Woke up at 5, flight at 7. Got to the venue around 9:10, 50 minutes early. Walk around the plaza a little.. nothing’s open. Hulk get’s there at 9:40 or something.

Checkin, Hulk is told Shortround took the 4th spot. HolyHuman and Pesu arrive shortly with Axslav following a little later. Setup takes awhile.. fixing mouse drivers, custom keys. The venue was pretty big.. very well funded.

Format is round robin, with fixed maps. Since I decided to play elf every game, except maybe human mirror on TS, I didn’t care about maps *too* much.

Played HH first round, threw away first game on Secret Valley. Had a great start, a lot of things went right. Messed it up with a bad battle. I won’t comment on too many details since there are no replays.. venue was too much of a hassle I don’t think anyone has replays. Didn’t play well on Echo Isle. Shortround beat Axslav this round.

Second round versus Short. Won Terenas Stand with tree rush + Keeper hunts to Demon Hunter bear mirror. Remaining two maps are Gnoll Wood and Twisted Meadows, both relatively good for huntresses; I thought I had it in the bag at this point. Gnoll Wood was kind of close. I got a health fountain, but my building expansion got canceled early. Otherwise it was pretty standard potm expo hunt/glaive versus his DH/BM mass archer/dryad strat. I think some poor hunt micro cost me the game. Oh did I mention we were playing on widescreens…. I guess when the Warcraft resolution isn’t correct you have, as it were, mouse acceleration problems.. I fixed mine by changing the game resolution but I think no one else did. Lol, I guess I’m just bad. After GW I wondered if I should have bear mirrored.. I had a nice lower left spawn for creeping the mercenary camp. Played like shit on TM. In the meantime, Axslav defeats HolyHuman.

Round three. At this point the best case scenario for me is beating Axslav and Short beating HH, making it a 3-way tie for second. Unlikely to happen, and surprise surprise, it doesn’t. To my despair, Axslav randoms vs my Elf, getting Orc on both TR and TM. I knew I wouldn’t beat his mass grunt tower rush if I played standard, so both games I did some hunt stuff and lost. Afterwards he was like, “yeah my orc is pretty good versus hunts cause that’s all StrifeCro used to do” <_<. Maybe I should have massed archers. HH beats SR and they have a tie.

Tie breaker is round robin best of one, some veto/coin-flipping stuff to determine map. HH beats Short on SV. Axslav randoms to Orc vs Short on SV. FS grunts tower rush. Short is out. Axslav beats HH on EI with some Panda/Naga stuff, making it Axslav 1st and Pesu 2nd.

Axslav and his buddy leave quickly, followed by HH and SR. My flight isn’t for a few hours so I stick around and play some CS with Hulk and co. and the Starcraft players.

That’s about it.

So the stats I posted last time aren’t completely accurate, here’s the dxdiag.

Some pictures.. can’t be bothered to open case for picture of inside. I’d have to unplug everything..

The widescreen on the right is an old, noob acer 19 or 20.” When I first got it I thought the color and everything was pro but that was compared to this 5 year old (give or take) monitor, haha.

The center and left monitors are new Samsung 19″s, model 943BX. Each one came with a stuck pixel, which kind of pisses me off…

Stand height and tilt are adjustable. In the photo they are at the max. height.. for some reason the one on the left can go a little higher.. Color is fantastic, it’s got 8000:1 dynamic contrast or whatever.

I couldn’t save my hard drive with the new motherboard.. installed a different version of XP that is slightly pissing me off. In the dxdiag you’ll only see 3 GB ram cause I’m running XP, but I have 4 sticks in there.

The ASUS motherboard’s “Realtek HD Audio Manager” thing pops up everytime I plug something into a jack, a mild annoyance but something you can live with.

Can’t really comment on video card as I don’t know squat about it really.

When I was watching Frasier on DVD, it would ’spike’ sometimes.. dunno if it’s my DVD drive, VLC player, the DVD, or what.

this guy on BoX.ForLove whispers me going (paraphrasing) “yo it’s matt. what’d you change password to.. i need to go on it to screenshot icons. BoX the king = my account”

etc… lmao

So from my initial $50 deposit, I’m now at $61.74.

Got back up playing Sit-n-gos after dropping to like $25 with cash games haha. Gonna go back to cash games now and hopefully do better, God willing. Gonna bring minimum amount to tables so it doesn’t hurt so bad when I get stacked… lol.

Wish me luck :D

friend came over yesterday and put my new computer together :D

yeah building your own pc isn’t easy haha, dunno if I’d be able to do it myself :P

won’t have camera for a few days! so pictures/reviews will have to wait.

As my readers may or may not have noticed, I have begun posting on WCReplays forums in green. ‘Pretty nifty’, you say, ‘but it’s not worth the trouble’.

And you’re right, it is not worth the trouble; Wrapping [color=Green] & [/color] around every post is more tedious than shaving.

Fortunately, Autohotkey solves! Autohotkey enables you to create a custom key macro that will wrap the color tags for you. I chose “ctrl + windows key + c” as my macro. Here’s the Autohotkey code:

^#c::
Send ^a^x[color=green]^v[/color]
return

What that actually does is ctrl-a, ctrl-x, [color=green], ctrl-v, [/color], i.e., select your post, cut, type the opening tag, paste your post, type the closing tag.

That’s it!

link

pro gamer life looks fun :P

so here are the specs, and once it’s built i’ll post pics

CPu - Intel C2D Q9300
MOBO - Asus P5Q Pro LGA 775
GPU - 2x MSI HD4850
RAM - 2x Crucial Ballistix 2×1GB
Case - Antecn Nine Hundred
PS - OCZ Gamexstream
DVD drive - Sony Nec Optiarc

so right after I said I was doing pretty well I had a moderately bad loss streak =[ haha

it might be because I went from 2 tables at a time to 3-4…

or it might be because I’m getting confused and playing differently.. I’ve been limping more with pocket pairs.. figuring if you do flop your set you’ll win a bunch

but NP!

I’m profiting consistently at $1 sit n gos now :D

Gonna try nl2 later and see if I can get that to profit now :P