Day 2: Friday
Don't ask me why but some bastards put up alarm clocks for 6:00 in the morning. I mean, Jesus, it's a fucking LAN and there's no single reason whatsoever to get up in the middle of the night... guess that's revenge for talking all night long.
Therefore that's mostly been it for sleep. All bones hurt from the shitty mattress and it wasn't too warm either, so I eventually decided to just stop lying around half aleep and get my lazy ass to the showers.
Either the DH staff is doing a great job keeping their facilities clean, or the 10,000 WoW nerds simply don't take showers... I however was surprised by the cleanliness and was happy to get a refreshing shower in and felt way better on the way back to the sleeping area. On the way I received a text saying I got to be ready to play within 20mins which was not exactly as how I remembered it from the timetable. I picked up xrg at the sleeping area who had managed to sneak onto someone's else mattress sometime during the night and headed down to the tournament area again to setup.
My first opponent Xo turned out to be a new face in the CPM scene and had a hard time keeping up with that bit of experience and skill that I was ahead, so I took the first group match in a comfortable 2-0, trying to adapt to the setup some more and prepare for the total destruction called fox that was up next for me. There wasn't much I could do really and I ended up getting completely owned by frag margins inappropriate for minors, still it was enjoyable in some way (no masochist jokes thanks) and fun to play one of the best ever in the Quake universe.

Last up was the match against, how else could it be, xrg himself. He was feeling even less comfortable with the setup than me and couldn't get his normal game going. We had a rather close game on cpm3a and a tight start on cpm22 until I was able to get a bit of a map lock and him completely out of his game. Long story short: I won this all or nothing game, deciding who would advance to the quarter finals and who would get benched for the next days.

Tournament play quickly putting aside, we headed off for the normal everyday stuff at DH: grab some food, walk around, watch some players, walk around some more, repeat. Myself, voodoochopsticks, pod1, toxter and xrg eventually decided to get dinner outside DH and in town, so we took the bus for a 10mins ride to the centre. Thanks to our expert timing skills we missed the opening hours of the alcohol store by <1min so we were stuck with nothing to drink, and still hungry.
Some sports bar came in handy and we decided to get our dinner and a couple of beers in there. Food was good and voodoochopsticks recommended some Swedish beers. which turned out to be quite tasty as well. We stayed for a few more beers and then left to move on to some other pub/club/bar combination.
It was not exactly packed with youngsters but had a good atmosphere, lots of drinks to choose from and a quite comfortable chillout area. A few drinks later we decided to head back to the hotel as everybody was tired from the endless walking all day long. pod1 and xrg went to chat up the girl from the reception who turned out to be a nice girl.

Back at the hotel room voodoochopsticks ended up in the kids bed (he's only like 1,90m after all), pod1 and xrg enjoyed some private time in the double bed and I ended up on the floor. Again. Can't have it all \:(/