The H.O.G: London SVB event (sat) 2013

SVB is a pretty huge video game tourney event hosted in london every year. I heard that it was happening at The Heart of Gaming ( a place where i usually go to meet some friends and play some vidyagamess!!) and i was pretty much free Saturday so i decided to check it out.

The moment i walked in i was amazed at the turnout. Never in my time at the H.O.G (since its grand opening) have i seen so many people there. Especially due to the late announcement of SVB.The games were announced like a day b4 the event but that didn't stop the hoard of gamers. I was looking for space to play, lol and baffled at the amount of people there so early but we all had the same intentions i guess. To have fun playing games and enjoy it offline with the people around us.

The influx of players were mainly from the super smash bro's community as a smash bro's tourney was hosted on the day.I never knew there was such a huge smash bro's community to be honest. They made other fighting game communities (persona 4 arena, tekken, blazblue etc) look like a friends last minute get together where no one really turns up in the end. Not to say that the communities in the brackets are inferior; they just still have some shaping and moulding to be done.

As the day went by i started to see a lot more women coming in and jamming on a 3ds, eating, playing dance games etc without any signs of uncomfortableness. It was purely GENUINE. It's good to see that woman aren't gonna leave all the fun to the guy's and quite refreshing.

All in all it was a very hectic, fun day. Got some great sleep after the day was over :),