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5vs5 World Finals at Blizzcon
By Stefan 'zeksy' Baudin
Aug 1, 2007 03:51
Hello again. My plan was to blog pretty often during our preparation for Blizzcon to keep people updated but I simply had no time or energy to do that. We have been practising really hard for this tournament except when Dosferra went to Amsterdam for a week, but then I played 3vs3 with Tarde and Daimx instead. On top of that I have been working some, its summer outside and there is a girl that wants my attention now and then for some reason.
My flight leaves in about 2 hours from now so I'm leaving soon and have a really long trip ahead of me, but the destination is sweet as hell. The John Wayne Airport (I'm not joking, check www.ocair.com out) in Orange County, California USA. I'm talking THE REAL OC here baby, Laguna Beach! I bet that it will be EXACTLY like on MTV, for sure!
But speaking of WoW our preparation has been going pretty good if you ask me, and of course you do. We played really nice after Hamburg, and until Dosferra stabbed us all and went to Amsterdam we had a win percentage of ~90% and were #1 in the battlegroup. But after he came back (about one week ago) we played really bad for a couple of days, losing a lot of games in a row sometimes. We felt pretty bad then and were worried that we might not get back in shape before Blizzcon. But we did. Last couple of days we have been playing solid again, really good sometimes and no losing streaks at all. We came back from 2060 rating and we now have 2299 rating and are #2 in the notorious Cyclone Battlegroup a.k.a BG3. We were as high as 2346 but took a couple of stupid losses while not paying attention. No biggie though, we are pretty happy with how we have been playing lately. Especially considering that we use no addons at all.
We have been switching between melee and caster Shaman while practising and we will probably use both types at Blizzcon, depending on what teams we face. Versus some teams we might even respec between games. By doing this our Shaman can’t have the best possible gear though as he has to buy both melee and caster gear, but we believe that the possibilities respecing gives us outweigh this.
I'm personally aiming for #1 but Top 3 would be pretty decent, anything less than that would be a huge disappointment for us all though. We should beat Pandemic in the first game as they have a pretty gimped setup, but you never know. Millenium got their Priest disqualified and replaced with a Rogue also and they almost beat us and Nashwan anyway, not the same setups otherwise though. We lose cuz Darok sucks however have a solid setup and that will not be an easy fight at all. They beat the American favourites The Fighting Mongooses with 3-1 in the US regional, and TFM used the exact same setup as we do. So that will be a very hard task for us, if we get to play them.
Anyways, soon the theory crafting is all over. Soon we know who the winners of the 5vs5 World Finals are. Soon we know if we will drink with joy or just to drown our sorrows. Soon I have to leave for the airport so I better start packing my stuff now, see you.
I am going to Disneyland!
My flight leaves in about 2 hours from now so I'm leaving soon and have a really long trip ahead of me, but the destination is sweet as hell. The John Wayne Airport (I'm not joking, check www.ocair.com out) in Orange County, California USA. I'm talking THE REAL OC here baby, Laguna Beach! I bet that it will be EXACTLY like on MTV, for sure!
But speaking of WoW our preparation has been going pretty good if you ask me, and of course you do. We played really nice after Hamburg, and until Dosferra stabbed us all and went to Amsterdam we had a win percentage of ~90% and were #1 in the battlegroup. But after he came back (about one week ago) we played really bad for a couple of days, losing a lot of games in a row sometimes. We felt pretty bad then and were worried that we might not get back in shape before Blizzcon. But we did. Last couple of days we have been playing solid again, really good sometimes and no losing streaks at all. We came back from 2060 rating and we now have 2299 rating and are #2 in the notorious Cyclone Battlegroup a.k.a BG3. We were as high as 2346 but took a couple of stupid losses while not paying attention. No biggie though, we are pretty happy with how we have been playing lately. Especially considering that we use no addons at all.
We have been switching between melee and caster Shaman while practising and we will probably use both types at Blizzcon, depending on what teams we face. Versus some teams we might even respec between games. By doing this our Shaman can’t have the best possible gear though as he has to buy both melee and caster gear, but we believe that the possibilities respecing gives us outweigh this.
I'm personally aiming for #1 but Top 3 would be pretty decent, anything less than that would be a huge disappointment for us all though. We should beat Pandemic in the first game as they have a pretty gimped setup, but you never know. Millenium got their Priest disqualified and replaced with a Rogue also and they almost beat us and Nashwan anyway, not the same setups otherwise though. We lose cuz Darok sucks however have a solid setup and that will not be an easy fight at all. They beat the American favourites The Fighting Mongooses with 3-1 in the US regional, and TFM used the exact same setup as we do. So that will be a very hard task for us, if we get to play them.
Anyways, soon the theory crafting is all over. Soon we know who the winners of the 5vs5 World Finals are. Soon we know if we will drink with joy or just to drown our sorrows. Soon I have to leave for the airport so I better start packing my stuff now, see you.
I am going to Disneyland!
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Driving in the sun
Looking out for #1
California here we come
Californiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Here we coooooome!
Except for me...
I'm 20 and in the civilized parts of the world that is enough by far for drinking but not in the US. QQ
GOGO SK Guys, best of luck!
Even if they have a different setup than usual, they will still be on top of their game. It's gonna be a very tough match. (pandemic managed to get qualified for blizzcon at the US regionals with the exact same lineup, against teams that prooved themselves as the top of the bill in the US)
With that being said, I wish Sk the best of luck and I hope u can make EU proud. But don't underestimate Pandemic just cuz they have 4 dps classes now, they steamrolled the other teams with the same combo aswell.
Now we will got to the pool and chill for a while as it is +32c outside. Then we will eat some together with the blizzard guys and the other players, maybe have a couple of beers also. Tomorrow we will play against Pandemic and it's a game that we must win. The Pandemic guys say that they will lose for sure but I know better than to underestimate them. We CAN still lose though, if everything goes wrong. Lets just hope it does not.
Cya!
Remember to take pictures of the food!
Dallas never forget!
-Honkytonk
The wather is really good, just too bad we have to stay inside all day. I wanna go to the pool damnit! =)
We just lost 2-3 to the korean team, so we are fking out. Both us and MYM are out wich is pretty insane, and with insane i mean bad. The koreans had a druid instead of dual warriors and played really well, they won the first two games but then we came back and won two pretty easy. The last game was so close that its silly, we had them down to like 1-5% atleast 3 times. But we lost and thats life. Now we will go out and kill our self. Cya in hell.