Tokyo Game Action's Ranking Battle 2-3 (MA, 4/14/2007)

[Dipstick]

The results keep being random, with two new people (KoreanDJ and Spic Tom, local SSBM players from MA) winning the last ranbat. However, this tournament was absent some of the region's best players (and not so best), so this tournament should have different results yet again.

Who will win?

For Sp00ky/Zar/Chibi: This event is two weeks before Showdown Championships, not one.

Address:
"Tokyo Game Action"
5 Summer Dr.
Winchendon, Massachusetts 01475

Date & Time:
Saturday, April 14th, 2007

$20 dollar cover ($5 dollar increase from last time; this is a one-time change)
$2 to enter most tournaments (3S is $5)

Melty Blood is part of the lineup here, starting at 7 PM. The tournament is run on ver.B arcade cabinets, whoop whoop.

Other games being run:

Capcom vs SNK 2
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Hyper Street Fighter II: Anniversary Edition
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Marvel vs Capcom 2

Rules:

-DOUBLE ELIMINATION! Best 2 out of 3.
-Winners and Losers Finals will be best 3 out of 5.
-Grand Finals will still be 3/5 (only game like this ).
-You are not obliged to stick with the same character throughout the ENTIRE tournament. You may switch up at anytime except when you win a match. If you lost a match or your about to face a new opponent, you may choose to stick with the same character you've been using or another character.
-If you lose, you can change your team/character. Winner must stick with the same character until he loses.
-There are to be NO GAME FREEZING GLITCHES IN ANY GAME. If you do I'm going to kick your ass! (And by I, I mean Gavin) Plain and simple.

Brackets are seeded based on prior performance. The current (unoffical) rankings:

t1st) Zar (10)
t1st) KoreanDJ (10)
t3rd) FecalPenance (7)
t3rd) Pestazoid (7)
5th) JJuice (6)
t6th) Dipstick (5)
t6th) ill will (5)
8th) Master Chibi (3)
9th) Tinshi (1)

Unrakned players (or anyone out of the top 4? 8?) will be randomly seeded.

Directions:

From 95 North, take EXIT 6B towards 495 North.

- From 495 N, take EXIT 29B, then that'll be Rt.2 WEST. (20-30 min drive)

- From Rt. 2 W, take EXIT 24B, then tha'll be Rt.140 NORTH. (10-15 min drive)

- From Rt. 140 N, keep going straight down for about 15 min.

- Eventually you are going to run on a little bridge with a pond on your right, from there take a RIGHT onto Beech Street.

- At the end of Beech St., take a right onto 5 Summer Dr. and you'll see our beloved Tokyo Game Action.

Sadly, they took the video equipment out of MB:AC and stuck it in CvS2. Who the hell plays CvS2? Hopefully someone will bring a camcorder and record on their own.

[COD3player]

I was surprised at first seeing SSBM players winning the last one only to find out that they played a bunch of newbs. Get out there and show them that MBAC is a game they shouldn't be winning at so easily. I get the feeling they're on smashboards saying how MBAC is so easy to pick up and start beasting. Keep them out of the top 5 please. <.<

[XAQshinor]

hope i can make it to this one.
gotta try and get my funds up

[Zaido]

you just got to win 

show them what MB is made of 

[Arlieth Tralare]

Someone tell Gavin to get over heah~

[Dipstick]

I get the feeling they're on smashboards saying how MBAC is so easy to pick up and start beasting.

ps melty blood is trash super easy trash I SAID IT

who said that shit melty blood is to easy i ranked top 8 at nec and i started playin the day before its to easy lol

what i am thinking now is that the problem with MB is that its so easy to pick up that scrubs can compete at most levels what I think is missing from MB I think is that there must be a sort of game changing strategy that noone has hit yet that will just completely change up the whole dynamic of the game.
like honestly with MB all I did was throw it into training mode and figure out a couple combos and block strings and throw setups and see how the parry timing works and i can compete
really i wanna see some of the mb crew get me with some hot shit so i get my mind changed about the game.

copy and paste for speaking DA TRRRRRUTHHHHH!!!!

Yeah. It's from SRK, but whatever.

Someone tell Gavin to get over heah~

Gavin got no love for the bread.

[XAQshinor]

 

now i REALLY wanna go to the next ranbat.

[COD3player]

snip

If that's how it is at SRK, then it's MUCH worse at smashboards. I remember when KDJ won that other ranbat some months ago and he was broadcasting it to them. What he left out was the fact that there were only like, 4 participants. *shakes head*

[Dipstick]

How do you people not hate me for all this? Well, everyone other than Harman.

Hell, I hate myself for letting it happen.

[COD3player]

Well then, get out there, and WIN! Don't let it happen again. Show them that this is not a game that they can beast at with little experience. You guys should beat them down so hard that they'll consider outright quitting. Do ANYTHING but let them have an easy road to glory. I can guarantee that here on the west coast that no pro Smashers will be defeating me or any other experienced MBAC player for that matter.

[Dipstick]

Well then, get out there, and WIN! Don't let it happen again.

The problems are two-fold:

1) I'm not very good at the game. Even in a neutral situation, I would be nothing more than a small favorite against someone like JJuice or Korean DJ.

2) I have a tendency to come up small in the biggest situations. Counting on me to do much of anything is just asking for failure.

       

[matrixmatt]

it's koo just train and comeback and comback with a vengence

[Choco]

Dippy just needs to learn to BELIEVE! 

[XAQshinor]

its only funny cuz they think they are nice for winning a scrub tourney.
if any 1 player from teh nyc crew was there this shyt wouldnt have happened,
beleive that.

[COD3player]

Onlookers are going to see the points accumulated through the ranbats and see that KDJ is tied with Zar and as a result, think he's on par with him. That's FUCKING WRONG in every way imaginable. If I see either of them or anyone else bragging about their rankings at those scrub tourneys, I'm going to start throwing the facts out and shut them up.

[Arlieth Tralare]

It's called setting yourself up for a fall

Don't worry about KoreanDJ getting too big of a head. That's priiiiiime moneymatch opportunity, baybee!

[COD3player]

Yeah, he's easy money. Not long after he won his first ranbat he started throwing around money match challenges. Whether he was joking or not, I'd have taken him up on it if I didn't live so damn far away. <.<

[XAQshinor]

i would challenge him to a MM but u need money to do that so...yea.

[Zaido]

why not just challenge him and borrow some money :p.. you probalby woudl get the money and also pay back the person you have loaned from

[XAQshinor]

LMAO. i think ill wait a while though, until its confirmed that i
can actually go.

[Animeruko]

Wow, I will eventualy be able to go to one of these, That is once i upgrade from being a poor loser to a loser with money.

 I lack the ability to play on sticks too so im sure even if i did go now i would just play even worse than i allready do ; ;

BTW about what time dothe MB games end? i know the MB games start at 7pm and are there casual matches befor it starts?

[Dipstick]

Ruko: People are playing pretty much the entire time there.

I already PMed you about getting you to TGA (and back), but apparently you aren't interested?

[Animeruko]

oopse, sorry lol i didnt get your PM or maybe i missed it but, i'm definately intrested XD

[Sp00ky]

It's not worth it. Me and Zar know whats really up. It's more enjoyable to let them keep their false sense of hope.
When TGA isn't located someplace in the asshole of America that requires public transportation + driving to get to then you won't see junk like this or their 3s tourneys happen.

[Dipstick]

When TGA isn't located someplace in the asshole of America that requires public transportation + driving to get to then you won't see junk like this or their 3s tourneys happen.

Those are some fighting words, Sp00ky.
In other news, from a random post on TGA's forum from Pestazoid:

I don't know which to go to the smash tourney that Korean[DJ] is going to have or the TGA tourney which has MB:AC and stupidly good food ahhhh the decisions. I hate when things that I love are on the same date son.

Lame.