Haha love the reply man, yeah im going to take part soon as I can.
Osirun, we can talk more in PM if you’d like, but if you do need help in putting together a documentary of sorts, I just graduted from college with a film and media production degree and I know my way around audio and video recording equipment as well as editing. Just throwing that out there.
Osirun, are we still going to do that podcast sometime in August?
Someone last year approached Fugee and I about doing a doc and filming stuff at SB, which he bailed on basically. If you’re interested in covering this year’s, let me know and we can talk about it more.
I’ve sent you an email with some details. Should be a good podcast!
That would be great. Anchor (Amanda) also had the idea to do a Midwest documentary, where footage would come from various tournaments and states.
There could be an SB only documentary, and with permission some of the footage could be used in a project covering as much of the Midwest as possible. We’ll definitely have to talk about this more.
Are you going to be doing much with Evo or at Evo?
I can’t go to EVO this year, but I’m planning on next year. I’ll have to find something productive to do there for the Midwest. Not sure what right now, but I’ve got a year to think about it!
bout time this got stickied, good looking out
The firestorm has started.
I’m glad you’re taking my idea seriously! you know I’m with you all the way. 
We’ll be road warriors together.
Lee knows what I want for our anniversary. Hopefully I’ll get a sweet Camera and we can record together.
me and my brother are Midwest players going to EVO this year… not much we can do on behalf of the Midwest region… but we’ll do our best… and if there is anything we can do go ahead and let em know
i definitely plan on throwing up the MW handsign in any picture that’s taken… and for the benifit of everyone else from our region i’m now going to teach it to all of you so you can do it too (and i expect it to happen!!)
step1 - raise both hands to eye level (or where ever you plan on executing the sign)
step 2 - with your right hand hold up a 3 count holding down your pinky with your thumb
step 3 - turn your right hand upside down and bend your wrist
step 4 - hold down the index finger on your left hand with your thumb and extend the remaining 3 fingers
step 5 - rotate your entire left hand a few degrees to the left
step 6 - even up your hands and cock your attitude cause you’re done 
… i made this handsign up for the benifit of the MW… and out of boredom… enjoy
I’ll definitely keep you in mind when I figure out what video projects PowerUp will be handling. Thanks for putting yourself out there!
So sweet.
Make sure you throw this up on your Midwest Roundup page. Right now Nap-Town has no representation on the Roundup, so you should be the first!
I’m sad to admit I just tried this ALONE all by myself in front of my computer, just in the privacy of my own home. Hahahaha. Not something I’ll probably be seen trying at any upcoming tournaments but you boys do your thing! :woot:
green and yellow
representing that corn
You mispelled Packers.
I subscribed to a bunch of great SFIV/3s channels some of you have probably seen before – so get WATCHIN
Woooow! Seriously, corn, lol. I’m gonna have to photoshop some sort of t-shirt or patch with this theme going on.
It’s kind of interesting, though. Maybe one day the Midwest, or at least some parts, could be united under a banner. Like SoCal and NorCal. A PowerUp banner maybe? Eh, maybe not; whatever gets the Midwest out there is best.
On a serious note, though, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts recently that have been talking about how the fighting game scene needs an official national ranking system.
It’s a cool idea to have something akin to gigantic ranbats which cover all major tournaments. My only concern is how to get that to cover the whole nation. I know Smash Bros. has the Midwest Circuit East and West, but what about other games? I think Soulcalibur IV has a national scene, but I wonder how it works?
What do you all think? Could a bunch of TOs come together across the Midwest and pool results for Midwest rankings based solely on skill? It would definitely encourage players to travel around the region.
hm good idea, this has some merit
perhaps we could have a ranking system that was based on different regions. you could have midwest, southwest, west, east coast, etc. to gain ranking points you’d have to participate in tournaments that were officially sanctioned and followed the guidelines set down in the ranking system rules.
you’d keep these points only for as long as you continued participating in tournaments; points would deteriorate without active participation.
on the front page of srk, we could list the top five ranked players in each region.
we need a name for this system, something that captures it’s meaningful strive towards the top…perhaps something like ZENITH points…or maybe PINNACLE…
no, no…i got it!
Lol, then I wonder why people are still debating this? Is there something they don’t like about APEX points? Obviously I hadn’t heard of them, otherwise I wouldn’t have stuck my foot in my mouth, heh heh.
However, it doesn’t look like the site has been update in quite awhile. No SFIV and the most recent EVO mentioned is 2003. I wonder what happened. Can anyone enlighten me? It seems like a really good idea that somehow went astray.
Perhaps it could still be used, if only people were willing to resurrect it.
Nathan Ill be sending my info like tonight
naw, there’s no reason a new person should remember apex points, they were the hot thing for a year or two and then just fizzled away, not sure why…probably reflected the state of the scene at the time.
that’s a web archive of how SRK looked way back in the day, btw. i dont think you can find any APEX pages on srk anymore. the joke wasn’t on you so much as on the APEX system itself, it was kind of a running gag for a lot of players, and how badly it flopped is evidenced by the fact most people here have never heard of it.
i just found it amusing people are saying what a good idea it would be without knowing we’ve already tried it before. why did it fail? i have no idea.