Whats up Philly? I just finished a week long roadtrip from NY to Vegas for EVO. Along the way I stopped in a ton of cities to check out local arcades and game scenes and write about them on my blog. My first stop of University Pinball and I loved the place. I just did my first post about my trip. It’s just an intro but the next one is about my experience in Philly.
PLEASE check it out and check back either later today or tommorow for the post about your guys arcade. I’m trying to big up the local scenes through my blog so they can all survive and grow, but I cant do that without page views. If you dig what I am trying to do, post the url wherever, tell your friends, link to my blog, leave comments and all that good stuff. I’m just trying to do my part to increase awareness of the local scenes. Help me out if you can. Keep it classy Philly!
Well there’s a chance I’m still making it to Evo as a last true weekend with some of my favorite people from the Philly scene. As I’ve told a lot of you guys I’m moving back to NJ/NYC area to start my career finally. Now I’ll be making monthly trips I hope back to Philly to visit but it’ll never be the same as actually living here. I started as a complete casual arcade bum 3 years ago mashing out tiger uppercuts but many of you took me in and taught me a wealth of fighting game knowledge. For those that have come out and supported all of my tournaments and sessions, you guys are family to me. Can’t thank the Philly scene enough for making my city experience incredible. Keep supporting Big E and everything he does not only for the Philly community but the FGC as a whole. Oh yeah, if you find yourself in the NJ/NYC area you know who to hit up. Much love everyone.
Yo Nagoo, just realized I booked my flight a day before my buds are showing up in Las Vegas, let me know if you’re showing up tomorrow. I’ll give you guys some loot for a night of floorage.
Hey folks. My blog post for the first day of my cross country evo roadtrip is up and this one is all about my experience at UP. I bigged it up big time and gave a shout out to Eric and WorstPlayer for helping the scene thrive, though I know all of you contribute to the scene in different ways. Read it and tell me what you think:
Remember, try to get as many people to read as possible. The more people know about this blog, the more people will now about UP and other good scenes across the country. I don’t get paid for this, I am just doing it as my part in growing the scenes across the country. Thanks in advance for anyone who reads, I saw a few of you checked it out yesterday.
I know that most of the big boys are at EVO this weekend, but I’m gonna be having a little get together at my place this weekend. PM if you’re interested, hit the text if you know my cell
You’re definitely a good writer, and I enjoyed your post about UP, despite the slight overabundance of sappy sentimentality. I wish you made a post on this thread before you made your visit though, I would’ve met up and gotten some AE games with you at UP, and we probably would’ve met at EVO this past weekend too.
Haha I did rep Gief at Evo, but I stubbornly played Yun against this so-so Akuma and lost… My pool was killer anyway, there was another Gief player from Vancouver who (imo) has a better Gief than I do and he couldn’t make it out of our pool either.
Fyi, folks I may be hitting up Erics tourney, so the casual session this weekend won’t start until later likely say 10 PM.
It depends on if I can get Bizazedo (wheelchair guy that was whoopin ass with Bison) up in UP. If someone can give me a hand in lifting him I’m sure he’d like to play.
I don’t want to get a hernia tho.
Bizazedo’s Bison is sick but the AE tourney at UP is usually run on their AE cabs… Not sure if he can play on stick? Or we could just have his matches on one of the PS3’s, I’m sure everyone will be okay with that.
Yep this might be my last Philly local tourney for a while!
Yeah talked to old boy and since AE is only on arcade we’re going to pass. Those who can’t make it to the tourney tho hit me up if you want to play in the evening. I’ll be around and Biz likely too. We’re still gonna session as usual around 8:00 or so. Just call 646.345.9910. We’re planning on starting weekly mini tournies too so heads up. Started a post in the tournaments section but didn’t realize E was going to be doing his thing every Sunday until the brawl. We may pick another day or hold off until the brawl is done if he’s not going to keep it regular.