GVN Winter Brawl 4, Feb 27, 2010 Results

[9.95]

originally posted at: http://ultimatemk.com/

Match vids are up:

http://ultimatemk.com/dirview.php?current=matchvids/wb4

Results are in:

UMK3 – 16 players Top 3:

1: Shock
2: AC 1984
3: Rich
4: JusDave
5: Chinua
5: Summoning
7: Comeback Kyle
7: iloveyou
9: KalDragon
9: Blue Nine
9: 9.95
9: Sweet Johnny Cage
13: Dark Rob
13: Moadiv
13: Tom Brady
13: Kazi

MKII – 8 players Top 3:

1: Summoning
2: 9.95
3: Chinua
4: Shock
5: AC 1984
5: Blue Nine
7: Dark Rob
7: Moadiv

KI – 8 players Top 2:

1: JusDave
2: 9.95
3: Summoning
4: Comeback Kyle
5: GamrDocTecnshun
5: Eric
7: Joe
7: Hubbs

Super thanks to everyone who showed up, congrats to Summoning for getting 1st in MKII again, and for AC and Rich for placing in UMK3. Definitely a great showing and an interesting tournament. Good job on Rich getting revenge on Joe, and AC for knocking me into Losers. Unfortunately there was a bit of confusion and Joe iloveu was DQed from Winners Bracket due to being unable to play because of other tournaments demanding he stay. I’ll have videos of most of the UMK3 matches and a few from MKII.

 

[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.

 

[Check]

The recruiting part was a nice touch, Phil. You are truly an asset to the MK community. If only there was a way to revive the arcade days again. Weekly casuals etc. That would really get players going.

 

[9.95]

The recruiting part was a nice touch, Phil. You are truly an asset to the MK community. If only there was a way to revive the arcade days again. Weekly casuals etc. That would really get players going.

Thanks Check... I really appreciate it. I do everything I can for MK when I can do it. It's always important that we ask people who are watching us play, why they don't play themselves... you'd be surprised at how many of them played as a kid and would be willing to play a few casuals here and there...and that's the opening you need to teach them more and more about it.

 

[Check]

You're welcome. I pay good attention to what goes on around here, just know that.

The only thing i could respond to that is the same exact thing. Well said.

For me, being back in NJ means maybe finding the guy who got me into competitive MK as a kid growing up (Eric) at a tourny or something. I wonder whatever happened to that guy ;(

Hope to make it to one of these tourny scenes some day. Maybe Ill make my way out to LI for some casuals.

Who do you use in KI?

 

[9.95]

You're welcome. I pay good attention to what goes on around here, just know that.

The only thing i could respond to that is the same exact thing. Well said.

For me, being back in NJ means maybe finding the guy who got me into competitive MK as a kid growing up (Eric) at a tourny or something. I wonder whatever happened to that guy ;(

Hope to make it to one of these tourny scenes some day. Maybe Ill make my way out to LI for some casuals.

Who do you use in KI?

Check, it would be great to get to meet you and play you in some MK. Where in NJ are you? Hopefully we'll be able to get you to ECT2 in May. We're already working on a casual meetup on Long Island in order to get some games in with some players going to ECT2, plus I know SweetJohnnyCage wants to test his streaming equipment at that get together.

 

[Juggs]

Nice, good matches! Congrats to all the winners and top finishers!

 

[EGP Wonder_Chef]

lol@getting iloveuJoe's name wrong twice.

Grats to 9.95 for winning a total of $8.00 in two tournaments, haha.

 

[9.95]

lol@getting iloveuJoe's name wrong twice.

Grats to 9.95 for winning a total of $8.00 in two tournaments, haha.

LOL, actually, the post is wrong.. in MK2 it was winner take all as it was in KI.

Check, in KI I use Glacius.

 

[Check]

Fort Lee!!! I live right by the GW bridge As close to NY as you can get. I grew up in Monmouth County where Shock lives.

I might start doing them at my apartment, because i have this mammoth beast of a CRT that would be perfect for gaming. So if any of you guys needed a place to host, you could come here.

Ill try to come to those ones you're planning. God knows i owe it to you.

Glacius.....ahhh, One of TJ's worst enemies I play strictly Combo. Always have, always will. Back buffers are just too good

 

[9.95]

Fort Lee!!! I live right by the GW bridge As close to NY as you can get. I grew up in Monmouth County where Shock lives.

I might start doing them at my apartment, because i have this mammoth beast of a CRT that would be perfect for gaming. So if any of you guys needed a place to host, you could come here.

Ill try to come to those ones you're planning. God knows i owe it to you.

Glacius.....ahhh, One of TJ's worst enemies I play strictly Combo. Always have, always will. Back buffers are just too good

The funny part is... I can't fight Combo at all... I suck against him.