It’s all about Vegas.
For those of you who read my last blog, you will know that Major League Gaming is a company that hosts gaming tournaments. Go figure.
Somehow in a moment of insanity, brought on no doubt by a lack of sleep and medication , my friend and I decided that it would be a good idea to try to throw together a team and buy plane tickets to compete at MLG Las Vegas. The upcoming PFD would take care of the money side of things and we would figure out two other people to fill the remaining spots on our team.
The next day we contacted our mutual friend Jeff, aka Evening, and offered him a spot on the team; to our utter delight he quickly accepted. Three spots filled, one to go.
Filling the roster proved to be one of the smaller problems as we browsed for plane tickets and hotels. Because this was a last minute affair plane tickets were horrendously expensive. The cheapest coming straight from Alaska Airlines and weighing in at seven hundred twenty dollars for each of us. After adding about thirty dollars a night for hotel (splitting it four ways), sixty dollars each for entry pass, food, and transportation things were not looking good at all.
We were concerned that our first serious hurdle would knock us out. Redemption came in the form of my mom who had a companion ticket which lets two people go for basically the price of one. This cut the plan ticket down to about four hundred dollars each. A bit more searching online yielded hotels for twenty dollars a night; things were looking up.
The next problem we came across is that we needed to buy everything as soon as possible, however, the PFD refused to be hurried. Like typical teenagers we decided to hit up a parents for a small loan, or about eight hundred dollars. Hysterical laughter ensued. Actually we are in the process of convincing our parents now. Once we have that done most of our worries will be taken care of. There is still the problem of an incomplete roster but I am confident that we will be able to pick up a capable fourth.
I will keep this blog more or less updated on our progress both prior to and post tournament.
Terrible website
So the time has come to pick on some poor hapless victim’s website.
Today, and totally by random, I chose Art.net. I found this site disappointing for a number of reason.
Firstly Art.net is a fairly basic name, you don’t have to remember anything outlandish like Idrawdragonmonkeys.com. If someone is randomly perusing the web for art, the chances of them typing in Art.net is fairly high. Part of the reason that this website is so disappointing is because they are wasting such a high profile name.
Secondly there is not much eye candy on this page; the background is monotonous, the menu is blue text, and the banner is a 561 x 142 px picture. Overall this page is fairly boring.
Third, I was a bit put off by how many links I had to follow before I could look at their art, which (by the way) I found to be a bit underwhelming. But that is just my opinion.
Gaming in todays society.
We live in an interesting age, everything that we know to be fact now can become incorrect or obsolete within a couple years.
At one time video gamers were considered to be socially dysfunctional, unaware of the rules that govern modern society. Deemed to be totally unaware, these rejects were often the brunt of mean spirited jokes.
In a remarkably short time things seemed to have changed altogether. Now gamers that are capable to competing on the highest level are placed on a pedestal, admired by thousands of fans.
What caused this change? The answer is simple, money.
With the creation of a video game league that handed out contracts and cash payouts, gamers suddenly became more popular. People were flocking from all over the country to challenge each other, the winners have walked away with as much as $100,000 checks.
Who is responsible for this? What company would be crazy enough to pay gamers to game?
I introduce Major League Gaming
With a tournament coming this Friday (September 21), that will be aired live straight from the website, I greatly encourage you to sign up for an account on their website.
Jason
Someday I will be dictator of the world, you might want to start paying taxes to me now just to get used to it.
