Read title. Make excuses why you can’t go.
I say, support your character and go to tournaments.
Gets you better faster than online.
I agree. The lack of t hawk players tourney wise is a problem.
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There’s little more I’d love to do than get to tournaments. But I live surrounded by a 100-mile radius of farmland. And outside of small tournaments that would take longer to drive to than complete, my options are, well, nonexistent.
This is me too. Where I live, good tournaments are really far away, and with my busy life in the military, having my own online business, and my commitment to volunteer work, it is really hard to find the flexibility to go far distances without interrupting the workings of my schedule. The most I get is playing against some friends on base, and some of them are actually very good too.
what base? im struggling in georgia and need to find tournaments
I’m trying to make it out to as many tourneys as possible this Summer. Two next month and hopefully at least one in August. Next year when I’m at school I’ll have offline casuals closeby where I’ll be living too so that will help me get better + go to more tournaments as well.
In about a year from now, I hope to be getting close to moving to Chicago. A few reasons why I want to move there:
-good number of public jobs (I wouldn’t mind being a bureaucrat)
-public transit
-not too far from where I am now, relative to other possible choices
-looks like some sort of fighting game community, so I’d have entertainment and social options.
There’s a lack of Hawk’s at tourneys, I agree. I have yet to play in one personally, but look to change that. My biggest “excuse” is whether or not I should make the change to stick. For Hawk I don’t think it’d improve my game; I use the pad to my advantage with him by utilizing both the d-pad for blocking and analog for throws. It allows me to do two things at once, but all my friends are getting on my case about not being on a stick and how it’s supposedly gonna take my game to the “next level”. For Sagat, yeah, I’d prob. benefit, but for T. Hawk? Meh. I learned on a pad, I’ll stick with it until I fall into $140 for a stick.
But I’d hate to be a debbie downer, but I doubt tourney’s would make me any better. Playing online works great. Now, for the community aspect, yeah I’d go. And, most importantly, the fight money. I’m pretty sure my city is lacking Hawk players lol.
As a Pad T.Hawk Player myself, I can say with confidence that it will not make a single difference at all. T.Hawk is not a high-execution character, and if you’re able to do all the combos/mixups on Pad, just keep it like that. The Pad is also portable and easy to carry around too, which is another added bonus 
Believe it or not, there are those of us that play online because we don’t have the time and extra resources to drive an hour+ away just to play in tournaments. I have a fulltime job at a newspaper that not only has crappy hours (so much that I’m lucky if I get to see my girlfriend for two hours a day) but is fairly taxing. So, I play online because I can sit on my couch in my underwear and swear at people in peace.
Would I like to play in tournaments? Sure. But I’m also not twenty anymore. 25 feels a lot older when you have a degree, a student loan payment, and an evergrowing pile of videogame shame (to which I have at least five games I need to finish).
Not to mention, I refuse to use a fightstick, and I’m a PS3 owner. So, overall I’m just SOL.
shrug
Go to tournaments…
I dont care where you live, there is a tournament going on, even if its a 6 man bracket. You be surprise where there are tournaments in this great nation. Also it will do wonders for your game. Several of us, up here in michigan feel going to tournaments, especially majors is a “sayian effect”. Regardless on what we do at the tournament, we come back home stronger. I swear it feels like that. I use Hakan / T.Hawk at all the tournaments I’ve entered. I’ve gotten some looks and even some OHHs (at Seasons Beatings V against Flash metroid), however I feel going to the tourneys have helped my character development.
That’s what I always figured. If anything, I thought a stick would make me worse with Hawk lol. It’s just hard to think otherwise when everyone is telling you wear Nikes and you show up with some New Balances on. I think a lot of people just move over to stick to fit in with the crowd. While I plan on buying one just to have one finally, I’ve grown up on pad and I do quite well with it, even against others who use a stick. I’ll give a stick a whirl with Hawk, but for my first batch of local tourneys I think I’ma rock the pad. I’ll be back here with the results.
And I’m lucky enough to live in an area with a SF community already in place (Columbia, SC). There’s an arcade about 15 min. from my house, actually. I just never got around to attending any of the monthly tourneys due to money issues lol. I was down to my last $20 and the event was $15. My gf didn’t have much faith in my skills to get top 3 and get my $$ back + more, so she put the end to that idea LOL. But everyone has their own reasons as to why they don’t attend tournaments. Mine’s money more than anything. I’d be fighting at EVO with T. Hawk and a freakin’ Dualshock 3 if I had air fare, hotel cash, and money to enjoy myself lol.
I thought this too, until I went to a few tourneys. Trust me. Tournaments are a whole different animal then online. It makes you better because of the pressure. Its easy to mess up from your couch then to do so infront of a crowd of 5 or six (double that if you’re facing a household name. Quadruple that if it’s on Stream) that are bad mouthing you or saying, “Hakan’s ASS!” while trying to beat your opponent. What I’ve just said is just a minor issue with tournaments. Tournaments can be a good thing. you can sit down and play causuals with the best and pick their brains on match ups or strategies. Learn how pros train. All in all. going to tournaments is great. Its one thing to see stuff on stream, but the best experiences are the matches off to the side or better yet, back at the hotel rooms at the end of the day.
It’s sorta like being at home on your couch, but better because you have really good players in the room, playing or helping you out with your game. You can learn a lot
But then i’d have to leave my house 
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I take everything seriously, even when I’m playing online. I don’t like losing – whether it’s against the CPU, a friend on my couch, or some bloke who lives in Germany. I can handle pressure, and if people are talking mad shit, it just makes me more determined to perform well. Trust me, hearing idiots who have close 2000 more PP than me on PSN whine in their mics about my Hawk while I’m beating them senseless is practice enough. It used to rattle me, now it doesn’t.
But I still don’t see the advantage when I can easily do the same thing in an Endless Battle lobby with a friend of mine who’s good at SF and we both have mics on. I’m not trying to downplay tourneys, but playing online has upped my game dramatically. Tourneys seem more like a chance to socialize and get money to me more than glorified practice. I practice at home, if I put gas in my tank and drive to battle, I’m more interested in winning money lmao. Sorry I have such a Balrog mentality with this, but honestly, that’s how I see it lol. If I’m going to spend hundreds of dollars on a video game (I’ve bought all three versions of SF4 and plan on getting a stick) and also spend close to a thousand hours playing it, I want some kind of return on it eventually. Even if it’s just pocket change lol.
Online makes you worse, honestly.
By not going to tournaments you are just a member of team NAH.
If you want to win then practice at home and go to tournaments to show others what you practiced…
The day I got better was the day I actually decided to play out and go to tournaments.
Its an eye opening experience but its also a fun and rewarding one.
Winning is nice but for me, my goal is weather win or lose, to come out learning something new.
If you think you can handle the pressure I know for a fact you can’t; Nothing can prepare you for it except going.
Do yourself and the T.Hawk community a favor and going out and supporting your character.
Here is a list of the Thawk players that I have seen in tournaments:
I can count the players in the Thawk community that go to tournaments on one hand… Every other character has a community full of players who play out and support their character and show why they think the character is good. But for some reason, which is beyond me, that we have 100+ T.Hawk members of our community; Who “level up” on Leaderboards but I never see these “good” players at tournaments.
I am the best and ONLY T.Hawk player in Jersey and one of 5-10 (I think now 4) on the east coast that actually go to tournaments.
Its just nuts how we have this huge community but never go out to tournaments… or a very few do. I know the ones that do and I am greatful that they are supporting the character but for those who don’t and have no reason not too its just absolutely ridiculous.
I am going to put this community on blast until I see more T.hawk representation because right now we are the worst character community on SRK.
Hell go on Peacefuljay… troll on SRKlive… do something to show that we are a character base exist.
Joe Lewis with the real talk lol.
It is hard for some people (including myself) to get out to tourneys. For me, I can’t drive yet (I’ll have my license soon) so it’s tough for me to grab rides from people (especially when my parents don’t trust anyone to give me rides lol). I’m still trying my hardest to get out though, just been busy with school.
The best I can do for now is play people I know online. I played one of the better MTL players on xbl yesterday and he gave me props for my Hawk and said it was very good. I think for people who can’t make it out to tourneys/casuals consistently, playing good players that you know on XBL is the best you can do. That and training mode.
I just people to actually see that people play this character. The representation is just awful… ITS OUT METAGAME RIGHT NOW TOO… We are in a meta game where our character can excell.
I’ll agree with that, from my limited experience. Went to my first tournament a few weeks ago. A small 8-man event (the MvC3 tournament that was supposed to go first was canceled due to lack of attendance), but I placed 4th, and just barely missed out on at least $15. Beat a Dudley, lost to a Chun, beat a Sakura, and ever-so-narrowly got eliminated by a Rufus (though I caught in divekick in Ultra 2 about three times…in Super, even!), who supposedly fights a T. Hawk regularly. I couldn’t complain. I had been struggling like crazy for the week leading up to it, and I went out there and played very well. I haven’t been playing all too poorly since then, either (though a lot of it has been with Bison and Ryu against one of my friends. We’ve been in an experimental mood lately).
Getting away from your everyday life to go to a densely packed room and do what I do at home isn’t worth the vacation days :[
Also, sidenote: I don’t like the idea of high level play in fighting games. It’s great for other people, just not for me. I play characters based on how cool they are, not how competitively viable they are. I just get bored too fast watching and playing against certain characters over and over.
But who knows, someday if I end up going to a tourney for one reason or another, I may change my mind about the whole experience and see it in a less narrow minded way.