Dave, will hopefully record the final onto disk on tues/wed/thurs as well as the other footage that was taken during the evening.
this is my take on the weekend.
Friday morning woke up at 630 knowing that i had to pick up my mate and drop him off at the airport by 8. got to his place just after 7 and made it to the airport just before 8, the traffic was pretty bad! Then i waited for the dunedin flight to come in at around 8am and i waited to see if i could find the guys. I saw Dave in his southland jersey so i went up said hi and introduced myself etc etc. Took the guys to wellington through the scenic route and had to go see Gay-Guy. found him, he looked like a crim sitting on the steps casing out the place to see what he could steal
lol jks. put his gear in the car left the southland boys in town and took gg back home. there wasnt enough room in the car and it seamed like the best way to go at the time.
from home i waited around for the southland boys to finish their sightseeing and for gg to get picked up by danny. when he got picked up i logged into work, sent an email saying that i probably wouldnt be in the office and that i would be logged on and present for the day. which i wasnt.
Dave txt me to say they finished, i made a mad dash looking for my keys and wallet and stuff ready to take it up to dannys. stopped off at my place to pick up some controllers, and away we went.
got to dannys, had a look around and had a bbq on the deck, it was a beautiful day, and it would only last that day as the rest of the weekend was utter crap. anyway enough about the weather. saw GG have a couple of games on the mame cabnit, i played danny on one game of street fighter, which he won 2-1, i fluked my win
played table tennis on 360, wicked game
i was unbeaten in that also had a quick game of tiger woods. and watched dave have a go at saints row. i am tempted after playing fifa on the 360 to get one after it was running sweet on my projector, with no cables for controllers. VERY tempted.
After that we set up all the projectors and such then we had the drama about craig. trying to race to get him a ticket back to dunedin/christchurch and get him to the airport on time it was a bit of a mad dash. but all in all i think he would say it was worth it, and hey it did even up the teams for us.
when everyone came back (they left me and spawn at dannys while danny, craig, dave, andrew and gg took him to the airport, spawn and i played a few games on my projector and waited for teh guys it was pretty cool.
Had the first round matches after they all came back i had andrew horton up first, he was up 17-0 at half time, but my 2nd half comebacks, which became regular, came into effect and i won the first game, i felt pretty good!.
after that i have no idea what order i played, as i got my beats in every game up until the last. i had spawn, on my projector, which looked awesome with the component cables, thanks gg. I was down big time at half time, not sure of the exact score, but i almost gave up. i am glad i didnt as i think spawn let his gaurd down just enough for me to get back into the game and end up with a 38 all draw and keep spawn from going into the second round unbeated. so i felt pretty happy with myself, and the way i played even though i was second to last on the table, i was enjoying myself and thats all that mattered.
crashed at dannys as it was easier to do that than have to go home and then come back in the morning. was real tired as it was about 130am when we all went to bed. none of us got any sleep cause of ggs snoring it was aweful!
next day woke up to the breakfast of champions, bacon eggs & sausages mmm was great, thanks danny. then we just potted around a bit, had a few games of whatever was going, waiting for spawn to arrive. which he didnt for a while, we were thinking of making him forfeit every game until he turned up but we ended up having a world cup fifa torny on 360. that was cool as i was coming second to the one and only GG
and i had never even played the game let alone on a 360 before this weekend, a bit different to fiffa 06 on xbox.
Second round of the torny started during the canterbury v auckland match, which i was enjoying watching actually but this was more important. first match was against spawn, which he owned me pretty bad i scored in the last few minutes so i didnt get held to 0. i didnt want the only person to have a 0 beside me, but that wouldnt have mattered as dave got a 0 in the first round as well. i think it was him could have been andrew
. anyway this round was all about bonus points for me just so i wouldnt come last.
next game i think was against gg, he beat me as well, but i scored 21 points, not enough for a bonus point, and i could hear andrew yelling something about a bonus point, that was 2 games and 0 points. i then played andrew, he won, but i think i got a bonus out of that. just one, cant recall for sure. it was a couple of nights ago. then i bet dave, that was cool, and i got 4 tries 2, but i also heard that andrew got another bonus point. which sucked. then came danny, i was down by alot then came abck in the second half and he ended up beating me by 1 point argh. i think that is what order the games were in but it could have been different i dont have the draw infront of me but its no biggie
i still came last.
then came the semi finals, danny v spawn, big game spawn ended up losing which i found funny. now come to think of it, i think mine and dannys game was somewhere else in the draw meh oh well. danny ended up winning that game and facing the all might gg.
gg played awesome, pulled out some moves that none of us had seen before. and showed that what he was talking about was not bull. he showed us stuff that we didnt even know was possible. thankfully he showed us what he did on the sunday so we have a little idea of what he was doing. you might see some tricks on the video when we get it posted.
sunday was a bit of a chill out day til i had to drop the southland guys back at the airport. then later in the evening went back to dannys to watch the league final with danny gg and dannys family/friends. was a good game, though i was going for the storm.
the comp was awesome, but not as awesome as meeting the guys form here, everyone got along great and everything was fun and done in the right spirit. i cant wait for the next one, be it in auckland, southland or back at dannys again, ill be there
