Street Fighter X Tekken has its uses
I’m stepping away from fighting games for a little
Now, this doesn’t mean I’m abandoning the scene. However it does mean that I will not be regularly PLAYING fighting games for a little bit.
Why? To be honest, I’ve gotten board of them. Could this be to over saturation of the market? Could this be just me losing interest? Or could it be me playing them too much and just needing a break?
Well then, what am I going to do? The same as I’ve always been trying to do. Push the UK fighting game community as far as I can with all I’ve got. Just because I’m stepping away from playing as much doesn’t mean I don’t want to be involved. I’ll still be putting on the Proving Grounds events, as well as helping with the setup for fighting games at i46. After recently being made a member of Unequalled Media I want to dedicate as much time as I can to organising and helping grow the scene. I just simply won’t be “practising” as much. Still down for casuals though and still up for travelling to events to help out and participate.
I’m also getting BACK into competitive PC gaming. I blame i45 for this. I saw how massive the scene still is, and how the skill level is far above what it used to be. I wanted back in and I’m going to get it. So you could look at it as me being a competitive PC gaming, who organises and helps grow the fighting game community. I’ve been playing a lot of Call of Duty 4, as well as League of Legends and Counter Strike Source. I’ll eventually be moving onto StarCraft 2 when I can get myself a copy too.
So yeah, that’s what’s been happening. I really want to re-iterate that I’m NOT leaving the FGC, nor am I stopping anything that I currently do with it. I’m simply focussing my efforts on growing it instead of playing in it.
at Multiplay’s i45 LAN event in Telford. Shame this is the only photo i know was taken of me. still had a hell of a time, definitely going back again!
Another write-up from a competitor of their experience at the Fighting Game Tournament I hosted on Sunday
I have been lucky enough to attend some pretty awesome tournaments in the last two months, and this was easily up there. The venue was easy to find, this is especially useful to me when I am travelling by train carrying my full setup lol. The atmosphere was great from the moment I entered, as soon as I had setup I was chatting to loads of new faces. The bar was excellent, the prices were very good and the staff were very friendly. There was a local shop 2 mins away for me to buy fags and even a maccy d’s just round the corner (I am collecting the monopoly tings). The tournaments were ran very slick and on time with every pool match pretty much being ran one after the other, I had entered every tournament on the day but I did not once feel rushed to play my matches. I loved having top 4 on the main projector, this made for some hype matches although having the lights off was starting to give me and bunsav headaches lol. Big thanks to all the PG’s staff for an awesome event
A write-up from a competitor of their experience at the Fighting Game Tournament I hosted on Sunday
“Well where do I start lol. The venue was nice, the people we’re nice, the games were….you get where this is going lol. Set ups - there was about 3 or 4 KOF set ups and load of SSF4 and SFxTK and 2 3S which I think was a good esp for 3S you normally see 1 lol. ruling and times - Everything ran on time on the projector it showed you groups, the staff also told you where your matches were, what set up etc. Also on the projector which I thought was a really nice touch was the rules on running late to a set or your group (really liked that) Venue - again local, not too hot and that everything you needed was walking distance eg: foodz. I also liked that certain group matches were ran on the capture set up and then the final 4 for each tournament was done on this as well rather than the final 8 just my opinion. My last thing to say is that everyone who attended was so friendly! I swear I spoke to like nearly everyone lol. people came and interacted with each other and shared knowledge, tbh I feel we don’t enough of that in UK certain area’s do like Manchester that community is sick! again another place where you were made to feel at home. I would say anyone who can make the next one do so proper well worth it! Taaha, bro shame you couldn’t make man dunno if I’d of won if you did, but I would tried damn hard too XD.
Again huge thanks to all staff of Proving Grounds hope that all you’re future events are as sick as the first.”
