hey erik, yeah there have been a few downsides. but it was defenatly so nice to meet you in person, shred with you, tho my shred was realy bad. i realy hope so meet you again on a more happy tournament.
allight, big worlds writeup:
first day - saturday:
as i came near the place the hostel/pension place was supposed to be in i was a little afraid. i mean, it was basicly a big old giagantic house, but was a little suprised when i came near, all the entrance area was made up realy nice and i was not that turned of anymore. so i checked in and went upstairs, 11th floor, so i took the elevator, wich was scary. there was no "security door" you could feel the walls going by, and maybe even hurt yourself pretty hard in there. i heard some crew stuck in a players booklet between door bottom and floor and laughed everytime they went past it cause it had a funny sound to it, they went up and down for a while.
i also heard they were pretty stoned.
anyway, as i went out of the hostel to find a shop to get beer i ran across the first footbaggers and made up the plan to join them as they wanted to go out. everyone went back to his rom to dress properly for that purpose, and as i came back outside everyone was gone.
but, lucky me i just saw riku, samu, tuomas and lauri walking by, chatted a bit and decided to go and have a few brews wit them. so then the crazyness began.
somehow we got to town, talked so much shit, got realy drunk and ended up in an free entrance strip club. it turned out to be a scam, as the beer costet 240 crowns (shop price was 4,5 crowns), and you had to have one at least. so everyone ran out, but tuomas was to slow, they catched him, and he had to pay for all of our "not-ordered" beers. then we encountered some underage hookers, had a few more brews and went back to he hostel were lauri told us a short story, 2 hours later i went to bed.
second day - sunday:
getting up, a bit hung over. then i went out to grab some food and visit the event site. as i came near i was realy suprised how big the whole area was. that was a big plus for that moment. ran around saying hi to all the people and registered. 3 hours later i was done with all that and started to kick a bit, hung out with so many more people.
sometime dexter called it a day and told us were the party was, so went there and it was a blast i think, i do not remeber that good.
third day - monday:
again, hang over. getting up, eating going to the event site. getting a beer, kicked a bit. then we had all the competitions going.i had a few beers during comps, so the day went by pretty fast for me. in the evening i kicked some more, no real hard shred, because i was slightly drunk i guess.
then the evening started with everyone going to the same italian food place. we were lucky because we were one of the first groups and got in, later that night other groups had to stay out because it was to full. it was actually a pretty good place, good and plenty of food for a reasonable price. i recall that i had to wait for sooooo long for my pizza that everyone else had his meals finnished as i got mine. except for nathan, he also had pizza and got his one right after i got mine. then... party again. we went to the roxy club. they told us it has a european wide good reputation, so i was pretty excited. as we arrived i realised that i was living in the hostel next door for this years todexon and i wanted to go to this club then, but it was closed for some reason. the club itself was pretty cool, nice music, tho i dont realy like drum and base, but what the hell, it was prague i was drunk... all good. the club was so hot and so wet, it was like a sauna with loud music and drinking people in it.
forth day - tuesday:
came to the eventsite around 3pm, totaly dizzy. didnt kick at all that day, just had water and food, tried to get rid of that huge hangover. eventually found the lady i spent most of the time at the party, and we started talking, going to the mall to get food, had a little picknic on some gras, drank some beers went to have little candlelight dinner in that italian place and suddenly it was time to go to party again.
we had the players party at club cross (it was realy cool, all that metal trashy made up interior was realy cool, look out for pics), as i was still pretty beat from last nights party i couldnt realy enjoy it, so i just sat around, had some beers, chatted with people and tried to go home early, and thats a hard thing to do when you have to take someone who knows the way. noone wanted to go, so i just stayed till everyone was leaving, then we had a nice little tram "trip to hell" we came home around 6, went to bed, and i got up at 9 again, to get a realy special someone to her train because she had to leave, and the gentleman i am i couldnt resist to carry her stuff....
fith day - wednesday:
after getting up at 4pm i went to the event site, felt like shit, felt a bit lonely, and thats a hard thing to do on worlds. but drank away some of that bad feelings, started playing alot and had a pretty fun day. somewhen i ended up drinking beer with nathan and caroline from australia, then we went for food. again, italian place. i had the best meal ever, it was some sort of chicken steak lasagne. that was awesome.
then we headed to the party in acropolis palace. it was pretty fun, we played some 4 square, danced a lot and had a ton of fun. somewhen in the late night i was sitting on one table with ansi and aleksi and some other guys, and the two finns just got up, said "we will get a bottle of vodka" (they have been pretty drunk at this time allready) and went away, some time later they came back and had a nice bottle of vodka wich we drank. then everyone left and so did we... not. because one of the austrian guys, lani i think, lost his bill for the reception and couldnt get back his backpack. so we discussed around with the guy there to get it back. but he wouldnt give it so we decided to leave him back and just go. i heard he had a little session in the club, so i guess he had his fun.
we had just another little trip throu prague at night, trying to find our way home, it happend somehow and we got to bed.
sixth day - thursday:
routine wake up around 2pm, getting up, grabbing food in the albert store, leaving for the stadium. there were semi finals held, aleksi didnt show up because of his bad hangover. i do not remeber much from that day, i just played some hacky, had alot of beers, and a ton of fun.
in the evening we went to some chinese food store, they had closed but opend for us. wich was cool, so thanks chinese man! it was the same dinner crew it was the days before: phil morrison, caroline, nathan, peter from prague (i guess) masa from japan and the guy from .. (dont know in english, but from the middle east, sorry dude i forgot your name) and me. food was good and cheap. masa gave me props for my chopstick skills. that was cool.
as we headed for the party i realized it was in the vip room of the slavia prague soccer stadium, wich was awesome. i had not as much fun as i should have had, i was pretty down, i know why but i wont tell.
i tried to race jay boychuck in beer drinking, i had a full glass, his was like half done. he got me, but it was very very close.
went home pretty early. as i arivved at the hostel we got a little problem with the door because they changed the lock, because they were suspecting that there were more person in the room than there should have been.
and since they were right we expectd some serious trouble, but could go to sleep for then.
seventh day - friday:
got up, and it rained like crazy. i got to the stadium and went into the "raining spot" to kick some bags, and i was in shock. the whole place was used for one net court, no place to shred at all. i was pissed, but decided to have breakfast first and then find a place to kick. at some point dexter entered th gym and anouced throu the mic that i should speak to him because i was kicked out of the hostel.... bam .... that was like.... shit. so i went to him and he told me they called him to tell him that, and they said i housed more people than have paid, and that is why they kick me out. i wasnt suprissed, because i expected something like that. i just gathered the other guys from the room and we got to the hostel to sort things out. 2 hours later we had our stuff, some shit talk from the manager some nice chatting with the ladys at the reception, i guess they liked us, and some czech money less. so we just putted all the bags in my car and went back to event site. i started tring to get a new hostel, wich failed and i got more and more pissed, so that i decided to leave prague and go home after the cirles final. went to get sme food at the tesco market, bought a new energy cable for my mobile, because the old one got lost in the hostel. and watched the freestyle finals, shot some pics with all th cool people i have met, said bye for 2 hours or so and then hit the road.
so thats my write up for this years worlds. as said before i didnt rant about organisationbecause i have clue what has to be done for such an event, but guess some thing could have been done better. also if you are in prague, watch out for fake controllers in the tram that will rob you. real controllers are mostly corrupt when they encounter a big group.
shred highlight for me this week: fairy pixie mirage, blurry whirl and blur in one string bsos, also hit superfly on comand
special thanks to ben rosco and jay boychuck for the first ever footbag freestyle beach session. that was fun. i hope we can make this as big as beach soccer or volleyball.
maybe i remember something more, i will add that later.
last sentence:
worlds is just basicly awesome.
ps: i have a big bag of footbags lft, because i missed bringing them to the event site to sell them, you can order them now, free of shipping. ask for pics if you want one. to quote ansi on my bags: "mäcro, your bags are basicly awesome."... so come and get your mäcro bag right now
croatia beat us before 
