Back in the day, when you brought up the idea of running Melty Blood at a major event, people either went "what the fuck is that?" or just laughed at you for wanting to play an animu fighter; you would be taking up valuable resources that could be used toward MvC2 or 3S money matches. Then there was NEC. Big Eric (the tournament director for the event) just looked at it and went "you have sixteen people for this? that's cool player; take this setup and run it Sunday". So it ended up being the biggest side tournament of the entire event, finishing with a set from Sp00ky and Zar that is still going to this day (MB takes a long time to play), and was the first major to officially host MB.
Some people say that tournaments take on the personality of the person running them. That's true enough with the least coast MB tournaments, anyway -- Sp00ky's usually have a high but very quiet intensity to them, my own tend to be dead serious and just a touch self-loathing, and Chibi/Zaeler's events tend to always run a bit goofy. However, Eric is one of the most laid-back and chill people I have ever met in my life, and NEC as a result is one of the most laid-back tournaments I have ever seen. People just playing random casuals randomly, hotel room after hotel room after hotel room. Random team tournaments, low tier shenanigans, ghetto burgers, a zillion side games, people just chilling (even me, and I never relax).
Back for its second year, now with many more players, more luls, but no more actual skill (least coast is least coast for a reason). This time it looks like we might be drawing some west coast clowns so now people can actually lose to someone else for a change.
The LocationAmerica's Best Inn
2015 Penrose Ave.
Philadelphia, PA(It's about three miles from the airport.)
Phone number: 215-336-4516
The special NEC8 hotel room rate is
$60 per night, omfg. If that's still too expensive for you (and knowing how broke least coast MB players are, it might be) I have booked two rooms (total cost for the weekend is expected to be around $270) housing as many MB retards as I can jam in. Get at me if you want to partake in the faggotry.
The tournament will be held on Sunday, December 2nd starting at 5:00 (yeah the late start sucks). Apparently there's another loli fighting game having a tournament at NEC too, but nobody cares about that game.
Rules- $5 to enter (this is on top of the $15 cover charge).
- Latest version of the PC edition of MB:AC ver.B as of the tournament date.
- Default settings, two out of three games for most tournament games, three out of five for winners finals, losers finals, and grand finals.
- All characters are allowed.
- Bring your own stick or pad. Converters should be on site but bring one if you know your controller is finicky about such things. Keyboard play is not allowed.
- Free character selection by default; blind pick can be requested by either player.
- You can change your character at any time except when you just won a game.
- No button binding (this is a NEC-wide rule) -- THE Q BUTTON IS ALLOWED YOU NITS
- Shower or bathe before the tournament.
We will be recording commentary, and all matches will have replays recorded (not saving your replays is punishable by death, via death loli).
LETTUCE GOGOGOGOGOGO
And just for luls, other tournament games:
Team Tournaments (all on Dec. 1, 2007)- MVC2 3v3 -- $10.00 per player
- CVS2 3v3 -- $10.00 per player
- GGXX(slash) 3v3 -- $10.00 per player ( before reg tournament)
- SC3 3v3 -- $10.00 per player (before reg tournament)
- 3S 3v3 -- $10.00 per player
- TK5 ?v? -- $10.00 per player
Tournament on Saturday, December 1st- SC3 (entry fee will be $10.00)
- SC2 (TBA)
- TK5 (entry fee will be $10.00)
- TTT (entry fee will be $5.00)
- GGXX:AC (entry fee $10.00)
- CVS2 (entry fee will be $10.00)
- 3S (entry fee will be $10.00)
- DOA4 (entry fee will be $7.00)
- MVC2 Low Tier (entry fee will be $5.00)
Tournaments on Sunday, December 2nd- MVC2 (entry fee will be $10.00)
- CFJ (entry fee will be $10.00)
- SSF2T (entry fee will be $5.00)
- SFA3 (entry fee will be $5.00)
- SF2T (entry fee will be $10.00)
- UMK3 (entry fee will be $5.00)
- Mortal Kombat Armageddon (entry fee will be $5.00)
- KOF:XI (entry fee will be $5.00)
- DAT MADDEN 2007 (entry fee will be $5.00)
- Some Shitty Loli Fighting Game (TBA)
- SSBM (TBA)
For more details, check the NEC8 thread on shoryuken.com.
