The Shard sounds great - I'm in for the photo and also the view. Sounds like we can even see the bridge from above.
Also go-karts I'm in - I just fear most won't reply back today anymore.
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The Shard sounds great - I'm in for the photo and also the view. Sounds like we can even see the bridge from above.
Also go-karts I'm in - I just fear most won't reply back today anymore.
@Hell, AJ: Other days than tomorrow are also fine with me, why not? ;) For example we can book this thing tomorrow when we will all meet and everyone will agree to do so.
Yeah, that's probably the best idea. Tell you what, there's a nice pub on the south bank of the Thames by the Tate Modern called the Founders Arms. It has a beer garden that opens out onto the river itself, so we'd all be able to have a drink out in the sunshine. It'd be a great opportunity to meet up, have a chat and decide what to do and when :)
I am very exited to meet you guys on friday.Kart racing would be super.I arive on friday morning and bring two PSP´s poweradapter´s and Pure\Pulse no problem to share.
Guys , have a great time there. ...:)
stevie:)
Hi there, I did not have a lot time to reply lately, sorry!
Yeah Guillaume: I already knew you wouldn't come. But you have the greatest reason for it :)
I sent you postcard to congratulate you guys! Just got it back this week after Almost two months!? So strange!
Asayyeah coming to EWC! Oh no, not this guy again! ;)
Great ideas everyone, we are going to have so much fun. Looking forward to see you guys very soon. Tonight at 21:00 I will be in the hostel.
Everyone a great trip and see you later.
Greetz Mad-Ice
Thanks for the replies yesterday, sorry if I'm a bit late responding. I guess you guys probably won't be checking WZ much today but if someone could quickly text me about where to meet you later I'd be very grateful. My number is [edited]. Thanks.
Just sent your number to Mad-Ice, you should hear from them later :)
Loading have very kindly provided a private room tonight for the opening tournament of the EWC, they will be kicking off at 21:00 GMT :)
Ha finally some WiFi. Thanks for the post Charlie. I called Agphantom and he is coming to MADD, the LOADING gamebar. Looking forward to meet you. We are with 7 pilots tonight. Tournament starts around 21:00. Now we are going to grap some food. Today was great. We went to see Buckingham palace and sat in the park to play Pure :)
After we met Kappeskopp and had lunch together. This afternoon was relaxing walking talking and playing Pure in the gamebar.
Laterz peace out!
OK. We wait for Charlie at the moment after some warming up on Pulse.
We completed the Pure tournament yesterday and the winner is ... Kappeskopp. Congrats mate.
Here are the complete results :
400 pts : Kappeskopp
398 pts : Asayyeah
394 pts : Mad-Ice
285 pts : Temet
201 pts : AmigoJack
169 pts : DreamerX
138 pts : AGPhantom
Woah congratulations Kappeskopp!
2 points between 1st and 2nd, 4 between 2nd and 3rd. There must have been some tension on this one. :D
Mad-Ice and Temet, thanks for the live feed. ;)
Anyone still around tomorrow? I'm in London so might do a fly-by to say hello ^^
Everyone will be leaving tomorrow, but if you can get there in the morning then that would be great! Can you meet around 9-10am?
First of all: Big thanks to you Hellfire_WZ for visiting us and the arrangements you made for our stay. It was great fun to see you again after 5 years! We had a superb tournament and an excellent day talking, drinking and eating.
At Yeldar: only to see you and meet you tomorrow morning would be amazing. Drink a coffee with us at the hostel! I hope you can come?
So my duty is to provide you the results for Pulse tournament :
373 pts : Mad-Ice
336 pts : Asayyeah
317 pts : Kappeskopp
235 pts : Hellfire
212 pts : Temet
167 pts : DreamerX
118 pts : AmigoJack
PS to Yeldar : yeah, come for a drink mate :-)
Goodmorning all. So hot in the hostel. Burned out of our bed at 8:00 this morning. We said goodbye to Asa last night after the dinner. He had to stay up at night untill the ferry went this morning at 7:00 he said it was cold at night and could barely stay awake.
AmigoJack, Kappeskopp and Dreamerx are going to join Hellfire_WZ to visit the shard. Temet and I will hangout in the park nearby the hostel. To chill and wait for our flight.
At Yeldar: check pm mate. We can meet up untill 13:00 :)
Amazing convention guys! What a blast WoW!
And yes I'm blasted as well : my trip back to le havre is almost ending and I m still in the ferry I took this morning at 7am : leaving the zone crew around 11pm after a perfect restaurant next to the Thame, I catched my train and arrived around 1am at Portsmouth and waited outside till the terminal opens.
I got enough energy and opened eyes to write and conclude by a big bravo to Marcus for throwing my precious Pure crown and to Mad for winning pulse by an incredible margin.
now want my BED and sleeeeeeeeeeeeep lol
edit : mad was faster to post .really need my couch ahah
Arrived home save and tired but satisfied :) tomorrow some words about the weekend.
Sleep well all, greetz Mad-Ice
Edit: ahhh yeah haa finally a proper bed where I can stretch myself. Kappeskopp said: hobbit beds. :) After 3 nights in a small bed my own bed is heaven.
Hey hey hey, I'm home since 4 hours now.
My place is fresh, my bed seems so huuuuuge, that's gonna be an epic night... of sleep :)
The countdown to next convention starts tomorrow :)
Big hugs to all of you!
I've just arrived. Also really tired but it was worth of that :) I've had really great time with you guys. Thanks for all for showing up and keeping conventions alive! More tomorrow, need to prepare some food for myself, take a bath then sleep since I need to wake up early morning...
Came home 30min ago after walking miles on the Frankfurt airport thanks to a mistake of the staff. Will sleep now, too, and report back in a few days. To sum it up: this was the "hottest" convention ever (in terms of transpirations) and I'd hate to have missed it! :nod
I've collected photos from my camera and phone, here they are: https://plus.google.com/photos/10621...CJHyzYTS_rGdew - let me know if I should remove some photos from the gallery ;)
Quick summary:
Thursday: Came really early at Luton at 7:30am so before 10 I was already in the city center. I was walking near the Thames, Shard and London Bridge but I became quickly tired so I've just sat my ass on the bench where I could see the Shard building from the opposite side of the river. Then I went to meet AmigoJack but somehow we missed each other so I've just went to the Hostel. At the reception desk I realized that I've forgotten Temets name so it was hard for me to explain who made the booking for me haha - sorry Temet, now I will remember :) so I was waiting inside for about an hour, then I decided to walk a bit and I've met Temet on stairs reading book, he was already in the hostel but in our room. Then AmigoJack showed up. Later on Asa joined us and after that we went to grab something to eat and drink. After few beers Asa has got the message from Mad-Ice saying that he is near the Hostel so few of us went for him and together we walked back to the bar where inside we've spent most of time then.
Friday was the Pure tournament day, Kappeskopp came and we've checked Loading bar where we played tournament that night. Also AGphantom showed up :+ to play with us, unfortunately we didn't have much time to know each other since we started around 9pm and finished just few minutes before closing. Since the metro is working till ~12:30 we've splitted with AGphantom and went back to the hostel. Kappeskopp won as you all already know - congrats again man!
During the Saturday we've played the Pulse tournament, but before tournament Hellfire joined us under the hostel. Together we've went to eat something and then went straight to the Loading Bar. Well almost straight :D since I've had to go back to the hostel for the power splitter and Pulse UMD so together with Kappeskopp we've taken the metro for those things. Then we've played the tournament which MadIce won - congratulations! After the tournament we've have went altogether to the restaurant near the Thames. After eating, chatting and drinking we went to the underground station to say goodbye to Asa. Just after we've went back to the hostel tired.
On Sunday after 10am (checkout time) together with AJ we've said goodbye to Kappeskop, Temet and Mad-Ice and went to meet Hellfire under the Shard tower. I was lucky and bought the ticket for view point from someone that have spare one for only 10pounds instead of 25 :D. The view from the shard was really nice it was even possible to see suburbs from there and of course all of the main "attractions" of London - you can see this on my photos :) Then together with amigo we went to Westminster to see Big Ben and then to eat something since I was hungry. After eating some pizza (without cheese of course :pizza ;)) we went to Oxford street since Amigo wanted something from there. Then we've splitted and I went to King Cross station to take a train to Luton. On the Airport I've had some time so I've played Pure for 1h - I've started practicing for the next year haha
For me this convention was great even though we've not played my favorite WO's it was all about the people, playing together and the atmosphere. The Loading bar (MADD actually) was rocking :rock since we've had a nice spot there to play and the overall atmosphere of the bar was nice. I'm hoping to see you guys again the next year and of course new and old-new faces too!
Cheers!
Hi guys,
finally I`m back home too.After only 5 hours sleep in my Gulliver`s bed and 12 hours work i`m ready to write my short post.
It was a great convention and every year gets more family and it is nice to welcome new members of the family.
I felt happy winning pure tournament with the medievil.
Wishing you all the best and hope to see you and many others next year.
Greets,
Marcus
@dreamerx: thanks for sharing the photos. They're great.
I wish I could have been there. I'm looking forward to see you next year.
A quick note for the future: there's no date for the gamescon 2014 yet. However, official school holiday in Cologne are from 2014-07-07 to 2014-08-19.
This year's gamescon is from 2013-08-21 to 2013-08-25 and they collide with this year's summer school holidays (2013-07-22 to 2013-09-03) - if I recall it right Kappes wanted to avoid school holidays.
Normally during a convention there is a small group that stays up late or shall I say early ;) talking, drinking and smoking untill the first light! This year was very special: we were in the UK were the bars close at 11:00 or 00:00 and in the hostel there was no bar no music and when we wanted to go outside for a smoke and a talk we were standing in front of the hostel. Immediately the guard came to us and said we could not talk so loud and that we should move to the otherside of the road. So we did, on the otherside we were talking and the guard came again and said: no not there but over there. Which was two metres further. So this really became the joke of the weekend and every time we were talking somewhere we said to eachother huss not there but 2 metres over there.
Greetz Mad-Ice
Yeah and remember the last day.
We were eating together with Mad-Ice before leaving for train/plane station... it was 11.50am and I said : ok, one last beer before going back to France (and water :p).
The guy said : "I can't give you a beer".
Mad-Ice and I were : o_O'
The guy explained : "I can't give you a beer before noon".
Mad-Ice said something like : "And I thought the restrictions in my country were silly!"
We agreed to never come back to England for a convention :D
Finally I got my best part up and uploaded all pics and videos!
EWC7 pictures:
http://t.imgbox.com/abylvbaR.jpg http://t.imgbox.com/adh0wqoY.jpg http://t.imgbox.com/abc3xPwV.jpg
55 files in 261,03 MiB (273'711'148 bytes)
picture dimensions: 3'648x2'736
EWC7 videos:
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/OlgZ-FW5Tv8/default.jpg 2013-07-11 pub chat (07:07)
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Z9sNkcSrOS4/default.jpg 2013-07-11 burger bar dance (02:57)
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/e9sNXcGUklk/default.jpg 2013-07-11 disc jockeying at hostel (04:24)
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/hZdkLNYlSX0/default.jpg 2013-07-12 loading arrival (00:48)
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/0klg66jD4z8/d...jpg?v=5206596a 2013-07-12 crowded subway (01:02)
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/-JIqgGTM94Q/default.jpg 2013-07-12 loading playing (00:19)
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/yq55BLkstVA/default.jpg 2013-07-13 playing pulse at hostel (02:44)
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/mYaXyzdmnmI/default.jpg 2013-07-13 loading arcade (01:04)
- http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/EOHMplJk8FY/default.jpg 2013-07-14 the shard (00:46)
I've also finally uploaded 36 pics and 9 videos of last year's EWC6!
It was very enjoyable, despite the heat, the sleepless nights, the alcohol restriction and the odd rules of noise. Thanks alot to Hell and ag for showing up as locals. Thanks to everybody else for coming - I'm pleased for every single person attending! Additional thanks to Temet for his present - the chocolate box did not only survive without any harm, it's also the best one I've ever had. Really!
If someone feels offended by a picture or video, please contact me. For those being interested I can also scan all the paper sheets with the times.
Thanks a lot for pics and vids. Great memories are now archived :)
Mad-Ice (about the conventions): "it's beginning to get smaller"
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Temet (about the convention at Mad-Ice's): "we were playing the old wipeouts, and for me it's still my best memory"
Mad-Ice: "but I will do it again!"
YES! And I'll make that convention bigger by one person, me. :D
Amigo, thanks for sharing these first person view videos, this way I can play make-believe for this missed London convention. (Which I must say I thought would attract much more people! Where has the UK Wipeout love gone?)
Oh man, thanks for the vids.
I will see Asa this week end, but I will miss you anyway!
I'm glad you like the chocolates Amigo, how did you like the Calissons? :)
(You'll have to go the gym now :P)
The Calissons (where is that name printed on the case?) are nice and I think those are the ones you adore. ;) Can you forgive me for liking the big box more? It's really another league compared to chocolate boxes I ate/tried my whole life before and I almost gave up in having fun with those. And this one is so great! Seriously, you could not have made a better present! If I get to France again I'll definitly want to buy one of those. :D
Just remind me to bring you another box (bigger one?) for the next convention ;)
Boo I'm gutted we didn't know about this until it was too late! Would have been great to catch up and find out how you're all doing. Maybe next time :)
Glad you all had a great time though despite the 'Nanny state' ruining your fun ;) Long live EWC!