Stuicide

Friday morning arrived quickly waking up somewhere between 8 and 9 a.m. Amazingly Ballistic was the first one up, after his performance the night before, I was sure he’d be the last up. The dude’s “Built like a tank” (more on that later). After waking up, Mvuakali and Ballistic had a quick wrestling match that started on my bed, went over to the next bed, and then finally the ground before Kali got on his stomach and had to tap out. +50 LAN points to Ballistic for winning the unofficial Wrestling tournament. +25 points to mvuakali for silver.

Around 10 when everyone in our room had gotten ready, Ballistic and I swung by McD’s for some breakfast. As we were headed back into the hotel a crew of our guys were coming out and headed to Ada’s Diner for breakfast. We decided to tag along, and while I had no intention of eating again, Ballistic was thinking otherwise.

Ada’s was the home to breakfast many mornings in Chicago and usually provided great service and good food. While this trip was another of the same, some of our buddies had a bad experience their the next day so I never went back.

It was at this breakfast that Cuteness (pictured above, in the center) declared that he would win the LAN. Now, we’re not just talking about the tournaments, and awards, but the entire weekend. He was going to Win it all. If you had seen the determination in his eyes, you wouldn’t question it either.

After breakfast Fenix and I went over to Millennium Park to take a few pictures of Cloud Gate or “The Bean”. It’s my absolute favorite piece of Chicago and has tons of cool things for pictures, and I wish I was able to go back, but the weekend was that packed and that busy that I never got another chance.

By the time we got back, it was just about time to head to Sir DeeJ’s so we took the walk down Michigan Avenue about a mile until we got close to his place. We went up to the 34th floor rooftop deck and got to see an amazing view of the South Loop area of Chicago. You can see Grant Park/Lake Michigan to the East, the Sears Tower/my old neighborhood to the Northwest.

During the afternoon, the idea came about to play musical chairs. Which we ,of course, did . Dweezle came out victorious and Cuteness is protesting the first round re-do as he was stating that mvuakali was clearly in his lap and that the chair was his. Unfortunately, there is no instant replay in musical chairs, maybe next season but this season we just replayed the round, which he was eliminated. However, that did mean he won Musical chairs. Dweezle lost 50 points for winning the game. He ended up in a solid 23rd for the weekend.

After the rooftop party, we headed back to the Palmer House to get ready for Fogo de Chao. 7 of us, Ballistic, mvuakali, Cuteness, Thrashy, Fenix, Loco, and myself were coming out together and when we were looking for a cab, we must have caught the eye of… well everyone on Wabash, because we were offered a limo instead to ride to dinner. Since Limo > Taxi we decided to take the offer and Team Win was off and away.

As we pulled up to Fogo, Deej and Action were having a smoke outside and here’s what was reported to be their conversation.

<Limo pulls up to the front>

Action: Are those our guys?

DeeJ: No….wait! Holy shit, yes they are!

DeeJ to Team Win: No, you didn’t?!?!?!

Team Win to DeeJ: Yes, we did. That’s how we roll.

The weekend had just become epic.

There’s not a ton to say about Fogo. We came, we ate a metric ton of meat, we paid for it. I did get to sit near Rodeo Mummy and talk to him about Facebook for a bit. I never game with the guy, but he’s one of my favorites to chat with at a LAN. Super cool dude.

After Fogo, Team Win hit up a couple of bars up on Division, including Shenanigan’s House of Beer. Then we went back to Miller’s Pub (do you see a trend starting here?) for the Meet and Greet with everyone. Same kinda story for Friday, drank too much, Loco was the one that ended up puking, and we went to bed around 3 a.m.

I did hear that kali and ran into Ma Deuce’s room where his fiance and Testa’s girlfriend were asleep and jumped on Beth’s bed and started humping her on top of the covers, which suprisingly, woke her up. Welcome to Chicago. That party was only there for a few minutes until they had a complaint call on them and had to change rooms. Thrashy, Cuteness, and Kali came down to our room where Ballistic, myself, and Bjorni were trying to sleep.

Cuteness couldn’t sleep in his room because Loco had just painted the walls, he was going to take the floor, and Thrashy came down to take Kali on in a 1v1. I didn’t mind that, but then more people came to the door, it was Bear, Wyvern, and Snipez. Being tired, cranky, and running on about 8 hours of sleep for the past 48 hours, we kicked them out.

Day 2 of the trip had come to a close.