Is there a way to - HEAT somebody?
Yes there is.
You do know that for a huge of the USA there is
no scene for this game for miles and miles right? I live in the middle of no where, for me and for many others decent netplay is the only way to actually play people? Even if you do start building a scene from scratch you've got a bunch of guys who all have no idea how to play. If I didn't go to college in a major city with an actual scene I'd have given up years ago on the game (though ironically I did for a wildly different reason).
Yeah we all agree laptop tournaments suck but in this day and age ps2 tournaments suck too. My only ps2 stick is a ghetto mayflash, I left my ps2 in storage at college this summer and I'm fairly sure I'm done with the damn thing once and for all. For better or for worse, MBAACC 1.07 is going to be out on a current-gen system, the PC, which is a largely untapped crowd for MB in the last couple of years and is the only system for a number of regions of the world.