Yesterday, I just flew back from Cebu from the wild and successful Visayas leg of the LIVE 2009 Regional tour. I promised to post some updates and pics, but allow me to catch up first and blog about the Baguio leg first, our Luzon kick-off of the LIVE 2009 Regional tournaments for all major Level Up games. This is way overdue… am so busy.

Me and the rest of the LU GMs went up to Baguio last June 13 and 14 for 2 days of intense PVP and tournament action. The Level Up site already announced the highlights and the official list of winners.

Meanwhile, here are some of my adventures together with the LU posse in photos…

Baguio Regionals 2009 Photo Essay (By GM Tristan)

(above) This is St. Louis University. All of the cafes are located near this school.

(above) A shot of Pynes, the Rohan venue on the day before the tourney. No crowd yet, of course

(above) GM Krieger of Rohan doing ocular checks one day before the event. So far, so good. All systems check!

(above) Our nice and cozy hotel, Microtel. There’s free coffee 24/7. We labs this place!

(above) Day 1: Crowd already there as early as 8am. Registration doesn’t start until 10am.

(above) Another crowd shot waiting for the registration to open

(above) Time to go in and register! Vengeance is always an option! Woot! CK and Rohan venues are near each other

(above) This one is the venue for the Grand Chase and RO tournaments. Notice the big tarp? Cool!

(above) Some of our tarps announcing the tourneys. Thanks to our sales peeps for doing the rounds!

(above) Grand Chase competitors scouting the opposition

(above) GM Chastity doing final checks on registration for Ragnarok.

(above) Ragnarok players having an EB, buying raffle tickets and just being cool!

(above) GC’s GM Cassiel explaining the tournament format to GC players

(above) The dungeon: The RO cafe was a basement. The stairs were like Prontera! You couldn’t drop a pin down there!

(above) CK GM Racebooss (Jeff Paulino) checking out the PCs on the CK venue.

(above) CK players doing practice runs. vrooom vrooom!

(above) Baguio players showing their stuff!

(above) Light moment at the hotel with GMs Vessago, WinterTsuki, Misty, Atma and Samhok (back turned)

(above) GM Cassiel and me! Woot!

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the Baguio Level Up players who supported us and attended. Thanks also goes to all the Level Up peeps who went up to the City of Pines to facilitate and run this event especially to our events team led by Joie and Bhevz, our Sales guys up North led by Archie and Edwin and all the BMs, CMs and GMs who pitched in!

The event would not have been successful without your great work.

Rok On!

I promise to upload the Cebu pics and updates this week, oks?

Peace!

GM T

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