The Tampa Thread: WTF HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?!?!

im goin to ess gee yea yea

So I got a new PC in the last week, and I’m capable of streaming (pc stuff only at this point, no capture card as of yet). I’m probably going to be streaming a lot of stuff over the next days/weeks, ironing out how to make it work well across a bunch of games and all that.

Any views/follows are much appreciated <3

I didn’t really know anyone who played it apart from my friend, but when I checked out a spot not too long ago, it was basically all Smash with some Marvel. I can’t, and don’t want to play it, but I’ve got to stop running my mouth about it.

But I plan on hitting up Sore Thumbs off 56th this Thursday with some KOF, if not just to play some Mahvel. I’ll bring some equipment too for the PS3 users, I’ve got two mildly used sticks, and I use fightpad for KOF so its fair game for alittle while. My shit is for Xbox, but last time Marvel was there it was for Xbox.

Just gotta see if the owner would know. Holiday would know, not me.

I’ve read about SG in this thread, but I don’t know where it is.

There maybe some KOF going on at Serenity tonight (someone would have to bring the game)

Never heard of Sore Thumbs, do they have a weekly gathering thing like Serenity? I’d like to spread the word about our community to like minded people.

Alex is a strong UMvC3 player. The community would benefit from playing him. And vice versa. Game is still random, though! LOL

Iam at SC games playing some kind of KOF knock off its actually fun but want to get some time in on umvc3 and AE they need setups bad in here.

LOL. KOF is already a knockoff. And now there’s a knockoff of THAT knockoff there?! Man, someone should be a knockoff of the knockoff’s knockoff! I laugh in the face of nonCapcom games…

…wait, and Capcom games. I think I just blew my own mind!

I wish someone would knock me off.

I charge.

Good times Friday, and thanks for the battles. Btw, anyone have an extra wireless mouse they happened to pick up over the weekend? Mine seems to have crawled off somewhere.

Magneto is my hero, so change your avatar broseph! No homo !!

GG’s at Serenity today!

I don’t know if anyone has kofxiii but I have been really hyped about it since its announcement for console earlier this year and since it’s come out I have played it exclusively. However I have always jelled with snk games better. Anyway if people do have the game, dlc ex iori was released yesterday and I have to say he is awesome. I think that cvs2 players are really going to be comfortable with this character plus he is very strong. If you have the game grab this dlc

Honestly there is no doubt in my mind that KoF is a much more competitive/balanced game than UMVC3… but the only reason I haven’t gotten KoF XIII is because I have never played a KoF game so learning all the mechanics seems a bit overwhelming right now when I just want to focus on UMVC3/SSFIV/BBCS.

I may get it for Christmas as my own little present and just play it casually though

Yeah appreciate yall who came out.

Anyway Sore Thumbs is a store of 56th and Sligh avenue near USF. I’ve been working with the owner to host Smash and Marvel events. A lot of people play both games. Sometimes Brian Matz and other good Marvel players come as well, but me and Nick (Nick got 2nd at the Sore Thumbs tournament a while back) and a few other decent people will at least be there.

And also, I understand that people hate on smash or w/e, but if you want to host stuff soley for events like SFIV, KOF or Umvc3, just talk to the owner. He’s always open to new business and I’m sure you can work something out like I did with him on Thursdays.

Either way I’ll be there tomorrow and tbh I have a new team and some technology I’m dying to bust out lol.

Zidart, I’d drop BBCS for KOF right now, just because there is even less of a scene for BB than KOF, which has a minor scene here. And when I say “smash is not welcomed” that’s just my personal opinion I never really saw it as a competitive fighting game (fighting game being the key word there) but if people want to play it I’m not going to stop them.

I may drop by tomorrow to check out the scene at Sore Thumbs, my Ghost wants to spam Spire more lol!

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Hallade Who are you dammit ?!?! State yo name!!!

glad to hear i’m not the only one that KNOWS smash is just a party game. and if i was going to play a party game, power stone 2 bitches!!!

I don’t play BBCS competitively, I just play it casually with friends. I would drop it for KoF until Blazblue Extend comes out and then I’d probably play it to go through the story mode again just because I love it. I know the scene of BB is pretty small but I just love the game.

with that said though… I am really interested in KoF, is XIII a good place to start?

I am the terror that flaps in the night…

Na for srs tho, I’m Lade, previously known as RedHalberd. I’m the guy who won the Sore Thumbs tourney. But to provide some backstory on who I REALLY am lol, I go to USF and I’m the 2nd ranked player in Florida in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and I Organize the Tampa Smash scene. I picked up Mvc3 back when it came out. I was at Tampa never sleeps (I got top 8) and I play around the Play N Trade scene a lot (I got 2nd to Allen at the last tourney). Smash is dying which is why I’m aiming to go pro in Marvel.

And for people who hate on Smash, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but it’s really not much different than Street Fighter or Mvc3. You have to put in just as much work to get good,learn matchups, and compete in tournament. The game is incredibly well balanced (Minus Metaknight who was recently banned) and at high level is extremely deep. The reason I got good at Mvc3 so quickly was because of all the high level Smash experience I have.

If Smash isn’t for you, that’s fine, but coming from someone who plays it at a high level (and I like to believe I’m damn good at Marvel too), whether it was intended as a party game or not it’s a damn good game competitively. If you hate on it I don’t care but I’m tellin it like it is.