| Insomnia 40 – Blog 1written by on 19:55 - 26.08.2010 |
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So, where to start, I am currently sitting at the Lennart Meri Airport in Tallinn, alongside my brother and waiting for my second-ever flight. After going through the check-in, we are now sitting next to our gate for one hour and then the boarding should being. Of course, if another plane to Turkey, what has been delayed moves away.
The flight from Estonia to London Stansted Airport, will take around three hours, so if the plane isin’t delayed, I should arrive in England at 23:05 PM. From there, we will be heading to the Stansted Hilton hotel and just sleeping there for a few hours and then going to i40.
Stay tuned for more blogs from me!
The flight from Estonia to London Stansted Airport, will take around three hours, so if the plane isin’t delayed, I should arrive in England at 23:05 PM. From there, we will be heading to the Stansted Hilton hotel and just sleeping there for a few hours and then going to i40.
Stay tuned for more blogs from me!
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Mart M2R Valdin [View Blog]| Assembly – Day 2written by on 11:00 - 09.08.2010 |
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So, another blog here from the Summer Assembly 2010 event at Helsinki, Finland. After a strong first day performance, the team qualified through their group in first spot to face Finnish side Power Gaming in the Semi-Final.
The Day started for me at getting up around 9 o’clock to do some morning work on the website, writing coverage for the second day and writing the blog for the first one. Obviously I was the first one to wake up, due to the players needing the sleep and rest. Around eleven people started waking up and getting ready to head on out to the event. After a quick shower, we started to head on out to the event to get some food and watch the Dignitas versus Broder Semi-Final.
After the game ended, we went outside to relax and just talk about tactics. Around 13.30 we were asked to get on stage to start setting up for our Semi-Final match-up versus Power. Before the game, we saw that the tables directions were in a very bad spot, allowing one of the Power players to see three of our players screens if he wanted. So just incase, I was put standing there on one spot without moving for a hour and thirty minutes, what gave a great chance to have a close look at how a Division 1 soldier (Coinz) plays on different maps. The match-up sadly ended with Power picking a hard-fought 2:1 victory and moving us to the third place decider.
Our third place match, was scheduled to start at 20:00 CET, what gave us a lot of free time. When the Dignitas and Power Gaming match started four of our players went to watch the game, while me, Byte and
numlocked stayed at the Cooler Master stand to eat and do some shootouts with our fans.
Our scheduled third-place decider match was postponed, due to a Counter-Strike 1.6 game being held on the stage. So after a 30-45 minute wait we were allowed on stage to start setting up and this time were put on the other side, what had a lot more room for our players. After a hard-fought win, we were able to grab the third spot by beating Broder 2-1 on maps.
After our game and two long days, we were invited to a sauna party to where Xman, Skinnie,
Springer and Zerox went to, while me, Byte, numlocked and Coinz, decided grab some late lunch and head on to the hote
The Day started for me at getting up around 9 o’clock to do some morning work on the website, writing coverage for the second day and writing the blog for the first one. Obviously I was the first one to wake up, due to the players needing the sleep and rest. Around eleven people started waking up and getting ready to head on out to the event. After a quick shower, we started to head on out to the event to get some food and watch the Dignitas versus Broder Semi-Final.
After the game ended, we went outside to relax and just talk about tactics. Around 13.30 we were asked to get on stage to start setting up for our Semi-Final match-up versus Power. Before the game, we saw that the tables directions were in a very bad spot, allowing one of the Power players to see three of our players screens if he wanted. So just incase, I was put standing there on one spot without moving for a hour and thirty minutes, what gave a great chance to have a close look at how a Division 1 soldier (Coinz) plays on different maps. The match-up sadly ended with Power picking a hard-fought 2:1 victory and moving us to the third place decider.
Our third place match, was scheduled to start at 20:00 CET, what gave us a lot of free time. When the Dignitas and Power Gaming match started four of our players went to watch the game, while me, Byte and
numlocked stayed at the Cooler Master stand to eat and do some shootouts with our fans. Our scheduled third-place decider match was postponed, due to a Counter-Strike 1.6 game being held on the stage. So after a 30-45 minute wait we were allowed on stage to start setting up and this time were put on the other side, what had a lot more room for our players. After a hard-fought win, we were able to grab the third spot by beating Broder 2-1 on maps.
After our game and two long days, we were invited to a sauna party to where Xman, Skinnie,
Springer and Zerox went to, while me, Byte, numlocked and Coinz, decided grab some late lunch and head on to the hoteWritten by Mart M2R Valdin [View Blog]
Mart M2R Valdin [View Blog]| Assembly – Day 1written by on 09:33 - 06.08.2010 |
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After only four hours of sleep, I had to get up at 5 am on Thursday to catch my ferry to Helsinki, Finland. So I got to the harbor at around 6.15-6.30 and went through the Check-In and started waiting to get onboard. My dad, brother and me had to wait for around 30-45 minutes, before they started letting people onboard, due to some Fins who slept in and hadn’t driven off the ferry.
So after a fairly good ferry ride, we arrived at Finland and started driving towards the hotel, what was like a 20 minute drive. So around 11.30, I met up with TCM-Gaming Team Fortress 2 players Skinnie and Springer at our hotel. From there we straight went to the event and actually were able to get lost, we went to the wrong side of the Hartwall Arena and ended up walking around it to the other side to meet up with the other guys. I was only able to stay there for around five minutes, due to picking up Zerox from the airport.
After coming back from the airport, we went to the Hartwall Arena and I must say this being my first ever LAN event, it did look really nice, a lot of booths all-around, a lot of space for gamers and a very nice Main Stage for the games. So we went to the Cooler Master booth to have a chat, do some shootouts for the fans and take photographs.
Once the shootouts ended, we decided to head on over to a local bar, to just relax and loosen up before the games. After like 2 hours of sitting there, talking, breaking glasses and just having a laugh we went back to the arena for a Team Fortress 2 teams meeting.
A short time after the meeting ended, we went to the Main Stage to start setting up for our game against Scandinavian side broder on Granary. The match ended with us winning it 5-3 and opening our tally for the groupstage. After the match, we went to get pizza and just relax for 10 minutes as our second game was right up. Our second game against Finnish side Piggy Bankers ended in just under 10 minutes, with us taking a good 5-0 win. We were supposed to start setting up on the WCG stage straight away, but due to the Broder and Illegal game being delayed, we had to wait for it to be finished.
So after waiting for 30 minutes, we were allowed to get on stage to start setting up, only to find out that the tables were simply to small and our guys didn’t have enough room to play on them. After having a 10 minute conversation with the admins, we were allowed to move the tables foward a few centimeters in order to make some room for our guys. So on came the match versus Finnish side Illegal, who we beat 2-0 on Freight.
After the Illegal game ended, we started heading on back to the hotel for some Estonian beer and sleep time after a rough day. Stay tuned for a blog from Day 2!
So after a fairly good ferry ride, we arrived at Finland and started driving towards the hotel, what was like a 20 minute drive. So around 11.30, I met up with TCM-Gaming Team Fortress 2 players Skinnie and
Springer at our hotel. From there we straight went to the event and actually were able to get lost, we went to the wrong side of the Hartwall Arena and ended up walking around it to the other side to meet up with the other guys. I was only able to stay there for around five minutes, due to picking up Zerox from the airport.After coming back from the airport, we went to the Hartwall Arena and I must say this being my first ever LAN event, it did look really nice, a lot of booths all-around, a lot of space for gamers and a very nice Main Stage for the games. So we went to the Cooler Master booth to have a chat, do some shootouts for the fans and take photographs.
Once the shootouts ended, we decided to head on over to a local bar, to just relax and loosen up before the games. After like 2 hours of sitting there, talking, breaking glasses and just having a laugh we went back to the arena for a Team Fortress 2 teams meeting.
A short time after the meeting ended, we went to the Main Stage to start setting up for our game against Scandinavian side broder on Granary. The match ended with us winning it 5-3 and opening our tally for the groupstage. After the match, we went to get pizza and just relax for 10 minutes as our second game was right up. Our second game against Finnish side Piggy Bankers ended in just under 10 minutes, with us taking a good 5-0 win. We were supposed to start setting up on the WCG stage straight away, but due to the Broder and Illegal game being delayed, we had to wait for it to be finished.
So after waiting for 30 minutes, we were allowed to get on stage to start setting up, only to find out that the tables were simply to small and our guys didn’t have enough room to play on them. After having a 10 minute conversation with the admins, we were allowed to move the tables foward a few centimeters in order to make some room for our guys. So on came the match versus Finnish side Illegal, who we beat 2-0 on Freight.
After the Illegal game ended, we started heading on back to the hotel for some Estonian beer and sleep time after a rough day. Stay tuned for a blog from Day 2!
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Mart M2R Valdin [View Blog]| ECL Blogwritten by on 02:10 - 04.08.2010 |
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Hey everyone. Got back home last night from Liverpool and wanted to blog about our trip.
Pre-LAN vs. Redemption :: 22.7-24.7
We wanted to get a good amount of LAN practice for ECL, so we decided to host a Pre-LAN vs. Redemption(SloQwer, Disqq, Mozelli & Mersu) before the 6-team LAN. It was definitely the last LAN I'll host in my apartment mainly because you can't be noisy, it's hard to fit 8 guys in an apartment and these Finnish pigs don't clean after making a mess. Had fun and managed to keep the noise down better than last time(neighbors didn't even complain!).
The score of the pre-LAN was 40+ - 10 to us. Got a nice warm-up LAN from it and we didn't take it too seriously. Thanks for Redemption for LANning us.
Sunday 25.7 :: Lift-off
Our plane left at 8:20 A.M which was pretty early, had to wake up at 5 and took a taxi to the airport at 6. It was the last time I'm taking the taxi to the airport, it was almost €40. Blackmail if you ask me. We met Puupaa(#1 Coach EU :P) at the airport and went to check-in. It didn't take too long and I was surprised that they didn't say anything about the xboxes in the security check.
Got to the plane early, but we couldn't get any sleep on the plane thou, so we were really tired when we arrived. Btw, it was Iso J's first time in an airplane(and first time abroad). Without ECL he would have never left the comfy woods of Rauma.
We arrived at Manchester Airport 9:00 local time and took a taxi to our hotel, which was Abbey hotel. The hotel was nice but the area it was in was not so nice. Even heard 5 gunshots and some explosions one night. The hotel staff was really nice and they even offered us free beers when we waited for our room. One guy asked why we are here and when we explained he told that he was a CS fanatic and was playing in a clan at some point. He said that no need to be embarrassed of our gaming sport, it's cool. "It won't get you girls thou". Sick guy.
Chilled at the hotel for an hour and started to walk towards some shopping centre. Puupaa spotted KFC there and
Robba almost started running towards it. First time in a KFC for the black man. :)
6-team LAN :: 26.7-29.7
Forgot to take the address of the gamerbase so we couldn't take a cab to there. After standing in front of our hotel for 15 minutes wondering what to do, we decided to take the metro to the city centre. I saw a HMV there and said that let's go check it out, since I remember it had something to do with gamerbase. Didn't even know it's inside of HMV, hah.
We didn't even find the right place when we got there, so we went outside for a moment. When we got back we finally found the right place. Only Phenomenom was there at the time. We went to eat and came back to game.
They won the first series 7-3(one tie), got off to a shaky start, but the second series went better, it was 7-4 or 6-5, can't remember. All the other teams had arrived after it(except vital). Adversity asked us to play after we had been playing for 3 hours straight, they won us quite easily 10-1.
The bashing at this point in the JTV chat, holy shit. "TCM Sucks, warriors won't even get top 10" etc etc. Proved those haters wrong. Went to the hotel to get some rest, we were bit down on ourselves at this point, but we thought "we are better than this".
Went there quite late on Tuesday, had almost 10 hours of sleep. We played Dignitas first, they got to huge 5-0 lead. I remember thinking, we need to win at least couple of games. And we won the whole series. After that we played adversity again, which we won 4-3 or something like that.
Wednesday we played fnatic first if I remember correctly. They won 8-3, some games were really close and some not. We played adversity again and they beat us again 10-1. Bashing in the chat started once again. After that series we won vital 4-1 and then we had to leave because the place closed at 8 pm.
Next day we arrived early because we had to leave early to check-in for our Liverpool apartment. We only played vital that day, which we beat 10-1. We took the metro to the train station(we could have walked, but some lazy asses don't like walking ;). Took the train to Liverpool and went to get our apartment keys. The manager who handled the desk was probably the hottest manager in the world. Went to the apartment, which was in city centre. The apartment was sick, definitely better than hotel.
Went to the local store to buy some pizzas and a 3 litre can of coke for Iso J. Puupaa also bought two large bags of Doritos, mmmmm. We practically lived of BK, McDonalds and KFC there, never doing that again.
European Console League :: 30.7-1.8
Friday
Went to the venue before 12 pm and met the sick guys from fnatic and some other peeps as well. We waited like 30 minutes to get inside the venue and another 30 minutes to get downstairs. Also we met our second biggest fan Backup once again.
Had to wait at least 4 hours to get our tickets and our stuff to get PAT tested. When we got inside I had the biggest headache and hunger ever. FFA's started almost instantly so I didn't had time to get something to eat. Played some horrendous Halo that day, glad we didn't play any 4v4 games, lol. Finished 8th in round 1 and got outplaced by Reaction's bird. It was epic to say at least.
Iso J, Halo-minded
Saturday
Went to the venue early in the morning but we had to wait a long time for our first game. We scrimmed How many pre-LANs? in the BYOC, won them 5-0 or so. Our first 4v4 tournament game was against Market Gardeners. The funny thing is, that I was the most nervous in this match than any other game, haha. Won them quite easily 2-0 and
Procis got maybe the sickest overkill in ECL. Shame he didn't had his hard drive.
Our second game was against Katrina.FR which we won 3-0, Renox didn't fulfill his promise to beat us. ;)
Afterward we got asked if we wanted to play the game vs. Phenomenom in the main-stage, hell yes we wanted that. At this point we still played with mixamps which were put wrong. We could hear the back noise from each mic(Baxter fixed this before the PwR match, mr MacGyver himself).
It was a good feeling to play in the main stage, much quieter there. Zankioh got interviewed before the match and he got asked what's the result gonna be and he responded: 3-0 to us. Also Sinder showed the camera some easy button or w/e.
The guys doing work
First game was Onslaught CTF, we got to nice lead at the beginning(3-0) but they started to catch us and I think they tied at one point. I couldn't hear all callouts because of our wrongly put mixamps but we still managed to win it 5-3. Next was TCM's gametype: Con TS. We kept the top control and won it 50-42. Remember getting a sick out BR in it too.
Last was Guardian Oddball, mX seemed really depressed and they just kept jumping to the middle of the map without any sense. Won it quite comfortably and finished the game 3-0 to us. Felt good to beat them since they have such a big ego. But they're all sick guys and players and hopefully they do better next time.
Final moments of mX vs. TCM. Weird stuff happening for my part.
It was almost 22:30 when we got informed that we can go back to our hotel and that our game against Power is in the morning. We were walking to the escalators until someone came to say that we have to play now. After a 10 minute fuss we went to the station to warm up and wait for 2 PwR members who already had went back to their hotel.
We didn't really have energy left at this point + Power being much better than us, so we got 3-0'd pretty easily. Narrows Flag was a good game thou, they won it 3-2. The loss didn't disappointed us at all, after all we lost to the best team.
Got back to the apartment at 1 AM, we all were very tired at this point.
Watching the Finals
Sunday
Went to the event 9:30 and went to the main-stage where the WB-Finals where about to begin. Then we got almost instantly called to play Dignitas at station 2. We were really confident going into the match.
First gametype was Pit CTF, which they won 3-1. Next one was Nar TS, which was really intense and a tight game, we won 50-46 or so. Then we played Guardian Oddball which we won 250-178.
Last was Heretic CTF which we won 5-2 to win the match 3-1 to us. Felt good to secure that top 4 spot but we were hoping to get even a better placing.
Then we played LLL for Top 3. First game was Nar CTF which we won 3-0 easily. I also out-BR'd Shinato while being one shot that game. Next up was Pit TS which was one of the gametypes alongside Con KotH which we played very poorly at the event. Then the infamous Onslaught CTF. They were leading 4-1 and 3 minutes left of the game while the LLL chant started(ref started this?) and then the TCM chant which was too times louder, lol. Couldn't hear anything in-game while the chants were shouted. Infern0s got the LLL chant to stop so they could focus better. I think we tied the game at this point. The feeling when I was running the final flag and when we won couldn't be described with words, you had to be there to experience it.
Decider was Amplified TS, which I think was one of LLL's best(at least they beat fnatic at it), we had a good start but at the end they got the control and some crucial respawn kills. They won it 50-45. Congrats to LLL proving everyone wrong and showing they are still one of the best teams in Europe.
Honestly we were a bit disappointed on our loss, we really wanted that 3rd spot and we all needed those mixamps, but we still played very good for our first event and proved 90% of the community wrong.
Looking forward to EGE and Reach after it. You will see a new improved TCM there.
Some shoutouts:
TCM-Gaming & it's sponsors: CoolerMaster, Mad Catz, CM Storm, Cyborg Gaming, Multiplay, GamersUniform, PowerDrive Computers. Bouncer4You & Meron Court
Jim & Mike: Thanks for everything you did for us. Your support brought us confidence.
fnatic: All really sound guys and even better players, shame that Jack was too drunk to call us Sunday. Rain check for AMSTERDAM! Riotz is a giant!
adv: Sick guys right here also, shame you had to play your games at ridiculous times, you definitely deserved a better placing. Dale's eyebrows are legendary!
vital: The Svenska pojken! Really nice guys and Hurricane's hair is too crazy! Hopefully I'll see you guys at the next event.
Heavenswrath: You had the sickest commentary I have ever heard. Professional, funny and original at the same time. The sickest man.
Ch4bi: Really appreciated the support of the number 1 TCM Fan, hopefully we will see our bodyguard at some event. Can't wait to meet the biggest than in Hungary!
The people who made ECL happen
Backup: Was nice to see another Finn attend. Really appreciated your support and it was nice to have you around watching our games. We will see you at EGE!
Puupaa: Was nice having you as our coach and being with us in our trip. Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as we did. It really helped our game having you with us.
& All the people who chanted us vs LLL Game 4 and our supporters.
Some other pics:
Giant and the small guy
Relaxing in the lobby
The team @ BYOC section
Food after the game?
Pre-LAN vs. Redemption :: 22.7-24.7
We wanted to get a good amount of LAN practice for ECL, so we decided to host a Pre-LAN vs. Redemption(SloQwer, Disqq, Mozelli & Mersu) before the 6-team LAN. It was definitely the last LAN I'll host in my apartment mainly because you can't be noisy, it's hard to fit 8 guys in an apartment and these Finnish pigs don't clean after making a mess. Had fun and managed to keep the noise down better than last time(neighbors didn't even complain!).
The score of the pre-LAN was 40+ - 10 to us. Got a nice warm-up LAN from it and we didn't take it too seriously. Thanks for Redemption for LANning us.
Sunday 25.7 :: Lift-off
Our plane left at 8:20 A.M which was pretty early, had to wake up at 5 and took a taxi to the airport at 6. It was the last time I'm taking the taxi to the airport, it was almost €40. Blackmail if you ask me. We met Puupaa(#1 Coach EU :P) at the airport and went to check-in. It didn't take too long and I was surprised that they didn't say anything about the xboxes in the security check.
Got to the plane early, but we couldn't get any sleep on the plane thou, so we were really tired when we arrived. Btw, it was Iso J's first time in an airplane(and first time abroad). Without ECL he would have never left the comfy woods of Rauma.
We arrived at Manchester Airport 9:00 local time and took a taxi to our hotel, which was Abbey hotel. The hotel was nice but the area it was in was not so nice. Even heard 5 gunshots and some explosions one night. The hotel staff was really nice and they even offered us free beers when we waited for our room. One guy asked why we are here and when we explained he told that he was a CS fanatic and was playing in a clan at some point. He said that no need to be embarrassed of our gaming sport, it's cool. "It won't get you girls thou". Sick guy.
Chilled at the hotel for an hour and started to walk towards some shopping centre. Puupaa spotted KFC there and
Robba almost started running towards it. First time in a KFC for the black man. :)6-team LAN :: 26.7-29.7
Forgot to take the address of the gamerbase so we couldn't take a cab to there. After standing in front of our hotel for 15 minutes wondering what to do, we decided to take the metro to the city centre. I saw a HMV there and said that let's go check it out, since I remember it had something to do with gamerbase. Didn't even know it's inside of HMV, hah.
We didn't even find the right place when we got there, so we went outside for a moment. When we got back we finally found the right place. Only Phenomenom was there at the time. We went to eat and came back to game.
They won the first series 7-3(one tie), got off to a shaky start, but the second series went better, it was 7-4 or 6-5, can't remember. All the other teams had arrived after it(except vital). Adversity asked us to play after we had been playing for 3 hours straight, they won us quite easily 10-1.
The bashing at this point in the JTV chat, holy shit. "TCM Sucks, warriors won't even get top 10" etc etc. Proved those haters wrong. Went to the hotel to get some rest, we were bit down on ourselves at this point, but we thought "we are better than this".
Went there quite late on Tuesday, had almost 10 hours of sleep. We played Dignitas first, they got to huge 5-0 lead. I remember thinking, we need to win at least couple of games. And we won the whole series. After that we played adversity again, which we won 4-3 or something like that.
Wednesday we played fnatic first if I remember correctly. They won 8-3, some games were really close and some not. We played adversity again and they beat us again 10-1. Bashing in the chat started once again. After that series we won vital 4-1 and then we had to leave because the place closed at 8 pm.
Next day we arrived early because we had to leave early to check-in for our Liverpool apartment. We only played vital that day, which we beat 10-1. We took the metro to the train station(we could have walked, but some lazy asses don't like walking ;). Took the train to Liverpool and went to get our apartment keys. The manager who handled the desk was probably the hottest manager in the world. Went to the apartment, which was in city centre. The apartment was sick, definitely better than hotel.
Went to the local store to buy some pizzas and a 3 litre can of coke for Iso J. Puupaa also bought two large bags of Doritos, mmmmm. We practically lived of BK, McDonalds and KFC there, never doing that again.
European Console League :: 30.7-1.8
Friday
Went to the venue before 12 pm and met the sick guys from fnatic and some other peeps as well. We waited like 30 minutes to get inside the venue and another 30 minutes to get downstairs. Also we met our second biggest fan Backup once again.
Had to wait at least 4 hours to get our tickets and our stuff to get PAT tested. When we got inside I had the biggest headache and hunger ever. FFA's started almost instantly so I didn't had time to get something to eat. Played some horrendous Halo that day, glad we didn't play any 4v4 games, lol. Finished 8th in round 1 and got outplaced by Reaction's bird. It was epic to say at least.
Iso J, Halo-minded
Saturday
Went to the venue early in the morning but we had to wait a long time for our first game. We scrimmed How many pre-LANs? in the BYOC, won them 5-0 or so. Our first 4v4 tournament game was against Market Gardeners. The funny thing is, that I was the most nervous in this match than any other game, haha. Won them quite easily 2-0 and
Procis got maybe the sickest overkill in ECL. Shame he didn't had his hard drive.Our second game was against Katrina.FR which we won 3-0, Renox didn't fulfill his promise to beat us. ;)
Afterward we got asked if we wanted to play the game vs. Phenomenom in the main-stage, hell yes we wanted that. At this point we still played with mixamps which were put wrong. We could hear the back noise from each mic(Baxter fixed this before the PwR match, mr MacGyver himself).
It was a good feeling to play in the main stage, much quieter there. Zankioh got interviewed before the match and he got asked what's the result gonna be and he responded: 3-0 to us. Also Sinder showed the camera some easy button or w/e.
The guys doing work
First game was Onslaught CTF, we got to nice lead at the beginning(3-0) but they started to catch us and I think they tied at one point. I couldn't hear all callouts because of our wrongly put mixamps but we still managed to win it 5-3. Next was TCM's gametype: Con TS. We kept the top control and won it 50-42. Remember getting a sick out BR in it too.
Last was Guardian Oddball, mX seemed really depressed and they just kept jumping to the middle of the map without any sense. Won it quite comfortably and finished the game 3-0 to us. Felt good to beat them since they have such a big ego. But they're all sick guys and players and hopefully they do better next time.
Final moments of mX vs. TCM. Weird stuff happening for my part.
It was almost 22:30 when we got informed that we can go back to our hotel and that our game against Power is in the morning. We were walking to the escalators until someone came to say that we have to play now. After a 10 minute fuss we went to the station to warm up and wait for 2 PwR members who already had went back to their hotel.
We didn't really have energy left at this point + Power being much better than us, so we got 3-0'd pretty easily. Narrows Flag was a good game thou, they won it 3-2. The loss didn't disappointed us at all, after all we lost to the best team.
Got back to the apartment at 1 AM, we all were very tired at this point.
Watching the Finals
Sunday
Went to the event 9:30 and went to the main-stage where the WB-Finals where about to begin. Then we got almost instantly called to play Dignitas at station 2. We were really confident going into the match.
First gametype was Pit CTF, which they won 3-1. Next one was Nar TS, which was really intense and a tight game, we won 50-46 or so. Then we played Guardian Oddball which we won 250-178.
Last was Heretic CTF which we won 5-2 to win the match 3-1 to us. Felt good to secure that top 4 spot but we were hoping to get even a better placing.
Then we played LLL for Top 3. First game was Nar CTF which we won 3-0 easily. I also out-BR'd Shinato while being one shot that game. Next up was Pit TS which was one of the gametypes alongside Con KotH which we played very poorly at the event. Then the infamous Onslaught CTF. They were leading 4-1 and 3 minutes left of the game while the LLL chant started(ref started this?) and then the TCM chant which was too times louder, lol. Couldn't hear anything in-game while the chants were shouted. Infern0s got the LLL chant to stop so they could focus better. I think we tied the game at this point. The feeling when I was running the final flag and when we won couldn't be described with words, you had to be there to experience it.
Decider was Amplified TS, which I think was one of LLL's best(at least they beat fnatic at it), we had a good start but at the end they got the control and some crucial respawn kills. They won it 50-45. Congrats to LLL proving everyone wrong and showing they are still one of the best teams in Europe.
Honestly we were a bit disappointed on our loss, we really wanted that 3rd spot and we all needed those mixamps, but we still played very good for our first event and proved 90% of the community wrong.
Looking forward to EGE and Reach after it. You will see a new improved TCM there.
Some shoutouts:
TCM-Gaming & it's sponsors: CoolerMaster, Mad Catz, CM Storm, Cyborg Gaming, Multiplay, GamersUniform, PowerDrive Computers. Bouncer4You & Meron Court
Jim & Mike: Thanks for everything you did for us. Your support brought us confidence.
fnatic: All really sound guys and even better players, shame that Jack was too drunk to call us Sunday. Rain check for AMSTERDAM! Riotz is a giant!
adv: Sick guys right here also, shame you had to play your games at ridiculous times, you definitely deserved a better placing. Dale's eyebrows are legendary!
vital: The Svenska pojken! Really nice guys and Hurricane's hair is too crazy! Hopefully I'll see you guys at the next event.
Heavenswrath: You had the sickest commentary I have ever heard. Professional, funny and original at the same time. The sickest man.
Ch4bi: Really appreciated the support of the number 1 TCM Fan, hopefully we will see our bodyguard at some event. Can't wait to meet the biggest than in Hungary!
The people who made ECL happen
Backup: Was nice to see another Finn attend. Really appreciated your support and it was nice to have you around watching our games. We will see you at EGE!
Puupaa: Was nice having you as our coach and being with us in our trip. Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as we did. It really helped our game having you with us.
& All the people who chanted us vs LLL Game 4 and our supporters.
Some other pics:
Giant and the small guy
Relaxing in the lobby
The team @ BYOC section
Food after the game?
Written by Juho ZaoC Uusitalo [View Blog]
Juho ZaoC Uusitalo [View Blog]| AEF - Day 2 and Conclusionwritten by on 21:33 - 02.08.2010 |
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The day started very early as we woke up at 6.30am, just in time to grab a shower, some breakfast and head down to the event ready for our game at 8.00am this morning. We knew that where ever we finished in our group yesterday we were in for facing a top 5 seeded team, but just unlucky I guess…
Playoffs vs. NCC-Esports
woken sporting his Cyborg Keyboard (V1) as he plays vs. NCC[/img]
Our first game was against NCC-Esports, a local team that had been in good form throughout the group stages of the tournament. The match started off evenly as we both exchanged rounds, before NCC took a small lead moving into the second half. Moving towards the end of the game the action did not cease as both ourselves and the NCC side went toe to toe before our guys finally gained a 3 point lead at 12-9.
The match looked pretty much over until the NCC fight back ensued, a tense couple of rounds resulted in the Belgian side reducing the 3 point deficit down to just 1, and an opportunity to take the game into overtime. Fortunately the lads were able to keep their composure and secure the final round, winning the game 13-11 and moving on to face a very strong Power Gaming side.
Playoffs vs. Power Gaming
The game versus Power started almost ideally with sone very fast rounds as we secured a 6-2 lead before Power called a timeout due to paradox having some mouse trouble. To show good sportsmanship we also used our timeout and delayed some more to help the PwR guys sort out their problems. I honestly think that this worked completely in their favour as we lost all momentum and continued to lose all the following rounds after the restart, losing our map (Citystreets) in the end by a score of 13-9.
Moving onto Power Gaming’s map, we were not looking forward to it as we knew how strong they are on a map which isn’t overly liked by most teams in the scene, Crossfire. After starting pretty evenly, PwR started to take a convincing lead as they showed exactly why this is their strongest map. Power Gaming won Crossfire 13-6 and the match 2-0.
Event Reflection
Overall, I was very impressed with this, the first Gamevibes-ran tournament that I have attended. I personally thought that the Gamevibes staff were excellent in both their handling of technical issues to the running of the tournament in general. They ensured that not only did we usually run on time, but also ahead of schedule for the most part.
Although disappointed with the result, a good weekend nonetheless and a perfect opportunity for us to showcase some of the new Cyborg gear. I sit here, in the large Screen room which caters 2 huge screens and the final stage, wondering “what if?”. What if we had not been so unlucky with the bracket? Well, as I have always said to the teams, if you want to be the best then you have to beat everyone – unfortunately we weren’t strong enough to advance past Power on this occasion.
Playoffs vs. NCC-Esports
Match Info:
woken sporting his Cyborg Keyboard (V1) as he plays vs. NCC[/img]Our first game was against NCC-Esports, a local team that had been in good form throughout the group stages of the tournament. The match started off evenly as we both exchanged rounds, before NCC took a small lead moving into the second half. Moving towards the end of the game the action did not cease as both ourselves and the NCC side went toe to toe before our guys finally gained a 3 point lead at 12-9.
What everyone was playing for...[/img]
The match looked pretty much over until the NCC fight back ensued, a tense couple of rounds resulted in the Belgian side reducing the 3 point deficit down to just 1, and an opportunity to take the game into overtime. Fortunately the lads were able to keep their composure and secure the final round, winning the game 13-11 and moving on to face a very strong Power Gaming side.
Playoffs vs. Power Gaming
Match Info:
Power Gaming
The game versus Power started almost ideally with sone very fast rounds as we secured a 6-2 lead before Power called a timeout due to paradox having some mouse trouble. To show good sportsmanship we also used our timeout and delayed some more to help the PwR guys sort out their problems. I honestly think that this worked completely in their favour as we lost all momentum and continued to lose all the following rounds after the restart, losing our map (Citystreets) in the end by a score of 13-9.
Moving onto Power Gaming’s map, we were not looking forward to it as we knew how strong they are on a map which isn’t overly liked by most teams in the scene, Crossfire. After starting pretty evenly, PwR started to take a convincing lead as they showed exactly why this is their strongest map. Power Gaming won Crossfire 13-6 and the match 2-0.
Event Reflection
Overall, I was very impressed with this, the first Gamevibes-ran tournament that I have attended. I personally thought that the Gamevibes staff were excellent in both their handling of technical issues to the running of the tournament in general. They ensured that not only did we usually run on time, but also ahead of schedule for the most part.
The spectators look on...
Not a bad "LANView" from the balcony of the event
ReDeYe prepares himself, presenting and casting the ESL action
Although disappointed with the result, a good weekend nonetheless and a perfect opportunity for us to showcase some of the new Cyborg gear. I sit here, in the large Screen room which caters 2 huge screens and the final stage, wondering “what if?”. What if we had not been so unlucky with the bracket? Well, as I have always said to the teams, if you want to be the best then you have to beat everyone – unfortunately we weren’t strong enough to advance past Power on this occasion.
Written by Craig walkah Walker [View Blog]
Craig walkah Walker [View Blog]
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