When I was studying abroad in Ireland, I came back to play a Gamer's Assembly LAN in France. My plane was scheduled late at night and I was bringing with me all my peripherals and laptop in order to play. As I arrived at the airport fairly early, I opened up my laptop and played a mix, laptop on my legs, connected to the airport's WiFi, mouse pad and mouse on the seat near me.

In Norway after finishing 13 years of school you party instead of studying for exam, this is called "russ". Usually it is from may 1st to may 17th. May 17th is Norways national day. A couple of years ago i had to play a playoffs match in the ETF2L fresh meat tourney. The team thought we had the whole week to schedule, however at May 16th we found out we had to play at before May 17th. I was russ that year and asked the team to find a merc. There were some problems with the merc for some reason. I got home 5 min before match for some reason. Don't remember why i left party early. When i got on the computer i got messages from everyone on the team. I was unaware of the merc problems. Ended up playing with no warmup.

I got covid during the last two weeks of RGL S5 and missed out on some scrims. I felt bad because our team already never had a set 6th player so they constantly had to find two ringers for a few day so I decided to just play for the remaining week and a half with a 102° fever. Our losers bracket finals ended up being a little over two hours and even going into golden cap and it felt like the longest game I'd ever played because all I wanted to do was sleep.

Another time, during a 3AM pug, my internet dropped out in my area so I turned on the mobile data on my phone with hotspot and used my computer's wifi to connect to my phone and rejoin the game. It worked fine, there was absolutely zero drops or lag but about ten minutes in, I got autokicked because I couldn't connect to the VAC servers for authenticity and every attempt to rejoin gave me the pop-up error of, "Cannot connect to VAC servers". Relaunching the game didn't help, restarting my computer didn't help, I had to re-verify all my TF2 game files just to join servers again. For a split second, I got extremely worried and thought maybe I did end up triggering something to get a VAC ban and that it would be permanent.

I spent this past summer in Guam playing on my data hotspot to get ~120 ping to singapore instead of 200 (isp bullshittery). I would get around 80 to the right hk server but no one besides korean teams play on those lol

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where's that picture of the guy who did his tryout from the bench outside mcdonalds or something

https://i.imgur.com/fjuo4Hn.jpg

shamu skipped a date with his girlfriend on valentines day for open scrims (they broke up)

"Sorry honey, can't pick you up. Daddy has to scrim." - sdogg2m

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During my study abroad semester in Hong Kong, I made a matches-only pugscrim team to play in ESEA because that was the infamous bitcoin season and Open was going to die if it didn't have enough teams (I think it was 30 teams exactly including mine). Thankfully I only had classes three days a week starting in the afternoons so I was somehow able to schedule matches around that.

So yeah I'd say playing a season's worth of matches at 10:30AM my time, pinging 150-180 to ESEA LA servers, helping save the league is pretty up there.

i went to london to see my friends and matched with a really hot girl on tinder who straight up asked me to come over and fuck her
i couldnt be arsed so i stayed home and played scrims on my mates pc only for my prem team to lose to catbowcar

I ran and played a pug during my PSAT

Missed an exam to go to i61. Wasn't even playing at LAN. I just wanted to meet my friends. Best time of my life

My only regret is leaving i61 a day early to study for the other exams

I dodged my own birthday dinner to scrim once.

I was cat-sitting for my neighbors last summer. I let them outside before a match and figured they would come back before the match would start. It got dark outside, and I couldn't find them, so I went home to play tf2. After the first half had finished, I ran back outside to wrangle them up. It took about 30 minutes of searching around the house with a flashlight to find them. I then ran back home and played the second half of the match. We won that match too, the other team was pissed doe.

we dont have guys like sdogg anymore

you probably dodged like 5 STDs

my youth

His team or his GF?

This isn't playing as such but I was once stuck in traffic and had to produce a ozfortress cast on my phone through Teamviewer.

2fps gaming

i'm missing real life d&d this saturday to play in the nr6s cup, i just realized this and i am so sad

Played the day before my final exam for Low HL Grand finals, Team kind of threw, we lost, didn't sleep enough, failed 2 subjects out of 8, The leader decided to cut me on a whim, and now I have to do a catch-up exam in 2 days. And I still don't have a team.

was in the middle of a baby shower completely smashed because that was my first time drinking and didnt realize til mid blackout that i had a match in an hr so i got on the train and then the sound of the train scared me then this happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JRXT-V-x7k

deer (old med player who happened to go to my highschool and live in boston too) asked me to go to a thundercat concert back in like 2016 and i wanted to go but i had a match and now i Very Much Regret it

another classic was kicking a girl out after sleeping with her because i had a match.... i've also played multiple scrims and matches in front of my ex but she didn't mind it, just read a book and thought it was funny how into it i got

and yet another one L was when i was in sweden for a week staying with a girl, but had to cut the trip short in order to get to birmingham for an iseries (forget which one)