GGs to Kim Jong, Jford, Sunstone, Wafflulz,…anyone else, and Shawn. Had lots of fun tonight and learned alot.
I can host 10-12 peeps . It might be a tight squeeze but…my house is open. Not the closest to everyone but if peeps do not want to make the drive back that night they are more than welcome to crash at my place.
I am willing to attend weekly gatherings, depending on my work schedule.
I don’t like violence against women unless it’s their cooters. Those things freak me out.
… sigged! 
I would go to any gatherings at eddies for sure. My schedule during the week is kind of random, but im usually off saturdays.
Hmmm, so a venue is the issue. An issue possibly resolved by Eddie “Good Ass Hair” Buford.
I can attend weekly gatherings at Eddie’s. Since school got back in, Friday seems to be the day we all get together, so how would Friday’s at Eddie’s work for everyone? Then we could hit Indian Lake for bomb ass pizza + drinks.
I just know that the nature of a lot of the people in our scene (myself included), is that we are all for doing stuff, we just need something structured. I know the next couple of weekends are booked up with tournies, then we have K.i.T in Feb and FR in March, but any ideas on when you guys wanna get this started? Looking at the calendar and if not earlier, any weekend in Feb after the 5th (K.i.T) is looking good.
I am actually very excited about this. We can do casuals and also get back into breaking down matchups (Pat, Eddie, Shawn?). Also this may be an SF-centric event simply due to the nature of the scene, but it’s not like we’d exclude other games. Tekken and obscure shit (see Waku Waku 7, Project Justice, and VS) are welcome and encouraged.
So…thoughts? Particularly on when you all want to embark on the maiden voyage. Also post up if you can provide setups. I’ll be bringing one for 360.
YESSSSSSS
So what you’re saying is you approve of pounding vag?
Also, Hyperdimension Neptunia just looks amazing. Gameplay is standard fare, but what interests me is the delicious parody. I mean, you have four goddesses based on different consoles, banding together using old Sega games to protect the world of Gamindustri from the forces of Arfour (R4, a reference to a DS flash ROM cart). Yeah, totally sold on that one.
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Oh damn, that’s sweet.
LOL duckie
I’m up for Eddie’s on Fridays…whatever the 1st Friday is after KIT…I am sure the next Friday will be MVC3 week, but we can start it early on the weekend before KiT since I am sure all the warehouses will have uploaded the game somewhere…
I’m #1 Ganryu in the US. But none of you are #1 with your SF characters. Too many people(more than 1) play your characters. So you’ll never be able to just sit back and show up to tourneys/majors and be ____ of America simply because you’re the only one who remembers that ___ is on the select screen. Therefore, I’m a “top player”. Don’t argue with me. Nobody else has.
So there. Everyone shut the fuck up about stuff.
P.S. Jacob must not have felt that he was strong enough since he’s becoming a cyborg.
P.S.S. Sucks that you gotta unlock characters in MvC3. They confirmed that you’ll only start out with Ryu, Wolve, Chris, Hulk, Morrigan, and Kratos…
I do gotta say that Nashville definitely wants to drive their scene a little harder than Memphis as far as SF is concerned.
I also say this out of how many tournaments they hold particularly to possibly attract people outside of their group (such as the Memphis people) to come out. Not that I don’t blame Memphis for not having tournaments, I honestly don’t know how many people would attend anymore, in hindsight getting 30+ people for the last one is nothing short of amazing from the 12-14 people who normally attend ran bats. But whatever advertising it was that drew people out to Power Play added people to those gatherings, including myself, so holding more tournaments IMO would be the best thing to do to grow the scene in Memphis from what I’ve seen.
It wasn’t untill I saw a local tournament posting on Eventscrubs before I even knew these regions threads existed, or hell even tournament threads.
Yeah I’m all talk though, if I lived in Memphis still I would try to arrange one myself.
The other nearest scene, Jackson, their last tournament I went to was extremely disappointing compared to what was there before, I think 19 people at Red September, whereas there were over 40 at Cinderslam. I don’t even know if the poor guys got enough cover to cover the room…
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And no offense to anyone, taking Bishop’s side on this, skill should not be the issue when it comes to entering a tournament, as far as I’m concerned it’s your own fault if you can’t beat cylus/josh/me/shawn/pat/chris/Jacob/majin/sev/lycan or any of the top placers in the respected area. You didn’t really want to be competition in the scene anyways if you feel defeated before it begins, there’s too many shortcuts, helpful character boards, and accessibility to not be on the same level (we’re not national level shit yet, or at least we haven’t proven it). People may see some of us place top, but it’s not like we just steamroll through everyone, its hard to get up there, you gotta want it. But some people just want to have fun and that’s completely fine too, not dissing on that in any way. There’s this underlying feeling that tournaments aren’t happening because the attendance would be low if certain people announce their arrival.
And I will admit the fact that no one crazily rants about leveling the scene faster means that people probably don’t want to, and I don’t fall in that category but I also won’t kick people’s ass to get better or guilt them into playing more, that’s up to them if they want to place. If it wouldn’t clear the room, if you didn’t feel like you were going to win the tournament I wouldn’t want you to come unless you come to tournaments for fun by losing with this defeated attitude. Fuck Cylus, Fuck me, fuck shawn, fuck everyone and try to win, we’re all free.
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Where does this Eddie person live? I’m free after 6 PM on fridays, I’d go every week as long as it isn’t like an hour away from the boro
FlyMike: You are free. So much so that once we get our random ft5 out the way, if you win, I will buy you a box of Popeyes chicken (eww) up to a 10 piece with all the sides and biscuits you desire since my not showing is unforgivable. Think about it slawness.
Slawblade: My nigga! Its been awhile son. We need to do a Boxer fight of the century. My Rog, your Dudley. Holla at me.
With that said…
Duckie you made my point with your first sentence. Nigga didn’t place that high. He is slightly above average at the game right now. Sure he is better than me, but I’m not looking for training partners/students who will “listen to me.” lol
Sure it should be said that Bishop is GREAT at other fighting games. I can mention to someone to this day I play fighting games competitively, and they always ask if I know Majin and the Guilty Gear crew. No lie. However, I just find it odd, weird, rude, and baffling, that someone who is average at the game, just like the other average players in the scene, compared to the top 7 or 8 in the scene, is calling people out. I would take this a lot better if this was coming from Sev, Cylus, Dream, even Majin. But this is coming from someone who is not even in the top half of THIS game locally. Just about everyone I mentioned would beat Bishop in a first to 5 and I am confident in saying that. Now I understand why people became upset when I said Nashville was better than Memphis over the summer. I hadn’t placed in anything locally so what gave me the right to say something?!
Bishop I will just say this;
As Duckie said (yes I agree with something he said) you have to go about encouraging your fellow players in a different way. Telling grown men who have families and grown man responsibilities such as full-time jobs, rent, wives, and kids (I think Jas has 2 and Cylus has 3 step kids) that they are using LIFE as an excuse, when you yourself work PART-TIME AT NIGHT and pay a cellphone bill and help with the light bill whenever you can and no rent is silly. I know you aren’t the only one that feels this way about the SF scene, but it is a lot more convincing when coming from someone who has placed well in the game. Just saying.
One last thing to you, I never knew you were looking for training partners. I have a PS3 with functioning internet and great service, I have sent you a friend request and it is still considered pending. I don’t know if you consider me super slaw or what, but you can’t say NO ONE here is trying to get above an average level or NO ONE is reaching out to you for training or sparing sessions when you haven’t even accepted my friend request. There have been three people who have actually come to me and said you can train with me anytime rather that be online or in person and that is Severin, Lycan, and Abe. Abe stays on me about getting a stick for 360 because he knows I want to improve and is willing to help. He isn’t bullying me or calling me sorry to try and motivate me. He just let me know as did the others that they are willing to help my game in anyway possible. Sev even offers to show me Rog tricks and doesn’t even main Rog. You mained him in Vanilla if I’m not mistaken right? lol So yeah I don’t get the attitude bro. not at all
I don’t agree with this. I think all the regulars are hungry for new blood. If tournaments were the quickest and most effective way to build a scene, Nashville would have about 30 or 40 dedicated regulars right now. They don’t.
I’m sure that helps, but you have some people that will only come to the tournaments and aren’t going to come to the weekly gatherings. That is why you see 30 people coming to tournaments and 12 coming to the ranbats. For some reason they don’t deem in necessary to come to ranbats or weekly gatherings. With that said, I think Abe has a pretty good idea on how to overall grow the scene. I have said it before and I will say it again, there are a TON of street fighter players here in this city. We just have to figure out a way to get them to come out. Marvel 3 will do a little of that for us.
And I don’t think attendance numbers are the reason a tournament isn’t being held.
Ok one last thing. I hear a LOT of people say that the Memphis Tekken community isn’t inviting at all. I can understand why people may say this because they won’t come out to ANY gatherings we have. However, I expressed interest in learning to Lil Majin himself and whenever a gathering is going on, he lets me know and has even suggested characters I should learn. So I think they are little more welcoming than we may think. But he that’s just my opinion.
(Shhh I’m just provoking people because I’m so damn hungry for a tournament)
But I do feel as if I hold some points in that the weekly gathering attendence for regulars actually was really high right after the Power Play tournament.
Cylus, me, lycan, hiryu, sev, majin’s brother, you, bishop, squab, bryce, semosh, chit and there were like 5-7 others that were coming regularly untill around the time the venue changed, it seemed like quite a bit more than what I left out of them with in august, but I also can’t hold much say there either since I haven’t been to one since august.
I know I’m the noobie here, but I’ll say it anyways. If you want to get better, do it. Even if you have responsibilities, if you really want to get better, you’ll practice, play other people, etc. Not everyone has the drive. Not everyone cares that much. I read Bishop and wootsick’s posts, and I’m pretty sure they’re directing it at the people who are actually saying they wanna get better, and the people who, to their knowledge, say things along the lines of “I’m not good because I have a life”, etc. Not us casual folk who could care less how good we are. If you’re not good, you’ll get better if you want to and put the effort into it. Don’t use having a life and responsibilities as a crutch, I guess he was trying to say? S’what a got out of it, anyway. Haaaaa, I rhymed. C:
Edit: also lol at the “you aren’t a top player/much better than me/good at this game, thus your points are invalid” argument. Seems that shit comes up in every game community.
It’s not so much I don’t think having a life is important, but there are alot of people that dedicate alot of their time towards the game that, in all honesty, SHOULD be better for the amount of time played. I actually can’t recall the last time someone used the, “I have too much work, school, etc.” in Memphis as a crutch for poor skill. It’s more along the lines of, “There’s not better comp here to get better.”
I’m also on the verge of being passionate about SF though so I’m willing to travel all the time just to level up.
My dream would be for Nashville or Memphis to be the next Atlanta or cali-region type scene.
Ahh, I see what you’re getting at. And of course I didn’t mean you said having a life wasn’t important, I just pointed out that even people with said responsibilities and the like can still get better if they want to. Also, to address your other point, I suppose I would say that everyone learns differently. Different ways, speeds, etc. A friend of mine plays games (mainly FPS and fighters) just about everyday, for hours at a time. I barely get to play and somehow I manage to do better than him in shooters. But maybe I missed your point, completely.
I’ll be the first to admit for the amount of time I’ve played this game I should be leagues better. The problem for me though is as I played I have continuously made one stupid decision, I keep changing characters. Now while I’ve been good with basically staying with gief most of the time it has really hurt my game. Also going into training mode and just sitting there is so hard to do but I have been forcing myself to recently just so I can get good. The last couple of tournaments I have gone with the hopes of winning, while to I’m sure many in the Nashville scene that is not a great goal for my skill it is something that I am really striving for and me getting pissed actually just makes me want to go home and play and train more.
The thing is though that you can’t try to force people to play the game if they don’t want to get really good at it. I really do not have immediate aspirations of being top cali player good. When it fully comes down to it I want to be able to have fun and play with all of the people here but be able to be on their level. That means I have to go and play with them online to get more matchup experience and go into training mode and get my execution down and just figure out what does and doesn’t work with my character. Like I said before, coming in here and being an ass and trying to get people to feel bad about themselves and their commitment or whatever the motive behind posts like that are just seems stupid and unfair to me.
This thread is ridiculous… I stopped trying to keep up so long ago.
As far as the scene goes I’ve never wanted anything more than it to grow and expand, and to help as much as I could. I’ve advertised around for tournaments on my own before, and nagged the shit out of everyone with even a passing interest in SF to play it as much as possible. I try to help as much as I can, but some people just aren’t attracted to the tournament/competitive scene for whatever reason. Even people that play all the fucking time online or with friends or whatever just aren’t interested in tournaments. I don’t understand this in the slightest, even if you just play casually for fun.
As far as hitting a wall goes, I definitely think I’ve definitely gotten over mine for now at least. Right now I feel like my main problem is being consistent. It is so frustrating, more so than " the wall " even. Being able to play a certain way and do combos and set-ups perfectly in casuals and then in a tournament setting or offline or whatever feeling like I’m playing at 80% is even more demoralizing than losing. I do feel like I’m improving, and that is what is important to me.
Concerning TN’s SF scene I am really not worried about it. I don’t think we’ll ever be up to New York or Socal as far as having 8 or 9 top, top players that consistently do well on a national level. I think we are perfectly normal among all of the other scenes, and how their shit goes. They have 2 to 3 players that win consistently, and then they have their group of people really striving to get better, and then the people that really just can’t either put the time in or don’t have the drive to level way up there, and then the people who are just kind of there.