First of all, this was a great tournament, other than the little stuff like delays, me not getting a suite (still grateful for free room <3), etc. Whether I won or not didn’t change the fact that I love the niceness of the people here, the love people give to people who from out of state, and the general atmosphere. I appreciate everything everyone did to help me have a good trip. I’m still stuck at the Hilton until Wednesday, but whatever :D! Anyone who came up to me (and sorry if I forgot your names, so many people approached me this week, lol) and talked to me, helped me, or just gave me a plain handshake, thank you ^_^; There were the up and downs for me… Randomly getting sick from eating wings right before Top 8 scared me the most, however I wasn’t going to let that stop me from trying to win SF4. Anyways, enough ranting, onto the shout outs =).
@JohnRog: Thank you for everything, the hotel room, driving me to the casino to lose my money, running WCW, letting me stay in your house, making sure I was always okay, and I could go on and on and on … You’re one of the coolest people I met out here, not only because you did basically everything you could to keep me happy, but also went out of your way a lot for me. You made me feel right at home ^_^;.
@HappyTang: Bobby Lee, lmfao. Thanks for driving to the casino to also make me lose my money, lol. Also for the talk we had in the car, no homo. It really brought a lot of things to attention in my mind, something I wouldn’t have done if I didn’t get a little insight on everything. I need to work on a lot of stuff, which I’m preparing myself to do. Thanks thanks!
@CaliPower: Haha, it was a sickkk finals. I really didn’t sandbag at all any match, I don’t know why people are saying it like that. But you know I had to turn it up 1000000x when I saw my last pixel of life left in the last match! You’re hella good (everyone tells you this), and I respect you 100% for being you. When I come back in a month, I expect to be beat cause I already know you’re capable of it.
@SherryjeNix: Thanks for driving me to eat everywhere everyday. Sorry I got sick and wanted to leave early after wings, I don’t know what happened -_-;. Your Viper got better every day since the first day I saw it, keep it up =). Keep your hands on the stick, stop moving your body when you play, don’t think about what you’re doing wrong and focus on what you should be doing right lol. If you ever need any help, you can PM me or something. I’ll give you SOME Viper tips, I’m not the greatest of Vipers yet, but I’ll try :D. Anddd, sorry I couldn’t win with Viper, I really tried to do it just for you ;P.
@SHGLBMX: Thanks for picking me up from the airport, and taking me to Pho… Sorry about all the confusion the first day, I didn’t know what was going on either. Thanks for BlazGreen, it’s definitely 100% better than BlazBlue… And your dog is fucking cute as fuck, I want it -_-;…
@Rex: Thank you so much for taking a day out of your life to take me to the Getty museum and taking me to A.I… For just driving around, thank you so much. If you hadn’t done that, I would have been stuck in a room all day like I am now lol. Sorry I’m a boring person and didn’t wanna look at more shit at the museum but lol, I guess that’s the only place that’s good to go too…? Haha >.<
@Everyone who went to eat with me or I tagged along and ate with you guys… and the people who I hung out with and just talked to… Combojack/Vic/50hatguy/UTJ/UmeShoryu/Vicious/Wahark/Dula…soemthing!/LegendofLore/Tatsu/Sherry/Bebop/ShinJN/Kai/DJVest/Anna: It was definitely fun hanging out with you guys outside of the gaming atmosphere, just chillin’ and talking… It brings more perspective out of my eyes when I see stuff like this. I kind of sound like I’m some dude who’s stuck in a fucking lock in a basement all day but lol, it’s just being in California with everyone makes me feel so much better about people… I tend to attract the haters, but in California, everyones so nice, I’m kind of tearing up just thinking about it lol. I hope I didn’t throw out any bad tension to make you guys think I’m an asshole or anything, I really tried to be on my best behavior haha. Just being around everyone, it seriously makes me think differently. You guys made every second here worth it. Thanks thanks thanks.
@KS2: Thanks for rooting for me vs. Valle in the end. I heard you guys and that’s when I got even more confident and momentum in myself to win. Thanks so much, I knew you guys believed ^_^;.
@Players of California: You guys are definitely legit and right up there with the East Coast, don’t let people tell you differently. Just because I won doesn’t mean shit about EC > WC or any of that. This isn’t shit talk, but everyone is always like Marn is Texas, not East Coast, but when I win a tournament on the WC, everyones like EC!!! If they claim that I’m Texas, does that mean TX is up there now? I still believe everyone is almost the same level, and the only guy higher than everyone else is Justin. Keep practicing hard and I truly believe the U.S can be on the grand scale of Japan. We need to work together… From what I gathered this weekend, everyone has their jobs, everyone doesn’t have as much time to play as other people in the world, and it’s truly understandable, but if you want to be up there, there has to be some time put in… Valle is good because he puts in the time for it. It just doesn’t come in a present box. Why am I not shit talking? Because just being able to travel around the world and meet everyone, good or bad, makes me change my heart about a lot of things… I WANT people to beat me, I WANT people to get better now… I WANT people to have a unity. I sound like fucking Jesus right now, just ranting sorry.
California did give me a change of heart… I don’t know why. I just love you guys really, and when I move out here soon, I’ll help anyone and everyone who asks. Thank you all again for everything, the nice hospitality, everything, I can’t thank you guys enough. I hope I didn’t make myself out to be an asshole to anyone at all. It was nice meeting everyone, and if I didn’t give you a shout out, I’m sorry but I met TOO many people this weekend lol.
Oh and people were asking about my contact stuff:
AIM: That Guy Marn
Facebook: Martin Phan
Twitter: Marnorz
And to end this long post, Empire Arcadia #1. 