Life = Work, dota, more dota, etc.
But since today I'm on MC due to having a migraine, I thought I'd take this precious little free time that I have, to blog about my experience at the Major All Stars tournament.
1. It's the first large-scale LAN tournament in Malaysia, so it'd be good to keep memories of it.
2. Sharon blogged about her experience here as well, so I felt super motivated to write and record my own perspective on the event!
DAY 1
We arrived in the morning of Day 1 as CSW's guests - each player gets to bring in 1 guest under the 'Sponsors' tag, so basically Sam, Chalky and I attended the event for free! (Big shoutout to CSW, especially our beloved hottie Adam aka 343!)
Here's what the inside of the venue looked like. Basically the clothed (?) chairs right in the front were the VIP seats, and the plastic chairs behind the red tape were the Gold seats. Regular ticket holders sat on the tiered stadium seating, which IMO was way better than the Gold seats; although they were further from the big screens, they had the privilege of not being blocked by the rows in front, like the floor seating was.
Where did I sit?
As guests of the players, we had the honour of hanging out in the Players Lounge, away from the plebs. /flips hair
(I'm kidding, guys)
Now, what and where is this player's lounge, you may ask.
Do you see those light-up LED cubes in red and blue in between the 2 sections of clothed VIP chairs? Yeap, those are our VVVVIP seats.
And let me tell you, those seats are a FUCKING PAIN IN THE ASS.
Firstly, there was no back to lean back on. Secondly, the screens were way above eye-level for floor seating, so we had to crane our necks backwards just to watch the games. Thirdly, the plastic is super hard on bony asses like mine, and I was so butthurt (hurhur) after a few hours, that we all just left the Player's Lounge to sit on the VIP seats. /eyeroll
This was our view from the Player's Lounge, no zoom.
Anyway, as many of you may have heard, Day 1 of MAS was an absolute fucking disaster. A total of 1.25 games were played before their servers got short-circuited and blew out the entire setup.
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| O hai there, unable to connect to Steam Network? |
If you don't recognize this familiar sight, you obviously don't play enough Dota so GTFO. :P
With nothing else to do, we just roamed around the venue a bit, munching on overpriced snacks (WTF RM4 for ONE sausage?!).
Anyway, they officially announced that Day 1 was a bust around 4-5pm. Before we departed for the hotel, we saw a small group of people crowding around the back of the Player's Lounge. It was NiP!!!
I've always been a fan of NiP CS, but I didn't really know the Dota 2 crew (besides Era) as they're fairly new. But they looked super friendly and were SUPER layan to the other fans around them, so Sharon and I asked for a picture, which they gladly obliged! Limmp holding my shoulder hurhurrhur
BUT ERA WAS GONE.
Some people told me he fell asleep on some chairs after the ultra-long wait for the games that ended up not happening :/ Anyway, I resolved to find him the next day!
Throughout Day 1, I was really surprised to find that a lot of people wanted to take a picture with me! O__O I knew that I'd run into a couple of people from my stream and Twitter, but there were a whole bunch of you who came up to me also...hen paiseh leh!
Then some of you cheebyes don't know how to reply when I ask who are you/what's your name :( CAN MORE AWKWARD OK!
'You don't know one la!' is not a legit answer!
Don't know also can introduce one ma!
Haha but anyway thank you for saying hi to me :D I had this problem in the past where people would pm me saying 'I saw you the other day but I was scared to say hi'...probably because I suffer from RBF aka Resting Bitch Face.
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| Photo credits to Budi Lim |
Also, thanks to those crazy people who let me sign on their mouse pads! What the fuck were y'all thinking letting a random person like me sign next to the likes of Era and Limmp and god knows who else?
But what the heck, thanks for making me feel like a celebrity for a day LOL /taktaupaiseh :D
The bad part of this mouse pad signing thing though hor, was that I was poking my phone when they came up to me, so to grab the pen, I had to put my phone down on the chair next to me.
Then later on, I realized my phone was GONE!
W.T.F.
I was slightly hysterical, jumping up and down and raging + freaking out.
Then I asked kooribunny (that's the dude with the Brewmaster shirt up there) about it, and he said there were some guys who were asking around if anyone lost a phone...and then I calmed down a bit knowing that the people who picked up my phone had no intentions to run off with it (it's not an iPhone ma...no resale value one D':).
The best part was that my phone was malfunctioning so you cannot hear the voice of any person who was calling, AND it had a lock screen so you can't even open it to check my identity!
To cut a long story short, the unknown Good Samaritans handed my phone over to entrance security and that's where I managed to get it back safe and sound. :D
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| Faith restored in humanity, indeed! |
I guess whoever it was doesn't know my page because there was no response :P But I would like to take this chance to thank that person again for being a decent human being ^__^
And that concludes Day 1 of my experience at MAS! I was going to do all 3 days right here in this post, but I realize it's already too long (and I don't have many photos from Day 1 to break it up) so I'll leave Day 2 and 3 for next time!
Also, my ranked match has just started SOOOOOOOO
BYE!
Lol :D
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