K groove Kim is not bad actually. Eric Lee in NorCal’s got a pretty good K-Kim.
Today turned out really interesting…
Highlight Of The Day: Defnitely the “Player” Ass
Low Point Of The Day: Coming 9th in CvS2.
Line Of The Day: “He just left you hanging? BEEF!” (Ian is so jokes)
So I get about 3 hours sleep today because I was playing dominos last night and thought I’d hang online rather than go to bed. Then of course I get up early because I never sleep in on a tournament date and you have a recipe for sleeping disaster. Anyway I hit Shoppers World and find Kevin & Gerjay already there. Kevin beasts on the both of us in 3rd Strike with Akuma & Q and then I return the favour in Super Turbo using OG Sagat. That character is so fucking dirty it’s not even funny.
I get the shock of a lifetime has KAM SHOWS UP! WHAT… THE… FUCK?! I haven’t seen this man in so long as he’s been retired for the better part of a year (did he even enter T4?). Tony’s car arrives ridiculously late and we finally get shit off the ground.
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2
Vs Matt (1st Round): I don’t even know why I bother sometimes. I managed to beat Matt in casual earlier so obviously it means I need to play him in the tournament. I can’t recall the team but I know Sentinel was in there and he destroyed me two straight games with him.
Vs James (2nd Round - Losers Bracket): James takes War Machine/IM/Sentinel and that was a mistake as I take him to town in the first game for taking such a ridiculous team. Second game he uses Rowtron v1 and destroys me. Third game was good back and forth but I fell apart near the end and he took it.
3RD STRIKE
Vs Rey (1st Round): He uses Yun and I’m horrible versus Yun. First game I get rushed down for free. Second game I made the comeback and stunted the rush. Third game we split the first two matches and I just manage to miss a throw and take a sweep for the loss.
Vs Gerjay (2nd Round - Losers Bracket): I forfeight as I was taping CvS2.
CAPCOM VS SNK 2
Vs Jaime (1st Round): He uses Geese/Ken/Sagat (I think). I could tell Jaime learned a fair bit from his games at ORBIT as he was far more patient and didn’t make dumb mistakes. Basically it was even shit until I got Kim and used a bait out double super in the first game to take it. Second game was back and forth again but this time I used C.U.R.T. when I needed it and squeaked out the victory.
Vs Tyler (2nd Round): I was looking forward to this match as Tyler has pretty much been owning me in casual for the last couple of weeks at SW and EMTC but nothing to the point where I thought “I can’t win this.” First game was insanity. Crazy back and forth with lots of momentum changes. I had the lead as time was winding down and he gets in a throw with literally 1 second left. Second game was the same, back and forth and it comes down to the wire but I manage to keep him away for the time out victory. Third game was anti climactic as Tyler destroys me with turtle Rock and I have no clue what to do. I try to mount something but it falls apart.
Vs Tony (3rd Round - Losers Bracket): This is the match I will never underestimate again. First game I took Tony far too lightly and he abused the hell out of me. Second game I got my shit together, put Vega in the back (I don’t know why I put Kim in the back anymore) and kept control the whole way though it was still relatively close. Third game was nuts. Back and forth again with him taking a lead and then Vega making the miracle comeback as I hit his R2 Bison with three air throws in a row and try to finish with Claw Super but it floats over his head and I get thrown for the loss. Can’t say I was too happy with that result as I figured I’d lose to the winner of Matt vs Rey.
Everyone left SW and is now at my house so I’ll finish this up later…
Everyone just left. Console tournaments were pretty fun even though I got destroyed in both of them. CvS2 sort of stalled when everyone went for the billionth McDonalds run and I stopped running it when I lost to Steve. Bryan won MvC2, going over Gerjay in two sets I think.
Best part of the night had to be Maiwand’s fucked up story about getting a ticket for Jay Walking. The best is how he just knows that the other guy that got a ticket was Somalian (WTF did he get that shit from?) and that he got the ticket because he’s Chinese like the next man who got one. Ho… ly… shit that was jokes. I was nearly in tears laughing.
My dad walks downstairs when everyone is gone and says “you have the loudest friends I’ve ever come across. But at least they leave at a decent hour.” The cleanup wasn’t too bad this time around thanks mainly to Teddy who stepped up out of nowhere and helped me out when everyone else was still playing. I guess he knows what it’s like to have a mess when it’s all said and done. Much thanks Teddy.
HIGHLIGHTS:
THE RETURN OF KAM! :eek:
All Grand Finals matches were very good and worth watching. 
Gerjay & Bryan literally fight over who gets Shotgun at McDonalds. :lame:
How can a girl with an ass so fine have a face so poor? 
Maiwand pulls out so much bullshit it goes from annoying to hilarious. :rolleyes:
Dennis is a combo machine. The guy chains everything. 
I HATE PS2 CONTROLS! TOTAL SHIT! :mad:
Have both the best and worst 3S games ever with Kin. 
Will I ever get my shot at Ian in a tournament? 
GG’s to everyone today. It was a long day of SF but it was a great time and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves both at SW and my place.
Huge props to Justin for hosting this thing. So many people :eek:
Highlights were
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Scamming Kin in the Marvel tournament with Rock, Paper, Scissors ownage for the gamepad, as both of us sucked with the arcade sticks
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Maiwand’s jaywalking/somalian/chinese shenanigans… not to mention the Van Damme RRRAWWRR!!
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Beating Teddy in the Marvel tournament :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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MY FIRST EVER LOSS TOURNAMENT LOSS TO DENNIS :mad: … You’re still a scrub
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Kins rapage in 3S with Yun… holy shit
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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS ON FINAL BURN!!! MAAAAAGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC MISSSSSIIIIIILEE!!!
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Slowest.McDonalds.Ever.
I’m hosting small casual at my place on Thursday so if anyone from Brampton or Sauga wants to drop in (assuming the numbers aren’t too big) they’re more than welcome.
Pete; are you attending T5? I need to know if I’m driving you on the Friday and Saturday or just one day or not at all.
GG’s to everyone last night. Steve’e Stop & Pop N Groove is getting better.
RC lightning kick is TOO good…too bad i missed that last super with chun, or else that shit’s going on replay for sure!
thank goodness the rust is coming off for me. Tyrell’s parrying on the stick is beginning to scare me.
Yeah your RC Lighting Kick Combo is really coming along. A little more work and you’ll have it down to the point where I’ll be scared every time I see RC Lighting Kick.
I hope my stick is able to help Tyrell with his parrying practice. That guy would be a genuine force to be reckoned with at T5 if he gets his parrying down as well on stick as he is on pad.
Pete and I are going to ORBIT tomorrow around 3:00pm so anyone that reads this should come along and play some games. PRACTICE UP! T5 IS COMING!
I played Jason A LOT today…
I won the battle over who’d win T5 if it were between Jay and I. :lame:
Nakoruru is a dirty whore and I’m going to make her good enough to be on B Team by T5 (WING HELP ME PLEASE! TEACH ME HER COMBOS!).
RC Ryo is dirty shit and should be banned. :bluu:
Claw Super is FUCKING USELESS and I’m going to stop using it unless 100% sure I’ll hit it. :mad:
What happened to everyone that was supposed to come over tonight?
GG’s tonight Jason.
In other matters…
Pete; have you decided on your T5 participation yet? If you’re joining you should talk to Jason about getting in on the team tournament with K Groove. If Byron comes back to Toronto (which he should be but I’m not 100% yet) he can be the third and Team BCC (not Shoppers World. HAHA!) will be re-united.
Steve & Tyrell; you need to let me know if you’re coming on both Friday and Saturday or just Saturday for T5. Also, do you need transportation? Please let me know ASAP so arrangements can be made.
cr.shortX2, cr.strongXXground slide move
but seems like no one can master dis combo other than wing himself… :eek:
Yeah I know, I don’t get it. He even throws in an extra strong depending how deep his combo is. I can’t do it consistently at all. Right now all I can do is cross up lk - c.lp - s.lp xx Uppercut Move and even that I have trouble with.
n00b up the combo and cut out the strong.
N-Groove Ryo is the future. You can small jump rh, you can rc…it’s game over!
Justin IS Thorwing…since he threw me out of just about every move in the game…mp’s, fp’s, vega’s slide(!!!) , jumping attacks
cr.shortx3>>>
cause u guys dont use nak, thats why it looks hard. i guess.
if someone else master the combo (with ground slide, not the upper slide) then i guess i have to find another character people rarely or never use to master. something unique, no bitting please i lost my ryu already. eh ian? … … .
abuse the birdy, cross up shortXXslide combo, thats all u need to do. nak is easy to learn
i think.
good now you can’t use nak anymore because I can do that combo haha. Wing is going to win t5
ah… shiet…
i guess i have to bring up my chang.
command grab that shiet…
no roger. no way i can win t5.
u will.
yo justin ill meet u at timmys at 11
im not sure if ty is gona come
i didnt get a chance to talk to him
This one will take a while so get a snack if necessary…
HIGHLIGHT OF THE TOURNAMENT: 3rd Place in CvS2 Team Tournament
LOW POINT OF THE TOURNAMENT: Didn’t qualify for CvS2 Top 16
LINE OF THE TOURNAMENT: “Hey Justin, pussy” “What?” “You know… pussy” “O… K” “God forget it. Shu fell for it.” (Anant tries to pull a scam and now that we’re no longer there I can tell you I’ve heard that joke… many times… since I was in High School… SUCKER!)
FRIIIIIIDAAAAAAY
I was up early as usual before a big tournament (despite the tournies not starting until that night anyway) and did some last minute admin prep (went to the copier for extra brackets, batteries for my camera, tapes for the camcorder, etc…) before heading out to ORBIT around 1:00pm. I walk into ORBIT and see Alpha 3 (YEAH!) in the cabinet where Hyper SF used to be (NOOOOOO!) so a quick search of the place reveals no HSF and I have my first freak out. “Where’s Simon?” I ask the girl who doesn’t know and is of little help. Alright so I’ll just play A3 for a while. Hmm… why is this in Event Mode? FUCK! OK OK this can’t be too bad. I ask the girl “why is the new game in Event Mode” and get “Simon come in and switch the machine you want.” OOOOOHHHH FUCK! So basically all the T5 machines were switched to Event Mode seven hours before anyone was even there, thus pissing off hoards of people who were politely told by the girl at the desk “I don’t know, talk to that guy over there.” WELL THAT’S JUST FUCKING GREAT!
BUT WAIT… IT GETS BETTER! I made two simple requests of ORBIT with literally two months notice: Give me two extra CvS2 machines and one extra 3S machine. Well… WE GOT NOTHING! I got an email from Simon saying “sorry, we couldn’t install the extra CvS2 machine.” Well that obviously isn’t going to fly or we’d be playing right now instead of me writing this log. Simon comes in around 5:00pm and I might as well have glued myself to his ass because I followed him relentlessly telling him that he’s got to find a way to get the extra CvS2 cabinet or we’re fucked. So after about an hour of talking he breaks down and pulls a power supply from someplace (apparently the York CvS2 board was incompatable with the power supplies in the other ORBIT cabs) and installs the second cabinet (making sure to bitch at me for the extra work he had to go through and ignoring the fact if he wasn’t so damned last minute this could have been avoided).
So I ride out the storm and basically rape people silly in Marvel until Ultra Random Black Guy and Razor show up and I play them for a little while (lost 2 - 1 to both of them IIRC). I watched Berkly Brian go head to head with Antoine in some sick matches in 3S and eventually people start rolling in.
Gerjay was good enough to loan me his laptop for registration purposes and it was a Godsend (until Saturday, more on that later). Registration runs relatively smooth as I only had to yell once with my trademark “LISTEN UP! BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH!” HEY LOOK IT’S MONTREAL! Gerjay and I have a talk about how Arcade Kid looks completely different every time you see him (anyone from ECC9 will remember grungy Alex with white towel turban). Everyone signs up and HOLY SHIT SIXTEEN TEAMS FOR CvS2! Matt gets punked off by Roger and comes back to Gerjay and I asking to join up with us (despite punking us weeks earlier). Shu can’t make his mind up between Gerjay and I or Team Al Qaida so we take Matt on and we’re set to go.
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 TEAM TOURNAMENT
Vs Team Montreal Elites (1st Round): The team consists of Temujin/Flowcus/???. We run with Kim/Blanka/Sagat(2). First match I run shit with C.U.R.T. and leave Gerjay to clean up. Second match is a lot more even and we lost it by a hair. Third match I build another big lead and we hold it down for the victory.
Vs Team 813 (2nd Round): The team consists of Ian and Wing. First match was ugly as Ian locked me down pretty badly. Gerjay made the comeback but Matt couldn’t quite get it done. Second match was a lot of the same with me switching to Vega but this time Matt pulled it out. Third match I shredded Ian badly and then took 1/2 of Wing’s Nako. Gerjay and Matt clean it up with a problem.
Vs Team K Groove (Winners Semi Finals): The team consists of XXL/FreddyLoco/Roger. I’m pretty sure all three of us though this was the match we’d be sent to losers. WRONG! I use C.U.R.T and dismantle XXL and Freddy. Gerjay and Matt get it done against Roger. Second match is like the first match but Roger made the OCC. Third match was nothing like the others. XXL took me out and Gerjay burns through him and Freddy. Roger takes him down and then Matt goes toe to toe with Roger and gets the victory. HUGE UPSET! I LOVE IT!
Vs Team Scrub (Winners Finals): The team consists of Prez/Gordon/Jonstar. WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE?! I played like a piece of shit in this whole series. Prez owned me up horribly and it turned into the Gerjay and Matt try to salvage my shitty play but don’t quite make it. Rinse and repeat three times and that’s that.
Vs Team K GRoove (Losers Finals): Awww geez, these guys again? This set was FUCKING SICK! I can’t remember all the details (it’s fine matches, come on) but I know that we were up 2 - 1 and then Roger pulled his usual Sagat madness and we lost the clinching match by a hair. Last match was back and forth but we ran out of time in the final round and that ended our night. This set is noteworthy for FreddyLoco busting out his K Cammy and making just about everyone his bitch. Crazy rushdown.
So we get third place. I can’t really comlain about that at all.
Marvel team tourney was a bit anti climactic with Issac just DESTROYING EVERYONE! That Magneto should be banned due to the mental trauma is places on his victims. I have the Grand Finals on my camcorder but Issac has the rest so I’ll have to wait for the footage.
3rd Strike Team Tournament didn’t end until 3:30am and I’M DYING TO SEE ALL OF IT! Ben’s got the footage on his camcorder and HE’S GONE TO JAPAN FOR SIX WEEKS! FUCK!
Considering the Team Tournaments are on two different people’s camcorders, it also means that the T5 DVD won’t be released for at least six weeks because I won’t release it without the team tournament footage. I’ll just construct the rest and let it sit on the backburner though I will put together the trailer with the footage that I do have on my own camcorder.
SOOOOO TIRED…
HIGHLIGHTS
Gerjay and Shu get “the weird chicken in tomato sauce” and boy does it suck. 
The hot chick with the long hair that transformed into the 40 year old ugly woman.
Berkley Brian DESTROYS EVERYONE in HSF… until Watson shows up.
Geese talks to me for nearly five minutes before I realize who he was.
The Sweet & Sour Sauce that was really melted Jelly Beans. :lol:
BTW I hate the new layout for the board. It’s full of BS erros. Case in point, it wouldn’t let me edit my log and it didn’t bump to the top when I posted for some reason.
lol i know man,tell me about it hope they change it back.Nice kim by the way justin.
SAAAAAATURDAAAAAAY
So I wake up and get breakfast with my mom. “So Justin, what are you up to today?” “Tournament” “BUT YOU WERE THERE YESTERDAY!” “Yep…” “WHY IS IT TWO DAYS?” “Three days” “WHAT?” “Yep…” so we argue for a while and then I get my shit together and leave. “See ya” to which my dad says “Good luck” “WHY ARE YOU ENCOURAG…” Justin closes front door the drive seemed faster this time around (I think it gets easier every trip you make from Brampton to Markham). I get to ORBIT to find Teddy and Hayvren taking on Fob Guy. Hayvren and I have a talk about his complete lack of sleep (as per usual) and discuss “Advanced Issac Tactics” which basically consist of Hayvren getting Issac drunk off his two bottles of wine and hten hoping he’d have enough of a chance of beating him in casual (not even tourney, just casual). ORBIT is pretty much empty so of course I know today will be a long one.
I play CvS2 for a couple of hours, losing 2 - 0 in a 2/3 casual to Teddy (he beasted on Team Mobility and B Team, which makes it even harder for me to understand why he didn’t join the tourney) and then I say “fuck it” and take my real team and shred people for a six or seven game win streak before losing to Poke Guy. HEY LOOK IT’S GERJAY!
I set up the laptop and then have a freak out when I have the wireless base but not the wireless mouse. The first thought in my head was that I didn’t pack the mouse the night before and now I’m going to have to pay for a new wireless mouse. Kevin asks Gerjay what’s up and he says “oh yeah I forgot.” whew so I have to use the keyboard mouse, which is complete and total shit. The registration trickles in as I’m already an hour overdue on CvS2 registration. WHERE IS EVERYBODY?! 2:30pm rolls around and THE FLOODGATES OPEN! HOLY SHIT! I get swarmed with people wanting to join every tournament on the list (except Alpha 3, but I’ll cover that later). Everything looks good and then I NEARLY HAVE A HEART ATTACK! I try to use the sort function to put all the CvS2 players in order to make constructing the pools easier. It sorted like I asked but the other games didn’t move to adjust so everyone was aligned with games they didn’t join (the games were sorted by name primarily). OH MY GOD! THIS IS A DISASTER! I spend at least 1/2 hour having a freak out and then I use the failsafe. I had everyone sign a hard copy book so ORBIT would know who let into UN. So I erase all the games, MikeC and Kevin come to my rescue making sure everyone signed the book that didn’t on the first go and then we re-construct the brackets from the ground up. THANK YOU KEVIN AND MIKE! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Also huge thanks to Arcade Kid who collected money for me in the later stages while I was making the pools. So after much distress and being late THREE HOURS we start CvS2.
I run the first four pools with the help of XXL (much thanks man) and then they shut down for Unlimited Night. We go through total hell as they gave us a specific amount of discounted tickets and of course people who didn’t join tournaments somehow ended up with coupons thus leaving the true entrants SOL. I get extra coupons and still people got shafted. GOD DAMN IT! Anyway I head to Wendy’s with Gerjay, Shu and Anant to finally eat something. Anant gets owned up waiting for his chicken strips while the woman in front of him (how’d she get in front of him if we were all in line together?) bitches about her wrong change. We have a few laughs (see Anant’s stupid pussy joke in the first post) and I eat so many fries and we’re set to go again. We get back to Pacific Mall and I get owned up horribly by this SLOOOOOOW driver, prompting Shu to yell “BAIT OUT!” and piss me right off. Then we’re walking up and I make a comment that Rey looks just like Ron from the back. Then “Rey” turns around and IT’S RON! OH SHIT! I don’t think I could have looked like any more of an ass. We all have a laugh outside for a while and just chill outside while everyone files in. Aaaaaand we’re back…
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 QUALIFYING POOL
Vs Jaime: This was a solid match. Jaime played a very patient game and it was back and forth for a while until the later half. he still has issues fighting my Vega and it fell apart.
Vs Danny: I know Danny can’t play on these sticks anywhere near the level he’s capable of. That being said he still made a lot of dumb mistakes that bad stick or not would have cost him the match. I ran this pretty easy.
Vs Ian: Ah the nemesis. I obviously booked this on purpose. As per usual, this was another back and forth match with Ian getting the upper hand during the R2 vs R2 and I lose. I’m pretty sure this was my last shot at him. Brutal…
Vs The Cate: I came within a pixel of a Vega OCV.
Vs Lars: This was the X Factor match. I had never played Lars and truth be told I didn’t even know what groove he used until he chose P and I knew it was trouble. He totally steamrolls Guile and Kim because I’m stupid and try to low poke him like a P Groove rookie who hasn’t faced Marvin hundreds of times and should know better. Anyway I’m staring down the barrel of an OCV and HEEEEEERE COMES VEGA! Blanka gone. whoever was second gone. It’s down to Cammy and I’ve got about 20% health. I get random as fuck and drain his health. We’re both at 5%, I try a walk up throw, he techs and gets in s.hp xx Cannon Drill for the win. SOOOOOO CLOSE!
At 3 - 2 I didn’t have the points to qualify so my CvS2 quest was over.
The pools keep going for another few hours and it’s a fun time. Pool F had so much drama it was scary. James plays spoiler for Flowcus and beats him, thus setting up a three way tie with Noodleman (who pulled the SICKEST COMEBACK on Jimmy), Jimmy and Flowcus. Then Noodleman beats both and gets into the Sweet Sixteen.
I tape GGXX Top 4 (solid matches but nothing too special) and watch a lot of 3S. Then I look around for the A3 players and THEY’RE ALREADY PLAYING LOSERS FINALS! WHAT THE FUCK?! I tape whatever I can (Kevin, you were supposed to say something to me about Final Four in A3) and we have to finish the finals tomorrow. It’s 2:00am so that’s the end of Day 2.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Flowcus keeps playing casual during the tournament. STOP PLAYING WILL! :mad:
The Montreal Cheer Squad vs The Sauga Cheer Squad during MvC2 Finals. 
Random Rey and I talking about hot girls out prioritizing taping GGXX Finals. :lol:
Alpha 3 Losers and Grand Finals (1st set) were all FUCKING SICK! :eek:
Watching people play the DJ Spin game. I laughed so much.
One more day and it’s over…
SUUUUUUNDAAAAAAY
Christ I really wanted this tournament to be over. You know when you wake up knowing you have to say… go to work? Yeah that’s basically how I felt about running tournaments for a third day. At least there was no registration this time around. I spend 1/2 hour worrying about my car as it was making a funny noise on the ride home from ORBIT the night before but I’m guessing it was either the road (probably considering the noise isn’t back) or my car will just die or explode or something horrible sometime soon when I least expect it.
I told everyone to show up by 1:00pm so of course that doesn’t happen. I get to run a few CvS2 matches in the tournament but then we’re basically sitting for like two hours. I did get a chance to play Rene and beat him 2 - 0 (he wasn’t using his real team though, which really bugs me because I wanted to get a feel for if I could take him or not). It’s made even more shitty because I didn’t have time to play our $50 Race to 5 because I had to get home and watch SummerSlam. I played Prez as well and that didn’t go well. FUCKING ROLENTO! I HATE YOU SOOOOOO MUCH! Finally Marvin, Wing, and Kin show up (why I didn’t just DQ them I’ll never know) and we run the tournament.
Most of the tourney matches were pretty sick. FreddyLoco vs Arcade Kid was CRAAAAAAZY INTENSE! Marvin vs Prez also had insanity with Marvin pulling a miracle comeback with R2 Chun Li but just falling short. Ian BEASTED on Veasna in their opening round match after losing the first game and then never using his R2 and taking the next two games. Of course then we have the Grand Finals between Roger and Veasna, which many go down as the greatest finals I have ever watched live (I watched the set on my camcorder last night and it’s still great but doesn’t have that blood racing feel of watching it the first time). Both Montreal and GTASF were loud as hell cheering on their respective guys. That’ll definitely be one of the big moments I will never forget when thinking of T5.
By some miracle, Nelson calls Jay and says that he’s coming to ORBIT so I didn’t have to stick around and tape 3S Final Five (it was supposed to be Elite 8 but Ben ran more matches than he was supposed to). I head outside and everyone is just chillin and yapping about Geese doing stupid shit. I thought Wing was going to lose his temper on Watson because he apparently farted on Wing (what is it with Wing getting owned up by big guys? First James Paige and now Watson). I say my goodbyes to the US players and to Montreal and head home to watch SummerSlam.
HIGHLIGHTS:
FreddyLoco looked like he was about to kill someone after losing to Wing. :eek:
Kin comes within an eyelash of putting Marvin out of CvS2.
Hearing the story of Ultra Random Black Guy invading Montreal’s Hotel Room. :lol:
Grand Finals… CvS2. Nuff said.
The feeling of content when I didn’t have to call any more matches.
Thanks to everyone for coming out and making T5 one of the best, if not the best Toronto tournaments ever.