Friday was a pretty normal day at work until I saw a tweet from a website I’ve written for asking for freelancers to go to the upcoming tournament that weekend. I jumped at the chance and found out I’d be attending as a member of the press for http://www.esports-news.co.uk.
The event was awesome, I was emailing back and forth between the head of the press team for ESL UK who asked me if I wanted to do any interviews. Having never done anything like that before, I thought I may as well aim for the stars so I said “sure why not I’d like to interview Quickshot.”.
The interview happened on the Sunday. He was doing another interview before mine and was sat about 10ft from me. I introduced myself and he came over to chat for a good 15 minutes before doing the other interview. In the time he was away, PiraTechnics and Excoundrel came over and sat down. What I thought was a short interview with Quickshot turned out to be me interviewing all three. Several of the questions I’d had prepared were for Trevor, so I had to adapt somewhat. All in all it was a great opportunity and experience. They were great to interview and really nice people.
Getting to watch Origen play live was awesome and I managed to steal a selfie with Forgiven who has been one of my favourite players since I started watching LoL, again he was super nice. This was the second live event I’ve been to, the other being SKT vs AHQ in the Worlds 2015 superfinals and I much preferred the EU Masters. It’s true I had a bit more VIP access being press but the small, passionate crowd made it a much better atmosphere.
I think the tournament, with its regional focus and structure is far more exciting that the Challenger Series. Origen definitely brought more fans to the tournament but now the first one has been a success I can see it really becoming a unique spectacle.
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