Hey there, posting to say that I just got back home from Milan.
It was a pleasure meeting all of you people again, unfortunately we sort of failed at partying / chilling together compared to Paris lol, but it felt awesome to see all of those now-familiar faces. Hope to hear/read some of your stories, how was your journey to Lago di Como (or where you were) on Monday my british friends? Hope you had a nice time.
Congrats to the 4 that qualified for worlds.
Oh and for those who didn´t know but care, I lost round 2 to the Frenchman Raphael who later made it to worlds as a semi-finalist. Our match was on the screen so some people saw it live (Massi, DaFlo, Pokérob). I´ve played excellent the first couple of turns which really showcased my rather unique lead duo, but then I predicted too much/got outplayed (still not sure) in the last two turns which cost me the game, gg. So yeah, I underachieved / failed big time :(
I did some heavy sightseeing in the following two days...not that it made me less uneasy about the whole tournament thing, but whatever.
I´ll probably post a story in the next couple of days, if only to gather and write up all of my memories, btw. seems like I have 1042 photos, but only a handful from the actual tourney lol (also my team deserves to be revealed, if only because I think noone else played that this year), although my round 2 fail isn´t as easy to take as I would like to despite all my "life goes on" talk towards drug_duck and misaki lol (hey, how difficult was that night on the airport and how was your flight back home?).
My loss is kind of haunting me whenever my mind gets a free second or two - was probably a good thing I was so occupied with running around Milan.
Dozz said:
I know what you mean about your loss haunting you, exactly the same for me man! Hope your travel wasn't too bad.
It´s one thing to say "life goes on" and act like it´s nothing, when in fact it kind of haunts you on everytime you´re not occupying your brain. It was much better after Paris for me, I mean I only had "that feeling" for like 10 minutes 4 days after the tournament, maybe because I still felt I had a shot in Milan. This time it´s kind of "it´s over", fail at stuff you invest heavily in (time, time, time, part of yourself/experience, money) and that you consider yourself to be skillful in.
Oh well, but life does indeed go on (it´s just Pokémon) and what I´ll take from Milan will be all the great stuff I saw. I mean the tourney was half of a day, I still had a great sightseeing 2 days afterwards, and sightseeing is actually so not me lol.