Hi everyone!
With a month to go, we thought it'd be time to put this blog into action. Actually, it was Mr Mulgan's badgering that got me to do it. Right now it's 7:20pm on Friday night, so I've got a few minutes to talk to the world about King of the North before I inevitably go out and hide myself behind a pint glass somewhere.
King of the North started, as some of you will have seen in the Kickstarter video, as a social for our members. The eSports Society has over two hundred and fifty of them signed up in our Facebook Group, and we wanted to do something that would get them all off of their rigs for a day. It became apparent pretty quickly that we had the means and the people to do something bigger and better than we ever imagined and while the result - as you'll see - isn't Dreamhack, we're still really proud of it.
So where are we right now?
Right now, our Treasurer Mr. Hargreaves is preparing for the final day of the qualifiers tomorrow, and I've just seen the first edit of our highlight reels for those qualifiers. We've been in touch with a printing company to get some seriously awesome banners printed, and all in all things are rolling onwards at an awesome pace. There's still a lot to do, but now, a month a way, King of the North is definitely a reality.
Pretty soon we're hoping to get some more video content out for you guys - a tour of the venue and the MSi Notebooks UK equivalent of the CoolerMaster video we did, so keep an eye out for that as well.
I suppose the hardest thing about getting to this stage has been believing that people would want it. It's been stressful, it's been uncertain (and still is!), but the thing that pushes everyone on the committee onwards into making this event amazing is that when we tell people about it, they get excited. That's not just our members either, it's people all over the country. Students, non-students, businessmen (I am forever regretful that there is no footage of our faces when we saw that Stuart Saw, of Twitch.tv no less, had PM'ed us on Reddit asking if Twitch could get involved with us) and many others.
I could probably go on, but I need some practice at these posts before they'll be really good, so for now - I say good night, and see you soon!
Jacob
With a month to go, we thought it'd be time to put this blog into action. Actually, it was Mr Mulgan's badgering that got me to do it. Right now it's 7:20pm on Friday night, so I've got a few minutes to talk to the world about King of the North before I inevitably go out and hide myself behind a pint glass somewhere.
King of the North started, as some of you will have seen in the Kickstarter video, as a social for our members. The eSports Society has over two hundred and fifty of them signed up in our Facebook Group, and we wanted to do something that would get them all off of their rigs for a day. It became apparent pretty quickly that we had the means and the people to do something bigger and better than we ever imagined and while the result - as you'll see - isn't Dreamhack, we're still really proud of it.
So where are we right now?
Right now, our Treasurer Mr. Hargreaves is preparing for the final day of the qualifiers tomorrow, and I've just seen the first edit of our highlight reels for those qualifiers. We've been in touch with a printing company to get some seriously awesome banners printed, and all in all things are rolling onwards at an awesome pace. There's still a lot to do, but now, a month a way, King of the North is definitely a reality.
Pretty soon we're hoping to get some more video content out for you guys - a tour of the venue and the MSi Notebooks UK equivalent of the CoolerMaster video we did, so keep an eye out for that as well.
I suppose the hardest thing about getting to this stage has been believing that people would want it. It's been stressful, it's been uncertain (and still is!), but the thing that pushes everyone on the committee onwards into making this event amazing is that when we tell people about it, they get excited. That's not just our members either, it's people all over the country. Students, non-students, businessmen (I am forever regretful that there is no footage of our faces when we saw that Stuart Saw, of Twitch.tv no less, had PM'ed us on Reddit asking if Twitch could get involved with us) and many others.
I could probably go on, but I need some practice at these posts before they'll be really good, so for now - I say good night, and see you soon!
Jacob