Today was a lot of fun and frustrating as well…
Highlight Of The Day: 5th at Woodbine Tournament
Low Point Of The Day: Sticks robbing me of Winners Finals.
Line Of The Day: “Byron are you even listening to me?” “No” (I coach Byron for like five minutes and ask him the above after wondering why he wasn’t following any instructions).
So I figured this would be fun little tournament with maybe 12 players for CvS2 and 3S respectively. I was hoping more Sauga Crew would want to come but Teddy is pretty much grounded so he’ll pass Calculus and Matt had to work too long so they were written off. Calvin said he’d come with Alex but it didn’t surprise me to not see them. I get Bryan and Gerjay (is Bryan ever on time?) from Pizza Pizza because I was supposed to head up to Guelph after the tournament and it was pretty much on my way. Things wouldn’t turn out quite so well.
The car ride was fun was Brian can’t decide on anything to listen to on my mix CD. We start talking about Woodbine Racetrack and why Bryan would never be able to get in. Wack shit about me betting on his behalf goes nowhere and we start talking about Bryan’s theory on why Matt isn’t cool because every cool Matt is called by their last name but you can’t go around call him “Machula” all the time.
So we reach Woodbine and Roger is owning up the Woodbine scrubs pretty badly. I played all of one game where Roger took Morrigan/Ryo/Sagat(2) and I took Yuri/Terry/Vega(2). Roger would smoke one character and then give the game to someone (first Kin with Morrigan and then Ryo to Marvin) only to have me demolish each of them and Roger would have to take the game back. It came down to the wire and I missed Claw Super and ate C.HP xx Super Fireball.
The tournament finally gets underway after the last of the really late people make a decision as to whether they want to join or not and when it’s all said and done we have TWENTY THREE ENTRANTS! WOW!
3rd Strike
Vs Leslie (1st Round): I had no idea what I was in for. I didn’t care about 3S mainly because Gerjay paid my entry fee instead of paying gas money. Leslie took Dudley and smoked me pretty bad. His playing style wasn’t so advanced, I just made a lot of really stupid mistakes and forgot to you know… PARRY!
Vs Random Guy With A Hat (1st Round - Losers Bracket): I have no idea who this guy was but he pulled the mega upset beating Jay one game in the first round (got that beauty on tape) when Jay was trying to make him look like an ass parrying everything and got punked. Anyway, that must have been a fluke because I shredded him pretty easy with runaway Akuma and took two straight.
Vs Butch (2nd Round - Losers Bracket): What an awesome name. I mean come on… BUTCH! I could be mistaken but I think he used Ken. Anyway, he busted me up pretty badly as all the good stuff I did last game leaked out of my brain and I played like an idiot again. So much for 3S.
Capcom vs SNK 2
Vs Tyrell (2nd Round): I got a first round bye as we had an odd number of players and the top 10 or so moved forward right off the bat. I hadn’t played Tyrell in just under a year; the last time being The Kaos Tournament where he beat me in Round Robin and cost me a 3 way tie with Peter and Steve. Anyway, I’ve made some… changes since last March so this was relatively easy stuff. I hit a ton of the Sonic Boom Air Throw Trap and used C.U.R.T. to clean up both games.
Vs Jay (3rd Round): I don’t think I’ve ever faced Jay in a tournament before. I was pretty shaken up because he’s a parrying machine and I may have all of 3 wins on him if that (one was METRO last week though, so that helped the confidence a bit). Both matches were INSAAAAANE! The first match came down to no health for me and a bit for Jay and I managed to squeak out the moon kick bait out Super for the victory. The second game was again down to no health from each of us and I was fortunate to hit The Triple Kick just as he Blanka Balled for the victory. Wow, there’s a heart attack I would like to have avoided.
Vs Gerjay (4th Round): This was the series that FUCKING PISSED ME OFF! FUCK! The 1p Side had been acting up all day where it couldn’t go down + left. Roger figures that the buttons and stick weren’t aligned properly so it actually works but you have to block a certain way. Whatever, all I know is it fucked me over. I ate move after move after move as I couldn’t block for my life. Gerjay smoked me the first game and I switch sides. Now the roles are reversed and Gerjay gets punked off with no blocking. Absolutely ridiculous and of course I take the second match. Third match we’re right back to me getting fucked over and boy did I curse up a storm and created my new phrase of “OH MY FUCK!” Gerjay takes me down and it’s off to losers.
Vs Dennis (6th Round - Losers Bracket): I was really hoping to avoid this match considering how shit the stick was. We flip a coin for use of 2P side and I lose. Anyway, Dennis beat the shit out of me both games (even after I switched sides) especilly the second game where I was anticipating everything and hitting nothing (that’s what paranoia does to you).
I go from possibly getting 2nd place to finishing 5th. Respectable but a little on the disappointing side.
Highlights:
Finally finding out who The Cate is. :lame:
“Who’s Magnus?” “I am. Hey, who’s Nagata” “I am.” :o
Initial D faggot who plays with actual racing gloves. :wtf:
Marvin getting Chinese Translations from random numbers. :lol:
John & Anthony making every match seem like the greatest ever. 
Everyone trying to win The GBA:SP from the scam Numbers Machine. :mad:
Woodbine Scrub challenges Marvin to $100 game of 3S and Marvin refuses out of pity for the guy :eek:
Team Rent-A-Ho. 
Security kicks out everyone that isn’t a tournament player.
GG’s to everyone today. It was a lot of fun and I hope we can do it again sometime in the near future (after the sticks are fixed). 
