Argentina: Kommunity Update from Puchi

Last night I saw an old friend online, @Puchi who is a player from Argentina. I had to get an update from the Argentina scene and Puchi was nice enough to provide some details:

Thanks to the improvements in online play, the competitive scene has been growing more and more in Latin America. In Argentina, we have the opportunity to play smoothly online against players from Brazil and Chile, where, as seen in recent tournaments, the quality is evident, like with the twins and the incredible Brazilian team. Regarding Argentina, with the Pro Kompetition, many players are aiming higher. One example is the player Chocolate, who reached the Final Kombat.
With the arrival of online play, the competitive scene in this region has become much more active in that aspect. Additionally, the chance to earn points in the Pro Kompetition has motivated many players to join in and continue to grow.
The idea of our YouTube channel is to teach and bring the game closer to people. Together with Spider, we aim to create guides for both beginners and experienced players. Currently, we are not in the competitive aspect, but rather in the role of educators, trying to keep promoting and teaching about this wonderful game.

Whatever you need, I’m here to help. The idea of the channel is to be the main source for Mortal Kombat content in Argentina, and that’s why we try to stay in touch with the entire community. Recently, we did a channel crossover with Djong from Top7Games, who sponsor the twins from Chile.

Chocolate was in Group B, and around 5:31:36 there's one of his matches.

Although he wasn’t part of what I previously created called MK Argentina or now Toasty Arena, he is a young player with a lot of potential. Even without sponsors, he managed to go far

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We love fighting games, especially Mortal Kombat. Since the days of Mortal Kombat 9, when YouTube and social media weren’t as popular, we used to organize gatherings of 6 or 7 people. Over time, through word of mouth, more and more people started joining, and we eventually gathered over 70 people in one place, bringing our own consoles and TVs, driven purely by passion.
Now, with more experience and social media firmly established, we decided to take on the role of educators by creating the YouTube channel ToastyArena. We know that fighting games are a niche and that many people find it hard to start compared to more popular titles like Fortnite, Call of Duty, or EA Sports FC (the latter being especially popular in Latin America). Many players don’t even know about Frame Data, or how certain moves execute in X number of frames and can leave you at a disadvantage in X number of frames. Our focus is to help these players understand these concepts by creating guides and promoting the game, showing them the path to improve.
In fighting games, it’s essential to tolerate frustration and learn from defeats—that’s the key. This is why we encourage people to keep learning and not get discouraged. While progress may be slower compared to other games, when you start improving and seeing results, the satisfaction is amazing.
With our channel, we aim to fill a gap we noticed compared to YouTube channels in the U.S., where there’s a lot of variety and people creating educational content about Mortal Kombat. In the Spanish-speaking community, there was a lack of something similar. Our goal is to promote the game and, best of all, to meet people from the community who eventually become friends.
We also plan to keep collaborating with content creators from other countries in what we call Crossovers or KombatVerso. We’ve already worked with channels from Ecuador (Capitán Dante), Mexico (SulfateG), and the Dominican Republic (Djong from Top7Games). We want to continue expanding and bringing the content creator community together because, in the end, we all share something in common: the love for Mortal Kombat.

 

I will be sure to shout this out this weekend during my LATAM Kolosseum event as well! Argentina will be competing in one of them and hope to reach a lot of eyes. Chocolate and everyone else I got to meet from there at Final Kombat last year were just class acts and had great passion for competing.