Just a quick thank you to everyone who made it down to the ULTRA! Chalet Gathering this weekend. It’s thanks to you that the event was a big success.
The Green Line vs Red Line matches were amazing. Big ups to the everyone who took part and for making every match so exciting by generating some of the greatest hype I’ve seen in competitive gaming.
I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Especially the newer players. I hope you guys were able to get as much out of this event as possible with our fundamentals and frame data classes as well as become better acquainted with the regulars.
If you’re curious, you can read some of the experiences from people who were at the event here. I encourage anyone who went to post up.
Videos from the event will be uploaded. Including those of the classes. However, I’m not sure how much of it will be uploaded since there is 5 hours of footage to sort through and some audio problems have cropped up in some of the videos. I think it’s clear that the camera we’ve been using needs to be retired for good sometime soon.
Thanks to Thirty Nine Store for donating the Street Fighter phone straps as prizes for the lucky draw.
Once again, thanks to all who came. Please stay tuned for news of future events. We hope to see you there!
Yes yes, I finally got off my lazy ass to do the write-up for KO Round 1’s Tekken segment! Mind you, I wasn’t here for the whole thing, due to work unfortunately >=(, but here goes! Photos courtesy of the awesome Ms. Weiting of TKA. With some erm…liberal Photoshopping by me =P.
Player Rant! The One-Handed Hakumen Speaks!
The following is a bit commentary on the issue of people not wanting to come down to the arcades to compete. Written by Jaeshi of the BlazBlue community and reproduced here with permission. I personally think that his view is a little skewed since he plays almost exclusively at Bugis. But it’s still a poignant bit of commentary and definitely worth saving. And yes, Jaeshi is the fabled one-handed Hakumen. Which goes to show his level of dedication to the scene. (Now, with his arm out of a cast, he’s back to playing Bang again.) – Farpenoodle
I’m surprised that after the successful Iluma tournament turnout, there are still so many people shying away from getting real action down in the arcades.
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