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The game is over. And the result? A complete walkover!
Millenium won all 5 matches against Nihilum, regarded by some as the finest PvE guild in the world. To make matters worse, as far as I can remember, Nihilum registered absolutely no kills.
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The interviewer talks to Kungen about the games. He mainly put the loss down to a lack of PvP experience and some bad class choices.
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The aAa Frags Festival mini-tournament, with Bisou playing a competitor.
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And a shot from his screen.
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The girls of SK-Gaming having some kind of group-hug.
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I'm not sure if they lost here, or were preparing for a match.
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The Men's US team, Turmoil.
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Team NoA from Denmark, who were scheduled to play on-stage vs wNv later on in the evening.
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A shot from the smaller Quake 4 spectator area, showing a match between Hunter vs Cooller (I think).
And sorry guys, but my camera ran out of battery after this :( We went to watch the CS ladies game between Les Seules and Unfinished afterwards. I'll try and bag some pics from my friend's camera.
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The game ends and the final score is 4-4 over the 2 legs. It was a thrilling game to watch.
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Wakelin ducks! Or maybe he's just that small?
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The front of hall 5 of the Parc des Expositions in Porte de Versailles. We stood queuing here for around 20 minutes to half an hour. The ridiculous thing was that earlier on we went on a bit of a trek trying to find where the entrance was, walked the whole entire way around the complex and found that the exit was literally a minute in the other direction to the way we originally went. D'oh! I blame French signposting...
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A picture taken out of pure laziness. We were too far back in the queue to read what the sign said, so I went full-zoom on my camera and took a picture to find out. It looked pretty screwy on the camera screen so it didn't really help.
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After queuing a bit longer and getting our passes, we finally got inside.
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This is where some Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne matches were being played and other players generally polishing up on their gameplan. The yawning guy is obviously enthralled.
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The Counter-Strike 1.6 area. Again, matches, practices and hanging about going on.
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More CS1.6. Teams A-Gaming from the Ukraine and X6tence from Mexico... I mean Spain.
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One of the scoreboard TVs, and some guy's head.
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This guy must have wanted to flee the event by the end of the day. Dubbed 'The man from Tron', he basically walked around with the TV on his shoulders, playing some mobile phone game all day, which was then displayed on the aforementioned TV. He got a lot of attention due to this contraption.
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Man from Tron returns. The guy on the left has just finished sniggering, as many people did when he passed.
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Portuguese CS1.6 team. The table back-to-back with theirs was Virtus Pro's I think, who were possibly out for a spot of Cossak-dancing.
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The PS2 booth, including Sing Star pods to the right. Oh dear.
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The Trackmania: Nations area. Big fan of this game.
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More of the TM:N area, with its huge marquee hanging from above.
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In-game action from the new Speedball 2 title, in an intermediate stage of development. It seemed pretty good fun to play when we tried it, and also faithful to the original, although there are some serious animation issues to iron out and polish to apply before it's finished.
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In-game again, 'kicking' off from the centre.
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One of the smaller spectator areas for watching CS1.6 matches.
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The WC3:TFT morning stage event, and Wakelin's head.
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The stage again. Quality stuff!
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More stage, and MYM]Lucifer with the Korean flag over his display.
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Stage close-up from the left side. Setting-up still going on.
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Showing the right side and MYM]Ciara from Denmark. By the way, we hope they fire whoever does the lights at this tournament. You were death-ray blinded most of the time due to beams pointing directly in your face. Oh yeah and someone sucks at VLC!
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Some call him 'Mouse'. I don't see any cheese?
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More setting up on Lucifer's side.
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The game is on! Both guys get down to business.
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Uh oh, technical problems. Ciara's PC crashed out of the game so it was aborted, then restarted once some poking around in the BIOS had been done.
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In the retro area, which was a nice surprise! Here someone plays on an Atari 520 STe.
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A Philips MSX8020 playing Penguin Adventure. I royally sucked at this game when I had a go.
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Apple IIe playing Pac Man.
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Trying to get a regular camera screenshot on old CRTs is such a chore ;)
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Amstrad CPC 6128. This was playing Arkanoid.
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Another shot of the ST. People were beginning to give us funny looks as we peered over their shoulders with cameras.
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An original Pentium playing Doom. Classic.
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An Amiga 600, running Turrican II. Honest.
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See earlier comment about trying to do camera-shots on old screens.
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Intel's computer & video game history.
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Some really mean looking Intel Invasion cases.
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Forza 2 on XBox 360, with players using 'playseats'. Pretty awesome looking pieces of kit.
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More of F2 and the playseats. There were 5 of these in total, although the end one was out of action.
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More of the CS1.6 area. In front of me are some of the Polish squad PGS Gaming.
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One of the 1.6 spectator areas again.
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A close-up of the action!
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An interview hosted by Giga TV with a team whom I don't recognise (comment if you know).
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Wakelin really fails at this ducking thing.
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The stage is set for the French team GoodGame (who had an insane amount of support, as you might imagine), and Made in Brazil from well... Brazil. MIBR won the CS1.6 tournament last year.
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A shot of the main screen, showing the crowd.
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More of the stage, with preparations and warm-ups taking place.
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GG are on the right-hand side. Their manager 'Willy' looks on from the back.
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MIBR are on the left. Their manager made a funny anouncement regarding a previous member 'KIKOOOO...(etc.)' who left the side recently, and apparently this 'was no great loss at all'. Ouch.
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Match action from the GG side, with the map being de_train. GG went Counter-Terrorists first, looked on-form, and took the half comfortably.
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The main screen, which flicked from in-game shots, to map overviews and some focus on the teams themselves.
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More action on the main screen, with GG OLIGAN covering the B-site as CT.
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A map overview. Not looking good for MIBR here, 1v4 with the bomb covered in the alley.
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This is actually a shot from much later on in the game. MIBR totally outclassed GG in the second half as Terrorists, and their despair is reflected by the hands-on-head pose by their manager.
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Post-game interviews with MIBR. Most of the French supporters had got up and walked out by this point.
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THIS is the front door. Y'know, the one we took 30 minutes finding? Yeah.
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The Quake 4 afternoon stage event. The matchup is between Av3k of Poland and Sorax of Sweden. I went ahead and told Wakelin that the Pole was obviously going to kick some ass in this game, to which he scoffed quite considerably.
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Av3k somewhere behind his monitor.
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In case you forgot what event we were at.
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Av3k's pre-match interview with the hosts. Cold, concise and confident.
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The main screen during the warmup.
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The match begins! Unfortunately for Martin and Sorax, 0-0 after 11 seconds was about as close as the game would get.
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Oh dear, oh dear. I don't exaggerate when I say that Av3k absolutely obliterated Sorax on the first map.
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Av3k looks chilled after his slaughtering of the Scandinavian. Even the Polish fans were happy that Sorax got at least a frag.
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Av3k had already been powering through the competition earlier in the day, and would eventually go on to win the second map too, although to Sorax's credit, it wasn't as much of a walkover as the first.
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Some of the Female CS1.6 competitors.
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And more! This time, the British team G-Stars.
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No points for guessing what country they're from.
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The last event we went to watch today was the Trackmania: Nations stage match, Carl, who's the current reigning world champion, won every single race during the event and looked in absolutely stunning shape to hold on to his title in the overall final on Saturday.
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My pictures from Days 1 to 4 of ESWC 2007.
We also took a change of scenery at the end of Day 3 and visited the Japan Expo in Parc des Expositions (northern Paris). I've thrown some pics I took there on here too, with JE beforehand (in case anyone is interested, or wants to avoid them). There are a lot of game-related pics there though.
Day 4 is finally up so I hope you all enjoy the pictures... it took long enough to tag them all ;)
The ESWC was awesome this year, and they saved the best for the final day. I got to see a dominating Warcraft 3 performance, a tense PES6 game, an insane show of skills in the Quake 4 final and lived through the marathon 3-hour 1.6 final which was packed with thrills all the way.
The organisation and professionalism has been outstanding throughout the entire event and the level of talent being shown simply amazing. It was also heartening to hear that ESWC will be back next year!
Thanks to everyone for viewing this gallery, hopefully I'll attend another event soon!
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