OK everyone sit back and chill for a while because this one is going to be long. I just know I’m going to forget stuff and then remember and edit posts to check back now and then at the bottom of the post to see if there’s been an edit.
DAAAAAAY 1
Highlight Of The Day: CvS2 insanity casuals. So many good players.
Low Point Of The Day: FUCKING BURGER KING SCAMS (story later)
Line Of The Day: “HEY ALEX, HOW DO SAY PRESS START IN FRENCH!?” (Talking shit on Arcade Kid during the Sauga vs Montreal 3 on 3)
So Thursday night of course no one really knows what they’re doing. Matt’s flipping his lid over not having a ride, everyone is waiting on Eric only to find out he’s randomly going to China and Poeta’s situation is something onto itself. I try to get some sleep but of course I never sleep before tournaments so I get jack all in the sleep department. I do some last minute packing (I pack my camcorder but forget to put tapes in my bag, fucking brilliant). So I get some last minute talking to from my ever fearful mother (“are you sure you have to go to Montreal? Can’t you just play at Jason’s house?”) and we’re off to the races.
I grab my cell and there’s a message from Kin saying he can’t make it. That really sucks because I had hope he’d show at the last minute and bring all his random bullshit smack talk that I both hate and love at the same time. Oh well, sorry you missed a great time Kin.
Yorkdale is the biggest fucking scam ever. I’m supposed to meet Matt 7 Gerjay at Tim Hortons for 8:30am. That’s no problem and I make it to Yorkdale a little after 8:00am. Thing is EVERYTHING IS BLOCKED OFF! WHAT THE FUCK? I do a bit of driving around and they’re making an addition to the mall. So the underground parking was totally blocked off and so was most of the parking lot. I try to scam my way into the upper level lot near the subway and that’s blocked too so I end up on the fucking Allen and had to waste all this time just to come back around and take the one entrance that’s actually available. I get Matt & Gerjay and we talk over whether Poeta’s car will make it to Montreal and have a good laugh over the Christmas @ York U incident. We hit up Stephen’s place and play some Tekken 5. I rush shit for free with Law & Raven until I got cocky and used Paul and Matt barely beats me. Ah well… time to go.
Fucking Gordon forgot his bag in Stephen’s car, which is now at his sister’s place in Ajax so we waste like 1/2 hour on that alone. THANKS A LOT GORDON!
Now we get the crazyness of the portable TV and the near demise of my Digitcal Camera all in one shot. We hit up this place near Stephen’s sister so we can get batteries for the 5 inch portable TV. This TV is so fucking beastly that it uses EIGHT D BATTERIES! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! We hit up some Dollar Store and they have cheap as fuck batteries. Now my Digitcal camera was running out of the batteries I had since Christmas (not bad on life) but they don’t have Duracell Ultra. They only have Panasonic. I grab four AA’s and we’re gone. Gerjay, Matt & Gordon play CvS2 and MvC2 in the van while Stephen and I yap up front. I go to put the batteries in my camera and what do I see?
PANAPLUS!
WHAT THE FUCK IS A PANAPLUS?
Stephen fucking loses it laughing at me. The batteries look IDENTICAL to Panasonic batteries (which are shit to begin with so now I’ve bought a knock off of crap) in colour scheme and we all thought they were Panasonic. Anyway I pop them in my camera and take a test pic and we’re good. To be continued…
We hit up Wendy’s and man this place was great. First off we see the Canadian Armed Forces DRIVING IN A VOLVO! WHAT THE FUCK?! This starts a big arguement over whether Canada has generals (I don’t think we have that rank) or Admirals (Gordon: “Don’t you have to have a fleet to have an admiral?” OUCH!) and it’s all a big joke. We get into the rest stop Wendy’s and it’s pretty nice looking. There’s this hot girl in front of us but Christ she never SHUTS THE FUCK UP! She fucking talked and cursed up a storm for like 10 minutes (good food, bad service) and whatever hotness I first saw went down the drain. We order the food and I’m of course nice to the old lady cashier so I get hooked up with double cheese and Bacon on my spicy chicken for free. OWNAGE! Gerjay and I tell the story of CQ and his lover at KFC and man that story is still great. Side convo:
Random Guy: Hey how far is it to Ottawa?
Me: About 2 hours that way.
Random Guy: That way? Are you sure?
Me: Yep
Random Guy: Oh man, I think I’ve actually gone further than when I started.
Everyone: HAHAHA!
Anyway I see a sign that says “make your own combo” and figured it’d be funny if Gerjay got a photo of it. I snap the pic and nothing. Al… right. I’m a little freaked about the photo but whatever. We get back on the road and it’s relatively chill as we cross into Quebec and the shit driver quotient skyrockets. It’s like you have to be cut off immediately to know you’re in Quebec. My camera refuses to work by this point (where it won’t even turn on) and I get fucking freaked. There’s no way this thing is fucked up after not even three months. I figure it must be the batteries so I put in the other AA’s and I get the same thing. So I pop in the Duracell’s and they’re already dead. AWWWW MAAAAAAN!
99.6 FOR REGULAR GAS?! GOD DAMN!
We get super lost and call Seb like two million times for directions. Then we hit a gas station and their directions are total shit and don’t coincide with Seb’s (that’s not inspiring) but we eventually find our way to Saint Catherines. We see the arcade but can’t find parking so what do I do? Wait for a red light and just got out of the van. HAHA! SUCKERS! Stephen immediately punched me in the back when they finally found parking and hit the arcade but I’d already racked up 3 straight wins in CvS2 so I didn’t care. We played like five hours of casual and I met a few people:
Julian (Karamba): All I’ve got to say is HO… LY… SHIT! Best fucking Rush Down K Groove ever. K Akuma/Morrigan/Blanka ran casuals for so long. This guy is a fucking monster and raped everyone for so long.
Jonathan: Renamed “The Dad” by GTASF. This guy has a SICK Blackhart/Cable/Cyclops and gave our top MvC2 players a run for their money. Awesome guy to talk with as well as he’s really down to earth and chill.
William (Wildestroya): To be quite frank I didn’t like this guy. He played me all of twice and then talks shit saying he wants to play me for $50 because I’m shit and he wants to take TO money. Jesus two games and he’s king shit. Fuck that. Bring it to T6 and I’ll put up $100 on my turf like he wanted it on his and see who rapes who.
HEY IT’S ARCADE KID!
HEY IT’S VEASNA!
HEY IT’S PREZ!
HEY IT’S FREDDYLOCO!
HEY POETA’S GROUP MADE IT!
So the games keep going and then Alex finds me and says Montreal wants to play Sauga in a MvC2 3 on 3 for $5 each. I make the arrangements (and sidebet Alex $5 to boot) and Sauga takes it due to Jiggabry Godliness. Thanks for the money.
HEY IT’S MANA BOY!
Oh yeah there’s a tournament going on. Time to get Armed For Battle.
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 - TEAM TOURNAMENT
Vs Team Super Ultra Tiger (1st Round): The team consists of Jreinhert/Karamba/FreddyLoco. Yeah we got our asses kicked really bad. Did we even play Freddy in either game? Total destruction.
Vs Team Taime Ca (2nd Round - Losers Bracket): The team consists of Savanne/Victoire/Mana Boy. OK this is more like it. We run Vega/Blanka/Sagat and it’s the typical pattern when we win. I bust up nearly 2 characters, Gerjay cleans up, Matt finishes. Rinse and repeat and we’ve won our first match.
Vs Team A3 Ghost (3rd Round - Losers Bracket): The team consists of PTS One/Nagen/JD. It’s go time again as we run Kim/Blanka/Sagat. I took down 2 and 1/2 characters, Gerjay cleaned up. 2nd game they took P Groove and it was trouble. Match was close but we couldn’t get the job done. We switch things up for the 3rd game and run Sagat/Blanka/Vega. The match between my Vega and Lars Cammy was soooooo close. I basically used bait pokes into throws and a lot of air throws. then it was runaway time. I got caught on a Claw Dive with his Cammy Up Drill Super and we’re losing, Lars pokes, I Alpha Counter and take the super small lead as the time runs out. WOW SO CRAZY!
Vs Team Super Ultra Tiger (Losers Semi Finals): AWWWWW FUCK! THESE GUYS AGAIN?! Fuck it, this time around we’re putting up a fight and you damn well believe we did. We run C Vega/Blanka/Sagat and this time I get the better of both Jay and Julian. Gerjay does his damage but Matt falls to Freddy. OK second go around I take down Jay, Gerjay beats out Julian and it’s down to full Matt vs Freddy. Match was crazy tight, Matt hits Tiger Rade but his cancel turns out to be a fireball instead of lvl1. GOD DAMN IT FREDDY’S RAGED! GGPO!
I taped the entire Marvel Team Tournament and in the process missed out on what I hear was an insane CvS2 Grand Finals and some crazy stuff in 3S as well. FUCK! They keep playing so I take a quick walk over to Burger King. STORY TIME!
All I wanted was a whopper with cheese. It costs $3.69 plus tax. I give him a $5 and he gives me 27 cents.
Me: “Uh… what? Excuse me but you shorted my change.”
Clerk “No I didn’t.”
Me: “Do you have different taxes in Quebec than Ontario?”
Clerk: “Maybe”
Me: “Well unless your taxes are 33 cents on the dollar, you shorted my change.”
Clerk (now pissed off): “OK one minute.”
So he runs off and I end up talking up some girl from NYC who’s a transfer student from Panama (cool). She said that this same guy punked her out on change as well but she paid it anyway. Poor girl. The guy is still gone and another girl comes to the till so I ask her how much a whopper with cheese comes to after taxes.
BK Girl: “$4.24 altogether.”
So the guy comes back and what does he hand me? Another quarter.
Me (now royally pissed off): “Excuse me but you owe me 76 cents.”
Clerk: “No I don’t, that’s the right change.”
Me: “This isn’t rocket science, it’s basic math. It’s a whopper with cheese so it’s $3.69 plus tax, which is $4.24”
Clerk: “But I didn’t charge you for the cheese.”
Me: "SO YOU OWE ME MORE MONEY?!
Clerk: “…”
Me: “GIVE ME MY CHEESE AND SEVENTY SIX CENTS”
Of course he’s humilated by this point in front of about 30 drunk teenagers and 20 somethings but FUCK THAT GUY! He grabs my whopper and shoves it in the bag. I bring it back to 2000 and what do I see?
THERE’S NO FUCKING CHEESE ON THE WHOPPER! MOTHERFUCKER!
So things finally wrap up, I’m pissed about the burger but whatever. We chill for a while outside so Seb can get his weed and then we get randomness as three drunk girls from Toronto assume we have weed because as they put it “the only time a bunch of people are in a circle is to smoke up.” Well then I guess I learned my lesson. Prez talks them up while obviously patronizing them and they’re gone. We chill at Lars place and play poker for a while. Gordon’s the luckiest SOB ever with his Outside Straight off the flip crushing my trips 10’s. They end up playing CvS2 until 7:00am and that’s the end of Day 1.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Multiple 4 - 6 game win streaks in CvS2 casuals. :tup:
Lars parries the full Chun Li super during 3S Team Tourney. :wow:
Freddy destroys me in our $20 match. :sad:
I recoup the losses in my money match with Rene. :nunchuck:
Running Tekken 5 casuals until Stephen shreds me. 
Crazy loud Montreal crowds during the 3S Team Tournament. :pleased:
5:00am pizza owns you. 
Day 2 tomorrow
