As soon as Zansam gets at me, I should be going with him to GGA tonight. If we do go, I’ll be bringin’ a monitor (HP w1701), My 360, (it’ll be hooked up via VGA to the monitor, obviously.), and games.
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shit is faaaarrr.
least you won’t be snowed in like the last WI tourney…
P. sure the driving part is the only time one would need to exert effort for that tourney…
…and maybe the dodging weeaboo juice part.
Jus’ saiyan.
Hi nives its Josh, not sure if you remember me, but i was at the last ignite gathering. I will try my best to get this up and coming Monday off from work and bring all of my equipment again (xbox, stick, AE, mvc3, and mk9). I really enjoyed myself last monday. I was actually the last one to leave and remembered that you told everyone to pay before we leave, so I went to the counter and asked the guy “Hi, do I pay here?”, and he looked shocked then said “oh yeah” lol, but anyway i complimented him by saying that the venue was really nice, and he was glad to hear so, then we had a good convo and he asked about our group then i told him about srk and he thought it was great, but anyways hopefully i can get this Monday off! Ill keep you updated~
you niggas need to try Marcus’s dictator drank.
that shit is gdlk.
it will leave you drunk.
lemme know if no one gets it i need a te shell so ill buy just the shell or the whole thing if thats not possible and give someone else the parts as i have way to many to begin with.
So ignite will be the spot to be this upcoming monday? I need to get some games in. There are PS3 setups or is it bring your own stuff kind of thing?
ggs to everyone who made it out to GGA tonight. I was the dude with the long black hair and beard in case anyone was wondering.
To everyone that made it out. Thank you.
We had close to 50 heads show up to this gathering and some people couldn’t make it still! Let’s shoot for 70! Let the power of the Chicago scene be known in numbers now!
According to Domingo, first tournament+STREAM will be the 20th of this month. So practice up and look good for our pre-EVO “Get your shit together” tournament.
Good shit tonight at GGA!!! GGA had over 40 people who payed the $5 to attend the Wednesday Night Fight gaming room event!!! THANK YOU CHICAGO FOR BEING SUPPORTIVE!!!
Now onto the next one, always striving to make improvements and make it better every time. GGA is going to get a bunch of fans for the ceiling to help circulate the flow a little better. So on top of buying streaming equipment, screens, and now fans to accommodate us…they still insist on getting feedback on ways to improve!!!
Please if you have Facebook send Doc Mack a message and thank him, or post on the GGA group wall. If you don’t then please e-mail him,contact info is posted in the first page!!
GGA Wednesday Night Fights will also have its first tournament on the 20th of July!!! Make sure you call in to work, or whatever you have to do!!!
Keep in mind that the place is also expanding, so perhaps more room will open up with due time!
Thanks again for coming, I personally had an amazing time, I just want to address a small issue that I had with the night, that being the lack of setups. PLEASE BRING SETUPS NEXT TIME!!! Eventually we wont have to bring much as GGA is getting most of the equipment for us and Frankie is going to talk to Focus Fire about sponsoring our WNF as well with equipment and who knows perhaps funds as well. We had I think a total of 8 setups for an amazing size crowd so next time pack up a little extra and prepare a little early in order to help out for a good cause, at least until we lessen the setup dependency.
CurlyW ill contact ya via PM so we can discuss the tournament a little more tomorrow sometime.
Also big thanks to the GGA STAFF AND TO DOC, they be lurking our thread!! Thank you for the best gathering I have been too, ever!
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P.S. Omg Aki the text under your name is killing me haha.
P.P.S. Also please post any feedback here, let me hear it so I can talk to GGA about it or if they happen to lurk they can see all the feedback / comments!!
So, this has me wondering, but:
Why is it, that everyone can pay $5 to GGA, but not at AreaXIII? That just doesn’t sit well with me…
ggs at gga, bring moar setups next week , one or two more would have been perfect. good to see new people coming out
Sorry to drop out on you like that, but it has been months. AIso bought a new stick since then, and plus I stopped playing fighting games. I’m debating selling my sticks as I won’t have any console access after July.
There is a huge fucking difference between area 13 and gga.
Domingo, I’m really glad that this is turning out to be a success.
I was one of the new guys at GGA last night (tall guy with Sox hat/PacMan shirt on) and was really impressed with everything from top to bottom. The venue and the people were fantastic.
I had an awesome time. Thanks to g3t m3rkkdddd for showing me around a bit and showing me the ropes. Thanks to the guys I played. I honestly haven’t had that much fun since the arcades in the 90s. There is a rush that only playing IRL can bring and I forgot what that feels like.
Going to be doing my best to start coming regularly as much as I can.
NOTE: For people on the fence about coming but aren’t due to nerves. Come, seriously just come. I don’t know any of these guys at all and have only ever lurked the Chicago SRK threads for the last few years and I was welcomed with open arms. Sitting down the first time and actually playing broke the ice for me. Everyone I met was cool and super excited to have so many people there. New blood, like you and me, only ever help scenes.
The reason why is cause the majority of the people attending this currently are from the actual city and not the burbs. So basically a combination of location and possibly the fact that GGA is really supporting us. There is a TON of new players that just recently have surface, and the location for the majority is from the city or north suburbs.
Very well put there Zander, was real happy to see many new faces and we definitely had a great time.
The differences dont matter. Joe asked for $5, and unless hounded for the $5, most people didn’t give it up.
While I’m all for GGA supporting the community, so did (does) AreaXIII. You mention it might be because of location… Why should that matter when it comes to paying the venue fee?
Like I said, the more places to gather and play, the better. But why is it okay to pay one venue fee, and not the other? Joe offered to stream from his place, also. We just never took advantage of it, from my understanding. Out of the love for the game I’ll always go where the competition is, but regardless of that, I just dont understand how this makes sense.
Just my 2 cents, I suppose.
No i misread your sentence, just woke up with a few hours of sleep sorry, the difference is that GGA is a business and you HAVE to pay as you walk in. I know it shouldnt have to matter but money is money and if you aren’t standing at the door people will do whatever to get out of having to waste it. Also the fact that you can use a Debit Card or CC also could be a factor for some such as myself who only carries a Debit Card. Nothing else I can really think about other then maybe the new guys are much better at paying lol.
Also Brock would love it if you came on Wednesday the 20th to commentate the tournament!
Great stuff at GGA last night to everyone who went! Being new it was good to meet people, and do LOTS of learning, found out the hard way that many of my online shenanigans have no barring without lag 
still all good though. I won’t be able to go next week cuz ill be out of town. But the week after i can bring all 3 major fighting games on Ps3 disks, and my ps3 itself if i ever find a good way to move about.
Side note tactics were you the guy in the evo shirt?
Yeah that was me.