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Yay!
Record turnouts for both MvC2 and ST last night. As we wind down the season, ST looks to be a two man race while Cody seems as though he could be caught in Marvel. Great games to all last night.
MvC2 - 23 players
Jason “Hairymaster” Mar - 10 pts.
Rodolfo “Rowtron” Castro - 7 pts.
Evan “Rairu” Wenzel - 5 pts.
Kyle “kchow_xlr8” chow - 3 pts.
Lawrence “LawrencIUM” Nath- 1 pt.
Anonymous - 1 pt.
ST - 18 players
Julien “zass” Beasley - 10 pts.
Nate “XTG” Montes - 7 pts.
Mandel “Deezo” Scott - 5 pts.
Alex “umbrellastyle” Kelly - 3 pts.
Sam “Fatbear” Yatchmenoff - 1 pt.
Yohsuke “Otome=/=Yosuke” Iizuka - 1pt.
Notes from last night:
- Thanks to Portland for coming out. Gonna start making the trip regularly?
- Kenny has impeccable taste in clothing.
- Third straight week with a strong showing by Kyle. Sadly, he left my joystick on Zach’s table yet again. Someone, please ask Kyle to fix my stick. It’s on the small table in Zach’s kitchen. Please!!!
- Jmar showed up for his second tournament this season–and won his second tournament this season. Way to show us who wears the pants in this house. If this is free money for him, why doesn’t he attend more often?
- Sorry that ST got started so late. Various factors came into play, and I hope that you guys still enjoyed yourselves.
- Interesting note, no one won more than 2 matches in the loser’s bracket last night.
- If you don’t like the sticks, I implore you to please bring your own. That’s the best part of a console based tourney.
- I’ll adhere to Ratt’s bracketology from now on. Moving through the loser’s bracket as fast as possible really did help. The iffy players were then free to do what they wanted.
- Dan, WTF were you doing? You had me BOTH games. You killed my first character without taking any damage in BOTH games. You took off 50% of my Sentinel, then let me switch in Cable for free in BOTH games. Then you ate 7 AHVBs without retaliation in BOTH games. You saw how you crushed me in casuals when daylight struck. Why didn’t you do that in the tournament? Why go easy on me? Do you know something that I don’t? Am I terminal?
- Kuenai and Mynameispaullee finally played in a tournament. Sadly, it was an ST tournament. If you guys claim that Marvel is your main game, why not show up on time and enter Marvel?
- I can’t believe that we finished Marvel before 12:30. I’m sure we could have wrapped it up before midnight had certain people not refused to play on the downstairs setup.
- Props to my boy Alex, holding it down for Seattle ST. Umbrellastyle lost to SamY in the first round, then sliced through 4 players in the loser’s bracket. That included avenging his loss to SamY in the loser’s quarterfinals. And with an ugly character no less. Turn kicking over the Tiger shots, way to counter pick Old Sagat. But Deejay is still ugly.
- Yosuke also recovered from a round 1 loss in ST to climb into the point rankings. Good show.
- Peachy should have just paid $1 and entered ST. No fucking way ST players will let you stand in out of courtesy.
- Yet another high placement for Evan. The Marvel rankings are rather interesting, with 4 people within striking distance of Tardy, I mean Cody.
- Cody, why were you late? Trying to give us false hope?
- Congrats to Beasly. The man is on a tear, having won all 4 ST tournaments since he started attending. He has also just taken over the point lead in ST.
- Whoever spilled a drink in the living room and brought paper towels in to soak it up, but LEFT the towels on the carpet, should be ashamed. There’s a special place in hell reserved for the likes of child rapists, and you.
- ST has come a long way since the 8 players that attended it’s inaugural events on 3/16.
- Mandel has overtaken Julian’s 3rd place on the ST charts. Julian’s goal in life was to remain in the top 3 of ST rankings. What will you devote your life to now? Feeding the poor?
- I didn’t see any board games going on last night. And everyone had either bailed or were passed out by 6:45AM. What a shame.
- Frank showed up, but didn’t play in Marvel. After getting a point last time, I guess he didn’t want to spoil the experience. Same goes to Fusulu.
- I must reiterate, people who attend and watch the Marvel tournament but not enter, should be shot. If you had testicles–which you obviously don’t–they should be cut off and fed to you. That’s blatantly disrespectful to aspiring competitive players who life in Podunk [fill in blank], as most fighting game players would love to have a shot at playing against comp like this. Go turn your penis in, you’re not allowed to open jars anymore.
- Julian has begun to add “bops” to his vocabulary. It is simultaneously pathetic, humorous, and disturbing. Kenny would be proud.
- As always, thanks to Zach for letting us invade his home. Greatest host ever. Once he stocks weed and finishes construction on the free white girls room, we’re set.
Quote of the night:
“I don’t care who I’m playing, I want a blind pick.” - Deezo, during the ST quarterfinals
Dumbest quote of the night:
“Ryu!?” - Me, after seeing what Mandel wrote down his for his BLIND PICK. I apologize, there was no excuse. I was in shock and awe, having never seen him pick that character before. It was dumb of me. Just plain dumb. Dumb comes easily for those who have practice.
Exchange of the night:
(towards the end of the ST tournament regarding what has been said recently on the boards)
Various anonymous Seattle ST players: We [owned] Portland.
Me: Why don’t you guys talk shit while they were in the room. Why wait until after they’ve left?
Anonymous: Did you see how big that guy was? obviously regarding Jetay
Current worst player in the NW: Chris “IceNine” Zamanillo
Though David has attended more tournaments, and has had low placement for far longer, he’s actually won a few matches recently. And since luck placed me in a section of the bracket that featured predominantly ST players, we have a new worst player. The king is dead, long live the king. All hail Chris.
Sorry to all i was being such a dick last night. lol!
Preppy: if i was being loud sorry!
Mandel: Jetay show be the spokesperson of the NW…
Ian is a beast.
I’m comin to take the money!
YES!! Pretenders to the throne begone!
QUOTE OF THE NIGHT!
Jetay: “Man, that nigga’s smilin’ like Dark Prince!”
Keith: Why do you keep asking why we show up late when we’ve explained it twenty times? I’m the one driving, and I can’t leave before a certain time. The earliest I’d ever be able to leave is 8:30, which would mean we’d show just before 10. I’m a minor living with my parents. Remember the days of limited freedom? I’m still there, bro.
Mad props to Umbrella, for showing how business gets taken care of the with the dance like movements and white ass teeth of Deejay. He played with heart, and that was the key.
Very nice to see good turnouts for the tournaments. Thanks to everyone who showed up to play; especially those who came from out of town.
My bracket ended up being pretty goofy. I had a close battle with Mandel in the first round, then pretty much coasted to winners finals, and got raped. shrug
I had a Albert sighting while writing this post. Most random thing ever.
You did that already.
Thanks Zach for having us at your place again, my friend Eric had alot of fun.
Props to Yosuke for being untouchable in VF5. He should drop some knowledge in the WIKI section for that game.
Thanks for hookin up the Dhalsim DVD. Maybe i’ll be able to learn that character for real now.
No problem man. Hope to see him played more commonly.
I have a lot to post about concerning this tournament and no time to do it. Expect a post later on when I have time.
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I saw frank and some other people play Pictionary. I was too busy half-asleep watching Nate play KI2 to play any boardgames.
Okay so here’s the post I was asked to make as promised by a few different people. I’m gonna try to go about this the right way, which is why I’m posting about it here and not in the tourney results thread. I’m gonna try my best to not get mad either while I’m posting this.
1-I really really really really don’t understand why I played Evan first round. In fact, it seems like I play him every tourney, no lie. It’s made even worse by the fact that I play him probably the most out of everyone that enters these tournaments. The reasoning I was told for why I played Evan was “you didn’t make it here at 9 pm.” Which makes little to no sense at all considering the tourney started later since a bunch of people weren’t there yet, along with the fact that those people got there later than I did. I don’t remember who told me that, but I remember hearing it. What makes that even more confusing is the fact that I’m playing him first round after the fact that he had won the last tourney (where I got second). Was I even seeded? Was he seeded? Who was seeded? And if I was seeded, how does showing up 15-20 minutes late nullify my seeding? It makes me not care how I do (or about the tourney in general), if being a seed doesn’t amount for anything. When I do show up, you can just have me play Row, Jason, Cody, whoever first round. I’m not joking either, I don’t stand much of a chance as is, so let’s just put me out of my misery.
2-I heard about some ST bracket craziness involving Fatbear and SamB being extra close to each other in the brackets, along with Jetay having a bye first round and then having to play whoever showed up late instead of whoever it was having to start off in the losers bracket. I don’t quite understand the situation, but I know they weren’t very happy about it. That sort of thing deters people from wanting to show up.
3-Kenny had to play SamB first round before playing me in his first/last match in losers. I wouldn’t say that’s very fair to someone coming here from Puyallup. I suppose stuff like that is unavoidable when there’s buff first round matchups. This was made even worse by the fact that I do play Kenny more often than most people. And hey you know what? He actually should’ve beaten me. Good shit Kenny, I hope you still continue to enter tourneys man. You can only go up from here man.
4-The blind pick thing was pretty bad, but it was actually done wrong to begin with. I didn’t realize it until it was too late, so I’m not really trippin too much. But what was supposed to happen was Yosuke was supposed to write his character down not me.
5-Keith said no one won three times in losers, but I did, I beat Kenny, Dan, and Rat.
6-ST was actually like 50x funner than Marvel was last night. Honest truth.
7-I really really need a new stick, I don’t like using anyone else’s. No excuses on my end, but I hate not feeling comfortable during a tournament.
8-So with 18 people in the ST tourney, how much did first and second get?
I’m gonna see about picking up an earlier shift on these night’s at Preppy’s. I wanna get in on the ST tournies. I was bummed that I missed out when I (apparently, didin’t have to) and I would like NOT to do that again.
Mandel get em…gag’em and bag’em coach!
I wasn’t going to say anything about me…but it was pretty fucked getting placed with the best in Portland, Then fighting Mandel in losers. Everyone must admit…that shit was bops to the fullest. Get at me.
Jetay should be the spokesman of the NW.
The best part of the night was honestly when the epic conversations took place outside…that was the shit. I got to know alot of people.
To Make a correction: It was SamY and Samb that hhad to fight the extra Matches to those who show up late! I didnt have a bye but i was right next to Nate… And Samb " portlands best " and Jmar " Seattle’s best " had to play eachh othehr 1st fuckin round! blind select my ass. Some people are taking words to seriously and refelcting them in the brackets
The softest things i have ever seen was when people would rather bitch up and take a win instead of fighting of them b/c they are scared of losing! If you are afraid to lose then dont fuckin play. No point of entering that shit just to get 1 notch above last place… busta ass scrubs! Im kinda glad you guys didnt offer SamY and SamB the same shit " woulda played that shit if that happened " but kinda funny how the option wasnt there…
FIRE THE BRACKET MAKER!