Also since it’s summer holidays now, I’m trying not to let my brain fall asleep. Therefore, it’s my goal for the next month to post and comment on various areas of interest: including new gadgets, some stuff about gaming and of course science. Since this website won’t be strictly gaming any more, it probably doesn’t need an RSS feed on eSports Press but hopefully most of my readers will continue to enjoy the type of content i’ll be posting in the future.

Speaking of gaming, the last trip which I took was to DreamHack Summer in Jönköping a few weeks ago. It was fantastic to see all the old Quakers from over the years, as well as new friends too! Above you can see Videl (g0d’s latest addition) and I a little upset over the drinks situation at the LAN. We were just having a bit of fun ^^. It was a really nice idea that Telia had, where you could create your own “fan sign” for your favourite player at DreamHack.

QuakeCon is just around the corner and I wish I could go there also but sponsorship in Quake is pretty scarce right now, where even top players like Strenx and Spart1e have to seek out sponsorship (In case you missed it, they left fnatic). Thus, Quake is pretty dead in the sponsor department so I can’t make it to QuakeCon but certainly I’ll be watching and cheering from home, especially for the TDM players!

Cologne hasn’t really been as exciting as everyone thinks it will be. I think I just got caught up in the hype brought on by all these people who come from shit small towns who think “OMG now i’m in the big bad city I can do anything”. Well you can’t. The closest lake is still 30 mins drive away, stores still close at 20.00 and still nothing is ever open on Sunday. So how exciting is the city now? Yeah, thought so.

To the topic at hand – I finally was able to take my first holiday in 9 months!! With the companies switching from EOL to eSI and all that stuff, I didn’t get any holidays from EOL and when it came to taking holidays from eSI it felt weird to ask as I felt that in a small company its really important for every person to be there. But when it comes to my birthday it’s been 3 years since i’ve had a birthday with family and its very important to me. So I took 5 days off and went to Sicily.

First I had to make a stop in Milano to attend the Homeless World Cup. They are a charity that our work is supporting. It was really great to watch the event and I have to say that I feel really happy to be supporting such an important cause.

But on a very important note, my stop in Milano meant that I got to meet the wonderful Elena “Videl” Anana (ok thts not really her last name but its cute, right?). She has been a member of the girlz 0f destruction for about 6 months and has played Quake Live with us in the ESL and Clanbase CA and TDM tournaments. Anyway she was super sweet and I hope we can meet again at Dreamhack.

Then after work stuff in Milan, I went on to Sicily to relax on the beach and celebrate my birthday. I finally got a cake for the first time in 3 years!! YAY FOR CAKE!

Anyway I guess its back to the daily grind until Christmas… unless we can get some sponsors for Dreamhack Winter! Who’s willing?