You may have missed it, but some long-time members of the Melty Blood community were on a couple of fighting game community radio shows recently. AlphaISM Radio had a special show when the final Evolution 2010 game was announced, and soon after the announcement Sp00ky, Dipstick, and other Melty Blood players were on the show to discuss the results, the game, common misconceptions, what to expect, and so on. They start appearing on the radio show about an hour into it.
The poll for the player’s choice game over on Shoryuken has just closed, and live on AlphaISM Radio MrWizard announced that the final game at Evolution is Melty Blood: Actress Again.
As we decided what to order Sabin was looking at me oddly when he said he wanted to slap me for not talking to Mr. Wizard, and then I asked him about what?
“Melty Blood, chance of a lifetime and you passed it up!”
He was right, I really did blank out. We all ordered our food and ran back up again, when I decided to ask Mr. Wizard a question or two about Melty Blood ever being held at any Evolution in the future.
At first he smiled, because when I asked my hands were clapped together as if I was praying, but he was kind enough to talk about it.
Basically he made the point that the game has to get a community going first, not only on EC but WC and elsewhere too. You know, get the game to blow up however possible. Make him notice that people are into this game and that it’s worth consider. He said not to take it as being hopeless either, and brought up an example. Street Fighter 3S was originally on the roster when released, only to be taken off due to lack of anyone even playing the game. Then out of nowhere the community blew up and they realized it was worth putting back in. They also noted that having around 100 entrants (TTT had around 90+ when it was held at Evo) is something that will quickly get them to take notice and get them to look into it more.
So it’s not entirely hopeless, and it can be done. If we could get 30 people last year, then Zaelar and myself are going to personally push for 50 this year. We’re looking to really start pushing the ranbats here on the EC, possibly by a projector for MB at Evo World this year (you heard right), put in $200+ into the pot, we want to push this shit and make it happen. Evo 2k8? Probably not, but that shouldn’t stop us for shit.
So let’s make this happen guys!
How far things have come along in the last three years. There are still a lot of things that need to be done (like coordinating donations, trying to attract foreign plays to come out, other events, etc.) and never mind the players themselves training up to bring their best game to Vegas.
A few things first, I wouldn’t have had actually gone through with this if it wasn’t for Arturo because at the first chance I had my mind went completely blank because I’m a fucking moron and more or less exhausted from Evo East.
Second, for NYC MB’ers, I managed to secure a TV to always have available for our tournaments at W2Z, more on that later.
Anyways, earlier today (Monday), around the time we were going to check out (originally 11am) myself, Zaelar, and Sabin were getting ready when we got suckered into watching the 5th (or maybe 6th) Pokemon movie on Cartoon Network. Haha, we stuck around until 11:50am, and then ran downstairs to check out.
A friend had come earlier that day (more like 3am) to tell us that they were literally giving televisions away due to the absurd shipping costs it would have cost to send them all, so we went up to the event hall to see if this was really true. There was literally like 20 televions in boxes sitting in the back with all the PS2’s, Dreamcasts, and games packaged next to them. At first we wondered why the event hall was open when that stuff was just sitting there, so we just brushed it off and went down to the parking lot thinking it’s best we head out.
It’s then that we bumped into Gavin (Echoes of Pain on SRK, tournament director at TGA) and Ralph (RushedDown on SRK) in the parking lot. Talked for two minutes, when I jokingly brought up the point of taking the tv’s.
Anyways, to make a long story short, he called a friend who was part of staff, who called the other head of staff, and told us to chill in the room for the staff to show up.
Sure enough they did, and sure enough Zaelar and myself took one televions to donate to W2Z, and Sabin took one to do whatever he wanted with. On the way back up with the boxes (the tv’s wouldn’t fit in the boxes so we took them out) we walked past / bumped into Mr. Wizard (do I really need to tell who he is?). We threw away the boxes, and Sabin got to chatting it up with Seth and Mr. Wizard about the old days. We had some laughs about EvoEast, the old days, and lots of other random stuff.
Then we decided to go eat, thanked them for the televions and a great time, and went down to the restaurant in the hotel to eat.
As we decided what to order Sabin was looking at me oddly when he said he wanted to slap me for not talking to Mr. Wizard, and then I asked him about what?
“Melty Blood, chance of a lifetime and you passed it up!”
He was right, I really did blank out. We all ordered our food and ran back up again, when I decided to ask Mr. Wizard a question or two about Melty Blood ever being held at any Evolution in the future.
At first he smiled, because when I asked my hands were clapped together as if I was praying, but he was kind enough to talk about it.
Basically he made the point that the game has to get a community going first, not only on EC but WC and elsewhere too. You know, get the game to blow up however possible. Make him notice that people are into this game and that it’s worth consider. He said not to take it as being hopeless either, and brought up an example. Street Fighter 3S was originally on the roster when released, only to be taken off due to lack of anyone even playing the game. Then out of nowhere the community blew up and they realized it was worth putting back in. They also noted that having around 100 entrants (TTT had around 90+ when it was held at Evo) is something that will quickly get them to take notice and get them to look into it more.
So it’s not entirely hopeless, and it can be done. If we could get 30 people last year, then Zaelar and myself are going to personally push for 50 this year. We’re looking to really start pushing the ranbats here on the EC, possibly by a projector for MB at Evo World this year (you heard right), put in $200+ into the pot, we want to push this shit and make it happen. Evo 2k8? Probably not, but that shouldn’t stop us for shit.
Yes, for all you who’ve been following along with the Evo 2010 poll, MBAA has taken a decisive victory! Thanks to all of you who took the time to vote (or spread the word to get other voters), Melty got a whopping 27% of the total votes giving it a significant lead. You’ve all made fighting game history.
Time to break those piggy banks and grab those rainy day funds. Let’s make this Evo the ultimate hype ever. As a Vegas local, I’ll look forward to seeing you.
The bad news is that Melty Blood: Actress Again was not chosen as one of the feature games. :( However…
The good news is that the final game is going to be determined by the community at large, and one of the games for consideration is Melty Blood: Actress Again. The choice will be made via a forum poll on Shoryuken’s forums, and as such they are going to require forum accounts with some standing in order to vote.
Voting is available now; voting is open until 12:01 AM PST, February 6th. So the poll will be available for tonight and all of the next week. If you have not already registered as a member on Shoryuken, you will not be eligible to vote.
Melty Blood: Actress Again live on stage (and the stream) at America’s biggest fighting game tournament?
1: Team Handsome (GenericSuperhero, Xie) ($156.00) 2: Team Bangs (jiyuna, Lord Knight) ($78.00) 3: Team Lolis Toss Salt (mynus, XAQshinor) ($26.00) 4: Team ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED????? (Sp00ky, Zar) 5: Team Netplay Warriors (Great Knight, Tonberry) 5: Team Gattai! (Nightroad, Kamina) 7: Team Kite Runner (LordPangTong, Kite) 7: Team Ladels and Lines (Master Chibi, Zaeler) 9: Team Amber Alert (pfhor, JeffM) 9: Team VStarbucks (CajunStrike, FrankTheTank) 9: Team Taiga (Komidol, Kira) 9: Team Some Asian Guys (sumAzNDude, sibladeko) 13: Team Take You To The Movies (Rayza, Curbeh) 13: Team We Don’t Need A Team Name (Mizuki, ehrik) 13: Team Dat EX Slayer (Nas, Gos) 13: Team Beret (Zero, Tempered) 17: Team Poverty (Moku, K) 17: Team only_hal_gets_picked_last (Hyperhal, Lolisauce) 17: Team Politically Correct (Rithli, ShadowFox) 17: Team WAFU- (Comic-Z, Rorec) 17: Team YLIS (Dipstick, orka) 17: Team Dabvid “The Beast” Sorelin (Choco, bellreisa) 17: Team Ivanna Humpalot (tinshi, FecalPenence) 17: Team Bye (motoh, TrueTech) 25: Team Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo (Celestein, Theli) 25: Team North Carolina (PurifyWeirdSoul, BeastOfFire)
Thanks to everyone that showed up and competed, and also thanks to who were helping me on IRC and the UStream chat keeping things straight.
Join tens of people live and hundreds of people on the Internet at the Melty Blood: Actress Again tournaments at the Northeast Championships. We (or at least I) are here live covering the event (actually running it), and we’ll have streams and results available as they come in.
Live streaming available via UStream, and if you go on it right now the team tournament is being streamed live, and you can also view the casuals streamed last night in the archive.
Battle by the Gazebo XII is finished, which was bigger and better than the last event, with 38 entrants. Congrats to XAQshinor for taking it all with White Len, and GenericSuperhero(Nero) and and sp00ky(VSion) for getting 2nd and 3rd respectively. The results thread can be viewed here: http://www.meltybread.com/forums/tournament-results/bbgxii-results!/
The Battle by the Gazebo XI videos are out! Thanks to sp00ky for devoting his time in editing and encoding the videos; the production is great, and they came out very quickly. Also many props to Tinshi and Master Chibi for their amazing interviews with the East Coast MBAA scene, those are a must watch.
Battle By The Gazebo XI, the first tourney with MBAA as a main event in the East Coast just finished this past weekend, with 25 entrants. Congrats to jiyuna for taking 1st at the tourney with Nanaya, and Zar(Aoko) and XAQshinor(WLen) for getting 2nd and 3rd respectively. IIRC this marks the first time a White Len has made top8 in a US Melty tourney. If you live in New York, you should try to make it out to these events, as it’s a series. No word on when the next BBG will be, though. Videos were recorded, so those will also be up in due time. Check this thread for full results, discussion, and video posts: http://www.meltybread.com/forums/tournament-results/bbgxi-hypetasic-results-and-holla-at-ya-boi-thread!!
Seasons Beatings 4 in Columbus, Ohio will be held during October 16-18, but iirc currently MBAA is not on the roster for side events, although there is potential interest in it. If you live in the area, go ahead and post in this thread expressing interest for a possible side tourney.
In commemoration to jiyuna winning BBGXI, the next character in the MBAA showcase will be Nanaya, all styles. The videos are of a Nanaya only 2on2 tournament, which sounds like a joke at first but the players are actually really good, and many of them are fairly well known.
It’s about a week late to post this, but the PS2 version of Melty Blood Actress Again is out. If you haven’t already gotten it, make sure to get it: the Play-Asia link a few posts down should still work. The Limited Edition version of the game comes with the soundtrack, which is 2 discs and contains a total of 69 tracks.
New features in the PS2 version of MBAA are a new console original balance mode, fully voiced cutscenes and winquotes, and 5 new characters in the form of Shiki Ryougi, Seifuku Akiha, Kohaku&Mech, Mech&Neco, and Archetype Earth, a boss version of Arcueid. There’s also a new moon phase called Eclipse Moon, which is purely a style meant for boss versions of characters. Finally, there’s a very hilarious Boss Rush mode which is highly recommended for everyone to try out at least once.
To unlock the new characters: Seifuku Akiha – Beat arcade mode with both Akiha and VAkiha Mech&Neco – Beat arcade mode with Miyako Neco Arc Chaos – Beat arcade mode with White Len and Hisui Kohaku&Mech – Beat arcade mode with Neco Arc on a specific path where Koha&Mech is the first opponent. If they’re not 1st, then restart and try again Archetype Earth – Not really too sure, but pretty sure Boss Rush needs to be beaten without losing a round
Boss rush mode is unlocked by beating arcade mode with all of the characters. In addition, it’s possible to just time unlock everything
If this sounds like too much trouble(and it should), then there’s a full savefile available here.
Finally, the next char to be featured in the MBAA character showcase is Miyako. The player is かんな(Kanna), who was a top Miyako player in MBAC and is continuing to use her in MBAA mainly using her Crescent and Fullmoon styles. The Youtube playlist contains videos of Kanna against various players at Joybox arcade. A little background about Joybox, it is an arcade located in Tokyo, and many people in the West know Joybox for its Youtube account Geesendou, which posts tons of match videos for lots of games. Basically, they record pretty much everything, so in the videos they put up on their Youtube account the level of play tends to vary wildly, since they’re not recording tournaments and just about anyone could go on the cab that’s getting recorded. However, occasionally some very good players show up and get recorded, which makes for great watching. Player names are never labeled in their videos, but luckily, through the power of the Japanese MBAA BBS, we know that the good Miyako in this set of videos is Kanna. There’s about 16 videos in this Youtube playlist. There are also more videos of Kanna available on the Meltybread Youtube account, which can be found very easily using the search function.
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