www.stermy.com

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.

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What is stermy doing?

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, I didnt even know the basic rules of the game, beside how the score point system works.
So me and my best buddies Jack and John (Fatal1ty) went to a Dodger game, which they won ofcourse...Then the week after, me and Jack went to watch Galaxy play Chivas.. and now we are planning to make me understand AMERICAN FOOTBALL (also known as MANBALL - inside joke - ) and seems like i will be a sf49ers fan..



At the same time, almost every day during the week I'm trying to work on few projects that I really wanted to be done, especially now that I dont have any competition coming up.(..YES i'm talking about a stermy website too).


I also gave FPS tips to young campers from ID Tech Camp this Month. These students were learning how to be professional gamers by participating in 3 week long courses at some of the most prestigious universities in the US. I thought the kids the best tactics and strategies for FPS games and how to play the game.
August 13th was my final lesson for these ID Tech Campers this summer. These sessions not only gave students a chance to learn from me, but they were also competing for a chance to win a complete Fatal1ty system. The top two winners from all sessions combined flown to Los Angeles to compete against each other in a final best out of 3 maps for the grand prize.
In the end, Joseph from Stanford came out on top. Ryan from UCLA, however, still took home a full line of Fatal1ty accessories.


Anyway, I totally forgot to mention in this blog that I am actually doing a Mall Tour around the Unites States.
2 Weeks ago I've been in Seattle, last Week in Minneapolis and here you are the next 2 stops dates:

September 1, 2007 Jordan Creek Town Ctr. Des Moines, IA

September 8, 2007 Spring Hill Mall Chicago, IL

September 15, 2007 Detroit

So if you guys wanna come and compete against me, just show up at one of the stops...you just need 1 point to walk away with a great prize... and if you dont score a point, well, there's still a ruffle at the end of every show so... we'll still give away prizes!

See you there!

Quake4 patch 1.4b e Training in Svezia

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 / 1.3 ; ci è voluta quasi una settimana per trovare i settaggi esatti, ma alla fine sono riuscito a trovare una via di mezzo..e i risultati sono stati piu che ottimi.

Qui alcuni dei miei settaggi:

Mouse: Microsoft Intellmouse explorer 3.0 - Nuova Edizione
Mouse driver : Intellipoint 5.5 + mousefix - windows default, no aumenta precisione.
Mousepad : Qck+
Sensitivity : 4.1
g_fov : 103
m_accel : 0
net_clientprediction : 0

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Complessivamente l'allenamento di 2 settimane è andato piu che bene, grazie alla connessione 100mbit/100mbit BBB.
Ho hostato un server direttamente su una delle macchine che avevamo in casa, cosi che la gente potesse connettersi direttamente da internet con ping da 1 a 10 (Lan praticamente per tutti, soprattutto con altri utenti BBB [90% dei progamers svedesi)e ovviamente per me e toxic.
Ore di gioco giornaliere variano da 4-8.

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E con questo concludo un piccolo update al mio nuovo blog...

Alessandro "stermy" Avallone