you can pretty much do anything , jump around and it'll look okay.

So we headed out to look for another club, got back on this street where there was like up to 6 clubs lined up next to each other, Babyface / Queen / somektv place / Angel / some other club, we stood in front of every club and tried to calculate which one was playing the best music that we would all agree on and we finally picked to go in Angel, but we first wanted to take a look inside to make sure there's many people etc, some girl waitress with a pretty sexy dress took me&SaSe inside as Grubby was talking about heading back to hotel, we took a look a liked it so we got a table, then went outside to see what was going on, WE.Tiger, his girlfriend and Hacker_Babysai had just arrived, we just went back inside and ordered some chiva's regal for our table.

Was boring to wait for the drinks so me and SaSe went straight the dancefloor once again, then went back to sit to drink a few cups of wishky. At one time SaSe went to the restroom and it took him like 20 min to come back so when he did i asked "where the fuck were u" and he said "in the hiphop area on the other side of the club" i didnt know there was one.. we went there to try it and well i dont know why but there is always more girls on the hiphop dancefloors somehow! At one time we were dancing and there was these 2 girls dancing next to us, they were quite gorgeous, some kid walked up to them and started to dance in front of em, i think those girls were around 22~24 and the kid prolly was like 16, so i thought wtf is he doing ?

These 2 girls were pretty tall like around 1m70~80ish and the kid was like 1m50, at one point one of the girls caught him by the arm and pointed at another girl behind them ( meaning like " go dance with her" ) which was 1m50 too hahaha, that cracked me up for so freakin long aswell as SaSe ... Later on we danced & talked some with these girls and got to know that this little boy was actually their little brother, shortly after they sadly had to leave to bring their brother home :(

Me and SaSe kept changing of dancefloors all the time while xiaOt Grubby and the other guys didnt dance much at all they were talking the whole time and sitting down at our table. Then suddenly as we were dancing Grubby came up to us and said he was gonna head back to the hotel so we said cya. We still danced some more and as we headed back to our table there was nobody here anymore, all these chinese guys had left too without saying goodbye! later in the night at like 3:30 SaSe wanted to try another club so we just went outside and tried to go to Babyface, there was almost nobody here it looked like it was going to close so SaSe said let's
get out of here, i said no let's try the dancefloor quickly, and as we reached it and started to dance some guys were forming a circle and in the middle some girl started to dance and pulled SaSe in to dance with her :D as they finished another girl went in and SaSe pushed me in to dance with her ... then this whole circle thing got dismissed and i danced with some different girls which i invited to sit down & have a drink later on we talked shortly, but the club was closing soon and she was with a whole bunch of friends of her here so she just left with em.

We decided to go back to MIX which wasnt next to these clubs so we took a cab to go here, it was pretty close still. It was still opened, and to get in we had to show our stamp on our wrists that they can only see with a special light, but there was a problem, we had been dancing for a few hours and sweating alot and we sweated out those stamps ... Mine was still a lil here so they let me in but SaSe's was completely gone so he had to pay again to enter hahahaha :D

As we got back in it was like 4am and there still was many people here and many girls! this club had many foreigners too while waiting for SaSe paying at the entrance i asked some guy where he was from cuz he was waiting for somebody too, he said "From France?"
i said "Vraiment ?" which means "Really?", he said "Ouais" ( Yeah ), then i said from what area r u from and he replied "the 11th" then i knew he probably was from Paris, only those cocky bastards answer with the number of their state/district when you ask them where they are located, like they think there only is Paris in France ! :D

Anyway we got back in for alot of dancing again, i had been drinking slowly compared to SaSe earlier but i decided to smash myself for my last hour, ordered some drinks which we drank in one shot all of em, the waitresses at the bar were looking at us like wtf is this alcoholics!

Danced some more and met some new girls, which happened to be Korean too ... ! Apparently im really attracted to Koreans. wherever i go i meet some of em! Talked for a while and figured that the girl SaSe was dancing with also my friend's friend, Before leaving i asked for her contact to perhaps meet again. I then had to head back to the hotel at around 5:30am to get rdy to leave to the airport, i was so dizzy, all i remember is a bunch of cab drivers talking to each other about the address of my hotel and seeming not to know it.


Angel Club

Mix Club

Babyface Club

Then some cab finally went like "OK OK, GO"
I just got into his cab not trying to ask any question as these guys dont speak a single word of english, then they all laughed so i understood that i prolly was going to driven around before finally reaching my hotel but not much i could do about it, looking outside of the window i felt very weird, the way things were lookin , i was thinking about all the fun i had and how much i was gona miss it.
I finally reached my hotel, kinda late tho we were suposed to leave at 6am and i was only ready at 6:30am, at this time SaSe had already come back from the club for a few minutes and he seemed drunk, we talked some random bs and i remember felling down on the floor at one time and i got a big wound right now cuz of this :/ finally i showered and packed all my stuff, said goodbye to my bro SaSe and went outside to catch our cab.

The traffic was pretty nice this morning not too many cars so we arrived at the airport pretty early checked-in then went to eat before flying out on seperate flights with Grubby.

I slept REALLY alot during this flight i was so tired from the night i had before, and when i didnt sleep i watched the end of final destination on my laptop and "running scared" which i thought was a very nice movie.

As i arrived in Paris i went straight for the train station in the airport. There was the count where you have to buy tickets there was these 2 asian girls who looked in trouble they came at the same count as me and as i heard them talking i directly recognized that they were speaking Korean =p
I had to take the RER ( it's like subway but for long distances trip ) to get to the train station in the center of Paris. the RER is known to be not so safe so i kinda had to hide my check of 2.500$ while walking around in it.

I reached the train station in Paris and had to wait for a short while before finally geting in and there it was another 4hours trip to finally reach my city. I had food in the train, they serve pretty ok stuff but it's damn expensive.

Finally reached my city&home where i've pretty much been lazy doin not much until now:D
Yesterday was the clanwar 4K vs NiP, i played on EI and met SouthSea, i lost the first map against that lil panda! and won the 2nd & 3rd rather easily.

Soon is 4K vs SK in wc3l~ i need to find the strenght & motivation to practice some more =)

Anyway that was my story from my last trip to China i hope you enjoyed it and will leave some comments about it!
During my travel i lost to cable to plug my camera to my computer.. so i cant use the few pictures i have on my camera right now, maybe i'll try to get a new cable later, for now i will just use some other pictures i took www.replays.net.




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[info]satineinsky
2006-08-10 08:38 pm UTC (link)
i didn't finish reading this long long article till now, but i cant wait to take the first-line seat here.GO!Satine!Occupy the best position!
ok!now im going back to read it!

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-10 10:18 pm UTC (link)
tod jaime trop ton blog c super continue a mettre des photos et a bien décrire comme tu le fait keep fighting! gogogo

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Yeah
(Anonymous)
2006-08-10 11:27 pm UTC (link)
Hi ToD i'm ur french fan ! (joke for chinese people who always introduce themself like this :p)
Nice to have some fresh news from you and this is another good article (u also improve ur writer skill :D)
I do not understand why u had to hide ur check,i mean isn't it a fake one just for the stage?

U seem have had a lot of fun there and i see that u have succes with chinese girls and much more with koreans girls!

Keep on fighting ToD and GL for the next

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haha
(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 03:51 am UTC (link)
a good article,but a long article.Glad to read your fresh news.
the club called"feeling" in Qingdao is a good one,near my home.
A Za A Za Fighting!!!!!!!

-zuomei

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 04:14 am UTC (link)
Great entry, keep up the good work you need to become the 1st to have 1st weg and 1st wcg!

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 04:51 am UTC (link)
really nice story
cool to know the background stories :D

and thx for it bacame so long its really nice

big thx!

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 06:23 am UTC (link)
I do enjoy your story in WEF.
Waiting for your pictures about your journey.
Btw,Fighting Tod.

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 03:36 pm UTC (link)
Ur blogs are always nice to read.
And Fighting Tod~

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 04:20 pm UTC (link)
I have a question yoan(tod), do u prefer we leave a french comment or english comment since im french canadian i can leave both but sometime im lazy to write in english but i want to know if u prefer french or english, nice entry as usual :P tod fighting ~ ~ im sad about u play sk so i wont host for 4k and wont be able to obs :P
Find the motivation to keep playing!
desRow

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[info]yoanm5
2006-08-12 11:38 am UTC (link)
it dont matter, english is fine

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tod
(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 06:46 pm UTC (link)
nice blog yo ;]

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 09:07 pm UTC (link)
good work!
love ur blog

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n1
(Anonymous)
2006-08-11 11:44 pm UTC (link)
really nice story, as always. keep on!

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Clubbin
(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 12:03 am UTC (link)
Hell yeah, you seem to party and dance a lot, I like that ;) Hope to see ya in a club in Leipzig then. :D!

Regards
Samael

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 01:17 am UTC (link)
ye very well written by u tod.. it seems if grubby wizard etc are kind of party poopers :D keep on writing tod, its really interesting, gj :)

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ICEMAN
(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 03:11 am UTC (link)
It's pretty obvious TOD had a crush on asian (especially chinese) girl...
consider get a chinese wife :)..
it's not surprise TOD feel XIAOSHUI (the cs caster girl) is lovable....
i still remember xiaoshui comment on WEG.. on TV....said wa~~~~~~~~~ TOD had really a damn luck....
"it's kinda like xiaOt give TOD a chance to win the WEG MASTER .champion.....
it's kinda like the BIG NOSE :)had a damn luck in china....
everytime we see TOD is like a no impression face...
ACCEPTABLE..........
wish u still have luck in CHINA...
although a little sad that moon lose to u another time...

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dilated
(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 05:03 am UTC (link)
ye quite funny story with all the clubs. HipHop dancing > trance dancing ! ! !

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 08:31 am UTC (link)
nice :)

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cool
(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 09:30 am UTC (link)
nice article, more of it :D
i am your fan :D

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[info]ganga_ganga
2006-08-12 10:31 am UTC (link)
another nice blog ToD, i really enjoy reading them

and sorry again for tooking u down to the stage for an interview which didnt take place at last wc3l finals.

best regards,
wc3l.ganga

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[info]yoanm5
2006-08-12 11:39 am UTC (link)
the same happened in China after my game vs Grubby, some chinese staff girl told me "you'll have to go this way to take pictures etc", as i was packing she came back and probably realised i was the one that lost " ho nevermind you don't have to do anything". This is just kind of disrespectful.

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(no subject) - [info]ganga_ganga, 2006-08-12 12:01 pm UTC
Nice Trip
(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 10:39 am UTC (link)
Nice story, but I've to ask myself, if you couldn't reach the final without clubbing so much :D

But best of luck in upcoming games.

Do you know a good internet cafe in Paris to play warcraft 3, cause I am from Germany but have to stay here for 3 months.

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Re: Nice Trip
[info]yoanm5
2006-08-12 11:40 am UTC (link)
There is Atlanteam 49 rue des pyrénées 75020 Paris,
It's a pretty nice one and most of AoD gamers from France play there pretty often.

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Re: Nice Trip - (Anonymous), 2006-08-12 01:51 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 11:47 am UTC (link)
Again a very nice read, thanks for your blog.
Nice adding those photos, gives a very good impression, but perhaps next time you could add 1 or 2 from the cities the event takes place.
Hope to read sth. again soon.
greetings
eraser.TOAO

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 11:49 am UTC (link)
i love your blogs keep goin on with them
btw cute nephew

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thanks a lot
(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 01:47 pm UTC (link)
That was very fun to read. I really had to laugh about your encounter with the french guy at the club. I've been living in Paris the last 10 month and.. I dont know why your comment made me laugh a lot. Those damn bastards haha. But you are right, the RER is not very safe and its fucking expensive to live in Paris.

All cheers to Berlin hehe


sb2


Oh keep up the good work, (we) I do appreciate your work you've put into this!

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Re: thanks a lot
(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 02:13 pm UTC (link)
Hi,

I am also from Berlin and living here the next 3 months for work.

Do you can recommend some good clubs or anything else I should definitely do?

Greetz

Phil

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Re: thanks a lot - (Anonymous), 2006-08-15 05:45 am UTC
Re: thanks a lot - (Anonymous), 2006-08-16 06:10 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-08-12 02:42 pm UTC (link)
This CS-Caster girl really looks cute.
Why didn't u try to get to know her some more? U should've asked her to go clubbing the first night ;)

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i don't know!
[info]babybear121
2006-08-12 04:19 pm UTC (link)
though this article is very very long,but it is nice!I admire your memory!You can remember so much things that were happened,it's pretty good! i am a girl from Qingdao,and you have taken a photo with me in the gaming area.hahaha,you are very cool!you look handsome than in the photo,haha;)
good luck!

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