Team Speedlink back from da AEF

by duKe_ • 1 Aug 2010, 17:24 • Journals

First i wanna thank the organisation for bring up a really professional tournament. Almost no delay and not any real pc problem. (As far as i know) It was great to meet alot of ppl from the internet and just having fun while talking and drinking beer. We are pretty confident to finished this tournament as 5th because this was our goal anyway. I hope we showed that its possible to become a real succesful team just due working hard for it. But still there is a lot more work to do specially the nervousness we had during the hard matches against rockit and the first playoff game. This was breaking our neck seriously... Thats why im even more happy that we could concentrate and showed that we are able to face even good teams like in the second match against rockit. (wp there guys!)

I got like a little personal award list after i thought over the full tournament:

Best Sportsmanship Award goes to: United Kingdom

ZOO

They were just so fair overall and right after the game against them we had a nice talk and there was no enviousness in any way. <3

Worst Sportsmanship Award goes to: Belgium

Overload

Every winner team was going straight to the loser and said "gg & wp" with a shake hands, but those guys just got a big fucking ego and were still sitting right after the game at their place. Surprise Surprise... ;)

Best Newcomer Award goes to: Belgium

Belgian Fraternity

Not much to add, those guys just suprised everyone. Well deserved 4th Place!

Gonna add more after i had some sleep ^^

Shoutout for the special ppl of the lan:

Xo, unblind, owzo, razbo, adacore, lazio, eirik (thanks for the beer mate), kevin (thanks for the headache pills ^^), spho, abort, felix, playmate, scorch, myRevenge, the mighty ducks and everyone who i forgot because i had too much beers and too less sleep last night ^^

yeah no delay at all , expect for viewers at gtv

:SSSS pffff we are not newcomers man :S

true, you won already several lans with faked passports :P

wp guys!

Parent

:D !! to be fair, we also didnt shake hands (when we lost, they came themselves) with most teams because we were shy :) im sure overload was also shy

Parent

yes ali, overload were most likely shy :D

Parent

whats so ego about that :D when we lost dignitas they also didnt do that why always overacting

Parent

and what about the other 28 teams who always doing a shake hands after the game?

think about it

Parent

I don't think every team did that. Ofcourse there are some teams doing that. But I've been to almost every LAN and did that only like once or twice and almost no team came to us on any of these LANs to say something. Not that I care, so I wouldn't say a team that wouldn't come to shake hands is ego. That's just bullshit.

If you want to shake hands afterwards, fine, but not every team is used to that or whatsoever.

For what it's worth, good games ;o)

Parent

well i dont know, different ppl different oppinions

but overall its just fair and in other "sports" its common aswell :)

Parent

Can you remember if we shook hands after that epic cc7 playoff game which u won by 5:3? I just remember we have been sitting right infront of each others (I was facing bull :D), but cant remember if we shook our hands afterwards :)

Parent

I don't think so, even though a 5:3 score on a LAN is epic. :P

Parent

was nothing epic, you won 2nd decider easily if i rememeber correctly :s

Parent

How many times did you see a 4 mapper on LAN? Even online ... not so much :P

Parent

Well played!

nice forgetting me @ shoutouts :(

At least we kicked your ass :)

Thanks for being here.

i guess you all are just ugly, overload don't talk to ugly people

stop guessing, start knowing ;]

Parent

Not to flame but...
You finished 5th? You were successful? Did I miss some matches, or what?

yes we finished as 5th and obviously you didnt saw our game against tag and the second game against rockit :)

Parent

tag? The mix that formed 2 days before lan and played grand total of 0 praccs? I'm not hating, but you have to be realistic if you want to improve. Can't keep living in dream land and thinking you are doing fine... Won't help to improve.

Parent

lol plz shut the fuck up, fucking fail engi

Parent

u so mad cuz u so faild

Parent

what the fuck are you talking about? I thought you are a lot smarter as you right seem to be seriously...

We were nothing else than a decent med+ team 4 months before. 4 out of 5 never played any EC groupstage at all. So we pracced so much and became 5th in our first EC. And then we going to a lan where are like 5 teams who went with kinda the same ppl to like 5 lans already and we finished as 5th. What can we do better? Please tell me mr. superwise

Parent

You do realise that there were only 5 decent clans attending, right? That means you ended pretty much last of all top teams.

Parent

and means what?

Parent

You played shit?

Parent

ah ok, if a experienced guy like you say that it must be true

Parent

"experienced" rather busted & banned.

btw: nice performance at Lan!

Parent

thanks :)

Parent

I just think you guys played very bad, didn't see any glimpses of brilliance. You beat teams that you were supposed to beat, and got a beatdown from others.
I guess I just find it weird that you are happy about performing like that, usually that hurts team improvement.
You should be motivated now at least :P

Parent

im kinda tired of explaining why it is so hard to beat top teams in an offline tournament, but basicly you should know it yourself how it feels to play on the big screen, shoutcaster and with 30 ppl in your back who are watching your screen while you are playing in a totally new setting.

There are so many factors who just bring a lot of nervousness. Strange that you just see the scores :D

Parent

I saw a few games. Well hopefully next lan you won't be that nervous. For me nervousness and the crowd goes away as the match starts. Again, I like to see "new" teams improve, but I just think you have wrong mentality about it atm. Anyways, good luck on next events.

Parent

so at your first lanplayoffs you didnt had any nervousness? Come on :)

This can just be fixed by the time, not by training. And i would say our mentality is awesome, because we celebrate every victory like the other. But still, different ppl... different oppinions. Thanks for wishing us gl :)

Parent

I was nervous before, but somehow, as countdown of map started it disappeared. I can't explain it but it's how it is for me. Before my surgery I was also very nervous and kinda scared, but as soon as I got on the operating table it all went away. Was totally calm and could even say - focused. :D I'm sure there is some psychological term for that, don't know.

Parent

Anesthesia does that to people ^^

Parent

rawr

Parent

Did you have the surgery done in Latvia?

Parent

Yes, why? It was kinda simple leg surgery, got some plates on my tibia bone to repair the cracks that i sustained from a bad landing while playing basketball. For me it was scary, but 2 others were done that day by same doctor. So I guess it's nothing crazy, you can google tibia plateau fracture, and see xrays after surgeries. :P

Parent

I just don't know anything about the healthcare in Latvia. Maybe I should google or ask dunno.

Parent

We have to pay. But it's much cheaper than in the USA. I've heard how expensive the hospital bills are there. It's not crazy cheap by our standards here, but it isn't 10k or something for some simple surgery.

Parent

Well with insurance it is quite cheap. But without it you simply just don't get the surgery unless you can work out something with the hospital/doctor. And people who do not make much money get free healthcare but the ones that make decent money but are still struggling a little get screwed :(. But my work provides insurance so it's ok.

Parent

just before EC u made a statement "rockit is no match for us" and managed to lose vs us, thats what i call ego
now u r claiming that u became successfull because of hard work. Well, yeah, u have been nerding 24/7 for couple of months (dunno for how long u r playing with this exact lineup, but i guess it can be over 6 months), praccing almost everyday (at least from what i have seen), u have even been bootcamping, thats hard work, cant say its not.
But, after that all I wouldnt call it success finishing 5th at LAN where u lost every match against better teams and played 3:1 vs team that havent played any single match before lan. U have been by far the most active team in last months and still I dont see it in results.
Btw, i dont see why you couldnt go to ovr and shake their hands with "gg guys, gl in next matches", I would say its loser who is supposed to say "gg wp" after game

Parent

Oh yeah, losing against a team with winghaven, gifty, zerender, abort and matias is truely a shame.

I bet you didnt saw any of our games because otherwise you would know that we gave rockit a good fight in the second match. And obviously you dont know the pressure on a lan :)

Parent

He was talking about EC, the team with clown, zak, filus, hayaa and myself.

Parent

it was related on this:

Quoteu lost every match against better teams

Parent

I have seen ur matches, thats why i can judge a bit. Losing to guys like that is not a shame, eventhought gifty and abort were inactive for significant amount of time (eventhought performance of whole team was disappointing for me, i saw them winning lan before it started).
Btw, I have played on CiC7 and I definately know what lan pressure is about, so get ur infos right next time.

Parent

if you know about the pressure, i dont know how you can talk like that

we lost against 2 awesome teams and if you saw the game against tag, you cannot say that they were bad. Every team there just got a huge experience on lan, that was their advantage. Overall they were better, but we mostly lost just cuz we werent able to stand the pressure. If you dont believe it, im fine aswell :)

No offense but you trying to judge me here while you seem yourself pretty proud of your 9th place on the cc lan obviously so i dont see the point why we cant be proud of our 5th place at this lan!?

Parent

I am not judging u nor any other member of SL, I am judging ur results, thats big difference.
cic7 was fuck up from the whole begining, starting with nOu way! organisation and ending with actuall result. I have never said I am proud of being 9th there and I never will, basicly just because I am simply not proud of it. But, I am satisfied (not rly like i owned, but played like online) with my own performance there.
I also didnt say u cant be proud of 5th place, but with all that hard work I wouldnt call it success, Its more like necessity. And if u werent able to eliminate pressure factor from ur matches, well, gl doing it in next lans, but every even gamer should be able to get over it otherwise he will never be a successfull.

Parent

Quotenot rly like i owned

i think you did actually :P

Parent

The whole point that everyone is arguing is that this is the lowest LAN in terms of comp for ET yet. And people expect more from the SpeedLink Organization. Now if you guys can continue to improve and finish say 3rd at the next LAN. Everyone will be impressed.

Parent

I only saw that war vs overload where your whole team got owned and had stats like 4-25

Parent

so you didnt saw enough to get a proper insight :)

Parent

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xdddd

Parent

bF played very well

wp jungs :D

nächste mal wieder :DD

ihr wart deutlich besser als ich gedacht hätte.
gz

wp : )

Speedlink was the friendliest proffesional team @ lan for sure, deserved way more

Was a good one mate!
The MD shout back!

<3 duKe

well talking about overload, just look what blade did.

what did he?

Parent

<3 duKe_ and SL!

was really nice to meet u guys!

wp guys

for future reference, there is another r in "surprised" :P

thank you, fixed it :)

Parent

sorry for being spellingnazi =(

Parent

no its fine, cuz if you didnt said it i would do that mistake for longer ;)

btw its called grammarnazi, isnt it? ^^

Parent

it is, but since I didn't correct you for a grammatical error, I changed the word a bit :D

Parent

i see what you did there ;]

Parent

Well played old man <3

It was good seeing you and the rest of SL man! Much love guys and talk soon!

WP guys, really nice to meet you all and have a chat during breaks and just around the event! Talk to you soon I guess! <3

wp sl and hai duke :)

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