Toryuken, Mortal Kombat 9 Top 8: To be streamed Sunday 5/20/12 at 4PM – 6PM via Main Stream
Winners
vVv REO (Kabal)
NeoRussell (Jade/Kitana)
VSM Maxter (Sektor)
Milky Situation (Reptile)
Losers
xSMOKEx (Smoke)
VSM Insuperable (Quan Chi)
EG Justin Wong (Raiden)
W1nter Warz (Cyrax)
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KombatNetwork ran a small, yet complete, stream for the Red Bank Rumbles crew tonight, our first all Capcom (KapkombatNetwork as we call it) stream. KN is trying to branch out and show some versatility, since we do play virtually all fighting games in our local group and run these games at our tournaments. This was the perfect opportunity to produce a stream for a great new gaming group that will be based out of Red Bank, NJ. Be sure to check out the Red Bank Rumbles as they will be bi-weely tournaments from now on, and the whole stream concept is still up in the air for them. We were glad to break them in and wish them luck if they choose to stream on their own.
Many thanks to Sean Hengchua, Esteban Martinez, Nicholas Souksay and John “Kazi” Cosentino for welcoming us into their opening, and of course Ken Kalada and Gary Berish of YesterCades. We are huge fans.
Last but not least, congratulations to VSM Classy Sasquatch for not making a liar out of me (Shock) and taking the SFxT tournament, and also congratulations to Grover who won SSF4AE with a nasty text book Guile, and not to mention 2nd in SFxT.
Reaching out to the MK community via Street Fighter today. At YesterCades in Red Bank, NJ, KombaNetwork will be running the stream for Red Bank Rumbles, a bi-weekly casuals/tournament session that begins today, 5/18/2012. We have approximately 60 confirmed guests for this event through the facebook page, and we’re hoping to infuse MK into this as another training ground for NJ, and possibly PA players. YesterCades is where Revolition X was held in January. Street Fighter X Tekken and Super Street Fighter 4: AE will be played in tournament fashion tonight after casuals finish. Tune into the STREAM at 8PM! If you plan on attending this event, it is a $10 door fee for casuals all night, or $15 for casuals + arcade access, all of which are on freeplay. This is a great deal even if you just want to play classic arcade games all night from 6:30 to midnight. See you there players!
Quick reminder to all players interested in fairness, Evo MK9 tournament matches will in fact be played on Komplete Edition, so you should all be using that version to grind.
That is all!
If you want to discuss this topic, please check out the TYM thread:
http://testyourmight.com/threads/evo-reminder-komplete-edition.17098/
Thanks to Storms for giving new players the heads up on this post from 2003. It’s something all tournament players should read.
Seth Killian Says:
Winning a tournament requires more than just strategy and execution. It requires being able to look past all the distractions. It’s requires being able to grit your teeth and come back from what looks like an insurmountable lead. It’s being able to consistently stay on top of your game, and face down the best players in the country. And that takes mental toughness. In analyzing what tournaments (rather than just “winning”) require, this is almost invariably overlooked by scrubs- its not something that you can “see” on a video, and it’s often the missing ingredient that keeps otherwise excellent players from having any real shot at winning where it counts. Maintaining your focus is essential. Here are a few of the most common pitfalls:
That “not so fresh” feeling:
Tournaments (if youre not planning on losing early, and retiring to the fabulous snack bar) are almost tailor-made to sap your strength. Youre in an arcade. Youre tense. Everyone else there is tense. The music is loud. The lights are annoying. People smell. And youre there for between 10-15 hours straight, usually eating highly crappy food (or none at all), subsisting on sugarwater.Every hardcore player has, at some point, felt that deep sense of burn-out you get from playing a little (or a lot) too long. Its the Street Fighter equivalent of futilely reading the same sentence over and over again after studying too much. You slip into a minor coma, unable to do anything but the same stupid, ineffective thing you did two seconds before (“I know! Ill throw another fireball!” … (eats vicious super as opponent reads him like a large-print book for the elderly)). This is actually a non-minor problem for a lot of intermediate players- when you miss a certain move (especially fireballs), you’re seized by the urge to “prove” (to yourself? to anyone watching? god knows…) that you CAN do the move (as if anyone really doubted it), and you jump at the first opportunity to do it. Its like youve got some ridiculous “rep” that you have to “defend” (your rep as a player so good, hes actually able to do the fireball motion *on command*!). So you go for a FB, and get a standing fierce or whatever- you’d be AMAZED at how many otherwise smart, competent players will IMMEDIATELY try ANOTHER fb. Its as though theyve deviated from the mental script they had of how the match was supposed to look, and cant proceed until they get that part “right” (the part where they were supposed to throw a FB). I can’t tell you how many free jump-in combos just looking for this has netted me over the years. If you thought about it for even half a second, you’d realize this was a dumb play, but that’s exactly what you *don’t* do when you’re burned out.
This may sound stupid to the uninitiated, but over the course of a tournament, not having been forced to think about your early-round wins can… Continue reading!