I don’t really remember either. I played a LOT of HF and ST back in the day. When I really started getting serious though is when I started going to CF and getting beat up by Justin. In every game. Shit’s not fair.
I beat some guy who got top 10 @ FR in 3s @ my first tourney and I beat mixup right after he got top 9 @ evo that year.
but I still suck!! 
You guys make me feel old. But my first tourney was at Cool Crest in Kansas City, Missouri WAY back in 1992. They had a SF2CE tourney to show who was the best. It wasn’t a REAL tourney by any stretch, and it was single elim. I picked Zangief and got zoned to crap by a Ken player.
2nd tourney was at Ameristar casino in Kansas City, Missouri in 1998. I did a 2nd Impact tourney and entered Hugo. I beat 1 necro player, and got beat by a Sean player. I then was eliminated “again” by a Ken player.
Fast forward to 2006. I went to the Underground arcade MVC2 tourney in Atlanta. I had just started really plaing Marvel at the time. I got Cable/Doom/Iron Man in the first round. Some guy had MSP. I made a lot of bad mistakes like accidently tagging in my characters repeatedly. I was really nervous. In losers this hispanic kid named Ricky W took me out with MSP. I was using Santhrax.
Impact Clash in Atlanta, GA.Did bad in every game, was really drunk.
Saturday I entered the Underground arcade tournament, and got third. Only because nearly everyone was playing their first tourney and I had played a few.
Hopefully I’ll entere Southern Battle Opera and Impact Clash II and do a little better.
first tournament ever was an alpha3 tournament at cal poly, pomona. some dude wrecked me with v akuma, he ended up winning the tournament. i think i was still in middle school or freshman highschool
first mvc2 tournament ever was at the first mvc2 shgl tournament waaay back in time. first round i played valle, he was using strider/doom/akuma. my spiderman/gambit/psylocke was no match for him @.@ 2nd round i lost to some jill/psylocke/something player and was out. i think i went 2 and out the next 2 shgl tournaments also. it wasnt until i started using omega red that i started winning tournament matches heh
Clockw***0***rk
First Local Tournament:
Campus Cove in York University in January 2005:
-CvS2 using K-Cammy/Athena/Raiden and got second last.
-3S using Alex and got dead last.
First Major Tournament:
T6 in Orbit in July 2005:
-CvS2 using K-Cammy/Athena/Raiden and got dead last (lost to RPGv2 (K-Yuri/Maki/Rock) and Maki The Tiger (C-Honda/Ken/Blanka).
-CFE using Jedah/Urien and got 9th (forgot who I beat, lost to Ricky Ortiz (Urien/Karin) and Vrus (Alex/Karin).
-#R using Testament and got dead last (forgot who beat me).
-HSF2 using ST-Chun-Li and got top 8 (forgot who I beat, lost to Ricky Ortiz (O-Sagat) and Dogberry (CE-Guile).
The funny thing was at T6, there was a Team Canada for CFE and since the other team members weren’t present and I was one of two people who played it regularly, I was on the national team. :looney:
I didn’t think the SF3 cab made it to 2nd Impact at Ameristar before being yanked. If only they kept it around until 2004…
At least Cool Crest still has SF2, albeit in Ultracade form.
been playin since sf1, but my first tourney ever was in 1998/99 at chinatown fair for mvc1
back then censei didnt know how to run tournesy worth a damn, i got put in losers but technically still won the tourney at the end, but according to his rules, being put in losers but still winning the tourney, automatic 2nd. lol. i think marc rich from nj won that tourney according to henry cens rules, me getting 2nd, and eddie lee getting like 5th or something lol
i think it was 2 years ago, i got matched against emphy 1st match in my 1st tournament.
he used alex and beat me without even trying.
First Smash Melee Tournament, had to play Neo second round. Got my shit pushed in hard by his Roy.
Played Dark Geese first at a 3s tourney here in Oklahoma a few years back. Yun Vs Hugo. He divekicked and whiffed. As he landed, I did a Gigas but barely missed(he did another divekick). He then Genei Jin’d me to hell.
It was ok though. We played ST later that day and my Gief beat his Dhalsim.
Texas Showdown 5, first match was against my a friend of mine who I went to the tourney with (lame). Beat him but got peaced out by a girl. Then, to top it off, I think I had to play my friend again. I won, then lost again. Not 100% sure about this though. This was GGXX
Then, 3S. I did ok, I won a match, lost to one of the Nebraska 3S heads, I think Datrick was his name. Then I won a match, then lost another to somebody using Chun. Don’t really remeber to much, cool ass tourney though, LoliCup ftw.
Also, my first and only experience playing JWong at Mahvel. Dude raped me, but I got his Sent down to half life by chip damage. After that, I stopped playing marvel lol.
ahh my first tournament ever was local KOF99 in Mexico, was single elimination, lost to a guy who i played regularly, but regularly lost to him so i was like ok np.
second time was a KOF 99 one too and did better, won my first round, got peaced out in the second, it was a 2 day turney, i was so nervious but instead of doing worse i did better won another game to got eliminated next, got 5th place so i was happy.
When moved to the border i start attending more tournaments, the funny thing is there was this tourney Battle at the Border last year, was training for 3s a lot, i went to the tourney and signed up for 3s and i registered for ST too wich i have played like 2 times in my life, tournament ends and placed 3rd in ST and like 5th 3s lol, after that ST is my main focus in tourneys :china:
DevilJin01- GGXX #R
Millia vs. Chipp
I can’t remember too clearly, but my first tournament match was against Jonstar!,who raped me with Balrog.
My second match was against DENNIS KIM, who I beat.
Can’t remember my third match.
GTASF people will get the references.
DENNIS FUCKIN’ KIM.
first tourney was a CVS2 tourny at SHGL(RIP). Played Alex Valle first round and well…yea.
First tournament was the last tournament SHGL had. I played Valle. I forgot what team I used but he beat me pretty bad 0-2.
First tournament for me was MoAT, Mother of All Tournaments for VF2 in Toronto. I got my ass handed to me so badly that after the match I literally walked out of the arcade and never came back for a good week lol.
First major tournament for me was at E3 for Soulcalibur 1 on Dreamcast. I call it major because the prize was a 2001 Suzuki Katana sportsbike lol. I won the tournament, beating Dan Hsu who used to work for EGM/1up in the finals. Got the bike shipped to Canada, rode around on it for a good year or so and then sold it to pay my university tuition for the next 2 years.
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Holy shit man, that is probably the best fighting game prize ever! The sponsored DOA4 circuit has nothing on that.
I lost to Bas in evo2k5.
Beat him but got peaced out by a girl… This was GGXX
peaced out by a girl… GGXX
girl… GGXX
May have wanted to pull a Crocodile Dundee and done a junk-check.
My first tournament was some place in Maryland, I forget where, someone’s house. Friend from SRK (Renegade) drove me up. Got beasted in… well, everything. CvS2, 3S, and GGXX (original, so this had to have been summerish of 2003 because the game got it’s US release on 2003-02-03).
Fun, and made me get more in to the scene. I think the first tournament either makes or breaks a person; they either say “Yeah I want to get better and beat these people” or “These guys take this way too seriously, I’m out”.