Had a great time at the northeast lan today! Great to see old faces again and great to meet new ones!
The venue was great, the guys were chill and the prices were really reasonable. Them doing the brackets for us was very handy as well.
Here's a group photo. Sorry my camera is atrocious, honestly...
Also sorry I didn't get more pictures. TBH I just forgot, and it was pretty dark in the venue anyways.
To anyone considering coming to the next one (which currently people are thinking will be in July but it's not finalized at all yet), don't hesitate! You don't need to win or do well to have fun, we all socialize and have a great time.
We all went to dinner at a nearby Japanese Habachi restaurant (the kind where they cook it in front of you) which was actually quite good. It was pretty funny when 13-14 of us walked in the door and were like "Hi... table for uhhhhhhhhhh"
Results were: 1st: lastshadow 2nd: arto (slog's korean friend) 3rd: slog
This is like the best cappuccino ever. Of course, I say that to myself pretty much every day of my life.
You see, a couple months ago I got a breville espresso machine off of woot.com for extreme discount. I've never been a big fan of regular coffee, but I've always love espresso, whether in a cappuccino or as a straight shot.
Waking up to an espresso or cappuccino every morning is amazing. If any of you have never tried a cappuccino or you like them but don't have an espresso machine, I recommend both.
Got home recently from the LAN! It was a ton of fun just like last time
In complete contrast to last time, there were 6 terrans, 2 zergs, and I was the only protoss O_O
There were a bunch of people that came and only spectated as well. I urge anyone in the area that didn't come to come to the next one :D
That last one is just the 5 of us that went to dinner afterwards (From left to right: cygnus[x1] (aka jaysmurff), NeveR, gretorp (this guy is a god lol), RoC)Ninjah, -orb-).
I'm not even going to try to label the rest of the picture unless people are really interested because I'm so terrible with names I forgot like half of the names anyways
Next time I'll have to write down people's names or something so I don't forget LOL
The winner was gretorp by a landslide... he didn't lose a single game. He is pretty amazing.
Just got back from the Boston, MA LAN! It was a lot of fun. I wish more people had shown up, but hopefully more will next time.
In total iirc 8 people showed up.
Edit: For clarification (in case you couldn't tell), the captions are for the image BELOW the caption.
Here's slog and saranghae Here's my friend TheAfterEffect This is... shit I can't remember your name/id SORRY IM TERRIBLE WITH NAMES /wrists Here's LastShadow (left) vs -orb- (right) Here's a front shot of me (-orb-) Here's a shot of LastShadow Another of last shadow Here's last shadow's screen Dark partial group shot clustered around Jamel's computer (sorry my camera sucks) Here's Keeper-Auhsoj Here's another front shot of Keeper-Auhsoj (aka Yoshiva) From the back I can't tell who this is but it looks like it's probably slog Slog's friend that I can't remember his name From left to right: LastShadow, Slog's friend, Slog Another LastShadow shot Another LastShadow shot TheAfterEffect front shot while he's playing SaRangHae chillaxin TheAfterEffect on the left preparing for a game, SaRangHae on right playing in a game Same two people reversed zomg 3 people playing counter strike next to each other (2 afk lol). These guys are prolly like cal-o noobs, i could totally beat them 3v1 with no monitor or mouse or keyboard or computer same two guys again, this time in game i believe Keeper-Auhsoj slog Slog SLOG LastShadow LastShadow (offrace is for nubs amirite) Group Shot hooray! 2 people already left when we took this shot though
Surprisingly, despite all the bad stuff I had heard about him, Last Shadow actually seemed pretty chill. I had heard so much stuff about him being ridiculously egotistical on the point of narcissism, but he didn't really bring up anything brag-wise, and even when I asked him about stuff he didn't overdo it (wasn't modest either but w/e ). He definitely had skills. I beat him in one game (lost 2-1 in the bo3), but I was the only one to take a single game off him in the whole tourney -_-;;
Everyone was chill and really cool. Overall it was a ton of fun, and I hope more people come next time
Um... I thought the general gist of things was that if you are better than your opponent, you can play standard and win, but if you are worse, that's the time to cheese as you need it to be able to win.
This 3995 C- (so damn close to C) zerg just 5 pooled me... and my ranking was 3070. What the fuck? Why? He then transitioned into all-in muta of course like the faggot he is...
He probably 5pools every single game to get to C... what a noob.