Let’s make it public: Rob promised me to be the first one to blog for this year’s Summer Edition of Intel Pack4DreamHack. He told me during the Winter 2011 coverage that he was planning another blog, but he didn’t write it. So I told him he didn’t need to worry and that he could be the first to write a blog in 2012. “Sure!”… Unfortunately, Rob is a bit lazy at the moment, so I’ve decided to write the first 2012 blog after all. My blogs will also teach you a bit of Dutch! We say ‘luiwammes’ to a lazy guy like Rob.

Hi, my name is Jeroen and last Winter was my first Intel Pack4DreamHack ever. Back then I wrote about how snowy weather could make me worry a bit, but there wasn’t any snow at all! The thing that made me worry most was the fact that I had to make a lot of preparations myself. Normally Stefan would help me a bit, but he fell from his motor cycle one day, which resulted into a broken back. Poor guy, but he’s alright now, once again driving his motor cycle through all kinds of dirt roads (which translates as ‘modderweggetjes’ in Dutch). Since I am so awesome (in our country we say that Jeroen is geniaal and geweldig), everything went alright and no one got left behind in Sweden. This Summer and Winter I have to make sure of that again, but I guess that won’t be a problem.

O, and I’m really looking forward to it actually. Our own event, The-Party, was a month ago. Glenn from PG Rental came up with the idea to try to ‘Dreamhackize’ The-Party a bit by fixing a live act named SquarElectric. SquarElectric is a VJ/drummer combi and they managed to organize an unforgettable evening. I think it was the best The-Party event ever and the cool people I was hanging out with made me look forward to more! I’m not saying you can compare The-Party and DreamHack, but for me both events kind of have the same vibe. We Dutchies like to say that it’s very ‘gezellig’, that everyone is having a good time. I’m so glad I start to like the indoor LAN festivals more and more, because my love for gaming events was fully targeted to outdoor event CampZone at first. A Summer vacation of eleven days with all kinds of gamers, it sounds as awesome as it is and it’s still my favourite event of them all, but DreamHack and The-Party are also very high on my list now.

To start this Summer, I will attend Rock Im Park in Germany to see fantastic bands like Tenacious D, Marilyn Manson and Metallica. I have to say that it sucks that Motörhead and Linkin Park play at the same time though, I still need to decide which of those I want to see more. …Anyway, after this musical goodness I’m glad to say that it will only be another two or three weeks until our bus trip starts. I hope to see a bus full of interesting people again and I’m sure I will. So tot dan!

Jeroen den Hartog

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