AFK Tavern bout on the Jan 8th?
I found out recently about this bar and help through the open SSF4 Tournament on new years eve and did some event coverage. I am a film student wanting to help portray the scene up here as best I can in the form of the documentary. Will there be any chance I could come up there and film you guys along side doing the stream?
Most definitely.
My plan is to head up tonight. Anyone else from the South side looking to carpool? Mandel? Rob? Trace? Someone in between? Someone want to roll up to Federal Way and we can go from their?
ive got some bottom tier footbag skillz to bring lol
I got mid tier skills, nothing fancy, but I commit 100% body and soul to the recovery kick.
lol, awesome. this is gonna be a good weekend.
Edit: So there are some delays in transportation from the 253… should anyone happen to be driving near Tacoma on the way to the Dojo tomorrow night please let me know. I have cash for your gas and time. Otherwise, see you at the bar on Saturday.
soooo when is the 5v5 starting tonight?
Also, what are the chances of a singles at all tonight since I figure there will be a manageable amount of people is someone volunteered (perhaps me?) to step up and run it?
This?
So here’s a recap of what happened.
Cole: "I’m ready. lets do this!“
2 minutes later
"Don’t go live yet…we need to practice.”
Preshow is starting now
I think now
Good stuff i would like to get more into the scean and help wa get bigger and better im from pasco aka the tri cities wa and we have been trying to get things moving over here but going out of town to help the scean would be really cool 2 im down and im sure my friends are down to ill try to check this thread as often as i can since i missed this last event but if anyone could send me a pm when something comes up that would be helpful 2. Thanos and keep up the good work
Hello im from the tri cities wa and we have been trying to get more involved with the scean and help it grow in wa state. This sound like a good idea and we i would get more involded and i know my friends would 2. Ill chech this tread as often as possible but if someone could pm me that would be helpful and much appreciated. Thank you and keep up the good work. P.s. one of my buddys here went to norcal and played against mike ross
This event was a lot of fun. 4 tourneys in 2 days. GDLK. I’m pretty burned out but I wanted say thanks to all and GG’s to those I played. Virsaga, Hyre, Jimmy, Carlosx4, Red, Jetay, BBH, Dugg, and fuckin Cole, lol. Had a great time and learned quite a bit per usual.
Big ups to Dugg for winning today. I think you and I have some business to settle. lol, too many close/clutch games. GGs though I had a good time being a super-cereal-try-hard during our casual matches and taking a couple games home finally.
Great events and great fights. Can’t wait until the next event.
Edit: Thanks a lot to Jetay for letting me commentate. I’m watching it now, lol, didn’t realize I was being so quiet. It was a lot of fun and I really hope I can do it again. Really enjoyed it.
Also, Slash… great work man. You make some of these national tourney streams look pretty poopdick. We need to be sending you around the country showing TS and Level/UP whats good.
wow this weekend was so hype. I’m glad I made it out to all the events to level up and met a lot of great players. Big shoutouts to Cole and Slash for making this weekend happen. Thanks to all the portland players who made it up for the seattle events and for being great hosts at epic gaming, it was worth the drive and anyone who didn’t make it down missed out. Special thanks to Sensei Duggish for the training sessions and support through this weekend. Also thanks to the inhabitants of the afrodojo for hosting thursdays and fridays events, KKF and Tanaka thanks as always for the advice and wisdom, we have to break down some of the footage I recorded from this weekend. And thanks to Greg and Uraih of the TofuDojo for saturday nights events and hosting the most hype match of the weekend, “the hat match”. Not sure what to say about the AFK event, so I’ll keep my mouth shut.
Check out the TofuDojo thread for winners finals “the hat match”, losers finals and grand finals as I post the videos in the next few days as I recover from 42hours of fighting games in 4 days.
Lastly more than thanks to all the players who over the last two months have helped me advance to a much greater player. These events have only further fueled my aspirations to become one of this great scene’s elite.
DojoSPORTS 5v5 Results
Hey guys, I’ll get shoutouts done in a bit, I just woke up, anyways, here are the results of the DojoSports 5v5
Team Khaos vs Best Bout
Best Bout vs Team Khaos
SamB (CAM) d. Bimmy (BOX)
SamB (CAM) d. Tajiri (ELF)
MacKinzie (IBU) d. SamB (CAM)
SamB (CAM) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
SamB (CAM) d. OMNE (DJ)
Yangsing (DIC) d. Tajiri (ELF)
Yangsing (SIM) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
Bimmy (BOX) d. Yangsing (SAG)
MacKinzie (HON) d. Yangsing (CAM)
Yangsing (BOX) d. OMNE (GUI)
Bimmy (BOX) d. PDX Jive (RYU)
PDX Jive (SAG) d. Tajiri (ELF)
PDX Jive (SAG) d. MacKinzie (IBU)
OMNE (DJ) d. PDX Jive (SAG)
PDX Jive (SAG) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
Bimmy (BOX) d. G-Effect (AKU)
G-Effect (AKU) d. Tajiri (ELF)
MacKinzie (IBU) d. G-Effect (AKU)
G-Effect (AKU) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
G-Effect (AKU) d. OMNE (DJ)
Virsaga (RYU) d. Tajiri (ELF)
Virsaga (RYU) d. MacKinzie (IBU)
Virsaga (RYU) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
Virsaga (RYU) d. Bimmy (BOX)
Virsaga (RYU) d. OMNE (DJ)
Best Bout 18
Team Khaos 7
Team Best Bout
SamB - 4W 1L
Yangsing - 3W 2L
PDX Jive - 3W 2L
G-Effect - 3W 2L
Virsaga - 5W 0L
Team Khaos
Bimmy - 3W 2L
Tajiri - 0W 5L
MacKinzie - 3W 2L
Ronnicle - 0W 5L
OMNE - 1W 4L
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AfroDojo vs Young Seattle
Afrodojo vs Young Seattle
Kaleo (HON) d $aman (BOX)
Kaleo (HON) d Dustin A (RYU)
TanakaForce (RYU) d Kaleo (HON)
tnMuggish (AKU) d Kaleo (HON)
Kaleo (HON) d AfroCole (SIM)
HeavyD (FEI) d $aman (BOX)
HeavyD (FEI) d Dustin A (RYU)
TanakaForce (GUY) d HeavyD (FEI)
tnMuggish (HON) d HeavyD (FEI)
AfroCole (SIM) d HeavyD (FEI)
Mr. K (RUF) d $aman (BOX)
Mr. K (RUF) d Dustin A (RYU)
TanakaForce (RYU) d Mr. K (RUF)
tnMuggish (HON) d Mr. K (RUF)
AfroCole (SIM) d Mr. K (RUF)
DeLucifer (BLA) d $aman (BOX)
DeLucifer (BLA) d Dustin A (RYU)
TanakaForce (RYU) d DeLucifer (BLA)
DeLucifer (BLA) d tnMuggish (HON)
AfroCole (BOX) d DeLucifer (BLA)
Bokkin (CAM) d Dustin A (RYU)
Bokkin (AKU) d $aman (BOX)
TanakaForce (RYU) d Bokkin (CAM)
Bokkin (CAM) d tnMuggish HON)
Bokkin (AKU) d AfroCole (SIM)
Young Seattle 14
AfroDojo 11
Young Seattle
Kaleo - 3W 2L
Heavy D - 2W 3L
Mr. K - 2W 3L
DeLucifer - 3W 2L
Bokkin - 4W 1L
AfroDojo
$aman - 0W 5L
Dustin A - 0W 5L
Tanaka Force - 5W 0L
tnMuggish - 3W 2L
AfroCole - 3W 2L
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Best Bout vs Young Seattle
Best Bout vs Young Seattle
Kaleo (HON) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
G-Effect (AKU) d. Kaleo (HON)
PDX Jive (SAG) d. Kaleo (HON)
Yangsing (BOX) d. Kaleo (HON)
Virsaga (RYU) d. Kaleo (HON)
Ronnicle (SAG) d. HeavyD (FEI)
HeavyD (FEI) d. G-Effect (AKU)
HeavyD (FEI) d. PDX Jive (SAG)
Yangsing (BOX) d. HeavyD (FEI)
HeavyD (FEI) d. Virsaga (RYU)
Mr. K (RUF) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
G-Effect (AKU) d. Mr. K (RUF)
Mr. K (RUF) d. PDX Jive (SAG)
Yangsing (BOX) d. Mr. K (GUI)
Mr. K (RUF) d. Virsaga (RYU)
Delucifer (GOU) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
Delucifer (GOU) d. G-Effect (AKU)
Delucifer (GOU) d. PDX Jive (SAG)
Yangsing (BOX) d. Delucifer (GOU)
Virsaga (RYU) d. Delucifer (GOU)
Bokkin (AKU) d. Ronnicle (SAG)
Bokkin (CAM) d. G-Effect (AKU)
Bokkin (FEI) d. PDX Jive (RYU)
Bokkin (DUD) d. Yangsing (BOX)
Virsaga (RYU) d. Bokkin (AKU)
Best Bout 11
Young Seattle 14
Best Bout
Ronnicle - 1W 4L
G-Effect - 2W 3L
PDX Jive - 1W 4L
Yangsing - 4W 1L
Virsaga - 3W 2L
Young Seattle
Kaleo - 1W 4L
HeavyD - 3W 2L
Mr. K - 3W 2L
Delucifer - 3W 2L
Bokkin - 4W 1L
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Yo Slash…Hold up wait a minute. Virsaga defeated my Akuma…NOT my cammy. Lets get that straight. I shoulda played cody even though I probably woulda lost anyways. But I would’ve had 5 Chars.
YO Yangsing. I mashed Backdash even after the opselect sweep because very few players keep doing opslects cause they’re lazy. Plus in SF4 backdash is AMAZING.
My bad. Made that result list like…right after 4AM or something that night haha.
NW Level Up Weekend
So while I have a minute from watching WCW, wanted to post this up now that I’m caught up from the week. First, big thanks to the Seattle scene and AfroDojo, hope you go beast mode at WCW. Also shout out to all the Portland peeps who rolled up and represented, good stuff. Looking forward to seeing more of this, I think after last weekend everyone saw what supporting each other’s scene looks like. We need more of that for sure. Here’s the breakdown day by day. A lot went down, so it’s a pretty big write up. Thanks to Slash for all of the media coverage that weekend.
Thursday:
We mobbed up later in the day with one carload of Portland players, essentially arriving at the Dojo about 9ish in the evening. We were not the first Portland group to arrive at Cole’s, that award went to Slash’s caravan, who arrived Weds. evening. We also weren’t the last, Angel’s crew rolled in deep about 1ish or so. Immediately when I walked through the door I knew we had made the right call rolling up. The house was packed with players and all sorts of stuff going on. Slash was running the stream from a side room, the tournament was in full motion, and there were set ups running everywhere. After saying my hellos to everyone I knew and connecting to Cole and the Portland team, I jumped into the mix trying to play as many Seattle people as possible. Played a bit that evening with Tanaka and a few others in a Ryu/Ryu revolving matchup, got at least one game in with Cole (who was running around doing at least 5 things at once) and had some fun games with Bokkin, mostly messing around with Fei Long. Unfortunately I can’t remember the names of everyone as it was pretty packed at the house, but had a good time playing a bunch of peeps I hadn’t met before. Didn’t play too many Portland people, no point in that as we play semi regularly away. It was all about mixing it up and getting that exposure, which we certainly did over those 4 days. Anyway, I was up until about 9 in the morning, and ended up crashing at a hotel down the street while everyone else passed out at the Dojo. Fun first night.
Pics: AfroDojo - a set on Flickr
Friday:
Friday was all about the teams battles, which were interesting to be a part of as it was Cole’s new vision for 5v5’s. After working out our rosters, we kicked into a Portland vs. Portland, followed a bit later by a Seattle vs. Seattle. For the Portland matchup, our team won, and performed pretty well. I rolled Sagat, and went 3 for 5, losing out to Jimmy (the one time I picked Ryu), and Jetay. On Seattle’s side, Team Young Seattle took it, which was Conner and Bokkin’s team. The events were commentated by Cole and crew, I was drafted for a few of the pre/post shows, happy to do so. Sometime around or after midnight we finally kicked off the Seattle vs. Portland final. It was an intense run of games, I like Cole’s format were everyone has to play everyone for points. I played a few interesting matches, one against a Gouken player who’s style I was unfamiliar with (we don’t have any active Gouken players in Portland), a Rufus player that was a bit different than our own Sam Y’s, and a Fei match that I was a bit salty about for not pushing an ultra for the win. Fun stuff for sure, the MVP for the team that night without question was Simon, who rallied Balrog through a series of battles, going 4-1 I believe, only losing to Bokkin finally. That whole set end with Virsaga’s Ryu vs. Bokkin’s Akuma, with Virsaga getting it with Portland roaring behind him. The final tally was 14 for Seattle, 11 for Portland. We were missing one of our top players for that throwdown (Sam B, who went out drinking), I suspect it might have been closer with him, but no sweat. Though we didn’t take it, it wasn’t the scraping that Portland has received before, I do believe our tribe has improved. I look forward to seeing the 5v5 at Slugfest, where Portland and Seattle will combine it’s best players for a throwdown.
Saturday:
After sleeping in again, I arrived at the Dojo as everyone was packing up to go to the AFK tourney. We rolled out, I didn’t realize how far Everett was above Seattle. Assumed it was pretty close, but no deal. Guess it’s all relative. AFK was packed, and seemed at first to be pretty legit in it’s layout. There was area where Slash could set up uninterrupted, a line of set ups for the players, and a big screen tv in front of a couch for players to commentate and watch. Well, things of course didn’t turn out as expected as everyone knows at this point. I think the big thing was the establishment wasn’t ready for what we were bringing. It got a bit backed up, and a variety of issues occurred. As Slash mentioned, I was approached and chewed out by one of the staff. It was kinda weird, as I was minding my own business really. Maybe it was because I look like the unibomber with my beard or something, lol. The staff basically told me that they needed us to wrap up, that we were running late. He also mentioned that the traffic was backing up the walkway, and that we weren’t buying anything. I asked him why he was telling me, I was just a player and not the organizer. He really was talking at me more than to me, so I wrapped it up with “thanks for the input, yeah, could I get a pitcher of water?” As I had ordered food earlier, I felt no issue when he walked away salty. Got that pitcher though. The most I can say about the Everett tourney is that I am sure the organizer meant well, just one by one a lot of things didn’t line up. It was a point by point downturn. When I finally saw Slash packing his stuff up quickly, I knew that was it, and got all of my stuff out quickly. Soon after Grand Finals crumbled, and we all scattered. We headed back to Portland to get some rest for the next day.
Pics: AFK Tavern Event - a set on Flickr
Sunday:
This was Epic Gaming’s first event, hosted by Team Khaos. It was a nice venue, the manager was very chill and I believe bought us all pizza. Slash and Jetay did a bang up job running it, good times for sure. For myself, all the things I had put on hold for Seattle came flying back when I returned, thus I wasn’t present for all of it. I missed the team battle (which apparently had a tough break for BBH/Jetay/Kevin), but made it for singles. The regular Portland crew was there (some hadn’t yet been home before the tourney), as well as quite a bit of Tacoma players and some key Seattle peeps, including Cole and Duggish. From the start I said screw it, and decided to roll deep with Fei Long, win or lose. Finals went down to Cole and Duggish, with Duggish for the win. We all kicked it for a bit, and after a while everyone called it good and rolled out. Slash, Jetay and I stayed on to reset the place, again a very nice establishment. I definitely will go back. Great job with the streaming Michael, there were some good moments such as Cole’s happy fro time on the stream. Shout out to Team Khaos, it was mentioned a few times over that the establishment was pretty chill. I was hella beat when I departed, but fun day altogether. It had been a long weekend, I had hoped to get a day off before our Tuesday casuals but no deal. Cole stayed in town on biz, so Monday ended up being a bit of work.
Pics (from Slash’s gallery, many thanks) NW Level Up Weekend - slash5150’s Photos
Tuesday:
To me it really all ended Tuesday evening, with Cole attending Throwdown Tuesday. Once he finally departed, that was the end of the weekend for me. We had been working on a project of his, so I didn’t get a lot of downtime Monday, and even less sleep. Anyway, I mostly did a the write up for it in the TT thread. It was a great turn out (again something around 24-25 people), Jason of course was the guest of honor. One of our younger talented players (Alix) showed up with his crew, and we promptly introduced him to Cole and they sat down for a great series of matches. Alix has a lot of potential, just hasn’t gotten outside Portland yet. That being said, his games with Cole were legit. It took him about 3 matches to understand Cole’s game, and then he ended Jason’s win streak at 14 or 16. From there it was an almost even back and forth, at one point Alix was up 3 games, but then Cole took it back again. I have nicked name Alix the ‘Downloader’, it seems to only take him a few games to pick up what is unfamiliar to him. Anyway, Cole complimented him on his game, and told me that he liked Alix’s Guy a lot even though it was his third or fourth character (Fei and Ryu being first). Jason conveyed he was digging the atmosphere and turn out of the evening, then had to dip out to finish some biz for WCW. Busy guy, but all good stuff.
Pics: Throwdown Tuesday NW Connect - a set on Flickr
All in all it was a good weekend. I like this push to really connect the NW, seems it will be beneficial to all of us. We got a lot of shout outs in Seattle about our rally up there, in the end it was 15-16 Portlanders deep. Bokkin (not known for dispensing compliments on a regular basis) mentioned a few times the improvement of Portland from previous times, singling out certain players as well. I think our up-and-coming Rog player Jimmy was one of those peeps that . The weekend didn’t look or feel like the scraping Portland has taken in the past from Seattle in tournaments or casuals. Portland’s MVP definitely goes to Yangsing, who showed some real wisdom in his matches. I joked as he was the true winner of AFK, as it looked like he was the only who got paid (3rd) before we got turned out. Again I look forward to seeing that 5v5 at Slugfest in full effect. As there will be more integration between the scenes now, I don’t expect it to be that lopsided as we are all playing each other more. Eugene, come get down on this.
Finally, it was a good weekend for squashing beefs for the most part, in both Portland and Seattle. People have had their disagreements before and will again, but let it be known the Northwest can handle its biz and squash that for the greater good. It’s a competitive fighting game, but no need to be over competitive outside of that. Unifying and moving forward can only help out great scene, so here’s a shout out to Portland and Seattle, to all the truth speakers and peace keepers. Also to the streamers (Slash), organizers, and players. Shout out to AfroDojo, Best Bout Gaming, and Team Khaos. Respect to Cole for playing being the veteran that he is and having a vision for our community. See you all soon, good shit NW. I’m back to watching WCW.