Went to the annual Taipei Game Show today. It's on from Friday 2/6 to Tuesday 2/9, so I just reached it on it's first day. A bit late though. It's open from 10 am to 6 pm. As with the book exhibition last week, I arrived at 4 pm. Too late to try stuff. But still plenty of time to locate all the booths and take pictures of loads of stuff. Took 148 photos while there, which is almost half of what my camera can contain. And that's in just 2 hours. (I make it save a raw together with a JPEG, so total size per shot is usually about 22-23 megabyte. I could cut it down to 2-3 per shot by not saving raws, should I have to snap more when I'm going back.)

In this place there's many booths and several stages for different kinds of performance. Some of them they have turnaments. At others, you can just jump up on and get a brief instruction like this guy above is, and you're in a competition of some sort, competing for freebies.

Yesterday I went to check out an esport tournament here in Taiwan since another exchange student, Eric Fleck kind of knew some of the people who were going to play in the tournament there. The tournament went on until today, so I went there again tonight. It was epic.

The game they're playing at the tournament is called SF Online - Special Forces Online. It's an FPS (First Person Shooter) game very much like Counter Strike and it's pretty big in Asia. Especially in Taiwan in which it is developed.

I arrived there some time past 6 pm today. This was just the time at which the final and biggest (probably also longest) match went on. Eric had been there all day so he kinda knew what was going on. If you're lucky, he's going to blog about it. (You can see his blog in my blogroll at the right panel of my blog.)