Tempo Storm hosted a
Fireside Festival in Rancho Cucamonga, CA earlier today.
The Fireside Festival was essentially a regular Hearthstone Fireside Gathering, but a lot larger than usual with way more events and notable attendees. Because we were the organization hosting the event, I set myself up in the corner to ensure that there were no problems and the event would run smoothly. I was in the back with Rentaro and RagingCherry, who was running the tournament part of the Festival.
Usually, I post photos of the stuff around me, but I decided to actually post photos of myself today for a change.
First up is a photo with Hyped. He’s a professional Overwatch player for Immortals now, but he used to be a professional Hearthstone player for Tempo Storm, and was one of the people who ran the classic Tempo Storm Hearthstone Meta Snapshot. I’m friends with his girlfriend, so I tweeted this photo at her and said “hey look who I found.”
Part of the activities that were offered were designing your own card and putting your face in the space where the card art would be. I made myself an 8/8 for 8 mana that has a Battlecry of bringing your opponent down to 1 HP, then losing the game anyway. I thought it would fit me well because I tend to play aggro decks a lot, and my opponents tend to be really good at making a comeback after they’re down to single-digit health.
There were also dry-erase boards in the shape of emotes, so I made one that said “Lost board control on turn 2? I concede to you.” I tend to get really frustrated at cards like Knife Juggler and other RNG-based cards that just completely destroy your early board (so much so that they basically just win the entire early game if their Knife Juggler hits, or they get smashed the entire game if their Knife Juggler misses). So, this is actually pretty accurate.
And finally, one of my friends convinced me to write “♥ I love reynad ♥” and hold the sign up while standing next to him. He was in a meeting with someone in this photo, but the person with whom he was talking actually noticed me and alerted reynad to my presence, thinking I was an actual fan who wanted his attention, rather than an employee at Tempo Storm just joking around … lol
The Night Market is basically a massive parking lot where shops rent out a little space where they can set up a booth and sell wildly overpriced food. That’s basically all there is at the Night Market – food. I guess there was a concert all the way in the back, and a few other vendors here and there, but the entire place is just mostly littered and blanketed with food sales booths.
There isn’t really a place to sit down either, unless it’s on the ground off in the corner. There are tiny amounts of tiny tables set up, but those are pretty much all already always occupied. Overall, it isn’t really exactly the best eating environment.
I’d imagine this is a fun place to go for people who like to socialize, but for someone like me who doesn’t want to be around crowds of people (at least, not when I’m actually a part of the crowd), it’s just an exhausting experience.
The good part about this trip, however, is that I got to meet my friend’s dog. Parking at the Night Market is just an extra fee to tack on to the admission cost and overpriced food, so instead, we drove to our friend Matt’s house, parked near there for free, then walked about a mile or so to the Night Market.
Here is another photo of the Night Market, closer to when it was getting darker, with Matt smiling in the bottom-right corner; the picture following that is of his dog Diesel, who seems to have a tail of steel.
