Update

Alright. Let's go through what happened to me these past 10 days. It's long, but it felt as if a longer time has passed.

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So week 2 ensues. This week, Monday went on as usual, but we found out about our task at the World Cyber Games this year as volunteers.

On Tuesday we received instructions. We got our teams for shifting, and I switched out of A to B because A has 2 morning shifts, and my friends are all at B. So then we also got instructions that we have to go for a briefing at 8 that evening at Snutec, which mae us freak out because lessons after lunch were cancelled. So we went for, what else, some DotA at Raiders AMK. I forgot who pwned what but I'm pretty sure I pwned a game. So then we had dinner at S11 before setting off to City Hall.

I swear that place is the most confusing place ever for a first timer. And the roofs are so freaking high you can barely notice the signs. We managed to find our and not be late, and got there on time.

It was a short thing, and I went in to the PR team. Me, Gerald, Dom and BK. Wacky. We went around looking, a short tour, got our T-shirts and volunteer tags and went home.

We were supposed to be back there by 12.30 the next day, for rehearsals of the opening ceremony. We were assigned countries to hold placards for them. I got Austria, and I took an opportunity to show off, which incidentally had the only female finalist in the entire tournament.

So we were instructed on how to walk and how to hold the placards, and then the flagbearers came. The Austrian one told me he was only here as a team leader but not a gamer after I was like "What do you play?" and he gave me a "wtf" look.

Then evening came, and the VIPs came in and we had the opening ceremony. So we went up and back, and everything was sweet and nice.

The rest of the days had Gerald and Dom sticking at the Dead or Alive: Ultimate section and then the XBox section after it ended. There were Razer Copperheads everywhere and they kept disappearing at the Press Centre and we were all very tempted to ninja some home (good thing we didn't).

We spent the nights at the arcade after dinner. And for the first time I completed Virtual Cop 2 with 1 credit. Yay! I spent entire days at Suntec, with the exception of Saturday, where I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire before going for my third shift.

The movie was quite ok, but I would say total crap for hardcore Harry Potter fans. Voldemort looked like an alien. Which is... Stupid. He really looks like a Protoss, if you have played StarCraft before. The overall movie for entertainment is about 6.5/10, but for story value is around 4.5/10.

And days of nothing much came the last day. Singapore has a silver at DOA:U, and was out of all the other games.

So the winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) are as follows:

• Counter-Strike: Source - USA, Kazakhstan, Canada
  
• Warcraft III: Frozen Throne - China, USA, Netherlands
  
• Starcraft: Broodwar - Korea, Russia, Australia
  
• FIFA 2005 - Germany, Russia, Spain
  
• Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Brazil, Brazil, Russia
  
• Warhammer 40'000: Dawn Of War - Korea, Brazil, Germany
  
• Halo 2 - USA, Canada, France
  
• Dead Or Alive: Ultimate - Japan, Singapore, Korea

We went to the farewell party expecting food, but it was nothing but alcohol. We left for food at a line of roadside hawker stalls (expensive ones) and had dinner while we joked a lot about what if our lecturers were at the party and drank too much and went to school tomorrow with a hangover.

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So on Sunday, we human teenagers feasted like orcs while behaving like night elves and went to school Monday morning like the Undead.

That is, until Mr. Lim got a phone call. That we might be getting rewarded.

This made everyone wake up. We had a meeting with the director that afternoon, and talked to us about our course before announcing our gifts: a Razer Copperhead mouse, a Razer eXactMat, EverGlide keyboard and headset. The default equipment for competitors at the WCG.

So we went to collect our equipment after the meeting, and went home.

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Being a Copperhead user now, I naturally had to go around boasting about it (Give me a week, it will go). Went for Judo for the first time in two weeks, and felt something strange. The training was very technical... Instead of the physical ones I've heard about the past two weeks.

We had Mac for dinner after that... And went home. I played some DotA and chatted a little, and slept.

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No school today. Not bad. That's why I have the time to write so much and upload photos (if you don't know what I'm talking about, search for hidden links in the text).

Another time.

Ciao.