Jason’s insights

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.