WEM: Condition Zero

16-12-2009 10:08

World Esports Masters 2009 might very well go down in history as an event with extreme conditions.

The event kicked off on Saturday, the 12th of December, in the Hanzghou Electronic & Techology University Arena. The arena is circle-shaped and there is great distance from the arena floor, to the arena ceiling. Not much more than the main-stage and chairs for the spectators are located in the arena and with no heating system at all, the temperature inside the area is at a level where players have a hard time focusing on their game.

The organizers had on Monday brought in heating-lamps behind the players and heating-blankets for all the players to use, still players were cold and had to sit in jackets and even wear finger-mittens to keep warm. During deaths and pauses, players would turn around and heat up their fingers at the heating-lamps, as it is impossible for them to maintain a proper heat level during the matches.

A fact is that it is so cold in the arena, that it is hard to tell the difference from being outside or inside the arena. When spot-light is in the direction of your breath, you are able to spot your own breath, giving you the impression of how cold it actually is. The past few days, it has only been a few degrees celsius during day-time, while at night-time, it drops below zero. Players and teams rush from the arena back to the hotel, directly after they have finished their matches.

Organizers of World Esports Masters stress that they hope they will be able to get the heating turned on, bringing the temperature to a comfortable level, prior to the first semi-final on Thursday. Furthermore, they state that it this far has been out of their hands to control the temperature inside the arena.

a bit like WCG, prolly not as extreme though. sorry to hear about the bad conditions nix :(

2009-12-16 10:14

Haha, sick. I thought CS = sweating. :F

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Me too looooooooool

2009-12-16 11:11

oh that's why finns are winning ;)

2009-12-16 10:18

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haha n1

2009-12-16 10:20

haha, nice : D

2009-12-16 10:24

Yeh! The WEM room temparture is the same as inside their igloos. Unfair advantage!

2009-12-16 10:28

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even better than net_graph 3 :----D

2009-12-16 10:45

ahhahaha

2009-12-16 11:08

:PP

2009-12-16 10:41

my first thought as well =)

2009-12-16 10:42

I thought exactly the same when i first read about the cold temperature there :P

2009-12-16 10:43

hahaha

2009-12-16 10:54

:DD

2009-12-16 10:57

cheaters! ;D

2009-12-16 11:05

hahaha lmao, you made my day xD

2009-12-16 11:06

ahahahahahahahahaha + 1 :D)

2009-12-16 15:32

Your forum answers list is already big and I will make it even bigger cuz you made me smile so much after comming back from school haha =D

2009-12-16 16:58

The headline made me think there would be a match for CS:Condition Zero. GL all the players there!

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same here ;)

hah me 2

2009-12-16 10:30

2009-12-16 10:31

+1! lol

2009-12-16 11:03

+1000

2009-12-17 22:54

Here too lol, I was about to write "Who the hell cares". -.-

2009-12-21 20:15

Dianzi=electronic,don't you see the name of th university in front of the school?Maybe you can ask some students,haha.

Who could imagine it would be cold during this time of the year?????????

That is just insane, I don't get how organizers overlook such a problem in the planning :/

2009-12-16 10:52

They should think of that fact on time, now its late :X however go tyloo!!!!!

2009-12-16 11:12

Nix0n, are you noob?how can you expect a very southern city to have heaters. the temperature goes under 0 are only in very few days per year.

2009-12-16 11:19

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and normally, it's not that cold in december. the temperature of this year at this time is quite diferent from previous years.

2009-12-16 11:23

They do have heaters in the arena, they are just not on. You can't expect 80-300 people to be able to heat up such a massive arena.

2009-12-16 11:28

maybe they are achieving the spirit of energy Saving and emission reduction which is the aim of climate talk in Copenhagen.

2009-12-16 11:49

Eventually they will end up killing someone, seriously not healthy.

2009-12-16 11:56

Well in my city the temperature never drops below 0(except for extremely rare occasions) and rarely drops below 5 and we have heaters everywhere...

2009-12-16 21:04

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Here it's below -10 atm, do I see heaters? Nah... :(

2009-12-21 20:16

lol you must be used to it already :P but that sucks.

2009-12-21 20:59

I'm not, it turned this cold like 1-2 weeks ago and I hate it!:(

2009-12-21 23:12

Good for Scandinavians !

2009-12-16 11:20

You hear that folks? Time to ramp up this global warming thing so that maybe next year the players won't have to wear mittens at WEM 2010.

2009-12-16 12:19

Such terrible conditions, I mean can you actually imagine being cold? I can't believe such people are able to operate in these horrible horrible conditions, I think we should contact the BBC and report this to a world wide audience!

2009-12-16 13:47