yeah haha 30 minutes away from were the tournament is happening
not by bus thats like 2 hours lol
oh dam haha i guess im going to need a ride back then
Trying to get in to the scene and have been trying really hard to go to tournaments
YO MDV
Yeahh you on psn?
I’m on 360 like most of the scene. I have PS3 but only game I have is HDR. Why play on PSN if I can just walk to your house.
Hey Shan, I’m in Streetsville which is really close to MDV. Its pretty easy to get home from the tournament cause its one bus from islington station there and back. Then from there you take the bus to sq1. Then from sq1 you should know which bus to take.
Btw psycho are you going to the tourny in islington? I want to learn some Trish combos from you or RDK haha i’m gonna join the marvel tourny and see how far dark wesker can get me 
Jordan; I’m not going to the Islington tourney.
run some casuals sometime if your down
only got one setup tho
Oh and i just need a bus back so yeah thanks
I might go to the tourney on Saturday. Kinda hard to pull my usual group since they have finals 
Same going to try really hard to make it as it is my first tournament
Found this off an old thread… pasting it here with edits!
SaugaSF Part 1: 2000 - 2001
Erin Mills in 2000. My hot summer days were spent in the cool arcade. The arcade was always full because of the theatre right next to it, sadly the last time it would ever experience such a boom. Every game had a group of people crowded around it, whether it was Time Crisis or Pinball. The set up for Marvel vs Capcom was amazing for the time – it was a long elongated booth, with the controls set up on one end, and a giant projected screen at the far end. It was like playing in your own personal theater. I still remember playing Marvel, accompanied by the explosions from the shooting games on the platform behind me.
I would rarely visit the arcade, because I had no interest in most of the games. Me, James(Crayz Penguin) and CQ had been playing Marvel Superheroes vs StreetFighter and MVC1 at home for a while now, and we didn’t see a reason to pay to play at the arcade what we could play at home. We hadn’t even entered high school I think, so the mall was for mostly weekend visits.
Then one day, MvC2 showed up. MVC1 had been around for a while, but there was no group of regular players as yet. Nonetheless, there was a usually a small crowd around the machine. People would drift in, watch it for a bit because it was flashy, and then drift away. Since the game was brand new and unavailable on console, I was hooked. I can still remember my first game. Someone was using Gief and Guile, and then simply walked away from the machine. I picked up his game since we were the only ones around, and the three of us mashed out a few games.
The game attracted a lot of random people, but once in a while someone who knew what they were doing would show up. There were a couple of Amingos doing huge combos (HOLY CRAP, 12 HITS!!!), and a lot of good Guile’s and Wolvies.
Soon after the release of MvC2, the theatre shut down, and the arcade quickly got moved to its new location. Tthough the location was slightly worse because random people couldn’t see it just walking through the mall, but it was in the prime spot to attract the people from John Fraser, the school right across the street. If you walked in from the school, the arcade was the first thing you would see.
Because of this, eventually the old school Sauga MVC2 crew formed… Clayton, Julian, Matt, Yuhin, Richie, Dave x 2, Rich, Shan, Chris, Me, Kenan(he came a bit later), Salmon (Yes, Salmon “Magic”, the MvC3 Phoenix user), and 100000 randoms from Fraser all trying to break the machine as fast as possible. I can’t remember if Ramy was there at that point, but who cares about him anyway.
Unknown to me at this point, there was also a separate crew of people from other schools who would come play on weekends, and sometimes the evenings. This would include people like Gerjay. These guys were the real nucleus of the “SRK” Sauga crew. Apparently Gerjay and Dogberry (Yes, Kevin played MARVEL! WOW!), used to show up every Sunday, and just dump a ton of quarters in the machine.
There were two players in particular, Julian and Matt who were always using the newest shit in Mvc2. They must have found SRK and video source (and remember, this was before Youtube, before streams, when match videos were still being viewed on VHS, because people didn’t know how to record any other way!) Pyslocke anti air assist, Cyclops into AHVB, etc.
Clayton (the long haired goth guy) hated the new top tier. He stuck to his guns, and used to beat down scrubs with Hayato, Amingo etc., until one day he just couldn’t win any games, and walked away never to be seen again.
I also remember the guys handing out change clearly. There was the old guy with hair, and the tall, bald, youngish black guy. He used to be pretty decent at MVC2 too, but just rarely played. I’m guessing he was afraid the manager would see him, so he’d sneak a game in here and there.
I can brag that I was the first person to use Sentinel in the machine(probably my only MVC2 brag other than eliminating g3nn froma tournament!)… he was unlocked the game before my quarter was down, but for some reason the guy who was playing didn’t pick him. I picked Sentinel, and went down in trivial history.
I hated Sentintel. He was obviously low tier. He was slow, had insanely slow startup on all his moves, and useless supers. Much like Storm. Good thing I read Gamepro, and knew the real top tier. Juggernaut and Blackheart. (For those that don’t know MvC2, this is the equivalent of thinking Wesker is garbage, and that Hulk was obviously the best).
My friend Shan was the first of our group to start using advanced tactics, and started playing the game slightly closer to what we would see today. Cable with good anti air assists, and keep away with fierces. This was still before people had discovered Magneto, and Cable seriously pissed the old school players off because he had no easy solution. There was nothing “cheap” as yet, but it was clear that Cable was starting to dominate at this point. There was rarely a team without Cable in it, even for the scrubs.
Around this time, MVC1 was REALLY popular. Because there were a couple of people who just couldn’t be beat at MVC2, a lot of people went to MVC1 to recover their egos. Calvin (who is now Waterloo Calvin) ran MVC1 with Chun. Strider was also very popular. Nobody used the secret chars yet.
My friend Umer introduced me to SRK around this point, but I didn’t realize the Regional forums existed, and that there were actually people from Sauga regularly posting. When I did find out a bit later, it was Azn Rich, Gerjay, Shan, Chris liu, Ex_Matt, Yuhin, and i’m sure others, but I can’t recall. I was pretty big on MVC2, but I was playing A3 on console a lot more, so I was more concerned about finding strats/combos for that in Fighting Game Discussion.
With my new found interest in the deeper layers of the game, I started visiting the arcade after school (the 14 year old version of “degening”). Gerjay started showing up in the late afternoon after school as well. Not many people were there at this time, so I was his only competition. Magneto’s “tempest combos” were brand new(LET’S GO MIKE Z VHS QUALITY VIDEOS!), and we’d spent tons of games just trying it out. Gerjay eventually learnt it. Other players picked it up pretty fast as well. The older players realized the game was moving faster than they could keep up without investing more time in it, so they started dropping out.
At this point, Sauga had already hosted their first Toronto-Sauga gathering through SRK. I hadn’t found the regional forums at this time, so I had no idea it happened. I do know it was the first tournament we actually changed the machines over to event mode, and it was the first tournament that spawned the Sauga-Toronto (admittedly one sided) rivalry, and years of genuine hate between the players of both cities.
The scene was already beginning to change from random people playing, to a consistent set of good players. There were a lot of newer people, but they were all horrible. There was a noticeable difference between the “SRK’ers”, and the people who played normally.
Eventually, the old school MVC2 players graduated from high school, and just stopped caring. They’d show up once in a while, but never with the same drive.
The regulars on SRK still kept showing up, always playing competitively, and always hoping to learn the best “new strat” before anyone else did.
Part 2 soon: The new players, the introduction of the CVS series, and the start of console tournaments…
That’s some pretty interesting history. Can’t wait to read more
LOL i said too many words and skipped it
stay scrubby
thanks for making realize how old i am. i am consider og even to og sauga.
Mmm I cant wait to read part 2
Why do we have no scene? This seriously bothers me. What is it that we are missing to make Sauga a legitmate place to play? Because if we can figure out we should definitely try to get it solved. It just saddens me that I have to play online instead of having a central location where me and a bunch of other players can meet up and play together. Or am I missing something?
most sauga players play at a&c downtown
ugh here we go again with the newbies. sauga players do not invite strangers to their homes. either go to A&C world on wednesday or tournaments and meet players from sauga.