whooo! I'm back from the tournament!!!
hella yah! I beasted my way to the top!!
and by the top, I mean that I tied for 3rd place, a position that earned neither a prize nor props.
lol, but I cant be mad considering the situation. anyway that's the TLDR version and u can stop reading now if u want... story time starts now!!!
I got there at like 6pm, talked to a couple doods, left for a bit to grab sum grub.
came back like half hour later and saw sum random dood and I was like "awww wtf GOOTECKS?!?!?!?!"
yes, the best SFIV player in
in america was there, and thus my chance to win was gone lol. Talked to him a bit, said he found out about the tournament randomly and for $500 decided to drive 2 hours, and another dood from AI also showed up too. crazy, but he got peaced out halfway lol.
so after Ryan won the tournament (obviously) he told everybody about how he's the best SFIV player and how he also won last night at the Citywalk event and ppl there were starstruck!! lol, he gave so many autographs that the store wants to display, of course along with his picture that goes up on a wall that has all tournament winners on it. He autographed a couple posters for the store, in addition to a copy of the game... and other ppl wanted him to autograph stuff too. It's pretty crazy.
I kept watching him play thinking like he's an obstacle for me to win, I still wanted to win and began strategizing on what I can and cannot do. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to play him.
I got to the semi-finals and lost to the person who got 2nd obviously (and won an SE stick). He was actually a player from FFA who has a real nice Bison.
my thing is, I believe I have done a real good job learning my character (Blanka) in 2 days. I play him well and know sum good tricks, but I lost becoz I didnt understand the matchup. I kept watching Ryan and trying to figure out how to beat him, but when I had to fight a real good Bison I hella lost.
I always try to bait anti-air, but he never jumped, NEVER!! Every time he hit the air it was him doing his special stomp or whatever. I jumped on the opportunity to AA him, but he jus did the weird Bison aur turnaround thing and got me!! He also neutralized all my electric traps!! He got out of them with normals into combos!! Crazyness... I lost both rounds to him.
tho I say, I'm glad that up until that point I never lost a single round. All my matches went 2-0, and also it was single elim one match japanese style tournament.
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so at the end of the day, the turnout was INSANE! so fukkyn crowded, I didnt get into my first match until 10PM. Overall tho, only about 5 competent players. Gootecks, FFA Bison (Kris), myself, another Rog, and one dood who had a pretty good concept of Abel.
regardless, even at low level play you can definitely appreciate what SFIV is doing. While the players arent doing crazy shyt, theyre still fighting with a sense of tension down to the wire that still make the game seem very exciting.
so all in all, good times. I came home with nothing but a poster... which unfortunately does not have an autograph on it lol.
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