How did you find out about the FGC/TestYourMight?

LtLuthor said:

Google searched Lex Luthor strategies. Decided to make a throw-away account on TYM under my character's name just for the time being to learn more. I stuck around longer than expected.

Gotta get around to changing this account name though...

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Don't, it's great.

Braindead said:

Don't, it's great.

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Yeah, but I go by 'Tony at Home' everywhere else, including at tournaments- though I might start using 'Tony at Tournament' for my registration name

Having "LtLuthor" on one site out of all the others is kinda confusing.

The spring of Mk9's launch I googled Scorpion combos.

Shortly after my entire understanding of fighting games and competitive mindset was turned upside down. I also met some of the best damn friends someone could ask for.

I give this site and the FGC a ton of well deserved shit but I owe it a lot.

searched "subzero" after @Ecodus trounced me back when we didn't know WTF we were doing. Saw @Tom Brady vs @THTB . That led me here.

Looking up Smoke combos eventually led me here where I lurked up until around New Years eve.

Found out about the FGC from the PowerUp MK9 Grand Finals back in 2011
Found out about TestYourMight from @AK Pig Of The Hut 's podcast

Ive been a MK fan since day 1 and always played when it was released. I heard about the PDP MK9 tournament and watchedthe finals in youtube. I then saw a link for MK9 Evo2011 grand finals. During the commentary, someone said check out testyourmight. My first time on the site I learned about VSM and now I'm here

TopTierHarley said:

Lol this pretty much story as well, for a long time I couldnt hit b3 after cartwheel. I almost dropped her because I thought she was too hard to learn

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For me it was getting play doctor instead of gunshot. That input is hella stupid.

I was super dumb when I joined the FGC/TYM. I thought that Harley /Aquaman was 5-5 cause air gunshots. Also thought that The Break was a major and I got tired of seeing KDZ win.

I used to be a gamefaqs noob until I heard people talking about this site on the mk9 boards.

Silent Jay told me about TYM. Then i finally joined after about a year. Pretty simple.

DarthArma said:

How did you find TYM though? did another online warrior tell you about it? or was it back during mk9?

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I guess I learned about tym through my clan at the time and also my brother who told me I should put some of my tech on it and he bought me a capture card in hopes it would be put to good use

It was the clan I was in back in the day that brought me to TYM, and thank god it did. This website has gotten more important to me than facebook. Sadly, I can't really go to any tourney's (yet!), living in Germany and all, but I do want to pretty bad. For MKX I'll try to attend tournaments right from the get go, where ever they might be held.

I found about MKU through the MKDC chat in the game lobbies.
Then when TYM came about, MK9 came out shortly after and that's how I got introduced to offline tournaments and scenes.

After injustice came out I was randomly looking for streams on twitch while I was grinding in Neverwinter (it was like 6 AM), and WNF comes up with injustice on it. After a few weeks of watching WNF they keep mentioning TYM and Testyourmight.com. And here we are.

I wandered over from Gamefaqs. I was there looking for how to finish the mk9 challenge tower and met a ton of cool people. When the gamefaqs board died we migrated here.

I really wanna do a reunion koth with everyone someday!
@Rampage254 @RedRaptor10 @DragonPick @xWildx and I'm missing people, but yea I'd love for us to get together and play again

I found out about TYM when I came up with the name.

Great thread!

I found out about VSM by searching for Reptile Combo videos and chatting with @Scoot Magee here on TYM after playing him on XBL. Then I met @9.95 and @R.E.O. and the rest is history.

Goldy said:

I wandered over from Gamefaqs. I was there looking for how to finish the mk9 challenge tower and met a ton of cool people. When the gamefaqs board died we migrated here.

I really wanna do a reunion koth with everyone someday!
@Rampage254 @RedRaptor10 @DragonPick @xWildx and I'm missing people, but yea I'd love for us to get together and play again

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I was part of the group but I found out about competitive gaming and stuff before this but MK brought out the savage in me haha. I just wanna compete and beat people as much as possible

I've been playing fighting games since forever. I was huge into Tekken, Smash, Soul Calibur, and DOA. I really started to like mk and go play the old ones after I used some characters in mk vs dc. Once I started playing mk more I got insanely hype for mk9. I started right off with ermac and cyrax, and wanted to know about setups and combos. I think I typed in cyrax guide and the first link was tym. The rest is history
OH and in south Florida we didn't have much of an FGC community except for some locals at an arcade playing injustice, luckily I live and in Orlando now and will be playing in the next CEO

It was right after MK9 came out, I saw the grand finals of powerup between Brady and PL and TYM was mentioned on commentary. That's how I found out it and got into the scene in general.

I never knew anything about fighters. Actually all of my competitive gaming stemmed from world of warcraft arena pvp (season 5-7 furious gladiator). And NHL online game (then local tourneys).

My first fighter was MK9 and it was a groomsman gift from @xQUANTUMx and we started playing together. I really enjoyed long combos and so I started looking up stuff on Youtube. I found Tylerlantern combos. I found i could do bigcombos and was really feeling myself. I joined a online clan called NPAB (No Punk Ass Bitches lol) And did well with them. So finally i decided i was awesome and would go to an offline tournament in toronto called Toryuken. I met Ghost who I roomed with along with Quantum. I got bodied almost right away went 0-2 at the tournament getting eliminated by @GGA Jeremiah (who beat me up with Kenshi and also won the Injustice tourney with Doomsday). Like most scrubs I figured it couldnt of been my fault.

After all of that injustice was out and it was time for me to try my hand at the next game. I immediately picked CW who I really loved playing (day 1 not so phenomenal CW player here lol) and decided I really wanted to learn how to play the game properly. I was suggested to check out TYM and MKU. And since then ive had the privilege of playing and meeting some really good people and now call quite a few of them friends.

#trusttree #WWSD

@Qwark28 brought me here!

I seriously think I first found out about the FGC from seeing the daigo parry video.

I can't remember much about how I first got to TYM, but I remember how I got into the FGC. I first played MKII on my Game Boy Color when I was younger and I must have been about 8 when I beat the ladder using only specials I looked up in the manual lol. The next one I remember playing was Deception (which remains my favourite MK to this day even though I didn't play it at high level) as well as Shaolin Monks, Armageddon and of course MK9 (you're damn right I didn't play MK vs DC).

Getting into high level MK9 was actually by chance, I was browsing My Little Pony Rule 34 videos on YouTube and one of my recommended videos was Tom Brady's Sub Zero vs someone on Khan's Coliseum. I watched it and was interested in one of the combos Tom did, so I went into practice and copied it. One combo and suddenly I was hooked. I looked at more high level play, watching Pig's Mileena in MK9 EVO 2011 I think it was, and decided I liked the look of Mileena so I mained her from then on and got better