UKTerrorist

We Got Rhythm 4 + CSGN LAN Finals Writeup

Posted by -Psy- at 03:10, 3/8/2004

Well, I did mean for this to be briefish, but it seems its completely long winded out of all proportion. I was bored, so I wrote it, and you ARE bored, so you WILL read it.

The weekend began at 5am on Friday morning, well it did for me at least. It was a pretty strange feeling, waking up at 5am and knowing I'd be in Manchester for about 10am, which is usually 2 hours before I wake up.....
Anyway! After packing pretty much my whole bathroom, amongst other stuff I sat and waited for the Taxi that was supposed to pick me up at 6am and have me at the train station by 6:20. Well this felt like a 100 year wait, especially coupled with the fact that it came a whole 3 minutes late!

By about 7am the train was just approaching Birmingham New Street, and I, after 4 hours sleep, was very close to falling asleep - I couldn't wait to get off the train and into the cold air for it to wake me up. Well, thats all good, except the train couldn't get into the station because there was a queue of trains waiting to get in. After finally struggling to stay awake for an extra 10 minutes the train finally began to move and shortly after I was up on the main concourse trying to find out where to get my 8:33 Birmingham to Manchester train from. Shock, Horror. It wasn't listed on departures, what a surprise! The next step was to go to the information desk and find out which platform I would get my train from, but as with the departure screen, the guy behind the desk told me the train didn't exist! So how on earth had I reserved seats for this train, oh well, it didn't matter, I hopped on the earlier train at 7:50 and was in Manchester by 9:30...

After a few phone calls to the other CAution! boys I was unfortunately told that I would be waiting until 10:30 for the first of the other 4 to arrive, so what could I do in the s***hole that is Manchester, at 10am in the morning? Nothing. After watching the world's oldest man run through the station, aswell as find a little amusement in woman getting adgitated that her heavy bags wouldn't go up the flat escalator, I decided to go and help her to help pass the time...Well it didn't pass the time very well. A Little walking around and it was 10:30! Great! Waiting near one of the platforms and I see a familiar looking face walkign towards me, it was Rich (rode0), except he was much taller than I ever would have thought.

Anyway, we met up and spoke for a bit while waiting to Nick to arrive. Once Nick arrived we decided to make our way to Unicon to find out what was going on. After finding the UMIST pretty easily, we were then lost as to where abouts Unicon was. After a bit of walking about and arguing about who should ask where unicon is, I (being the hero and all) asked somebody where Unicon was. He didn't have a clue. Neither did the 2 men he was stood speaking to! They'd never even heard of it. After explaining what it was, one of them pointed us to the Student Union and said there's a cybercafe inside there. 2 minutes late and we were at Unicon, it's 11:30, and they still hadn't started, which wasn't a very good sign but at least we knew where it was. Seeing as we were playing in the 3pm group we made our way back to Piccadilly Station and waited about an hour until we finally met up with Aaron and Alex (Realf1re and trippin). Once again we all had a little chat amonst ourselves then decided to go back to Unicon to find out where on earth the hotel we had booked was. And again, another trip back to Piccadilly to get into a taxi and make our way to the Hotel.

We finally arrived at the Quality Hotel and checked in, watched Prince Charming (Aaron) thank some woman member of staff for sorting everything out, and then made our way to our rooms. Nick opened the room in which he, Rich and myself would be staying, Nick and I then quickly dived onto each of the beds, Rich was left with a matress that was about 2ft long, 1ft wide and under the table. Unlucky! After a bit of not really doing much, we decided to make our way back to Unicon as we were due to start in about one hours time and wanted to set up early and get warmed up.

We arrived at Unicon and the first group was still underway, and then we were told that we wouldn't be starting till about 5pm at the earliest. This was slightly annoying as it was on 2:30 and we could have stayed at the hotel and watched some magnificent friday afternoon TV. We watched some of the potential competition for the next day, then sat outside talking for a while and time soon went by and it was nearly 5pm and time for us to setup! After a bit of a warmup we finally went live and everything seemed to be going fine, we started off as CT on Dust2 and were ready to crush the competition that we had. All of a sudden, the pistol round is over, 5 of us are dead, and none of the enemies team are dead, what a disaster. I began to think bad things and I think losing this round was a bit of a downer, but we then went on to win the next (eco) round, and the next 12 after that. Game won 13-1, things were looking up after a disasterous pistol round! We went on to win our next to games pretty comfortably, 13-5 and 13-0. Not much to mention here except that Rand0m (eSure + GameSense) stood out as a really good player and kept shooting me in the head, which was annoying. During 1 of our games, 4 familiar looking lads walked into Unicon and came and stood behind us. I kept looking at them as two of their faces were really familiar but I couldn't put my finger on who they were exactly. It suddenly clicked that one of them was Benji and I guess they were suiGeneris (obviously missing a player at this time). After exchanging hellos etc, they disappeared and we carried on playing CS...

Later on we arrived at the Hotel, watched a bit of TV and got showered etc, then we decided to go chill out in the bar for a bit, where we met suiGeneris (these turned out to be a really cool bunch of lads), again! A little chat chit about nothing important and found out that KaM would be arriving later. Some guy from another group of people came other and started chatting to us, I found out that he lived in a town next to mine.......what a small world. :P Also benji had a bet with us that if we played them in the next couple of days and were able to get 7 rounds off them, he would give us £10. Something good was soon to come late the next day!

It's Saturday morning and I'm woke up by somebody banging a door. trippz is stood half naked in our room banging the door that linked ours to his and Aaron's. It seems he'd sleep walked out of his room in the middle of the night, and somebody, apparently me had let him into ours, although I don't remember this! Anyway we all get ready and make our way to Unicon to make sure we'll be there for 9, seeing as we were told to be there 10 and wanted to get an early start. Why we did this after what happened the day before I don't know, but we did, and it happened again. We sat outside in the coldish weather, speaking to some of clan cheers, eSure, and SpecificSkill. Watched suiGeneris arrive and go to a table on their own and speak amongst themselves for a bit, watched RemOte, some of 2s2p, and euthanasia arrive. I knew toko and w00kie from euth quite well, and had met them before so went over to speak to them.

We finally got in to UniCon at about 11:30 and setup for our first game which was to be against clan.cheers. The game got underway and after quite an eventful match, including some very skilled play by cheers and some amazing AWP play by Nitrony from cheers, we had won 13-11. Although not extremely please by the closeness of this match, a win was a win and cheers deserved the 11 rounds they got, and probably more. We then played SpecificSkill who we had played the day before and beat 13-1 so we were quite confident of a win. Once again we won 13-1. Our next game was to be against RemOte, which at first I thought this game would be harder, but after hearing that cheers beat RemOte 13-6 we were quite confident that the win was ours. So we finally got to play RemOte in a pretty boring game, and won 13-6, finishing top of our group and ultimately having the same round score as euthanasia (who were in another group). As both our teams were ranked #1 in our groups and had the best round score out of the 3 group toppers, we were both through to the semi finals. Another 4 teams then battled it out in a 2 match quarter final, where one winner would play us, and the other would play euthanasia. 2seXeh2perfoRm and suiGeneris were the winners of their quarter finals games. We were to play suiGeneris on dust2 and euthanasia were to play 2s2p.

We went into our game against sG quite recluctantly, as we, or I at least, expected sG to win WGR4. After a boring warmup of me getting extremely close to KaM with a knife out yet not quite being able to kill him, the game went live and spirits were high from both teams. The pistol round itself came down to a 1v1 situation between me and KaM. This was soon over as I chased KaM around a box shooting him in the back... The game went on and we won round after round after round until suddenly we were 10-0 up, things were looking great here. sG won the next round make it 10-1, we then won the last round of the half making it 11-1. Some fantastis play by Aaron and Nick in B, aswell as our pretty much completely faultless holding of the A bombsite by myself, Alex and Rich won us this game. We now knew that we could chill out and take things easily, but winning the pistol round would pretty much guarantee us the match and our place in the finals of WGR4. After a short break the game went live with us taking the pistol round, then winning the eco round after, finishing the match on 13-1 to ourselves. I don't think we were the only people surprised by this result, quite a few of the other people around UniCon were quite surprised and after a short check on UKTerrorist it became apparent that prior to the game, people had their money on suiGeneris coming out with a win. Nobody really expected the match to be amazingly close, or as completely one sided as it was. Still, they got their revenge the next day but I'll explain that all in good time. Not long after finishing this game I watched a Partition fall onto the row of PC's suiGeneris were just at, except benji was the only one sat there. Unlucky! :P

A few minutes later and we saw that 2s2p had won their semi finals game against euthanasia so we were now to play 2s2p in the finals, a match we were pretty confident we could do well in. The first map was to be played on train (our choice of map). This match wasn't really that exciting, after some very close rounds, we were 8-4 down to 2s2p, and starting as CT this wasn't as good a result we could have hoped for. After an exciting second half, with some pretty fautless rushes on the A bombsite, we drew the half 6-6 meaning that 2s2p had won the first map (which was our choice) 14-10. The next map was 2s2p's choice, dust2. We were very confident of a win here after our performance against suiGeneris a little earlier that night. Not much happened here, but after only losing 3 rounds on dust2 to 2s2p, we finally gained a much needed 15 rounds which meant that we won the WGR4 Finals 25-17. Dust2 against 2s2p went pretty much the same way as it did against suiGeneris, they struggled to get into bombsite A, and they struggled to get into bombsite B. After collecting our prizes (£100 Sennheiser PC155 USB Headsets), we realised that it was 1:45 in the morning and seeing as we had to be at UniCon the next morning by 10am for CSGN, we best get back to the hotel as soon as possible and get some sleep in before the next day...We decided to take Pops back to the hotel with us as this would mean he could spectate the next days event (aswell as merc for RemOte mix) and not much happened that night, except that I had a sudden urge to go mental and start jumping up and down everywhere and scared Nick off who spent the night in the other room, so I had a nice double bed to myself, and Rich still had a crap matress. Didn't get to sleep until about 4am and woke up at 9, pretty tired but got ready in spite of this and got to Unicon just before 10:30, just in time to sign in to CSGN and pay up!

Sunday was a pretty uneventful day, we knew we wouldn't be able to finish the tournament if we did get far, as Aaron, Rich and Alex had to leave at 6. We waited around for what seemed like ages, spoke to some people, sG as usual, euthanasia, 2s2p, and random other people... When our group finally got started we knew the best thing we could do was to rush all 3 games, get the best result possible then leave for our trains home. We started with a game against suiGeneris, on dust2, again. We went into this game pretty confident, but at the same time pretty naive. What I don't think we did expect is that sG would remember some of our CT tactics. By doing this they gained a good 6 rounds and we then had to give them a chance to play their CT half. Their CT half was very good and definitly helped them a lot. The last round came down to a 1v1 between KaM and I (the score was now 12-11 to sG and this put immense pressure on me to win). Sat on the ramp next to bombsite A, I hear KaM running from the steps, I take out a flashbang grenade and plan to throw it towards him as a decoy. Problem, I forgot to press fire and changed back to my gun in panic. Quickly ran and hid, then ran back out of hiding to shoot KaM who had begun to defuse the bomb. He faked it which I really didn't expect, anyway, he killed me and the game was over, suiGeneris win 13-11. They got their revenge! We then played RemOte and euthanasia, rushing both games and winning them, not sure about the exact scores! Anyway, it's nearly 6 so time to pack up and go. Aaron and Alex had a 5 hour journey down south to the south coast and Rich needed to get 1 of the last trains back to Newcastle. We said our goodbyes to various people we had met that weekend and left UniCon, walked to Piccadilly, said our goodbyes, and parted ways one by one to our seperate trains. As with the beginning of the weekend, I was left in Piccadilly on my own for about an hour waiting for my train. :P

Just some other things to note:

We never did claim our winnings from benji (the bet).
We went back and forth from UniCon to Piccadilly about 10 times as we had no idea where else we would find anywhere to eat food!
Big thanks to Kal, n4, and the rest of the UniCon people for organising such great events. Also big thanks to Stono and Obsidian for organising the CSGN event, just sorry that we couldn't stay and finish it!
Big thanks to our fans Pops and nixoh for sticking with us while they were there!
Shoutout to Hotshot (and Flo) who I finally met. Both cool guys with great taste in music!
Thanks to TsN for casting games and to Pulse-Gaming and Caliber-Hosting for running HLTV!
Shoutouts to everybody we met, too many names to list and thanks to everybody who was involved someway in the weekend, I guess it wouldn't have been the same without them!

Champions: http://www.dannysomner.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/caution.jpg