I know i’ve been neglecting a lot of things online such as my website lately but i’m sure you can guess why! I have been in Birmingham for the past week because I have been trying out for a Dead or Alive 4 spot on one of the 2 European franchises.

I arrived on Wednesday and they didn’t run the DOA4 Female EU tournament until Saturday. I was the extreme underdog here as my main competitor was beating the experienced UK girls quite easily (and these UK girls were beating me pretty badly too!). She used the character La Mariposa (Lisa) which I guess no one was used to playing against. From doing some reading on DoA4 I was under the imperssion that Lisa was quite an unsafe character to play, moreso than others. It didn’t seem to get her into any trouble though!

I placed 2nd in the tournament (haha) and as a result I got picked for the Berlin Allianz team. It was really an incredible feeling to be up there and with other players who are the best of the best at their respective games.

Since then i’ve started to get to know my new fellow Berlin Allianz representitives and they are all incredibly cool people. I can’t stress enough how excited I am to be in a team with such a fantastic group of people. I’m honored to be playing for them and for Berlin Our team went on to win the European finals when it all came down to the Counter Strike: Source match. I was so nervous the whole way through, I knew how badly everyone on the team wanted to take the trophy and the seed at the world finals! The guys did it though and we won over Stockholm by 2 points.

So if you’re interested to follow how we do and what’s up with the awesome team you can visit the website here and if you’ve got facebook you can join our group here!

Photos from thecgs.com 

Yeeeaaaaaaaaaah season 3 of Prison Break! I really love that show and season 3 has really kicked off with a bang. I can’t decide tho… Linc or Michael? Hmmmm

On a less important note, i’m going to CGS tomorrow! Wish me luck

The party was great.

Today it was announced that the World Series of Video Games will not be continuing anymore. This is a sad day for me. While I have not attended a WSVG event this year, I was at a few last year and many of my friends were playing in the Quake 4 tournament this year. I was hoping to attend the rest of the stops (LA, London and Sweden) but now I can’t! Despite that I don’t really play Quake 4 anymore since i’ve been focusing on Dead or Alive 4, I will really miss the people that do.

Now I won’t see some of my favourite people and although it probably hasn’t quite sunk in, I can guess that a lot of them will simply just not play anymore. There is 2 more months until the release of UT3 but who knows if they will be able to play at top level for that game? And who even knows if that game will be in tournaments? It’s a huge day for 1v1 FPS games and I really hope that things will shape up for them in the future.

To reminisce a bit i’ve found a couple of my favourite moments shared with some of the most fantastic Quake 4 players at tournaments:

Finding out the 15yr old Av3k is taller than me at Digital Life (NYC) 06

Alana, LeXeR and myself at ASUS Winter (Moscow) 06

Trying to be buff like toxjq (Jönköping) 06

Trito and I get romantic at QuakeCon (Dallas) 06

Yep I finally got xbox live. I hate it. Why is it peer to peer? WHY?! Why doesn’t someone just set up some freakin servers. God this is bad. Whats the point of having 100mb if I can’t even host a game that isn’t laggy. If theres a way to fix it someone plz let me know.