KN DetroitBalln313 Wins Mortal Kombat 9 at MLG's Spring Championships!

[exyle]

Props to Tom "No Voice" Brady.

 

[PND_Mustard]

Awesome! He was my FAV all the tourney. Sad that REO and CDjr couldnt make it top...

QUICK EDIT:

WHY NO ONE WAS UPPERCUTTING PL STUPID AND PREDICTABLE LAO TELEPORTS????? I WAS MAD SCREAMING AT THE SCREEN BY HOW CDJR MISSED SO MUCH DMG CHANCES THERE!!!!

on the contrary it was the uppercuts which lost them the matches, PL was baiting them with crossover teleports and punishing the whiffed uppercuts with a 38% percent combo.

it was worth PL taking the risk if he A. has a breaker (which was most of the time) and B. if all they wanna punish him for is a 12% uppercut.

 

[garik16]

Continuation needs to go.

For the record - we can't say for sure that CD Jr would've beaten PL 3-2 in Losers Semis had there been no continuation.....i imagine PL's play would've been different had he been without a 3 game buffer. We similarly can't say PL would've beaten Denzell.

But the end result is plain stupid. You can't afford to take chances in winners anymore or hide back tech, because god forbid you face that same opponent later you start in a huge hole. Learn from your mistakes in winners? Too bad - those same mistakes now cost you double. And of course the rule doesn't even make sense....the player who loses in winners has to win 4-6 games in losers in a non grand finals match when that happens in no other circumstance.

Oh and all hype is lost because players face insurmountable leads.

The rule won't be changed at MLG. Starcraft players don't like it and MLG keeps it, and Starcraft has been for a while MLG's bread and butter. But it's a horrible horrible rule. Because of it you have no time to learn from your mistakes in a set because if you fail to learn in the first game, you end up in a huge hole. Nice.

Fortunately, GFs didn't take continuation into account.

 

[Tavaski]

:16Bit The Kuh Ball Era has begun

 

[X-__-hawkz-__-X]

Too much hype i guess WC proved there not a joke right? lol... and props to Detroit for hes MLG win. and don't hate on PL he proved hes here to stay and make a wreck

 

[LaDLURKER]

perfectlegend increible kung lao , felicitaciones

 

[sub_on_dubs]

Awesome! He was my FAV all the tourney. Sad that REO and CDjr couldnt make it top...

QUICK EDIT:

WHY NO ONE WAS UPPERCUTTING PL STUPID AND PREDICTABLE LAO TELEPORTS????? I WAS MAD SCREAMING AT THE SCREEN BY HOW CDJR MISSED SO MUCH DMG CHANCES THERE!!!!

Those teleports are not as predictable as you think. He has so many setups off those teleports, it's hard to guess what to do sometimes.

 

[garik16]

Because REO got eliminated. No but seriously, REO played great, you cannot win them all. Detroit however looked like the best Kabal I have ever seen, even better than REO.

It is a funny double standard though.

More importantly, because for a lot of matchups, Detroit uses Shang. And well did you see that match vs Wound Cowboy? Hypest match ever.

 

[John Grizzly]

Congrats Detroit!
This tournament was easily one of the best I've ever seen. So much hype.



Because Detroit isn't an asshat.

Someone had to say it.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, REO is a great player... But I'm sure he'd get a lot more respect if he didn't troll the community all the time.

Fair enough.

 

[BillStickers]

I wonder if jamessmk will pay up to PL lol

 

[NogunYesknife]

LOLOLOL ppl still not understanding Perfect legend's teleport mix up

 

[Faded Dreams V]

Any archive to this tourney? And ECT at that?

 

[joemabob]

shout out to all westcoast players! this should of been detroits walk up song haha

 

[HammerZeit88]

Congrats to Ballin. Love to see PL getting back into peak form again. PL proving hes on REO and CDjrs level again. Also good play by DJT.

 

[Slymind]

Congratulations to everyone, from the comentators to the players and the public, and the MK community.

And ofc, a special congratulations to the champion Detroid Balln!

 

[xmygodx]

Detroit outstanding!

West coast and crazy 88's props for giving a great show,

Houston players nice showing from all of you.

 

[DownfouralitY]

FUCKING KUH-BAWL!

I LOVE YOU, DETROIT!

 

[K7L33THA]

Congrats to Detroit. His Kabal looked awesome.

 

[Medina4life]

garik16 Continuation was in effect in grand finals. The rule is w/e now...

 

[garik16]

garik16 Continuation was in effect in grand finals. The rule is w/e now...

You miss the point. Unlike Columbus, Detroit won GFs 3-1 (6-2 after continuation), so he would've won GFs continuation or not.

 

[ghostwriteous]

i think cd jr picked up a couple of habits from playing tyrant. he was doing more air gotcha grabs then Ive ever seen him do since their match @ EGP. Great Matches.

 

[Marvaz]

A fucking HUGE congrats to my homie @detroitballn313. You have regained your title as the cream of the crop right now bro. Now Im glad i took your 20$ too. lol

Denzel deserves a huge congrats too for getting 2nd place beating a lot of good players in the process. Honestly bro, you desere it. Good job, ill see you in Reno when/if you move here.

PL impressed me too, good job bro. Really leveled up!

The rest of the top 8 /top 16 you guys all did your thing. See you all at EVO.

Now enough of this wc/ec shit. There are great players across the country.

 

[BigMilk]

Excellent job to top 16 and other hype matches. Wasnt able to watch but from the list of matches that went on I know it was some of the most hype ever! Good job to EC and WC. I know EC will return with an even greater vengeance next time!!

 

[Saint]

Shoutouts to Bradys pro commentary

Shoutouts to Pig always being biased on commentary

Shoutouts to Denzel and Tyrant with their REALLY impressive performances

Shoutouts to PL redeeming himself in the best possible way

Shoutouts to BeerGuyEd

 

[kabelfritz]

are there replays somewhere or do i have to wait until mlg uploads thewm to youtube?

edit: OK its at 47:30:00

http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/live#fighters