[May 24-26, 2013] UFGT9 Guts (Road to EVO 2013) - Chicago, IL

[Codename Exia]

Shoutouts to all of Michigan bein' way too chill -- lookin' at you 50 and Luna. Shoutouts to BK for that amazing finish and Alex/Nobody for even making it possible for me to come out. Shoutouts to Bace for dat $20 bill LAWL, and everyone else I met this weekend. Hope to see you again soon, and not drown in the pool this time.

--Exia

[Nel-]

Had a lot of fun putting faces to the names online, shoutouts to the people that I got drunk with also sorry to the guys I got wet when I threw my drink I got hella drunk sat LOL. shoutout to the one guy who, I forgot his name, was godlike at aquapazza haha love that game. shoutout to the guys who took me up on cash battles and shoutout to those who didn't because I was super drunk. hope to play with you guys again sometime soon

[LunaKage]

Alright, well this was a big time for me, and this Major came at the perfect time too.

Shoutouts:

Miller for picking me up and supplying the room.

Axis for getting DQ'd for button checks (Dat Michigan shit).

50-50 for being my wingman the whole weekend, and actually playing me in BB.

Skye... holy fuck man, getting flat out wasted and hitting on random women using Japanese honorifics and making fun of Axis about his dick size.

Skye again for making it to Top 16 in winners in Persona.

Amadeus for loving Jam entirely the perfect amount and not being at all weird about it. Also for teaching me a bit about the Character.

LunaKage for agreeing to give GG a try.

Circuitous for being the coolest not-old man I've ever met, and teaching me some GG basics.

Brandino for being Brandino, and making the choice to permanently switch to stick for GG.

Ada for showing up and being a really beast Venom.

Shinsyn for running the BB and GG side tournaments, treating all of us to the best pizza ever made, and generally being an awesome individual.

EX- oops, I mean FORCE BREAK Puff Balls.

Chosen Ninja for forgetting that Yukiko is low tier and making it to top 4, being a really nice Noel, and having the exact same birthday as me.

Jon for being the most respectful FGC member I've ever met, and letting me talk/teach for an hour about Noel stuff.

NobodyEXE for knocking Axis out of pools, and buying Pizza for everyone in the room.

Lord Knight for pre-tourney casuals, some pep-talk, and generally being a cool dude.

Crazy Ape for being a godlike Carl player (We still need to grind that matchup ;w; )

Leonil: "THERE GOES THE LIMITER! Ok it's back on now"

Pop for being a really solid Platinum player, and managing to knock Leonil out of the tourney. (I feel bad that I hadn't heard of you until now man)

ZomB for being my Chie sensei for about 30 minutes.

LunaKage for agreeing to take Persona seriously.

BananaKen for that IK finish to win Persona 4, and taking it home for Michigan and the Mid-West. Then in the next breath becoming a Fraud in Dive-Kick.

Overall it was a great experience. I didn't get to play BB as much as I wanted, and I would have loved to play LK more than those 10 or so matches before the tournament (But at least I took a few lol). The Chicago locals are some of the coolest guys, and no amount of playing matches could be as fun as just getting a bite to eat with those guys.

I really hope to make it to more of these, but it's always going to be a gamble due to my current work/financial situation, but I'll try as hard as I can, and if there's ever an event I CAN make it to, you bet your ass I'll be there.

[Callisto]

Not really sure where the best spot on DL to post this stuff, but here's the video from the GGXX:AC+ side tourney: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlJ7zgDywLTm81ZPigTJNT4kGVRoUoPnL

and bracket: http://challonge.com/ufgt9_ggac_052613#

[Chris Chaos]

UFGT9 Results

Persona 4: Arena - 65 Entrants

1. UFGT|BananaKen (Shadow Labrys)

2. LordKnight (Mitsuru Kirijo)

3. STF|Kurumster (Aigis)

4. Chosen Ninja (Yukiko Amagi)

5. Dave O (Mitsuru Kirijo)

5. STF|BaceTHPS (Elizabeth)

7. Kobayashi (Elizabeth)

7. AIAB|Kyoku (Teddie)

9. STF|ZomB (Chie Satonaka)

9. Grant L (Kanji Tatsumi)

9. Denial|Danke (Aigis)

9. Skye (Akihiko Sanada)

13. DJ Huoshen (Yukiko Amagi)

13. Miracle Knight (Yukiko Amagi)

13. NobodyEXE (Aigis)

13. Miller (Yosuke Hanamura)

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (AKA: Washed Up BB Players + Lord Knight) - 11 Entrants

1. Lord Knight (Litchi)

2. CrazyApe64 (Carl)

3. AxisTheBeast (Tager)

4. Pop (Platinum)

5. LunaKage (Noel)

5. Leonil_Requiem (Ragna)

7. ShinSyn (Jin)

7. 50 (Valkenhayne)

9. Skye (Arakune)

9. Draiik (Bang)

9. Cameron (Ragna/Tager)

Guilty Gear: Accent Core Plus - 41 Entrants

1. AKA

2. Sym

3. RZR | Latif

4. Oliver

5. SuperFX

5. Filthy Luker

7. Kurumster

7. JaMarvelous

9. Adelheid

9. BlackSnake

9. Dafunkdoc

9. Ukyo Tachibana

13. AB Stone

13. Black Hat

13. Bob Washington

13. Mr. K

17. SRM HNH | Leonil_Requiem

17. Shogun17

17. 50

17. Desmond Delaghetto

17. Nives

17. Malice

17. CORN | AXIS

17. Luis Vile

25. Josh G

25. Yumi

25. Ak1

25. ShinSyn

25. Brandino

25. Circuitious

25. Amadeous

25. Meta

33. Jason Ermer

33. Dave-O

33. Greats

33. Alecranez

33. Jam-Kiske

33. Nam

33. Grublet

33. LunaKage

33. PsychoShot

[miller483]

Had a blast as usual! Shoutouts to:

-Skye, Axis, 50, and Lunakage for accompanying me to the tournament. Glad I could finally get Skye and Luna out of state!

-Chicago scene for the hospitality.

-Giordiano's for being godlike

-Chinatown for being godlike

-Shoutouts to Skye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_azHe17ilg

-Bace for one-and-doneing me, then getting one-and-done'd by pizza.

-ZomB, Kurumster, LK, Kyoku, and Bananaken for playing casuals with me.

-Amadeous for bodying my Mitsuru and his undying love for Jam (who's cool, by the way)

-Shoutouts to Skye (pt.2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F6L6o9-LpM

-Zerashi for making it to finals of his pool, unfortunately I had to kill off my kouhai to advance to top 16.

-Beno for always being a chill guy to hang with

-Refusing to fuck hoes twice

-Becoming a goggle lord whilst driving to Chicago

-And lastly, Skye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlV27CQxtQk

[Kurumster]

Good games to everyone I played over the weekend. It was fun.

[Chris Chaos]

I'm glad to see that everyone enjoyed themselves at UFGT this weekend. I wanted to make sure BB/GG/P4U had a good showing and I am glad things worked out the way they did!

The BlazBlue tournament was small but it had a ton of talent in it, Grand Finals was so good between CrazyApe and Lord Knight, as much as I wanted to get it recorded, it happened before the setup was available. As we all know, some of the best matches happen off stream though so for those that watched it, they know how great it was. Congratulations to Lord Knight for taking BBCSX and CrazyApe for putting up such a great show! Thank you LazyAlchemist for the assist, especially while I was making brackets for GG. I missed most of Grand Finals for BB but I caught that last game and I'm glad I was there to catch that!

Guilty Gear showed up 41 players strong! Filled with Chicago and other OG's all around and, quite the fresh amount of young blood (including me lol) to make this an interesting tournament. I know a ton of player that play a ton met early but this happens when you run a randomized bracket. Names get shuffled and I apologize for that inconvenience for you all. Congrats to AKA for taking the tournament w/o losing a set, that's insane bro, all the props to you! Also good stuff to everyone else for making this tournament probably the biggest side tournament at UFGT this year! I really wish I was able to watch Top 8 of Guilty Gear but I was helping run Persona at the time. Thank you Filthy Luker for helping me run the brackets and taking over when I was needed for Top 8 Persona!

Persona was ran smoothly and we had an outstanding Top 8, everyone there was at a high skill level and that's all you can ask for in a tournament Top 8. Everyone did a great job and deserved to be there, I am glad that I was able to commentate Losers and Grand Finals for P4U with Nobodyexe, it was just too hype. Then for BananaKen becoming the first Shadow Labrys to win a Major in the US and ending it with an IK! The stream chat and Twitter blew up at that moment! Congrats to BananaKen and everyone else in Top 8 for giving us quite the highlights throughout the tournament!

I would drop individual shoutouts to people but it's way too late, so I just want to say: Thank you all and I'm glad that those that aren't from the Midwest that did come out, I'm really appreciative for you guy's presence. Thanks to all the Midwest players that did show up and played their hearts out, and shoutouts to the Chicago scene for showing up and making the ASW fighters shine in the tournament!

I hope I did well as your host for UFGT and if there were any issues with how things were ran, please let me know and I'll do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again. I'd like to learn from my mistakes so that the event can run as smoothy as possible for the next go-around. Thank you everyone!

Well, I guess this wouldn't be a ShinSyn shoutouts post unless I ended it like usual:

Shoutouts to Shoutouts.

Edited May 29, 2013 by Shinsyn

[Callisto]

Seriously though, BananaKen, like, why would anyone ever bother playing another match of any game ever

[A.X.I.S.]

Good stuff to everyone who came.

I can't even give individual shoutouts!

I was just glad to be a part of this great event and would love to do this again.

[iw2ma]

Bananaken officially did the only hype match in Persona's history.

Finals was sick.

GGs to all i played in BB and P4 and everything else.

Nice meeting CrazyApe for the first time and his bro.

Nice meeting Shinsyn and getting bodied by him in pools for P4

Nice talking to Kurumster about everything lol, fun and funny times. Also maybe see you this weekend.

Also sorry about not being in the BB tournament. I freaking awoke at 4:30 that afternoon lol.

Edited May 29, 2013 by iw2ma

[Chris Chaos]

For those that missed out on some really good matches in Persona 4: Arena and Guilty Gear, here are the YouTube links to each playlist:

UFGT9 - Persona 4: Arena Tournament Pools and Top 16 Playlist

UFGT9 - Persona 4: Arena Tournament Top 8 Playlist

UFGT9 - Guilty Gear Accent Core: Plus Tournament Playlist

Hope you all enjoyed yourselves at UFGT, I know I had a blast!

Edited May 30, 2013 by Shinsyn