How did you find out about the FGC/TestYourMight?

I was looking for Scorpion combos back in the Mk9 days. Never knew there's was an actual website dedicated to Mortal Kombat and certaintly had no idea about the FGC. Wish I would have found out sooner.

At first, I was a part of MKU's community. Then I met @STORMS and @Krayzie, both of whom directed me to this site back when it was known as Mortal Kombat Empires. However, I never truly became active as a forum member until the dawn of Mortal Kombat 9.

To this day, I will be forever thankful to those two gentlemen for introducing me to a world like this.

When SSIITHDR came out I was getting destroyed online, which made me want to get better. It led me to Youtube, where I watched Darksydphil's(I think that's his name) matches. That led me to search broader and I discovered Event Hubs and Shoryuken. I didn't even know SFIV was about to come out lol. Anyway, When I bought MK9 I did the same thing. I searched around and found TYM. The first tournament match I seen was PL vs. REO at EVO I believe.

I was playing fighting games for a very long time without using the internet as a resourceful tool. I could have done so much better at the mini Tekken 5 DR tournaments at the mall here back in the day. It never crossed my mind.

Btw, the sheer number of people who were clued into NRS gameplay via tournament videos shows the true importance of streams and stream archives.

Yes the tournament itself comes first, but there are a lot of people now who wouldn't have been interested in going to the tournaments if they hadn't seen the streams.

Since we 're trying to grow our part of the community, that means that stream quality and advertising/reach are very important things to think about.

9.95 said:

I'm older than most people on this forum being in my late 30's.

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Was this a typo from "late 300's"?

CrimsonShadow said:

Was this a typo from "late 300's"?

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And don't you forget it! LOL

It was the summer of 2011. I was just playing MK9 with my buddies. I wanted to be better than they were. One of them was a jumping KungLao and I was looking for some high level techniques (how to anti-air).

I then came to the sight and saw Quanchi videos from @Under_The_Mayo (the science of Quan videos are the most fucking amazing tutorials to date). I learned Quan and had a blast. I messed with smoke a bit, before maining Kabal. I would watch @R.E.O. play at VSM and absorbed everything. Reading and watching streams. Posting every now and then with questions. I listened to @Tom Brady podcasts to get hype/laugh!

I then attended WB (Feb 2012?) as my first tournament and started getting involved in my local offline scene.

The rest is history!