[quote name='Chacrana']Hell, Shrike
is a mod and I don't care what he thinks.[/QUOTE]
shrike
WAS a mod. he's not anymore. apparently something went down yesterday.
ok, well over the weekend, my cousin informed me of a local fighting tourney, and I immediately stopped everything I was doing to attend. it was about 15 guys with a slew of games to play. the competition was mainly filled with newbs and button mashers, but there were a few good players. the games present were:
SFA3
SF3:3S
GGXX/
Tekken 5
Hyper Street fighter
KOF XI
Garou: MOTW
my zangief dominated SFA3 with twirly, spinny goodness. lariats,pile drivers, everythign was spinny. one guy was fairly decent with R. Mika and I had loads of fun watching him play against others. my cousin was using a combination of ken, chun and cammy to make it to the finals. in the end, both of us gave it our best, and I came out on top with v-ism Charlie.
3S was a mixed bag. not too many people were good at it and there were tons of button mashers.although, there was 1 guys that was dominating with Urien. he was busting out cool shield combo thingies. my cousin got eliminated quick because of that Urien, and I lsot to him at the semi finals. apparently my makoto wasn't good enough.
NOBODY knew how to play guilty gear efficiently. this was a sad waste of time and most victories were won with the instant KO moves. basic turtling with dizzy got me to the finals and a not so well earned victory.
the T5 scene was grand! I felt out of place specializing in 2d fighters when this came about. I ainly used king and hwaorang, and dont' understand any of the linguoyou guys use when talking about the game. (EWGF.... yeah I have no idea what that means) . so there was this King player who just plain owned everybody. I lost in a quarter finals match. my hwaorang sucks major balls.
HSF was fun and I had a great time schooling people with zangief. I had some problems with constant fireball newbs, but I greend handed to SPD'd them to death. again, my cousin and I made it to the finals, and I came out on top. there was a good Dee Jay that ws eating up the newbs and gave me a hard time. we had a double KO and everybody was like "ooooooooooohhhh!!" and stuff.
comign form a community of mainly mexicans, the KOf XI scene was strong. there was a hella sweet kula/ clark/ iori player just eating people up. it's like the control was his fork and his characters were the prongs, and he would just be poking at and playing with his food, flinging it every which way. I lost early because i'm not as skilled as the rest of them. they busted some crazy tag combos I can only dream of doing.
when Garou came on, I lighted up and just began wailing on everybody that came my way. I used tizoc/griffon, kevin and jenet sparingly for kicks, and terry when I felt pressured. not too many people gave me trouble. and these were some of the more energetic matches of the night IMO.
all in all it was a good night, and I can't wait to get a call back from some of these people for another tourney.
now onto sad news... I just got my check and see that i've been underpayed by at least half of my paycheck
bad times ahead.
in Aksys, the doods actually bringing Accent Core to the US. NOBODY would bring that game to the US unless they had their heads tuned to the fans and the niche crowds who still play that stuff. 
