How did you find out about the FGC/TestYourMight?

[NRF CharlieMurphy]

Hard Drinking led me here.

no one likes a jobber

let alone a drunk jobber

 

[Under_The_Mayo]

I had no idea the FGC existed. And I´v been playing MK since the first one when I was 7. I was searching for Ermac combo videos on youtube for MK9, and I fond the Tom Brady S1lent show, and my life was forever changed. Then I made The Science Of Quan, and Teef (one of the original Kenshi´s) told me that TYM would like it. So I shared it here. Then I found Quan´s meter building theory, and consequently became the single most important member to have ever existed in the history of fighting games, spreading the wonder of the Silent Hll soundtracks, and utilizing more commas in his posts than any man, or woman, ever.

 

[RM Jonnitti]

I first found out about the fgc through a series of youtube videos i watched back in 2007 or 2008. those being the daigo parry video, the fuck the knicks mahvel baybee video and justin wong's cyclops comback. i knew right away that it was something i want to be a part of, whether or not i am a competitor. i was first inroduced to high level play through friends that played 3s on ggpo, personally the game wasn't for me and i moved on. it wasn't till i got sf4 in the end of 09 that i started going to events. my first event was a local where i met @DarthArma and @KDZ. since then i have been consistently attending locals for anything that the NJFGC puts together and eventually started traveling along the east coast in 2013. i have been planning on going out west this year, but it every time it had fell through.

as far as testyourmight goes, i don't remember how exactly i found it. however, i do remember first posting on here before injustice came out stating that i was interested in the game.

 

[THTB]

I learned about TYM before anyone even knew it existed.

I got into the FGC through Mortal Kombat Armageddon. I spent my spare time in my keyboarding class on the internet, and stumbled upon Mortal Kombat Armageddon Central, which was a precursor to MKU. After a couple years, a few members, including myself, branched off to form Mortal Kombat Empires, which then renamed to Test Your Might shortly after. It was through some of these guys, as well as my own friends, that I learned more about the tournaments to attend. Through the Street Fighter 4 GameStop tournaments and one of my best friends, I was introduced to WCG Ultimate Gamer Season 1 contestant Jamal Nickens. He held a SFIV tournament several months down the line, which is where I met a few of my scene's current players as well as one of the TOs of Seasons Beatings, Ghaleon, who happened to be a friend of one of my high school friends. Pretty sure there was a tournament during the summer of the next year that I attended where I met @Tim Static. Having learned that my friend who knew Ghaleon went to Seasons Beatings just about every year, I attended my first Seasons Beatings with him. There, Tim introduced me to @Tom Brady, and I met @9.95 @Shock, @R.E.O., @Dark_Rob, @summoning, @Konqrr, and a few others. After that hype ass tournament, I traveled out to Philly for NEC later that year, where I met @Check, @DanCock, @Evil_Riu48, Aldagod, and @STORMS. I also believe @Krayzie made it to this tournament...can't remember if it was this or Winter Brawl. Either way, he is one of the biggest reasons I even managed to learn fighting games lol. A few months down the road, and MK9 released. I attended the first MK9 major, PowerUp 2011, where I got 4th.

The rest is pretty much history for me.

 

[Skkra]

Yes sir.

Tekken 3 was the first game I really got into seriosuly. Once Tekken Tag came out, I was fucking balls deep in that shit. Tekken Tag 1, to this day, is still my favorite game of all time.

There's a dude that works at a local bar I go to all the time. He randomly started talking about Tekken and how good he was. I told him I wanted to play him and he said he would destroy me. He asked me to play first to 10 for 100 bucks. He talked shit alllll week. I screen capped it all.

I beat him 27-0. He won 1 round total because I forgot how to block some shitty Law tenstring. After I humbled him I told him "you don't understand how long I was a virgin. I had nothing better to do but play this game."

Aside from making fun of myself, beating the shit out of him felt great.

Tag 1 has claimed so many hours of my life that I dare not even count. College was a looooot of sitting around, pounding beers, and playing Tag alllll day.

I cannot even begin to tell you how insane and heated the late-nite matches of Tekken Bowling would get haha. Or maybe you know. PS, still best mini-game ever, even my wife loves it!

 

[Youphemism]

After I humbled him I told him "you don't understand how long I was a virgin. I had nothing better to do but play this game."

This is the line I'm using any time any of my friends challenge me in MK9/Injustice lol

 

[9.95]

I learned about TYM before anyone even knew it existed.

I got into the FGC through Mortal Kombat Armageddon. I spent my spare time in my keyboarding class on the internet, and stumbled upon Mortal Kombat Armageddon Central, which was a precursor to MKU. After a couple years, a few members, including myself, branched off to form Mortal Kombat Empires, which then renamed to Test Your Might shortly after. It was through some of these guys, as well as my own friends, that I learned more about the tournaments to attend. Through the Street Fighter 4 GameStop tournaments and one of my best friends, I was introduced to WCG Ultimate Gamer Season 1 contestant Jamal Nickens. He held a SFIV tournament several months down the line, which is where I met a few of my scene's current players as well as one of the TOs of Seasons Beatings, Ghaleon, who happened to be a friend of one of my high school friends. Pretty sure there was a tournament during the summer of the next year that I attended where I met @Tim Static. Having learned that my friend who knew Ghaleon went to Seasons Beatings just about every year, I attended my first Seasons Beatings with him. There, Tim introduced me to @Tom Brady, and I met @Shock, @R.E.O., @Dark_Rob, @summoning, @Konqrr, and a few others. After that hype ass tournament, I traveled out to Philly for NEC later that year, where I met @Check, @DanCock, @Evil_Riu48, Aldagod, and @STORMS. I also believe @Krayzie made it to this tournament...can't remember if it was this or Winter Brawl. Either way, he is one of the biggest reasons I even managed to learn fighting games lol. A few months down the road, and MK9 released. I attended the first MK9 major, PowerUp 2011, where I got 4th.

The rest is pretty much history for me.

Well damn...

 

[DarkFire*]

Well, my very first tournament was for Smash Bros. Brawl when it first came out for the Wii. My GameStop was having it. I went to said tournament and after that I found out that I liked tournaments. So I tried to look for other ones where I lived and I couldn't find any, so I just became an online warrior for all future fighting games (SF4, MK9, Injustice, etc.) until years later when I became a Sophomore in college.

Fast forward to Sep 2013, I go to my first regional for these games, and meet several people for the first time in the Orlando FGC. I meet several people (probably none of you have heard of them except for Argenrost from what I can see so I'll just say him) and a Wonder Woman player was among them. He told me about a local every week and that it'd be good for me to start going to those. So I did and I became better friends with those same guys I met at Fighter's Spirit V (The regional I went to in Sep 2013). I then decided to make the full transition from online warrior to going to offline tournaments.

My first major was UFGTX, where I met WAY more people than I ever did at any of the other regionals I had went to. I liked it a lot so at that point I realized that I love tournaments and the hype behind them so from that point on I decided to go to every tournament I can (prior to that I only went to regionals since I thought Florida was already good enough for me but then I realize the competition elsewhere is very good).

As for TYM, I was talking to Argenrost at the local several times. He frequently brought up "TYM" and I was like "what is that?" He's like "TestYourMight". I'm like what is that? Isn't that a minigame from MK1? And he just started laughing and saying no it's a website. So fast forward to finding all you guys. When I found out it was a forum I was like cool I should join (I had been a part of forums for Brawl when I was still an online warrior over at Nintendo Worlds) so I did lol

It's all been pretty cool though

 

[dagga]

I found TYM through the r/injusticegame subreddit, maybe 6 months after the games release or so

 

[FOREVER EL1TE]

@DarthArma . Its weird but.

It all started back when I was like 3. I had play Dragon ball z on the ps2 and no kid could beat me(ages; 5-20).

As I got older I started playing other fighting games. Mainly Dbz, Naruto, and ufc.
Naruto is what introduced me to FGC. I saw ppl online with records of like, "6,000W- 20L"
So I messaged them and they taught me. They showed me a website(I forgot what it was.. Maybe I'll remember later) From there I was introduced to the FGC, even though I was heavily unknown.
I learned neutral game without actually realizing it.
I learned frame data without realizing it.
I learned punishing without realizing it.
Etc. Then one day I bought MK at game stop and I played it and couldn't beat my stepdad abusing teleport with Sheeva . So I went on YouTube. Learned combos. Then got drafted to a clan where I was introduced to TYM.

 

[Killusion]

Started playing fighters seriously around 2009, first HDTR and then SF4. Found shoryuken.com and started posting there. Around same time I saw my first stream and got hooked. I was mostly a Capcom player until Injustice came out, then I got interested in NRS scene after KDZ won EVO. I decided to check out TYM and some of the podcasts that Pig, Dave and Tom were making. There was something about this community that I never really saw in Capcom games, the hype, the callouts, character diversity, interesting personas, awesome people ect. I also really love Injustice so I had to become part of this awesome scene.

 

[THTB]

Well damn...

LOL OMFG HOW COULD I FUCKING FORGET PHIL?!?!?!

Goddamn, I knew I was forgetting people, but how the hell could I forget you????????????

 

[Eric The Scruffy]

I discovered the FGC while looking for Marvel 3 combo videos....just happened to be around the time EVO was happening and I found a stream and watched that thing for hours.
It was on that stream I think that I heard one of the commentators say something that changed my world forever. I can't remember who said it and I'm going to paraphrase, but it went something like this:
"Every single person in this scene got introduced to it by getting there ass handed to them by someone else." That revelation really struck a chord with me and made me realize the inherently sadomasochistic nature of what being a top fighting game player really means and it really changed how I approached playing them.

I never got very good at Marvel 3. I was able to do some advanced combos and stuff but as an online warrior that game is on a whole other level of bad. The netcode in that game is bad enough, but when you add in the random frenetic nature of the game it gets to a point where no matter how much you level up it still comes down to a coinflip against something like level 3 xfactor phoenix.....and that killed off any desire I had to get better.
I played MK9 casually but never really followed it competitively, but as a huge DC comics fan when injustice came out and I played it the first time I fell in love and new this was going to be the one. Followed the streams religiously, leveled up my arrow, and felt really dissapointed there wasn't more stuff on Shoryuken.com for it. Then someone online mentioned Testyourmight.com to me.....and here I am to stay forever more. I've even gone back and even watched a ton of competitive MK9 and read posts and listened to the archived podcasts to relive how you guys started.
This community, drama and all, is *AWESOME*, and I am so glad to be a part of it. One day, with enough time and effort (and a little funding to get out to these events) maybe I will even be a top player in it.

 

[John Grizzly]

Tag 1 has claimed so many hours of my life that I dare not even count. College was a looooot of sitting around, pounding beers, and playing Tag alllll day.

I cannot even begin to tell you how insane and heated the late-nite matches of Tekken Bowling would get haha. Or maybe you know. PS, still best mini-game ever, even my wife loves it!

Tekken Ball and Tekken Bowling have been sorely missed. I preferred Tekken Ball, myself.

 

[bdizzle2700]

at injustice. I love all fighting games but I was usually late to the party so the learning curve was high and I could never keep up. Then injustice came out and I noticed that I was practically even with everyone cause it was a new game. So I looked up bladam combos to help me level up. ( I didn't know he was high tier, he is just super cool)I found this sight and just enjoyed the atmosphere and joined not much later.

 

[Jeffreys]

I was a halo MLG junkie for a decade, followed everything they did from halo 2- now one day I saw mk9 at MLG and I was blown away by all the cool combos and stuff, that made my scrub ass look like shit in that game. I think it was 995 phill or Tom Brady who mentioned TYM on the MLG stream as a commentator, I checked it out and viola.

 

[rolz420zx]

I loved watching the MK9 tournaments on YouTube. I played MK9 a lot online but didn't take it too seriously as far as competing. When Injustice came out I started to take it more seriously and wanted to find like minded people and level up. So I found out there would be a tournament at UpDawg Games in North Bergen. Went to that met Joe (RG) and Rico. I think Joe mentioned to me, or someone did about TYM. I singed up and posted in the North Jersey forum about wanting to get games with people around me, Nitti replied and told me to get in touch with DarthArma . Arma got back to me, I then started to go to the Break more often. Really glad I did because I met a lot of really cool people and always have a blast either having sessions or just chilling with everyone at the break.

@DarthArma
@Decay II
@Indecisive
@KDZ
@Icy Black Deep
@Frantastic23
and of course everyone else!!!!

 

[9.95]

I'm older than most people on this forum being in my late 30's.(37 as of writing this) I was aware that a tournament and competitive scene existed as far back as 1994, but I never really did much to be part of it. I was content riding my bike to and from different arcades on Long Island.
@summoning and @MK9 will remember these places:
Westbury Nathans
Sega Timeout in Roosevelt Field
Sunrise Mall arcade
Arcade at Pathmark in East Meadow
Nassau Mall Arcade
Chuck-E-Cheese in Levittown

I was always good in Street Fighter back then, always held my own and beat some of the better local competition in SF2 Champion Edition. I loved playing MK, but back then, SF2 CE was my favorite game. MK2 cemented me as an MK guy for life. I attended a few small local arcade tournaments on LI, one at Westbury Nathans and one at Chuck-E-Cheese and I went 1-2 in both...I was only 17 at the time and believed I was invincible, LOL.

To make a short story longer:
Even though I knew that a tournament scene existed, I still didn't do anything to be part of it until 2007. In 2006, I signed up on ultimatemk.com and began learning how to play UMK3. I was so turned off by the 360 pad that I refused to play the game online unless I got a better pad or a stick. Because I was so desperate to play the game and what I had learned with new people, I started looking for somewhere to play when my friend @styroteqe found a (now long gone) forum called Long Island 3s, run by @SweetJohnnyCage. I asked if I could bring UMK3 to his Castle Golf local tournament (which was running 3s, ST, GG, and MB) and he said of course I could as long as I had my own setups. I prepped everything, contacted @Shock to tell him it was gonna happen, and that's how I actually got INTO the FGC.


TYM, well, watch the evolution. I was on ultimatemk, classicmk, and TYM. All three sites eventually merged. I didn't really have to "find" TYM(MKE at that time), it was just a natural progression from each site.

 

[9.95]

LOL OMFG HOW COULD I FUCKING FORGET PHIL?!?!?!

Goddamn, I knew I was forgetting people, but how the hell could I forget you????????????

Seriously...that was the WORST weekend of UMK3 for me ever. LOL

Not to mention that your and @R.E.O. played some kind of epic no rules MKA on Wii that weekend as well, which apparently led to the 2011 Winter Brawl no rules MKA MM between you two.

 

[NorCalSamurai]

I moved back home to California from Colorado, and when I first go back, I was basically without a place to stay. My good friend @Odoyle was kind enough to let me stay at his place for like a week while I got my ducks in a row. When I first got back, he told me, "I'm going to a big fighting game tournament this weekend, you want to come?"

Now I'd never looked into the competitive scene before, besides a few things my friend had downloaded on his computer back in the day (Daigo parry, CvS2 combo vids, etc.) and before May 2014 I couldn't tell you what "punishable on block" meant, but I loved fighting games, and used to host Tekken 5 tournaments at Job Corps, so I said "why not?" This tournament was NCR 2013, and as soon as I walked in the venue, my mind was blown. The number of people, the level of play, the hype, was all insane to me. It made me want to be a part of it. So after we left, I decided to try to get really good at Injustice, since that what my friends were playing after MK9. I lurked TYM for a while, just looking at bnb's and basic guides, before actually making an account and getting involved in threads and shit. No regrets. I've only been to one major, and there I only went 1-2, but I feel it's been a good start, and can't wait to continue in MKX.

 

[Cage Redfield]

I found out about the FGC after watching a video of Justin Wong playing that promotional gauntlet he did (i think it was his Balrog vs 100 people) for Street Fighter 4. I was shocked that no one could take a game off him, or for some, a round. From there, I went to a bunch of forums and searched youtube to see how I can even be remotely anywhere near as good as him in Street Fighter.

As for TYM, I found it after hearing Injustice's announcement. I lurked the forum and saw all the theories and speculation on who could be in the game or was deconfirmed. Then when it launched, I decided to make an account so I could talk about the game. I made a lot of friends because of that decision. I've been visiting the site not as often as I used to because my interest for IGAU has faded, but I'm counting the days til MKX's release!

 

[Matix218]

Massive mk fan my whole life. Before mk9 came out started searching the web for info on the game. Discovered TYM. Been here ever since.

 

[9_Lives]

Picked up MK9 and it's strategy guide because I wanted to go ham on Mortal Kombat. Loved the games since I was a kid. Couple months in, was curious if anyone was going as ham as I was and found LevelUp with Tom Brady vs. PL, PDP with Floe Vs. Justin Wong. At that point, it went from just ham to full on obsession. Never really got good at it though, learned input control and maintenance maining high execution characters in MK and slightly better spacing/footsies from IGAU. I believe my character crisis is a large part of why I don't do well. Hoping to learn enough to gain confidence to go to a major someday. Only local scene is 2 hours away. XP

I'm out for blood in MKX. I'm going to finally find a main and stick with him/her all the way through.

 

[Insuperable]

I came across TYM when I was searching for the worst gifs on the internet

 

[Chimbz]

I was playing injustice online and I stumbled across @AK RM Blake. He told me to check out TYM and that was pretty much it. I got into fighting games when MVC3 vanilla came out. Started playing blazblu and finally got into injustice.