Another Green World

Please check out the new Online Photo Album for fractal9091's visit to Malaysia in February!

fractal9091 had won a trip to Kuala Lumpur to play in the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour, so he spent a week in Malaysia. Unfortunately, he was pretty sick the entire time he was there, so my LJ posts are the best documentation of the visit. To read about his trip, click here and read my tagged entries, starting at the bottom.

If he ever has time to write a summary of the trip, I'll add a link here.

Please enjoy the pictures and short video clips!


The Full Album

It's mid-afternoon in Kuala Lumpur, and fractal9091 just came back on his brief lunch break to give us an update. They've got 346 players, about a third of whom will advance. In his first round, play went too long, and they decided to draw (a mistake, a draw helps neither of them). In the second round, he lost two of the three games, and in the third, they were again tied but played too slowly, and he ended up conceding to give his opponent a chance to advance.

Thus he's now 0-2-1 (though he won three out of the seven completed games within the rounds). He'll have three more rounds of play with a new deck, but then he'll be out of the main tournament. There are lots of other events, though, and he's looking forward to FNM tonight and PTQ Berlin in the morning.

He says... he's having fun, he doesn't feel like he doesn't belong there (and in particular thinks he was probably better than the first guy), and (a comment for those of you who are familiar with the game) he's glad he knew he was eliminated in time to rare-draft in the second draft (he picked up 14/21 rares). He seems to be in a great mood, and didn't even mention that he's still sick. Good attitude!

Poor fractal9091 was too sick for sightseeing yesterday. No Batu Caves, no Petronas Towers. He only made it out for meals and to replenish his water supply. (The guidebooks had said to avoid the tapwater there, but bottled water is $10 a jug.) I'm glad that at least he's in a four-star hotel, with broadband.

Update, 10:36 p.m.: I am relieved to report that the water was actually only $2 a jug, and pleased to report that he's feeling better and heading out again (it's Thursday afternoon there, of course).

He's leaving on Sunday, and I've created an icon to use if I post about the trip. It comes from this gorgeous photo of Putrajaya Mosque. Putrajaya is just south of Kuala Lumpur, and he probably won't go there, but I love the picture:


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