OriginalRazer
Kombat Konnoisseur
This past Saturday (19th Nov) was Day of Champions 5 in Dublin, Ireland.... my very first offline Tournament.
I didn't go down to "body" people. I went down for the soul reason of playing other players OFFLINE, to learn and to check out the kompetition.
Boy was I not let down.
The breakdown:
Friday night/Saturday morning - After playing the game to 3 am with my good bud Vulcan I decided to get some food and shit ready for the next day..... bed at 5am! lol (We've all had them late night and sometimes all night sessions.)
We got up at 8 am.... rushing around the house to grab everything we needed for the day... PS3, the game, sandwiches, water you name it. Taxi picked us up and dropped us in the town near the bus station and then it hit me....... I FORGOT THE FUCKING HEADBAND I WAS GIVING TO THE WINNER!!!!!!!!
Soooooo...... I had to super walk a half hour back down the road to grab the damn thing and then super walk another half hour back up the road. There was sweat and there was panting.
Before we headed for the bus I had to buy another Dualshock 3 for one of my buds DR (I had promised him a pad to use but was unable to obtain a lend of one so the kash had to be spent).
We then headed for the bus, I had to pay for 2 tickets down there as my bud was having a hard time with funds.... (THIS IS WHAT MK BUDS DO!)
We start on the journey, I whip out DS for some UMK3..... d-pad is fucked.... "Great.... im going to sleep" lol.
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We hit Dublin, meet up with DR, ATB.1man3letters, ATB.KuroTao, ATB.Nutrient and ATB.Jun.
We have a bit of kraic between us all (including near Fatality on Razer -subway style!- .... fucking trams lol) on the way to the venue. As we get kloser and kloser I see sticks!!!!! (Im getting hype)
SF4... blah... blah... blah.... AWESOME enough time for a few kasuals before MK pools start.
The matches I watch before I play:
DR sends a Kenshi to losers with his Kung Lao.
ATB.Jun's Noob sends Vulcan's Reptile to losers.
My first match in pool play was against a player named Hardter... a Kitana player.
Am I to see this "new killer Kitana Tech"? No, but very good games to him.
I advance on to fight ATB. Nutrient... a very skilled Johnny Cage player.
After 3 very good and enjoyable matches I advance 2-1.
Its time for Semi-Finals... im up against the D+4 King himself ATB.1man3letters.
We set our buttons, not feeling Baraka VS Kabal he goes with old faithful Mileena.... its on now. We start off our match trading a few hits when I realize that something is wrong.... "im sure I pressed block there" I think to myself. I realize iv set my buttons wrong and hold my pad outward pressing R2 to watch Kabal repeatedly whiff a throw and pause the game.
"THAT SHOULD BE A DQ!" I hear one of the organizers say.... I turn to 1m3l.... "You fucking serious?!" I was up for running it back but 1 round was awarded to 1man3letters. This fucked with my head.... a lot. But I just went with it, no hard feelings.... my own fault for not kalling an actual button check before going straight in. What ya gonna do?
1man3letters beats me after what spectators kalled "an extremely tense set".
Hand shake... good shit to 1m3l.
I then get to kommentate!!!!!! Something iv wanted to do for a long time.
And I must say I had tremendous kraic doing it.
I go up against ATB.Jun. I beat his Noob after an excellent battle.
Then it went down hill lol
He picked Ermac... a kharacter no one plays around me.
A lot of input errors on my part but I take NO kredit away from Jun who picked up the game only recently and leveled up something serious I am told.
Jun.... we running that shit back bro!
Later for Grand Finals its ATB.1man3letters VS ATB.KuroTao.
Im having a smoke outside when Kuro komes running out "Dude.... we want you to kommentate!"..... don't have to ask me twice
Im in like a shot to kommentate alongside Jun in what was a very entertaining set for the box of Special K (inside MK-Spelling joke), the money and of kourse what was dubbed "The No.1 Headband" lol
KuroTao komes out on Top matching Michaelangelo's (and CD.Jr I believe?) 3 Tournament win streak and obtaining the headband... very fitting for a Liu Kang/Kenshi player.
I then try to get as many of the MK guys around to take a few photos for the memories.
We get a kouple of single shots and then a group shot (shouting MORTAL KOMBAT on the kount of 3.... scaring all the SF heads in the room lamo!)
We then say our goodbyes and head off for a bite to eat and a little drink before we head back on the bus home..... very tired lol
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All in all that little bit of disapointment was overshadowed by the fact that we all put on a good show for the hype krowd and proved to the SF players that MK SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUS!!!!!
My next Tournament will be KuroTao's Test Your Hype on Dec 10th.
"Lets see what your made of...."
Shoutouts to Voa, Doom, Kuro, 1m3l, DR, Nutrient, Jun, Hardter, Vulcan and all the SF players who got pretty hype for the matches.
MK9
1. KuroTao.ATB
2. 1Man3Letters.ATB
3. Jun.ATB
4. Nutrient.ATB
5. Hound
5. Razer
7. Deathrider
7. Naphiel
A few pics. (Sorry for quality but its better than nothing.)
Hardter
DeathRider, ATB.1Man3Letters and Vulcan
DeathRider and Razer
ATB.Nutrient
Vulcan
ATB.1Man3Letters
Razer
DeathRider
Grand Champion ATB.KuroTao
Some of The MK Krew (Jun actually learned Reptile's Invisibility! There was a better quality one but its yet to be uploaded)
TARKATAN BLOODLINE REPRESENT!
All the best,
RAZ :en R
I didn't go down to "body" people. I went down for the soul reason of playing other players OFFLINE, to learn and to check out the kompetition.
Boy was I not let down.
The breakdown:
Friday night/Saturday morning - After playing the game to 3 am with my good bud Vulcan I decided to get some food and shit ready for the next day..... bed at 5am! lol (We've all had them late night and sometimes all night sessions.)
We got up at 8 am.... rushing around the house to grab everything we needed for the day... PS3, the game, sandwiches, water you name it. Taxi picked us up and dropped us in the town near the bus station and then it hit me....... I FORGOT THE FUCKING HEADBAND I WAS GIVING TO THE WINNER!!!!!!!!
Soooooo...... I had to super walk a half hour back down the road to grab the damn thing and then super walk another half hour back up the road. There was sweat and there was panting.
Before we headed for the bus I had to buy another Dualshock 3 for one of my buds DR (I had promised him a pad to use but was unable to obtain a lend of one so the kash had to be spent).
We then headed for the bus, I had to pay for 2 tickets down there as my bud was having a hard time with funds.... (THIS IS WHAT MK BUDS DO!)
We start on the journey, I whip out DS for some UMK3..... d-pad is fucked.... "Great.... im going to sleep" lol.
zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
We hit Dublin, meet up with DR, ATB.1man3letters, ATB.KuroTao, ATB.Nutrient and ATB.Jun.
We have a bit of kraic between us all (including near Fatality on Razer -subway style!- .... fucking trams lol) on the way to the venue. As we get kloser and kloser I see sticks!!!!! (Im getting hype)
SF4... blah... blah... blah.... AWESOME enough time for a few kasuals before MK pools start.
The matches I watch before I play:
DR sends a Kenshi to losers with his Kung Lao.
ATB.Jun's Noob sends Vulcan's Reptile to losers.
My first match in pool play was against a player named Hardter... a Kitana player.
Am I to see this "new killer Kitana Tech"? No, but very good games to him.
I advance on to fight ATB. Nutrient... a very skilled Johnny Cage player.
After 3 very good and enjoyable matches I advance 2-1.
Its time for Semi-Finals... im up against the D+4 King himself ATB.1man3letters.
We set our buttons, not feeling Baraka VS Kabal he goes with old faithful Mileena.... its on now. We start off our match trading a few hits when I realize that something is wrong.... "im sure I pressed block there" I think to myself. I realize iv set my buttons wrong and hold my pad outward pressing R2 to watch Kabal repeatedly whiff a throw and pause the game.
"THAT SHOULD BE A DQ!" I hear one of the organizers say.... I turn to 1m3l.... "You fucking serious?!" I was up for running it back but 1 round was awarded to 1man3letters. This fucked with my head.... a lot. But I just went with it, no hard feelings.... my own fault for not kalling an actual button check before going straight in. What ya gonna do?
1man3letters beats me after what spectators kalled "an extremely tense set".
Hand shake... good shit to 1m3l.
I then get to kommentate!!!!!! Something iv wanted to do for a long time.
And I must say I had tremendous kraic doing it.
I go up against ATB.Jun. I beat his Noob after an excellent battle.
Then it went down hill lol
He picked Ermac... a kharacter no one plays around me.
A lot of input errors on my part but I take NO kredit away from Jun who picked up the game only recently and leveled up something serious I am told.
Jun.... we running that shit back bro!
Later for Grand Finals its ATB.1man3letters VS ATB.KuroTao.
Im having a smoke outside when Kuro komes running out "Dude.... we want you to kommentate!"..... don't have to ask me twice
Im in like a shot to kommentate alongside Jun in what was a very entertaining set for the box of Special K (inside MK-Spelling joke), the money and of kourse what was dubbed "The No.1 Headband" lol
KuroTao komes out on Top matching Michaelangelo's (and CD.Jr I believe?) 3 Tournament win streak and obtaining the headband... very fitting for a Liu Kang/Kenshi player.
I then try to get as many of the MK guys around to take a few photos for the memories.
We get a kouple of single shots and then a group shot (shouting MORTAL KOMBAT on the kount of 3.... scaring all the SF heads in the room lamo!)
We then say our goodbyes and head off for a bite to eat and a little drink before we head back on the bus home..... very tired lol
zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz
All in all that little bit of disapointment was overshadowed by the fact that we all put on a good show for the hype krowd and proved to the SF players that MK SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUS!!!!!
My next Tournament will be KuroTao's Test Your Hype on Dec 10th.
"Lets see what your made of...."
Shoutouts to Voa, Doom, Kuro, 1m3l, DR, Nutrient, Jun, Hardter, Vulcan and all the SF players who got pretty hype for the matches.
MK9
1. KuroTao.ATB
2. 1Man3Letters.ATB
3. Jun.ATB
4. Nutrient.ATB
5. Hound
5. Razer
7. Deathrider
7. Naphiel
A few pics. (Sorry for quality but its better than nothing.)
Hardter
DeathRider, ATB.1Man3Letters and Vulcan
DeathRider and Razer
ATB.Nutrient
Vulcan
ATB.1Man3Letters
Razer
DeathRider
Grand Champion ATB.KuroTao
Some of The MK Krew (Jun actually learned Reptile's Invisibility! There was a better quality one but its yet to be uploaded)
TARKATAN BLOODLINE REPRESENT!
All the best,
RAZ :en R