Waited hella long to do this, cuz it took me like 2 days to recover from this weekend. Still not even all the way unpacked, but man, NEC was metric shit tons of fun. It was the injustice tournament I think we'd all been waiting for, this is gonna be long winded and ridiculous, but whatever.
- First things first, shouts to my lil bro Frank, MF SLAYER
Some funny business happened with the brackets where I was originally supposed to be in the CD Jr, PimpimJim pool (yay
) and ended up getting moved again from my original Pool, 8 (Grr, 7L) and was given the choice of Pool 5 (Theo, KDZ, no thanks) or have Slayer as my first round opponent in pool 6. Hubris told me my week old manhunter would be able to give it to Slayer no problem, he only got 4th at evo, no biggie. WRONG. Quite easily my most sound tournament defeat ever, in any game. I couldn't even be mad, Slayer RTSD like nobodies business. As a superman player myself (cowardly scared to run the mirror) it was nothing but respect. Slayer plays with a vibrance and the kind of fun attitude that through osmosis makes playing the game really fucking fun, no matter the result. Watching him hit what had to have been no less than 5 dive punches in the corner on Fran (who's a sweetheart), one after the other, was crazy. Pop off was equally as bananas. Was a pleasure meeting the little spark plug and chopping it up with him all weekend. SCR he dies a sweet sweet death though.
- Next up, Sajam aka steeeeeeeve and SonicBoomBrad Two of the coolest most chill dudes around period, never mind at NEC or in our community. Brad might get chewed out on KTP a lot, which can be humorous as shit, but between the illest hawaiian shirt, hair and headphone combo I've ever seen, he's as good as gold in my book. He had a rough tournament (@HazeJupiter manhunter is no joke) and I could see it wear on him during saturday but it didn't stop him from being polite, asking questions, answering em and just being really cool in general. Equally as tough seeing Noobe, essentially strike the fear of god back in us with doomsday, and brad getting constantly asked questions about it. I know I would've probably flipped shit, but Brad took it all in stride. I hope his doomsday fucks shit up in the future.
Steve and I had to have talked about KI for easily 2 hours on Sunday. Learned a shit ton on sunday that I had no idea about it, and I tied with him for 9th. Would have been sick for us both to be in top 8, but shit happens. We'll see if my Orchid can get his Saber on XBL, real soon. Was a pleasure, and "why can't nightwing do that?" after Tyrant made us all believe anything was possible was top 5 funniest things I heard all weekend...and I had friends in Curleh Mustache lol See you guys at SCR. (someone scoop me from LAX
)
- @RDK|Tyrant and EMPEROR_THEO and Krayzie you guys are as good as advertised. Watching the streams and watching Theo's superman and watching it in person and seeing the methodical nature of each approach is completely different. I had an "AHH HA" moment watching it this weekend and I totally get Pig and Dave's gigantic praise now. You are the best superman, free, proven now. I'm stealing everything. "Tyrant is tyrant" says so little and so much at the same time. Well deserved, and the comeback was . . . no words. "The Dream" fulfilled. As a Jax player, getting to talk to CD Jr, and you extensively within the course of one calendar month is like . . . idk some weird student teacher analogy. Krayzie, you're cat woman is beyond legit, and I couldn't argue with anyone calling you the best selina in the world.:16Bit And now you got your hatbox modded lol. Can't let you be best Orchid though. Pleasure meeting all y'all, and I hope you got your jacket back theo lol
- And to everyone else I got a chance to talk with. Noobe you're doomsday > You went against a bud of mine first round and he still hasn't recovered. Get KI dude, we need to get in the lab now. AK Trepound380 hawk girl had us all frustrated, good shit man. You def came to play. Same thing, get them Xbone funds. FOREVER KING Good shit as always man. The runback with Jupiter was like the most tippity top player shit I've ever seen. Same shit, hop on this KI wave. AK Smarrgasm good shit top 16 or not. Thought my boy CT Dom had you, you come as advertised. That PS1 pad is atrocious. AK elitegoomba that wonder woman is scary, coulda saw you in top 8 easy. AK Reno_Racks The captain morgan flowed like that of a bountiful river and your hotel hospitality was 5 stars. rev0lver watched your match against Pig, and it was hella close. You're still lexcorps finest. Mr Aquaman is still aries nigga. We both snored in pigs room . . . shit was late man. astronout that win over KDZ was crazy. Respect
- Can't forget DarthArma and Mikemetroid pulling that double duty running, brackets and kicking ass in tourney. Don't kno how y'all do it, but it is appreciated. Thanks Arma for trying to get me in a nice comfy pool, it backfired horribly lol but thanks none the less. No love for Ray Riazy Huge shouts to Tom Brady The shining star of our community. A "walking cartoon character" is incredibly accurate, watching you eat a piece of pizza I rival with any episode of chapelle show in terms of sheer comedy. Defeating you in KI was easily my tournament highlight this weekend, and then you showing me some sick unblockable set ups, immediately afterwards was incredibly gracious of you, you certainly didn't have to do that. But I thanked you then, and I'm thanking you now. Sorry I couldn't get a chance to abuse it in top 8, there is always next time though. The Ft5 with theo was epic, I walked in the room at 4-2 and thought you were finished. Clutch is clutch. Respect Sir.
- To the winner GGA pimpimjim and third place Blind_Man nothing but respect. The first GGA stream I ever watched for injustice was Jim vs. a Grundy, in what looked like a fucking 8-2 matchup. Not much has changed. You played your ass off the entire weekend though with all your characters. Your match vs. Junior with Zatanna was epic. No offense to Deg, but you are the Zatanna of the world. And one of the lex's, shazams, hawk girls. We were supposed to play in pools, and I hope to never face you in any capacity at any game ever in life from here on out. GGA was represented very well, and while I felt the Chi-town presence missing, winning the whole tournament is one way to make up for it
Ducky, IS Raven. We all counted you out against Noobe, but you clutched it the fuck out. Respect, and I too shall stop sleeping on Raven. Your nose is fucking ridiculous, seriously get rhinoplasty.
- Big shootouts to guys like CD jr KDZ Fran Rico Suave They're just as much as part of this community as any of us. They were around all weekend, playing MM's, giving advice, asking questions, and participating in the shenanigans. They might get a bad wrap for reasons unknown *cough* skill gap *cough* but Injustice isn't quite injustice without em. For a guy who hates the game, Junior is still in the top 90th percentile of this ish.
And last but certainly not least,
AK Pig Of The Hut where would any of us be without you. You were the MVP of the whole weekend. Pig is the straw the stirs this communities drink a lot of the time, and I don't think we could ask for a better "leader." As a tinkerer with Kenshi and Zod, it was nice to finally meet the cheapness in person lol. Zod did work, as did the 4g card. Top 8 Schmop 8, you're tops . . .
Maxter is legendary as is his lobo.
Was an honor to sit between you too, despite the absolutely bored out of my mind look on my face lol 3 faces of fear right there. (I'm in the hat)NEC restored my faith in this game and this community. I'm glad to be apart of it. KI and Ultra will just have to co-habitate. Now I've gotta go level the fuck up.
