SAAAAAATURDAAAAAAY
Highlight Of The Day: Coming within an eyelash of beating Ricky Ortiz.
Low Point Of The Day: Being scammed out in CvS2 Qualifiers.
Line Of The Day: “Bryheem, you want to bet on this? STOP WAITING TO SEE WHO THEY PICK!”
We got back to Motel 6 around 3:00am after they close The Break down for the night. Triple J (Noodleman/Gerjay/YellowS4) go to sleep but Bryan and I have none of that shit. Bryan takes off to Roger’s room for a while and I join him a bit later. We played a few games of CvS2 (I managed to defeat Cole in our only game against each other) and watch some more matches before heading back to the room.
GERJAY SNORES LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER! DAMN IT!
NOODLEMAN GRINDS HIS TEETH IN HIS SLEEP! DAMN IT!
BRYAN COMES TO BED AT 7:00AM AND WAKE’S ME UP! DAMN IT!
I grab a shower and take this one period in the trip that I know I’ll have complete solitude to get breakfast on my own. There was a Burger King across the parking lot from the Motel and it wasn’t too busy so I got my order (their hash brown bites are bigger in the US and their Egg & Bacon Bagel was top tier so I don’t hate US Burger King either (BIZARRO WORLD!). I call my mommy (AWWWWWW) and head back.
We get a parking spot but don’t bother to run over Justin Wong this time around (mainly because he wasn’t there… DUH!). The Break was actually pretty empty that morning with everyone recovering from the weekend before so JS and I team up with me taking an R1 Kim and unleashing C.U.R.T. on tons of people who didn’t have a clue what was going on. HAHA! We won something like eight games in a row and then lost to uh… NYC David? Maybe? Shit I don’t remember. The place starts filling up and then we get the first crazy crowd as Roger goes on a win streak and Ricky Ortiz shows up. OOOOOHHHH SHIIIIIIT! It’s pure back and forth battle but Ortiz manages to pull it out. So Eric steps up to the plate. OOOOOHHHH SHIIIIIIT! This looked like the Roger match only Eric used A instead of K. Crazy back and forth stuff but Eric eventually loses. So who’s next?
Ricky Ortiz vs Nagata Lock II
I stood there thinking to myself “alright, you’re not going to win, but you’re going to fuck him up at least.” Ricky runs with C Guile/Ken/Cammy(2) and I run with Kim/Guile/Vega(2). C.U.R.T. SYSTEM IS FULL EFFECT! I actually only got to use C.U.R.T. on two occasions but it was worth it to hear people behind me say “what the hell was that?” HAHA! I played really patient and waiting out Sonic Booms like mad and wittled him down to nothing before dying. Guile’s up and of course Ricky looks at my charging Sonic Boom to start so I FUCKING SMACK HIM WITH AIR BACKBREAKER! MOVE! That got lots of “OOOOHHHH” from the crowd. Again patience is the key as I play Guile exactly like I normally do with Sonic Boom - jump kick trap, roll Lvl2 Super and all that other shit. Again I lost with a bit of health left. Again my next guy punks him out. So now it’s down to my full Vega vs his Cammy and I’M ACTUALLY WINNING! I’m all over the place running away like a motherfucker and getting in little cheap shots. Then it happens, I HIT LEVEL 2 KICK SUPER! OH FUCK I COULD WIN! RUSH AWAAAAAAY! I keep running trying to drain the clock and the crowd is totally into this shit and then I get hit by one c.hk xx lvl2 Cannon Smasher xx lvl1 Cannon Drill Super and I’m done. FUCK! SO FUCKING CLOSE!
I spent the next hour with people coming up to me saying “almost had him” and “too close man” and well yeah… you get the idea. I got nuff respect for my style of play and I totally dig that because I’ve always had people go on about how I’m still shit because I’m not a combo machine and I don’t RC and I don’t use top tier teams.
Anyway; I cringe in horror as I watch the guys eat Break Steaks FOR BREAKFAST! UGH! DIE NOW! and they announce that CvS2 qualifiers will be starting in a few minutes. They announce the first pool and I’m in it… WITH RICKY ORTIZ, ARCADE KID AND BALTIMORE CHUN! OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 QUALIFIER
Vs Afro Guy (1st Round): I haven’t got a clue who this guy was but he was huge with a giant afro. Oh yeah; AND HE FUCKING SUCKED! He uses K Ryu/Ken/Cammy and I OCV him with Guile in the first match using my usual bullshit offense. Second match I nearly OCV him again but he gets to my Vega and takes like three hits for the victory. That was sad.
Vs Ricky Ortiz (2nd Round): Oh this is just fucking lovely. When they announced the names of the participants my name was right after Ricky and I thought I was playing him in the first round. Then I realized that Ortiz got a bye and my name was in the next bracket. SON OF A BITCH! We sit down to play and he turns to me and says “wait… didn’t you almost beat me over there?” “Uh… maybe?” “Not this time you won’t.” He uses A Vega/Sakura/Bison and I take my usual team. First match was a disaster as I was way too nervous and the MASStick was moving all over the place. Second match I get a stool and in a moment that I won’t forget, I STEP ON RICKY’S FOOT! OH SHIT! HAHA! He’s of course wearing Sandles and boy did he get pissed off. So we play the match and I actually gave this one a go as I make it to his last character before bowing out. Brutal match but I didn’t exactly expect much.
Vs Liston (3rd Round - Losers Bracket): I’m not quite sure where this guy is from. I saw him beat some other guy and then we got to play. He used C Cammy/Blanka/Sagat(2) so I wasn’t worried about jack shit because I fight this team all the time except against Noodleman’s far superior K Groove. First match went just like I thought. Guile beat Cammy, Kim beat Blanka, Vega beat Sagat. Second match I got cocky as I mowed through his first two guys and then he makes the big comeback. Third match was tight but again I had no worries as I never lost the lead and took it.
Vs Arcade Kid (4th Round - Losers Bracket): GOD DAMN IT! I take a look at Alex and say “yep, my day is over.” This was actually a horrible set of circumstances as Alex lost to Baltimore Chun in the 2nd round of winners, which nobody was expecting. I honestly thought (when I saw the brackets) that Alex was going to beat James Paige, I would lose to Ricky, beat whoever I had to in the next round, beat James Paige and whomever else I could and face Arcade Kid in losers finals. Of course that didn’t pan out at all. Anyway the first match was basically a slaughter. Alex takes P Terry/Blanka/Cammy and his Terry demolishes me with Blanka cleaning up. I sat back for a minute and said “fuck this, I’m sick of being scared of parrying bullshit.” I switch up my order putting Vega first and rush his ass with Rolling Crystal Flash and anything else I could. I take out his Terry but lose to Blanka. Kim takes down Blanka (as he should from all the Kim vs Blanka matches I’ve fought against Jason) and then it’s Cammy. I lose Kim and my Guile does a good job but I lose out still. Another game or two and I’d have had this shit down. Ah well… so much for my main game.
Truth be told, I can’t really bitch much about my performance in the singles tournament. I lost to the guy that eventually won the tournament and lost to one of the, if not the best P Groove players in North America. My other two matches were either a slaughter (the opener) or even with me never really having a decent shot of actually losing it. Like I said earlier, outside of the two I lost to, the rest I would have taken to town (James Paige might have beaten me but I have my doubts). I think I got 5th or 7th in my pool (depending on where my bye was in losers) which is solid still.
I spend the rest of my afternoon taping matches from the various members of the GTA. By night time, Roger and Eric had qualified. Wing and Gerjay both made it to Losers Finals but lost to Veasna and Alex Walberg respectively (it should be noted Gerjay could have won his match but played dumb and against all my coaching for some reason). The bulk of Team GTA are eliminated but we’re still waiting on Tony, Bryan and Ian to play in the last pool of the day. In the meantime…
SUPER STREET FIGHTER II TURBO (Qualifiers)
Vs tall black guy (1st Round): Sorry for the lack of names but I haven’t got a clue who the guy I was facing was. We use the middle cabinet and I already hate the machine after 30 seconds because I can’t Dragon Punch. BTW, we go Ryu vs Ryu. Anyway, I give it a go and we get to third round but I miss a Dragon Punch (FUCKING STICK!) and lose. I said “FUCK THIS!” and take Vega so I don’t have to depend on rotation BS. Of course I rush his ass and he’s got no idea how to fight it. Take that shit no problem. Third match I don’t know what I did. I stopped rushing and kept trying to throw him from a defensive position. Now either my throw timing was off (which seems like blasphemy) or the stick itself was being dumb (possible but I doubt it). In any case, I lost the match.
Vs Koop (1st Round - Losers Bracket): I should note KOOP IS THE MAN! He puts in his quarter but chooses Ryu by accident. Now here’s where I get stupid. I know I’m going to use Vega against his Chun Li but because he got stuck I let him switch sides and I took Ryu. Of course I get pulverized. So I take Vega as I should and it’s the same story as the first one. I rush him down and take the match. Third match was just plain balanced out as he countered my rush and I had no answer for his so I lost.
So much for Super Turbo, I knew I was out of my league anyway and don’t even know why I bothered to enter a tournament I had no shot in hell of qualifying in.
It’s starting to get a bit late (around 11:00pm) and FINALLY Ian’s bracket is called up. I taped a lot of his matches including his match vs Bryheem Keyes that opened the door for me to meet Big Eric from Philly as I bet $1 on Ian and he backed up Bryheem. Of course Ian takes that shit and I’m up a buck. Anyway, Ian blows it (Eric’s words) against Josh Wong and gets sent to losers and this is where it gets nutty. Ian keeps playing matches, a lot of matches, like enough matches to make you think he was working his way through the entire losers bracket instead of being put in 5th spot like he should. He burns through like four guys and faces Bryheem again but loses this time around so Ian is out… or so we thought (I’ll get to this in the next day’s log).
Triple J and I decide to get dinner from this buffet place that Jiggabry was pimping earlier in the night and let me say this right now; THAT PLACE FUCKING SUCKED! WORST… BUFFET… EVER! It was supposed to be Chinese/American/Italien buffet but it’s like they took the worst food from each region, made sure that there was no way it could taste good and then threw it out there. HORRIBLE! The best part was listening to Parry Master Jay talk about how ghetto NJ was (“look at these fucks, they eat food while in line at the steam tray, fucking hicks in this place”).
The rest of the night was crazy MvC2 Team Tournament stuff and money matches. I don’t think US players are capable of playing MvC2 without money on the line. It’s part of their genetic make up or something. In any case, we watch a lot of that and then CvS2 finally frees up and I FINALLY GET TO GO ON A STREAK! ABOUT TIME! I beat NYC David (who schooled me badly the day before with RC Gief but I was ready this time around), Alex Walberg (who I still think Gerjay should have beat), Parry Master Jay, bunch of people from NY/NJ who couldn’t handle C.U.R.T. and other random people. I got around 10 - 12 wins and what happens? TIME TO CLOSE FOR THE NIGHT! FUCK!
So we head back to the Motel and it’s just more games. I was going to go to Roger’s room again but I hear noises coming from another room so I walk in and some NYC players are playing CvS2. I use B Team (Yuri/Chun/Terry) and show NYC why Yuri is such a dangerous character after a couple of their players questioned me on why I would use such a shitty character. WHO’S SHIT NOW?! SLAP THAT SHIT! OCV YOUR ASS! They switch up to GGXX and I walk out and into another room where they’re about to have a MvC2 tournament. I talk to Bryheem for a while and start joking around about how he beat Ian. Then it slips out “I don’t even know why I faced your boy, I already lost twice in that tournament.”
I already lost twice in that tournament.
I already lost twice in that tournament.
I already lost twice in that tournament.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!
I’m beyond pissed at this point and storm in Roger’s room to let everyone know that Ian got scammed the fuck out. Everyone is pissed but we figured there was nothing we could do about it. Well FUCK THAT I’d do something about it. I was so pissed I just thought it best to go to bed and figure shit out in the morning with a cooler head.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Kin is the cheapest bitch ever in Alpha 3. :bluu:
Ultimate Mortal Kombat Tournament was FUCKING NUTS! :eek:
Flo is the fattest guy I have ever seen. He needs to sit just to live. 
GGXX: Izuka is so fun. Jay and I teamed up and ran people a few times. :evil:
Talking with Koop about our differing philosophies on women and the legend of the nine broken Alpha 3’s. :lol:
Talking with Life Time Boy about the element of patience in CvS2 and why patience and turtling are completely different elements. 
TO BE CONTINUED…