Same routine as day before, only felt a helluva lot better having had food+drink+sleep. More drinks + a pack of BN from the shop and off to the event. Made it well in time for the UT2004 final (11am on day3, wtf honestly?).

Next to the complete rush that the UT2004 competition was (all except 1 match played in the first 2 days), the time of the UT2004 final was so early less than half of the actual players were there to watch it, and the stage area was relatively empty compared to how much seating there was (did spot les seules watching).

Final itself went pretty well, started soon after 11, no hiccups etc. The use of CPMut (or whatever it's name is, I always forget) was a welcome surprise. Only annoyances were seeing the scores and health because the actual stage coveraged part of the screen. Someone (eg lotus/wormbo/cruicky/whoever does cpmut) should make a mut which allows some customisation of the hud so things like health/score/time/weapons etc can be moved/changed the look of at least for spectators (maybe even players).

Match was OK/good, Rankin looked very easy for winz, Ironic could of gone either way at the last moment. Falcon managed to get to 7:5 from several frags down in the last couple of minutes, with just ~10seconds to go he got winz again, went to check the 50a spawn (where you tend to spawn most of the time) hoping for the respawn kill.. but winz had spawned elsewhere and we knew it was over. Shame as a 3 mapper would of been more fitting for a final.

After the match there was the medals and cheques ceremony on stage and then they moved to press stage for interview etc... Afterwards there wasn't much going on, did some coverage work. Later on there was a big lunch/dinner with all bar rmzs (who we later found out had left for home!) from UT2004 there (if I remember correctly anyway) which was pretty cool.

Sometime on this day was (the what will probably be famous) Lauke stealing pads from the aAa stand, with permission of Sunscorcher as a test of the staff, and filmed by zulg. Video will probably come out sometime, basically they gave lauke a hoodie and he went back and forth and around the aAa stand (they had a medium sized area for a shop + shootout pcs on a little raised area) taking mousepads. Was really funny, when finally 1 of the staff realised (could see him reacting/panicing, wondering wtf to do), he called over the others to one side while lauke was at the other taking another. The staff started asking a group of young visitors if they knew what was happening, their reaction was "not me!" while jumping back with arms in the air surrendering (heh, french). Finally Lauke couldn't take it anymore and walked over returning the pads ending it.

Remainder of the day was spent hanging around, watching q3 matches, talking, some fun playing etc. With nothing else going on Lotus was eager to get out of the event, with what started out as about 14 or more people dwindled to 6 (me, astz, hypno, killu, donnie, lotus) and we headed off to one of their hotels. Went to the supermarket outside their hotel to get beer and went to lotus's room. Lotus disappeared for a while (we thought to the toilet), he'd gone to killu/donnie's, we moved over there. Got McDs, watched "the land before time" in German comparing the characters (dinosaurs) to players, ended with playing/teaching poker with skittles (I won). Lauke/cooller and co crashed in drunk at the end. I decided to head for my hotel as it was getting late and I cba with taxis, rather stick to metro.

Spent 30mins lost as fuck in the area around their hotel trying to find the metro station, would like to thank DevilMC especially for being the most clear (even though his english wasn't great) with instructions and I found the station. Made it back to the hotel, DvO had managed to get wireless on my laptop working and was doing ESR stuff. Sleep.

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 4, the end