UPDATE: The Upcoming Tournament Weekends- The Rapture and Armageddon

What have I got myself into? In a clear effort to kill myself over the weekend, I will be attending two tournaments in two consecutive days in two different states. Additionally, I have to deliver the newspaper that Saturday night in between (not to mention the Friday night before we leave). How crazy am I, exactly? We'll find out afterwards if I happen to survive.

I'll be leaving with my friend and courteous driver, Bill aka "VaderSeven" around 6:00 AM on our way to the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia for The Missouri Gaming Championships. Bill will be displaying his tremendous skill as one of midwest's finest at Starcraft II, while I try to not embarass myself in Marvel vs Capcom 3. Four hours of driving and a $15 venue for one game is difficult, but I've never been one to turn down tournament experience, especially in a game I need it in.

I was IM'd by Bill weeks prior about this tournament. I had mentioned in our past communications that I would like to accompany him to a Starcraft event sometime, and this seemed to be the perfect fit. We made an arrangement to accommodate my working hours and it all looked good. Not a week later did I find out that Iowa's Monthly, "WMS" was happening the same weekend on that Sunday. Having had the unpleasant experience of people dropping out of tournaments on me too many times already, I didn't want to back out on Bill-- especially with gas prices the way they are. And so, here we are.

We plan to leave Columbia around 9:30 PM, allowing us to arrive back in Iowa City around 1:30 AM. I'll go through my paper route doing my best zombie impression, return home, grab around four hours of winks before I have to continue on with the second leg of my tournament gauntlet. I'm not sure how exactly all this will affect my performance in both competition and in my daily duties, but it will be one hell of a weekend. Two tournaments, two days, two states, and North Liberty will still receive their weekend papers on time. Catch you on the flip side.

UPDATE: It's come to my attention that Omaha's monthly (SSF4 and MvC3) will be held the following weekend at Family Fun. This wouldn't pose much of a problem except Joker's Monthly is the day before. I'm already committed to Joker's. I promised a ride to Chloe "Yink" aka Queen of the rainbow  colored names on Smashboards. At the moment, I am appealing to the SRK boards for people to accompany me to Omaha so I can make up some of the expense I'd be taking. Pray for me.

You may be wondering why can't I just skip out on these events and save copious amounts of money and trouble. A fair challenge to my seemingly insane ambition. To that I can only say that I'm hungry, hungry for victory.