I just got back from the SDTekken SF4 tournament and it was awesome. Good turnout, no problems whatsoever, and great players came to play great games.
Anyways, I got up with N8monster from SDTekken crew this morning to help him set up for the tournament at Games On in Pacific Beach. Pardon any mistakes in my blog as I'm not sure of the places around here.
First check SDTekken out at: http://www.sdtekken.com
So we started the tournament at 2pm today and it ended roughly around 5. First off, N8 pretty much gave me ideas on how to run tournaments as I'm trying to learn how to get things started for us East Coasters; and their setup was dope. They had 3 stations of ps3 that were all being showed at large screens that are hanging in the middle of the store so no one had to be behind the players to watch them. I was pretty much the bitch of SDTekken today, running around setting up systems, grabbing boxes of prizes, and filming the fights aside from being in the tournament myself!
But I found out that N8 doesn't even take commission from these tournaments, he's in it for the love of the game and the community. Very noble of him, but I still wanted a wall scroll for all the stuff I did, haha.
Look at me with my shit-eating grin. I look like a creep, and adding to it is me with no voice since I lost it yelling my ass off the night before. Saying, "Good match man, hehehehe" with your voice gone makes you look like a rapist.
Speaking of which, I didn't do as bad as I thought I would. I repped east coast, y'all heard?!
I still lost but it was a great learning experience; and the one thing I learned from Socal SF4 players: SoCal is the army of BOXERS AND BLANKAS. Holy shit, everyone and their mamas was a Boxer or Blanka user.
Either way, there were a lot of people that I believed enjoyed themselves in this tournament.
With groups like SDTekken, I can understand why they have such a cultured and strong video game/tourney community. Players give back to their community without asking for anything in return. That's something we can learn from them.
If you guys wanna see the full album of the tournament (there's other photos in the album too, just don't mind them), you can check out the full album right here.
And here are the top 4!
From left to right:
First place: Sanchez - sick dictator right here here. Funny guy too, and oh! He recognizes me from movies! Yay! Matters alot for a lowly stuntman/actor such as I.
Second place: Jay aka Viscant, Blanka and Dhalsim player. He and Sanchez had a great match.
Third place: Shiggles? Shigel? I don't know if I got his name right but this dude was funny as hell too. Go get those burgers you said you wanted to have, haha.
Fourth place: Probably the dude that I was following all day, Andrew V. He had a great Blanka and I probably came off like a wierdo trying to talk to him while I lost my voice.
And he had his lady friend at the tourney too, aww. My ex wouldn't go to my tourneys. >_<
Alright, Faiz out, getting some sleep. I haven't slept yet, FUCK.
Mucho thanks to SDTekken for letting me come to the tourney and help out. Also, thanks to those who contributed their help for the tourney like Angelo and to all of those who came to the tourney today. Keep supporting your local video game community! East Coast, we gotta catch up!
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