I’ve written a couple of new articles:

Play more FFA
The rise and fall of girl gaming

Check it out

Last night I made it on the Swedish news!! Ok… just about a second of me… Click here to watch it anyway!

I guess they used some old footage that they had from when I did the interview with them about CGS

I really hope to be able to continue with such mediawork with Quake Live. I’ve been playing a lot lately and I think i’m gonna switch to playing more FFA instead of CA, so I can actually learn the weapon placement in maps. Everyone says FFA is boring but I think its really fun and it once again captures the roots of 1v1, even though they are very different. At least in FFA I can practice timing the items and knowing where they are!

I have some ESL duel games later tonight too, but the players I think are much better than me so hopefully at least I can get a few frags in

I was shopping at the supermarket the other day when I noticed something different… they sell deodorant with razor blades?! Are German girls really so hairy that deoderant companies have to hint for them to shave under their arms? And for that matter, is it normal to shave arms here? I’ve been in places (Italy) where girls just let it all rip and don’t care. What is the culture in Germany I wonder? Maybe they are trying to change it and encourage hair removal.

WTF.

I’m sick again, surprise surprise! The shitty weather here in Germany is what i’d blame, and since I was always sick in Sweden for the first couple of years I thought it was my crappy immune system but no its the weather!! FU GERMANY!! My brain gets all messed up when its sunny one day, then snowing slushy garbage the next, make up your mind!

The girlz and I had our first PCW the other day and since we were 5, we decided to play some CA. Here is something I would never thought i’d let myself admit but public Clan Arena is better than PCW and here is why: when you play serious teams, all that happens is camping. Pub can be more exciting because no one really has any teamwork and a 4 vs 1 can still be won Anyway of course we got raped, because we had this brilliant idea to just camp one area but its more complex than that… its about travelling in pairs / threes and raping people that way. I think… but then again, who really puts a lot of thought into CA tactics? I can’t wait for TDM instead

I want to find the best remix possible of Pachelbel’s Cannon (in D major). There are so many floating around out there and I wonder which one really is the best. So far I really like these:

What are your favourites?

Last week I decided to play my first ladder games ever for the ESL Quake Live 1v1 European Ladder. My first opponent was dik, a Finnish Warsow player. As much as he negotiated, I stuck with the random decision of T4, a map which I had played only once before in Quake 3. I warmed up a little with fire_bot (thanks btw). Since he seemed to hate it so much I figured it could be fun if we were both total noobs playing it. He got an early lead but as soon as I killed him twice, I couldn’t find him until the end of the match, which ended in something like a 13 - 1 result. BOO!

Since then i’ve been playing a few more ladder games, winning some, losing most I know I need to heavily devote more time into duelling and practice, but I have too much fun playing Clan Arena right now.

On that note, I have some really exciting news about the girlz 0f destruction. Now this doesn’t happen often but we have recruited a new player to the ranks by the name of Videl. It’s a beautiful story… she sniped me on ESL, I sniped her back and the love began to blossom…. haha! Anyway needless to say, i’m very happy to have her on board.

And again about Quake, the AGP site has been launched, and there you can go and read my interview with Karl “fooKi” Johannson. GOOOOOOO

It’s been a really exciting few days for gaming, as far as QuakeLive is concerned anyway! A few days ago they made the beta (which has been closed for like a year now) public, and it’s been nuts trying to get on a server. Although they have improved a lot on the queues (now I think I have waited max. 30 minutes) i’m still extremely excited about the final release. With QuakeLive going open beta now, more and more leagues and tournaments are springing up and I can’t wait until the first LAN tournaments — namely Quakecon!

That also brings me to my second thing I have to say: A few weeks ago I received a calendar in the mail from the girls at Charisma +2. This is a gamers agency which I have signed up for, and the month of August (Quakecon month) is totally awesome!! In fact, the whole calendar is really great and I am so happy to be part of such a beautiful and talented group of girls. If you wish to purchase a calendar or even have one signed by one of the models, you can check them out here!

Ok, enough plugs about that Back to QuakeLive! Since the queues were fixed, I spent the majority of my weekend playing Clan Arena. I know I should be practicing duels (i’m playing in the ESL QuakeLive 1v1 ladder so challenge me if you want some points right now! haha :P) but I really like CA to get me accustomed to the movement and the weapons. The priciples of 1v1 are the same in UT and Quake so hopefully if I can get good at the movement and the weapons, the rest will come easily!
I am however looking for someone who has the time (and patience) to train me properly in QuakeLive 1v1, so if you are kind enough and think you can, please leave a comment, add “Liefje” on QuakeLive or email me. I’m really serious about this, I’ll make up a schedule, make sure i’m at prac on time and everything!