WE ARE ASTRALIS

Some things never change. They are as old as life itself, and only cataclysmic events have any chance of influencing them. One such thing is bootcamping. This is how it alway goes:

• The first person to arrives seeks out the spot from which he can oversee and control as much of the surrounding space as possible. Most likely on the middle of the table. He instantly claps down his keyboard and giant mousepad so he can reserve the space.
  
• The second person to sit down aggressively does the same, usually choosing to sit as far as way from the first person as possible, in order to assert dominance over his specific part of the table-space.
  
• Both players have now plugged in their powerstrips into the two only sockets available. Their powerstrips have exactly the needed amount of outlet for their own setup.
  
• Chaos ensues as the next two players arrive. They both rush for the corner spot where there’s still space, trying to avoid the battle for desktop-supremacy with the person in the middle. The loser violently smashes his keyboard up on his mousepad, claiming that “there’s not even enough space to have my keyboard here”, despite the fact that it’s about the size of a bachelor pad in London.
  
• Desperate for internet access, the two first arrivers now demand the router to be set up, making the tech genius of the bootcamp curse at everyone for their computer illiteracy. Under threat of physical violence, he sets it up, crawling around on his knees plugging everyone’s computers in.
  
• At this point, arrival #3, #4 and #5 (who has now miraculously arrived at the location after being lost for an hour), have realized that there are no more sockets, creating an uproar and a demand for the first two players to rearrange their setup so accommodate more powerstrips. They do so, only under the threat of a total power shutdown.
  
• With all five computers set up, play can get underway. For some reason everyone’s ping is spiking at over 300ms. The mystery remains until it is revealed that player #1 has been secretly downloading movies the entire time.
  
  At the moment the team is bootcamping on the outskirts of Copenhagen, working on some of the weaker sides of their game and getting ready for the coming three months of travelling and competing. The above might or might not be inspired by events happening during the bootcamp.