oif. well if everybody will be playing odd games on Frank’s farewell gathering, i shall tolerate it (just for you, Frank… unlike a certain little afro’d jewish person i know) 
but i’m bringing an RF book so i don’t have to participate in mario cart (or is it kart?)
Ummm…Yeah.
Any of you cats down for a gathering or something?
Cuz yeah…I was hangin out with your boy Webster yesterday, and he said it’d be easier to do that than a tourney…
^Nappy
Mobes, you will participate in whatever the hell we decide on. HE HE HE…just kidding. anyways, Team Annoying Sounds is good though…prolly my toughest comp in Grand prix mode. I can’t play Bowser in Vs…have to run to the bitch team…BABY BOYS!!
Frank
Rape Johnny after his HS…Unless they MC that shit…Yummy…Let’s all IB shit!
<–Nappy–>
It’s cool, Dizzy owns everyone after everything, then throws them. This is the truth in the world of Guilty Gear.
whos Beefman???
and can someone tell me whats been going down and can someone call me if I seemed ive disapeared Ive just been working and sleeping and no online access unlees im at the UofM.
AND HAPPYNEW YEAR!!! :encore: :party: 
:party:
<–NAPPY–>
A little known fact:
May>Dizzy
INDEED!
Hmmm. Interesting you should say that. . .
I think we need some best to 5 pretty soon.
Rob–
The guide is not scrubby. It’s actually written by Top 3S players. Mopreme (author)just placed 4th in a recent japanese tourney. So the info is GOOD.
And your Ibuki really did beat my Dudley. Fair and square.
CHUN-LI MADNESS! :devil:
Hi TJ, give me a call yo. Post up your cel # again.
Happy New YEAR.
Dudley’s stupid - Ken can’t do double-DP on him ever. And apparently he can s.RH just about all of Makoto’s pokes.
:^(
Mike Z
So. . . when is #R going to be put back in the rotation? Honestly, it feels like only Stefan and I ever play anymore, with the random exception of Maobei who just plays it until we put in 3S.
We could have such a good showing for that game, with all of the characters we use. Example, I think we have/could have fair representation of the following:
Testament
Zappa
Potemkin
Dizzy
May
Axl
Jam
Johnny
Sol
Faust
Eddie
Bridget
Baiken
Anji
I-no
Judging from the MN prowess in XX, I find it very difficult to get a handle on the essential abandonment of #R to play 3S primarily. I’m not saying ditch 3S and all go to GG, but rather don’t ditch GG and only do 3S.
Maybe Stefan can share his thoughts on this matter, but to me it feels like neither of us are really making any progress as far as the game goes. I mean, his Testament and Zappa are really good, but he only really gets to play against a small, small handfull of characters that I play, and he plays against ME playing them. I’m sure I don’t have to say this, but REAL players don’t play characters like I do!
Also, I’ve been learning a lot about when I can attack Zappa during crossups and traps, and also how to get around Testament’s insano screen spamming, but what if someone decided to come up to me and play, say, Chipp, I don’t know what the fuck to do?
Bmike, your Sol used to dominate everyone 24/7, and I think he still could. Hell, your day 1 Faust was winning more than losing.
I lost my train of thought mid sentence, but the reason for this post, is that I don’t want to see such a strong foundation go to waste. I also think that since the 2d MNers have dwindled to like 4 people, we should stop putting up 2 TVs and having two people on each one. If there are only 4 of us at these gatherings the majority of the time, we should just do quarter games and switch between GG and 3S.
I’m willing to play 3S, but I also don’t want to forget my GG game, and I don’t want you guys to forget it either. The last bunch of months have been 3S exclusive for the most part, and I’m really wondering what happened.
That is all.
hmm. i’m disappointed that the british can’t do a good dempsey roll ;;
Frank… you didn’t go and you were the guest of honor ;;
you even missed a sexy tachi. well, if i dun see you again, then good luck with your move to ohio.
it’s been fun the times we had Fat vs Fat matches and all those other schnazzy characters you use 
members.TeamMN–;
I have to agree that it seems like GG has been put aside in favor of 3S as of late. We’ve always sort of had 3S as priority numero uno, and GG as a second priority. I don’t mind that too much to a certain extent, but I think 3S might be getting too much attention lately.
Now that we’re essentially back down to 4 regulars :sad:, it does mean that we get less variety in what we know how to play against (both in terms of characters and personal play-styles). That statement goes for all games, not just GG. It’s possible that we may be working ourselves into a rut unless we change some things.
To work ourselves out of the rut, we can either add more players or change the way we play each other. As far as adding players goes, one solution would be to try to get more MN people to show up to play regularly (TJ, Team Mexico, John, Chris, Yeng, etc). Another would be to try and recruit new players (like bMike’s friend that played GC with us on Saturday). Another would be to try and have get-togethers with nearby SF pools, like the WI folks (as suggested by Beefman).
As far as modifying the way we play, we can take up more characters (even if someone else already “has” the character), Maobei seemed like he was starting this by trying to learn Dudley this weekend. That’s a step in the right direction. I know I’m probably the least versatile as far as characters go in both #R and 3S compared to everyone but bMike in #R. I have been meaning to take up another character in #R, and I think I might try to do the same in 3S too.
All of the above boils down to one thing…keeping the MN SF scene alive and fresh even with the recent loss of people. I think the Neo-Gathering this weekend might be a good place to find prospective SFers. In addition, it would be nice to test our mettle against the WI folks…it would give us something to practice for.
Speaking of WI folk, Beefman, what kind of gathering did you have in mind? A meeting in WI or MN? If WI, what city, Milwaukee?..Racine? I would think that bMike would be ok with hosting a gathering of some sort up here some weekend if you guys wanted to come up here.
Yeah…That was me posting under Beef’s name.
Anyways, here would probably be better. Either Milwaukee or Racine would be best…
Evendro-I’ll take you up on that.
So yeah. Feedback, I guess.
Since Rob put up a listing of GG characters that we have a decent representation of, I wanted to expand a bit on it and also do the same for 3S characters.
GGXX#R 3S
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Me
Testament Ken
Zappa Alex
* Potemkin
Rob
Dizzy Ibuki
May
* Axl
* Jam
* Potemkin
* Eddie
bMike
Sol Yun
* Anji Dudley
* I-no Urien
* Makoto
* Ibuki
* Ken
* Oro
Maobei
Johnny Hugo
Bridget * Necro
* Baiken * Elena
* Sol * Dudley
* Axl * Alex
- denotes a secondary character
I think I managed to list the characters that people are competitive with. I marked secondary characters as characters that we play, but not at tournament-quality levels (e.g. if you were to enter a tourney, you probably wouldn’t pick a secondary character). I left out characters that people play every once in a while, but not seriously (like Chun-Li).
Here are my totals for the number of characters that MN plays in each game:
gg serious: 7
gg moderate: 7
gg none: 6
3s serious: 7
3s moderate: 4
3s none: 8
Since many of the unrepresented characters in 3s are generally considered “bad” (Sean, Q, Twelve, etc), that’s not as big a deal. Overall, we have a decent variety of characters, but as bMike mentioned last week, nothing like the variety that you would find in CA.
All is quiet in Minnesota when Guilty Gear is mentioned -.-
I have thoughts… but HUGE deadline today… i’ll post up tomorrow
Aww geez guys, I hate to see MN SF die, or even dwindle. It was hugely fun when I was there…anyone thought about spamming the U of MN campus?
“Do you play Street Fighter? Do you like getting hot and sweaty with other guys? If you said Yes then No, then we’d like to hear from you!”
:^)
Also, elsewhere in the U.S., 3s is still picking up, MvC2 doesn’t want to die and GG is um, disappearing from all the arcades here…
Mike Z
so big Mike and Stefan… what’s the deal about amateur night? are we going to n00b it up there or will it be a normal big Mike weekend? i wanna get some british going… and don’t think that i’ve completely given up on his tea and crumpets version of the Dempsey roll
maobei your alex is your best character by far. just wanted to mention that.
HI MIKE!