Well, all things must pass, so let us mourn the passing of the 2007 World Series of Video Games. May I have a moment of silence please.


Okay, so, I had a blast! We arrived at the Gaylord Texan which is about an hour away from where we live, at about 10:15 am. We pulled up to an army of cars unloading boxes and boxes of computers and paraphernalia. It was a techie convoy. We waited for about 45 minutes in line to check in and get our "Competitor" badges that gave us access to EVERYTHING. Then it was off to find our station in the BYOC area. (Bring Your Own Computer) Got all set up, used a little "Lolivision" to make my space "Lolified". I think that I did pretty good. Like I always say, "There's nothing like a little Hello Kitty to brighten up war, death and destruction." Did a once around the competition and vendor area and settled into the World of Warcraft. There were food vendors present to keep us gamers nourished...Here's our very first meal:
This picture is actual size! Only paid a mere $8.00! What a deal. LOL
We weren't going to compete, but Clay and his bud Beck wanted to give it a try, so, off to compete we did. Our team name was "Smells like Wet Tauren". I know, awesome name. We got a giggle every time someone said it. For those that don't know what a Tauren is: The Tauren are huge bipeds generally bovine in appearance resembling Minotaur of Greek mythology. They weigh, on average, 340 to 500 kilograms (750-1100 lb) and can grow up to 3.65 metres (12 ft) tall. He's one I sketched to give you an idea...
Anyhoo, the competition was in arena style, 3v3. Clay and I had never played arena, since you have to be level 70 to play and we are levels 30 & 44, respectfully. We were approached by another gamer without a team, so he joined ours. The first thing that we had to do is spec our characters. Everyone starts out with a Level 70 character and you just have to decide whether you want to be a warrior, priest, rogue, etc...Everyone gets Epic armor and weapons, we just had to pick our buffs and talents. Then they save your character and we wait for our turn to compete. We played on kick-arse Dell XPS computers! There's a stage set up with play by play and color commentators Looked to be that only the "sponsored" teams got to play the stage, until the finals. Well, the guy we were playing with plays a lot of arena so I was relieved that we weren't going in blind. He thought we should play Warrior, Warrior, Paladin. Which apparently is a sucky way to go...Everyone else was like Warrior, Shadow Priest, Rogue or Shadow Priest, Mage, Rogue. This guy thought that two tanks could do the trick. Well it didn't. Out of 5 potential rounds, we lost the first 3 in, I believe, record time. The up-side is that we made it into the "Losers" round, scheduled for the next day.

I fear that I have over-stimulated (or unstimulated) you with my N3rdy replay of WSVG.
So for now, I bid you adieu.

Loli