AeroGrunt
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So I went to my first offline tournament...
The tournament was a small one held in Helsinki, Finland. I registered online for Injustice over a month ago, after two weeks of them not putting my name to the participants list I sent them another e-mail asking why the haven't added my name to the list. I got a reply saying they missed my message and that they will now add it to the list. Another 1,5 weeks passes, still no name in the list. They had added a bunch of new names to the list but mine wasn't one of them so I sent them another e-mail, they said that they forgot. At this point I was already really pretty pissed off at the whole thing.
Fast forward to the start of the tournament.
Friday I got to play about 3 hours of Injustice casuals with a guy who I would later play in the tournament, we played a ton of Batman mirrors and I think I accidentally taught him some new tech. After the 3 hours when I came back to the PS3 that Injustice casuals were on it had been captured by DoA players. No Injustice casuals for the rest of the day. Spent my time watching my friend play Marvel for about 6 hours before heading to bed.
Saturday I watched Marvel being played for about 9 hours in a row, my head was about to explode I swear. Some guy practicing Zero's lightning loop for over 30 mins had me going nuts. Pools for pretty much every game started, no Injustice though due to the low number of players. The Injustice tournament wasn't even on the schedule. They told us that it would be played "when it was OK for the players". The schedule for pools was about 5 hours late, on Sunday however one of the staff members told me that they only had 2 guys running the pools and 2 guys extra who were also really busy with things, so it's understandable. The Injustice tournament was ran... off-stage... in a corner... at 10PM.
The tournament starts, TOs know nothing about the game and they're asking me if the tournament rules are good. I get to grand finals against the guy I played casuals with on Friday and for some reason I feel like picking Superman. I get bodied by his Aquaman and I then go to Wonder Woman, I beat his Aquaman. He then switches to Batgirl, I beat him pretty convincingly in that match. Next he goes to Batman, beats me in two matches and resets the bracket. I take a deep breath and proceed to 3-0 his Batman in the second set and win the tournament. I get my money and head to bed. Ggs to everyone who were there, it was nice meeting you.
Sunday was finals day (except for Injustice of course). That's all there was pretty much to it. Finals ran two hours behind schedule, but it's understandable.
I left the place with mixed feelings. I hated that there was no Injustice casuals for most of the time, only got to play for about 4 hours overall. I was about to have a seizure from watching all the Marvel. Honestly, watching and playing in the Injustice tournament was the only bit of fun I had there and that only lasted for about an hour or so. Not sure if the trip was worth it. I did make my gas money back and a little bit of extra from the tournament however. If there were more players for Injustice it might have been worth it but as it is, it was a frustrating mess.
Thanks for reading.
tl;dr - I went to my first tournament, I won Injustice, but I didn't enjoy my time there.
The tournament was a small one held in Helsinki, Finland. I registered online for Injustice over a month ago, after two weeks of them not putting my name to the participants list I sent them another e-mail asking why the haven't added my name to the list. I got a reply saying they missed my message and that they will now add it to the list. Another 1,5 weeks passes, still no name in the list. They had added a bunch of new names to the list but mine wasn't one of them so I sent them another e-mail, they said that they forgot. At this point I was already really pretty pissed off at the whole thing.
Fast forward to the start of the tournament.
Friday I got to play about 3 hours of Injustice casuals with a guy who I would later play in the tournament, we played a ton of Batman mirrors and I think I accidentally taught him some new tech. After the 3 hours when I came back to the PS3 that Injustice casuals were on it had been captured by DoA players. No Injustice casuals for the rest of the day. Spent my time watching my friend play Marvel for about 6 hours before heading to bed.
Saturday I watched Marvel being played for about 9 hours in a row, my head was about to explode I swear. Some guy practicing Zero's lightning loop for over 30 mins had me going nuts. Pools for pretty much every game started, no Injustice though due to the low number of players. The Injustice tournament wasn't even on the schedule. They told us that it would be played "when it was OK for the players". The schedule for pools was about 5 hours late, on Sunday however one of the staff members told me that they only had 2 guys running the pools and 2 guys extra who were also really busy with things, so it's understandable. The Injustice tournament was ran... off-stage... in a corner... at 10PM.
The tournament starts, TOs know nothing about the game and they're asking me if the tournament rules are good. I get to grand finals against the guy I played casuals with on Friday and for some reason I feel like picking Superman. I get bodied by his Aquaman and I then go to Wonder Woman, I beat his Aquaman. He then switches to Batgirl, I beat him pretty convincingly in that match. Next he goes to Batman, beats me in two matches and resets the bracket. I take a deep breath and proceed to 3-0 his Batman in the second set and win the tournament. I get my money and head to bed. Ggs to everyone who were there, it was nice meeting you.
Sunday was finals day (except for Injustice of course). That's all there was pretty much to it. Finals ran two hours behind schedule, but it's understandable.
I left the place with mixed feelings. I hated that there was no Injustice casuals for most of the time, only got to play for about 4 hours overall. I was about to have a seizure from watching all the Marvel. Honestly, watching and playing in the Injustice tournament was the only bit of fun I had there and that only lasted for about an hour or so. Not sure if the trip was worth it. I did make my gas money back and a little bit of extra from the tournament however. If there were more players for Injustice it might have been worth it but as it is, it was a frustrating mess.
Thanks for reading.
tl;dr - I went to my first tournament, I won Injustice, but I didn't enjoy my time there.
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way more entertaining to watch (imho).