FUCKKKKKKK.
Best quals weekend ever.
Shoutouts in no particular order of importance:
Bebop: Always a pleasure, sir, you about to knock out that retarded heckler in the crowd during Paul’s match had me dyingggg by the monitors.
Ryan/LetBloodRun: Ugh, so close dude. I believe yo, you guys were the hungriest players there. No contest. After some sessions in Japan, you got this locked down with no key. Sorry I missed your call homie, I went to my hotel and died for 6 hours.
Vinny: I swear to god, I nearly had a heart attack when you beat out Emphy’s attempted chip-damage EX Tackle with one parry to SRK xx SA3. TWICE. FUCK.
Jesus: Fucking Helicopter, dude. Holy hell. Made the entire night. Also, I heard you didn’t puke? What the fuck, yo?
Sanchez: Bastard, don’t ever call me Lenin Jr. ever again. 
Also, Doug was the worst show on Nick’s lineup, that is real talk/straight spit/dat speak. And you dudes aren’t seeing “Are You Scared of the Dark?”, seriously.
Jon Garcia: “Oh you thought I was free? Now I ain’t gay but…” Holy shit, you had all of us in the parking lot rolling. Sunnyvale, son, I’m there.
Chunksta: As soon as you passed me the beer without even seeing me for 2 minutes, I knew in my mind, “Hey, dopest dude ever”. I know you were trying to make some mad money when Grand Finals were happening. Fucking Sanchez and his $1 First Attack bets…
You, me and Jon and kickin it straight up soon.
Rom: UGHHHH WHY ARE YOU SO SICK. Dae and Pherai aren’t seeing you in those drunk money matches. Also, lmao at betting less than what the actual set of games costs. I love it. It’s just like 3s, it doesn’t matter who wins, because everyone fucking loses YES PHERAI I AM A HATER <3 3s
ILUJoe: Realest dude, seriously. Good shit dropping the EC knowledge after the matches were over. Also, you know Cali loves you, full homo.
“I’m on the wrong coast” - Joe Ciaramelli,
“No shit, dude” - Me.
Fuck you yo. Ricky was just on fire once he got on the machine, your Alex was on some unreal level shit. And the whole chopping the LP Sphere xx Aegis wasn’t even really a mistake, since it happened almost simultaneously. You almost OCVing Team Norcal had me about to bust capillaries left and right.
Speaking of which:
Combo utterly wrecking Team EC, getting off the machine mid-set and yelling, “Yo, Freest Coast, step it up” made me faint in the audience. Nothing but love for Joe and…like 4 people on EC (only people who deserve it), but that was so unexpected I nearly formed kidney stones from the shock. EC beasting all the way through until they got in too deep and got a very rude awakening. Good thing Combo actually knew how to play against Sim due to personal usage of the character, since nobody else at Denjin knew what the hell to do against REAL high-level Sim at all. Refer to “Section 2.4 - UTJ Beasting” for more info.
Mike Z showing up swole as fuck, shocking everyone, and then getting off the machine to tell Gootecks to “go back to SF4” after beating him convincingly; only thing I saw of the entire 3v3 set and the only thing I needed to. Do not fuck with Mike Z.
This is what it’s all about.
So much passion!