Wish us luck in Kansas City

This weekend, Kansas City is holding their monthly tournament "Maxout." I am making my fourth trip down there and I'm bringing Joker, our best Marvel player, along with me. This is a great event put on by John "Axiom" and Le "Radian" that has served as a good measuring stick for my tournament ability, and this time I anticipate it will be no different.

My first trip to Kansas City a couple of years ago was one of my first tournaments that I went to and I fell flat on my face and went 0-2. The next time I did a little better, then the last time I finished 5th. This time I'm aiming for the top, and so will Joker-- who I expect to do well after also failing to meet expectations when he first went to KC with me on my last trip.

Also populating our party will be Blank and Curtis "TopHat," who be both entering KOF as their main game. I expect a good performance from both but traveling and tourney nerves seem to take their toll on them more than other players. Regardless of performance, it should be a fun trip and a great experience. Curtis put it best when he said today, "If I go down there and get bodied hard in KOF-- I'll be happy."

~Wish us luck!

Iowa Monthly Series Full Results

This is kind of late, but these monthlies have started up again. In fact, Iowa has quite the lively tournament scene nowadays. Stay tuned for more tourney results.

UMvC3

1. [NG]Joker490Frozen (Trish/Task/Wesker)
2. Figgy (Wesker/Hawkeye/Sent)
3. NGamer3k (Wesker/Storm/Chun)
4. Hogosha
5. Ray Robins
5. Blank
7. Olli
7. Latino Link
9. Kuares
9. EtherLord
9. Ken
9. TopHat
13. Kint
13. Nugen
13. Name v5.0

KOFXIII

1. Murphagator! (Ralf/Beni/Yuri)
2. Klaige (EX Kyo/Saiki/Shen)
3. TopHat (Kensou/King/Andy)
4. BlankM
5. Latino Link
5. NGamer3k
7. Hogosha
7. Kemps
9. Vamperial
9. Kint
9. EtherLord
9. Nugen
13. Figgy
13. Olli

SCV

1. Ken (Natsu)
2. Funked (Natsu, Pyrhaa)
3. Kokain (?)
4. Xiang
5. Fafnir
5. Hogosha
7. Austin
7. Travis Lucten
9. NGamer3k
9. Vamperial
9. Bryan
9. Taylor Terry

SSF4 AE

1. NGamer3k (Sakura, Ryu, Ken)
2. Hogosha (Claw)
3. Figgy
4. Latino Link
5. Kemps
5. Nugen

Videos and Winning Tournaments

Well a lot has actually been going on in the past few months but I have neglected to give any sort of update. Out of laziness and knowledge that no one really cares too much about individual tournament results, I can say Iowa has been performing well at events recently.

I have won a few AE tournaments including the last Marvelous Street Kombat that took place in Omaha, and my good friend, Christian "Joker490Frozen" has taken the last 3 UMvC3 tournaments he has entered. I have also been able to catalogue many tournament matches with my new Flip camera that I received for Christmas and those are available to watch on my youtube channel. Although I was unable to record the last MSK.

In short, I'm back and done lamenting my time in the fighting game community as of right now. Iowa has a healthy amount of events coming up and I'll be sure to update you on our exploits.

Videos from Dubuque Weekly 12/27/11

Winners Finals

Losers Finals

Grand Finals

Stuck in a Rut

My outlook towards my development in all fighting games has turned south over the past few days. I feel like I am at a place in my skill at which I cannot improve without constant quality practice. This is not your average halt in development where one is unable to diagnose problems and holes in their gameplay. I have always been able to do that, and I feel like I know of a lot of things I can do to become better gameplay wise across all games. However, for someone like me who constantly needs repetition in order to really learn something as advanced and complex like proper footsies and game sense- my current practice and training are not adequate.

Long story short, I need to seek out better competition. However, this is a universal problem affecting me and everyone else in this state and in the midwest for that matter. Due to our smaller pool of players, we cannot expect to have as much exceptional competition as many other regions. I can definitely feel the burden now unlike ever before.  There's not much point for me to continue on when I feel like I can become better yet lack the means to do so. If the greatest potential cannot be reached, why torture myself by looking up at what could be. As such, I have seriously considered giving up competition altogether. I do plan on going to events in the immediate future. My performance and attitude at these said events will shape my future in fighting games.

Full Results- Pixels' Child's Play Tournament, Ames, IA, 12/3/11

All venue fees went to support Child's Play.

UMvC3


1. Joker (Vergil/Task/Wesker) (Wesker/Task/Trish)
2. MURPHAGATOR! (Spencer/Sentinel/Wesker)
3. Bo Lo (Captain America/Spencer/Arthur)
4. BlankM
5. Klaige
5. Kevin Wang
7. Kuares
7. Cory
9. Tony
9. Darra Beng
9. NGamer3k
9. Justin Hines
13. Tristan Hines
13. Souvanny Sisouvan
13. Connor Gerdes
17. Hayden Gey
17. SomKith P
17. Soran
17. Kay
17. Figgy
17. Kamig
17. Kevin Lovan
17. Nealand R
25. AKE
25. Vinnie

KOFXIII


1. MURPHAGATOR! (Raiden/?/Ryo)
2. Grog (Female Ryu- Athena/Remi- Ash/Male Ryus- Kyo or Ryo)
3. pbj_mixxa (Athena/Elisabeth/Kula)
4. BlankM
5. NGamer3k
5. Kevin Lovan
7. Souvanny Sisouvan
7. Figgy
9. Darra Beng
9. AKE
9. Justin Hines
9. Nealand R
13. Tristan Hines

3s


1. MURPHAGATOR! (Oro)
2. Brian Baccam (Urien, Ken)
3. NGamer3k (Ken, Chun)
4. Connor Gerdes
5. Souvanny Sisouvan
5. Figgy
7. Justin Hines
7. Grog
9. Darra
9. AKE
9. Bo Lo
9. Nealand R
13. Kevin Lovan

HDR


1. Grog (Sim, Claw, Honda)
2. Klaige (Claw, Chun, Dee Jay)
3. MURPHAGATOR! (Boxer)
4. NGamer3k
5. Figgy
5. Connor Gerdes
7. AKE
7. Kevin Lovan
9. Kamig

Mystery (Killer Instinct Gold - N64)


1. AKE
2. Justin
3. SomKith P
4. Grog
5. Vinnie
5. Kevin
7. Bo Lo
7. Souvanny Sisouvan
9. NGamer3k
9. Kamig
9. Soran
9. Nealand R
13. Figgy
13. Darra
13. Cory

Results- Marvelous Street Kombat - Omaha, NE, 12/2/11

SSF4 AE

1. Jamarr (Blanka)
2. NGamer3k (Sakura)
3. Chris H (Cody, Ryu)
4. GoodSpeed
5. Simon
5. Datrick
7. BlankM
7. Ken
9. WP
9. Dub
9. Uli
9. Travis

UMvC3

1. Joe (Vergil/Zero/Sentinel) (Zero/Wolvie/Sentinel)
2. Joker (Vergil/Task/Wesker)
3. Jamarr (Ghost Rider/Dorm/Doom)
4. Simon
5. NGamer3k
5. Uli
7. JBM
7. Chris H
9. Dekline
9. BlankM
9. Kevin Wang
13. Soran

KOFXIII

1. Chris H
2. Datrick
3. Jamarr
4. Ken
5. GoodSpeed
5. Dub
7. BlankM
7. NGamer3k
9. Austin
9. Ty