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Question Looking back, who did you use to win your first tournament ever in MK9?

Looking back, who did you use to win your first tournament ever in MK9?

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Konqrr

Konqrr

MK11 Kabal = MK9 Kitana
UPDATE: This is meant for offline or organized online tournaments like the recent RM sponsorship one. No clan battles, no king of the hill, etc.

I think this is an interesting topic IMO

Seeing as how MKX is just around the corner and most of us already have an idea of who we want to use first... Let's see where we started and where we ended up in MK9.

My first ever tournament was in downtown Salt Lake. I played 100% with Stryker and won. I got a free Tournament Edition for the 360 with the stick, game, DLC brand new. Pretty awesome. Of course everyone knows who I ended up using for the long haul :p

I also won a tournament with Liu Kang but the rest with Kitana. I can say that I have NEVER lost a local tournament in MK9. I couldn't attend a few of them, but the ones I did enter, I won ^_^

@Pig Of The Hut @Mr. Mileena @R.E.O. @MITDJT @daddydab32ho @astronout @General M2Dave @THTB @Perfect Legend @CD jr @Maxter @AK L0rdoftheFLY @Trophy Club @cR WoundCowboy @GGA 16 Bit @GGA Dizzy @GGA pimpimjim @RiBBz22

Ugh I can't think of anyone else! Please tag people you know who can potentially answer this question!
 
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GamerBlake90

GamerBlake90

Blue Blurs for Life!
My first tournament was an experience that almost never happened due to a very faulty management of the bracket.

It was at an annual local called Tokyo in Tulsa. I went there with Raidenwins, SaibotMK, and RayboneKilla. Registered to play, bracket started up...and my name was nowhere to be found. I questioned the organizer and he apologized for what happened...by refunding me and saying the bracket can't be changed now.

FORTUNATELY, when staff came in to investigate this crap, another participant was willing to step down and let me have his place. Mind you, I never asked him to do it nor would I have wanted that for anyone. But he insisted, and I admit that taking the offer would be better than wasting so much effort on countless hours of no-sleep to prepare for my entry into the tournament world.

I beat my first opponent with Smoke, then tried to use Scorpion on SaibotMK only to lose. I jumped right back to Smoke and defeated the rest of the competition to make it to Grand Finals, where Saibot was waiting for me. At first I was down 0-2...then, somehow, I pulled a miracle comeback and won 3-2.

I do have to be honest, though. As I already highlighted, the bracket was managed very poorly. That victory I'd achieved should have been grounds for another Grand Finals set, but instead I was declared the tournament winner. I didn't realize this was the case until @Tom Brady laid it down for me about how brackets traditionally work.

Regardless, I can't help but cherish that memory. If it ween't for a random person's generosity, it never would have come to be.

...I'm rambling. To answer the poll's question, Smoke is the character I won my first tournament with. I'd mained him until I got bodied at EVO 2011, then the character crisis ensued. I have learned a valuable lesson since.
 
I$AAC

I$AAC

Kombatant
My first mk9 tourney was a local tourney here in Tampa. It was the week of the PDP tourney. I was in a character crisis and used everyone from Cage, Nightwolf, and Sub. Winners and Grand Finals I used Kano and I've been maining him ever since.
 
YOMI MITYEAP

YOMI MITYEAP

Master
The first tourny I won was a local in social when I first became on team IGL with DJT, Dab, and flaweszilla. We played in the tourny with egp and the hype was just too real haha. I used almost all scorpion in that event and a lil cage, sub zero, and noob saibot. It was exhilarating taking that tourny in the grand finals vs DJT (with a patented counter pick of course lol :p)
 
GGA Wafflez

GGA Wafflez

the kid
i've never used another character besides smoke. in tournament i'd use JC or sonya for KL... like twice maybe, but i'd like to think im a strong character loyalist who perseveres through my 13 bad MU's
 
Montanx

Montanx

Thats why they call this thing bloodsport, kid.
Scorpion at the mk9 gamestop prerelease. Yes that's cheesy but it's the only one I have attended. I had to drop mk9 within a month, haven't played since this last week. All I did was practice his popup combo on the demo. Came in and absolutely trucked the competition with the most basic of fighting game fundamentals put to use.
 
daddydab32ho

daddydab32ho

KANO, KANO, KAY-NOOOOOO , KANO (DRAKES VOICE)
My very first tournament I got 3rd place right begin MIT an DJT it was my first offline tourney when I first moved to Vegas!!! I was using Sub Zero and Kitana... Kitana was my main for a while... I started with Noob then went to Quan chi then Raiden then Kitana then sub zero lol then Liu Kang. An Lao ..Flawedzilla then inspired me and lead me to play Jax and KABAL and I picked up cage and Cyrax towards the end of the games life...
P.s eventually I won't a local lol with KABAL an jax... @MITDJT @Denzell @Flawedzilla lol and here we are!!!
 
STB Shujinkydink

STB Shujinkydink

Burning down in flames for kicks
Quan chi was who I used at a local before devastation. But no one knew who to do tournaments do they had this lame rule that whoever won, the loser had to pick their character for them lol. So I had to basically use half sheeva too.
 
YOMI MITYEAP

YOMI MITYEAP

Master
daddydab32ho said:
My very first tournament I got 3rd place right begin MIT an DJT it was my first offline tourney when I first moved to Vegas!!! I was using Sub Zero and Kitana... Kitana was my main for a while... I started with Noob then went to Quan chi then Raiden then Kitana then sub zero lol then Liu Kang. An Lao ..Flawedzilla then inspired me and lead me to play Jax and KABAL and I picked up cage and Cyrax towards the end of the games life...
P.s eventually I won't a local lol with KABAL an jax... @MITDJT @Denzell @Flawedzilla lol and here we are!!!
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AYEEEEEEE haha I remember that bruh, good times. That was the beginning of the infamous vegas crew (which got at least one person in top 8 for every mk9 tournament) #YEEAAPPP
 
daddydab32ho

daddydab32ho

KANO, KANO, KAY-NOOOOOO , KANO (DRAKES VOICE)
MITDJT said:
AYEEEEEEE haha I remember that bruh, good times. That was the beginning of the infamous vegas crew (which got at least one person in top 8 for every mk9 tournament) #YEEAAPPP
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The beginning of a Dunasty and since I'm moving back!!!!!! We will be stronger than ever!!!!!!!! #YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
 
Eddy Wang

Eddy Wang

Skarlet scientist
I've won with Scorpion and Cage, the VSA tournaments used to be in Tag, but that time no one knew how broken it was.

Anyway, i was the surprise of the tournament, and was just a taste of what high level play was, the day i've won this tournament, Angola realized that i was way ahead of the competition from that day on:

 
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