Oh, and one other thing. To the guy who was taping the matches… once again, I want everything you got of me up on the web. Good, bad, ugly alike. I want to be able to see what I did right and what I did wrong in every single match. If my opponents don’t want footage of themselves up in public domain, IM transfer them to me and I’ll look them over on my own.
great tourney… it was fun… thanks tyram.
WoW he knows!
Fairfield tilt Tourney Results for June 24/2006
MVC2 (13 entries)
1st chunk
2nd Crizzle
3rd Stiltman
4th woomighty
5th Nick "mr. fix it"
5th Larry S.
7th Som
7th Spider-dan
CVS2 (18 entries)
1st Jason C.
2nd Hung
3rd Huy
4th David A.
5th. Lou C.
5th Joe Le
7th Tyram
7th K.T
3rd strike (22 entries)
1st Joe Lee
2nd Daniel T.
3rd Hyro
4th Huy P.
5th Jason C.
5th John
7th Ace
7th Ahrmon
KOF XI
Round Robbin
I dont have the bracket but spider dan beat everyone once so he won.
Well, there you have it guys. Another Tourney from Fairfield is in the books. I hope everyone had alot of fun and I hope to see you all back again next time. I am really really sorry to all who had problems with cvs2. we will work on getting those problems fixed for next time. I try to make sure you all coe and have fun with no problems because I fell bad when shit goes wrong you know what i mean? Anyways next time will be hella fun and shit will be crackin off the hizzie like it was yesterday lol. you know how the fuck it go down in the 707!!!
cant wait to see you come back again man. Thank you so much for coming.
lol no kidding huh. I got a history test tomarrow as well as a history paper due so i had to get that shit taken care of first. lol see you next time hydro.
No problem Joe. Hope to see you next month for some more cvs2 action. take care.
Thanks alot to Tae for helping me out with some tactics with fighting against A sak. because of you help and telling me what you thought i needed to work on I did very well against some A groove players at the tourney. thanks alot man. thanks to Cps for running 3rd strike for me. It was a very busy day. thanks man and good shit on the alpha series man. i love them. Thanks to Chunk for showing up and holding it down like always. Ill enter next time and put you down lol. yeah right! thanks to woomighty and Crizzle for stopping threw as well. you guys are hella cool peeps to talk to and kick it with. ok guys well im outa here. stay up!!!
Daniel Tran back in effect! Dayam!
Tournament had a good turnout, lots of fun kickin it with everyone like always. Keep up the good work.
CPS
lmfao
[quote=StiltMan]
Official StiltMan Tournament Novel
6/24/06 Fairfield Edition
(to be republished in childrens’ book form under the title “Where’s Randy?” 
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I got into Fairfield a good space after 4, and called ahead to sign up knowing that I wasn’t going to make it by the 3:30 signup cut-off. I always like to wear some T-shirt to be expressive in some way for tournaments. Back in Portland in the day I had a nice hydra T-shirt that I used to wear until it disappeared around about Evo 2k2 (I suspect a hotel roommate stole it). Last month it was my “Warning: Hanging around me will greatly damage your reputation” shirt. This time around I decided to express the professional pride, and wore my Death Jr T-shirt. For those of you who don’t know, I am working on the upcoming Death Jr 2 game, so I was basically a walking billboard. Okay, a billboard that is not terribly big in surface area, but anyway… :looney:
First thing I hear when I get there is that Randy Lew hasn’t shown up. I still hadn’t decided on how much money I wanted to throw out in his money match challenge, but I wasn’t going to walk away from it given how much pride I put into my BH. He never did show up, thus the subtitle of the novel. Not sure what happened there, I heard various rumors, but I won’t repeat any of them here.
Despite speculation about how my $50 bonus offer for a hard-fought grand finals would draw more people, we only got 13 for MvC2. However, there was a good show of quality players (Hydro, Crizzle, Chunksta, Larry S) so I wasn’t going to whimper too much about it. (Side note: was Cableguy there? I think I saw him around at the end but I have no earthly idea if he was actually in the tournament.) One guy came in there under the nickname “Blackheart”, but he never actually used him in the game. Rest assured, I was giving him all sorts of grief for that all day. “BH sucks, he’s no good any more!” he says. “Have you been watching me?!” was my usual answer.
Another big thing was, I was not terribly happy with how I played at the last tournament. Sure, I got 5th, but some of those matches and how bad my judgment was cold tagging in certain situations that lost me games just really has irked me over the last month or so. I’ve been making a point of trying to clamp down in my team management since then, so that I don’t just give these things back like that, and to play it more patient. My mantra was based loosely on Sirlin’s “put up walls, maybe you’re not winning but you’re not losing either” attitude. (Weird side note: Sirlin works for the same studio I do.)
To what had been some dismay, I found myself up against Larry in the first round. This struck me as rather ugly seeding, but oh well. I’d played a bunch of games against Larry the night before, and had a hunch based on my poor performance against his Team Clockwork in the casual play that he was going to go to it in the tournament, and I’d been thinking overnight what I would do differently in tournament that I hadn’t done the night before to deal with it – things that I carefully had NOT done in the casual games. Sneaky me. So it came as no surprise when, game 1, that’s exactly what he does. My answer: go from my usual BH/Sent/Commando to Sent/BH/Cyclops. It’s primarily for Sent/Cyclops, which I have generally observed does very, very well against Strider in general and against battery/Strider/Doom in particular. Clockwork just has no serious answer for Sent/Cyclops once he gets into position, and BH was there mainly just because he’s still one of my best chars and my favorite assist bar none for Sentinel. I don’t mind doing a Sent/BH/Cyclops order with this team, because I have a few tricks up my sleeve with BH/Cyclops/Sentinel order after a DHC swap. Regardless of that, the tricks didn’t get used in this case and the first game went to me fairly decisively. Second game, Larry listens to the many people telling him to use Team Scrub. This made me a little nervous, as I don’t like fighting against Scrub with Sent/BH without Commando in back, as I usually like to start BH in that matchup and it’s very hard to do without Commando to put up the wall against Cable; in my playbook, Cyclops means Sentinel ALWAYS starts on this team, rain or shine. In this case, it was “shine”, because he seemed very uncomfortable against my Sent/BH with his Cable on point and ultimately wound up letting me fly over the top while he was trying to shoot Cyclops to death. I landed next to him and launched him into a short air combo, which I followed up with a cr. rh after the flying screen into RP/HSF, bye bye Cable. That’s basically the game right there; Sent/BH’s primary, secondary, and tertiary mission against Team Scrub is to make Cable dead. From there, it’s just sit on the lead and don’t give it back, and unlike last tournament, I didn’t.
Second round, Som. I’ve played against Som a lot, and while he seems to mess up most of my other teams, this guy just doesn’t seem to have an answer for my BH/Sent/Commando. Granted, it IS probably my best all-around team, but part of it is probably also just plain lack of experience against it. If I keep up the walls and don’t give him anything to work with, it just wreaks merry hell with his game plan. He went with MSS. Didn’t work for him at all.
Third round, Crizzle. This is a match I’d been real interested in playing for the last month, because once I polished off the rough edges in my BH/Sent/Commando game I was real interested to know if I could tackle that MSP. First game, the fairly resounding answer was, yes. He was very patient early on, but ultimately did not get any crushing advantages anywhere, I was falling behind early but managed to get a few opportunities to hurt him, and his Storm DHC’ed in with about a pixel or so left on Magneto, IIRC. I got Sentinel on point, and this resulted in a bit of a hit and run game on both our parts that my Sentinel ultimately won. I got the unblockable on Psylocke, but only had one meter, but this was still good enough to bring her down to about 40% life. From there, I basically hung back just to see what he would do, and the answer was, “cold tag a nearly dead Magneto back in.” I relieved him of his Magneto after that and that was it for the first game. Second game, his Magneto died a lot more quickly. He ran into BH pokes twice and I didn’t even need to get cute with DHCs or anything here, Storm/Psylocke is left alone against the full team with BH having about 95% health. BH got another hit on both Storm and Psylocke together, which I just let them ride out the HOD on, and at this point Crizzle starts to go into a bit of panic mode. He manages to snap out BH for Commando, but my Commando ran away from him fairly effectively until Storm was at about 10% life and I decided to cold tag BH back in. This wasn’t a good decision, as it ultimately got both my BH and Commando killed and left my Sentinel on point (although with about 100% health) against his badly hurt Storm/Psylocke. What followed was a rather comical sequence where I tried to chip his Storm to death with repeated HSFs and got hit with Psylocke assist, then he’d run and try to get an opportunity, and then when he landed I’d do it again, get hit with Psylocke again, rinse and repeat. This continued until his Storm had about two pixels of life left and my Sentinel was at about 20% life from weathering the blizzard and various ticky tack hits and air combos, at which point I finally wound up doing a tiger knee jab rocket punch that, to be perfectly honest, wasn’t even on purpose, but his Storm took it in the face which left my Sentinel with about 20% life left against his Psylocke coming in with about the same. Big clutch unblockable FTW. Many, many “Microsoft taking over” remarks from the peanut gallery, making fun of my vague resemblance to Bill Gates. No problem, I don’t mind those when I’m winning. 
Onto the winners’ finals. I still hadn’t lost a single game in tournament all day. That came to a screeching halt against Chunksta. First game, got torched. End of story. Second game, I had a solid shot at winning, but his Storm inexplicably dropped out of a HSF that should have killed her and would have left Sent/Mags both hurt coming against my fairly full team. Third game, more scrape. Chunk is too damn good. :wasted:
Losers’ finals entails a rematch against Crizzle. To my tremendous amusement, he went with Spiral/Cable/Sentinel in the first game, visibly and publicly giving up on trying to rush down my Watts with MSP. I started Sentinel in front of BH/Commando, which is a matchup on paper that I really should be winning. His Spiral was nothing to write home about, but it’s been way too long since I last played that fight. I should’ve won it anyway, but a hit on his Cable didn’t combo right, which had me rolling my eyes as I eventually DHC’ed in BH with JD knowing that my Sentinel was time to get out. All I needed was one hit on Cable to polish it off, and eventually I got it (I think), but my Commando had been hurt enough in sacrificial hits by swords to get my point characters out that he won on time.
Now here’s where I probably made my biggest questionable decision of the tourney. (No, not the accidental Juggernaut selection. ) I’ve got an excellent MSP player mentally on the ropes here. He’s relying on a shaky Spiral/Cable/Sentinel because he’s effectively given up on trying to beat my BH/Sent/Commando by rushing it down. But I’ve got a pretty good Spiral myself, and I’ve got this inkling that my Spiral is better than his. I wanted the mirror match just to see if I could do it, and the consequences of leaving the team open to a counter by MSP in the next game be hanged. I figured that Watts could handle that anyway, maybe, I don’t know. But the urge to play my Spiral/Cable/Sentinel against his was just too powerful, he’d been playing it all day and hadn’t gotten burned yet, and it was my sense that his Spiral was a bit shaky. (Among other things, WAY too much teleporting.) The smart thing to do would have been to keep BH/Sent/Commando in it and solve his Spiral instead of getting cute with it, since he probably was still going to keep MSP – his best team – off the table as long as I was using Watts after the way the winners’ bracket match had gone, so all I had to do was solve his lesser teams and I probably would have him. But I wanted that Spiral/Cable/Sentinel mirror match too badly.
So I did it. My Spiral/Cable/Sentinel tore his up with much Cable sloppiness on both our parts (most comically, I blew a counter-AHVB with an uncancelled psimitar and managed not to get shot to death for it, and in response he did a tiger knee viper beam and also managed not to get shot to death for it… really ugly). I decided to clown up a little bit and looked right into the video camera and said, “Duc, that was for you!” (He’s been trying to convince me to play Spiral over IRC ever since he saw me use her at B5.) Not shockingly, he went right back to MSP in the next game, which put the pressure on my BH/Sent/Commando to take it home the rest of the way down 2-1. This time around, it wasn’t up to it. It wasn’t just horridly gross, but it wasn’t there this time. It’ll be interesting the next time he and I play in tournaments to see whether he’ll want to put MSP against Watts again or if he’ll start with something else. I won’t make any bones about it: I’ll stick with Watts and dare him to beat it, and next time I probably won’t go away from it if he decides to go to Spiral or whatever unless I only had to win one game.
Chunk and Crizzle played the finals, which went 4-1 to Chunk. There was a lot of bemused speculation as to whether I might wind up saving some money by making the grand finals myself, but it was sadly not to be. I wound up making a bit of a splash anyway, though, because I don’t think anyone in that arcade thought I was going to beat Crizzle the first time. Hell, I’m not sure I did either, but it’s an encouraging sign that I’m recapturing my uber-turtle tourney form of a few years ago now that I’m practicing more often. Many Bill Gates references throughout the tournament, and proclamations of my status as a “BH gawd”, all of which was both flattering and amusing. 
:encore:
Had a lot of fun. I’ll be back, definitely.[/QUOT
If they had better sticks you wouldn’t win one game. Its to hard to play Mag there, come to svgl I play you for money, and put it online so u can watch you self loooooose…
Damn… first E-40 blows up…
now… Solano Tilt!!! wtf!
Good shit!
And nice to see Dan reppin’ the old folks haha
I thought dan quit playing marvel in tournaments. LIES.
Crizzle ill see if i can get new sticks put in marvel. Sorry about that man.
Well… a few things on this.
First off… don’t take anything I put in the novels personally. That’s not what I write them for. I’m not attempting to shit talk or anything, I’m just giving a candid take on my experience at the tournament and the occasional random thought that seems amusing to me. I mean no ill will or anger or malice towards anybody, and I am in no way saying that you’re not an excellent player. Hell, if you’re not the best MSP player I’ve ever played, you’re on the short list.
Second… I’m not in love with those sticks either. This is one reason I felt like, if I were really playing cutthroat, it probably was not a good idea for me to mirror match you with Spiral/Cable/Sentinel. If I could trust those sticks, maybe that’s not such a bad thing, but when I can’t trust AHVBs worth a damn, forget it. I’ve been trying to restrain the urge to play Cable on those things as much as possible because of that, and anybody who knew me in the NW will tell you that Cable is easily one of my best characters. I can also relate that I hate trying to play almost anything very mobile with Sentinel on those things, because just doing simple fierce/fly/unfly operations only happens maybe 30% of the time for me. Not being able to put much laser beam volume or control your flying is huge when you’re trying to, say, chase down a Spiral player. 
At some point, I just have to assume I’m not going to be able to play certain characters on those sticks (read: Cable) and if that cripples some element of what I’d consider my team rotation otherwise, oh well. Your Magneto certainly didn’t seem like it was in too horrific of shape when you got the perfect on Mikey last time, and I can’t relate that I think the sticks are any worse since then. I hated playing Cable on them last month and I hate playing Cable on 'em now too.
And lastly… going to SVGL isn’t going to happen too much just because I’m way off on the north side of the bay. I don’t like crossing toll bridges when I don’t have to for work. :sad:
sorry stiltman, I didn’t wake up in time =p next time
MVC2 (13 entries)
1st chunk
2nd Crizzle
3rd Stiltman
4th woomighty
5th Nick
I guess I’m one of the New Kids On The Block :lol:.
damn randy i wanted so much to take your money too! lol j/p next time man.
i couldn’t make it this time around; no tekken?
nope, tekken hasn’t been doing very well lately.
it was until i got there, then everyone left
tekken is doing fine as far as casual play, this tourney was just not so hot. next time will probably be better.
4th dan Dragunov bitches!
So when are the videos coming? I wanna see this stuff!