It has been a huge weekend for competitive Heroes of Newerth, with the Steelseries HoN Masters going on at DreamHack Winter while the Digital Youth Awards was going on in Singapore. After the conclusion of the two events pro players Revyy from former Druidz Qpad and PapaDrayich from TS-Gaming blogged about their respective experiences.Presenting Drayich's experience of the Digital Youth Awards event.
Drayich shares with us his experience of travelling with his teammates.
“Food and then travel started. RUS was our travel noob, well XOY wasnt much better, but he had traveled alot before just never really been awake and taken part of the actual travel. RUS was more of a 4 y old kid who was clicking all the buttons, and feeling superamused by the fact that he could click and then someone showed up with a drink.”
His description of Day 2 also explained why the groupings for the Digital Youth Awards tournament seemed fairly "regional". ( Group A consisted of EG, OK, ICE and TSoG while Group B had all the Asian teams iMp, xTu, Kungfu and PMS* ).
“Day 2 was the drawings. All team gathered up at a place in the hotel, had some wierdtasting soup and some other better dishes together and made the drawings. Im guessing you could call the drawingresults bad. But in the end it was an honest drawing and i do support the hole drawing process. Basicly OK and EG first drawed to be in the same group. And then i also took a piece of paper and turned up in the very same group. Then in the end ICE and PMS-girls had a rock paper scissor about whos going where, since they both were late into this competition that would be most fair. PMS won that and they picked to play in the "asian group".”
He ends the blog with a nice self-reflection on the past events TSoG has been involved in, and, being PapaDrayich, does not forget to have a big shoutout to the DYA staff who have worked so hard to make the event such a great one for Heroes of Newerth.
“I just realise, during 6 months of this year. Ive been to the Swedish Dreamhack, and winning that tornament led us to both Shanghai and Singapore. I met the other teams, they are amazing, but i also met alot of people who really put pride and joy into gaming. The Digital Youth Awards people, who not really just are people behind desks or behind e-mail adresses, but real people who enjoys this. People with respect for gamers, for other people. People that have humor, people that are for real...
...I have to take my hat off for these people, and i really hope that these events will continue to happen. Because Digital Youth Award took gaming and all its joy and made it 3 times more meaningfull. They put in some of the missing pieces to make gaming a proper thing.
”
Check out the full blog inclusive with pictures here.
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Drayich's blog - Source
Drayich shares with us his experience of travelling with his teammates.
“Food and then travel started. RUS was our travel noob, well XOY wasnt much better, but he had traveled alot before just never really been awake and taken part of the actual travel. RUS was more of a 4 y old kid who was clicking all the buttons, and feeling superamused by the fact that he could click and then someone showed up with a drink.”
His description of Day 2 also explained why the groupings for the Digital Youth Awards tournament seemed fairly "regional". ( Group A consisted of EG, OK, ICE and TSoG while Group B had all the Asian teams iMp, xTu, Kungfu and PMS* ).
“Day 2 was the drawings. All team gathered up at a place in the hotel, had some wierdtasting soup and some other better dishes together and made the drawings. Im guessing you could call the drawingresults bad. But in the end it was an honest drawing and i do support the hole drawing process. Basicly OK and EG first drawed to be in the same group. And then i also took a piece of paper and turned up in the very same group. Then in the end ICE and PMS-girls had a rock paper scissor about whos going where, since they both were late into this competition that would be most fair. PMS won that and they picked to play in the "asian group".”
He ends the blog with a nice self-reflection on the past events TSoG has been involved in, and, being PapaDrayich, does not forget to have a big shoutout to the DYA staff who have worked so hard to make the event such a great one for Heroes of Newerth.
“I just realise, during 6 months of this year. Ive been to the Swedish Dreamhack, and winning that tornament led us to both Shanghai and Singapore. I met the other teams, they are amazing, but i also met alot of people who really put pride and joy into gaming. The Digital Youth Awards people, who not really just are people behind desks or behind e-mail adresses, but real people who enjoys this. People with respect for gamers, for other people. People that have humor, people that are for real...
...I have to take my hat off for these people, and i really hope that these events will continue to happen. Because Digital Youth Award took gaming and all its joy and made it 3 times more meaningfull. They put in some of the missing pieces to make gaming a proper thing.
”
Check out the full blog inclusive with pictures here.
Links
Drayich's blog - Source
