*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 this intensive year for real. I still remember taking the decision of trying out for the CGS ,leaving all my Quake4 Competitions for 2007, and try something new, a new experience and mainly a new challenge in my gaming career.
Everything turned out to be one of the best experiences, ever.
I got to know 10 fantastic people in a new family called San Francisco OPTX. I shared great moments with them, in and out of a new league called CGS that was more than successfull.
I traveled around the US for one and half month, together with my old friend Nicola "Forrest" Geretti and Celeste Thorson, for a Mall-Tour, The Fatal1ty Scene.
I lived for months at Jack and Cathy's place and they threat me like a son.
I spent many days at the Fatal1ty/Auravision office, with great people like Jack, Jen, Steve, Mark, Dave, Andrew, Kevin and Talva.
...then I came back to Europe, doing events every week-end around "my" Continent, enjoying it one by one, and never getting bored of it.
Now I'm here, in my training center in Italy, and I'm already looking into the new year, 2008, where something bigger and better will happen. And i'll be there with all the gamers, because, and never forget, we all have the same passion.
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
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Shout-outs to Auravision/fatal1ty Office, Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, Birger De Geyter,The San Francisco OPTX team, My family,my friend Paolo Rossi and the A.S Andora Soccer Team.
