All of my friends will know how much I love dancing (:P) and dance music. There have been many coveted trance parties I would love to go to all over Europe but it seems that there is always SOMETHING keeping me from attending them! For example, my dream party is Sensation White. I know it’s cliché and so many people claim that black is better and white got “too mainstream” but I believe that the atmosphere of white would just be spectacular. It seems to get bigger and better every year and this year’s lineup in the Amsterdam Arena included several of my favourite DJs.

For the past 2 years i’ve been in Europe i’ve missed Sensation white because of the Electronic Sports World Cup. It seems that every year gaming wants to punish me by holding ESWC on those dates; “No Livia, no fun allowed outside of gaming!”.

Well for the past couple of years Sensation white have also been holding a world tour but the events have not been on-par with the Amsterdam one. Except now… I think i’ve found one that will be just as good and I won’t have to miss ESWC for it! There will be a Sensation White held in Düsseldorf on New Years Eve this year! It looks like it’s going to be incredible and what a way to bring in 2008!

Hell yeah, the Unreal Tournament 3 demo was leaked today. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. As soon as I woke up I had it installed and ready to go. But now there’s been a problem, at first it just bluescreened when I started it so I installed the latest nVidia graphics drivers. But then now it gets past the intro ads and it crashes again! GRRRR.

I guess this could both be a good and bad thing, because since I can’t play it means I won’t get hooked. I do get hooked on games easily and the release time of the full version of UT3 is at a dangerous time as it’s right before the CGS world finals. Many people tell me “oh you can play both, just spend MORE time on DOA!”. Obviously, these people don’t understand my profound and undying love for the Unreal series.

It breaks my heart that I can’t play the demo so i’ve been releasing steam playing DoA4! But i’ve had my first bad day in the game today. For some reason nothing I try seems to be working. I’ve been practicing juggles and combos and yesterday I was nailing them (after almost an hour of spending my time on one move hehe :P) but today it’s as though my controller is cursed… cursed with my frustration of not being able to even try UT3!

I will need a lot of panda videos to cheer me up.

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There’s a lot of drama on xbox live. I’ve been playing on it for like, I dunno, a month now or something and only recently have I got a mic and I can hear wtf people are saying! Usually it’s pretty ok, people just chat about the game and stuff but today I came across this guy that was from Sweden. Usually when I play people in Scandinavia there is hardly any lag (which is soo nice).

Sometimes on Xbox live theres a lot of drama. People sometimes get all pissed off when you win and they leave the game when the final replay is on cos umm.. something about maybe you can’t take points from them or something? I don’t know. To some people online ranking matters a lot.

NB// To quickly explain the ranking system, in DOA4 theres an xbox live ranking where it is based on umm I guess your win / loss ratio. But if you beat someone of a higher ranking than you, you get more points towards your ranking than you would if you beat someone of the same or lower rank than you.

Anyway, this guy starts screaming down the microphone at me about lag? When it does lag, both players see it not just one guy on one end. I certainly had no lag on my end and was enjoying finally playing without it. He was winning 50/50 anyway but honestly kept SCREAMING at me about it with such hate in his voice so I just left since I didn’t know how to mute him and there was only one other dude in the room anyways. Damn kids and their xbox.

Yeah sadly winter is on the way and while the lowering temperatures do give me a clue that it’s coming I am also made very aware of it by many different cold viruses invading me! A day before I was due to leave for the UK I woke up with a high fever. Oh no, what a terrible time to get the flu! Luckily I recovered at the combine only to realize that someone else gave me their cold!! AHH!

Now today i’m waking up again feeling some kinda cold. My head feels heavy and i’m not liking the signs of this at all! I have a lot of stuff to do and I don’t have time to be sick! For one I planned to go and FINALLY fix my hair since I couldn’t do it before the combine. I’m getting my extentions taken out but the guy that does them was in New York for 2 weeks!! I hated going to the combine with such crappy hair but what could I do But now I really don’t feel well enough to leave the comforts of my apartment! Maybe tomorrow…

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.