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There it goes.

Okay guys, I’m out for Evolution. Theoretically, I could strain and really make the logistics work, half-ass my way through the pre-Evo battle (both in terms of my own game and of the quality of the event), put the focus on my own game, and hope I could get to/through Vegas before I’m burnt out, just to say I finally made it to Evo.

That’s just not me.

Instead, I’m going to get you guys the best pre-Evo battle I can put together and give you all one last big push to Vegas in the process.

Honestly, I’m not sure whether I should feel good or bad about it. Half of me feels like I’m bailing out on you guys for an occasion I should absolutely be there for, while the other half accepts the fact that the top three players are still going and that I, in my current shape as a player right now, didn’t have that much to offer as a Utah Evo representative.

Regardless of which half is right, I’m now just focused on taking one for the team, standing aside for one more year to have Ernie, Nate, and Samson show the world what Utah 3S is about, having an epic gathering out at LFU to send you guys off, and taking that now-free time, money, and energy this will give me and putting it toward making it up to you whether I need to or not; putting myself in position to get to those SLC gatherings, making it god damn certain I’ll be able to take a carpool to Evo next year, giving you guys the best pre-Evo battle possible, planning road trips to some of the top arcades in Pacific North, pushing for APEX tournaments in SLC, and so on.

And, of course, some non-related stuff that has just been a long-time coming. I need to finally take the time and effort to regain the energy that I lost way back in December at USU and get my life back on track. It may sound fucked-up, but I still haven’t addressed that. I was about to, then Tony told me about FUNatics’ willingness to hold tournaments, which kicked off Utah’s summer tournament season, and I’m just now starting to realize how many things I kicked aside to catch the momentum from that.

So, for those of you who understand, thank you. It’s just been so insane for me trying to juggle all these tournaments, the skill to play in them, the logistics of directing them, drivers ed, all this other Evo stuff, and somehow finding the money to pull it all together. I tried to make it work, but it’s pretty safe to say I stretched myself too thin trying to address everything.

Right now, I’m tired and burnt out. I wanted to go to Evolution anyway, just for the experience, but it would’ve done more to me than Regenesis did three years ago (for those who remember, you know I wasn’t good for a damn thing for the next few months after that). After the pre-Evo battle, which I’ll re-announce with all the new information pretty soon, I’m probably going to take a few weeks away from fighting games almost entirely. I want to relax. I want to play some NHL 2K5, or Forza Motorsport, or finish the omake dungeon in Grandia Xtreme. I want to give my mind a rest for the first time in a couple months. I want to finish getting my drivers license. I want to get the job hunt back on (I put it on hold when the FUNatics thing came up). I want to get my life moving again.

The pre-Evo battle will have to be my Evo. I’ll see you all there, and I’ll try to put a lineup in place that everyone can get into.

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Gah, sorry about that shit.

I couldn’t get back to my computer in time to post up a number I could be reached at. But yeah, we were bored as shit in Park City, seeing as how there were no games, and the only green was on the mountains…Hehe.

Anyways, we wound up going to the Tilt at the Gateway in SLC…Must I say…

Guh.

Anyways, we’ll probably be back out there at some point, so I’ll post up a number and shit next time, cuz it’d be fun for all to play some games.

PS.Yeah, I know Quiba, it’s always Quiba Time in Chicago.

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Hey Pat, it’s cool man, I appreciated the tourney you held, it was fun and I"m looking forward to the next times we all meet :party: . If you can’t go to evo, it’s aight, real live and your mental state>fighting games. Hopefully the Bleyls will show up to the next one, I met 1/3 of them last night, he was chill as hell.

HAHAH! :tup:

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It’s been a while since I’ve been here. and all I can say is this.
The army is stallin with my money. my loot was sposta be here about a week ago and them shits is still not here so if I don’t get it, guess who ain’t rollin to EVO. After all these years of tryin to go but bein flaked on & shit, This is some hard shit. And I was gone chill in the car the whole time & just mob up with 2 bills. but this ain’t cool so I don’t know what to say except if I don’t come up with 2 notes by the 10th or get my change, I’m out ya’ll…

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lets make a final list of who’s headed up to evo then - me and my brothers all got off work via the ‘family reunion’ excuse hahaha. sorry bout that shit ernie. just go give blood or some shit haha. anyways good luck to everyone trying to make their way out to evo!

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I’m goin fo sho, just 2 weeks left! :party:

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I’m back on the list. either drivin or walkin…
either way, Evo’s mine!!!

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Alright, here’s an update on how Nate and myself did at evo.
In Nate’s qualification pools, he only had one person that I knew of out of the other 4, Arlieth from FFA of course, popular Makoto player. Nate won 2 games, lost to Arlieth and someone else I don’t remember. Some bullshit though, around the time our pools come up, they decide to cut it down to just one game other than best of 3 so the up coming pools had potential to pump out random results.
My pool was a few minutes after Nate’s, I lost to someone named ‘Ack’, pretty sold Urien player, but honestly I felt like I COULD of took him if it was 2-3, but he won fair and square, and another player ‘crackporn’ was in my bracket, I know he plays GG#, but I wasn’t sure of his 3s skills, I believed he lost all his games, and I advanced to losers semi-final brackets. From the losers bracket, I played someone whom I forgot already, used chun-li, wasn’t too skilled so I won, was also just 1 game, but after that it would be best of 3. Second round losers I played Dat Nygen, he used Ibuki and beat me 2 games in a row. He as pretty solid, and I FUCKED up alot, but he played well.

As for my other 2 tournaments, I lost every game in my T5 pool, and for GG#R, I manage to win 2 games but still didn’t qualify, but I consider that pretty good since I haven’t practiced or really played GG since Italy.

MvC2 finals were dope, CvS2 was aight, BAS finally wins. ST were kinda so-so. I was a bit dissapointed in guilty gear, I wanted to see some different characters but oh well. 3s was hot, even though the finals were chun vs chun, it was very tense and close.

Over all, the tournemant was tight, but a bit unorganized bracket wise, and time wise, I’m going to assume the main reason was the overwhelming turn out for thrid strike. I’m sure next year they’ll prepair for the potential of a flooding event.

Next year, more of you fools better come, and in the mean time… I told Nate this, but I definantly want to host tournament events in our area, but before I even start this, I’ll hunt down fools and harrass them to start playing competitively to have decent turnouts and more different skills. Next year, I WON’T choke.

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Christ dude, ARLIETH, as in Arlieth, USA’s #1 Makoto? Ugh…that was a worst-case scenario if ever I’ve heard of one. Pool’s a horrible time to run into someone of that caliber.

I really wish I could’ve made it, myself, it’s just that after directing three tournaments that were probably too ambitious for the turnouts we got, plus the side shit with drivers ed, I was too mentally drained to practice for the local tournaments, and I was completely fried by Evo itself.

I need to regroup and replan my own shit, how I’m going to do things next year and all. I want to have regular tournaments here, but I’ve gotta do it on realistic terms that actually have me in good shape come Evo.

I’ll come up with something, though.

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Just wanted to add to what Samson was saying. I lost to some scrub Akuma player. I knew i could have beat him but some of my combos didn’t come thru. The Makoto player was really good. I decided to use Ryu because I knew my Oro wouldn’t stand a chance.

But I still had a blast at Evo. If i’m available to go, i’ll definitely head up there next year. Hopefully its held in Vegas again. Next time I’ll go prepared with my own joystick.

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http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90437
Empire’s hosting a tourney slated sometime in Janurary in VA, I know it’s on the other coast, but just a thought. I’m somewhat interested. :party:

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The manager at the Provo Towne Center Tilt is trying to get bimonthly Tekken 5 tournaments going.

We had one last Saturday, and there will be another this coming Saturday, Sep. 3, at 6:00 pm. It’s pay to play, double elimination. The comp is…fair, but it’d be nice to see more experienced people come and show off their skills.

There may even be prizes this week, too. I got a data card and a Tilt water bottle full of candy last week. Eh? Candy and data cards? You know you wanna come to Provo.

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How many people were in the last tournament? And is Tekken the only fighter they have? I would be interested if there were a good amount of people.

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There were 10 people if I remember correctly, mostly scrubs. Lots of 10-hit combos being tossed around; nothing very movie-worthy. I’m not exactly going to win any major T5 tournaments either, but I’m decent.

I’ve announced this on the old UT thread at tekkenzaibatsu as well, hoping to get in touch with some of the older Tekken heads I used to play back when TTT was big in Provo/Orem a couple of years ago. Hopefully they read it and come to the tournaments.

And since you asked, the Provo Towne Center Tilt also has XvSF, SC2 (in a sit-down racing cab), MvC2, TTT (sit-down racing cab), T4 (not working at the moment), SF3:NG, MK4, and SvC:Chaos. The PTC Tilt is the best arcade that Utah Valley has to offer, as far as I know.

Come on down, invite friends, get Ernie and Nate to come…hell, pick up Pat, Tony, and the Bleyls, too. :slight_smile:

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Sounds good, even though I’m not a big Tekken player, honestly I’ve only gotten into Tekken recently, but I’m pretty decent. If the other fools don’t read this thread, I’ll hollar at them before the Saturday tournament comes about, odds are I’ll head down there. Do you have an exact location or atleast the street name of the mall? I pretty much map quest everything since I’m new here to this state. :party:

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Take I-15 south until you hit the exit for University Avenue, NOT University Parkway. The exit should be 266 (according to Google maps), but you’ll be able to see the mall from the freeway; it’ll be on your left as you’re going south on I-15. Take the exit loop around until you hit the traffic lights, then turn left. Head straight on University Avenue until you hit Towne Center Blvd., take a left, and you’ll hit the mall. The arcade is on the west side of the mall by an entrance, 1st floor, by Dillards.

I used Google Maps to get this info – it’s accurate.

Hope you can come!

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sam… pm me some of them dudley combos plz.

FFA was the SHIT!!! 10x 3s machines… better then that 1 BS one in nickle mania

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Heh, don’t rub it in, I wish I was there -_-;
I’ll send a PM on some Dud stuff.

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i’m going again tonight, i actually beat one of their best players twice… i felt lucky lol
his name was alan or somthing like that, best fucking yun i have played against besides K.O’s yun, him and this other kid remind me of parry master jay… too good man seriously they parried almost all my wakeup shit with ken cause they would wait and jus to like f+mp or somthing

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Hey DanaTorp, is there going to be an entry fee? And do you know the potential prizes? I might have 2 extra people from base tagging along with me if they’re for real about joining.
Damn, it’s a 1 1/2 drive :confused: