james, i’m already set for friday. i just need to know what your plan is on sat night and when you plan to leave on sunday. i say this because i need to figure out which train to book on sunday.
if any of you want to get a room for sat night, i’m down for it. it’d cost us money but it will give us more time to play casuals and stuff.
play another game, play another game… well let me tell you this, 2 weeks before spring brake, I asked for a copy of 3s so that I can learn the game…
now ask everybody on the forum… has anybody given stephane a copy of 3s so that he could learn the game ???
I know that learning a new games will make me a better player. it is just that we need to keep it real.
unless Guilty gear is not your main game I said we have a guilty gear tournament, don’t get e wrong but for a tournament, I would the play a game that I actually invest time into, not just a game that I mess around with. I mean jams play 3s all the time, and so do the other so I think 3s will be ok. guilty gear, everybody plays the game so I think we should have the game too… now T5, who the fuck play that game anymore since Dan left??? I mean seriously? why are you going to have a T5 if none of us play the damn game???
Now if we played the game before then yeah, but it isn’t the case.
So this is why I believe that guilty gear and 3s should be the frist 2 games to mentioned because at UIUC, those 2 games are the main games we play all the time.
then we have more space or something, then we can include something else…
got it orka???/
oh by the way, this is getting crazy. I mean if we ride with scott on the way there, and then on the way back we don’t ride with scott??? how many people are going to be on jams car???
I call shot gun… hahaha.
dude, just go BUY the game like everyone else has. nobody is wiping your ass to go get you free games.
you ask for the game, so what? nobody is obligated to get you the game for free.
fuck off jerry, did I obligated anybody to make me a copy of the fucking game for free??? I just asked around and what people said:"yes, they will make me a copy.
I WILL SAY THIS RIGHT NOW, IF YOU GUYS DIDN’T PLAN ON MAKING ME A FUCKING COPY IN THE FIRST PLACE, THEN DON’T GO AROUND AND SAY **“YES”**THAT YOU WILL MAKE ME ONE, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I AM WAISTING MY FUCKING TIME WAITING FOR YOUR ASSES TO MAKE ME A FUCKING COPY…
for really, if you know that you are not going to do something, then don’t say “yes” in the first place. that way I could have just gone and buy the fucking game at ebgames or download the game or something instead of waiting for your fucking ass who never said anything afterward…
holy shit…
if i said that i would get a copy for you earlier, it’s because i thought that i could. otherwise, i wouldn’t have said it. unfortunately, i wasn’t able to, and for that i apologize. however, look at it from another perspective: we are all students, some of us work, and have other hobbies outside of gaming. i don’t mean to sound obtuse, but on that list of things i need to get done, burning a game is pretty low on the priority scale. i will have you know, though, stephane, that on 2 different occasions i did try to get you a copy, but unfortunately both of my friends’ computers lacked the means with which to burn dvd format. don’t get me wrong, man, i’m not trying to attack you or take sides with jerry; what i have said is just me, no one else. i frankly don’t care what other people said they would do for you. i do know, however, that i personally said that i would get a copy for you and didn’t. so again, i apologize. if you would still like a copy i know there’s one at gamestop, used, for 29.99; i can even hook you up with my discount card if it helps. just let me know, alright?
FURTHERMORE: can we all drop this hard-ass, hostility bullshit??? we’re all friends, we don’t need to be spending what little time we have left together jumping each others’ fucking balls!! seriously, IT’S FUCKIN’ GAMES FOLKS; GROW THE FUCK UP!! i am not aiming this at stephane, either. i mean anyone who has in the past or is currently spamming their pathos on our forum, repeatedly!! really…fuckin’ chill. if you wanna go ahead and attack me now, go right ahead. i frankly couldn’t give 2 squirts of piss.
GO TO HELL MIKE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
just kidden
but anyway if i had a burner i would burn it right away but i dont 
so the plan i think is this…
Friday: me, stephane, possibly jerry leave chambana around 4-5pm or so and drive to scotts.
Saturday: Wake up early, head to columbia. Go to tourny. After tourny i vote to go back to scotts.
Sunday: Me, Stephane, possibly Jerry, and Yosh i think take yosh to his train place early before 12pm at the latest. Then head back to chambana.
MOTHA-FUCK YOU MIKE
I’m leaving with my girlfriend at around 4-4:30. We have to go a little bit out of the way to take her to meet her mom, but then we go to my house and hang out.
The next day, we leave at around 9:30-10 AM. I’m going back at around 6:30-7 PM though, so it will be James, Stephane, Yosh, and possibly Jerry on the way back.
Yosh, if you take the train back from STL, you and James will have to figure out how to get to Union Station (or wherever it takes off from). St. Louis isn’t an incredibly hard city to navigate (much easier than Chicago), but still. The easiest option is just to leave early enough from STL on Sunday and take the Champaign train back.
So it is cool if we also crash saturday night as well?
lol, chill out guys.
Securing the venue I’m heading down to EB today with Mike to discuss booking EB for the tournament later this afternoon. Any tips from those who have tried it before? 
Entry fees What you guys think about the $3-5 entry fee? I like it, but I’d like (read: demand) feedback. I just think $10 is pretty high for anyone even moderately into fighting games, and may put off some people. Like me.
Prizes I don’t know how EB works. But if it’s like last time, they’ll take the entry fees and give out EB certificates. If that is how the prizes will work, then we may have to increase the entry fees. I’ll hammer this out today with EB later.
Date 21st or 28th, I should be fine with either one. Still need to look into course schedules and stuff to see if there will be any problems, but should be okay.
Advertising We still need someone to make a flyer. I really think that if we post up flyers everywhere, we can draw out a large crowd. If it turns out that we advertise the hell out of this tournament and still get crappy 10 man turnouts, then it’s still a result. I want to see what we can get with good advertising. A control experiment, if you will.
Games
So far, we got
Guilty Gear: 2
Third Strike: 4
Tekken 5: 2
Tekken 5:DR: 1
Soul Calibur: 1
Looks like 3s is in.
Let me say this. Looking at it from a totally logical point of view, we ran Guilty Gear and Smash at our last tournament. Normally, we try not to run a tournament for the same game twice in a row. I could see us doing this for Smash, since it consistently attracts 30+ people (our last one had 59 participants), but it won’t work with our planned venue.
As for running Guilty Gear again, that is different. Most of us do play Guilty Gear, and for most of us Guilty Gear is our main game. However, we already ran GG last tournament. That tournament had a turnout of 10 players, two of which weren’t in our regular group. Granted, the tournament wasn’t heavily advertised at all, it’s hard to use the argument that had it been advertised, the turnout would have been significantly higher, as the Smash tournament, which was advertised the same as the GG tournament, not a lot, had almost 60 people.
Running a second GG tournament in a row wouldn’t really be beneficial to us or the fighting game community here at UIUC, small as it may be. The only people entered would be just ourselves, and it would be, to that effect, just another casuals session that we always have together.
There’s also consideration of the venue. Considering they let us do the tournament, they would be letting us use their space for free, and possibly even provide prizes. Getting a turnout of 8 people for one of the two games we’ll host will not be good for their business. Even though we’ve had crappy turnouts like that in the past EB games tournaments, we still want to make an effort to help patronize their business, in return for their kindness of letting us use their space.
So as much as we would like to “fuck people,” taking such a selfish standpoint doesn’t really make sense. Assuming we take that approach, and throw a Guilty Gear tournament solely for ourselves, what do we get out of it? No new players are going to come, and it will just be us playing like it was regular casuals. As it doesn’t help ourselves, so does it not help patronize the venue by trying to get more people to come to the event.
And as always, THOUGHTS?
Im sorry but we are catering more to the smash players. They can run there own damned tournys.
I vote 3s and GG. Have it on the 28th if possible, and invite chicago people as well.
Take away my t5 votes. No one plays it as well.
Im sick of smash, they have their own group. Plus EB wouldnt hold 60 people.
NO TO SMASH for EB TOURNY
Honestly, if we actually promote some outside of UIUC, we could get people to come like how we got the Chicago guys to come to SMYM for GG.
Im just saying that i dont think we should run smash. I hate to say it, but i dont want our club to be mainly associated with running smash tournys. By denying more exposure to 3s/GG/insert 2d game, the more it dies. That may be bullshit, but whatev. We are fighting game players, not smash players. (this may be the first time i call smash not a fighting game)
gogo tekken DR
you know my record in that is actually a lot better, i think like 10-13?
my 2 yen are, if this is the last UIUC tourny for some of you guys before you grad, then why not play teh game that you all are most serious about which is gg. but yea if ur using ebgames space then uh duno.
If we play at EBGames, then we shouldn’t be inviting people from Chicago. Seriously, it’s a small, shitty venue and you get money from EBGames.
Maybe if we held a tournament at McKinley again, but that’s too expensive.
i dont really care if we have gg or not, mainly because we hold our gg tourneys usually to try and attract new players. it is late in the year though, and we already know every single gg player on campus. It isn’t so we can play each other, because we do that all the time, and for FREE.
i do think it would be cool to have a tourney and invite the chicago people down, but as scott points out, EBgames is a really small venue.
is there gonna be another Show Me Your Moves before the end of the semester?
stefane - i didn’t mean to attack you or anything. i was just saying, it doesn’t hurt to play other games too. that way you won’t be disappointed when your game is not in a tournament. in a hindshight, though… it’s probably logical for you guys to run slash since this is not a illinites tournament.
scott - i know this is asking for a lot… but… can you somehow hook up PaRt2 with housing? he’s friends with james and he’s out of luck right now since entire chicago pretty much bailed out of the trip. call me on my cell if it’s okay or not.
first of all, just like jams said, the 28th should be cool for me as well. For the flyers, I am not good a making flyer I have to admit but somebody makes some, they can pass down to me and I will make sure to cover the whole quad and engineering quad to get the max result.
Don’t say that 8 people we sign up for the GG tourney because you never know. as far as I know, you barely ( if not even) advertise the first tourney. and illinites either so don’t go assuming that there will only be 8 people signing up, especially when you have made little or not effort to get some more people to know that there was GG tourney.
“fuck people” well yes I will say that, I am not going to bust my ass for a game that I don’t even really care about just to attract some more people. I will work only for the game I am passionate about. if nobody else come then that is fine, at least I will play a couple of game and have fun…
I totally agree with jams’ post, fuck the smash players… they can run their own shit…
I agree with dan, this may be the last tourney for some people, so playing the game you like a good way of saying goodbye.
scott are you scared because the chicago people are going to come and take your first place??? don’t worry man even if they dont’ show up you are not going to be first… AFFRICA got that ass.
First I don’t agree with you jerry when you said that we know every gg player on campus, you haven’t check every single dorms and every single apartment to say that. and even if it is at the end of the semester, we should be able to put up a good show so that when people come back for the fall, we have more people who knows about the game or have an idea, which will be easier to find gg players next year.
also although it is a small tourney I still think chicago should come becasue as far as I know, if they had their monthly ( which isn’t any bigger then the EBgames tourney) me and jams were going to show up, so they should do the same I think, and on top of that, wouldn’t that be more people for GG which in turn will please Chris because of the number of GG participant???
OH BY THE WAY, I JUST GOT A COPY OF 3S ANYBODY HAS A LINK WHERE I CAN FIND A COUPLE OF MOVES, SET UP AND STUFF TO HELP ME LEARN THE GAME???
I BARELY CHECKED THE GAME AND IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WEREN’T ANY COMMAND LIST… SO YEAH.
Check out the SF3 strategy section forum http://forums.shoryuken.com/forumdisplay.php?f=78
and then choose whichever char your interested in
they will tell moves and the what not and stuff, good infos
some nice vids —
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yun tutorial (in japanese though)
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this one explains a lot that helps simplify commands and stuff
ok this is going to take a while to learn. I think I know what a kara is… although I am not sure what it is, and then some people say (MP) and some just say fierce something. so I am getting confused, and then there the Jab which I have no idea of what it is…
so yeah, I think I may actually need somebody to teach me some basic rather then reading and then try to play and not understanding anything…
Well if your learning ken or yun you dont really need to worry about karacanceling (unless your hellbent on doing karapalm genei jin combos).
Everycharacter (some have none however like urien) has a move that when kara canceled into a throw, allows for more range. You can actually kara any normal move into a throw but most wont do anything. Different chars have different moves that allow for useful kara cancelin (chun’s mk, elena f+mk, ryu/akuma f+mp, for example).
I need my $25 gift care from EBGames, and I don’t care who I have to hurt to get it.
Yap, no problem.