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 already in my room and I decided to go to the gym in the morning and then start to practice.
First day was just registration so after waking up, me and moe man-ed up on breakfast and went to a Chinese restaurant next to the hotel and then we all registered at the convention center, the rest of the day was just practice time.
It was finally Saturday, the “big” day for everyone and all the OPTX players placed really well in their respective tournaments. I was really glad to see that my preparation for this year paid off, since I really put much effort into it by practicing 2 months straight for a lot of hours each day, and I knew that with a bit more time than last year, and more players to practice with, I could definitely be a top contender.
The draft was truly amazing and even though I was one of the protected players, I was still nervous and excited for the whole thing…in the end we got a really great team which is definitely capable of win this year’s Championship..I will really miss p0s,pham,skittles,dave and beisboll , they are all great players and good friends, I will never forget about you and I’m sure I will see you again really soon. I also want to welcome all the new players into the family, it’s going to be a great year.
On the last night most of us went to 6th street were we had a crazy fun night –
Memorable Moments:
• Grt was welcomed in the SF optx in a special way
• My 21st birthday drink
• I had to do 30 pushup because Jen said “mine” [nice joke moe/clown/jhonny]
• I saved Kat Hunter from 3 guys which were flirting with her.Or atleast I think so. we ARE jealous
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It’s L.A time.
Yeah, I finally got back to L.A and this was pretty much my vacation since forever; I stayed at Clown’s place the whole time and I really wanted to thank him and his amazing family for everything, I guess me and yaz are brothers for real now, I’m sorry we had to kick you out Moe.. I guess you were just not as pretty as us.
I probably had one of the craziest time of my life during these 10 days and I wanted to give a shout out to all my friends there (yeah Italy will be back soon) !
Much Love and respect to everyone,
Alessandro “ITALY / Stermy / dog / bro” Avallone
