I almost cried reading Adams post. Lol.
hold on your saying they didn’t come to see the great tom brady!?!?!?!?!?!
i call that bullshit!
YOU WILL NOT LET HIS GAME DIE!
Thanks guys. I have a laundry list of ideas for future events…
I have an idea for setups on the cheap.
I’ll get back to ya, but I’ll probably bring one to SM tomorrow to test.
stop playing these trash games and go back to holding cvs2 tournaments on the ps2?
godlike idea!
If there are any talented craftsmen in the community, I would suggest looking into a relatively cheap way to build or buy vented console enclosures like they have in gamestop/wal-mart kiosks that can be locked closed, but with free access to controller ports. Even something kind of bootleg like a cage design would work, as long as you couldn’t open the disc tray while it was locked. This would cut down on people stealing games out of consoles during tournaments, and would discourage the bolder thieves from snatching consoles.
Also, just a general idea for future tournaments: CW3 proved that you can get big numbers to show up for a VA tournament, so I think its time to start considering a hard cutoff for paid registration, in order to give the TO’s time to organize brackets and set up realistic start times for the various tournaments. Something like, for example, registration ending at some point on Friday, paid for in person or online via PayPal, with final tournament brackets and approximate times posted the next morning. If people are serious about the tournament, they should be able to plan far enough in advance to plan most of their weekend around it, which would mean showing up in Richmond on Friday night to get ready to show up, on time, to the tournament venue on Saturday. As long as you give enough advance notice about the date of the tournament and emphasize the need to register in advance, no-one should have any excuse for showing up to a tournament 2 hours late and complaining about why they’re either too late to register or why they’ve been sent to losers.
Nobody is perfect but you’re pretty much the guy helping to put Richmond on the map and get the community going. I’ll just remember to bring a big ass bucket of ice next time =D.
Next year we could have an afterparty at Strange Matter with money matches, salty runbacks and just fun and drinking. Other than Skrull’s INFERRRRRRRRRNO torching up the place, it was a pretty cool bar, especially with the machines in the back on free play.
I’ll be back again next year for CW4.
You going to evo djhoushen?
Unfortunately no. I already had committed to being staff at Otakon this year, and it’s the same weekend as EVO. Otherwise I’d be all over that. If Otakon and EVO are next year, it’ll be EVO for me, but since I already agreed to help, not gonna flake out on them.
I’ll be watching the stream as much as I can and be rooting for MD/VA though. I will be going to Summer Jam.
Two milk crates, padlocks, and USB extensions.
Problem solved.
Btw, my setup that I’m bringing? Lag free, hd setup that I bought for 9.99.
Can you guess what it is?
I think the milk crates is a really smart idea. What time are you going up there?
6pm, I’ll be there.
Had a good time at Civil War.
I brought the 3s board home to work on/look at. It may or may not be fucked.
That’s sad news, but at least you and RyRy are alive, right?
Going to Evo?
When did you last change the suicide battery??
Civil War was pretty fun. Got to meet some people and play some CvS2 and ST, including Eric V and Steve H. It was an honor to get bodied by you folks. I’ll definitely see if I can get a stick to work on my CvS2 stuff. Dreamcast pad is not fun. 
Did pretty well in BB and MK considering I haven’t played with people in those all that much. I had only been playing CS2 for a week or so and was just going by the knowledge I had in CT with a couple of CS2 specific things.
Late night/early morning sessions at Robin’s house were awesome. Adam blowing my mind with Reptile shenanigans, Matt Jordan making me rage at Makoto, Chris rocking people with Dan early in the morning of the tournament, Steve H and I playing AE while talking about how much we hate the game through the wee hours of the next morning, and that one dude who was playing BB with me after that (sorry I’m not remembering your name right now lol) teaching me how to do pressure with Jin were some pretty awesome highlights.
Little sidenote, but it was kind of irritating for me to have to give up a BB station for Marvel only to see it not get any play for more than an hour.
Also, Dsinnie, you win. I’m going to work on N. Ken. As much as I love how much of a brick wall O. Ken is, N. Ken seems to be more suited to the offense I like to play when I see my chance to play it.
A milk crate would work well if the dimensions were right and it had enough space to get some of the larger xbox-sized A/V and power plugs through the gaps. Standard square milk crates (13x13 exterior, 12x12 interior) are going to be slightly too small for non-slim 360s and PS3s (which are about 12.15 and 12.75 long, respectively), but the rectangular ones should have plenty of space. People could still swipe the USB extensions, but those are like a buck apiece on eBay.
That’s gonna be what you need, unless you can find something better or cheaper locally.
Uh… an old laptop with a cracked copy of AE and $10.00 speakers?
I’m probably gonna use the “troll behind the grocery store” method. 11 bucks a piece for milk crates is a worse act of theft.
As for as the setup, I’m using Xbox w/ VGA cables hooked up to an old CRT monitor with USB speakers.
I need to tweak the display settings a bit to make it look ok. it varies between the characters looking too small or too squashed.
However, the input lag just isn’t there. It was fucking amazing.
Depending on the size of the monitor it could have like one of four different aspect ratios that you need to work with (I hateHATEhate the 5:4 ratio, aka 1280x1024 monitors), but the 360’s display settings should have resolutions that cover all of them comfortably.