Sebastian Rittau's Blog

Since the Wizards page is back up, I can confirm that my judge article about the Rodgau PTQs "between the years" is really up.

Here are some more pictures from that event.

Update: One thing that wasn't presented well in the article was how bad I was feeling during the whole tournament. At the evening before the first tournament, I agreed to fetch some friends from the train station. So I walked through the cold rain towards the station that consisted just of the platform with two small shelters. On my way there I got a call that they had just missed their train and would arrive 20 minutes later. So I waited for 20 minutes when I got a second call that the train had been cancelled and they would arrive another 20 minutes later. So I was out in the cold for more than an hour and this is probably when I got a severe cold.

This cold didn't make itself felt until the next evening, though. While calling the draft I suddenly started to feel really bad. At this point I though it was food poisoning from the pizza I had eaten earlier. During the night I had to run to the bathroom multiple times and was generally feeling very bad.

The next day I only had herbal tea for breakfast and felt very weak, but not really ill anymore, so I though I had it all behind me. I did not eat properly this day and when I went to bed, I got chest pains. In the morning the chest pains had grown stronger and I had a slight headache. So I took an Aspirin against the headache. It worked and after a healthy breakfast my chest pains had gone as well. I didn't come to the obvious conclusion that this was the because of the painkiller, though ...

So later in the day (I was team leading), the chest pains grew stronger again and I had to sit down early and was felling ill. So I wasn't able to lead my team as much as I would have liked to. Fortunately they were experienced and didn't need much help.