South Florida gaming at it's finest.

6/28/2010

This past Saturday I attended the PyroPanda.com Round 2 Tournament featuring Super Street Fighter 4, Super Smash Bros Brawl, and Halo 3. I entered into the SSF4 and SSBB ladder on my own and was guilt tripped into participating in the Halo 3 FFA ladder. There were a handful of MLG gamers for Halo and Smash Bros so it was nice to see a handful of potentials competing. Aglow recognized me from the tournament Dreweyes and I attended June 19th at Zero Ping hosted by ESAM (ranked #4 in MLG SSBB) so it was nice to have other like minded, down to earth competitive gamers to talk to while waiting for our matches. I'm not sure of my final placing in the SSBB tournament, but it was in the top half. It was actually extremely ironic how it happened. Drew and I both entered the Street Fighter and Smash Bros ladder together. We were matched up to face eachother at one point in both ladders. I beat him and eliminated him from the rest of the SSF4 tournament while he beat me and eliminated me from the rest of the SSBB tournament. Karma worked itself into that exchange!

Halo 3 FFA was fun. The only problem was that it was 16 players on maps like High Grounds, Narrows, and Snowbound... all gunning for each other. The first game I attempted to make a dent, but wasn't really that effective. I'm used to 4v4 MLG play, so going against 15 other guys was pretty chaotic. I went positive my first game and then just decided to throw all caution to the wind and have fun with the other 2 rounds remaining.

So overall it was an extremely fun event. I placed 3rd in the Street Fighter tournament (not bad for a Cammy player!) and between 6th and 8th in the Brawl tournament. I've only been playing Brawl competitively for about 3 weeks now and was receiving quite a few compliments from other players on my play style. I'll only get better with it.

I'm probably going to shift my focus from Tekken 6 to Smash Bros and shoot for MLG Dallas to compete. I'll still be going to Raleigh, NC for Tekken, but that will more than likely be my last Tekken event in MLG, unless I win the damn thing. I just don't think Tekken is a game worth putting so much effort into since 1) the SoFla Tekken scene sucks and 2) MLG can't even pull in over 100 competitors to their Tekken event while Brawl went from 180 to 250 in just one event. With 80 MLG Tekken entries, the skill gap goes from "newbie" to "pro", there is no inbetween. You go from facing a local who is just starting out to a world ranked South Korean gamer, so your game had better be 100% on point every match you play.

Just wanted to post a quick little update. I'm also out of ice cream >:(

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