Post by dinh0 on Oct 17, 2019 14:59:36 GMT
Ok, hey guys! As promised I will try to make a little blogg about my trip to the motherland.
It all started a few months ago when there was two qualifers for the EU-region, which I one one of them. Later on I had to deffend my spot two times, first against Bakuryu (4-1) and vs Cryoc (4-0).
I was really back and forth if I should sell my spot to the highest bidder, which would probably earn me more money than going to Russia. I decided to say fuck it, not that often you get this chance. Really glad i manned up and went.
The months flew by and next to no preparation were done, due to work and school
I left my home around 3 pm to the local airport, flew to Schipol, Amsterdam first. Waited there for a few hours and just before I was suppose to board the flight to Moscow it hit me. What the fuck are a 30 year old Norwegian doing travelling alone to Russia. A country I know next to nothing about other than its run by Putin and yes, its corrupted as fuck.
This is Thursday. I arrived at the hotel around 4 am, Rus_Brain picked me up, we had some food and he drove me to the hotel.
Went kinda straight to bed after I got to my room, tried watching some TV, but everything was in russian. My room was 27 degrees and no way to turn it down. Opened the window and you could hear all of Moscow.
Friday morning I woke up, no idea what to do and a bit scared. Checked the discord and saw that most of the guy i knew were at the hotel had already went down to the PC-Club. Once again I had to man up. Around 11 am I downloaded a app called yandex taxi, which was really easy to use. Called for it and went down to Black Star Gaming Club where we were going to play. There I met up with Rapid, Hawk, Mai and Artosis. Played some games and we went to eat.
We got back to the hotel around 8 pm and i was exhausted. The Polish guys, trutacz and zzero said i had to come to their room. I was like... ehm, i kinda just wanna sleep and relax, wait for Oya. Then Agge wrote to me and said he got whiskey, so i went down to his room. His room was much nicer than anyone else, so his room became senter of attention. We drank whiskey, talked alot and had a blast. Glad i went there. Realized i couldn't be stuck at my room with my dick in my hand. Pretty much everyone was there, not everyone was drinking, but nearly everyone. The crazy russians Casper and Silver were smoking weed and talking about PARTY PARTY, crazy guys, but nice guys =)
Saturday morning: Me and Oya figured out the metro system and went down to the PC-club. Got ourself a computer next to each other and started playing some warmup games. My first game was ladder vs Tresha (LOLOLOLOL). He asked who i was, i said Dandy. Ofcourse he lost and raged.
Game 1 vs Terror: Power Bond. I feel this was a game i should have won, but he did proxy starport vs me, so i paniced. I had a 11 scv advantage, but he got back into the game.
Game 2 vs Tokyoa: TvZ on FS. No big problems there, game was over in 10 minutes.
Game 3 vs Terror: Terror lost vs spx, so we had a rematch. I had my plan in my head, unlucky for me he knew what it was with his barrack and wraith scouting. This game he just stomped me.
After the RO16 was done, there was hosted a "loosers bracket" for those who lost. This was made by Silver, and 1000 RUB buy in (15 dollars).
challonge.com/d45c2ify here is the brackets. I won this tournament and was pretty much freerolling the rest of the trip (food and drinks).
I dont have any replays from this tournament, but the games was pretty one sided tbh.
Sunday, Finals: Me and Oya was super tired, so we didnt make it down there for RO8 until it was down the semis. We sat and watched the big screen for some time, then we rented a computer and played some games too.
I sat right over Terror and Bonyths computers while they were playing their final. Both looked super calm. Especially Bonyth who had Casper and Oya behind them talking pretty much the whole time.
This was the time we realized Eonzerg had left home too, he took his looses super bad. Feel bad for him, he is really emotional and Casper and Silver had been keeping him up. I wont go into details about this, he talked about it on his stream earlier this week.
Most of the guys went out to eat and drink, i assumed this involved some russian raves with Casper, so me and Oya backed out. We went back to the hotel, like some pussies. We later found out that they just went for dinner and went back to the hotel. Bonyth was super drunk. We ended up drinking vodka in zzzero and trutacz room til 6.30 AM or so, me and zzzero carried Bonyth back to his hotel room and woke up Koget which he shared room with.
Monday:
Someone told us that Hatchet would meet us in the hotel lobby 11 am. I got up after 3 hours sleep, Oya was impossible to wake up. Hatchet didnt come, so me, hawk, agge and Mai took the metro to Kremlin and explored the sites. This is were i got hustled for the first time by two babushka ladies who wanted to take a photo. I was still sort of drunk and didnt realize what happened until i had paid them 4000 RUB (60 dollar). Most expensive pictures i ever took. After that i was like NO NO NONO NO NO NO photos. We saw where Putin lived, some super old photos of jesus that was about 5-600 years old. We met Rapid and Artosis there too, so we all went out to eat.
Back at the hotel we rested abit before me, BobbMalcom, Rapid, Artosis and zzzero went to a japaneese resturant to eat. We talked and drink, had a good laugh before we went back to the hotel and said our good byes. I later that night met up again with Oya who went to the red circle with Rus_Brain because he slept so long =). They had been to some planetarium, and watched outer space. Oya was really impressed by it.
Tuesday:
Time to head back home. I left the hotel at 12.30 pm and my flight was leaving at 5 pm. I soon found my gate and realized i had to wait for some hours. Unfortunately my flight was delayed and I missed my flight in Amsterdam back to Ålesund. They arranged a hotel and a buss for me. I had some food and went to bed. Got up the day after, took a shower and went to the airport. Short summary: I left my hotel in Moscow 15.10 at 12.30 pm and was home in my appartment the 16.10 18.30 pm. Some long travelling.
If you have some questions, please feel free to ask! =)
It all started a few months ago when there was two qualifers for the EU-region, which I one one of them. Later on I had to deffend my spot two times, first against Bakuryu (4-1) and vs Cryoc (4-0).
I was really back and forth if I should sell my spot to the highest bidder, which would probably earn me more money than going to Russia. I decided to say fuck it, not that often you get this chance. Really glad i manned up and went.
The months flew by and next to no preparation were done, due to work and school
I left my home around 3 pm to the local airport, flew to Schipol, Amsterdam first. Waited there for a few hours and just before I was suppose to board the flight to Moscow it hit me. What the fuck are a 30 year old Norwegian doing travelling alone to Russia. A country I know next to nothing about other than its run by Putin and yes, its corrupted as fuck.
This is Thursday. I arrived at the hotel around 4 am, Rus_Brain picked me up, we had some food and he drove me to the hotel.
Went kinda straight to bed after I got to my room, tried watching some TV, but everything was in russian. My room was 27 degrees and no way to turn it down. Opened the window and you could hear all of Moscow.
Friday morning I woke up, no idea what to do and a bit scared. Checked the discord and saw that most of the guy i knew were at the hotel had already went down to the PC-Club. Once again I had to man up. Around 11 am I downloaded a app called yandex taxi, which was really easy to use. Called for it and went down to Black Star Gaming Club where we were going to play. There I met up with Rapid, Hawk, Mai and Artosis. Played some games and we went to eat.
We got back to the hotel around 8 pm and i was exhausted. The Polish guys, trutacz and zzero said i had to come to their room. I was like... ehm, i kinda just wanna sleep and relax, wait for Oya. Then Agge wrote to me and said he got whiskey, so i went down to his room. His room was much nicer than anyone else, so his room became senter of attention. We drank whiskey, talked alot and had a blast. Glad i went there. Realized i couldn't be stuck at my room with my dick in my hand. Pretty much everyone was there, not everyone was drinking, but nearly everyone. The crazy russians Casper and Silver were smoking weed and talking about PARTY PARTY, crazy guys, but nice guys =)
Saturday morning: Me and Oya figured out the metro system and went down to the PC-club. Got ourself a computer next to each other and started playing some warmup games. My first game was ladder vs Tresha (LOLOLOLOL). He asked who i was, i said Dandy. Ofcourse he lost and raged.
Game 1 vs Terror: Power Bond. I feel this was a game i should have won, but he did proxy starport vs me, so i paniced. I had a 11 scv advantage, but he got back into the game.
Game 2 vs Tokyoa: TvZ on FS. No big problems there, game was over in 10 minutes.
Game 3 vs Terror: Terror lost vs spx, so we had a rematch. I had my plan in my head, unlucky for me he knew what it was with his barrack and wraith scouting. This game he just stomped me.
After the RO16 was done, there was hosted a "loosers bracket" for those who lost. This was made by Silver, and 1000 RUB buy in (15 dollars).
challonge.com/d45c2ify here is the brackets. I won this tournament and was pretty much freerolling the rest of the trip (food and drinks).
I dont have any replays from this tournament, but the games was pretty one sided tbh.
Sunday, Finals: Me and Oya was super tired, so we didnt make it down there for RO8 until it was down the semis. We sat and watched the big screen for some time, then we rented a computer and played some games too.
I sat right over Terror and Bonyths computers while they were playing their final. Both looked super calm. Especially Bonyth who had Casper and Oya behind them talking pretty much the whole time.
This was the time we realized Eonzerg had left home too, he took his looses super bad. Feel bad for him, he is really emotional and Casper and Silver had been keeping him up. I wont go into details about this, he talked about it on his stream earlier this week.
Most of the guys went out to eat and drink, i assumed this involved some russian raves with Casper, so me and Oya backed out. We went back to the hotel, like some pussies. We later found out that they just went for dinner and went back to the hotel. Bonyth was super drunk. We ended up drinking vodka in zzzero and trutacz room til 6.30 AM or so, me and zzzero carried Bonyth back to his hotel room and woke up Koget which he shared room with.
Monday:
Someone told us that Hatchet would meet us in the hotel lobby 11 am. I got up after 3 hours sleep, Oya was impossible to wake up. Hatchet didnt come, so me, hawk, agge and Mai took the metro to Kremlin and explored the sites. This is were i got hustled for the first time by two babushka ladies who wanted to take a photo. I was still sort of drunk and didnt realize what happened until i had paid them 4000 RUB (60 dollar). Most expensive pictures i ever took. After that i was like NO NO NONO NO NO NO photos. We saw where Putin lived, some super old photos of jesus that was about 5-600 years old. We met Rapid and Artosis there too, so we all went out to eat.
Back at the hotel we rested abit before me, BobbMalcom, Rapid, Artosis and zzzero went to a japaneese resturant to eat. We talked and drink, had a good laugh before we went back to the hotel and said our good byes. I later that night met up again with Oya who went to the red circle with Rus_Brain because he slept so long =). They had been to some planetarium, and watched outer space. Oya was really impressed by it.
Tuesday:
Time to head back home. I left the hotel at 12.30 pm and my flight was leaving at 5 pm. I soon found my gate and realized i had to wait for some hours. Unfortunately my flight was delayed and I missed my flight in Amsterdam back to Ålesund. They arranged a hotel and a buss for me. I had some food and went to bed. Got up the day after, took a shower and went to the airport. Short summary: I left my hotel in Moscow 15.10 at 12.30 pm and was home in my appartment the 16.10 18.30 pm. Some long travelling.
If you have some questions, please feel free to ask! =)
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