Darksyde's CTF tourney log (LONG)
Darksyde
took place on August 27th...
It all started at 8AM, when I rushed to the mall to meet Rob Aponte and others,
so we could all go to NYC on the train and compete in the MvsC2 tournament at
CTF, starting at 12 noon. Well I showed up, and Germaine was the only person
there at that point. Soon Mario and P.J. showed up....and that was it. We were
like what the hell? So Mario called Rob....who hadn't gotten up yet. Oh great,
so a guy that can't even get up when like 6 people are depending on him, is
gonna be our leader in NYC? Arg. Well anyways we had about an hour to kill
while we were waiting for Rob to come...so I went and picked up Ryan and Speedy
(bums without rides). We all met back at the mall around 9 and departed...to
stop 5 seconds later, because Speedy's MacDonald's breakfast had spilled sticky
syrup all over everybody in Rob's car (luckily I was in Germaine's car because
I'm smart). Well after much pants cleaning, we were on our way...to getting
lost in Fairfield. Seriously, nobody really knew where the damned train station
was, I don't know why we didn't just go to the Bridgeport station, but
whatever. We finally found it and took the 10:27 to Grand Central. About an
hour and a half ride, but it was all good considering there were a good number
of us and we all had stuff to talk about. From Grand Central we took the #6
subway into Chinatown (Canal ST.) and Chinatown Fair was only one street
away...we stopped at MacDonalds first because we all had to take a major piss
and chow down, then we headed on to the arcade. We arrived at about 12:30.
The arcade was already full of people, but it wasn't very crowded yet. Not much
for us to do but sign up....and get a little practice in. We met up with Black
Rich, Rob Constant, and Brian Jin inside CTF, but team Waterbury didn't show
up...chickened out like the scrubs they are? maybe. Anyways, I headed over to a
MvsC2 machine to find Seiya (a 12 year old Boston player and regular on IRC,
who talks LOTS of shit) dominating some scrubs. So I headed over and put my
coin up...and told him NOT to lose before I got up, so we could have our fabled
match. Alas, Seiya was peaced out by Connecticut's own Brian Jin right before
my turn.....UWAHAHAH. Anyway I felt bad so I let one of Seiya's crew play
against Brian...and he won with a weak team that had Gambit, heh. So then I
played and tested him to see what he had...not much besides chipping traps.
Which I quickly broke, and it was fairly simple to come back considering I had
Cable. A good warm-up, but nothing special.
The tournament finally started, with a total of 66 entrants. Very cramped, very
sweaty, very smelly, very LITTLE AC, wtf. Anyways, the sticks were perfect,
much better than the ones at ECC2k, so I had nothing to complain about.
Generally Connecticut got owned, like I figured most of them would, considering
Ryan and I beat them down on a regular basis. I'm not going to go into
super-details about all the Connecticut matches because to be perfectly honest,
i can't remember most of the ones i wasn't in. You should probably ask those
players themselves about their matches. But here's what I can remember:
Rob Aponte won like one match, then his Sentinel/War Machine/Iron Man
combinations pretty much got dominated by everybody he faced. Right before a
crucial fight with Chocobo (Joe from Virginia, another IRC regular who is
deceptively better than he looks), I warned him not to underestimate him. But I
doubt he could help it: Chocobo does look like a skinny scrubby white kid,
especially wearing that strange green shirt, it looked like he just got off of
work serving tables at a restaurant or something. Anyways, to make it short,
Rob got his ass whupped, got really disappointed, and all of a sudden he wanted
to go home. Heh. Understandable I guess considering how uncomfortable it was
being inside there with all those people.
Ryan Lee did a lot better than I think he expected...he made it to the fourth
round before he got peaced out. I can't really remember who he fought, but I'm
sure a few of his matches were pretty good. I do remember his one fight with
Justin, where he dominated the first game with Strider alone....and Team CT
almost got kicked out for cheering for him. Heh, whatever, that threat didn't
last too long, apologies were made, and everything was cool. Then Ryan lost the
next 2 matches to Justin....must have lost his groove. Oh well, I would soon
know what that would be like myself.
My first match was against Todd Dwyer, who if any of you somehow don't know,
has basically run ECC for the past few years because he works at 8 on the Break
in New Jersey. Well he straight out told me that he doesn't play the game much,
and I believed him....picking Silver Samurai and Captain American against my
Doom/Cable/Cyke/BH teams??? Suicide dood. Sorry to beat you so badly but I had
to do it.
My next match was tough, and would prove my skills to the world: Josh W.
(Strider/Doom/BH?), a CTF regular and frequent sparring partner of Arturo and
company. Basically the matches consisted of trying to out-Doom each other, so I
knew it would be tough. The first match he pretty much dominated me, I wasn't
ready for his kind of skill yet. But I learned fast, and the second match I had
my Doom/BH traps going pretty well. He managed to come back and wipe out both
my Doom and Blackheart, leaving only Cable behind...then with only 1 second
remaining he called his Strider assist, and I AHVBed on reaction....killing
Strider and getting the last second win. The third match was almost like the
first, only the opposite...my traps were now in full effect and Josh was having
trouble getting out of them. I won that one without much trouble, and to my
surprise, I had won a relatively tough fight.
At this point I was starving, and I hate Chinese food, so I went across the
street and bought an iced tea for myself. Good enough for now, heh.
My third match was against a guy from Boston named Alex Koo. I had never heard
of him and had no idea how he played...so I picked my usual starting team of
Doom/Cable/Cyke only to face a deadly combination of Sentinel/Juggernaut/?.
Anyways the third character wasn't very important, his Sentinel and Juggernaut
were enough to handle on their own. His Sent was almost flawless, keeping me
pinned with the FP->Hyper Sentinel Force->FP->Sentinel Force->FP-> Rocket punch
etc. shutdown trap working pretty well. There are almost no Sentinels in
Connecticut so I was kind of at a loss of what to do....I tried doing photons
with doom but he started whacking me out of the air with Sentinel, by flying
above me and stomping....its damned hard to get up there with any of the guys I
had. I lost the first match pretty badly, so for the second match I used
Doom/Cable/BH, I figured that Blackheart assist would be enough to keep
Sentinel on the ground...WRONG. Every time I tried to call him out, he would
eat a massive Juggernaut punch from a Powerup-glitched jugs for about 40%
damage...combine that with Sentinel juggling him with the FPs and HSFs, and he
was toast. Well I got mad, I didn't want to go out without a fight, so I did my
best....many AHVBs and photon arrays later, it left my 5% doom against his 40%
Juggernaut. I had a super, hee hee. I did the only thing I could do: chip a
little until he got a super and I feared a headcrush. Time was at like 2
seconds, so I quickly did a full-screen covering jumping RH which somehow
crossed up Jugs...then I cancelled into photon array and mashed like crazy. I
watched and mashed my brains out....the energy going down down down...and
stopping at about 4%. SHIT I yelled out, what do I do now? I'm going to fall
right into a headcrush, why won't time run out?!?! All you can do after a
photon array at that point is airdash somewhere....and me being a total idiot,
instead of airdashing OVER him, I dashed backwards....giving him even more time
to do the headcrush and kill me with zero seconds remaining. Oh well. Pretty
damn good match for my first loss, and Alex went on to take 3rd place, so I
didn't feel so bad.
After that match, I needed food bad, in any possible form available. So I went
back across the street to the market with my friend Speedy and bought a huge
bag of shrimp-flavored chips, and some cookie-type sticks covered in chocolate
called Pocky. Chinese sure have a weird sense of taste. The Pocky were blazin'
tho.
My next match was against some guy named Yul Kun or something like that, I
really don't know where he was from, but he wasn't bad. We both picked
variations of a Doom/Cable/Cyke team, and to make it short, I out-cheaped him.
Heh he was disappointed but it was a good fight overall, and I moved on to the
fifth round...
I figured since i was going to fight Eddie Lee next (oh boy, time for me to get
peaced out) I went across the street to use the bathroom somewhere before my
bladder exploded. I went into some Chinese restaurant and asked to use the
bathroom. The Chinese guy said something really loud to me in Chinese, like I
understand him, wtf. So I just went to the back and used the restroom. When I
came out, I said thank you to the guy on the way out of the restaurant, and he
gave me a look that just said "I want to cut off one of your body parts with a
huge cleaver. Welcome to Chinatown."
Well my match against Eddie was next. At this point the rest of Connecticut had
been eliminated (cuz most of them sucked, heh) and I planned to go out soon as
well. I was already hella tired, but if I could keep winning, I sure as hell
wasn't going to give up now. The match was my Doom/Cable/BH against his
Strider/Doom/BH. First match, he tried to do some Strider/Doom trapping on
me...I used Cable anti-air to get out, and then started my own Doom/BH
trapping...basically I got a lot of AHVBs out on reaction....and through a lot
of good timing, I won pretty convincingly. Eddie was just kind of amazed, he
seemed almost in a trance for a second after the match ended. Arturo came up to
him, and actually said something like "Eddie, if you lose to Phil, you do
realize that your SF days are over, right?" I think that gave Eddie the drive
he needed. Next match I made a lot of mistakes, and Eddie capitalized on them,
punishing me appropriately and winning the match even more convincingly than I
won the first. Now it was really on, everybody was watching our match
intensely. The final match was probably one of the best matches I've ever
played. We went back and forth, each catching each other with something or
another...I would AHVB, he would do a Strider/Doom trap for a while....I would
crossup Photon array, he would get me with a BH inferno->HOD. Finally it came
down to his Strider and BH, both at about 25%, to my Cable, which was about
35%, with about 12 seconds left. He was about to start attacking me (which is
exactly what I wanted, I needed him to make a mistake I could capitalize on and
then AHVB), but just then Arturo yelled out "TURTLE EDDIE TURTLE!!!" And so he
did. For 12 seconds, Strider super jumped, blocked, and teleported around my
Cable, leaving me with no options but to lose. A good fight, very close and
very down to the wire, but ultimately I think the better man won. An awesome
match, definitely.
At this point I said goodbye to Chinatown Fair and the rest of the 100 Hits
tournament. I was tired, dehydrated, starving, sweating like a pig, and almost
out of money. I didn't get home until about 3AM because my ride "didn't want to
pay a toll" to get back to Connecticut so instead got lost in Yonkers and
wasted about 5 times the toll in gas money....but I was happy that I had come
and represented the skills that I knew I had but could never prove just online
or on IRC. After defeating Josh and almost eliminating Eddie Lee, I don't think
ANYONE can call me monkeyspank anymore and mean it other than jokingly. The
tournament was in my opinion a success, and although I hear that the CTF
regulars all clowned out in the finals, leaving 2 Boston heads and a CTF
"scrub" to take the top three. Whatever, it happens. Much respect for the
Boston people who for the MOST PART represented (cough cough SEIYA cough PEACED
OUT cough). Props to the CTF regulars who although made mistakes, still gave
kick-ass comp. FlashG, if you keep doing those Oro dizzies/juggles on me in
3s....I'm going to complain even more. And lost of thanks to Henry Cen and all
the others who ran the tournament fairly well, with only a few delays and NO
mishaps with controls or whatever. This tournament definitely is encouraging to
me, and now I'm going to make every effort I can to go to the MvsC2 Nationals
in Chicago in October.
As always, Nuff' said.
Behold the true power of the Darksyde...
Goh with the flow
Darksyde:
Just fyi, Alex Koo is AK on this newsgroup...hung out with the Boston crew
this summer because he was living with me for an internship.
informer
CryoPrizm
>(Strider/Doom/BH?), a CTF regular and frequent sparring partner of Arturo and
>company. Basically the matches consisted of trying to out-Doom each other, so
>I
>knew it would be tough. The first match he pretty much dominated me, I wasn't
>ready for his kind of skill yet. But I learned fast, and the second match I
>had
>my Doom/BH traps going pretty well. He managed to come back and wipe out both
>my Doom and Blackheart, leaving only Cable behind...then with only 1 second
>remaining he called his Strider assist, and I AHVBed on reaction....killing
>Strider and getting the last second win.
You didn't AHVBed on reaction you scrub. You accidentally push blocked his
Strider assist and then do a ground Hyper Viper Beam. Who the fuck are you
trying to fool? Almost everyone that saw that match thought it was random.
Reaction my fuckin ass. You had the surprised look on your face when you did
it. Lucky as all hell.
>My third match was against a guy from Boston named Alex Koo. I had never
>heard
>of him and had no idea how he played...so I picked my usual starting team of
>Doom/Cable/Cyke only to face a deadly combination of Sentinel/Juggernaut/?.
Anyways the third character wasn't very important, his Sentinel and
>Juggernaut
>were enough to handle on their own
Alex Koo posts here dumbass. And his third character is very important since it
locked your ass down. It was BH. Sentinel, Juggernaut, and BH. BH does matter
because he locks you down with his assist while Sentinel fires off his Sentinel
Forces into Rocket Punches,etc.
>My next match was against some guy named Yul Kun or something like that, I
>really don't know where he was from, but he wasn't bad.
Yul Kang from NJ.
> After defeating Josh and almost eliminating Eddie Lee, I don't think
>ANYONE can call me monkeyspank anymore and mean it other than jokingly.
I seriously doubt that. That's a pretty funny name. lol
IMTR
Darksyde
>Strider assist and then do a ground Hyper Viper Beam. Who the fuck are you
>trying to fool? Almost everyone that saw that match thought it was random.
>Reaction my fuckin ass. You had the surprised look on your face when you did
>it. Lucky as all hell.
I'm sure you're the expert on what was going on in my mind at that time. Well I
thought I AHVBed, maybe I'm not remembering correctly, maybe it was a ground
HVB, but does it really matter? I saw the opening, reacted, and got the win
because Josh made a mistake. Surprised look? Maybe it was from mashing the damn
beam so hard. Lucky? Um if people didn't make mistakes, which you seem to
consider "luck," then everyone would play perfectly and nobody would ever
win....always draw games. And if it was luck, how did I win the third match so
convincingly....more luck???
And by the way, who the hell are YOU to call me a scrub? I'm guessing there's a
99% chance you're from Boston. Seriously, Boston showed some excellent and
respectable skills at CTF, but you're just putting them to shame.
>Alex Koo posts here dumbass. And his third character is very important since
>it
>locked your ass down. It was BH. Sentinel, Juggernaut, and BH. BH does matter
>because he locks you down with his assist while Sentinel fires off his
>Sentinel
>Forces into Rocket Punches,etc.
Okay, now I'm a dumbass for not knowing that Alex posts here? STFU, you've
already proved your scrubbiness by trying to flame just because I'm not a
regular. As for BH being important, the assist is very important, but the fact
is that it didn't matter whether it was BH, or Cable's projectile assist, or
any other assist that would keep me on the ground for a second so he could
continue the Sentinel lockdown traps.....they all have the same effect. The
fact that it was specifically BH that did this, did not matter, which is
probably why I couldn't remember who the third character was.
>> After defeating Josh and almost eliminating Eddie Lee, I don't think
>>ANYONE can call me monkeyspank anymore and mean it other than jokingly.
>
>I seriously doubt that. That's a pretty funny name. lol
>
I'm sure you would, considering you're a scrub yourself who flames to make
yourself feel better about your lack of skills.
tub...@my-deja.com
ci1.aol.com>,
uhhhhhhh no this kid isnt from boston so dont try
to go flaming us. wtf i mean like Y do u assume
it is us? Just cuz we won everyone hates us.
BTW cryoprism who r u? There was only 8 people
from boston and he wasnt one of them. hehe I was
the one that used spiral cable and cyc. but when
i was in the losers tore it up with bh cable and
cyc.
chris
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Before you buy.
Darksyde
wasn't trying to insult anybody from Boston, it's just that on the day this
flame showed up, Seiya was having a fit that I was insulting Boston or
something on IRC when I really wasn't. So I apologize if anybody from Boston
was offended, you guys represented and showed us some skills we weren't
expecting, good work.