Help a n00b get familiar with the NoCal arcade scene

i’ll be there saturday at 7-8 p.m. :badboy:

~Chunksta~

i’m a low-tier scrub moving down to california into the folsom area from “sunny” Minnesota.
any competition over there? there seems to be an arcade about 4 miles away from the Intel site, but how’s the fighting up there? everybody i hear about is over in the san jose or bay area. where’s the closest action spot?
thanks in advance (if anybody still checks this board)

oh right. not sure what the tradition is when trying to find peoples in new places, but here are my general regulars:

3S: obviously in it for the sexy Hugo. occasional tachi’s for the win. picking up Necro/Dudley for non-grapple support.

cvs2: A: 2Ken/Sak/2Kyo/Todo/Iori/Vice/Raiden… some arrangement of those (i can only half-competently play A-Ken and A/P-Kyo… the rest are kinda works in progress…)
P: Ryu/Zangief/Raiden/2Kyo/Gouki

ggxx: Baiken/Bridget/Johnny/Potemkin/Axl
#reload: Bridget/Johnny/Potemkin

well. greetings aside, i hope to cross swords with you all sometime :slight_smile:

see “urienator”. sac state and davis are your closest bets.

Goteku: For #R, the best comp in Nor Cal= Davis. Berkeley is good, but they hardly play anymore. Reno occasionally visits Davis tournaments, so you may wanna check out their thread and ask around.

Davis, best comp in Nor Cal? Is San Jose not considered Nor Cal? (Not being sarcastic here.) San Jose players > Davis players, minus Tanaka Force.

san jose==south bay==NOR CAL

from other posts around the norcal area, it doesn’t seem to have a lot of 3S competition… or am i wrong? it seems that norcal is mostly cvs2 and marvel2.
either way, thanks for the information, i’ll keep an eye out on those other boards

Dude…SVGL=3rd Strike competition…Emphy is TOPS, Dudley Dave, Akumar, Hugo Chris, Cyanide Assassin, Andry, Choi, PyroLeezy (shameless plug), Venkat sometimes, that guy who rapes me with Makoto, those two Elena guys, random Asian dudes who like Ken, that guy who owned me up with Necro (a.k.a. Ryu Guy)…there’s still more. It’s actually pretty nice 'cause there’s hella different levels of players, so it helps if you’re trying to get better, like myself.

But yeah, CVS is pretty beastly here, and Marvel is just silly…especially when Salinas drops by. Oh yeah, those guys play 3S too.

LEEZY is there at SVGL for SUPER TOP CVS PLAYING.

…SVGL does NOT = 3rd Strike competition T___T

Emphy == Super Tops!

Dent = NOT IN NORCAL!!!

…Emphy = SUPER SAD because of this T______T

do you only play marvel? please tell me youre not hella good at cvs2… :xeye:

You forgot to add me to the 3s list. I’m so beastly with the 28 game win streak!!! =[

And when the KKK unites, SVGL gets poppin. Me/Chunk/Crizzle/nEEEzy/Mike Savage, shit get’s DOWN!

Edit: 3s practice is also good at MGL… But I heard that place sucks now? I wouldin’t know, soooooo… I would say play nogga Joe Le. WUDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDUP JOE! Come to SVGL sometime. Blaze some of that hot flamin’ cheebudda!

But YOU forgot to add “then I lost to a scrub”.


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Davis can provide some good comp, but most people play sparingly during their free time.

To the original poster, my bro plays MvC2 at UCB once in a while. He’ll be a sophomore next year.

dang. svgl is in the san jose area. that’s about 2.5 hours away from folsom. stupid job… offering in a place that’s so close to good competition, but just far away to be a weekend trip-type of situation… like the carrot in front of a horse. those bums. well, i’ll have to see if there are any console people around that area if the arcade scene is billions of miles away. thanks again for the info!

Likewise

well there’s also newpark mall…which is closer to you…but i would stick to svgl,mgl,or san jo…gr8 comp there chunksta is a beast at marvel…u’ll remeber his name

darn. newpark mall… that’s in newark? that’s about 70 miles away from SVGL, like you said. ducking darn darn super

lol wow…newpar is like 20 min away from svgl…get it right