Re: MFO Summer 2010 Results
Well this is pretty surprising. My first reaction is: I want to dedicate this win to RIP, the patron saint of MFing Barbarians. ^_^
I entered on a whim, knowing that the SC2 Beta would go down somewhere during the course of the MFO and I'd be left without SC2 for several days. Also, as I said when I signed up, I wanted to test the viability of a character (my Frenzied ZealBarb) as a Baal runner. Obviously Baal always comes down to luck, but I'd say WhyNot acquitted himself pretty well. He died a mere 3 times in ~300 runs (no clue exactly, between the changing over of Operating Systems and the changes in run times but it's around there) all of which were to dolls.
I'd like to make a few quick thanks: first of all to NagisaFurukawa for sending me back the items I needed, and including a few of his own (namely the 1.07 Laying of Hands) for good measure. Also, I have to deeply thank Pyrohemia for telling me where my Darkforce Spawn was hiding on my hard drive. Funny story: I received Thomh's update on Wednesday, replied to him how jealous I was of him finding multiple Darkforce Spawns when I had found zero, and then, one the very first run, I horked one. And then proceeded to lose it thanks to Windows not automatically running programs as Admin on the Admin account. I was a little downtrodden for awhile, but that was offset by how happy I was when I found it again.
Thomh, I'm very happy for your victory. Nagisa may have been my teammate, and a great forumite, but you've put in tremendous amounts of effort in previous MFOs and came up short to people who got incredibly lucky and I'm ecstatic to see that luck finally falling your way.
The Death's Fathom dropped from Colenzo on Saturday, around 11PM, after I had run for damn near all day and seen a Dangoon's Teaching and nothing else. I expected top 5 with the DFS, but the Fathom lead me to think #2 or #3 was possible. I had no expectations of beating Zaliqai.
But crazy things happen in the MFO. I should know. :crazyeyes: I didn't put in near the hours as my last win (only put in 25 or so this time, I think), and there's no point making a haul pic this time (the Fathom, the Spawn ... maybe my highest rune: Hel) but I can't complain with a victory.
I have no intentions of playing anymore, so I won't be asking for qualifiers, but I would like to continue the tradition of winners picking something, so I'd like trophies from Zaliqai and Thyiad. Honestly, all I want is some item (you pick) personalized with a funny/weird name (I was gonna personalize the Fathom with the name DisItamWuzStole if somebody took it ;p) and the readout posted. I'm fine with you actually keeping the trophy, since I'd just ship it to Nagisa with the rest of my stuff, I just think it'd be a nice funny little thing.
Anyway, I can't help but write walls of text, so here's a little relief: three relevant pics from the competition. Linked, not embedded, cause I'm oldschool. ;p
The Darkforce Spawn
The Fathom
Dual Elite Drop
Lastly, thanks, as always, to jjscud for hosting and the supervisors for all their hard work. And to all of the other competitors, in all categories. I certainly expect this to be my last MFO and it was an absolute pleasure competing against/keeping up with all of you. And special thanks to my teammates: I didn't get to celebrate a team victory last time, so this is a nice added touch. And all of us being in the top 3 is a pretty awesome feat, if I do say so myself.