The past weekend, I went to California with my Dad. I got flights from here to California and back using my Delta miles. We were going to California to go to the Call of Duty World League event in Anaheim. I paid for the 2 tickets for the event and the hotel also with money I had been saving up and some of my birthday money. We flew out Thursday night at 6:30 PM and got to Los Angeles around 9:30 PM. There is a 3 hour time difference between California and Michigan, so when we got to California we had lost 3 hours.
The first Day of CWL Anaheim was Friday, and we went to Denny's for breakfast before we walked to the Anaheim Convention Center. I got a meal that had a buttermilk pancake, with some eggs, hash browns, and this delicious jalapeno bacon.
After having breakfast we walked over to the Convention Center. It took about 10 minutes to walk there from the hotel that we were staying in. When we got there, we waited around for a while because the doors for the spectators did not open for a while. We finally got in and got our wristbands, then got in line to go into Hall A. Once we got inside, there were a ton of booths for different things. There was a G-Fuel booth, a FaZe Clan booth for shirts, an Optic booth for apparel, and a booth for a ton of different shirts and things to buy. There was the main stage at the front of the room where the main games were played, which had a ton of seats, and 3 large monitors.
There were 3 monitors, one on the far left, one front and center, and one far right, so when the games were being played, no matter where you were sitting you could always see what was happening. The first day, the games on the main stage started around 1 PM. It was the beginning so a ton of teams were fighting to get their way into the winners bracket. If a team gets into the winners bracket they then have a chance at winning some of the money from the $200,000 prize pool. The first day was really fun, I got to see a ton of new teams compete.
In each game where 2 teams play each other, there are 5 rounds in total. Each round is a different game mode. Since there are 5 rounds, to win a team must win 3 out of the 5 rounds. The 3 gamemodes that were played during this event were Hardpoint, Uplink, and Search and Destroy. 3 very different game modes, with different objectives. To keep it simple, Hardpoint is a gamemode where you hold a position to gain points and to not let the enemy team take the area. Uplink is basically soccer, but in Call of Duty, and Search and Destroy is a gamemode where you only get 1 life, and you try to defuse a bomb.
In the Convention Center, there are a ton of Optic fans, so whenever Optic Gaming plays another team, it is crazy, because everybody wants Optic to win, so if they win a game, or one of their players makes an amazing play, then the crowd goes insane. It was fun the first day, then we returned to our hotel.
Day 2 was Saturday. We got to the Convention Center around 10:00 AM. Here is a picture of the front of the Convention Center.
The first day I bought a FaZe Clan Hoodie, and it looked really awesome.
I got to meet some really awesome people on Day 2. I got to meet FaZe Temperrr who is a member of FaZe Clan, I got a picture with him, it is kind of blurry but it is awesome that I met him!
I also got to meet FaZe Censor who is a YouTuber, and also part of FaZe Clan. He has abour 2.3 Million subscribers on YouTube, and I got to meet him, and have him sign one of my Shaker Cups at the event.
I bought a FaZe Clan Jersey for 20 Dollars along with a Shaker cup. The FaZe Jersey looked really nice.
I bought 2 new flavors of G-Fuel at the G-Fuel booth, I bought Blue Ice, and Fruit Punch. G-Fuel is a tub of powder that you put in water, and it makes it a type of energy drink, but it has a ton of vitamins and antioxidants inside of it also. There are many different flavors that you can get. We watched many more teams play on Day 2, more teams that lost their games did not get into the championship bracket for Day 3.
On Saturday night, I got Taco Bell for dinner, and I brought it back to the hotel room, and Me and Papa watched Happy Gilmore on T.V.
Day 3 was Sunday, and it was our last day of MLG Anaheim 2017. Today, I met the person I came here to meet, which is Jev. He is a member of FaZe Clan and is a YouTuber with about 2.4 Million subscribers. I watch all of his videos and it was amazing to meet him. Here is Jev signing things at the event.
Day 3 we got to see who won the $80,000!!! Optic lost against a team, and Splyce, which is a European team was doing really good. The final match was Splyce against Luminosity, and who ever won would win $80,000 and the other team would win $48,000. It was an amazing game but Luminosity won and it was crazy!
The trip overall was amazing! We still had Monday in California so on Monday, we walked from our hotel to Target to buy some things. Then from there, we walked to an AMC Movie theater to see Wonder Woman. It took a lot longer to walk to the Movie theater than I thought, It actually took us about 40 minutes to walk there, and then another 40 back. Wonder Woman was a great movie, and I enjoyed it a lot. Then we walked back and stopped at a small Taco Restaurant to get some food.
Our SuperShuttle picked us up at 4:30 PM and we got to the airport, and flew back home. We got home early in the morning on Tuesday, at about 10:00 AM, so Papa skipped work, and I took a nap!
I would love to be able to do more trips like this in the future!!!
-June 25, 2017
In each game where 2 teams play each other, there are 5 rounds in total. Each round is a different game mode. Since there are 5 rounds, to win a team must win 3 out of the 5 rounds. The 3 gamemodes that were played during this event were Hardpoint, Uplink, and Search and Destroy. 3 very different game modes, with different objectives. To keep it simple, Hardpoint is a gamemode where you hold a position to gain points and to not let the enemy team take the area. Uplink is basically soccer, but in Call of Duty, and Search and Destroy is a gamemode where you only get 1 life, and you try to defuse a bomb.
In the Convention Center, there are a ton of Optic fans, so whenever Optic Gaming plays another team, it is crazy, because everybody wants Optic to win, so if they win a game, or one of their players makes an amazing play, then the crowd goes insane. It was fun the first day, then we returned to our hotel.
Day 2 was Saturday. We got to the Convention Center around 10:00 AM. Here is a picture of the front of the Convention Center.
The first day I bought a FaZe Clan Hoodie, and it looked really awesome.
I got to meet some really awesome people on Day 2. I got to meet FaZe Temperrr who is a member of FaZe Clan, I got a picture with him, it is kind of blurry but it is awesome that I met him!
I also got to meet FaZe Censor who is a YouTuber, and also part of FaZe Clan. He has abour 2.3 Million subscribers on YouTube, and I got to meet him, and have him sign one of my Shaker Cups at the event.
I bought a FaZe Clan Jersey for 20 Dollars along with a Shaker cup. The FaZe Jersey looked really nice.
I bought 2 new flavors of G-Fuel at the G-Fuel booth, I bought Blue Ice, and Fruit Punch. G-Fuel is a tub of powder that you put in water, and it makes it a type of energy drink, but it has a ton of vitamins and antioxidants inside of it also. There are many different flavors that you can get. We watched many more teams play on Day 2, more teams that lost their games did not get into the championship bracket for Day 3.
On Saturday night, I got Taco Bell for dinner, and I brought it back to the hotel room, and Me and Papa watched Happy Gilmore on T.V.
Day 3 was Sunday, and it was our last day of MLG Anaheim 2017. Today, I met the person I came here to meet, which is Jev. He is a member of FaZe Clan and is a YouTuber with about 2.4 Million subscribers. I watch all of his videos and it was amazing to meet him. Here is Jev signing things at the event.
Day 3 we got to see who won the $80,000!!! Optic lost against a team, and Splyce, which is a European team was doing really good. The final match was Splyce against Luminosity, and who ever won would win $80,000 and the other team would win $48,000. It was an amazing game but Luminosity won and it was crazy!
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| Here is Splyce and Luminosity talking after Luminosity beat Splyce. |
The trip overall was amazing! We still had Monday in California so on Monday, we walked from our hotel to Target to buy some things. Then from there, we walked to an AMC Movie theater to see Wonder Woman. It took a lot longer to walk to the Movie theater than I thought, It actually took us about 40 minutes to walk there, and then another 40 back. Wonder Woman was a great movie, and I enjoyed it a lot. Then we walked back and stopped at a small Taco Restaurant to get some food.
Our SuperShuttle picked us up at 4:30 PM and we got to the airport, and flew back home. We got home early in the morning on Tuesday, at about 10:00 AM, so Papa skipped work, and I took a nap!
I would love to be able to do more trips like this in the future!!!
-June 25, 2017
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