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Sacre Bleu! Fiji Bati Pwns the French!

Posted by Wilson in games, pwnd, rugby on November 2, 2008

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle’s left…leg.

There’s bad news, and then there’s good news, of which the later variety comes in several incarnations.

There’s good news where a family member gets married (huray! little nephew/niece tykes!) and the whole family, extended and all gets to join in the ensuring celebration.

Then there’s great news, like you getting the promotion, allowing you access to that car you’ve always mourned at in the display window.

Then, there’s news that is so awesomely awesome, that you’ll be naming your kids after the fateful day just so that the event will be remembered down the dark, musty halls of time.

Yes. In the world of the Rugby League World Cup, the Vodafone Fiji Bati, in their first pool match, has taken the French Team and rubbed their faces in the pitch, seven times over. An epic score of 42 to 6 has made the 500-1 Fiji team now hot favourites.

Seven tries people. Seven awe inspiring, heart warming, this-aint-over-the-best-is-yet-to-come, grog swirling, patriotic pride inducing tries. If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought that such a hugh scoreline would have belonged to a sevens match between say Hong Kong andMalaysia. Scores with that big a margin don’t translate well to a supposed 1st rate rugby country such as the French Roosters. If anything, 6 points to the French means that they were forever stuck on the back foot. The french coach John Monie was right. “They had too much enthusiasm.”

For those of you who missed the game (me included, blame halloween), fear not,for thanks to the power of the Internet, a few of the tries are available on Youtube, and thus, here! Big vinaka to rugsta15 for uploading the videos and sharing the love. All thats left now is for the torrent of the full game to be made available.

/wish

Fiji – 16 France – 6

Akuila Uate’s 1st Try

Commentor note: “Anymore of this and they’ll buy him an island!”

Fiji – 22 France – 6

Akuila Uate’s 2nd Try

Commentor note: “YOOUWAATEE!!!“

Fiji – 30 France – 6

Semisi Tora’s (Commentors were refering to him as ‘Tori’) Try

Commentor note: “The celebrations will be emotional once if they cross the line – AND THEY DOOO!!!!” Gotta love the timing in that one.

Fiji – 36 France – 6

Jaryyd Hayne’s Try

Commentor note: “Get out the bowls, get out the kava, its going to be one hell of a party!“ Lol ^_^

Fiji – 42 France – 6

Akuila Uate’s 3rd Try

Commentor note: “42 points to 6! What? Who would have thought?!” Fuck yeah, you’d better recognise

Points worth pointing out:

1) Akuila Uate is the next ‘insert-great-rugby-icon-from-fiji’ player. That guy gets rugby team scouts all hot and wet.

2) I’m not going to miss the next game against Scotland this upcoming Wednesday. And if you count yourself as a true rugby patriot, you wouldn’t too. Not for all the cheap barrel nights in the world. Or beer katis.

3) Vodafone Fiji is going to be so happy. Queue another media blitz about who exactly is sponsoring that winning team. The sevens team now have extra pressure to perform from their Digicel sponsors in order to look just as good.

4) I’m just so god-darned proud to be Fijian right now that it hurts ^_^

To keep that patriotic fever pitch going, here’s a great song written by Igelese Ete for the Fiji Bati and performed by the ever amazing Talei Burns with the Pacific Voices choir.

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The Beautiful People

Posted by Wilson in games, lifestyle on July 3, 2007

Oceanic’s Blog had a short post on how people who play online games have avatars that are as diverse as the players themselves.

Of course, with me being an avid World of Warcraft player, I had to comment on my own experiences of meeting up with people who had different ideas on how they came up with their own unique online representations.

“@Mark Bowness

You’ve kinda hit the nail in terms of how people go about choosing their avatars when online. I am a regular player from the game World of Warcraft, and most of the people i talk to come from a few distinct schools of thought about their virtual representations of themselves.

a) I AM WHAT I PLAY: These are the hardcore ones. They will go to great lengths to make sure that their avatar IS them. Hair colour, body type, even the name has to be a reflection of their persona. And if they cant quite get the look they’re after? Why just change their real life appearance to match their online one! ….”