Tennessee Thread - Day 1 Ni**a-Ology

Richard challenged me to an MM of epic stakes, and I accepted. He turned out to be too busy to follow through today, so we’re moving it to the 7th. Get hype.

Shawn McCool takes you to school from across the pool.

Yea I couldn’t seem to get around that at all at first. Now I know how to fight it, but still gotta deal with Clark as a strong chara overall. If you’re fighting someone who has good basics and are acclimated to using grapplers anyway, it’s still gonna be way rough.

Also, you don’t wanna jump too much around him. That’s easy bait. His short moveset is based around getting you scared to stay grounded, and dealing with you, and of course vice versa.

Ya that match we pretty rough, I feel like I’ve been playing better recently, I just really really love to play Gief, and just fighting games in general, more than I really was before. It just seems like everything is starting to click and it’s just become so cool to play as him. But ya I am able to admit I have never won a tournament for any fighting game, usually either placing in last, 5th or, 3rd. But ya placing high is awesome, except for the last month or two I have been going for the experience and to get better/hang out but now I really feel like I can get first in these tournaments. But on the idea of not going because you don’t think you’ll win? That just means you’re a fucking baby, seriously if anyone doesn’t go to an event that WILL help them get better at whatever game they are playing then they’re fucking stupid. I really hope that’s no one in this thread, We had people like Doromac and Astaroth entering SF4 even though they don’t play a ton and KOF had a great turnout especially with people like me KNOWING they would not win still enter to help the pot and to get better. After playing just today I feel so much better about my play and am now doing noticeably better at the game, at least in my mind.

But ya seeing as how I have never won a tournament I would put myself down under iron will / sheer determination. As long as you just keep playing, trying, and GOING AND PARTICIPATING IN TOURNAMENTS, then you will get better. Even if it is a slow painful process.

You guys should be thankful I wasnt at the arcade today. It seems I’ve caught a stomach virus. Bad one. It sucks.

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Shoutouts to James at 152 last night. Shit was nuts. Im goin to bed.

Forgot that stipulation for the $100…have to beat Shawn in KOF from online in the Netherlands against Saiki. ROFL

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JUST TROLLIN

January 7th hype match! Me vs. Cale, FT5, loser shaves his mustache. MUSTACHE MATCH.

Also, I have a grill day hype match today against my friend David. He says he can beat my Ken with his Guile 10-0, so this is the wager.

  • If he wins his 10, I give him 10 bucks.
  • If I win even one match, he gives me 2 bucks
  • If I win the very first match we play and he doesnt even get a round, He makes a plate of food later that I have grilled and my wife has prepared, and I get to take the first bite of every item on his plate before he eats it.

get fucking hype.

Cale, that match between you and me yesterday was tense as fuck man, it’s frightening how quickly we adapt to each other in that game. Chipping you with booms and laming it out, I foudn out, is how I have to play that match so I guessed right I think lol.

Shoutouts to everyone that came out yesterday, it was awesome. AL crew as always bring the hype.
Shoutouts to 5 man 3rd Strike brackets
Shoutouts to the new faces, please come back out again, we want to play more with you.

Aight, I’m out for the day, I’m off to get hammered and watch my Packers dominate again with my bros.

Stay classy

First off. GOOD ASS SHIT TO EVERYONE YESTERDAY MAN.

Bama - I love y’all. Real talk. You all are cool ass people and always come to support us. I’ma hit y’all up soon for a trip down there so I can get some AE in and get an extended KoF set in with Raekwon. Had a blast playing him in tournament. Mad respect.

Richard and Graham - yeah y’all played your asses off. Good shit

My boy Astaroth - DUDE GOOD SHIT COMING BACK FROM LOSERS TO TAKE THAT SHIT! AHHHHH. CAPTAIN PLANET HULK DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT RESETTING A BRACKET.

Cale - good ass matches man. I DEFINITELY notice a difference with the return of that Jab headbutt. Gotta be careful now.

Spiralbottom - GGs man and GGs in KoF. I promise it was nothing against you, I was just frustrated as hell against Maxima, lol.

Finally…the man…the legend…my brotherman from another motherland…PATRICK FARR - GOOD. FUCKING. SHIT. MY. NIGGA. - dogg that was the most intense grand finals I’ve ever played I think. I KNOW you were HOT after you missed that punish that would have sealed the first set for you, but instead I reset the bracket. I got up 2 games and thought I was in there. But you held shit together and even though we took it to the LAST ROUND of the LAST GAME, you clutched it out. I hate that I cracked and threw out that ultra, but it was a hot ass set nonetheless. Good shit for taking it my man and I love you brother, as always (not even gonna pause that - Pat is my brother y’all EAD).

You and me both brother. I had like an 8-10 game streak on Thomas’ (Spiralbottom) Maxima / Robert / Terry team, then he went super-sayian with Fiston Honda and got in my ass [pause] like 12 straight. Maxima is a matchup I MUST learn.

You already know. I was actually very happy with my performance against him. I FULLY expected to get raped but managed to get him down to last character first game, then 2nd only got him to his 2nd character. I know, the W is what matters, but given the fact that I just hammered out my team this week and am still actively learning the game, I’ll take the small victories as encouragement to keep improving.

Yeah man damn, playing Issac’s Clark was like, yeah aight i’m chill. Gonna buss a few power waves, you know, see what’s AHHH OH GOD LET ME GO AHHH FUCCC HOW ARE YOU SUPER CANCELING THAT?!?
But yes. 7th shall be epic. Bring everyone.

I am going to go ahead and suggest NAY DEMAND, that we change the tournament name to this.

Jason/Richard - has anyone made a tourney thread for this yet? If not lemme know and I’ll get one up today and post it in the Southeast threads. I know ARK is wanting to come and Sara was saying that if we want ATL to come we gotta put money up. Dunno if we wanna raise any entry fees, but something to take into account as we plan.

Hopping on L4d2 with some friends. After being out till 6am, gonna take it easy today, lol. Hit me up on AIM, steam chat, or text if y’all need me.

GGs to everyone at the tourney yesterday. Also thanks to Eddie for being an awesome host and for the games last night and this morning.

Shit yeah man. If we’re gonna have to play each other so early, I’m glad we both got to meet back up in semis to even up the score. I was satisfied with all the matches, I felt like there was a lot of evolution of style contained in those rounds on both our parts. I enjoyed the matches a lot, plus I feel like my spacing gets leveled up when we play. The more you learn where you should and shouldn’t sit, the less I can get away with sitting in the same damn place.

Not that sitting in the same damn place doesn’t have its… um… place, sometimes.

Good shit on 2nd! Patrick, sorry I didn’t get to play you but good on first! Grats to Eugene too… I felt like someone in your “People online have no defense” videos…

Chris if you want to make a tourney thread, replicate the last one we had and post it here (as in SRK calendar and tournaments and events thread) ASAP…the only changes are the cover ($8) and the entry fees on SF and MVC are the same. Same applies as before…more than 20 people, bonus $50 to the pot…so basically $8 cover for the tourney, $ 5 each game, more than 20 people =$50 added to the top 3 and with a $5 a person pot that is significant

Crystal: You guys have at least :

Josh
Trippfan
Thomas
Atron9000
KrayzeeJL
bagochipz

so there is a starting point but there has to be a definitive day and meeting place…people will come if that starts to happen…heck, we have less people here at times because of the drive, lol…

I’m going to request the day off to come to this event. Hopefully I can ride with someone since my car can’t afford to go that far.

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You can ride with me, just meet me at Brest Bruy Poprar.

Well Jeremy lives an hour away and is married, has a kid and school and work stuff so he can’t always come, Jason lives in Maryville and works a lot, is married and has 2 kids, I don’t even know who Atron9000 is, so that leaves Thomas and Aaron who Josh can always count on to play. Unfortunately they both are busy a lot too. Aaron has been in NY and just got home yesterday but he is supposed to come over soon. There have been gatherings at Jio’s every week but they don’t play SF. Aaron is supposed to see about changing that though. I wish we could find a public place like they have in Memphis. Oh well it is what it is.

Oh and Josh told me the two of you have an appt this evening. :tup:

Im free most afternoons. I just can not make it up every week. I have not been trying as hard since every time i ask Josh if he wants to play he seems kinda preoccupied or not wanting to. I was going to go to Jio’s but the problem with that is that they play Tekken and MvC3 which i do not play at all and have no drive to learn.

Holy shit going back and playing vanilla sf4 is amazing