Alessandro "stermy" Avallone

www.stermy.com

2008-11-23T16:17:00.004+01:00

Hello guys,I just want to let everybody know that I wont be updating this blog anymore.My own personal website has been launched and I will be posting all my news/blogs/etc over there.WWW.STERMY.COM

"I really miss 1v1 competitions"

2008-09-20T04:04:00.004+01:00

YOU CAN FIND THE WHOLE INTERVIEW HERE"Why have you signed up for Athens?stermy: I signed up hoping they will be using Quake Live already for this event.I really want to play in some FPS 1v1 tournaments again and unfortunately I did not have this opportunity in the past year because of lacking of tournaments and schedule conflicts between the CGS and other events.As soon as I got back from the US

ohhh a new post!!

2008-09-13T17:33:00.005+01:00

thats right I wrote a new post.. after CGS finals I just wanted to take a break from everything,I hope everyone understands. I`m in Italy for a few more weeks now before I go back to Los Angeles, spent some time with my family and partying with my friends over here and I had a great time; I`m back to work now and I really want to update you guys on everything at the right time.Tonight Inter Milan

CGS World Final!!!!

2008-07-26T10:52:00.001+01:00

Hello everyone,I`m gonna start this blog by saying that I couldnt be more proud of every member of my team. It has been a long road to the finals and Monday is gonna be one of those matches that you are gonna remember forever.I wanna thank all the people who supported and helped us to this point and I suggest everyone to tune in on DirectTV Monday because it`s gonna be a fantastic match.Goodluck,

...little update....

2008-06-20T09:01:00.002+01:00

sorry for the late update,been really busy lately with a team Bootcamp and the Championship Gaming Series.. Didnt have much time to be on my pc at all beside practicing and playing my official matches so hopefully by the end of next week I will have more time to write a blog and tell u guys what`s going on here...keep supporting me and my team on www.sfoptx.com as usual!As for my website, it`s

back in Los Angeles

2008-05-09T20:18:00.000+01:00

Buongiorno my friends,you heard it right, I'm back in L.A. Im coming out of a pretty rough week actually, since I had to get ready and leave for the US in only 3-4 days, so I haven’t been able to been on for quite awhile since I had to fix a few important things before leaving; I will be staying here in the US at least till August, maybe more, we'll see.Right now I'm at Yaz's house (clown) and I

CGS Preseason Week 01

2008-04-24T13:40:00.008+01:00

The Championshinp gaming Series Preseason/Trainingcamp has started this week (you can find all the infos at www.thecgs.com or www.sfoptx.com).DOA:SF OPTX (NinjaCW) vs Carolina Core (OffbeatNinja): 5-3SF OPTX (Vanessa) vs Carolina Core (Mystik): 5-1Quote from SFoptx.com websiteNinjaCW, using Bass, an alternate character, lead over Offbeat Ninja, playing as Hitomi, 5 > 3 while Vanessa, playing as

Great news for Gaming

2008-04-22T18:05:00.003+01:00

Press Release Announced today:"The Eurosport Group and Championship Gaming Series (CGS) announced today that Eurosport has signed a deal with BSkyB (Sky) that grants Eurosport the exclusive continental European broadcast rights for Championship Gaming Series, the only worldwide professional video gaming league.Highlights from the inaugural 2007 series will be broadcast in primetime on Eurosport 2

March 2008, Happy Easter

2008-03-24T17:34:00.003+01:00

What’s up my friends,I just got back to Italy after a 20 hours + trip… but let’s start from the Combine.I got to Austin march 5th, 2 days before the event just because I wanted to get used to the different time zone and practice in my hotel room; I arrived pretty late that day, my bag was lost so I decided to go to the hotel, setup my laptop and go to sleep… luckily, the day after my bag was

CoinOP TV Interview

2008-03-14T23:55:00.001+01:00

Coin-Op TV Live - Pro-Gamer StermyWatch This Episode on www.theStream.tv

Monitor LG L246WH BN

2008-02-10T15:34:00.000+01:00

Hi guys,It's Sunday and I woke up pretty late... while I'm waiting for Inter Milan's match to start I decided to write a little blog about this monitor I bought last week, which I personally use combined to my lovely and best Iiyama HM903DT CRT.As you can see, I mainly use it as a secondary monitor, for emails,work,chat and play some fun games at high resolutions,definately not for competitive

stermy blog #2

2008-02-08T14:23:00.000+01:00

Hey there,First of all I would like to thank all the people reading my blogs. Some of you asked me questions through this website or myspace/mail and I hope I have answered all of you.Since last week update, I've been really busy as usual, practicing everyday and working on a few things ;) .. I've also started going to the gym again after a long time,because I want to do alot of sport while I

2008, #1 blog ? :)

2008-01-15T02:34:00.000+01:00

Hello guys,I hope all of you had a great Christmas and New year eve. I spent xmas with my family and then went snowboarding for New Year eve with my friends in Cortina, a really cool place in Italy.Anyway, since I turned 21 on the 2nd January and trevor (p0s) just bought a new car for me, (see his blog for more infos at www.sfoptx.com), I cant wait to come back in the US and have a late bday

Happy new Year !!

2007-12-29T10:14:00.001+01:00

Allright guys,I'm about to leave for vacation (5 days in Cortina - snowboarding with my friends) soI wish everyone a Happy new Year :).See you on the 2nd (my birthday)!

Merry XMAS!

2007-12-22T10:50:00.000+01:00

I would like to wish all friends,fans,family a Merry Christmas. I hope Santa brings you everything you want :)Ciao,Alessandro "stermy" Avallone

the last 6 months of my life

2007-11-13T20:51:00.000+01:00

*click* - - my bag is closed, i'm done packing.I check my pocket, my passport is there; I’m ready to jump on another flight.That's the life of a progamer, always travelling around the globe, from one event to another, always trying to show the world that what we do is real, is there, is the sport of the new millennium.It's November, I'm finally home for good and I look back at May when I started

Small Update, Unreal Tournament 3 Beta demo Config

2007-10-16T14:25:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,sorry if I havent update my blog in a long time but I promise I'll do it as soon as I can, probably next week, after I come back from E4all in Los Angeles...I just wanted to share with all of you my Unreal Tournament 3 Demo beta config.I didnt want to change the whole game because it's just a beta,so the config it's tweaked but the graphic it's not "legoland" because I believe

What is stermy doing?

2007-08-29T02:15:00.000+01:00

Hi guys,Things here in LA are going good, the weather is crazy nice (Well maybe a bit too warm....) but definately i'm enjoying it.In the past weeks beside travelling around the US for the Mall Tour (i'll talk about it later on), I did alot of cool things...First of all, I never went to watch a Baseball game before...As you should know, baseball it's not such a big sport in europe and personally,

Pictures from the US

2007-08-17T18:36:00.000+01:00

Hey guys, since i didnt have much time to update my blog in the past months i'm going to upload some pics now, here we go:

Quakecon 2007 Interviews:

2007-08-16T07:58:00.001+01:00

Here you are 2 interviews from Quakecon 2007:GGL: and Gameriot:

UPDATE..

2007-07-15T07:37:00.000+01:00

Hi guys,sorry if I havent been able to update my blog but I've been really busy and alot of things happened from April.In my last post i uploaded my Quake4 1.4.1's config, unfortunately the 1.4.2's wont be uploaded for now. Why? I'll explain to you now.THIS POST HAS BEEN WRITTEN THE 15 JULY. IT WENT NEVER ONLINE BECAUSE I TOTALLY FORGOT. FROM NOW ON I'LL TRY TO UPDATE THIS BLOG AND MY MYSPACE

Quake4 1.4.1 Config

2007-04-13T12:02:00.000+01:00

Hi Guys,Like I promised in the past few days, today I uploaded my Quake4 1.4.1 config.It's pretty much the same as 1.3 / 1.4 beta1 with just some small changes.I hope you enjoy it.Quake4 1.4.1 CONFIGAlessandro "stermy" Avallone

UK Quake4 1v1 Invite tournament @i30

2007-03-29T22:51:00.000+01:00

From 5th to 10th April 2007 I'll be playing in this invitational tournament since it will definately be good practice for the upcoming events this year.I will also do promotions for the Fatal1ty's Brand partners so I'll probably do some exhibition matches against the public and also present some products.So if you are there and you want to challange me, bring it on!Here is the list of the invited

Cebit it's over...

2007-03-29T21:32:00.001+01:00

That's right, i'm back home...Cebit was definately an amazing event, we had alot of things to do but we also had a great time.I wanna thank all the people i worked with and my team.No i'm not as small as it looks...it's just that Birger is too tall and Fox was trying to be as cool as him using my feets as a ramp!!Thank you Frank for the fantastic Job...you made people going crazy as usual!See you

Pro evolution Soccer 6's tournament with Friends

2007-03-13T13:54:00.000+01:00

Every monday night, my friends here in Andora, organize a pro evolution tournament 1v1 or 2v2 with little prize money.As you should know, Soccer here in Italy it's a big thing, and most of the people from 10 to 40 years old play Soccer videogames (Pro evolution soccer is the most famous).So Yestarday night it was time for a 2v2 cup, where the best players in Andora battle vs eachother for the

Stermy's Painkiller,Quake3 & Quake4 settings

2007-03-08T14:43:00.000+01:00

Hi Everyone,Today i decided to upload all my games's config, so all of you can download it and try it out!Here you are:Painkiller: HEREQuake 3 OSP n°1: HEREQuake3 OSP n°2: HERE Quake4 1.3 : HEREQuake4 1.4's config will be up soon, but it will not be much different from 1.3's.Enjoy!!Alessandro "stermy" Avallone

..back in italy....e il Cebit

2007-03-04T19:22:00.000+01:00

Venerdì, ore 23.25 treno diretto per l'aereoporto di Stoccolma..aereo alle 6.20 del mattino per Copenaghen e alle 9.25 da Copenaghen a Nizza, 11.45.Alle 13 ero a casa, pranzo del campione, e alle 15.45 al campo Marco Polo di Andora per disputare la partita Andora - Bordighera.. 4-0 per noi e lascio il segno con un goal. (ebbene sì, sono ancora iscritto a calcio e gioco/mi alleno ogni volta che

Quake4 patch 1.4b e Training in Svezia

2007-02-28T01:05:00.000+01:00

Con l'uscita della patch 1.4b di Quake4, ho deciso di iniziare i miei allenamenti per la stagione 2007 prima del previsto.Sono partito il 12 Febbraio per la Svezia, precisamente verso casa di Johan "Toxic" Quick.Per prima cosa ho studiato i punti fondamentali del nuovo aggiornamento, cercando di trovare un equilibrio nel mio setup cosi da poter mirare accuratamente quanto nel aggiornamento 1.2 /

Piemonte Share Festival

2007-01-29T23:07:00.000+01:00

Lo scorso venerdì sono stato invitato al Piemonte Share Festival (23-28 Gennaio 2007), assieme ad altre persone importanti nel campo gaming/informatico/artistico/etc.Tema principale le comunità online.Tutto è andato molto bene e gli argomenti sono stati interessantissimi.QUI potete trovare il videocast dello show.Un ringraziamento a tutte le persone che hanno partecipato alla "conferenza" e al

Nokia E61

2007-01-23T22:29:00.000+01:00

La scorsa domenica mi sono comperato questo "telefono".Essendo sempre in viaggio, avevo bisogno di un telefono che avesse una buona autonomia, che supportasse servizi importanti quali il Push e-mail , Connessione UMTS / EDGE / Wi-Fi , e un sistema un pò piu stabile del mio PDA BenQ P50 (Windows Mobile 2003).il Nokia E61 funziona sotto OS Symbian (s60), sistema operativo molto personalizzabile,

The Wii Laptop

2007-01-23T20:33:00.000+01:00

Stasera,girovagando per il web, ho trovato questa news.A quanto pare, "Ben Heckebdorn", ha modificato un pò la nuova console di casa Nintendo, così da trasformarla in una mini-console portatile!QUI Potete trovare tutte le informazioni a riguardo.Caratteristiche Principali:- 16:9 widescreen LCD, 7-inch diagonal.- Stereo sound- Gamecube controller port- Built-in short range Sensor Bar- Ports for

Test: il mio "nuovo" blog

2007-01-23T16:02:00.000+01:00

Ciao ragazzi,finalmente ho deciso anche io di crearmi un blog personale.Cosa ci scriverò sopra? un pò di tutto, principalmente argomenti riguardanti la tecnologia e ovviamente, il professional gaming.Test:World Series of Videogames MTVAdd to My Profile | More Videos