As we in the US learn about more and more parts of the world that have any kind of fighting game community/scene especially when it involves Mortal Kombat you could say we're eager to learn more. Well, Eddy Wang is from Angola... and that is in South Africa. Once I learned about his scene/community there I began asking questions about their scene there, the players, etc. Recently he got back to me with everything I asked for an then some with little player bios, casuals footage and an overall "scene summary".
"Last year there was a Pro Evolution tournament , this started the video game events for the 1st time ever on the country,Its called ADV (Virtual Sports asociation "in English").
However with the release of MK9 they've been organizing MK9 tournaments since june, i didn't join on the 1st one but someone recomended me to join in on the next events.
Last year there was 5 tournaments of MK in ADV i've won 4 of them, of course they had some specific rules like:
- Double Elimination Brackets: Called Bracket of the winners and Bracket of the losers (on Challonge.com) Everyone starts on the brackets of the winner, if you lose your send on the Bracket of the losers to fight another defeated players" No matter what you play you can't lose twice or you're out of the brackets"
The final is settle by the best player from the bracket of the winners and the best from the bracket of the losers.
- Tag Matches:
- No Effect codes allowed.
- No Stages banned
- Kratos and DLCs banned (last year only)
The events for this year will start with the Euro Football season, and MK9 will appear again dynamic as hell, the hosts are evaluating all the stuffs we're proposing, so it came the Casual Tournaments.
Casual Tournaments: Are preview tournament macthes to gather more players to the movement and train them to be strong to debut on future ADV tournaments, we're organizing since april at least 1 per month.
Last Event the rules changed, because we want to increase our skills in hope to go on USA events on the future so 1st we change the rules to:
- Kratos Banned
- Winner keeps the player.
most of the players liked it and played, but its only half work done, we're currently working on a agreement to reduce matches to 1 vs 1, its far more competitive, if everyone aproves it the next ADV tournament will be much complex.
Players
Domingos, Edson (Eddy "Nomad Cancel" Wang)
Mains: Scorpion, Skarlet, Kitana, Kabal
Until now i'm still the best player, maybe because my experience came from MKT that rulled the country for countless years since 2000. I won 4 consecutives tournaments on ADV using Scorpion, Kitana and Kabal as mains.
After the 1st Tournament i started to being Sponsored by JAM longue ( A company who sells gaming stuffs here, cool shop)
Dias, Ary (Solid)
Mains: Ermac, Mileena, Kitana, Cage
My first outside Macth on MK9, we fought countless times on Tournaments and out of tournaments and his game has improoved well since then, Ary always gets the 2nd or 3rd place. He is also one of the owners of JAM Longue.
Don Smith
Mains: Kano, Jax, Liu Kang, Cyrax
Smith is my sparring partner, and he plays a lot with me, besides his keep away style the joined ADV tournaments twice, 1st time he got 2nd place, and last time he got 3rd. Smith is also Sponsored by JAM
Nunda, Hermenegildo (No Nicknames)
Mains: Smoke, Reptile, Kitana, Kabal
His game improoved along the tournaments and he organizes casuals from time to time, on the casuals was when i notice i huge control of his game, so next tournament he is going to be bomb.
Martins, Renato (No nicknames)
Mains: Sub-Zero, Mileena, Liu Kang, Kenshi (recent)
Sub-Zero starter on the beginning of the season, he supports Tom Brady, my first opponent on my Debut in ADV tournament one hell of a fight, but my match experience managed me to win, he is always eliminated somehow by Ygor another dude who enters every tournament.
Benjamin, Ygor (Ice King) "he says"
Mains: Cyber Sub-Zero, Nightwolf
ADV's Opening Season champion, from what i've heard he took down every opponent until the end, some dudes where saying he was lucky, but on every tournament he got very close to the spot light baiting them with icy counters and ice clones, IMO i don't see how was that lucky if they're always falling for it lol.
Sucka, Agapito
Mains: Kung Lao, Smoke
A player who didn't stand out much during the tournaments, but he kept trying lets see what this season awaits for him.
Fragão, Mauro
Mains: Sektor, Sketor
Mauro didn't stand out that much, i remeber of see him and Agapito playing with smoke and secktor, but didn't work out.
Inacio, Olavo (Bilack)
Mains: Sub-Zero
Bilack was my final opponent in the 2nd tournament were i did Debut, be he stopped playing because he says he can't keep up, however this season i believe he will comeback along with his brother.
Pedro, Eudes
Mains: None
Olavo's little Brother, Edudes also played on the tournament but didn't went much far, and he quits because his brother got bored, need to be hyped again.
Juninho (Piradex)
Main: Rayden
He plays with rayden, but doesn't get far, someone always stuff him out of the tournament. He set me as milestone to beat but we never fought inside the tournament
Mirelson (XP)
Mains: Scorpion, Cyrax
XP fights with Cyrax and Scorpion, he stands on tournaments but he always ruins it and get punished, but still a promissing fighter with enough room to grow, i haven't seen him since last tournament so i dunno his whereabouts by now.
Soares, Josemar (Jo AKA J Fucking Cage)
Mains: Jade, Cage
Josemar started on tournaments playing with Jade, but these days he plays with Johnny Cage as will be seen on the videos soon. He's not that strong but he has room for improvement
Ivo (nightmare)
Main: Scorpion
A player who was being notice at the beggining, but he got married and i don't know if he will comeback.
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Non ADV Tournament MK9 Players
The MK Titans is recruting and expanding the MK community around the country, it was confirmed that some unknown players are training hard for the next ADV tournament and will make their Debut this year, lets hope so.
On Hermenegildo's house during the casuals we recieved a trio who plays MK9 to fight against our Crew. I Didn't get the name of the other 2 but there is one who started to hang out with us on the casuals his name:
Marcos
Mains: Kung Lao, Kano.
Very Promissing and someone to look out for, he stands out on the casuals besides the usual players keep getting the most wins, i'm pretty sure he will be on the next tournament.
Giovanni (Vany)
Mains: Quan Chi, Kung Lao, Reptile
Vany was one of the Top 3 MKT players of all country, he recently started to play MK9 and challenged me after he felt himself confortable with the game, i took my revenge and on a Duel i won 10 - 0 without losing a single round, this motivated him and now he gathered a few more players to join his crew and practice almos everyday. On MKTC he almost sent me to the losers but i managed to get victorious
Francisco, Roque (Rocke)
Mains: Quan Chi, Smoke, Shang Tsung
Roque is also an Old School MKT player, he is on Vany's Crew and plays a lot with him, on the Casuals Tournament he went and did a very good performance, but i send him to the losers.
Costa, Judce (Jutsu)
Mains: Cyrax, Cage
Jutsu is a friend i met last year on MKT war crew matches, he used to live on another state, but he moved to the Vany's Zone and now he is from our Crew on MKT matches, he is playing MK9 and on his debut in MK Casuals Tournament he send smith to the losers and then Ary send him to the losers, both of them took down the entire bracket of the losers just to have a rematch for the 3rd place spot, where smith took his revenge and defeated him 2 - 1.
Silva Silva (KG)
Mains: Kitana, Sindel, Cage
Ary's most recent recruit and he stood against us very well, he didn't won any match on the MKCT but was really close i expect to see him on the next tournament as well."
"Last year there was a Pro Evolution tournament , this started the video game events for the 1st time ever on the country,Its called ADV (Virtual Sports asociation "in English").
However with the release of MK9 they've been organizing MK9 tournaments since june, i didn't join on the 1st one but someone recomended me to join in on the next events.
Last year there was 5 tournaments of MK in ADV i've won 4 of them, of course they had some specific rules like:
- Double Elimination Brackets: Called Bracket of the winners and Bracket of the losers (on Challonge.com) Everyone starts on the brackets of the winner, if you lose your send on the Bracket of the losers to fight another defeated players" No matter what you play you can't lose twice or you're out of the brackets"
The final is settle by the best player from the bracket of the winners and the best from the bracket of the losers.
- Tag Matches:
- No Effect codes allowed.
- No Stages banned
- Kratos and DLCs banned (last year only)
The events for this year will start with the Euro Football season, and MK9 will appear again dynamic as hell, the hosts are evaluating all the stuffs we're proposing, so it came the Casual Tournaments.
Casual Tournaments: Are preview tournament macthes to gather more players to the movement and train them to be strong to debut on future ADV tournaments, we're organizing since april at least 1 per month.
Last Event the rules changed, because we want to increase our skills in hope to go on USA events on the future so 1st we change the rules to:
- Kratos Banned
- Winner keeps the player.
most of the players liked it and played, but its only half work done, we're currently working on a agreement to reduce matches to 1 vs 1, its far more competitive, if everyone aproves it the next ADV tournament will be much complex.
Players
Domingos, Edson (Eddy "Nomad Cancel" Wang)
Mains: Scorpion, Skarlet, Kitana, Kabal
Until now i'm still the best player, maybe because my experience came from MKT that rulled the country for countless years since 2000. I won 4 consecutives tournaments on ADV using Scorpion, Kitana and Kabal as mains.
After the 1st Tournament i started to being Sponsored by JAM longue ( A company who sells gaming stuffs here, cool shop)
Dias, Ary (Solid)
Mains: Ermac, Mileena, Kitana, Cage
My first outside Macth on MK9, we fought countless times on Tournaments and out of tournaments and his game has improoved well since then, Ary always gets the 2nd or 3rd place. He is also one of the owners of JAM Longue.
Don Smith
Mains: Kano, Jax, Liu Kang, Cyrax
Smith is my sparring partner, and he plays a lot with me, besides his keep away style the joined ADV tournaments twice, 1st time he got 2nd place, and last time he got 3rd. Smith is also Sponsored by JAM
Nunda, Hermenegildo (No Nicknames)
Mains: Smoke, Reptile, Kitana, Kabal
His game improoved along the tournaments and he organizes casuals from time to time, on the casuals was when i notice i huge control of his game, so next tournament he is going to be bomb.
Martins, Renato (No nicknames)
Mains: Sub-Zero, Mileena, Liu Kang, Kenshi (recent)
Sub-Zero starter on the beginning of the season, he supports Tom Brady, my first opponent on my Debut in ADV tournament one hell of a fight, but my match experience managed me to win, he is always eliminated somehow by Ygor another dude who enters every tournament.
Benjamin, Ygor (Ice King) "he says"
Mains: Cyber Sub-Zero, Nightwolf
ADV's Opening Season champion, from what i've heard he took down every opponent until the end, some dudes where saying he was lucky, but on every tournament he got very close to the spot light baiting them with icy counters and ice clones, IMO i don't see how was that lucky if they're always falling for it lol.
Sucka, Agapito
Mains: Kung Lao, Smoke
A player who didn't stand out much during the tournaments, but he kept trying lets see what this season awaits for him.
Fragão, Mauro
Mains: Sektor, Sketor
Mauro didn't stand out that much, i remeber of see him and Agapito playing with smoke and secktor, but didn't work out.
Inacio, Olavo (Bilack)
Mains: Sub-Zero
Bilack was my final opponent in the 2nd tournament were i did Debut, be he stopped playing because he says he can't keep up, however this season i believe he will comeback along with his brother.
Pedro, Eudes
Mains: None
Olavo's little Brother, Edudes also played on the tournament but didn't went much far, and he quits because his brother got bored, need to be hyped again.
Juninho (Piradex)
Main: Rayden
He plays with rayden, but doesn't get far, someone always stuff him out of the tournament. He set me as milestone to beat but we never fought inside the tournament
Mirelson (XP)
Mains: Scorpion, Cyrax
XP fights with Cyrax and Scorpion, he stands on tournaments but he always ruins it and get punished, but still a promissing fighter with enough room to grow, i haven't seen him since last tournament so i dunno his whereabouts by now.
Soares, Josemar (Jo AKA J Fucking Cage)
Mains: Jade, Cage
Josemar started on tournaments playing with Jade, but these days he plays with Johnny Cage as will be seen on the videos soon. He's not that strong but he has room for improvement
Ivo (nightmare)
Main: Scorpion
A player who was being notice at the beggining, but he got married and i don't know if he will comeback.
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Non ADV Tournament MK9 Players
The MK Titans is recruting and expanding the MK community around the country, it was confirmed that some unknown players are training hard for the next ADV tournament and will make their Debut this year, lets hope so.
On Hermenegildo's house during the casuals we recieved a trio who plays MK9 to fight against our Crew. I Didn't get the name of the other 2 but there is one who started to hang out with us on the casuals his name:
Marcos
Mains: Kung Lao, Kano.
Very Promissing and someone to look out for, he stands out on the casuals besides the usual players keep getting the most wins, i'm pretty sure he will be on the next tournament.
Giovanni (Vany)
Mains: Quan Chi, Kung Lao, Reptile
Vany was one of the Top 3 MKT players of all country, he recently started to play MK9 and challenged me after he felt himself confortable with the game, i took my revenge and on a Duel i won 10 - 0 without losing a single round, this motivated him and now he gathered a few more players to join his crew and practice almos everyday. On MKTC he almost sent me to the losers but i managed to get victorious
Francisco, Roque (Rocke)
Mains: Quan Chi, Smoke, Shang Tsung
Roque is also an Old School MKT player, he is on Vany's Crew and plays a lot with him, on the Casuals Tournament he went and did a very good performance, but i send him to the losers.
Costa, Judce (Jutsu)
Mains: Cyrax, Cage
Jutsu is a friend i met last year on MKT war crew matches, he used to live on another state, but he moved to the Vany's Zone and now he is from our Crew on MKT matches, he is playing MK9 and on his debut in MK Casuals Tournament he send smith to the losers and then Ary send him to the losers, both of them took down the entire bracket of the losers just to have a rematch for the 3rd place spot, where smith took his revenge and defeated him 2 - 1.
Silva Silva (KG)
Mains: Kitana, Sindel, Cage
Ary's most recent recruit and he stood against us very well, he didn't won any match on the MKCT but was really close i expect to see him on the next tournament as well."
