the trip Saturday morning we met with JT and Katrine, loaded the car with a ridiculous amount of snacks and edibles. The reason why we decided to go on saturday (and not sunday, which is when the grand finals are held) is that it was on saturday the Starcraft Round of 16 would be played, and we wanted to see more than only one game (but we couldnt). We got into the car and tried to find our way to Cologne. After some wrong-turns and alot of laughter and discussion in the car, we arrived. The trip itself was really fun, we discussed movies and genres. We had some problems to find our way to the parking place but after some minutes driving around we found it! And we started walking towards the buss that would take us to WORLD CYBER GAMES 2008, WOHOO!!! inside When we entered the huge hall, we were just in time to see JaeDong vs Stork on the mainstage! So we hurried over there and found ourselves some seats. To our (huuuge) disappointment, Tasteless was only casting for the online-stream, so we were stuck with german commentary. The game started and it was really exciting. The german commentary wasnt bad, but it would have been 1.000.000 times better with Tasteless. After the first game, JaeDong was in a 1-0 lead and Tonia and I headed towards Tasteless to say hi. His voice was all broken, he screamed alot during the game I guess. Cant wait to rewatch the game with his casting, the games are uploaded now but Im gona wait till Toni comes home so we can watch it together. Anyway, we talked to tasteless, he told us that he would unfortunately not cast any other games than these ones.

Oh btw, everyone who have followed Averatec-Intel Classic 2008 Season 2 knows about the legendary Pandabearguy! Toni and I had made a sign that said "Save the Pandabearguy!" and when Tasteless saw it he fell inlove and asked if he could have it, he wanted to put it on his wall at home, rofl, I was so proud and happy ^^. Then we had to go back to our seats, game 2 was about to start.
Stork won the next two games, JaeDong was out of the tournament, sucks :/ The games were really cool though, the audience really added to the atmosphere, it was huge! What annoyed me though was that whoever was in control of the main-stage-screen decided to show us a shoot of the audience/player-faces/random shit in the most exciting situations, really sucky.

After the games I went to talk to Tasteless again, he signed my Broodwar CD and seemed to be very nervous, I guess hes not used to this kind of publicity, more people wanted to talk to him and have pictures etc than with the actual gamers. Europe <3 Tasteless!



after the starcraft action..

After Starcraft, we watched some Warcraft3 games, Moon vs some chinese guy, then we walked around to check out the rest of the event. We stopped by at the Counter-Strike stage because some game was about to start, but it was really boring to watch, no crazy commentary. We had a good time walking around and watching stuff. We walked by a stage on which you could go up and play Guitar Hero 3 ^^; I suck, but I gave it a try anyway, so did JT, he sucked more! ;D But we still owned, ofc. The crowd (our gf's) loved us!



It was a great experience and I had lots of fun, I dont think it would have been worth to be there all the 4 days though, it would have been too long. Well, then we took a group picture and headed towards home!



random stuff

I need to finish this up so I can distract myself to get rid of the guilty conscience for not going to work today :o (or mby run and catch the buss? hmm)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VLAD!!! Today its Vladimirius birthday, gz gz!

Dake goes Daddy! Gz!

N!ckChanger is my hero. Thanks mate for all the help!

I am so VEEEEERY inlove with Antonia!! :)

edit: Just found at that Ryman also goes daddy! GRATZ!