So last night was funalnds final day open. It was open till midnight and 3s was nothing less than hype. The place was open until midnight and I made sure i stayed till the very end.
When I got there, the former heavy wieght champion K was there doing wat he does best and beasting.
**** As much as many of us here ended up not likeing K for his attitude towards samir wen he lost, ill still give credit were credit is due. Lets face it, as much as alot of us here think how bad ass we are in 3s and how well we study the game, or how much tournament experience we have and think a guy like K is a push over, u know how wrong u are. All OG’s and Newblood’s and even sophmore ppl here who play 3s wont ever deny wen uv encounterd K you got ur ass whoped and whoped hard. I even remember when Ack (who at the time i had no idea who he was) came to FL and faced K, he got mauled hard (sure u can blame the sticks i guess). Like the very first time i saw a kara demon in gameplay was fromt this guy and i can recall myself just grabbing the closest person to me and shacking them sensless and screaming "DID U SEE THAT, FUCK DAMMIT NIGGA DID U SEE THAT!! ". Alot of us here picked up tricks and ideas from his gameplay that is still being used today. he brought alot of stlye and origionality to the table. As a person hes a cool guy but even Ill admit his attitude was pure shit imo. BUt my point being is K was great back then and is still a great 3s competetior even now. *******
alot of familiar faces showed up, TOSF PARRY exhibition creaotr guy (short asian guy, kinda old) with his buddy Criss Cross (as sum of you refer him to, the guy who plays dudley cross handed)goe tie guy, miles, Q and there freind the yang palyer, JOHN!! (he use to be the change guy at the kennedy arcade, has a real bad ass ken) and even at one point JOE (T3 or T2 team champion) showed up to pay their last respects. the list goes on. AND THERE WAS THIS ONE GUY WHO CAM DRESSED UP AS RYU WEARING THE RED HEAD BAND TO JUST TO PAY HIS LAST RESPECTS !!!
But it was a fun night at one point people were playing each other for one last time, seeing old school beefs and veterans go at it one last time was something else (mind you i was high at this point and it was just something amazing to see). Getting to watch some K vs John, random beast Ryu player vs TOSF parry exhibtion guy, Criss cross vs JOE, everything was hype because everyone wanted to leave their mark and so they played at their outmost best accompanied by my play by play shit talk comentatoring for every game it was hands down a really fun evening.
Then Samir shows up and begins to do wat he does best for one last time at FL. even though for pretty much the rest of the night Samir stayed on and go on another ridiculous win streak, even he cant deny at one point there were good competitors who almost took him out (mind you hes playin Q then goes to yun after). Samir was sooooooooo full of gass at one point he even hand gestured the come over hear movment everytime he got hit by a super lmao TO BEAST !!! At the end of this the Final match at the arcade was between me vs samir in wat was a pretty much free money for samir. After all that we said our good byes told everyone to keep playing and go to pmall.
Say what you want about FL, sure is was a grundgy arcade, funny smell, hoodlums and hobos rouning around, random change guy vomiting at the garbage (LMAO), police stepping on ppl, random Iraqi or afghany (watever the heck he was) slapping ppls faces and tryin to pick fights, drug dealers dealing, machines not being sanitaized often or at all, stky floor, retarded fat old lady driving around in her scooter and honkin at people to get the heck out of the way so she can go play some pinball, old smelly old men inhabiting the back of the arcade to play some Pac man, random ugly prostitutes trying to get a deal off me for services, ITG and DDR peopel sweating up all over that machine, watching insane white guy doing the most ridiculous dance for every song he played on (i swaer he did the most retarded hand movments to each song, i swaer he tought he was a mystical ninja at one point), listening to RTSD rant on about 3s facts while total strangers are playing the game (:D) , etc etc …
BUT … even though it had all this, this was the place were alot of us started playing. If it werent for FL, i would have never discovered the greatness that was guilty gear. I remember even at one point me and howard were equals in MArvel , STFU howard u cant even say shit son lol, my very first team i choose at the time (magneto cyclops and doom) use to beat howard often, but of course now i can only dream of beating howard in MvC2. I can remeber one random night after my class was done i headed to FL and that was the first time I ever saw Jay, Luie and burton. They were going at it like fiends, that was the first time i saw genei jin used like that and the first time I saw someone dominate with 12 and of course the dudley beasting was jaw dropping.
Iv personally made alot of good friends at this arcade, it was a place where anyone can go at any random time and play some 3s or watever game. Weather it was waiting for a class to start and u wnna burn three hours at FL, or weather it was ur break or lunch from work, or weather u wanted to play a couple of games before u went out clubbing or drinking or watever, Fl wa always there to fill the void.
I personally will miss FL becuase overall i had good times there. RIP funland thanks for the memories …