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Posted: Mar 26 2009 01:20 am

Play 'N' Trade organized a one day Street Fighter blowout. In store, there's a tournament for a $5 entry fee for Street Fighter IV. Later that same afternoon, there's another tournament, again for $5, for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Naturally, I signed up for both.

First prize is a $50 store credit. Second is a $25 store credit.

Now I'm nervous. Amongst my friends, I'm practically undefeated at Street Fighter Anything. My best is a record 49-1 against my friend Anthony at Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, and for the record, the match I lost against him was playing as three Servbots (hahahahaha).

However, a tournament, even a local one, is a bigger fish to fry. My best friend is a fucking PRO at Guitar Hero. He can play the shit with the notes invisible on EXPERT, but yet... got DECIMATED at it by an eight year old boy.

I've been brushing up on my skills all night, and hopefully I'm ready, because basically $100 of free games is an awesome fucking prize for an investment of $10.

Anyone else game competitively? The only other time I did something sort of like this was waaaaaaay back in 92 when they had those Star Fox tournaments set up in booths and I won 2nd place... and a T-shirt I still have.

Posted: Mar 26 2009 03:09 am

Yea, the tournament scene certainly can be intimidating. I have done a few small Smash Melee tourneys in the past with some legit pro kids and got humiliated. And I kill it in my group of friends that play Smash, thats just how it seems to go.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

I've played some local Soul Calibur tourneys. It's all about confidence really. Go in knowing you've got it won.

Also, trash talking. Razz

Messing with their heads works if it make 'em easier to hit.

Posted: Mar 26 2009 11:53 am

I did a Melee/SC2 Tournament once. Two man teams, if you team lost you fought your teamate in SC2 to see if you could keep playing. Made it to the Semi's when my Teamate made a dick move...

Posted: Mar 26 2009 01:36 pm

I used to think I was pretty good at SF2 Turbo....until I went to Tokyo and got bitched around by pretty much everyone I challenged at the arcades. My SF2 confidence is forever tarnished after that trip.

I entered and won a Mario Kart tourney when I was a kid, they gave me Ken Griffey Jr baseball as the winning prize.

Anyway, I'm curious to hear how you do. Good Luck.

Posted: Mar 26 2009 03:49 pm

I kinda played competitively on SSBB's online against some friends, but then I sorta gave that up after I kept losing due to crappy input lag. Now I just play for the hell of it.

Posted: Mar 26 2009 06:34 pm

I use to be unstoppable at Rainbow Six: Raven Shield. My friends would make me play gimped against them. (Use a shotgun, or only a pistol) I would still win 90% of the time. I knew evey map inside and out and knew how to use them.

I joined an online tournament and made it to the 2nd round, where I died so fast I didn't have my barrings yet. It was like. "Start! Okay, where am I? Oh, okay I am behind the snow shack.. *BANG* ....fuck."

Posted: Mar 29 2009 03:54 am

Got third place in both tournaments.

Lost in the semifinals against some asshat that kept spamming Vega's air suplex move in SSF2THD. Attempted to counter it with some wellplaced Shoryukens, but eh, I'm used to playing on a PS3 pad. Using the joystick they had set up was... offputting.

Also lost in the semifinals against an Akuma, who caught a lucky super move on me (Shun Goku Satsu?) in the end of round 4 (yes, double KO) in SF4.

Dammit.

Posted: Mar 29 2009 01:08 pm

Undeath wrote:

Also lost in the semifinals against an Akuma, who caught a lucky super move on me (Shun Goku Satsu?) in the end of round 4 (yes, double KO) in SF4.

Dammit.

Yeah, Shun Goku Satsu is the only super they gave him in SF 4 (Lame since I can't pull that kind of stuff off). I don't suppose there was anything for 3rd place?

Posted: Mar 29 2009 06:26 pm

I won a DDR Tournament (highscore) I won 2 SoulCalibur 2 Tourneys, one for GameCube and Xbox, Kilik is the man. Also came in 2nd in a Tony Hawk Tournament. The first place kid did a 2 minute long trick. I was sickened.

Posted: Mar 29 2009 06:46 pm

The first, and last, tournament I entered was a smash bros. brawl one last year. It was about 1 week after Brawl came out in Europe (Though we'd all been playing on imported US versions for about 3 months), and was under "tournament rules".

What this meant was half the characters had ridiculous handicap rules, all items were disabled, and half the arenas (the half that were actually fun) were banned. Naturally, the winner was the guy who organised the damn thing. Moral of the story- never go to an unofficial tournament advertised in your local paper.