Hmm… How should I put this? It didn’t turned out what I thought it would be but it wasn’t too bad either. Right now, I’m blogging at 5.40am. Just woke up from a short sleep.
I woke up at 8am. Packed my stuff. The Transpo that came with my goodybag turned out to be useful. Made carrying my computer around much more easier. We had to bring our own keyboards. And for once, I found out how fucking dusty and filthy it was. Most of my room was in darkness. I didn’t need light for my keyboard anymore. I’m finally used to typing without looking at the keyboard. [:D]. 9.30am, a guy, I assume he’s one of the organisers, called up and said the chartered bus will arrive at the designated pick up point in about 20 minutes.
Reached the place where the lan party would be held. Met up with an IRC friend for the first time. Signed in and went to the tables we chose. The area is too damn cramp. Since the party was held at Funan IT Mall, we were always watched by lots of people. I’ll post a pic when I get home.
We weren’t able to play for the first few hours. Seems like they did not prepare enough power for all the computers. Power cables and LAN cables are all over the floor. They hired a radio DJ to host and no one’s listening to him. We had a 15 year old gamer by the nick of Ducky, who happens to be the second best Warcraft 3 player in the world, spent most of the time playing cards with his friends.
The games played by the majority were WarCraft 3 + Frozen Throne Expansion, Counterstrike 1.5, Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo. Everyone besides us were at least very good in 1 of the above. My friend and I, being casual gamers, were trashed in every game we played. We would be raped in WC3. Sniped within the millisecond of spotting and AWP(sniper rifle) user in CS. Easily fragged in UT2K4. But we didn’t care. We came just to play anyways.
Out of a maximum of 50, 49 seats were registered. But seems like a few didn’t turn up. Over S$10,000 worth of hardware are to be given away as prizes. I would be fucking pleased if I won a Surface 1030 mousepad.
7am: I feel much better now. I had been plagued by an awful headache for about 10 hours. Neither the cappucino from CoffeeBean nor the free flow of coffee they provide was able to keep my headache away. I’m addicted to my usual brand of coffee I suppose.
The CS players are still playing CS! If it were me, I would have grown bored after 2 hours. I’m not a hardcore gamer afterall.
9am: Haha, no one’s playing games anymore. Everyone’s either falling asleep, chatting away or watching movies. Everyone wants to go home. I wonder what made the organisers expect teens to stay throughout the whole night and still be able to stay awake for the next 11 hours gaming all the way.