Facebook event page coming soon.

Sign up here: http://testyourmight.com/threads/oct-19-2013-kombatnetwork-and-red-bank-rumble-present-rolling-thunder-red-bank.38137/

or here: http://www.mortalkombatunited.com/topic/121480-oct-19-2013-kombatnetwork-red-bank-rumble-present-rolling-thunder-red-bank/

I want to get this out in the open now, since there are a couple other events going on. Originally this was slated for October 26th but I don’t want to go against the Filthy Cup (props to Filthy Rich for letting me test KI3 at TFC) due to proximity. Other events on this day are hundreds of miles away so I think we’re good.

The current start time is 5PM, which means tournaments will start at 7PM sharp. There is a chance the start time will get advanced to 4PM, and tournaments will then start between 6 and 7. We will attempt to make a legit stream schedule since Jaxel will be streaming this event for us. We would like to thank 8 Way Run for helping us with this event as streaming at YesterCades is an arduous task when you also have to run the tournament.

As of right now we’re running Injustice, AE, Marvel, Melee, Brawl and maybe CvS2 if time and space allows, it should. Last time we got 110 players for the event spread across 7 games. The goal number is around 80-90 with ideally 32 for Injustice being key. We’ll also have UMK3, MvC2 and Super Turbo all on cabinet equipped with PSX/2 controller mods. Any of these cabinets can be used for side tournaments and accommodate 99% of players since you can use PS gamepads on them.

More details, rules, etc to come but we’re less than 4 weeks away and need to get the word out but here’s the basics:

Who: KN/RBR seasonal regional event
What: Rolling Thunder
When: Saturday October 19th, 2013
Where: YesterCades 80 Broad Street Red Bank NJ 07701
Time: 5PM (possibly 4PM) until 2AM (or grand finals finish)
Main Games: Injustice, AE, Marvel, Brawl, Melee – possible side games UMK3, CvS2, MvC2, Super Turbo

$15 Venue fee grants access to all day casuals when available on consoles plus freeplay access to the 85 arcade cabinets and 16 pinball machines/whatever console systems are open.
$10 entry fee for Injustice, AE, Marvel, Brawl and Melee
$5 entry fee for side games
Stream: twitch.tv/8wayrun
Awards: Crown Trophy

Hype this up players!

Yes KN is lending a hand once again to TYM admin and long time competitor Krayzie for this year’s NEC in Philly which should be a monster of a tournament. Be there players!

https://kombatnetwork.com/partners/sponsorships/krayzie/

Sign up for this exclusive event on TYM here:

http://testyourmight.com/threads/sep-28-2013-kingdom-come-9-28-the-kn-arena-marlboro-slaughterhouse-marlboro-nj.37797/

Details:

Address: 2 Timber Lane Door 101 Marlboro, NJ – 07746

$10 Venue Fee
$10 Injustice Fee
$5 Mk9 Fee

Injustice:GAU will be played on 360/ Mk9 on Ps3.

7 setups with Asus Monitors and External Speakers.
IGAU will be Round Robin style with the Top 2 records in each division advancing to Winners/Losers bracket.
Mk9 will be the standard Double Elimination.
Injustice Character Auction. 8 random select characters will be chosen, whose your money on! Prize is a modded 360 with over 100+ games!
TV dedicated to showcasing upcoming matches and results.
Streamed by Kombat Network, Doors open @ 4pm!
Timetable:
6:00-7:00pm: Mortal Kombat 9 double elimination tournament (ps3) ($5 entry fee/winner takes all)
7:00-8:00pm: Injustice single elimination character auction event (360) (prize is modded 360) (8 random characters auctioned to enter with a minimum bid of $5)
8:00pm-1:00am: Injustice Round Robin Tournament (360) ($10 entry, pot split is 70/20/10)
Just like Infinite Crisis, @SwiftTomHanksand I will be running the brackets and not participating in the actual tournament to give you the best experience as possible!

Looking for a Max of 40 Kombatants!

On August 30th, 2003, DreemerNJ and I released the first official, full length DarkTemplarz.com UMK3 combo video, which was very well received by the FGC at a time where most players were only playing older Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK 2 etc. Videos by players back in the day such as NKI and Sicdic inspired us to go beyond short teaser clips and eventually into full length music videos.

You can see ded_’s remastered version of the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp6Xc7hgCgc

Around the same time, South American players were releasing combo clips for UMK3 as well and this turned into a collaborative effort down the road with Ninja Grinder to promote UMK3 and N64 MKT with full length combo videos and NG would also collaborate with players like RZP and Mgo. This spawned a series of videos that promoted MK and increased interest in running MK games at tournaments, particularly in the north eastern US and and spreading through various countries in South America like Venezuela, Colombia and Chile. As time went on, the combos became more advanced, less practical and completely exhibition level but this only increased the demand for more videos.

This eventually developed into Mortal Kombat centric websites called UltimateMK.com and www.mkkompetitive.com.ve. Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the turning point for the revival of the scene. There were a couple years of build up to that point, and a lot of fighting resistance from the previous incarnation of scene along the way but we made it through, and today the MK scene now spans multiple games and franchises, being played all over the world, in a respected manner while no longer being the red headed step child of the FGC.

During the formative years, DarkTemplarz/UltimateMK joined forces with combo and video making machines like ded_ , Selpex and Frozen Worm. The videos got better, more vicious and more elaborate. The advent of youtube helped reach a larger audience, but even in the days of serve only word of mouth information, these videos would achieve upwards of 10,000 hits a month in what was still not quite a bandwidth hungry internet. DarkTemplarz.com was at one point in the top 10% of websites on the internet for bandwidth usage due to the popularity of combo videos. So much so, that our host had to respectfully ask us to find another one because they couldn’t keep up.

Today, things like KombatNetwork, TestYourMight and others exist in part because of the effort put into these videos. Content would spread to match videos, strategy guides, tournament videos, interviews, streams and much more. Without content, it’s very difficult to draw an outside audience and display to players what can be done with what were old games even at the time, and was very important to jump starting the scene.

Here is a playlist, courtesy of ded_, of many of the videos worked on by DarkTemplarz/UltimateMK which would eventually evolve into KombatNetwork

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcpLFKIdj56vFQ41FJ_q1zeIV0UIsl89d

Due to a scheduling mishap, both Revolution Gaming’s Stick Wars (run by Joe Kruty) Episode III and KombatNetwork’s Infinite Crisis (run by Rapzilla and Swift Tom Hanks) will be hosted at the UltraSpec Warehouse, otherwise known as the KN Arena, the NJ location where we run level up sessions “The Marlboro Slaughterhouse.”

More details to come soon as this event is approaching rapidly and the scheduling change is extremely last minute and we’re making sure we can accommodate as many players as possible.

The Venue fee is still $10, doors open 3PM til 2AM.

Address:
2 Timber Lane, door 101 next to the FiberCables sign, Marlboro, NJ 07746

Injustice Stream will be run on twitch.tv/kombatnetwork
Marvel, AE, 3rd Strike, the mystery game etc will be on www.twitch.tv/rg_live1

For more info or to sign up check here

http://www.testyourmight.com/threads/aug-31-2013-infinite-crisis-8-31-the-kn-arena-marlboro-slaughterhouse-marlboro-nj.37217/

and here

https://www.facebook.com/events/147161635475173