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My First Offline Tournament

ForeverKing

Patreon.com/MK_ForeverKing
First i want to start off by saying that i was always an online player. Everybody knew me as FOREVER KING, the guy that only played online. Many people said I have some potential and have beaten alot of good players online, but everyone wanted to know how well I would do OFFLINE, and I really wanted to know too. But I never thought I would have the chance to with school and everything, so I just stuck to online. I wanna thank Macewind because he drove a couple hours and picked me up to take me to the Console Combat tournament, my very first offline tournament that I have ever participated for any game. So none of this would have happened without you bro thank you so much I had a great time!

When we got there it was awesome, the place was crowded and there were tons of gamers everywhere playing all types of fighting games like MVC3, Blazblue, Street Fighter AE, and my game Mortal Kombat. Everybody had arcade sticks but i can't use none of that shit, so Mace got me regular xbox pad and i was on my way to start casuals. Online to Offline is a big difference, it was really hard for me to get use to it at first. I was getting pretty aggravated with input delay on the HD tv or whatever it was, it just felt really weird to me because I was so use to playing online or at home on my tv. I had to go through all my characters alot of times, I couldnt even use my main Kung Lao the way I wanted to for some reason on the tv input delay so I just used Raiden and Johnny Cage majority of the day. But nonetheless I managed, and played many great players. I got games in with Chris Friday, M2Dave, Master D, and many other good players. Also finally after playing him online so much, that weekend I got to play my friend Perfect Legend offline, and we had a really good series. GGs to everyone I played that day!

After casuals Mace signed me up for the tournament, and I did alot better than I had expected. I beat everyone I played that day but ended up losing to M2Dave in the Grand Finals, putting me in 2nd place for the tourney! I never played a high-level scarlet before, so once he pulled that bitch out on me I didnt really know what to do haha. But still a pretty nice turnout for me in my opinion. Playing offline was so much better than playing online, the community was pretty cool and I was nervous before every single match, but I had alot of fun. I wish I had alot more opportunities to play offline than what I've had, but being only 17 its pretty hard for me to make out to much. But I will most likely be making it out to the next Console Combat, and hopefully make some type of debut at my first major tournament Seasons Beatings. Im gonna need much offline practice though, still gotta shake off some of these online jitters. And get used to those gay-ass lag input TVs.

So yea wish me good luck in the future, Im going to try to make it to as many offline events as I can. It was an amazing experience.
 

CitizenSnips

A seldom used crab named Lucky. AKA Citizen Snips.
Good shit man. That's awesome for your first tourny man, glad to see you getting into the offline scene. I've played in 4 offline tournies so far (EVO, Summer Jam, RiverCity Runbacks, Salty Battles) and I've placed 2nd once and have done decently in the rest. You are a great player man I was surprised you used Raiden since I remember you telling me you will use Kung against Reptile the last time I beat your Raiden with Reptile. The TVs are always different sometimes it's hard to get used to and it makes punihsing things or doing combos to be a bit more difficult. Also we're trying to get you on Mortal Mondays as soon as we can, thanks for wanting to participate
 

Shady

Kombatant
Congrats man, you definitely have a very good understanding of the game online and offline and once you adjust it will really show. I really hope I can make it to season's beatings so I can face you offline for the first time. I am about to go to my first offline tournament this weekend too (but I do play casuals weekly offline to keep sharp). It's great to see that you've made it out and have shown all those people who were doubting that your wins are not "online lag dependent" and that you really have skill at this. Hopefully see you at Season's Beatings man.
 

RampaginDragon

Loses to uppercuts
Hey congratulations man. Just had to rant after seeing this though... Kung Lao, Raiden, JC and Reptile.
Come on man. I think that may be a pretty big factor on your online and offline preformance.
 

Tim Static

Adminerator
Lead Moderator
Awesome story.

This is all I ever wanted players to do, from back on TRMK, UMK, SRK, CMK, MKU and now TYM.

Get out there and experience the most awesome experiences you'll ever experience at these tourneys!!!
 

ForeverKing

Patreon.com/MK_ForeverKing
thanks to everyone who congratted me on here man. if any of you guys or going to seasons beatings i will definitley get casuals in with any of you

Congrats man, were any of the matches recorded?
yea go to twitch.com or consolecombat.net. you should be able to find them somewhere

Hey congratulations man. Just had to rant after seeing this though... Kung Lao, Raiden, JC and Reptile.
Come on man. I think that may be a pretty big factor on your online and offline preformance.
no i dont use reptile, i hate reptile haha. but yea i use jax alot also :) im pretty nice with him and hes low tier
 
Congrats dude! You should also try to make it out to NEC in december. It's in PA buy it should be worth it! Lots of good competition there including the CD brothers!
 

Tremloc

Mortal
great to hear. congrats King. It gives hope to all us mostly online players who can't get out for offline play on a regular basis.