It was a struggle to get out of bed. I always wake up thinking: "Why didn't I go to bed earlier last night?".

We had been told to be at the event at 11 am to get our press passes so we left the hotel around 10:30 thinking it wouldn't be a problem getting there. We spent some time trying to figure out the fastest way to go, and both agreed it would be with the metro. It wasn't until we got on it, that we found out that there's some construction work going on, and therefore the metro line we had taken did not go all the way to the event - great. Luckily the train was substituted with a buss and we were only about 20 min. late (ups).

After some waiting outside the press entrance, Mark (the great white beast from gotfrag) and I went to the main entrance and I ran in to Gregorio from the ESWC management. I told him about the lack of life at the press entrance and he got it open 5 min later (god I love that guy).

Now inside I went to take some photos of the venue, just to give everyone an idea of what it looks like. It seems a bit smaller than last year but then again - this is ‘only' the masters.

The queue to get in, it continued outside as well - thank god for being press!

The main stage

One of the booths had candy - my new favorite place

The exhibitor area

The gaming area, occupied by french people right now

The press room (wheres the waiter with the cold drinks?!)

So thats pretty much all there is to see right now. I will write a new blog later when theres more to tell, right now I am just waiting for the cs people to arrive. Then we will probably start doing video content, so stick around for that!