Tuesday, February 27, 2007

My really fun weekend!

Hey everyone! As some of you know, I went to Corpus Christi on Saturday with my friend Marc (Shin). The reason we went there was because of a video game tourny runned by John (PozerWolf). The games that Pozer was having tournies for was Guilty Gear X2 Slash, Street Fighter: 3rd Strike, and Smash Bros Melee. I joined all three. May as well make the trip worthwhile lol. Unfortunately only 10 people joined for Guilty Gear :( Sucks that GG players are scattered throughout Texas and many of them are lazy lol. My first opponent was against Alex, a Testament player who is also a friend of Furix (who I met for the first time and he's a really cool guy). First match I got raped hardcore! But in the 2nd round of the 2nd match, I made a huge comeback with only about 10% health left. lol Shin said it was pretty crazy and a lot of people started watching. So it was then 1-1 so we played the final match. That went well, but unfortunately I lost. :( So while waiting for my match in the loser's bracket, I spent time talking to friends and also talking to new people. I also watched some of my friend's matches. Like Pozer, Ricky, Shin, Furix, and Smiles. I wasn't able to catch all of them, but I liked what I saw :D My match in the loser's bracket was against Furix. He's a really good A.B.A. player. I tried holding my own. Unfortunately I was making a lot of mistakes that day and didn't have any time to warm up, so I did lose D; but I had a blast lol. Next event was 3S. Earlier I was talking to a 3S player called Killy and he was telling me some strats with Makoto (I want to learn her, but I main Chun Li for now) and then said that he'll show me if we ever play. What a coincidence it was that he was my first opponent lol. Of course my Chun Li got raped (I've only been playing for 3 weeks and I don't get much practice. Too busy with GG and CvS2 lol) his Makoto is really good though. What also really sucked was that I forgot how to grab!! D; I would keep mashing Strong and Fierce punch to try and tech out of the throw...but this isn't Alpha 3 lol You need to press Light punch and kick to tech out of throws T_T My next match in the loser's bracket was against a Chun Li player called Gumz. He beat me, but the beginning of the match was funny. We were just standing there doing back Fierce and back Strong :P After our match I told him "yeah, i'm a noob. I've only been playing for 3S." but he just said "It's cool. You just gotta practice." So no bad sportsmanship there. Next was Smash. I really don't take Smash seriously anymore ever since I've "Seen the Light" (Guilty Gear lol) but I have a Money Match against Dyse, so I need to practice and try to get a bit better. Well, my first match was against Smiles OH NOES!! lol When I saw him I said "Hey Smiles, ready for your free win?" So he and I played. I really did better than I thought that I would. Instead of 4 stocking me, he 3 stocked me. lol So I was able to kill him at least once in each match :P So I was happy. First match in the loser's bracket was against someone called Poet o_O Never heard of him ever. But first match was a Marth ditto....I hate those.... Well...I did beat him on my last life. Then he switched to Sheik. Um...yeah his Sheik wasn't so great lol. So I 2 or 3 stocked him. Couldn't remember really. Once we were done I told him "To be honest dude, if you stuck with Marth you most likely would've won" Which is true. I SUCK at Marth dittos. They're just so RANDOM! D; Next up I went against ForkGirl. I've known about her through SmashBoards.com and some of the tournies that she used to hold, but I've never played against her before. Well, in the first match her Sheik 4 stocked me in Pokemon Stadium. I hate that level now btw because I realized that the programming on that stage is horrible! I would try to use tilt attacks to keep her off the edge, and the level would STOP ME!! My sword would clash against the edge of the level. Such horrible programming. So yeah, I lost lol. Next match was in Final Destination. The most basic of stages :P I really REALLY enjoyed that match. It was really close. It ended out to both of us being in our last life and having over 100% of damage. Unfortunately I messed up while trying to keep her off the edge and she grabbed me. Sheik + grab = GAME OVER! lol But I really enjoyed it. I kept thinking about that match for a long time too lol. Well, even though I lost in all my events I really had fun. It was great seeing PozerWolf again and meeting Furix was awesome. Afterwards, Shin, Pozer, some of Pozer's friends, and I decided to get something to eat before heading out. So we went to Sonic...but it was closed! D; So then we went to Whataburger (lol Shin loves that place. He says that if Pennsylvania had Whataburger then he probably wouldn't have left! lmao) So while at Whataburger I noticed that Furix was there! lol So we all ordered our food and then Pozer, Furix, and I started talking about my horribly awesome "Shiro Frametraps" lmao ^^ Pozer was saying how Tim (Taraction) would tell him about my frametraps saying "Yeah, he would be doing a pressure combo and then do a Dust, which was completely unexpected. So I'd say 'Wow Shiro, you're getting better!' and he would say 'Dammit! I meant to press something else!'" lmao ^^ Even Furix noticed that. He told me that during a match he had me in a pressure combo into a mixup and he was thinking "Ok, he's gonna try something and he'll be completely open!" and then I would do a 2D (sweep. Down Dust) and he would think "WTF?! Where did that Sweep come from?!" I'm such a masher ^^ lololol We all had a lot of fun! Pozer may hold another tourney in May and I'll definately want to go back! After eating though, Shin and I then left back home. The ride home was cool. Once we left the city limits, I noticed through his sun roof that the stars were showing. So he opened it and WOW the stars were really out there! It's been forever since I've seen the stars like that. Polaris was really standing out along in Ursa Major (the big dipper) and Venus was out too I believe. And the Milky Way looked really beautiful. Marc was surprised that I knew about stars lol He said "Wow, you can get a lot of girls with that!" lmao OH OH!! And I even saw a shooting star for the FIRST TIME that night! It was so awesome! I didn't make a wish though lol I was still in shock. 'Cause I was thinking "OMG! WTF!! A SHOOTING STAR!!!" lol Well, we arrived in San Antonio around 4am. So after dropping me off I gave him a pepsi in hopes that it would help keep him awake for his drive back to Austin. Hopefully he didn't fall asleep. But yeah...really had a lot of fun. Friends, Guilty Gear. What's not to like? lol

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