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Razer asked to use some of my pictures on their facebook wall, I was quite honored. #humblebrag

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One corrupt SD card later, I lost quite a bit of pictures from this weekend. QQ TTThis was my first time at Cal Poly Pomona, even tho I have lived in the area for the majority of my life. The campus was really nice and peaceful. Green poster board lead everyone from the parking lot to the Student Center.The top floor was lined with posters and sponsor booths as you made your way to the main hall. TV's displayed graphics of the days schedule. Everyone was walking around with their goody bags and free t-shirts. Entering the main hall, many more sponsor booths were present. GESL had more sponsors on sites with booths than any other event I have been too. He is the Gigabyte booth:All of the on site sponsors also had an hour in a private hall downstairs to host workshops. Here the companies would do some educating and selling of their product. The real reason people went was so they could win some free stuff. Here is a picture of the Newegg workshop. People packed in as newegg gave away a ton of great stuff. I got a free 750w PSU myself. Other workshops got crazy. In the Enemax show, the girls hosting simply said "First one on stage wins X." Someone might have gotten trampled to death in that room.Also downstairs was "The Game Room." They are a preexisting business in the building that has TVs, arcade machines, pool tables, bowling, air hockey, and all that fun stuff. Mad Catz took over the game room with some fighting game competition, but a lot of people were also gathered here just to hang out. The projectors were often playing whatever was not featured on the main stage at the time. Also near by, Red Bull set up a nice lounge for the players. In that room they had food, drink, and a PC with couches.There were two rooms dedicated as practice areas. One for star players, and one for league players. This is where the players spent the vast amount of their time practicing, hanging out, and playing the matches that did not require a trip to the Red Bull booth in the main hall.GESL packed the house in front of the main stage. I was rather surprised with the great turnout. They all got pretty hype with all of the free stuff being given out.Speaking of free stuff, the raffles were the huge draw every day. Every person packed in to see if their lucky number got called out by Rachel. $25,000+ worth of stuff was given away in these raffles over three days. Many people won consecutive raffles, taking home hundreds of dollars in equipment. Some lucky folk even won complete gaming PCs, complete with monitors and peripherals.Even Zig's, a young LoL pro, mom won stuff. In fact having TD's moms there, with their own jerseys, and doing interviews, was awesome.Speaking of Team Dynamic, they are some cool cats who showed up at both MLG and GESL.And to top off the League pictures, here is a pano from the stage during the grand finals. But what a cluster fuck that was,Rachel did an amazing job hosting. She is also very easy to take pictures of. Here are just a few of what I got.Rachel, I'm Sorry. <3Hosting also involves doing some interviews. Here is Rachel with Violet after he won his first set vs Illusion.How about some player pictures? I have a bunch in the album, but here are some of my favorites.Chris, Illusion, is someone who I really like to watch play. I really want him to break out and win something. Hope I'm at that tournament to give the man a high-five, and buy him some dinner. I need to make an effort to talk to you more Chris, I just dont want to bother you :3VioletMonsterGoldenKawaiiRice. <3CaliberFlo was not playing at the event, but she was there cheering her Quantic brethren on.BeastyqtAxslavDemuslimRyung, watching two streams at once like a boss.Sleep playing, with Violet looking on from behind.I became a fan of mystik this event. I did not watch him play much; but every time you are around the man, he is always smiling. It is infectionsGESL got quite a bit of flack for not having an "A List" caster line up. Obviously this is becoming a more and more important part of events. Personally I enjoyed hearing casters who are up-and-coming. I do not enjoy how people will be flat out malicious towards these people. I have more caster pictures in the full album if you are looking for some more pictures of yourself men.GwinAxeltossAzelThundertossand my personal favorite, Derp Wombat.A big thanks to GhostClaw for also talking pictures. Doing a much better job at it than me. And updating liquipedia. And being a boss.And finally PrimaDog, who is mad that I have a picture up here of him. But he did a shit ton of work to make this thing happen. Saying that I do not wish to diminish all of the other volunteers who worked on the event. A lot of people worked really hard this weekend to make a great event.