Just read the last few pages of this thread…holy hell Saito you’re a douche. I’d probably stop posting in the threads because im pretty sure you just crossed a very big line in general. People probably think less of you then they would of UJ.
With regards to your picture darren is that actually what the kid looks like?
Hush with that obvious logic thing. That always ruins everything.
Bison’s Autoshop has won its first tourney!!!
Congrats to Patrick for the dominate performance in Hamilton today. He cleaned it up very convincingly!
yay, good job pat on the victory, i guess that friday pre-session paid off
Also raid, bring a CD case or something because im gonna bring your copy of mk to casuals tomorrow
I dont have any spare cases
Also any of you guys that wanders in this thread and plays mk should come out also
casuals today??
any word on casuals?
Does anyone else get shitty ass lag spikes with rogers internet??? Mine has been bad lately and I upgraded to extreme plus. I hate rogers…
I occasionally get 3-5 second lag spikes in ssf4 with Rogers, but the rest of the time it’s fine.
Nobody can get a hold of gary today. As of right now casuals are off unless another post occurs that says they are on. Sorry everyone.
Sounds like Rogers is not scaling the infrastructure in your areas to meet the demand. Throw in some traffic shaping and bandwidth throttling, and you end up with those latency spikes. You might want to see if Teksavvy is available for cable/DSL in your areas. Cheaper, no throttle/shaping on cable and I found overall much better service.
Coming to TekSavvy from Cogeco I can confirm this. I was on the cogeco 30 pack for a long time and while it was great, this is the exact same for half the price with no bandwidth restrictions. Is my dl speed lower on paper? You betcha. Do I notice any difference at all? Absolutely not.
Personally, I don’t want to pay for the switch over cost compared to being a 5MBit unlimited DSL user but rarely do I have latency issues because I am so close to my CO (approx 350 metres) barring network issues. But if someone is a much heavier DL’er then me, I can definitely see the desire for Teksavvy cable.
Rodstarr, definitely get on the horn with Rogers and bitch until you make their ears bleed. And then keep bitching at them. Generally, they will overbook a given node in comparsion to the bandwidth they allocate to a given area hoping that the lower end users outway those that use the Internet. Until someone bitches about it, they will be more then happy to let you deal with those issues. Plus you have chances at discounted/free service because the problems you are having.
There is a rumour going around that Bill307 got 4th at ECT in Arcana Heart 3, losing only by disqualification. Can anyone confirm/deny this? Can Bill307 himself do so? Or have I been fooled?
i heard this on the stream, so congrats to bill if this is the case
Thanks! I like that, “losing only by disqualification”, lol.
So what happened was, we originally planned to leave by 3 on Sunday. Our driver, Azer, tanked the whole 10-hour drive both ways, plus an extra hour that he had to drive between Waterloo and Toronto to pick us up. And he didn’t even enter any tournies: just played some KoF and VSav casuals. That man is Jesus. Anyway, we found out on Friday that AH3 finals were supposed to be played on Sunday. Oh well, the game is usually run first thing in the morning while everoyne else is still asleep, and it was possible none of us would make it to the finals anyway. Here’s how the 5 of us finished on Saturday:
On Sunday, I woke up early, put on my Bison’s Autoshop T-shirt, and went to the venue at 9 am. We found out that AH3 top 4 would be streamed after MK9 top 8, and MK9 was scheduled to start at noon. MK9 actually started just before 2. At 3 pm, when we felt we should head back home, I was told:
“Don’t worry, you guys should be able to leave by 4… well… unless you win your matches…”
That reminds me: after I beat MadScientist (Derek) on Saturday, several players looked over and said “WHAT? DEREK LOST TO BILL??” lol.
Anyway, before we left on Sunday, I wanted a runback with the guy who sent me to losers. First, I had a fun casual set with him on Saturday’s stream [URL=‘http://www.justin.tv/st1ckbug/b/288861112’]here at 1:43:20 (I’m on the right). I originally chose to use a 2-month-old “main” at ECT (I was tier-whoring), but after playing this set, I decided to go back to my original blue-haired main. I proceeded to mass casuals with her on Sunday to get back into shape, and then I money matched that guy: I won 3-1. Made me wish I’d used my original main from the beginning (common story, I know :P).
After we left to come back to Canada, he went on to take 2nd place, which makes me wonder if I could’ve taken him and others down in the tourney if I’d stayed. Maybe I missed out on a kickass experience… or choking on-stage and a whole new level of tourney salt. But I think I made the right call: Azer eventually got home at 3 am and I’m glad I didn’t force him to stay any longer. Besides, it’s not like this is the last time I’ll be in the top 4. 
My goal for this tournament was to keep a “winning mindset” for every game and every round, without getting too nervous or too careless. This was my goal in SF4 as well, and SF4 is a great game for learning to play with a calm and patient mind. But in AH3, it’s easy to get careless flying around the screen and doing random stuff in casuals. After an embarassing performance at Power Up in April, I swore I’d get that strong mindset back, and I think it’s the reason I made it to top 4 at ECT.
My goal for the next tournament is to be able to adapt to new opponents faster. E.g. in the set I lost in winners, I got hit by the same throw-bait 3 or 4 times! That’s unacceptable. Ideally, in the next tournament I’d like to avoid being hit by the same trick twice.
Damn, it was exciting how far we got at ECT! MadScientist was just 1 round away from making it to winners finals! And in the single-elim team tourney, MadScientist and I made it to 3rd-place-tie. My hope is that we’ll keep on practicing AH3 and put 1 or maybe even 2 Canadians in the winners finals at the next tourney.
(By the way, I swear I saw another guy wearing a Bison’s Autoshop T-shirt at the tourney. I know Montreal and Ottawa were there, too. I wonder how they did…?)
Very common indeed…lol
Congrats man, seems like you really leveled up in that game…sucks you couldn’t stick around, you probably would have taken it too.
I haven’t been to casuals in a long time. let me know whats going on this week or weekend.
casuals are on 100% tomorrow…see everyone there
confirming what scott has said, i feel alot better and not so doped up on medicine this week. we’re on for tonite.
in case everyone didn’t know, i got diagnosed with hypothyroidism.
i thought i was going to be fine and would hold out till i see my specialist but i got admitted to the hospital over the weekend cause i couldn’t breathe lol.
so im still waiting, and now i have pills to slow down my heart, as a temporary fix.
wtf man are u ok?