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World Cup 5 event 4 was a long level made by skint0r. The best level in wc5 so far, if you ask me - and of course you ask me. On the first Sunday I played 12 hours and got 2:51 which I was very happy of. After a while I heard that some guys have 2:3x and even 2:2x. I even got a 2:35 replay and the driver of it said “ez 20 secs better”. Not that easy but eventually he got it. I was so sure that I won’t ever get this good time, maybe not even 2:3x. Days went by and I got annoyed - no finishes in two days. Karlis and dz were probably even more mad.

Played ten hours more. Got 2:30. I was happy enough. MP was going to visit me for a few days and I thought I wouldn’t play while he’s here. At my place, MP hoyled for 3-5 hours and improved 2½ seconds. He also tried to encourage me to play more - and so I did, but without results. Seemed like I could do 2:23-2:25 with a good run.

After MP left I played more again and luckily improved. My final best time was 2:28,44 which finally brought the 13th position. Not bad.

Luther’s winning time was played in the Monday-Tuesday. That’s so sick. MP was second and actually I saw his best time ride on live, pretty cool, isn’t it. Karlis got quite nice time if we remember that his actual area isn’t long levels (the longest WR of his six ones is 23,64 seconds long). The standings are still fascinating: Luther 324, Jeppe 300, Karlis 281, Jalli 265, axxu 253. Hopefully no one will give up.

As I wrote I was not and still am not going to play the WCup seriously. The previous event took 35 hours so that is kind of paradox. Actually I am not totally in balance right now. I don’t want to waste so much time for playing. Anyway I beat skint0r and that’s all that matters. I’m MASTER.

505 is an easier event for me. I hate the level and thereby no need to play it too much.

dz, my lovely team mate, entered the blogger community. Welcome.

http://sealedillusion.blogspot.com/

I started writing this post at 22:15 but at 0:30 I noticed I’ve been playing Elma for 2 hours and not writing at all. Well, I improved my best time by 15 seconds so let’s forgive.

Event 3 was a catastrophy to me. I would have got 15 points in the first part but I didn’t send in. I thought we (FM) had decided to play 503b but then dz and mr sent to 503a. Karlis was angry. In 503b I got my best time 2h34min after the level release. 29,32 was pretty good time back then but not in the final results anymore. No points for me. The previous no-points-for-abula-event was 314. This is quite sad moment.

The current player standings are amazing: 225 points for Jeppe, 224 Luther, 222 TorInge, 221 Karlis and 216 for Jalli. So great entertainment. I’m trying my best to help our star, Karlis. Too bad I’m bad. We would need Tisk’s slow styles and Jokke’s skills.

Luckily MP will come to Oulu to help our team. He is good in long levels and invents nice tricks. Seriously actually MP will come here to meet me. I’ll host him for a few days. We might play some 504 too if you ask me. If you ask him we will hoyl it for 48 hours. I’ve planned to get GAA prizes ready with him. And organize upcoming FEM (21 days left). Hopefully we’ll walk some kilometers aswell.

For first some compulsory announcements. 30.5 credits down out of 180 in the master degree (tech). Situation in our sport competition: 329 px, 306 Abula.

I bought trekking boots (Meindl, Island PRO MFS), packbag (Jack Wolfskin, Agadir II), sleeping bag (Halti, Ultra 0) and some rain clothes for 420 euros. I was testing them a few days ago, walked with the packbag packed by books and other useful stuff in wilderness for about 18km with Carju. The feeling was good. I’m used to army equipment so these mine are luxury now. I will test more in the next week, hopefully more than 20km.

This summer’s first real trekking trip will take place on the 31. May. Me, Carju, Mane and Stypid are going to Kuusamo trekking to the popular (the route is a must for Finnish trekkers but usually popularity isn’t anything good in trekking, if we wanted to meet people we go to a bar or something) Karhunkierros. It’s 80km long and we’ll try to walk it through in 3-4 days. I’m hoping for wonderful landscapes.

Own trekking page which I’m very keen of, that’s what I’m planning now. Including trekking reports, equipment lists, photos etc.

Since this an Elma blog, I’m playing in the best WCup team, was 7th in the WCup4 and also being a bit involved in orgranisation of the cup, I think I’m supposed to write something about it.

In my opinion World Cup is the most legendary contest there is in the Elma world. It’s very old and popular (pity that some national scenes don’t want to participate). There are some facts that belong to WCup: px organizing, Rollercoaster, Karlis, FM doing well, participating to all events (personally), strange levels and the most important one, the exciting Sunday evening results publishing. I really appreciate that px still gives time for it and offers us the competition. This time we also have to thank our coding master: Viper_KillerGuy. There are some things though that could be improved in WCup: a better statistics system for old WCups (this is mainly my problem now), top20 replay packs available and some other minor things.

In WCup4 FM won the team competition. Back then Jokke played actively, now he doesn’t. Also Tisk is offline. But on the other hand dz is more active than two years ago. Let’s see how it will be going. I would play the cards for ICE. But will they bother to play all the events? FM is struggling for top3 at least, if you ask me.

WCup4 was probably my Elma career’s top moment. No way I will do such good performance in WCup5. I don’t want to spend my Sat-Sun nights with Elma anymore. I have good touch with studies and I won’t ruin that. I try my best to find styles and help Karlis as much as I can. But I will keep quite low profile in results. Maybe I will do top20 in standings anyway, that might be possible because most people won’t play all the events anyway.

And for the last a few words about my life nowadays. I’m 29 points behind px in our sport competition (read older posts if you don’t know what it is). I’m going to study 12-17 credits (from now using this word to descripe our .. credits ['opintoviikko' in Finnish], 180 needed for graduation) in summer. Currently having 28. One of my favourite blog entries are those where I report my newest credits. In the summer I’m going to do at least two trips: FEM05 in Jyväskylä and some trekking trips to North (hopefully more than one). The main problems are money and company. Would you like to join me?

Time to update my diary. What’s been happening latelly.

Only one spring exam left: circuit theory. After that I will plan my summer studies. Currently I’m going for 3-4 courses. Usually people don’t study in summers but go to a full-time job. I didn’t get one so I must study to get money. That’s not a bad thing because thereby I will be again nearer to the graduation. And actually I do have a job but it takes approximately 5h in a week which means not that much money and therefore I can’t really rely on that. If I only got enough money for travelling (Jotunheim [Norway] trekking trip is under planning at least) and new items (cell phone, backpack, trekking boots, swimming hat, swim trunks and some clothes) I’m very happy of my summer situation.

I swam 1585m (average heart rate 157) yesterday. Almost a new record.

The Wappu aka Wappen aka Valborg aka 1. May is now behind. It’s the biggest and the most important student fest in Finland. For most people it means drinking like in hell. I didn’t drink like in hell though. For me it was quite calm and relaxing. No great emotions involved.

This week was supposed to be very free and lots of time for organizing things. But but, I’ve been working some hours on Monday and Tuesday, which is great. I’ve been quite lost in my job for some months (mostly not my own fault) but now it’s getting better. I know what I’m supposed to do, how I do and where and who can I ask help for if needed. In this evening I’ve been doing houseworks and later today (on Wednesday) I’ll go to Chinese restaurant with mom. After that some work (luckily I can decide my comings and goings myself) and at 17:00 I’ll be playing football for first time this year. Whee.

World Cup 5 started a few days ago. My WCup mood is quite high and I’m afraid of getting hooked. I don’t want to use my whole summer to hoyl wcup. WC04 was my best performance in my Elma career and I’m totally happy of my 8. position in it. FM will try the best it can. None of us want to ruin our so-called lifes again.

I read a book. It took 2-3 months and it is my 45. book I’ve ever read. I read a page or two everyday in toilet. The book is named Liikemies Liljeroosin ilmalaivat and written by Arto Paasilinna. Not that I liked the book but I had to read it because it’s my own. Over five years ago I happened to collect Paasilinna books but I didn’t have enough time to read them back then. So here I am; five more books by him to go. Then I’ll be free of reading boring non-school books.