Billy was using Sagat
I used Sagat
And Drew was using Ryu.
chanchai placed 9th with Ryu
Pasqual placed 9th with Rose and a completely random Akuma
Awesome! I’ll money match yas any time. XD (I have a problem lol)
Hmm, btw, Billy played Sagat/Ryu, Slash played Sagat, and Drew played Ryu. You missed Chanchai, who played Ryu, and Pasqual, who played Rose. They both got ninth place. But yeah, good random tourney guys.
EDIT: GOOD GOING SLASH GOSH
Wrong thread, you dumb. Joking but post up in the other thread, we will make a list of the options and go from there. I like this idea but I don’t know about randoming the pools, we may just want to try and manually get the games balanced out as much as possible otherwise you’ll likely see two players play each other all 3 weeks in a given month before the tournament. And we’d basically do nothing on 5th Thursdays or use it as interest checks for other games or some of the more random type tournies Omne’s been talking about.
gonna try to make it out there this week hopefully i dont spend what little money i have before then.
Looking forward to this week’s Fight Night, especially after the last two.
I’ve been fairly busy the past couple of weeks (well, the past month really), but I have been wanting to give a more detailed thanks and account of the Fight Nights we’ve had.
Following are my accounts of the last two Fight Nights:
9/3/09 (aka Day Before PAX)
This was a surprising Fight Night for me for a number of reasons. I didn’t have the usual heads up for it like I normally had, except that I Mackinzie told me he’d be able to make this one (always awesome).
I was also preparing for PAX the next day, which meant an early morning drive to Seattle, which meant that I would not be able to stay out too late (in theory) at this Fight Night.
That said, more and more people showed up and it was one helluva time. Before I continue witht he Pre-PAX Fight Night…
Thanks to the following players that showed up that night (and sorry if I missed your name):
- Pasqual
- R_Panda
- Slash
- Rayblade
- SlayU2
- Tsunamiken
- Mackinzie
- Tajiri
- Derek
- Bumperfront
- Alix
- Billy Chiu
- Anthony
- Ricky
- Hector
- Sam Y
So on with the details…
We intended to start the night with some VF since it had been awhile for Pasqual and R_Panda. Furthermore, I have been wanting to give Ray more VF training before his NY trip. Shortly before Ray showed up I ended up workshopping some VF basics with Pasqual and he caught on quick. If the session lasted longer than it did, I would think Pasqual would come away a lot stronger in VF–but he was adjusting quick.
Ray showed up and so for almost an hour before I had to jump back on the clock, Ray and I fought it out like crazy in VF. Right away Ray was beating me up with his Vanessa and took the lead for the rest of the night, but I was able to fight my way back for awhile. When all was said and done, we had very intense Vanessa vs. Lion fights and I think the score was something like 17-14 or 15 (Ray leading). The only critique on Ray’s game from me that night was he fell back into the habit of dodging way too much, so sometimes I would sweep him over and over again to kind of stop him from doing that. Though instead, he ended up sweeping me back hehehe. But seriously, the matches were really good and we really fought it out.
I ended up working for awhile so I couldn’t play for a few hours. Watched people play SF4 and what not and Pasqual brought along Dissidia and was playing that a lot that evening.
I was really happy to see Alix, Billy, and their friends show up. They hadn’t been to a Fight Night since beginning and I later found out why (Billy is the high school group’s driver and he was in Hong Kong). The last time they came, their first Fight Night, Alix made a good SF4 impression on the top players so I really wanted him to play SF4 with everyone. It took awhile for that to start…
I got Alix’s group into KOF XII on the PS3 and they really enjoyed that. Enough to buy the game in fact (a week later, we got our sessions and it was fun).
Mackinzie setup a PS2 with Third Strike and that was awesome. The Third Strike station was a great part of this Fight Night with Portland’s Fat Bear leading the group. Along with him were Mackinzie, Pasqual, R_Panda, and Slash all playing a lot of 3S that night.
Anyhow, after awhile, I decided it was time to get Alix to play SF4 with more of the group. So I setup the PS3 station for SF4 (he can only play on PS3 pad at the moment) and we set it up.
Alix and Ray had some epic matches as well as Alix and Sam Y. At the end of the night though, it was only Ray’s Blanka that took down Alix’s Abel. Alix had streaked everyone during the fight night with his Ryu and Sagat. Even with other characters.
As Ray described Alix’s playstyle that night: “He’s like a mini-Jackson (Chen). No-nonsense player. It might not be my favorite style of playing, but I respect it.”
After Alix and his group were done with SF4 for the night, they asked to play some KOF XII so we got into that for around 40 minutes and had a lot of fun before their group left. Glad they enjoyed the game enough to pickup their own copy because 9 days later we had a lot of fun at a private session of KOF XII at Versis.
The rest of the evening was a lot of SF4 and 3S. I really enjoyed watching people play Combo H-O-R-S-E on SF4 before I left for the evening. Ended up leaving really late, but I greatly appreciate Mackinzie sticking behind to close up the place later and I heard everyone had a great time at Denny’s.
As for me… well it did make my drive to PAX the next day more difficult, but I had a blast.
9/10/09 (the unofficial tournament)
Quite a crazy Fight Night. There was a good showing of different people and there was a tournament that was pretty crazy–awesome outcome, pretty exhausting, lots to talk about.
First off, thanks to the following players who made it out on this special Fight Night:
- Yangsing
- Tsunamiken
- Bumperfront
- SlayU2
- Rayblade
- Angel (very cool newcomer)
- R_Panda
- Pasqual
- Kwyjibo (Kevin)
- Slash
- Alix
- Billy
- OMNE
- Lord BBH
- Mackinzie
The night began with SF4 and a little bit KOF XII as I convinced Yangsing and Angel to try it out. Unfortunately I had to get back and work as more and more people came in, so I couldn’t show them some of the ropes in the game. Eventually things went back to all SF4 but good times.
Angel’s new to the scene, but not new to SRK. He’s interested in SF4, Blazblue, and KOF XII. I really liked meeting Angel and I look forward to seeing him at more gatherings. After awhile, I could tell that his primary experience with SF4 was online play. Pretty darn good considering that too, but he’ll be learning a lot more at Fight Nights, Ranbats, and with more games with everyone. Welcome to the Fight Nights, Angel!
OMNE, Slash, and Pasqual helped out to get a Double Elimination Tournament going. OMNE was both the driving force behind the tournament as well as a superb coach to the players–so I have to give him a lot of credit for that. He would let players know what things they were doing flat out wrong or what would help them after he saw their tournament matches and I think it was pretty much appreciated by everyone.
Lots of good came out of the tournament such as Matt explaining to some other players the nuances in the Boxer vs. Sagat matchup, Jetay’s pointers, observing how much more competitive R_Panda has become with Viper, and best of all… A thrilling “as close as you can get” Grand Final between Lord BBH and Alix.
Lord BBH won in the final round of the final match of the final set of the Grand Finals. And up to that last moment, nobody really knew who would win.
For BBH, it was awesome to see someone take down Alix (twice in the same tournament even). For Alix, it was an amazing performance for his first ever tournament.
Alix and Billy had to leave immediately after the tournament because they have to wake up early for High School, but it was awesome that they stuck around until the tournament’s end which was close to 1:30am.
After the tournament, open play resumed with mainly SF4 on the two main stations and KOF XII on the side. Quite a bit of workshopping happened naturally on SF4 which was great to see.
On KOF XII, there was workshopping during the tournament with Yangsing learning various things from myself and BBH. Kwyjibo would combo practice to get a feel for the game. Mackinzie practiced combos, learned combos on his own, and got in quite a few matches. Wish I was able to play more matches with him.
I had a wonderful KOF XII session with BBH though I got destroyed the whole night, but I always enjoy the beatings and I do think my XII game is getting better.
Super, super late was the VF5 session between Ray, Yangsing, and OMNE. I was preoccupied cooking meals for people (part of the job and we’re glad to be generating revenue so late in the night) and preparing some closing activities so I didn’t get into the VF5 until way later when it ended up being just Ray and I.
Ray and I had a great VF5 session and I think at the next fight night, I’ll play a more machi/chicken style against him so he gets used to it. I think he’s going to be facing much more of that style in New York. He adjusted to it after 3 or 4 matches though and made less mistakes or gambles from long range eventually.
That Vanessa of his is scary, but I spoil Ray a bit going toe-to-toe almost always against him because it would be more to his benefit now to improve his discipline and mastery of long-range fighting.
It was a really good, but tiring fight night. Ended around 5:30am. Good times!
Thanks for those kind words. I enjoyed meeting you and everyone else last week as well. Portlands fighting scene is solid and everyone there was cool as hell. Also good to know Im not the only one driving an hour to get there lol slash. See you all tonight.
Good games tonight, guys. Impressive showing of improvement from many people, and I’m very happy to see Chanchai leveling up in SF4, even with his busy schedule. I can see you’ve been putting some time into the game lately, which is sweet! G_Effect has a surprising style to his Ryu, very interesting and scary sometimes, but I’m still down for that money match next week. Same goes for new guy Ian the Zangief padwarrior. Money matches all around, more than happy to oblige (that means to take your money!).
Once I was knocked out of the tourney I played considerably terrible. I didn’t eat or sleep well before Versis this week, and I really felt it affect my ability to do anything. Kinda felt like my brain was turning off the whole time. But, eh, sandbagging got me two money matches, so no biggie. I’ll be sure to bring my A game next week, don’t you worry.
So many new faces this week! Thanks everyone who came out, but especially the new peeps! Hope to see you all again, and I’ll try to learn everyone’s name and nick when I do.
Billy, we need to commandeer the PS3 SF4 station for our rematch next week. We need to finish this already. It will be epic.
This week I’m going to be working on SF4 of course, but I am also going to be checking out my new character in VF5. If I feel competent enough (like, remember a dozen moves), I’ll attempt to join you guys next session I think.^^
Good games last night. Had to duck out a little early because my friend isnt used to stay up for all hours of the night like your truly. Had fun playing my vega against the high level players and would love any tips or advice that anyone has to offer about how to play vega better. (except to stop playing him 
)
Yeah, it was great games all around last night ya’ll.
Huge thanks to BBH for some of the Chun tips. Gotta work on them block strings.
And the vids for last night should be up sometime tomorrow. iMovie had a heart attack and didn’t feel like importing things right
GGs. Gouken is fun to use.
GGs to everyone, I had alot of fun and it was good to meet you all. The tournament was pretty cool too, I liked the single elim format you guys were running. I also liked the fact that it was free.
Fun to fight against.
Had a blast my first time out. I don’t know why I didn’t use Blanka in the tournament though; guess I second guessed myself.
I had a great time in that tournament even though i lost against BBH two times in a row in the finals :pleased: It was an honor:china: haha. I dont really know anyone at the fight nights but im starting to get to know some people like panda, xeris,Kwyjibo, sam, slash,G_effect, ray, pascual, omne and its a fun playing against you guys. GGs
You’re… not supposed to tell them all that until after you’ve taken their monies.
Oh shit, it’s Alix! What up, good job once again man. You had one of the moments of the night with that Perfect round with the sexy combo during the tourney. Hope to see you out again next week and we’ll play this time, I think I’ve only played Billy and that was like once.
GGs to everyone, the tourney was mad fun and I felt I played better in the friendlies afterwards which is unusual for me in a good way. Next week, Revenge of the Rufus. People are really starting to step it up and I have no choice but to follow suit or be left in the dust.
At 3am, Bubble Bobble is the most entrancing thing in the world. I just chilled watching Jetay play for a good minute before I ended up leaving. Good times.
My one recording from last night: [media=youtube]v6yMA17Quuw"[/media]. Great set, guys!
I got peaced out by Alix twice now. Good stuff.
As soon as I found out I was facing you next I was like shit already? I’m not ready 
. Add me on psn so we can fight sometime. And by fight I mean me stealing all your moves and combos for myself! Muahaha GGs everyone. And special thanks to Ray for showin me how defenseless my Ryu is against blanka, also thanks to Simon and Nick for those tips against blanka. I will remember and practice for next week. I can’t remember the balrog players name but thanks man you also gave me alot of useful tips. See you guys Thursday.
We never got to do our doppelganger matches. Nothing more fun than stuffing things and hearing people say “What?? You can do that?”…
Buahaha. Fear the Master.
Hosting matches at my house today starting at 4:30 going till whenever, might do it tomorrow during the day as well but it would end at 7:00PM
This will be a weekly thing, I want to get players of mixed skills playing steady matches against each other to increase improvement in our local ranks.
All players welcome, but I will be limiting it to the first 6 that contact me as I cannot host any more.
The idea is to play SF4, but I have other games that could be played if there’s demand for it.
Location/Contact
Jeromie Esterline
1984 SW 5th Ave 97201
Toll free:
(877) - 328 - 1887
List of games:
SF I
SF II: The World Warrior
SF II: Champion Edition
SF II: Hyper Fighting
Super SF II: The New Challengers
Super SF II Turbo
SF Alpha: Warrior’s Dreams
SF Alpha 2
SF EX
SF EX Plus
SF III: New Generation
SF III 2nd Impact: Giant Attack
SF Alpha 3
SF EX 2
SF EX 2 Plus
SF III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future
SF Zero 2 Alpha (a.k.a. SF Alpha 2 Gold)
SF Zero 3 Upper (a.k.a. SF Alpha 3 Dreamcast Edition)
Hyper SF II: The Anniversary Edition
SF IV
Tekken 3
Many more available upon request.
Hey Tsunami,
It’s really good that you’re starting up another weekly session. These are always the backbone to community and growth.
That said, I think it’ll also help to create a “Tsunami Saturdays (Portland)” thread or something like that, so people can plan and coordinate it better. And to help hype that event up.
-Chanchai