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I'm assuming Trading Card GamesTCGs? wat is dat
I'm assuming Trading Card GamesTCGs? wat is dat
YupI'm assuming Trading Card Games
Pretty much this. Unless you're a godlike player who's gonna go deep in the tournament, most of your fun is gonna be based around chilling with others.It sounds like you'r OK in this department, but generically:
If you're at a tournament for a day or two and all you do is play your tournament matches for maybe an hour you're going to have a bad time. The fun is in interacting with others and extracurriculars, so you have to get talking to people. (The community is generally pretty friendly but not many people are going to go out of their way to reach out to a guy sitting in the corner.)
If you go with a group of friends that's a good start. If you're very outgoing you can do your thing. But if you're more introverted and you go by yourself you'll really have to make an effort to put yourself out there.
League of Legends, Eh?First and foremost, consider any money that you put into getting to the event as gone. This isnt a means to get rich, especially not fighting games, if you wanted to make money playing video games, pick up league of legends and hope that youre better than like 50 bajillion people. These events are about getting out here, competing and having fun.
Take advantage that you want to get into the NRS community, which I find much more welcoming than the capcom community that just calls new comers "09ers" and shits on your for being bad without providing any advice about getting better. I'm NOT saying that you WONT find that in the NRS community, or that you will find NOITHING but that in capcom, but thats just from my experience.
Do you have a car? do you know anyone else in your area? before traveling out, try to go to some local events, or even try posting in your regions thread about getting together and having a session somewhere. Get to meet some people and make a connection before you go and trek to a far distance across state lines. Youll save on gas and driving all those hours with others in the car is alot safer than doing it alone (especially for such a young person)
I've never been to EVO so I can't speak about what it's like, but you def want to try to go to some events that are easy to get to. Def reconsider starting this when mkx comes out, and paying a visit to UFGT/combo breaker.
If you want to fly and not deal with going cross country in a car and paying for all that gas, make sure you go somewhere that has public transportation.
You're starting in july, look into flights that go to Philadelphia and keep an eye out for summer Jam, there isnt a date announced just yet, but its usually around the end of august, and should be announced any week now. As long as youre staying in the hotel, you can call them and have them arrange a shuttle to come get you from the airport after you land. If you were old enough to rent a car I would tell you to just pay the money to do that instead, less of a hassle. This shuttle service does exist for other events depending on how close they are to an airport, you wanna call the hotel front desk just to make sure.
Hope to see you somewhere this summer!
Grown-up stuff?
i just saw this. i actually haven't seen my mom in 2 years, but sick burn anyway ... i guess?Edit: Says a guy who still lives with his mom and is only 18 lol.
Be prepared to spend more money than you intended to because everything is badass.So i'm planning to start attending Majors for the first time after The month of July. Is there anything I should know about travel expenses, like should I go with a friend in a car, take a train, or get some plane tickets. I'm also not to sure how most go about getting a room at the event. So if any of you guys' could shed some light on the process, it would be greatly appreciated.
Well geez that took a dark turn and escalated quickly. Best of luck and hope you get stuff sorted out.I really do thank all you guys for the advice, but I recently, got put in a really bad position.
So bad, that it looks like I won't be able to go to any tournaments for a while.
I'm not even sure I'll be able to pick up Mortal Kombat (that's still a maybe though.)
In the end, it seems like I would have a great time hanging out, with some great people.
Thanks again guys.
Side note, if you reply back to this message, I probably won't reply back to it for a while; becuase, I won't be on TYM that much anymore.