I have sampled all the various stuff that Dreamhack has to offer (mostly hardcore digital pornography (nothing on stage unfortunately) and world of warcraft), taken a bunch of showers (which has a little sauna right there: nice!), tried sleeping in the sleeping areas a little bit, eaten some Swedish LAN cuisine (hot dogs and mishmash burrito) and I am still a walking zombie.
[update: pics at the bottom]
Now the good news. I've finally found some better seats in the LAN, and am now in a less populated, less hot and less humid area of the LAN. And, they are 5 meters away from the QuakeWorld tournament area. (Props to Dronar)
I've finally met ParadokS, and right now he is busy setting up his own private ParaworlD in the tournament area, as he is scheduled to play shortly. Ake Vader of the QWNU crew, and three (or so) of the DH crew that are assigned to QW, they are making sure that ther will be online feeds. Look for Ake's posts on ESR and QWNU for more information (I am finally to tired to make links).
I am also collecting more pictures, but they need to reach a certain quantity before I can upload more of them. (That's another excuse because I'm so wasted right now; they will be up eventually).
I can also see reppie's head swiveling back and forth in the tournament area, cool and composed, bps is also contemplating something serious, probably his future in this tournament, there is also riker, destrux (who I think is a dark horse favorite, now that I've seen some of his latest practice demos) and a whole lot of other people. The tournament area is great, but the rest of the LAN area has tables that are too high (or chairs that are too low) so its too hard or me to play
I am still waiting to meet nabbe and locust, and get more pictures of all of these super quake nerds
One note: in the very quiet sleeping area which just so happens to look like a huge aircraft hangar, it is a bad idea to suddenly play really loud aircraft crashing noises... =8[]
Update: I am still waiting for the games to start as I write this. Here are some new photos:
Swedish sense of humor (actually there's a letter hidden hehe)
half of Ake, Reppie (seated), blze, Dronar, ParadokSAke drawing positive energy from the humanoid sitting next to himAdrenalin made it! In this picture, I am crushing his will-power with my sheer gaze (riker, destrux in the background)
Coach LocKtar (seated behind: another half of Ake, Back of ParadokSes head, Reppie, Back of Lurifixes head)
Elite high-end mouse sensitivity measuring toolCoach Nabbe (Or Saboteur Nabbe, in the center, keeping a keen eye on his possible opponents riker (left) and Inferno. The open box behind them contains 75 kilograms of snus)
I've removed one of the pictures, because Adrenalin was really serious. It just said "jew" on it, but he does not want to be associated with any thoughts about Nazis, so there you go
It was probably a bad idea on my part not to ask his thoughts about the picture before I uploaded it. More pics coming soon