| yoanm5 ( @ 2006-12-04 03:28:00 |
| Current location: | Beijing, China |
| Current music: | The Beatnuts - Watch Out Now |
Why not update now~
It is 3:30am, we are Monday 4th December, I wrote my last entry on the november 22nd before going to play Moon, That same morning i went to have Breakfast by myself, i had the traditional Korean Barbeque aka Sam Gyup Sal, but i couldnt order it by myself since you have to be 2 at least, so i ordered still but had to pay like 17$ just for me .... I still ate all the meat i was so hungry and didnt wanna waste any food .. i was so full. After that i went back to the hotel and played a few mores games before Crystal came and picked me up to bring me at the Coex to get ready for my game.
I had to go there pretty early, not sure why xD I used my own computer so there was no matter of hardware issue, but the lights in front of me were blinding me. I had a ladder account with like 24/0, i played on it 2 warmup games and lost both of em .... There can be no coincidence i didnt feel comfortable with the setup, i asked them to turn off those lights and it took a long time and alot of negotiations to finally get it half done.
Shortly after, the series started on Echo Isle, where i won rather easily and surprisingly after rifle pushing him.
After this game finished i asked if i could use the restroom and i was asked to wait 1 more game to do so. But during the game i felt the urge to go and played like in a hurry making alot of mistakes since you need alot of patience to play Warcraft, in the end i lost alot of units and decided to just call it gg, so i could reach the restroom on time not for a drama to happen xD
3rd game started on TM and to my surprise he went for some bs strat mass balista .... too much cockyness or i dont know why he would do such a crazy thing, but anyway i won.
4th game on TS, Panda first for him, expo for me then some good harass, i had huge advantage, at tier2 he added pitlord and started massing dryads, at one point he had alot of units damage both heroes half hp and almost all his wells empty, he was at 40pop, i was at 50 with 1500 gold, without production buildings , nor shop or farms, i guess thats pretty much why i lost , gave him too much time while if i just made alot of units and towered his expo there was nothing he could do.
5th game on EI, went for expo this time and didnt play particulary good again making alot of mistakes and so, i lost logically to someone who practice plenty more than me and wanted to win alot more.
Overall im not disapointed at all for losing this, and im even pleased with winning 2 maps i didnt expect this whatsoever.
The day after the match i went to club with Rekrul GiYoM and 2 of their Korean friends, it was pretty fun but i had to fly the next morning and went to the airport without sleep and with a pretty bad hungover xD
Luckily i was flying with Korean Air this time and that flight might have been the best ive had in my entire life! So many movies on the personnal screen i got, could Fastforward pause, do everything, i watched Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift for the first time, aswell as John Tucker must die and Clik with adam sandler =)
As i arrived in Sweden there was a cab driver who had a paper with my name on it, drove me to the hotel where i met SaSe in the lobby, dropped my luggage in my room and went to eat at the macdonalds where i met GlaiVe for the first time. Went to sleep shortly after that, had to wakeup early the next morning.
Next morning had breakfast with some players, was at same table as the Bulgarians, we joked around alot like always with DIDI/Inso.
After that everyone headed to Inferno Online in a couple of cab where we met the ESL crew and got to setup our stuff.
My first game was against Hum4nic i won pretty easily 2/0 as i expected to.
Second vs Insomnia i think it was, won 2/0, i played excelent those games and was myself surprised by it , especially as i almost never practice Human vs Human.
Third game vs DIDI, dropped a map which really pissed me off by the way i lost it, played pretty good and lost hardly .... but i guess Elf is Elf :D
Fourth and last game vs Shocker won rather easily 2/0.
So i was through, i was pretty tired this evening and was the first player to leave back to the hotel (alone) to go to sleep.
Next morning same story, wakeup , breakfast. While going downstairs to eat breakfast someone told me i had to play vs DieSeL this morning, i was surprised because all i knew from the previous evening ( thx to SaSe's sms ) was that i was gonna have to play vs the winner of DieSeL vs Duck.
I thought i was gonna have to face Duck tbh , and prepared alot of counters to his herofocus strat in my head... ! But now .. i had to play Elf ... xD
dropped a map vs him too, just like vs DIDI8, really got me angry, cant even remember if it was the first game or second... I erased those games off my memory unconciously because my mind can't take the pain :D
Anyway won 2/1 and advanced, was top 4 already which means i'm qualified for the global finals.
Played vs Insomnia next and lost 1/2 then lost to Grubby 1/2, which makes me rank #4.
Everyone went to eat together after that except me who was too tired again and slept early, the next morning i went to Gothenburg by train with SaSe, and in the Stockholm's train station i recognized a guy i often get to see at tournaments, it was NiP-ins going home from a stay in Stockholm, chatted for a bit before the train arrived, funny coincidence :)
Arrived in Gothenburg finally, on our way we had tried to book our tickets for 2 days after to fly to Beijing but had failed due to a rather weird service provided by the company we used !
As i got off the train which was like an outdoor subway we took in Gothenburg i saw a blond girl walking by and smiling and thought wtf~! Turned around to Kim and he said "that's my sister", i was surprised, didnt know he had a sister and didnt know she was this pretty! :)
Anyway his mom picked us up at the station and drove us to his home where we stayed like this 2 nights. I setup my comp in Kim's room during my stay and we both practicing a bunch, i also caught up to PrisonBreak and Heroes, had missed the two last episodes of each show
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MAJOR EDIT
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What you've read above was the part1 of this blog, in the part 2 i talked about everything until now but something bad happened .... i wrote for like 1h30 in a row after part1, and suddendly my comp restarted ... i looked down, i had pushed the power button accidentally with my foot, it was 4:30am i got mad and went to sleep. Dont feel like re-writing everything so instead im just going to provide you with alot of pictures i have took from Italy/Korea/China =)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yoanm5/
I also will try to post more replays in the future in this blog if i can.
Cya for now :)