Nice one man. Damn that event was awesome.
LOL i think we had more BBCS players at the damager. And the numbers for every other fighting game besides SSF4 and 3s were pretty stink ay. T6 was badd as. You guys must have trouble with that community as do we.
DIdn't that Welly dude Moose go over?
Moose was already over there for something else, not sure if he ended up going or not.
It's still sinking in now how awesome that event was, EXC355UM and the whole Shadowloo\TEC did such an insanely good job with things they seemed to have literally every aspect covered on the day and made sure the international guests got such a good impression of the down under scene that you can be certain they will want to get back for the next event as soon as possible.
Major thanks for putting me up like you did Ali bro, went out of your way and made me feel real welcome. You Melbourne lot are such a loving bunch ;D
Moose did attend! Did his 12 \ Necro thing in the 3S tourney like the beast he is ;] Good on ya for making it man was real good to have some Kiwi backup!
Hope it was worth the experience and spectating for ya, lack of red parrys aside lol ;D
Got around to resizing and cropping some pictures. Shadowloo's godlike music video sized camera blows my iPhone4's focus and quality out of the water but I'm pretty sure I was the exclusive coverage of the boozey moments hahaha, good times.
I'm just going to dump some pictures for now, still havn't had much downtime since I got back due to work and busy weekends.
I'll do a full write up when I finish editing, uploading and get around to posting the videos here too.
Uploading and tagging now then EDIT-DUMP~
Sup Melbourne!
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Step1 after you arrive in foreign country, it's very important to establish a temporary, holiday lab.
Shout outs to Moonee ponds!
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Step2 is to find some training buddies, and if at all possible, a better lab! Thankfully the syndicate were willing to share ;D
Shadowloo's Lab. The stuff legends are made of. Thanks again for having me bro's!
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Some serious talent going on aroud the Shadowloo team.. one of their walls..
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We went and picked Gamerbee up from the airport lol. Welcome to Australia lads, it's decent eh?
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Onto some Melbourne Zoo shots, Met the Shadowloo gang there as they took Tokido around for the day.
Zebra's actually look good with Tokido in the same shot. In the later shots, they totally just striped horses!
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Tokido meets up with Somniax at the zoo. JK bro's, thats only a statue of a turtle, not the genuine article. Jk again bro's, it's all good we cool lol.
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Murderface, friend of birds. Good camera skills on this one btw Ali haha.
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Noticed this tree cat had an unusually long face...
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Obligatory MAXIMUM SPIDER!
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What a scoop!
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Admiral Ackbar says: It's a trap! (door spider)
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The dual mod TE can retire now, I got solo X360 Qanba Real Arcade Pro stick.
And thanks to Mason, we have learned not to put our stick on our laps when they have signatures on the base of them lol.
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The winning 3v3 partner-
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Moose teaches Tokido a thing or two about 3S!
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When does the term godlike not apply? When it's actually a god who is doing it of course!
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Epic loot:
New Qanba Real Arcade Pro X360 Wired stick, way nicer than a Madcatz TE in terms of weight, design and overall feel (Made of wood instead of metal and plastic lol)
Old TE signed by the legends
And beast mode Chun vs Sagat medal ;]!
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Brodsta beast moding it, got a mean video interview with him Weazzy, wait and see!
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Toxy setting up the old school Tiger Shots traps!
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We hit up boxhill Arcade one day, it's a wee ways out of Melbourne CBD area but it's easily the best fighting game Arcade in Melbourne. Playerbase and hardware.
Got plenty pics and vids from in there but will have to deal with the bulk of them later.
Remembering what the kid from the Beyblade vid taught us all....
FOCUS MUCH HARDER!
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When all of a sudden Alex Valle's inspirational guidance ran through my head and I was able to finally....
OVERCOME THE PLATEU!
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Who needs a gf, this girl had my back the entire trip.
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One night I checked out this Local Melbourne meetup, they get together I think weekly here in this room right by Collingwood station. Everyone pitches in with setups and displays etc and the room transforms into good times. This pic is from there, prob got more of there and vids later.
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Some boozey pics from the saturday night after singles was over, pics are alright but look forward to the vids haha.
Gamerbee is all smiles, just like Adon!
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Love this shot, Naruga and Carnage are FEELIN' THEMSELVES!
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Back to the vibe
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Not even third strike is immune to the murder face
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When we don't have our murder faces on, our eyes glow green!
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Life is good.
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Pics are alright, but look forward to the vids! haha.
Note: Ali obviously take anything you like, and if anyone wants their pics taken down just let somebody know and I'll sort it.
Social videos by Ali:Social videos by Me:Plenty on its way hahaha, might give it all to Marc first though, better chat on that note at some stage lol.
SSFIV videos by me:Skullator Vs Somniax during 3v3 Tourny.
2 go here later this week: Me Vs that Ryu who beat Mago in 3v3 on stream
Maybe some random money matches I vidded.
Maybe some random casuals I vidded.
Other peoples vids:Not going to upload my own games recorded vs the internationals, but hey somebody else took this one so it's fair game haha.
Watch him download like a pro..
Bro upload the boozy moments for sure.
I wanna see Mago and that drunk.
I never realised he got his nickname from the face he makes when he plays. That's pretty cool!
Great stuff Thomas. Was good to meet you, and glad you had a good time in Oz. :)
Awesome writeup.
Kudos especially for proving the doubters wrong and putting on such a successful event. I'm sure none involved will ever forget it! Isn't it amazing how far the FGC has come in such a short time recently? Who would have thought it would be possible to get three people like Gamerbee, Mago and Tokido out to a lil ol Australian tournament even just 1 year ago?
Quote from: zos'la on December 21, 2010, 02:07:12 PM
Girst thanks for the vids^^ looks fun :)
who knocked you out in the tourny? Mago?
My first loss was very convincingly to Robsux C.Viper, Sydneys top player imo.
His viper is godlike, on par with how amazing Hydrokinesis's got very early in 2009. But the late 2010 equivilent lol.
My second loss was to Acedizl Adon, Australias #2 Adon player.
I lost 3 rounds in a row, then won 3 rounds in a row, and in final round of game three (the double match point round) we both got down to just about chippable damage to lose the round.. and on the final reset situation my guess was that he was going to mash EX dragon, and since Adon's EX DP type move would of caught my backdash clean in that zone I chose to sit on the downback.
I hoped I would survive the chip and then win the round by punishing his recovery... If I had of thrown outright I was expecting to get blown up by a mash EX DP. So I sat on my downback.. too scared to attempt a delay crouch tech.. and got blown up by a throw =\
Was a shame to lose to a reset, but I was still very pleased to "download" this guys Adon and turn it around that quickly because it's certainly not a matchup I'm confident in yet lol. And yeah he took the first 3 rounds back to back to back, then I took the next 3.
TLDR: Good times in singles.
Quote from: LN on December 22, 2010, 09:06:14 AM
Awesome writeup.
Kudos especially for proving the doubters wrong and putting on such a successful event. I'm sure none involved will ever forget it! Isn't it amazing how far the FGC has come in such a short time recently? Who would have thought it would be possible to get three people like Gamerbee, Mago and Tokido out to a lil ol Australian tournament even just 1 year ago?
Nothing amazing about it in a sence that EXC355UM's crew is unlike anything to have come before it in his country, godlike.
Godlike, as is the city of Melbourne in general :)
I'd put money on the fact that a Sydney event wouldn't of been as ballin', just sayin!!! (Mad drama skills right there, but it's true)
In my opinion, alot of personal drain and risk is involved in organizing something of that magnitude, and they took it all, ran with it and pulled it off big time.
ALL THE WHILE still actively thinking about the future and what was truly important at every hiccup, each and every step of the way (From what I saw anyway)
The international players lasting impressions on Australia for example. Will the players themselves even want to go back for the next one? You betcha they will.
TLDR: TEC is godlike!
Mago said RObSux Aus best player.
Haha poor HB.
I say it's Brodsta, buk da haters.