York U was a great time…
Highlight Of The Day: The Ratio 4 Challenge.
Low Point Of The Day: One mistake cost me 4th place in Marvel.
Line Of The Day: I can’t replay it properly but it was at KBBQ and Rey is talking to Vanny for like two straight minutes and then Vanny comes back with “… I didn’t hear a word you just said.” OMG it was fucking priceless.
In any case, I really need to get over this whole “I can’t sleep before tournaments” problem because it was made all the worse going into York. I had worked a 9:00pm - 5:30am shift the night before and figured I would just sleep until around 1:00pm and show up late. Of course that didn’t pan out at all and I was up by 10:00am. I managed to burn a few last DVD’s for Rey (always last minute) and find Jay online. He’s good enough to drive today so we make a last minute grab for Gandhi and we’re gone.
Most of the car ride was spent listening to Jay and Gandhi talk about tiers in whatever the TMNT fighting game was. I was in a pretty shitty mood after having to listen to a lecture from my parents just as I was packing my bags for the tournament about life and “you can’t do tournaments forever” and blah blah blah so I didn’t really care about TMNT. We finally make it to York U and it already had some folks there early, a good sign.
We start sign ups for the CvS2 Team Tournament and I get my first freak out.
WHERE’S MATT?!
Gerjay, Matt and I were supposed to form Team Armed For Battle as per usual but Matt was nowhere to be found and his cell phone was off. There was nobody else Gerjay and I wanted to team with that wasn’t already taken so it wasn’t looking good. We went to lunch and Gerjay calls Matt only to find out he’s not coming. Well that’s just fucking great. We start going over who’s left and then Gandhi mentions that Jeff (Ack) plays CvS2 and while he’s still got a long way to go, he’s decent enough. We see Jeff at the ATM, off him the last spot and he takes it. DONE! Gerjay takes a look at my shirt and creates Team Unleashed Fury (T.U.F.) on the spot.
We get back and do more sign ups. They want to scrap MvC2 completely because there aren’t enough players to pull it off. Well I say “FUCK THAT” and tell Bryan we’re doing 80/20 and $2. I take about 10 minutes and pull in 17 players for Marvel. As I was telling Bryan, they key to pulling people into the tournament is to tell them to pay you instead of asking. They get so confused that they just do it before they realize what’s happening. That and it’s $2 so who gives a fuck.
HEEEEERE WE GO!
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 TEAM TOURNAMENT
Vs Team Gwai Jai (1st Round). The team consists of Crux/B4K4/Marc. Uh… we chose C Vega/Blanka(2)/Nakoruru and I didn’t play a single match. I took Marvel sign ups while it was going on and that was that.
Vs Team Hammer (2nd Round). The team consists of Jimmy/Vanny/Jamie using C Cammy/Sagat/Chun Li. I think we ran Vega/Kim/Blanka(2). We knew this would be tough but nothing we couldn’t handle. First game we back and forth but we took it. Second game was basically the same but Jamie got in that lvl2 Kick Super xx Helicopter Kick xx Kikosho and took it. Third game we change order to Blanka/Guile/Vega(2) and they did almost all the work and I cleaned up.
Vs Team Cocky (Winners Finals). The team consists of Wing/Eric/Roger using K Sagat/Nako/Blanka(2). You can guess how this went. Roger pretty much destroyed us two straight games with Sagat. I told the guys we’re switching order to Blanka/Vega/Kim and the last match was a hell of a lot better than the first two. Gerjay took out Roger. Jeff took most of Wing. I finished Wing and played Eric down to the wire but he got me in a trap and I got lvl3 Supered.
Vs Team You Owe Me $2.50 (Losers Finals). The team consists of Bry/Kin/Jason using A Sagat/Todo/Blanka(2). We ran Vega/Kim/Blanka(2). This entire set followed a basic formula. Bryan would take out Jeff. I’d take out Bryan and Kin. Gerjay beats Jason. We took two straight and then they beat us the third match. I switched the team up and ran Guile/Vega/Blanka(2) and this match wasn’t even close. Jeff took out Bryan. I ran down Kin and took 3/4 of Jason and Gerjay finished. Jeff’s Vega had nothing on Bryan and it was putting us in a hole every match so this was better.
There were no Grand Finals. It would have been a waste of time and money so we took our entry fee back and they took the rest. Good tournament.
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2
Vs Jamie (2nd Round). Everyone got a bye except Angry Black vs Cruxay. Anyway, I think Jamie used Rogue/Cable/Capcom and I used my usual team. I took it two straight. Light Punch sucked on my side and I couldn’t dash or Tri Jump. Not a good sign.
Vs Eric (3rd Round). He used Ryu/Magneto/Psylocke. First match was Magneto rape. Second match was a lot more even and I make a big comeback with Capcom but at Super Psy Blade. Bry tells me afterwards if I’d push blocked - Corrider xx Captain Sword it’d have been over.
Vs Rey (4th Round - Losers Bracket). Rey used Team Arcade Kid IIRC though it may have been MSP. In any case, this was a tight set and went back and forth the entire time. I think the last match I took out his Magneto very early and then ran away for the rest of it.
Vs Kin (5th Round - Losers Bracket). Kin runs MST in the first game and I took that without much trouble. Second game he switches to Amingo/Storm/Tron and it was trouble. I put in Cable first to keep his Amingo away and it worked great until I finally got caught in the corner and rushed down for free. Fucking Tron assist is garbage. Third match was tight. We were even with time running out. I called Capcom for cover and went to Hail Storm but Kin did it first and both my Storm and Capcom got raped. GGPO.
THE RATIO 4 CHALLENGE
Luck of the draw put me against Jimmy (A Athena).
Vs Jimmy (1st Round). I used C Vega. This was basically me trying to close the gap so he couldn’t use that broken C.HP and it worked after eating a few shots to figure out my range. The end was never in doubt.
Vs Rey (2nd Round). He uses K Maki. Good match with Rey taking an early lead after smacking me with 720. I make the big comeback and then the timer is running out (a theme for the entire tournament). He goes for “Stupid Damage” and I manage to block but I didn’t know the last hit was overhead. He gets in the hit as the clock hits zero. SON OF A BITCH!
Vs Gerjay (3rd Round - Losers Bracket). I use the Gordon defense for the first half and build the lead. Gerjay manages to get in, CC’s me for most of my life and I couldn’t do enough damage in time. So much for that.
OK with that out of the way…
I know it was my idea so people may think I’m just trying to pimp my own shit but The Ratio 4 Challenge was the best tournament of the night. This came off exactly like I was hoping it would. Everyone felt like they were in a pressure cooker. You have to get the lead or you’re outright fucked because you simply don’t have the time to turtle and build meter. The selection process was nutty too becasue you’d pull out a name like Wing or Roger and then everyone kind of gasps for a second waiting for that next name to be called. I’m going to put the entire tournament online in one file. The whole thing (26 Entrants) took 56 minutes of actual game time and maybe an hour and 1/2 total. As long as everyone sticks around, the tournament flows easily. If you check the results page, you see the winner was completely unexpected (props to you Jamie) and I’m glad to see it. It was a great time and I know for sure I’ll be using it again at T6.
HIGHLIGHTS
Jimmy pulls of a 3 hit Fierce Combo with Cammy ST Style. :wow:
Gandhi reveals a hidden Food Court at York U with WENDY’S! 
KFC! TACO BELL! FUUUUUSION! :rolleyes:
THE JOURNEY! :tup:
JS owes me $2. Don’t bet against me Eric. :badboy:
Darko cut down 3 trees and then starved himself before KBBQ. :tup:
The look on both Wing (at the arcade) and Antoine (at KBBQ) face when they found out Jamie won R4. :lol:
Awesome time yesterday. GG’s to everyone. :pleased:
