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.