TEAM Great Britain
MSI OC ACADEMY 2015
I
t is Thursday morning and the train is running late. Nothing unusual about
that anymore if you live here in the UK I guess, but today was different. Today
I was meeting up with RawZ from MSI UK at Kings Cross station to head over to
Cambridge for a benching meet.
MSI UK and Team Great Britain
had teamed up to arrange the first
part of the MSI OC Academy UK tour.
Twenty lucky benchers had each
been given a ticket to the event,
two nights’ accommodation paid
for and all the LN2 that you could
possible use. Toss into the mix the
introduction to LN2 and a sub-zero
benching course for first timers, as
well as a Team Great Britain awards
evening dinner on the Saturday night
and you get the full picture. But the
train was late, and it would appear
that I would not be getting to London
in time to make my connection.
Oh, "Who am I?" you may ask. Well,
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my name is Hivizman, a sometimes
competitive bencher and the nominal
head of Team Great Britain, and I was
responsible for hosting this event. An
event that had not been without its
challenges, but little did I know what
was in store for us. Both good and
totally devastatingly bad. Let us back
up a bit and go back three weeks, back
to when I travelled up to Cambridge
for a final site inspection of the venue
only to find there had been a fire in
the building next door. The fire had
caused some structural concerns and
they were planning to close the venue
we originally hired over the event
weekend.
Greene King came to the rescue and
offered Team Great Brita