Monday 30 November 2009

chelski down gunner in emirate

arsenal 0-3 chelsea

i'm not surprised by the result, i expected chelsea to win 2-0 though.
arsenal jus seems so lost, without van persie.
chelsea did well to limit arsenal's options, force them to go wide and cross, which will not be a treat.
arsenal has a goal disallowed, which may change the flow of the game.

but in the end, totally outplayed...

"The Emirates wasn't built to watch the likes of Bendtner, Walcott, Vela, Eboue and Diaby running around in circles, or into crowds of players and falling over. We might get some false optimisim from the better moments against weak teams this season, but they won't ever beat a team like the one Chelsea put out today."

the missing link

Friday 27 November 2009

22

from may'n & megumi

Friday 20 November 2009

women are imbalance



i've experienced this before.

Monday 16 November 2009

ygo asian qualifier

2 words: 悲剧

died in swiss.

match 1: OXX
vs lightlord

match 2: OO
vs gladiator beast

match 3: OXO
vs burn

match 4: XOX (time out)
vs lightlord

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so much talk about the organisers and judges, i should start with myself.
if i win all my matches, there's nothing organisers or judges can do to stop me from claiming the championship. unless by finding faults to DQ me, or do what they did yesterday by conducting less than required swiss rounds.

but well, i feel i don't deserve to win. although i can push it to lucklords, but the 2 that i met in swiss are no better than those lightlords i meet every week.

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lets go to the things that should not happen yesterday:

1. deck check
when i submit my deck list for deck check, it's only done by scanning if i've illegal cards in deck. but not comparing if it matches what i write on the list. although this 'shortcut' method is practiced in other countries. remember charles easton's world qualifier this year?

2. format
with 150+ players, a 5 round swiss before a top 16 single elimination format. the number of swiss round should be decided on number of players, hence only 1 player will have a full score. but this is not followed everytime, and the best excuse i can think for them is restriction of venue. basically it's the organiser booked a place in smu to host this tournament but it's not huge enough to hold 150+ players to play a swiss round in a single wave. so the time used will be doubled as there're 2 waves for 1 swiss round. and the time is also restricted, lights will be off in smu after a certain timing. this can be improved by getting a bigger venue (money problem) or make it a 2 days event (money problem) so the best way is make it a single elimination from the start, but probably some people will feel they pay $10 entry fee to lose 1st round and go home. which discourage some players, hence less income for organisers.
P.S. there's more to format in later of the day which will be mention at the bottom

3. judges
the judges are not capable to solve basic ruling problems during gameplay, and of course more problem with metagame deck cards' ruling. and worse, 'house rule' is being posted online. when a judge has came to a decision on a ruling conflict between players, it's not final. as the player who is in disadvantage just carries on arguing with the judge, the decison is changed then again. i also see judges play in the tournament as player, unacceptable.

4. specific cards being 'unbanned' in format
raiou, gorz and sarcophagus are specifically named weeks before the tournament that they can be used. when qualifier within the country is concerned, the format is played according to the country respectively. e.g. japan allows duel terminal exclusives. USA allows TCG exclusives. so singapore should be played under asian format, which means that 3 cards can't be used. and if cards are to be unbanned, it should be named by the source. e.g. valuable book exclusives. and not just unbanned because the judges/organisers just like it. and the news is not being spread officially but just within the small community, and i'm sure there're players who didn't know about it.

5. pairing in swiss rounds
a computer program (mantis) is used for pairing in swiss, however clear manual conspiracy is being done.
- players should never meet the same opponent within swiss, jeryl and sam were paired up again.
- more than 1 player is paired down. just swiss round 2 alone, there're 3 pair down matches.
- in swiss round 2, someone with 1 win from round 1 is given a bye.
- akira is recorded as 1 win, when he had 2. but organisers proceed with pairings, which means he's paired down.

6. crowd control and time control
when basic tournament management i mentioned above can't be meant, i doubt crowd and time control will be in radar. spectators were too closed to players, this can still be accepted. but time for each match is not kept constant for all rounds, 1 round has 30min and the other has 40min. and when time is called, it's not announced to all players.

7. change of format during tournament
when it's supposed to be 5 round swiss with top 16 single elimination, it's last minute changed to 4 round swiss with top 8 single elimination. when i mention above that there will be more than 1 player with all wins if the number of swiss round is not sufficient, which is unfair. now with 4 round swiss and top 8 cut point, there're players with all wins don't make it to top 8 still. bravo~

Sunday 15 November 2009

WCG2009 grand final warcraft 3 (before final)

WCG2009 grand final warcraft 3
fly100% vs infi

both chinese players, orc vs human.
fly's form is crazy, win almost everything recently.
infi's wcg form is good too, he knocked out moon and happy.

i'm disappointed that sky lost his opening game against yaws, but yaws played well and deserved to win. BO1 in group stage has more luck factors, due to 1 map 1 game. and clearly sky's form is not there, plus the pressure he withstand before and throughout the tournament is inhuman.

in the end, he qualified to knock out as group second and lost to happy 0-2 in top 16.



现在可以真正的为你们喝彩了,希望你们在下面的8进4,4进2,2争冠的比赛中的完全发挥出自己的百分之二百的实力来!

  加油,也请你们一定要自信,相信自己!没有什么不可能的。

  同时也真的很对不起那些支持我的爱好者们,,,让你们失望了,,在这里我只能对你们说上一句真诚的对不起。。。

  对不起你们了。

  但是我还是会依然加油的努力下去的,就向有些FANS说的那样,“SKY,不要怕,百败百战,不要害怕”。

  是的,我觉得我已经没有什么害怕的理由了,我会更加努力的百倍努力的自信的奋斗下去。

  因为我知道我不能再对不起你们了。

  放好心态,在这个我依然在的舞台上,继续燃烧起我的生命之火!

  自信,加油,努力,坚持,拼搏


"SKY.....

什么都别说了,我们心里都明白。

我是看你REP成长的..

加油。"

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as for myself, hope i do well for my asian championship qualifier which is just hours away.

Friday 13 November 2009

imba banner

photo taken in wcg grand final



星际选手 黄慧明 (Toodming)
starcraft player

Tuesday 10 November 2009

Tuesday 3 November 2009

puppet no more (soon)

just in case you don't know, i never like my father.
always trying to shape me to what he wants me to be, control and plan my stuff.

last night, he talked to me. saying that i treat my mother as maid, because she cooks for me and wash my clothes. and also other housework. and i just play games and do nothing constructive. and contribute nothing to the family.

i'm waiting for uni, and so he expects me to be studying right now. and i do revise for your info, just that i won't be doing like what most people doing in school. because they've a proper syllabus but not me. so am i suppose to open my textbook and act as if i'm studying when it's ineffective. and i actually read up online and ask friends. but all he thinks he see is i play games 24/7. he only believes what he wants to believes.

alittle history on how he always think he's right and shape me. in 2001, that is my sec 2 year, i'm supposed to choose what i wanna study for higher sec for o lvl. and i have chose mine, (EL, CL, E.math, A. math, p.chem, p.physic, a/c and comb hum) but he insisted that i must take p.bio and not a/c. and the final line he said is "i've more exp than u in this world, i know what is good for u. jus listen." what can i say? he feeds me. fine, i took bio. and i got a A1 for 1st exam, then i fail on purpose all the way til o lvl. i just don't wanna be forced. i scored in my 1st exam to prove that i'm capable not because i can't. in 2003, after my o lvl, he wanted me to study biz mgt, because he wanted it. his reason is that i've little knowledge of everything. but i've told him which also leads to no where. but yeah again, he's paying my school fee. so suck thumb.

regarding my mother being a maid, my mother always complains to me it's him who makes her become a maid. and she told me doing housework is all she can do for me as a mother, and feel being needed. sometimes why not just appreciate it and not do what you think it should be. so what will my mother do everyday? like him, staring at the com looking at the stocks? he thinks that i can't manage to do it myself, when i'm so often being left alone at home. not being to do my own housework? and now he's saying i can't manage in aust.

he talks about give and take, my mother does the housework and i should. ok, i agree with that. but that line only comes to me because he did some housework. how about when he had not retired? my mother complain so much about her serving him. from now on, i'll not dine at home, if he thinks that she cooks for me make her the maid. and i'll wash my own clothes separately. i think within 2 days, my mother will complain to him that i'm not eating with her. also mention that i leave my clothes on the bed after i took them off, simply because my mother told me don't have to wash them everytime i use them. (those that i wear to sleep.) he just lives in his own world.

also not happy that i wake up past 12pm. ok fine, i just wake up early today and leave home to library to sleep there. i will still watch my champions league match in mid night, that won't change.

not long ago, when i rejected to work for iras, he jus scolded me, without knowing anything at all. "how can a person be like u" i still remember.

2 months ago, when i'm applying for the school. he also wants to take charge of it, but clearly without any sort of info and just what he thinks is right again. he just scolded me for delaying and wanted to charge down to the agency to settle it. have he ever thinks that i need to oath for my citizenship? change my passport? and my particulars may have changed. and after i'm done with it, i told him about preparing a cheque (which i've reminded him long ago, and he said the rate is not good. which i think it's ok to wait.) and suddenly he said i don't care about my future, the money is not my concern, but his. and next thing he said all i know is spending his money. back to the story of charging down to the agency, i told him he needs to prepare a bank draft 1st. i've filled up everything, called the agency to ask. i even call the uni in aust about my new offer (because i change to start in another sem) after i get the bank draft, i settle the rest by myself, smooth~

even the accommodation in aust, the booking of flight. he just wants them his way, i've said before that i will be sharing with someone there and i'm looking for one (looking it out online) and my friends there are helping too. as for air tix, i wait to confirm with 1 friend because she's flying to sg then back to aust with me.

it's just always he, him and himself.
he's not seeing the big picture, i don't need him but his money to pull me through school. i'm not his puppet. one day i'll not need his money anymore, and i'm gonna pay back every cents. that day isn't far.