FINAL ROUND X shoutouts

Wow too many people to list so I’ll do this in several posts. Final Round 10 was without a doubt too much fun:

**YeahDood: ** Good to finally see you offline, hope you had fun sleeping on the floor in the hotel room. You’re no stranger to it though, so you were in your element. You did good work on being the leader of Team Hobo. Good work lasting longer than I did in 3S.

**Jibbo: ** I don’t know why you thought me saying “booger mobile” in the hotel room at 3 am was funny but I guess it was that time of the night when everything is funny. Thanks for punching me in the ribs the many times you did throughout our stay at the hotel. I guess you think we’re friends or something.

**Humbag: ** Or should I say Kokujin jr.? Seriously good shit with Dudley, you were one of the hidden gems in the group that I didn’t know about. Rodski was taking out everyone he fought with his Makoto and you come in with a face jab into a dash and then “corkscrew BLOW!” all in an instant and that shit was coming out so fast and you were using Kokujin’s colors it just had me in a daze, I thought I was watching a Japanese player.:rofl: Glad we didn’t meet in the tourney otherwise I would’ve got peaced out.

**June: ** June June June…you did it to me again, put me in loser’s brackets again this final round like you did last year. You’re a pain in the ass you know that?:rofl: I’ll see you at FR11 and you better show up, we need to get some casuals in.
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DevilJin: **BLARG!!! Thanks for beating the guy that finally knocked me out of loser’s brackets in 3S. I saw you guys about to start playing from across the room and I was like “Oh shit, DJ is about to play that guy that got me.”. Didn’t even take me 10 seconds to get over there and I see that guy’s Ken sailing through the air like a missle and I see fucking “STUN!” flashing in red under his lifebar. Meanwhile, your life bar is still green and you finish him off for a perfect.

George Fed or JuicyG: ** whichever name you go by, the guy that knocked me out of loser’s brackets: good games. I think you did your homework on me and my Q either that or I was just too retarded to read your Ken. Show up at fr11 so I can get my revenge
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ShinBlanka:
Thanks for throwing this even again, I WILL be back for number 11 when that day comes back around and dressed up as Q again.:rofl: This time you might get a picture. Thanks for the compliment on my Q, you unfortunatelly caught me on a day where I was a total retard at 3S. But none the less, it means a lot from the damn tourney organizer to tell me something like that. Thanks again and I’ll be back with my real shit to bring to the table. Time to get a arcade stick.

**Anime Cosplay Girls: ** Thanks for taking a picture with me while I was dressed as Q. Also, thanks for fixing my costume for me that I hastily put on.

**Ronin Chaos: ** Good to see you again, first thing out of your mouth when you saw me come around the corner Saturday “Oh, SHIT!! I can’t believe it, I thought you left the costume at home!”, all the while laughing.:lol:
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ZeroG: ** We played all in two matches I think of casual play in 3S and that’s sad.:sad: I’m coming down to Calm Warrior’s tournies in the summer let me know which ones you’ll make it to. I’d enjoy meeting you in the brackets. You inspired my friend watching you to get back into 3S. He’s all about Urien now, lol. Fuck, I wish someone would pick up Q after watching me play him, lol. Guess I’m not there yet in skill.

**Flash Metroid: **Ah, Flash. Hope you don’t think there’s anything between us tension wise. That stare I gave you at the start of frx was just playing off David who was already looking at me. You were looking at me first! Just figured I’d return the favore :smile: I’m just a carefree player, which was evident by how fast I got peaced out of the 3S tourney

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Calm Warrior: ** David, good to see you as always and you always have me laughing. You know I’ll be down there sometime in the summer to bring my walking punching bag Q for everyone to beat up on again.:lol: I hope you can turn your tournies into a very serious event for the south.
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Pablo: ** Good to see you again, I’ll be back down in Florida sometime for a tourney or two, try to take it easy on me with Urien this time, my reflexes are too slow to keep up with decent players.
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Justin Wong: ** We played 1 match and that’s all it took for me to realize I need to do a lot with Q. Although I will say this: I knew when you threw me into the corner with Ken you were gonna do that jump back kick away from me as I was getting up but I botched the ex dashpunch to catch your ass. That scene looked so familiar cause I remember Ricky Ortiz tossed Kuroda into the corner during SBO and thought he’d pull that. When Q’s face hit the corner I thought “Hmmm, a Ken dressed in white…Q on wakeup…this looks familiar…” Sure enough, you’re just lucky I’m still a klutz on arcade stick, well just for that moment. Every other moment in the match was you zoning me.

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TO ALL I PLAYED IN THE 3S TOURNEY: ** Sorry if the character select timer runout annoyed you but that’s my gimmick, lol. I borrowed it from Kuroda. It’s a tribute or a “thanks” to him because if I hadn’t found out about him and watched his matches back in 04’, I wouldn’t have been at FRX in the first place or even back in the 3S game.

…?!..! (More shoutouts later!)

Haha yeah next time we’re definitely gonna have to put up some cheese.

If anyone played or talked to me (I had long hair and a metal shirt both days, and I was at the NGBC cabinet a LOT), then insert your name here. Too many to list.

Good shit, everyone. Especially Ronin, BobSmack and the rest of the FR staff. This was my first, but it definitely wont be my last.

LOL what brought this on? I feel special now. :slight_smile:

oh btw. I did a headcount in my room Friday night. We had no less than THIRTEEN motherfuckers in my room OTHER than me and my 2 traveling companions. 2 tv’s up and running 3s, about 8 different sticks, and a lappy running ST and UMK3, depending on the mood at the time. All of it was over at 6am saturday morning. Bet we were the latest staying up room in the place :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Thanks to Larry first of all for the whole event, It was good seeing you again, and thanks for the emergency screw driver, lol. Thanks to everyone else who helped put together FRX, amazing event as always. F*&% the current EVO South, next year, FR-XI is the new EVO South!!

All from Maryland/VA, God, Eric Lee, Eric Kim, Eric V, it was good seeing you all, hopefully I can make it to C3 some time, if not i’ll see you at another major.
Khang: I don’t like you :arazz: but you had some good music, lol, and you know you would’ve done all 3 of the asian girls so stop clowning, and you’re lucky I couldn’t execute on that stick I had, bum!

Priceless Poker Night on Friday. B.More is too damn funny.

Flash, good seeing you again, hopefully i’ll have some cash in a couple of months to head to NYC while peter’s staying there.

June, execution, execution, execution, lol. It was good seeing you again, sorry I didn’t go play poker saturday night, I was dead tired, and still upset from you know what, lol, I’ll see you next time, and give me a call if you come back to Miami

Jay: sucks that you couldn’t make it on time to play, it was good seeing you, until next time

congrats to the triad for getting top 3 in NGBC ^.^

and damn, great job for chicago players, elven shadow you woulda beat my ass anyways hahah, and good job to black snake for knocking me out with little struggle in the losers finals :slight_smile: easily the best venom ive seen keep it up man

flash metroid, “man up” on me next time, that was a damn close match dood…

ill think of more shoutouts later

that’s the most i’ve ever seen richel talk, online or offline

holy shit

A few quick shouts…

I actually didn’t really mingle all that much this year. There were a ton of people that I didn’t get to see, or didn’t chill with long enough.

Larry, Leigh, Kyah… good to see all of you. I knew how busy you were administrating, so I didn’t get to say much. But of course I wish you all well. Larry, Rob (kafuin_gaira) got a picture of you and your wife that came out real good, hope you can get it from him. A big “thank you” to EMS and others who helped this year for another great event

A huge, tremendous thank you to rooms 412, 414 and 416 (a lot of my NC dawgs plus Sami). Thanks for letting me homebase there while on-site since my room was at the Roof 7 miles away. Had a great time chilling with everybody! Eddie, Sami, June - you guys did me a real solid; thanks. When I got something of that quality I will be sure to return the favor. :smokin:

All my NC dawgs from all around, you know how we do. Hope y’all had as much fun as I did. Thanks for everything as always.

Trent, it had been a long time. Good to see ya! Tell Tidewater I said “what’s up?”.

Slide, good to see you safe and sound. The Corona was my pleasure. Take care man, and thanks for serving our country. I just hate you have to go back.

VA, SC, GA, always a pleasure. Good to see you, Sora! I didn’t really get to chill with you guys like I wanted. I guess my old bones can only take the ballroom in small doses these days.

I got to see a couple of cats just quick enough to give them a pound (like Isaac, Koop, Josh, Arturo, Eric V, some others). Y’all take care.

Didn’t see Pinion (SilverGear) at all, I know he was there… did my fellow BFLer Mizter Ed make it? Hopefully next time.

Would like to have met some people that were there, but unfortunately it didn’t happen. There was mad people I didn’t recognize. Next year for sure.

That’s about it I guess, sorry if I forgot anyone. Everybody be easy, see you next year.

Try 30 :slight_smile:

heh that was a birthday present wont happen agian

That was MEEEEEEE!
Annoying people to death with Hayate and Jyazu in XI is one of my greatest pleasures in life. :lovin:
I really don’t even have a game plan when using that team other than being annoying as FUCK.
I took 7th place with that team…imagine what somebody who doesn’t SUCK could do with that team! :wow:

Truth. Play more EX3! It’s CvS2 + Marvel.

I don’t know if it was you I played on Sunday Night right before closing, but in any case I’m glad to see people play that game.

Too tired right now…I’ll do a proper shout-out list later.

long list…

LARRY first and foremost, thank you so much for running this tourney every year, me personally, and the community as a whole appreciate it so much.

thomas-thanks for everything man, the housing and the great time.

shin-it was so great seeing you again man, i hope you and eric are having a hell of a time in miami.

eric yip-keep it up man, just keep playing and getting better.

eric k. - good shit man, try high parrying next time haha.

khang-scrub.

pat-god.

eric lee-arturo robbed u, but whatever. thanks for letting me stay in the room.

steve fucking harrison- dude haha. when you jumped on the table and screamed “I WILL DESTROY YOU” i almost pissed myself.

june-really good seeing you again man, sucks we didint get to play.

richel-also great seeing you, we have to actually play next time.

leigh-the pimp cane is strong.

evil elvis-you are a chill ass dude, really nice meeting you. the ken is godlike.

Jally berry- really dope finally meeting you, the p groove is so sick like ne-yo.

supermin-also awesome meeting you, ggs in cvs2.

roski-good shit in kof xi, let me know when nc holds another tourney.

lucious- holding it down in ngbc, dope seeing ya man.

muff daddy- dude it was awesome to finally meet you. deep house ftw.

jwong-stop winning everything, shits not fair.

sanford-good shit talking with you about cvs2 and stuff. NEVER DOUBT STEVE HARRISON.

flash g-also nice seeing you again man, oro UNBROCKABOW.

combofiend-nice meeting you, rushing fools down for free in cvs.

dsp-you seemed to be keeping a low profile all weekend, but it was nice seeing you.

and finally a special HUGE shoutout to NKI for helping me get a temporary id so i could board my plane. i really cant thank you enough man, i owe you big time.

DIE

DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE :lovin: :lovin: :lovin:

You’re pretty cool though. But still!

YO WHAT THE FUCK I MISSED EPSILON_ AT THE TOURNAMENT WHAT THE CHRIST MAN

My shoutouts:

Kombatfreak, MoonlessNight, PimpJuice, SSJ Bush and the rest of the GG Atlanta people: it was nice seeing you again. You guys made my life a lot easier while in Atlanta last year and I missed you all. Hopefully this wont be the last time we’ll hang together.

MasterChibi, woof, kenmasterX, BBHood: thanks for the random EFZ games. Too bad I didn’t have a chance to play MB with you all.

Doren2k: nice meeting you at last. Your Jam is dope.

Alex G, Andrew: the MB games were a blast. I got discouraged at first but good thing I realized I still got a lot to learn from the game as well as unlearning the old versions. Andrew’s Ciel is solid and is something to look after/

NKI: you are the man. Watching you play ST is in a word, “viewtiful”. Thanks for the Chun Li tips and helping nothingxs and I with our random questions. Congrats for winning the tourney.

ComboFiend: I really enjoyed our matches in the ST tourney (I was the Chun you beat in the top 12 bracket). Good Games.

To everyone playing ST: I had a blast. ST is pretty much the only game I can play nowadays and I had an incredible time playing you all. I was the guy who was wearing an Anime Expo t-shirt on Saturday and a Mystere (Cirque du Soleil) t-shirt on Sunday.

nothingxs, Azatgoth, FlashMetroid, glitch, zerog, and the rest of the Miami crew: I didn’t make the trip to Atlanta with you, but it was good seeing you guys in the tourney. Lets keep playing.

Edit: how could I forget about MSong? You are a very cool guy. Hope to see you again in the future.

felt real weird coming to atl and not entering anything, but i was in no position to lay any dough down for competitive play this go round. oh well, maybe next one.

in spite of that, i had a helluva good time chilling on the 4th floor with everyone, and was happy to at least briefly try to catch up with everyone.

ya’ll cats are still cool and mad fun to hang with.

thanks to sami, dub, d-block, and all for the hospitality like we do it.

thanks to team winston for bringing all the old school arcade goodness, made me really miss my old setup for the weekend :sweat:

thanks to lu for grabbing the rental and the hotel and congratulations to lu roski, and phillip on holding down snk for nc.

thanks to rod for the early ride back

larry, leigh, kyah i wish i could have spent a lot more time hanging with you guys (and getting that sam4 match i heard about), but i know you guys are always swamped during these things. maybe next time we can meet up before it gets hectic and catch up some more.

congrats to all winners, and to everyone attending, continuing to make final round one of the best tourneys in the country.

oh yeah, i do have some pics that turned out pretty nice, i just need to get them off the camera and onto my pc. i’ll either pm them or just post links or something when i get it done.

Thanks for the praise RPD. I know i still got lots of work ahead of me, heres to the future!

Once again GGs to all I played in 3s casuals and the tourny.

No need to make this all lovey-dovey but yea.shoutouts :Brandon and Sanford who represented for “us”.Nelson (who now that I realized it,has owned me since I 1st played him),Erik,Justin , my nigga fugee. all the gg niggas from the atl,nyc,the bama,Fl,NC you guys know EXACTLY who you are. lets make this gg shit big.

mvc2=hip hop
gg=The future

Good shit everyone. WAYYY too many shoutouts. Special shout outs to RPD aka America’s Best Q, Dood, Jibbo, Wansu, Roski, KIMMICKS, HOS-A (cuz he was there…yeah), GOD, Eric V, Shay, Koop, Final Cut, Juicy G (sorry bout that 3S match), Combo fucking Fiend, Arturo (the random factor) and much more. Screw you Justin. Elena was hot tho. Think it’s bout time you retired Chun. :lol:

Special shout out to Bob Smack for running 3S like a damned champ.

oh that was YOU!! ok i figured to myself “this ibuki is fucking nasty”. mos def no need for apologies. Thats the price i pay for being too many tournies at once( i had just won gg). But yea next time at evo east we’ll have to throw down again and I promise I’ll be a better fight.

OK, I have some more shouts for the following people:

Nothingxs for the colorful commentary, and for having a twin that didn’t really look like you.

RPD, for coming through with the costume. People thought you were bluffing! I have some secret pics I sniped of you and the cosplay girls I may use for my story in the paper. MAYBE!

Rick Stalvey- I dunno, just wanted to say it was good to see you, dude.
Calm Warrior- Thanks for calling me for my match. I was in the middle of my tekken match, you can’t hear shit over those maniacs playing tekken.

Pablo and FL friends. Fun hanging out as usual, I don’t even think we played this time?

YEAH DOOD for being exactly like I thought you would be in person- totally pumped! You must be very photogenic with all those win poses, dood. good to meet you and your bro.

DevilJin- SUPER TURBO! I can’t believe that game we played. I dunno if either of us is all that amazing at it, but that match was really fun. I got another stick for you in the works so look out.

Silvergear- good match! Sorry about my technical difficulties.

And also another thanks to ShinBlanka, bobsmack, and all the others running things. and to anyone I missed.

Virtua Fighter next year? please?

Yeah I’ve got waaay to many shoutouts to really keep this a small post so I’ll just go ahead:

First off BIG PROPS to ShinBlanka and Ronin Chaos for havin Soul Calibur 3 at this tournament, by far the best competition (and most entries) I’ve ever seen, and hopefully the Soul Calibur community will continue to not be overlooked at events such as this. Over 60 entries WHAT!!! so now random ass people can stop sayin this community is dead.

-Always fun to chill w/ my folks in Empire: Jeron, Justin, Arturo, finally met Sanford, Mike G, Flash G, Flash Metroid, etc.
-Dark Geese: the most passionate dude I’ve ever met about his game
-Combofiend: coolest / most chilled mtha fcka I’ve met in a long time.
-JasonL, KrayzieCD, RTD, Vintz, Link and all the SC3 players,good sh*t
-Mike G, sorry you couldn’t stay man
-my folks from NC: KDX, Matt, and Brent, hopefully I’ll enter 3S next time
-Yeah Dood, pimpin’ the Pink!!!

To anybody else I missed, fun times, and hope to see all you guys again at EVO Finals. To those that don’t know who I am, I was the black guy w/ the Fox hat on that was runnin around w/ the video camera recording all the finals. Lookout for the vids on YouTube, coming soon. my YouTube profile is: GrayFox28.
-GrayFoX