Okay, so I was stupid enough to drink a can of Monster a couple of hours before bed (PROTIP: if you wanna go to sleep early, do not drink these in the evening no matter how tired you are), so I'm going to try to kill some time by letting you guys know how ESWC Canada is going.

Unfortunately, the admins couldn't get their shit together on time, so the tourneys don't start til tomorrow afternoon. It's pretty fucking gay, but whatcha gonna do? It also does give all of us more time to prepare, I guess.

Other than that, the event is a bit of a hit-and-miss, but it's definitely pretty good to be lanning and meeting everybody once again. I arrived around 2pm, took about 20 minutes to register and get all my shit from the car. From there, I spent about 4-5 hours doing virtually nothing because:

- No LAN servers were set up by Vanlan.

- No one could get a LAN server to work on their own computers.

- Everybody was spiking to 999 online, making online unplayable of course.

So instead of practicing, I just fucked around on Full Tilt Poker while listening to a bunch of dumb closet nerds dressed all fancy and shit yelling at the top of their lungs -- on that note, Motus are a bunch of faggots (NUTTY!!!). Mojo got busy with TMN right off the bat though, which for some reason was working fine for him (wtf), while Griffin and Gillz were putting up with the aforementioned lag spikes on Gillz's central server for a little while.

I met some other people -- I mainly talked to jonnyh throughout the day, who's a local like me. To those of you in the NA CTF scene, he had some interesting things to say about GaryG (AKA croissant), who is apparently one of his closest friends. I won't get into details here, but to summarize, he claims that Gary is a totally different guy in person than the shit-talker you've come to know through the internets.

Speaking of totally different, I'm actually getting along with Gillz pretty well. However, I guess I'm a pessimist by saying that I don't expect this to last long after he gets back home. We'll see -- I was planning to just bury the hatchet with him because I'm not very fond of having "enemies" and I've dealt with this sort of online shit before, but again, we'll see.

I had turned off xerp/nudge a few days before the LAN, and lemme tell ya, I feel so much more comfortable aiming now. Since we're on LAN, I no longer have any doubts that I'm missing shots that should've hit and vice versa. With that said, I'm actually doing pretty well in the accuracy department and I feel confident enough with my aim that I've been playing really aggressive and a bit sophisticated on top of all that. Tom seemed a bit off today -- not sure why -- in the one game I played him, but there are a ton of possible reasons why that was (he'd just gotten back from dinner, hadn't played all day,etc.). If he snaps out of it tomorrow and plays his A-game, he'll win easily for sure no matter who he plays. If he doesn't, in all honesty, I expect him to get a run for his money at least once.

With that said, here's the player list afaik for ESWC Canada:

- 4glory (didn't notice him there though)
- advent™ (me!)
- Bono
- Gillz
- Griffin
- jonnyh
- Mojo (yeah, that one)

So with 7 confirmed(-ish) players + some potential newbs coming along for the ride, I expect all the matches to be played out by the end of tomorrow. With that said, it's a bit funny that I see two vacancies for Canada here, but assuming that that isn't some sort of error on ESWC's part, I have nothing to complain about -- I honestly expect to get 2nd as long as I play well, although not without some challenges (on a side note, Gillz really surprised me today; unlike me, he's def been practicing :S). However, I think my edge in aim, particularly my ability to just flick the shit out of people, as well as my general experience and 1v1 experience will help me out tons in my rally to securing this supposed second spot (again, assuming it actually exists).

If no one beats me to it, I'll try to post results on the site tomorrow. Later.