The 2017 World Cup - The Stories and Pictures
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 1:30 pm
I'm gonna start. Watch this space.
As I guess most of you know, hosting a Kick Off 2 World Cup is actually a quite massive undertaking. So I won't bore you with all those details, I'll just try and stick to focus on the World Cup as a player and a KOA-member.
1 thing about being organiser and an admin on our World Cup Facebook-page, is that from time to time we're being contacted there, by various people showing interest in the game and/or us. This year we got contacted by Stephan, a journalist, from the german football magazine 11Freunde who wanted to come to the world cup and do a case on us. Of course we accepted, and he was there from friday to sunday night, watching loads of matches, even playing the game a bit, doing interviews, going out with us, etc. He was a really nice guy, and it was very funny to talk to him. And I'm also very proud of all the KOA members at the World Cup, accepting him with open arms and hearts, letting him take part in the friendship, comradery, sharp KO2-battles and joy the world cup is.
Thursday
Lee and Jayne was in town, and they had time to meet me for lunch. We met up downtown Copenhagen, had a pizza and a nice 1-hour talk. Lovely people the both of them, and to get that little meeting in, really started my World Cup weekend.
Friday
My initial plan was to be leaving home early, so I could be at the GameRoom, setting up, from noon, however, I had so much I needed to do that I was almost 4 hours late. But, when I got there Torgny, John and Jacob was in good form, having set up lots of stations. This was the first time in 2 years I'd met John, and it was great to see him again. And the GameRoom was amazing! Having the World Cup at an actual football-stadium, was just perfect. Great job Torgny, securing that place. I now look forward to the next time Gianni will host, giving us the San Siro World Cup. Or maybe Rodolfo can fix something at Santiago Bernabeu.
While we where at the GameRoom Michael G and Peter K came up, with all the beer they brought from Germany. How amazing of them to do such for us. I love they way the various members of the KOA are so willing to help out. They also had some machinery, smartly enough they kept one station in their hotel-room, securing us the possibility to play some friendlies later. Also Lee and Jayne showed up, having a chat. After a while, we drove to the hotel to check in, and shortly after we where playing friendlies at Michael and Peters room. And now I got to try out my new joystick. Lee'd been customising it, providing me with a newly fixed, nicely working CMS-stick, with the buttons I don't use blacked out, and a full set of red LED-lights underneath, giving that Fast'n Furious Neon-Glow, espcially when playing in a not fully lit room. Awesome!!! Thanks mate!
Then, we went down to the Reception-area to see if the other players were ready for dinner, and the joy to see all those familiar faces simply can't be described. Walking to the restaurant only took like 5 minutes, and the restaurant was truly a great choice by Torgny. The food was really good.
After dinner, we went to the next-door place, called Harry's, where a local punk-band was playing. Really fun. Getting in some good words with Ian Kay, who I find to be a top bloke was really cool, and seeing the joy on Andy's face when he got his Dark'n Stormy handed to him definitively was the icing on the cake. When Harry's closed, I decided it was time for me living up to my high age, calling it the night and heading back to the hotel.
Saturday
To be continued
Some of my pictures can be found HEREand HERE
As I guess most of you know, hosting a Kick Off 2 World Cup is actually a quite massive undertaking. So I won't bore you with all those details, I'll just try and stick to focus on the World Cup as a player and a KOA-member.
1 thing about being organiser and an admin on our World Cup Facebook-page, is that from time to time we're being contacted there, by various people showing interest in the game and/or us. This year we got contacted by Stephan, a journalist, from the german football magazine 11Freunde who wanted to come to the world cup and do a case on us. Of course we accepted, and he was there from friday to sunday night, watching loads of matches, even playing the game a bit, doing interviews, going out with us, etc. He was a really nice guy, and it was very funny to talk to him. And I'm also very proud of all the KOA members at the World Cup, accepting him with open arms and hearts, letting him take part in the friendship, comradery, sharp KO2-battles and joy the world cup is.
Thursday
Lee and Jayne was in town, and they had time to meet me for lunch. We met up downtown Copenhagen, had a pizza and a nice 1-hour talk. Lovely people the both of them, and to get that little meeting in, really started my World Cup weekend.
Friday
My initial plan was to be leaving home early, so I could be at the GameRoom, setting up, from noon, however, I had so much I needed to do that I was almost 4 hours late. But, when I got there Torgny, John and Jacob was in good form, having set up lots of stations. This was the first time in 2 years I'd met John, and it was great to see him again. And the GameRoom was amazing! Having the World Cup at an actual football-stadium, was just perfect. Great job Torgny, securing that place. I now look forward to the next time Gianni will host, giving us the San Siro World Cup. Or maybe Rodolfo can fix something at Santiago Bernabeu.
While we where at the GameRoom Michael G and Peter K came up, with all the beer they brought from Germany. How amazing of them to do such for us. I love they way the various members of the KOA are so willing to help out. They also had some machinery, smartly enough they kept one station in their hotel-room, securing us the possibility to play some friendlies later. Also Lee and Jayne showed up, having a chat. After a while, we drove to the hotel to check in, and shortly after we where playing friendlies at Michael and Peters room. And now I got to try out my new joystick. Lee'd been customising it, providing me with a newly fixed, nicely working CMS-stick, with the buttons I don't use blacked out, and a full set of red LED-lights underneath, giving that Fast'n Furious Neon-Glow, espcially when playing in a not fully lit room. Awesome!!! Thanks mate!
Then, we went down to the Reception-area to see if the other players were ready for dinner, and the joy to see all those familiar faces simply can't be described. Walking to the restaurant only took like 5 minutes, and the restaurant was truly a great choice by Torgny. The food was really good.
After dinner, we went to the next-door place, called Harry's, where a local punk-band was playing. Really fun. Getting in some good words with Ian Kay, who I find to be a top bloke was really cool, and seeing the joy on Andy's face when he got his Dark'n Stormy handed to him definitively was the icing on the cake. When Harry's closed, I decided it was time for me living up to my high age, calling it the night and heading back to the hotel.
Saturday
To be continued
Some of my pictures can be found HEREand HERE