#ESA2014 Shout Outs and Love Thread! <3

Svenne

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2014-08-02 03:55:54 pm

Smörgåsbord

Hey guys! What a cool marathon! I know that plenty of us had a great time on site, and I hope that viewers have enjoyed it just as much. Feel free to spread the love for the people at the marathon!

I'll make an edit to this thread laters when I've actually written everything I want to say! Thanks for the good times y'all!

#1: Whoever hosted the Shaq Fu tournament, thank you for that!
#2: Tech-crew: Brilliant, this was actually my priority #1, that the production value would beat every other marathon that has been. I still think we did, not gonna lie. Smiley

The guys working with this needs more cred then they were given, for sure! I know nothing about tech but I know running two streams at this quality is truly an amazing undertaking and they preformed brilliantly. Kudos to everyone who worked their asses of to make the marathon onsite a success! Ofc. Alot of mistakes was made but overall, it was great. Trying out new stuff like the cube animations etc. was great before runs!

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Gyoo

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2014-08-02 04:27:05 pm

The cake is a lie

My last donation says it all, so let's copypasta it :

ESA was my first IRL marathon lived from the inside. And the only thing I can say is that ESA is 10/10 would do again. Loved to meet all the people who I was chatting with for a year on IRC, everybody here was awesome. Big hugs to Bangerra, Suzy, Alko, Exe, Meridian, Tirean, Frozer, and indeed the frenchies ! I hope the speedrunning community will live long and prosper, and to be part of it as long as possible, since it's one of the nicest I've been able to see so far.

Maxiethehatter

2014-08-03 12:15:09 am

I want to give a shoutout to everyone! Especially the tech crew.
I had a great time and will hopefully return next year!
Also Tompa is even nicer IRL. All the HYPE to red blanket guy <3

da00

2014-08-03 07:23:24 pm

Was a wonderful event like last year, actually had some days off for a change though, so I did not have to travel back and forth from/to the event.

And it was just a great time, so wonderful to meet this amazing group of people. so many faces recognized from last year, and such wonderful new people.

Shoutouts to Team Ludendi and #gta.

Radge

2014-08-04 01:13:27 am

Shout outs to the cleaners for making the toilets usable again after they were devastated by drunk europeans

Zzzlol94

2014-08-04 02:25:53 am

I'd give a shoutout to the tech crew for actually having to deal with me most of the time. Getting experience takes a little time, but now I'm at least prepared for next year!

WERY

2014-08-04 05:21:28 am

The Duce

I hope my shoutout wont take 9 months to post this time. Still I got to work on it

AncientAE

2014-08-04 09:54:45 am

Im just gonna have a shoutout to the techcrew and all the runners

and a special shoutout to Fuzzy for being a standup guy!

curseddolls

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2014-08-04 02:13:22 pm

WARNING: This will probably be a quit long post!

I want to start off this post with a thank you.
- Thank you for every wonderful person that was at the event.
- Thank you for every new person that I got to know during this event.
- Thank you for making this event as awesome as it was.
- Thank you for all the wonderful memories laughter you have brought to me.
- Thank you for all the 11 days of pure awesomeness that this event has been giving me.
- Thank you for basically making this the best ESA event of them all so far.
- Thank you for everything that all of you have brought me.

People
I'm not a person who likes to write name because that always makes me feel bad
when I forget someone that made my experience to what it was.

BUT sadly this year there actually is a few new names that I have to include.
People that really touched me, people that I will never forget that made this event to even better then it would have been.
People who I never met before and who really shined brighter then everyone else.

Gaël: Awesome french guy, you are a really sweet guy with great humor always happy and cheerful.
Eidgod: I'm not a GTA person but this years GTA group was filled with many fantastic people.
You where one of them. We had so many funy conversations. Thank you for brighten my day.
Amvx: There is no words that can describe how awesome you are, thank you so so much for being there!
Ontwoplanks: Awesome awesome awesome.. THANK you for your fantastic personality!
Heinki: There is only one word that descibe you.. "HYPE"! You and me in the same room is a deadly combination!
Baffan: Sweet and kind french guy.
Kanjo: #BlameKanjo do I have to say anything else? Wink

Mobiusman: Another sunshine of my day, you are pure awesomeness. Smiley

Ultimaomega07: Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!.... Smiley

Winkl0r: Ich habe sauerkraut in my lederhosen! Wink

Incalex: Oh you are one hell of a fantastic guy, love your humor!
Gyoo: Awesome french guy with loads of humor. Thank you for coming for the first time. Smiley

Terlie: (sorry if i misspelled your name?) Super sweet guy, I hope you loved the event and I hope to see you again next year!
Phillu: (sorry if i misspelled your name) Yeah as I have said so many times already, awesome guy super sweet and nice to talk to!
zoton2: Weird funny british guy with good sence of humor. Smiley

Bloodduster: First time when I finaly met you and you are just as awesome as I imagined. Love ya! Smiley

All the Austrian people!!

Then we have our regulars ofcourse: Druvan <3, Alko <3, Niss3 <3, Neviutz <3, RoboSparkle <3, Tompa <3,
Edenal <3, Svenne <3, LotBlind <3, Joshimuz <3, Suzy <3, Bangerra <3, partystar <3, meridian <3, KVD <3, Icedpingu <3,
Badbrakes <3, Nudua <3, Irregularjinny <3, Tharixer <3, Dxtrslab <3, Charleon <3, Ozzy <3, Grokk <3.

Extras:
I want to give an extra thanks to all the craziness memories that this event gave me.
I want to thank everyone that followed out to bowling together. You really made my day.
It was probably the best thing that I did on the whole event. The laughs that we all shared.
Next year if we are there again, promise me that we will go bowling again!

The night out on the city.. I have never ever been out partying/dancing in Skövde.
And even here I want to thank everyone that made those two days fantastic.
A special thanks to Amvx, suzy and partystar that where there dancing with me.
Even here, PROMISE me that next year we will go out even more and have an even better time together.

Everyone of you at the event gave me tons of new memories, experience and laughter.
I will never forget this years ESA and even if i think it will be hard to beat I hope
that next year will shine even brighter.

If i don't see some of you next year then I will have a little tear inside for you and hope
you will be back another year. Because honestly..

There would not have been an ESA if it was not for you!

And whatever you do.. Don't forget the power of the CAPOW!

Thank you..

Curseddolls

[b]WARNING:[/b] This will probably be a quit long post!

I want to start off this post with a thank you.
- Thank you for every wonderful person that was at the event.
- Thank you for every new person that I got to know during this event.
- Thank you for making this event as awesome as it was.
- Thank you for all the wonderful memories laughter you have brought to me.
- Thank you for all the 11 days of pure awesomeness that this event has been giving me.
- Thank you for basically making this the best ESA event of them all so far.
- Thank you for everything that all of you have brought me.

[b]People[/b]
I'm not a person who likes to write name because that always makes me feel bad
when I forget someone that made my experience to what it was.

BUT sadly this year there actually is a few new names that I have to include.
People that really touched me, people that I will never forget that made this event to even better then it would have been.
People who I never met before and who really shined brighter then everyone else.

[b]Gaël[/b]: Awesome french guy, you are a really sweet guy with great humor always happy and cheerful.
[b]Eidgod[/b]: I'm not a GTA person but this years GTA group was filled with many fantastic people.
You where one of them. We had so many funy conversations. Thank you for brighten my day.
[b]Amvx[/b]: There is no words that can describe how awesome you are, thank you so so much for being there!
[b]Ontwoplanks[/b]: Awesome awesome awesome.. THANK you for your fantastic personality!
[b]Heinki[/b]: There is only one word that descibe you.. "HYPE"! You and me in the same room is a deadly combination!
[b]Baffan[/b]: Sweet and kind french guy.
[b]Kanjo[/b]: #BlameKanjo do I have to say anything else? ;)
[b]Mobiusman[/b]: Another sunshine of my day, you are pure awesomeness. :)
[b]Ultimaomega07[/b]: Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!.... :)
[b]Winkl0r[/b]: Ich habe sauerkraut in my lederhosen! ;)
[b]Incalex[/b]: Oh you are one hell of a fantastic guy, love your humor!
[b]Gyoo[/b]: Awesome french guy with loads of humor. Thank you for coming for the first time. :)
[b]Terlie[/b]: (sorry if i misspelled your name?) Super sweet guy, I hope you loved the event and I hope to see you again next year!
[b]Phillu[/b]: (sorry if i misspelled your name) Yeah as I have said so many times already, awesome guy super sweet and nice to talk to!
[b]zoton2[/b]: Weird funny british guy with good sence of humor. :)
[b]Bloodduster[/b]: First time when I finaly met you and you are just as awesome as I imagined. Love ya! :)
[b]All the Austrian people!![/b]

[b]Then we have our regulars ofcourse:[/b] Druvan <3, Alko <3, Niss3 <3, Neviutz <3, RoboSparkle <3, Tompa <3,
Edenal <3, Svenne <3, LotBlind <3, Joshimuz <3, Suzy <3, Bangerra <3, partystar <3, meridian <3, KVD <3, Icedpingu <3,
Badbrakes <3, Nudua <3, Irregularjinny <3, Tharixer <3, Dxtrslab <3, Charleon <3, Ozzy <3, Grokk <3.

[b]Extras:[/b]
I want to give an extra thanks to all the craziness memories that this event gave me.
I want to thank everyone that followed out to bowling together. You really made my day.
It was probably the best thing that I did on the whole event. The laughs that we all shared.
Next year if we are there again, promise me that we will go bowling again!

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bt4cAi-CAAEylx9.jpg:large[/img]

The night out on the city.. I have never ever been out partying/dancing in Skövde.
And even here I want to thank everyone that made those two days fantastic.
A special thanks to Amvx, suzy and partystar that where there dancing with me.
Even here, PROMISE me that next year we will go out even more and have an even better time together.

Everyone of you at the event gave me tons of new memories, experience and laughter.
I will never forget this years ESA and even if i think it will be hard to beat I hope
that next year will shine even brighter.

If i don't see some of you next year then I will have a little tear inside for you and hope
you will be back another year. Because honestly..

There would not have been an ESA if it was not for you!

And whatever you do.. Don't forget the power of the [color="blue"][b]CAPOW[/b][/color]!

Thank you..

Curseddolls

AMVX

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2014-08-05 08:14:13 am

www.twitch.tv/amvx

I want to thank absolutely everyone so much for being so awesome and making this so amazing for me. Everyone was lovely, happy to be here and so helpful.

Edenal, Grukk and Oasiz: thank you so much for putting up with my shit, listening, and being so nice and considerate. I couldn't have asked to have felt more welcomed and appreciated and you we all fantastic.
Niss3 and Kripp : again, you guys are so nice, so helpful and so considerate. Especially when it's someone likely me asking incessant silly questions, you guys never broke your smilies and made this trip very memorable. Thank you.
Flicky: cheers for sharing stories, giving me advice and generally being a good bloke and making sure I didn't look like tourist. Also for not waking me up.
Svenne & Joka : thanks for always giving me support and always being people I could turn to for advice. The help was so appreciated.
Ontwoplanks : cheers for being such a classic mate from the get go. Felt like I was talking to one of my good friends at home the entire time.
Tompa & Alko so warm, such good senses of humour and so talented. Amazing people, and always so good to everyone.
Drastnikov for putting up with my shit in the hotel, and being the awesome guy that you are.
Chrism cool dude, so friendly. I hope everyone gets a chance to meet and spend time with you.
Bangerra, Suzy some of the nicest people I have ever met. You were both always so open, so kind and so approachable. Thanks so much for being here.
Maja: You were lots of fun to have around - hope you learned something from all of my rambling and incoherent nonsense.
RoboSparkle a lovely person to hang with, a great person to be near and a world of fun to share ESA with.
Heinki you're a fucking cool dude. Simple as that!
#GTA I am just going to collective you all, since there were so many of you here. Each of you is fucking awesome, and thanks for letting me hang out and share the fun that is the community.
CursedDolls you made this a lot of fun, especially actively asking if I want to be involved with non gaming things. That means a lot to me, that you want my company, and it made it so good. Also, even more dancing next time.
LotBlind thank you for the pasta, and your hard work of getting up every morning and getting that kitchen running all day is appreciated by everyone here. Thank you.

Chrno, Tharixer, Meridian, Neviutz, Dxtr, Zoton2, Kanjo, Tingles, Gons, Paprika, Partystar, Gael, Gyoo, MLSTRM.... look I will just stop before I just list everyone here. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

My first marathon experience and you all made it so amazing. Special shout out as well to all the tech people and hope I can come back next year.

I want to thank absolutely everyone so much for being so awesome and making this so amazing for me. Everyone was lovely, happy to be here and so helpful.

[b]Edenal, Grukk and Oasiz[/b]: thank you so much for putting up with my shit, listening, and being so nice and considerate. I couldn't have asked to have felt more welcomed and appreciated and you we all fantastic. 
[b]Niss3 and Kripp[/b] : again, you guys are so nice, so helpful and so considerate. Especially when it's someone likely me asking incessant silly questions, you guys never broke your smilies and made this trip very memorable. Thank you. 
[b]Flicky[/b]: cheers for sharing stories, giving me advice and generally being a good bloke and making sure I didn't look like  tourist. Also for not waking me up. 
[b]Svenne & Joka[/b] : thanks for always giving me support and always being people I could turn to for advice. The help was so appreciated. 
[b]Ontwoplanks[/b] : cheers for being such a classic mate from the get go. Felt like I was talking to one of my good friends at home the entire time. 
[b]Tompa & Alko[/b] so warm, such good senses of humour and so talented. Amazing people, and always so good to everyone. 
[b]Drastnikov[/b] for putting up with my shit in the hotel, and being the awesome guy that you are. 
[b]Chrism[/b] cool dude, so friendly. I hope everyone gets a chance to meet and spend time with you.
[b]Bangerra, Suzy[/b] some of the nicest people I have ever met. You were both always so open, so kind and so approachable. Thanks so much for being here.
[b]Maja[/b]: You were lots of fun to have around - hope you learned something from all of my rambling and incoherent nonsense.
[b]RoboSparkle[/b] a lovely person to hang with, a great person to be near and a world of fun to share ESA with. 
[b]Heinki[/b] you're a fucking cool dude. Simple as that! 
[b]#GTA[/b] I am just going to collective you all, since there were so many of you here. Each of you is fucking awesome, and thanks for letting me hang out and share the fun that is the community.
[b]CursedDolls[/b] you made this a lot of fun, especially actively asking if I want to be involved with non gaming things. That means a lot to me, that you want my company, and it made it so good. Also, even more dancing next time. 
[b]LotBlind[/b] thank you for the pasta, and your hard work of getting up every morning and getting that kitchen running all day is appreciated by everyone here. Thank you.

Chrno, Tharixer, Meridian, Neviutz, Dxtr, Zoton2, Kanjo, Tingles, Gons, Paprika, Partystar, Gael, Gyoo, MLSTRM.... look I will just stop before I just list everyone here. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

My first marathon experience and you all made it so amazing. Special shout out as well to all the tech people and hope I can come back next year.

Gaël

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2014-08-05 10:59:50 am

This year ESA was my first marathon/meetup I attended to. At first I was scared to end up alone because I'm shy and didn't really know anyone there, but I met so many wonderful and friendly people there, I'll definitely try to go to ESA2015

Now time for shoutouts and love:

All staff/tech guys (and gals): without you all this event wouldn't even be possible. Thx for putting so much of your time into organizing or long tech shift

Curseddolls: You were the first person I saw at the event, you welcomed me and show me around the mass housing and everything. You're an awesome girl and I had great time with you. (I still want to know how much you wanted me to tip for that wonderful bracelet, and stop making fun of my accent :P:p )

#gta people (Adam, AMVX, da00, eidgod, Etholon, Fatzke, J4sp3rr, Joshimuz & Kitty, Lightnat0r, Menno, Nord, Oasiz, Omega, S, Shanz, Tdawg, Tirean, Tyr, Zoton and Zwajken): I only knew a few of you from twitch chat or SRL IRC, but you welcomed me as one of your own and made me feel part of the group, I'm grateful for that. it was awesome to see so many "GTA-junkies" in the same place

the austrians I went out with on saturday night (winkl0r, IcedPingu, Christina, Reindl?, Teifi? and maybe another but I was drinking and I'm bad with names :p ): it was really nice to hang out with you that evening, we had some nice talks.
(note to the blonde guy that killed my balloon: "I hate you, you killed my balloon Smiley

" )

Other people I had a drink with (Neviutz, Rozer, Meridian, Bangerra, Suzy, Anna, Ontwoplanks, LeFrozer and everyone else ... )
Nobody ever drink alcohol at the lake or any public place, that's illegal !

Wakecold and Elgu: you both are great personon, watching you practice/running Half-Life 2 was awesome

Pipe: Because he's awesome and proves to the world that Twitch admins are real people too.

Exe: it was nice talking to you, I hope you'll find time and people to make another german restream

Cereth: who accepted to be on couch if the incentive of my Final Fantasy III run was met (spoilers: it didn't Sad

)

Joka: for letting me borrow his Famicom to practice my game

Everyone that watch one of my practice runs or my bonus stream run and give me feedback.

San Marino (aka the pizza place): we all know why ...

Twitch Chat: for being readable and even enjoyable at times

This year ESA was my first marathon/meetup I attended to. At first I was scared to end up alone because I'm shy and didn't really know anyone there, but I met so many wonderful and friendly people there, I'll definitely try to go to ESA2015

Now time for shoutouts and love:

All staff/tech guys (and gals): without you all this event wouldn't even be possible. Thx for putting so much of your time into organizing or long tech shift

Curseddolls: You were the first person I saw at the event, you welcomed me and show me around the mass housing and everything. You're an awesome girl and I had great time with you. (I still want to know how much you wanted me to tip for that wonderful bracelet, and stop making fun of my accent :P:p )

#gta people (Adam, AMVX, da00, eidgod, Etholon, Fatzke, J4sp3rr, Joshimuz & Kitty, Lightnat0r, Menno, Nord, Oasiz, Omega, S, Shanz, Tdawg, Tirean, Tyr, Zoton and Zwajken): I only knew a few of you from twitch chat or SRL IRC, but you welcomed me as one of your own and made me feel part of the group, I'm grateful for that. it was awesome to see so many "GTA-junkies" in the same place

the austrians I went out with on saturday night (winkl0r, IcedPingu, Christina, Reindl?, Teifi? and maybe another but I was drinking and I'm bad with names :p ): it was really nice to hang out with you that evening, we had some nice talks.
(note to the blonde guy that killed my balloon: "I hate you, you killed my balloon :) " )

Other people I had a drink with (Neviutz, Rozer, Meridian, Bangerra, Suzy, Anna, Ontwoplanks, LeFrozer and everyone else ... ) 
Nobody ever drink alcohol at the lake or any public place, that's illegal !

Wakecold and Elgu: you both are great personon, watching you practice/running Half-Life 2 was awesome

Pipe: Because he's awesome and proves to the world that Twitch admins are real people too.

Exe: it was nice talking to you, I hope you'll find time and people to make another german restream

Cereth: who accepted to be on couch if the incentive of my Final Fantasy III run was met (spoilers: it didn't :( )

Joka: for letting me borrow his Famicom to practice my game

Everyone that watch one of my practice runs or my bonus stream run and give me feedback.

San Marino (aka the pizza place): we all know why ...

Twitch Chat: for being readable and even enjoyable at times

Reed

2014-08-05 02:22:55 pm

@tiburonCS

shoutouts to beatrix and WMJ for being good at speedrunning
shoutouts to noobest for not
<3

tocophonic

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2014-08-05 02:52:22 pm

Quote from curseddolls:

All the Austrian people!!

<3

I'm saying thanks by posting this picture here (full size, in all its glory. Photo courtesy of Rolmander - yes, the famous one!). Awesome evening, awesome event, awesome people. Keep it up everyone!

toco (the guy with the blue jacket on the left)

Crippe

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Crippe: 2014-08-05 05:33:52 pm

2014-08-05 05:33:44 pm

meh

Not much else to say other than: I love you all, and I hope you all enjoyed the event.

Heinki

2014-08-05 07:10:12 pm

DX, DXHR, MGR, TRA, GTA SA

I have to say you guys are awesome as shit and for my first big marathon I'm happy that I attended! never had that much fun and it went over my expectations!!!

P.S. Never swear that much or people do things like this here....

xD

best wishes,
Heinki!

BaalNocturno

2014-08-06 10:35:43 am

There is no light to save you

Shoutouts to all the new friends i made: Thiefbug, Elo, Jinny, Curseddolls, Meridian, Flicky, Mlstrm, Fuzzy, Heinki, Andi, Ennopp and ah whatever ALL OF YOU! I will miss everyone so bad, how can i go on living now without seeing you everyday?

Eidgod

2014-08-06 05:18:50 pm

When I first thought about attending ESA I was not quite sure what to expect. All I hoped for was to be able to run my two GTA games, show off my ability in those and hopefully get some other people to pick up those games because of my runs. But ESA ended up being so much more. I am very glad I decided to attend because in hindsight I would not have wanted to miss it for anything.

The Speedrunning community and especially the GTA community are a group of wonderful people and I am glad I had the chance to meet so many of you. Getting to know people on a personal level that you otherwise only knew from the internet is a unique experience every time. I had lots of encounters I did not expect but that I will cherish for a while.

To bring this to an end I want to thank all the organizers and everyone who helped making ESA a possibility very much. Especially those people who originally started ESA with its outstanding commitment to fun and the community. Without you a lot of other people would have not been able to experience these extremely fun twelve days that lie behind us and I hope that everyone who put work into making this possible realizes that it was definitely worth it.

Keep on saxing everyone.

When I first thought about attending ESA I was not quite sure what to expect. All I hoped for was to be able to run my two GTA games, show off my ability in those and hopefully get some other people to pick up those games because of my runs. But ESA ended up being so much more. I am very glad I decided to attend because in hindsight I would not have wanted to miss it for anything.

The Speedrunning community and especially the GTA community are a group of wonderful people and I am glad I had the chance to meet so many of you. Getting to know people on a personal level that you otherwise only knew from the internet is a unique experience every time. I had lots of encounters I did not expect but that I will cherish for a while.

To bring this to an end I want to thank all the organizers and everyone who helped making ESA a possibility very much. Especially those people who originally started ESA with its outstanding commitment to fun and the community. Without you a lot of other people would have not been able to experience these extremely fun twelve days that lie behind us and I hope that everyone who put work into making this possible realizes that it was definitely worth it.

Keep on saxing everyone.

IrregularJinny

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Infinite Combo

Shoutouts in the following week will be posted.

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EDIT.

Shrimp:
for bringing Beethoven. and Helping me carry "Chubby" home so we now have an official Beethoven TV <3

flicky

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flicky: 2014-08-08 04:02:59 pm

2014-08-08 06:28:32 am

$15 per rant/allegory

As the first event as kind of organiser, I have to say ESA was a slightly different experience for me but the sheer amount of time I got to spend with people was still fantastic. Whether it was spamming Blazblue for hours, silly games of Melee, going to the lake or popping out for a quiet drink, I always had something amazing to do. I haven't been to any event that had as many cool things going on at all times as ESA 2014 did. I have access to the master list of all attendees so I'm going to list out a whole load of people with a little message, but first:

Blazblue crew - my PSN ID is flickyfij, I bought Kokonoe and I'm ready to go. Still not learning combos or follow ups to that super. Still ready to SORESORESORE everyone. If you live near me, come play!

Fixing Speedrunning Conversation Group - That was a lot of fun. It was great to hear some real opinions on things in a place where no one was worried about being punished or yelled at or anything.

Alright then:

We've said it a thousand times but as a "staff" guy, I was so happy with how everyone was at ESA. Didn't hear or see any real drama or anything even close. People hung out and chilled out and, really nicely, respected the staff guys. Thanks a million for that.

Now, as flicky the person:

Airrider - So I only just realised that you were you. I had no idea I'd met "Airrider" until this year. Derp.
Ajarmar - Great posture. Being our example Swede at the fast food meal was great =D
Alko - The great Alko once again. Will see you soon! I'm never going to China House again.
AMVX - Hell of a guy. Nice to meet someone with a hilarious story for every one of mine. A real stand-up bloke and a riot to be around.
Ariwa - The most powerful of the Finnish accents.
Baal - Nice guy, nice Golden Sun, nice not listening to me tell you to throw out your bottle, nice Azrael. Let me know when the pain of that Star Control 2 defeat fades.
Badbrakes - Hilarious dude, hilarious drunk. Thanks for Marlon's discount thanks for scary grabbing.
Bangerra/Suzy - Don't need to write anything to you guys. Besties 5 life.
Burnzen - Great to see you again from Gamesfest! Will send you that picture and see you in Berlin?!
Cerberus - Great Ape Escape 3 run, loads of guys in chat want to pick it up! Let me know where you are and try and get to a UK meetup!
Cereth - Another Noel graduate - hope to see you at a UK meetup sometime soon!
Charleon - Thanks for the games, I wish I'd tried your hitbox in hindsight but whatever.
Chrism - Great to hang out with you again, you need to get over to England man!
Chrno - Shadow Tower next year. Will be seeing you soon as well.
Chucat - Thanks for all the tournaments, sorry I never managed to buy your ticket or food. Will see you too!
coolkid - once again, snuck off without saying good bye. I hope you enjoyed this one a little more.
CpKaka - King of snaps.
cruxit - Congrats of the weight loss and that. I enjoy hanging out with you more and more each time.
curseddolls - like above, good work on the weight loss, hope to see even more improvement next year. T-shirts and bracelets looked great too!
d4RwoN - Nice to see you again =D Longer next time though.
da00 - Promised me a beer then ducked out. What a monster. (=D)
DALFEN - Had a blast hanging out with you this year. Didn't really see you much last year so it was great to get to know you this time around. Thanks for all the melee and all of that cool stuff =D Let me know how Touch-Move Roy goes.
Dizzyprime - Again, UK scene + Blazblue needs to happen.
Dragonfangs - Thanks for constantly beating me with Bullet. Thanks for the stick too =D
dxtr - So pretty much as soon as I got my glasses back, someone broke them. Maybe you should've kept them.
Edenal - Another of the best. Borky bork, borkty bork bork Eder-nerl.
Eidgod - Practice drinking and hope to see you again soon.
Elgu - Not even mad at your poker luck. Another cool finn.
EnNopp112 - I hope to see you at Dreamhack or something! Nice to have a chat every so often.
eTholon - Surprised there wasn't a PC game you could've run when I asked. =D
exe - Nice to meet you =D Next time we'll just speak German!
Fatzke - Maybe best German? German fight? You guys should fight. We should drink together again. Come to England too.
Flippy_o - Forgot who you were, thought you were German, damn. I'm no good at this. (another fun guy =D)
Fuzzy - We'll get on that meetup thing. Do you have any venues for smash we could use if houses don't work out?
Beatrix - 95% less creepy, dickish and socially inept than I expected. Keep crushing those games. Hoping Bayo 2 is awesome and we can route a game together for once.
Goost - Sorry for calling you goose for so long. Hope to see you at NLG! I'll probably have intestinal trouble by then.
GoronGuy - You went full GDQ hide in a hotel this year. Was nice to see you the few other times.
Greenalink - Great to see you again (it had been 19 months =O) Hope you can make it out to a meetup or two!
Grokken - Where did you go? Suddenly couldn't see you around anymore =D.
Grukk - Great to see you again too =D

Will edit this with more later.

As the first event as kind of organiser, I have to say ESA was a slightly different experience for me but the sheer amount of time I got to spend with people was still fantastic. Whether it was spamming Blazblue for hours, silly games of Melee, going to the lake or popping out for a quiet drink, I always had something amazing to do. I haven't been to any event that had as many cool things going on at all times as ESA 2014 did. I have access to the master list of all attendees so I'm going to list out a whole load of people with a little message, but first:

Blazblue crew - my PSN ID is flickyfij, I bought Kokonoe and I'm ready to go. Still not learning combos or follow ups to that super. Still ready to SORESORESORE everyone. If you live near me, come play!

Fixing Speedrunning Conversation Group - That was a lot of fun. It was great to hear some real opinions on things in a place where no one was worried about being punished or yelled at or anything.

Alright then:

We've said it a thousand times but as a "staff" guy, I was so happy with how everyone was at ESA. Didn't hear or see any real drama or anything even close. People hung out and chilled out and, really nicely, respected the staff guys. Thanks a million for that.

Now, as flicky the person:

Airrider - So I only just realised that you were you. I had no idea I'd met "Airrider" until this year. Derp.
Ajarmar - Great posture. Being our example Swede at the fast food meal was great =D
Alko - The great Alko once again. Will see you soon! I'm never going to China House again.
AMVX - Hell of a guy. Nice to meet someone with a hilarious story for every one of mine. A real stand-up bloke and a riot to be around.
Ariwa - The most powerful of the Finnish accents. 
Baal - Nice guy, nice Golden Sun, nice not listening to me tell you to throw out your bottle, nice Azrael. Let me know when the pain of that Star Control 2 defeat fades.
Badbrakes - Hilarious dude, hilarious drunk. Thanks for Marlon's discount thanks for scary grabbing.
Bangerra/Suzy - Don't need to write anything to you guys. Besties 5 life.
Burnzen - Great to see you again from Gamesfest! Will send you that picture and see you in Berlin?!
Cerberus - Great Ape Escape 3 run, loads of guys in chat want to pick it up! Let me know where you are and try and get to a UK meetup!
Cereth - Another Noel graduate - hope to see you at a UK meetup sometime soon!
Charleon - Thanks for the games, I wish I'd tried your hitbox in hindsight but whatever.
Chrism - Great to hang out with you again, you need to get over to England man!
Chrno - Shadow Tower next year. Will be seeing you soon as well.
Chucat - Thanks for all the tournaments, sorry I never managed to buy your ticket or food. Will see you too!
coolkid - once again, snuck off without saying good bye. I hope you enjoyed this one a little more.
CpKaka - King of snaps.
cruxit - Congrats of the weight loss and that. I enjoy hanging out with you more and more each time.
curseddolls - like above, good work on the weight loss, hope to see even more improvement next year. T-shirts and bracelets looked great too!
d4RwoN - Nice to see you again =D Longer next time though.
da00 - Promised me a beer then ducked out. What a monster. (=D)
DALFEN - Had a blast hanging out with you this year. Didn't really see you much last year so it was great to get to know you this time around. Thanks for all the melee and all of that cool stuff =D Let me know how Touch-Move Roy goes.
Dizzyprime - Again, UK scene + Blazblue needs to happen.
Dragonfangs - Thanks for constantly beating me with Bullet. Thanks for the stick too =D
dxtr - So pretty much as soon as I got my glasses back, someone broke them. Maybe you should've kept them.
Edenal - Another of the best. Borky bork, borkty bork bork Eder-nerl.
Eidgod - Practice drinking and hope to see you again soon.
Elgu - Not even mad at your poker luck. Another cool finn.
EnNopp112 - I hope to see you at Dreamhack or something! Nice to have a chat every so often.
eTholon - Surprised there wasn't a PC game you could've run when I asked. =D
exe - Nice to meet you =D Next time we'll just speak German!
Fatzke - Maybe best German? German fight? You guys should fight. We should drink together again. Come to England too.
Flippy_o - Forgot who you were, thought you were German, damn. I'm no good at this. (another fun guy =D)
Fuzzy - We'll get on that meetup thing. Do you have any venues for smash we could use if houses don't work out?
Beatrix - 95% less creepy, dickish and socially inept than I expected. Keep crushing those games. Hoping Bayo 2 is awesome and we can route a game together for once.
Goost - Sorry for calling you goose for so long. Hope to see you at NLG! I'll probably have intestinal trouble by then.
GoronGuy - You went full GDQ hide in a hotel this year. Was nice to see you the few other times.
Greenalink - Great to see you again (it had been 19 months =O) Hope you can make it out to a meetup or two!
Grokken - Where did you go? Suddenly couldn't see you around anymore =D.
Grukk - Great to see you again too =D

Will edit this with more later.

LotBlind

2014-08-08 11:55:27 am

^^ Holy s**t the sheer ambition with those shout outs Flicky! Cheesy

I just wanna do one big shout out without trying to list everyone individually (I'm just kinda scared I'll forget someone). Thanks to all the guys who bla bla bla kitchen jobs bla bla bla speedrun talk bla bla map editing bla bla miscellaneous catch-all words bla bla etc. etc. etc. Meridian's Power Buns etc.

lillbrorsan

2014-08-08 02:53:49 pm

Truljin @ Twitch

This was my first big marathon and I had a blast, would like to thank so many people for making the event go beyond my expectations, big thanks to j4sp3rr for learning and commentating on my BGE run, made it so much more fun to do!

General_Beatrix

Edit history:

General_Beatrix: 2014-08-08 03:42:18 pm

2014-08-08 03:42:05 pm

Quote from flicky:

Beatrix - 95% less creepy, dicking and socially inept than I expected. Keep crushing those games. Hoping Bayo 2 is awesome and we can route a game together for once.

Thanks I guess

MEvRNG

2014-08-08 03:52:29 pm

Thankyou to Baffan & Bangerra for letting me borrow their equipment. Also Tingle - thankyou so much for donating prizes and getting dressed up for my run!
Oh and a special mention for Flicky - who taught me that no matter how badly I do at anything in my life... I'll allus knorr I weint do owt 'alf as bad as tha impressionation of a Yarkshire accent. <3

BaalNocturno

2014-08-10 10:13:14 am

There is no light to save you

Quote from flicky:

Baal - Nice guy, nice Golden Sun, nice not listening to me tell you to throw out your bottle, nice Azrael. Let me know when the pain of that Star Control 2 defeat fades.

I'm not salty anymore^^ but the game really does suck^^

Mobiusman

2014-08-10 10:47:59 am

Quote from BaalNocturno:

Quote from flicky:

Baal - Nice guy, nice Golden Sun, nice not listening to me tell you to throw out your bottle, nice Azrael. Let me know when the pain of that Star Control 2 defeat fades.

I'm not salty anymore^^ but the game really does suck^^

agreed