Some random comments:
-GREAT tournament, people actually showed up for the games I wanted to play (3s and CvS2) and I actually shook off a few weeks of non-practice rust that I had on my shoulders. Let nobody say that my unorthodox playing style in 3s can’t win matches, because that stupid Tyrant Slaughter Urien was fucking people up pretty bad 
-Good shit to Lady Luck for randomly putting me on Justin’s team, but if I hadn’t I was going to pick Ken and probably would have beaten more people than I did with Urien anyway. Justin specifically requested my Urien because he knew how hilarious it was going to be to see me beat fools with him.
-Poor SNAAAKE, I told him not to play me for money in CvS2 but he wouldn’t listen. Now he’s $20 poorer even though I played like complete shit during our money match. Maybe once you can beat Jasmine’s Girl Power team, you can come back and challenge me again 
no hard feelings bro, I know I’m a top-tier whore and a complete dickhead, so you don’t have to tell me.
-Good shit to Skisonic for winning our Marvel money match that got pushed back from EVO until now. I remember a few years ago I made a strong resolution to never make Marvel money bets again…hrm I forget why that was…maybe I should have stuck to it? I don’t even know why I enter Marvel anymore, I think I’m going to stop. YES even though Justin insists it’s my second-best game, I fucking hate the thing.
-Also good shit to everybody I saw again from VA/MD (Exo, Shinshay, Robin, NKen, Pat van FUCKING Pelt, Eric Kim, and many others) as well as those from the Tri-State area that made the long ass drive (Justin and other empire, HOLD DAT!, Master Chibi/Chubby/whatever it is, SNAAAKE, Nick T, and many others). And of course, good shit to all the new people I finally got to meet, there are about 80 of you so I can’t get specific, but it’s always awesome to meet new peeps in the community.
-Smoothcat is a 3s scrub.
Two important issues:
-The food situation. Here is my take:
Since this was the first tournament event at a new location, there were bound to be problems. Food was one of them, since obviously nobody knew the area (or that there was a Five Guys burger joint around the corner from the place!). It was cool to meet the owner of C3 and all, but “scalping” Dominoes pizza because he knew there was limited knowledge about the area and he wanted to take advantage to make up some of his expenses, was kind of lame. I mean, he’s already going ot make money off the drinks/location and events that will be run, so I did think that was a bit unnecessary. However, he was a really great guy and I don’t want to talk bad about him, because I can definitely see from his point of view how it was a smart way to make up some of his moving/rent costs for the new location.
As for people leaving to go to Popeyes and all the controversy about favortism about DQs at tournaments, it’s like this. I can most definitely see NKen’s point of view on the matter. Exo I can also see yours. NKen does have a point when he says that if it were Justin who had left to eat, he would have had zero chance of getting DQed. Exo brings up the fact of ECC and it’s no-tolerance policy towards anyone…
…interesting you bring that up, because it was ME who was the first person to enforce that policy. True story: back in February of last year, Josh and I ran a pre-ECC “dry run” with a tournament called “Clash” that basically Phi supervised us running. Justin and Ricky were crazy late and I had already posted on SRK that I had zero tolerance for this. They called me and said they were on a train headed to the Break and would be there in something like 2 hours. I told them I was starting on time and if they showed up in time, I would throw them in, and if not I would give them first round losses and throw them into losers. They WERE late, I DID throw them in losers. Justin forfeit but Ricky ended up coming out of losers to win the whole thing. After that, they learned their lesson that as a tournament director, I have zero favortism and zero tolerance and will not put up with bullshit. And so at ECC, low and behold, everything went swimmingly.
Now…
At PAST ECCs, this was not the case. I love Phi to death, but sometimes I do get the feeling that he just wants to try to please everybody all the time, and that’s not possible if you want to run a successful event that everyone enjoys. I CAN say 100% from experience that favortistic actions have been taken towards top players at ECC and other Break tournaments, as much as I want to defend them. Meanwhile, LOTS of non-top players got eliminated for not being around for their matches after being called a few times. So I can definitely understand NKen’s point.
The bottom line is this:
Next C3 tournament, the organizers should do some research pre-event and get a listing together of local places to eat. Post this list on SRK with addresses of places, since to be honest most of them are NOT easy to find besides Five Guys. This way, there is no excuse for “taking too long to eat.” If people are going ot eat, they must notify the tournament director and make sure it is OK with them, and MUST return within a certain time period, or they will be DQed.
Period. End of discussion, end of drama. Thank you for playing.
-One final thing. Although I really did enjoy this event, unfortunately I can say for myself that I will not be driving down again. 8 hour drive each way, insane traffic back and forth, over 20 dollars in tolls EACH WAY, and over 30 dollars in gas EACH WAY has completely owned me. I even missed all my football games today, which is a bunch of bullshit, but I figured it would happen. Maybe in the future if someone else on Team Hate decides to get a van and drive down, I will join them, but unfortunately this is looking like the first and last C3 event that the King of Hate will attend :sad:
Anyways good shit and hope to see you all at some other events…TGA? NEC? Final Round? Texas Showdown? What’s good???
no hard feelings bro, I know I’m a top-tier whore and a complete dickhead, so you don’t have to tell me.
