2016 Mod in Taiwan with In Win blog posts

[davido_labido]

Do you want to buy it from me instead Haha?

 

[davido_labido]

Well, now I am in hospital (more to come about that soon) I have some time to put up some blog posts! here is the first one outlining our journey to Taiwan, I am going to keep these short and sweet I think as all of the media partners have done a great job covering the event!!

http://www.davidolabido.co.uk/in-win-mod-in-taiwan-day-0-travelling/

 

[Cosimo]

Hospital, hope it's not too serious?

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Hospital, hope it's not too serious?

He's fine I've been teasing him on Facebook about it .

Na na na na footloose.

 

[davido_labido]

yeh, I am not too bad, I have been bitten by something, which then managed to get cellulitis and then get infected, so for the competition I was hobbling around a lot and in quite a lot of pain, as soon as it ended I went to the doctors, they gave me some IV and it felt a little better. The next day we went to do interviews with HyperX and my leg started to go purple with blisters appearing, so the In Win boss made me go to the hospital.

I have been here for almost 36 hours now hooked up to IV the whole time. May have to stay here for up to two weeks, but chances are it will be 3-5 days if they see enough of an improvement to release me with just tablet form anti-biotics. It sucks quite a lot as I am basically missing the whole "fun" part of the trip. These things happen though, nothing anyone could have done about it.

 

[Feef]

On your first day here? That's impressive/unlucky Still, at least you get air conditioning, a luxury I don't have in my apartment Getting a little warm lately.

Good attitude though, hope it clears up

 

[davido_labido]

yeah, I think the bite was on my first proper day here, then the second day it started to get inflamed and on the third day it was hospital time =(

yeah, the hospital has aircon and all the locals are wearing their blankets and I am here in shorts and tee really hot, I always sit at really low temps so until later on in the evening I am just trying to keep warm and keep plenty of liquids in me!

 

[Sayso]

nooooo, hows your luck!! i had a great time when i was working in Taiwan, its slightly insane though.

 

[davido_labido]

A nice article about it all just went up on Forbes here:
linky

eTeknix did quite a lot of coverage also, the last day post is here: Linky

BitTech did also here: linky

Hexus: linky

 

[davido_labido]

Spoiler alert!!!!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1093740697349153&substory_index=0&id=425445774178652

We only went and bloody won!!!! Yeah, basically, we got the award we were going for! Our case will now be manufactured by In Win!

We also got a 1080 each a load of ram, ssd motherboards, cash and finally a trip to Vegas!!!!

 

[Boycey0211]

Many congrats!

 

[Diddums]

Congratulations, fantastic effort

 

[robfosters]

Awesome. Congrats. Any pics of the case, I wanna see if it's worth saving my pennies.

 

[Werewolf]

Congratulations

That's awesome news.

 

[Cosimo]

That is great news! Congratulations.

 

[timmeh]

Awesome congrats!

 

[tom_nieto]

Congratulations!

 

[davido_labido]

Thanks guys, it really was one of the hardest builds we have ever had to do. So much pressure to get it finished on time, so much heat, so much Illness and neither of us expected to do as well as we did. We are both really proud of ourselves!!

 

[Doomeh]

Really nice work there Davido! All of the work done there is quite incredible really. Makes me feel like i've got useless butterfingers

 

[davido_labido]

all the teams were incredably talented, really puts a spotlight over what people can do in such a short time! We tried to play it safe and we still only finished with 12 seconds to spare!!! It was very very close!