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Tournaments  /  29 Nov 2007, 15:13
I am in Stockholm
So, here I am in the "Gallerian" -- the Stockholm shopping mall...
I am having my first beer, meeting my first swede -- LethalWiz -- who exceeded my expectations. I expected a scrawny short thin LG hamster. Instead I met some dude with half a goatee and an American accent, who repeatedly offers to carry my bags. His LG is probably stronger than his arms, though. Which reminds me: I will also be going to QHLan, and there I want to conduct a "flash Lightning Gun Championship", where the contestant has a small amount of tries against the LGC2 frogbot. LethalWiz would have a chance, but if interceptor shows up it will be tough to beat him. Especially now that sfinx has bested interceptor's crazy 11k score, a feat I thought to be impossible. That's in the future though; currently i hope the phase of lugging my [bleep] around will stop, and the LAN will begin. Soon, I will meet bps, eta and the favorite to win it all: reppie.

LethalWiz is currently overloading my brain with who is the favorite: locust or reppie. Whoever it is, it will probably be one of the main highlight matchups. But there is quite a number of competent players in the player pool that I can guarantee exciting matches during the entire playoff bracket. And this LAN is also a great prelude to QHLan that will commence in a month.

In other news, I must say that Swedish beer is: good. The rest is very much like the states, at least New York, but without the tall buildings and the really fat people. The city layout is even similar, with a fusion of islands and mainland. What is the experience of someone traveling a long way to a LAN? Excrutiating: so far I have probably spent more on coffee and on-demand wifi than I have for the entire plane ticket. Ok, that is exaggeration, but it takes a lot of will power to do something like this, and in the next couple of days I will know if it is worth it. So far it is, because Sweden is great.
Comments
2007-11-29, 15:54
iiiiiiiiiiii:;=) im liking it! bring it on!
2007-11-29, 16:38
Reppie or locust? Thats not very difficult, unless someone breaks both his arms reppie should cut through the DH-tourney like a hot knife through butter .. the kid's in the shape of his life. There are a few unknowns surrounding the rest of the playerpool however, but as I see it reppie can beat any player on any map which must make him the favorite. Locust has dm4 and aero going for him, dm6 and ztndm3 is in his strong lg but dm2 is plain average. Reppie is also particularly strong on dm4 and aero but has well rounded skills on dm2, dm6 and ztndm3. So far he also has a good record against lg-specialists (exception of muti).

One also has to count in LAN tournament experience: so in my book it's all reppie.
2007-11-29, 16:48
eztvl url > http://87.76.246.151:25000/nowplaying/
2007-11-29, 16:54
pics or it didn't happen!!!!1111
2007-11-29, 17:58
pics coming soon
2007-11-29, 19:59
cool dude!!!
2007-11-29, 23:24
Nice blog. Kinda wish I'd updated my REC-LAN diary on the fly too rather than all in one go at the end.

BTW: If you get time, I'd recommend the bus tour of Stockholm (departs outside the opera house or something like that). Has multilanguage audio feed that explains about the city and it's features as you travel about.
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