First two days in Dallas - zlr

Firstly I just want to say this is the first time I've been out of Australia so it's something I've never experienced before. My initial thoughts were that I wouldn't sleep at all on any of the flights, which did turn to be right, and I'd spend the next two days recovering from my sleepless journey.

I went with V Australia from Brisbane > Sydney > LA > Dallas. Total flying time for all the flights was about 18-19 hours if I remember correctly. For some reason I just couldn't make myself sleep sitting on those chairs, even after I'd been up a lot past the 24 hour mark. I left the Dallas airport feeling like a zombie and arrived at the hotel where Ventz and Rigz had a room booked for the 3 of us. The front desk actually gave me the wrong room number and key, and I ended up walking into a room full of about 15-20 bags of shoes,makeup, jewellery and women's clothes. In my sleep deprived state it took me a minute or so to come to the conclusion I was given the wrong room number. I was standing in the doorway trying to think of why Ventz and Rigz would buy all that stuff before I went back to the front desk and said I was given the wrong room.

The internet in the hotel doesn't function very well. It's mostly unplayable, with 5 or 10 minutes of playable time available here and there. Ventz and I both have our laptops which we've been using to have a few games. I managed to get a game of CA and a few duels this morning between 5-6am. No one else in the hotel must have been up to lag me! After 6am it started to lag really bad and I had to stop though.

It's not the best experience playing duels on a laptop, especially with 60hz refresh rates. But at least it gives the opportunity to have a few games and generally practice a bit of timing/item control and see how the Americans play. I haven't had the opportunity to play any of the 24 players invited to Quakecon yet.

There is supposed to be an open area in the Quakecon venue which has LAN functionality for use after 4pm this afternoon (Wednesday). So Ventz and I will be trying to get in there and have some decent practice before we have to play in the tournament tomorrow afternoon.

It's currently 10am here on Wednesday 3rd August, and I haven't had much sleep so I'm going to try and get some rest before heading into the Quakecon venue this afternoon. I will try and do another blog tomorrow night detailing how the tournament actually went. 

Thanks for reading.