UMK3 and MKII at Winter Brawl in Philadelphia, February 27th

[9.95]

What a fun day on Saturday. All in all a great success. My day started at 4:30am on Saturday morning(after going to bed at 2am) packing my car with all my equipment, as well as packing Dark Rob's car with 2 TV's for side tournaments. Our NEC tournament crew grew by one person(Dark Rob), and everyone pitched in to run 5 TOURNAMENTS for Eric for Winter Brawl. We ran UMK3, MK2, Killer Instinct, SFA2, and SFA3. Thanks again to Shock, Summoning, Kaldragon, and Dark Rob for helping me pack, unpack, organize, set up, break down and run so many tournaments. I hope next time we don't run into the same problem with the SF4 teams which is what kept Joe from playing his first round of UMK3...it was confusion as he was just so busy that he thought we were talking about his first round of Killer Instinct.

AC, you are def. one of the nicest guys to meet, and a VERY talented player as well. I look forward to seeing you at ECT2, as well as chatting with you on AIM and hopefully playing some more UMK3 online.

Rich, unbelievable bro... you come out of nowhere at NEC and immediately became a force to be reckoned with. You proved it again at WB. I'm glad to have you on our side, LOL. It was great seeing you again as well as playing you again. I hope to see you at ECT2.



Now for some cool news about a little "recruiting" I've been doing both before and during, and now after WB. I've been talking to alot of SF players recently about UMK3. At our events where we run UMK3, we invariably have a crowd of fairly well known SF players watching us play, many of them from the old Castle Golf tournaments, but event by event, it grows and we see faces we don't know watching us play UMK3. Recently, I've been talking to these players, asking why they don't play, and many of them willingly admit to playing MK2 and MK Trilogy. At Winter Brawl, I was talking with Flare(a very well known 3s player in the North East) about it and he used to play MKT. I will be talking to him on SRK and setting him up with some UMK3 via Mame very soon... and what I explained to him is that not only do I like to share a game I love so much with as many people that will play it(and people I'm friendly with as well), but also how important it is for us, as MK players, to begin to find some of that untapped talent that exists in the SF community. There are so many of them that could be so good at UMK3, but haven't given it a chance. I'm glad he agreed with me... and I look forward to playing him and hopefully seeing him try his hand at UMK3 at ECT2.

 

[AC1984]

Great stuff Phil...You, Rob, Matt, Nit and Chris did hell of a great job with the setup. It's awesome to hear that people are actually stopping by to check MK. That usually means more than curiosity and hopefully they'll give it a shot next time. More players gives so much inspiration for support of the MK community.

 

[O Juggernaut 0]

Nice turnout, and yeah I heard a lot of people couldn't make it due to the weather. Good matches, interesting results this time.

 

[Konqrr]

Good matches everyone. Thanks to the UMK team for holding these tournaments and recording it all! (still want to see some KI finals action!)

My only gripe is to all the MKII players...while there was some good zoning going on, good aaHP combos (Phil, you can't aaHP female ninjas! Just aaRH them ^_^), and spam sweeps galore...there was virtually NO up close jab game at all! You guys were playing MKII like it was UMK3 minus the dial combos and it was hard to watch lol (Shock, spam the sai more...even against scorpion. Also, you scared him into blocking a lot. You need to close the distance and jab the shit out of male ninjas!)

Everything else was good though, can't wait for ECT2!

 

[summoning]

Good matches everyone. Thanks to the UMK team for holding these tournaments and recording it all! (still want to see some KI finals action!)

My only gripe is to all the MKII players...while there was some good zoning going on, good aaHP combos (Phil, you can't aaHP female ninjas! Just aaRH them ^_^), and spam sweeps galore...there was virtually NO up close jab game at all! You guys were playing MKII like it was UMK3 minus the dial combos and it was hard to watch lol (Shock, spam the sai more...even against scorpion. Also, you scared him into blocking a lot. You need to close the distance and jab the shit out of male ninjas!)

Everything else was good though, can't wait for ECT2!

Konqrr none of them like mkII much , noone wants to put in the mkII effort i think ECT2 will be some great mkII players

 

[9.95]

Phil, you can't aaHP female ninjas! Just aaRH them ^_^

You know... I do remember this, but I just aaHP on reaction...LOL. I'm going to have to keep the aaRH in the forefront of my mind at ECT2.

Konqrr none of them like mkII much , noone wants to put in the mkII effort i think ECT2 will be some great mkII players

That's not really true... I do love MK2, but I usually just get by on what I can do from my old days of playing...which isn't THAT bad. LOL...

 

[ded]

just wanted to say that it looked you had great time during the tourney guys, keep it up ;]

 

[Dark_Rob]

Hey all, I guess i should start posting here since Im going to tournaments now I had a great time at Winter Brawl this past saturday. I got to play tons of games in every game we had running there. Congratulations to Shock on winning the UMK3 tournament. Im always amazed everytime I get to see you play dude. Your mastery of the game is absolute and you always do something that makes me say "Holy shit did you guys see that!"(This time it was those invisible Reptile juggles!)
Congrats also to Summoning on winning MK2. You are clearly the undisputed master of that game.
Also much respect to 9.95(Phil) for always being the consumate organizer. The man who keeps the show running. Without you steering the ship we all would have just been playing casuals all day lol. I had fun running the Alpha 2 brackets, but I couldnt have done it without your guidance.
Also Kaldragon I had alot of GGs with you in just about every game there. Our Alpha 3 matches were great.(Lets run thouse Adon matches back again next time)
And AC1984 I think blew us all away with those keyboard skills on his way to the grand finals with Shock. Awesome stuff dude.
Anyway GGs and good times to everyone I met and played there.
ECT2 is just around the corner. Il see you all there.

 

[Tim Static]

Congratulations to Shock on winning the UMK3 tournament. Im always amazed everytime I get to see you play dude. Your mastery of the game is absolute and you always do something that makes me say "Holy shit did you guys see that!"(This time it was those invisible Reptile juggles!)

He is a showoff

 

[9.95]

Hey all, I guess i should start posting here since Im going to tournaments now I had a great time at Winter Brawl this past saturday. I got to play tons of games in every game we had running there. Congratulations to Shock on winning the UMK3 tournament. Im always amazed everytime I get to see you play dude. Your mastery of the game is absolute and you always do something that makes me say "Holy shit did you guys see that!"(This time it was those invisible Reptile juggles!)
Congrats also to Summoning on winning MK2. You are clearly the undisputed master of that game.
Also much respect to 9.95(Phil) for always being the consumate organizer. The man who keeps the show running. Without you steering the ship we all would have just been playing casuals all day lol. I had fun running the Alpha 2 brackets, but I couldnt have done it without your guidance.
Also Kaldragon I had alot of GGs with you in just about every game there. Our Alpha 3 matches were great.(Lets run thouse Adon matches back again next time)
And AC1984 I think blew us all away with those keyboard skills on his way to the grand finals with Shock. Awesome stuff dude.
Anyway GGs and good times to everyone I met and played there.
ECT2 is just around the corner. Il see you all there.

It was great to have you there bro, and great to have you helping us run brackets as well...you were definitely an asset in helping us run the SFA2 bracket.

The same goes for everyone who helped with brackets... it wasn't me running the show, it was all of us, so I say "Well done" to all of us.

 

[Shock]

LoL well I certainly don't enjoy MKII!

 

[summoning]

before i forget massive props goto phil ( 9.95 ) my goto guy.

if we need something done Phil will do it

thank you for running stuff, and everything you do at these things, i get lazy and just play all day and i look over and see that phil is running stuff and go back to playing mkII

and shock , thanks for driving and living so close lol

you guys are the 2 most dedictated mk tournament people out there, the rest of you aren't to shabby either