Ok, Canada Cup thoughts.
Being on stream
First off, sorry for scrubbing it up lol. Definitely did not play to my full potential. Volunteering to help run the tournament and playing in it is hard to do for sure! Lesson learned. I did happen to make it on stream three times.
I was on first thing in the morning on saturday getting some practice matches against Jozhear (who I did decent against) and Ph1l who I beat pretty handily. Nothing crazy, but a few of you guys might have caught the matches if you tuned in early.
Next up I was on stream for the team tournament. I was on Team Kenny Rogers Roasters. You might remember us as the team that wore shirts with Kenny Rogers face on them? lol. Anyways, we played Team USA and got worked, as we expected. I was anchor and played Gootecks and lost. I still feel like a total knob about this fight because I had taken a lead, and I was totally believing my own hype and I started playing really sloppy and unsafe. In the end he beat me by walking backwards lol He and I agreed to run it back later.
Final time for me on stream was against the Rufus player Quangbot. I think lots of you guys caught that. Got loads of use out of tortilla in that one. I read a stream chat comment after saying someone was getting hungry with all the tortillas lol. I pretty much ran a train on the guy. I’m pretty happy I landed the overhead hit confirm to super, crowd liked that one. Finished it off with the Paper special, taunted and then splashed. I think I was the only person to taunt on stream lol.
I would have liked to have gone up more, and I did play some stream worthy matches, but my hands were full with judging and unless you were playing a celebrity, you most likely werent making it up.
I also got on commentary for a very brief period which I’m sure was awful. Talked about Avril Levine, hated on the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Dion Phaneuf, called out Justin Wong on his Bieber haircut and basically di not call matches worth shit ahaha.
Money Matches
Ok ok, I know I said I’d have stuff to upload on youtube, but my cameras memory card was fucking up big time so I couldnt actually get any recorded =/
Justin Wong - We played lots and I can say that he was definitely the scariest pro to play against as Fuerte. His reactions were so godlike that you cannot win by mixing him up. Took a bunch of rounds off him, but no matches. He also told me he thought that Fuerte is the best character in the game, which I thought was obvious bullshit so we played a mirror. We went back and forth as fuerte matches do, and I eventually lost a heartbreaker. We then went in to training mode and we competed to get the most reps of RSF, I won that. He also showed me a fuerte combo I had never seen before that he said he picked up in japan which I am going to be keeping to myself for a few months 
Mike Ross - Had the most fun playing Mike. I played his honda and his Cody and I actually managed to take a match off each. Very proud of myself. Lots of the times we were talking back and forth and laughing over the match ‘Excellent Adventures’ style.
Gootecks - This one shouldnt really count as I only got the chance to play him again at the after party where both of us were wasted drunk. I honestly dont remember much of the fight besides doing better than I did on stream and taking some rounds. Ended up losing of course but Gootecks and I were drinking buddies the rest of the night and I beat him there.
Daigo - As expected, an amazingly technical player. Very quick to download all your tricks. He didnt have the amazing reactions like Justin, but his reads were incredible. One thing I did find odd is that he had a really tough time dealing with drop kick. He wanted to play footsies with me but didnt really catch on the its range for the entire time I played him. Anyways, I didnt take a single round off him but there were 3 or 4 that came down to whomever got the last hit won, so lots of close ones. Also only got perfected once, so I count that as a victory lol.
Air
Similar story as with Gootecks, I was tanked but I still played. Air is allergic to alcohol, and therefor played with a huge advantage in that he was sober. Got wrecked by him lol.
Mago
Didnt get a chance to test my fuerte against him, but I did MM him $20 in rock paper scissors. I won that. Cant beat a fuerte players mindgames!
General Stuff
-Placed in the top 32 out of 350 entrants. Very pleased with that. Also was the highest placing fuerte in the tournament.
-Chuck, was in the pool I was judging and didnt show up for a single match. Gave him lots of chances, but ended up having to DQ him. Sorry bro.
-My bro Jozhear and I both competed for the number of this random girl who came out to support the tournament. She wasnt playing, she didnt come with people playing, she just really liked Street Fighter. We both scored her number (I got it first) and it was a battle to see who she’d leave with to the afterparty. She ended up ditching and driving home over an hour and a half away. Fail. Jozhear and I both laughed about it over drinks.
-What did you guys think about a tournament that actually ended at a decent hour? We were all so happy we werent there until four in the morning.
-The after party was insane. Spent most of the night hanging out with Justin and Gootecks. I got both of them wasted, and we celebrated Justins birthday (today). We headed to Tim Hortons and treated them to food while they raved about how awesome it is here and how they cant wait to be back.
-The Socal guys agree, Tubby Dog bodies Pinks. If you are ever in Calgary you gotta try it.
-I kept feeding JSMaster drinks and the poor guy ended up totally hammered. He was puking in the street, and last I saw him, he was passed out by the Ms. Pacman cabinet. I’m sure pictures will emerge soon!
-Pros played some random select matches for drinks and Mago got loaded off 4 drinks. He’s a small dude, I guess it doesn’t take a lot. He passed out in the back seat of a car and we never heard from him again.
-Daigo has a mean appetite. Polished off a plain tubby dog in like a minute.
-Best part of the night for me though, was hanging out with Gootecks trying to get some ladies to party with. In the end nothing worked out and there was lots of yelling “HATERS GONNA HATE!” and doing the pose.
EDIT-Also had people asking me to sign their shirts like I was a pro or something! lol
Overall I had an awesome time. I hope next year is just as fun and we’ve convinced more guys to come out.
