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@ 29th June 2008 16:52.
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(Updated: 29th June 2008 17:19)
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Ok, so what happened since last time?
More waiting
Well, first off: Schiphol is not as funny as it sounds like >_< not after 7 hours, and another delayed flight. We had to wait for an hour before we could part and then we couldn't fly straight for some reason, so instead of 1:15 flight, we got 1:30.
This meant that when I finally landed, and tried to find the buses, there was only one poor little mess of a girl in the information desk at the airport in Paris who hardly spoke English at all. Took me about 10 minutes to make her realize where I wanted to go, and another ten to give me directions that I understood. She did NOT have a map over Paris or the airport, great.
It worked though, I got to the hotel, texted Scott for like 3-4 hours, ran out of credit on my cell, went up to his room, knocked the door in (almost) waited some more, rang him, and THEN I figured it might be nice to get some more credit for my cell. SO I went online at the hotel, in the lobby they had some random thing. 15 minutes costed me 19:75 euros, anyone wanna do the maths for me? (=EXPENSIVE!)
Anyhow, it ended up with me finally reaching Mazor, and I finally got some sleep, around 1am.
Shuttle buses are very nice creatures
So, we woke up, got read and went down to the lobby around 8:00 cet, but of course we did not end up on a bus to the event area until somewhen after 9 am. I did talk to a very nice guy in the lobby, though, I don't remember his name, but he was some sort of a journalist in an online paper, focusing on gaming. The bus in question was veeery small, and full of Asians who talked a lot, pretty loudly. Their translator or something helped us find the way to the press entrance before disappearing totally, I haven't seen her since.
Right before we went inside we saw some people walking by, and Mazor stopped one of them to say hi, when I turned around I saw for myself it was Mondragon. Number one on the list of people I knew would be there. Inside we met Manifesto7, chill and Kennigit from TL while waiting for our press badges. I sat down, the first thing I did was sitting down at one of the press rooms' SC2 computers to play. I'll write more about that later, because I simply can't put it into words yet. But I did indeed play SC2. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
People are awesome
Inside the press room we started booting up out computers and Mazor left early to get good seats for the opening ceremony that would - at least so we heard - include the announcement of Blizzard's new game.
I saw The1Crow from MyMYM, and ended up going with him and his partner in crime for the event, Sophie, when they went out to the event area looking at stuff. Saw Manifesto7 walking by and was so happy that I recognised someone that I went over there to say hi, and ended up standing face to face to Tasteless. We walked around and looked a bit at the place before heading over to where the player room, but unfortunately I didn't get in there, OR backstage on the main stage, so I went over to Mazor and found our seats. There were a lot of SC fansite people there, such as the guys from SC2 Forum, SC.org and SC legacy.
A pretty cool ceremony and awesome announcement of another game that we are not covering later I again stood without anything to do, until I realized that time was almost 1pm, meaning the SC tournament's first match would be played on stage upstairs very soon. Grabbed the camera and went up there, took a lot of pictures (two of them actually got published, WOW!!) and watched some pretty good and casted StarCraft games.
After some guys wanted Tasteless' autograph and like some of you may know, I've been wanting one of those for YEARS so I finally got one. I'm gonna put ont he wall or something. Maybe sleep with it underneath my pillow! :D
Bierded Americans, pigeons and kebab
A little later I finally met up with Scott, after a pretty long while with not knowing where he was, but that he was at the event. Earlier he referred to himself as "the bearded guy with all the piercings" which actually turned out quite true. It seems as if lack of communication from the day before were just misunderstandings and the phone line not working properly for me in Paris, so I'm hardly mad at him anymore. Hardly.
Him, together with the other "WGTour people" (baal, jaap, error and jump) were heading out for lunch so I tagged along. Kebab in France, tastes just like chicken, I promise! I actually told Alex about that later on, and he didn't even know what kebab was, he refused to believe he'd eat some "random French food" :D Scott played with the pigeons while the rest of us social beings finished our lunch and when the whine got too much we started to head back to the WWI area.
No TL.net meeting for me
After that I watched some more games, took some more pictures, talked to some more people, you know. The usual event stuff. And went to a pretty good Q&A discussion thing with the other fansite invitees, together with Karune from Blizzard. You know, just random stuff. ;)
When it got a little later, I suddenly had to make up my mind about what to do during the evening but after a lot of asking around and whatnot I ended up being way too tired to do anything fancy or even partying-LIKE so I went with the GE people to have pizza somewhere close to the hotel. I paid 11 euros for a pizza, never thought that day would come :D
Got back to the hotel around midnight and fell asleep right away, apparently I can sleep alright here.
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