Alright .. I just got back from GnG tourney (biggest tourney in Minnesota), that's their website:
http://www.gamesngoonline.com/information.php?info_id=1
I got first place with no loses .. got my FIGHT MONEY lol
here's a little blog:
I entered the hall in holiday inn and OMG .. there's a lot of ppl, around 200. They were there for various games .. mostly SSF4 and smash bros.
The BB tourney was supposed to start at 3:00pm but the tourney organizer told me they are an hour off schedule and BB will start at 4pm .. that sucked for me because I was hoping to get it done with ASAP and go home study for the finals but ohh well.
I wandered around until the BB guys told me they secured a TV and a PS3 to run casuals until 4. Most of them played on a pad except for a few. My first problem was finding a TE stick for the PS3 .. thanks to Antonie who lent me his TE stick .. I started playing casuals and OMG my timing was so off at the beginning ... really don't know why? maybe coz the TV I use has input lag and CRT has nothing ... maybe. Well, I got used to it in the third game .. I knew when I got my chun > dash 2A timing consistently. Anyway the tourney started and I swept through most of them with no problems. Except for Izzy Lee (Mu) and his brother Jordan Lee (Bang)
Izzy is the one who knocked me out in the September tourney. His Mu is nothing I have seen before. I started learning the matchup ever since then .. thanks to FlyingVe, he gave a lot of useful tips ... and I filled up the Litchi vs Mu matchup thread in the process lol.
before playing Izzy, I told him I'll have my revenge this time, he laughed and said "yes, that's the spirit; I like the rivalry between us" .. so I played him and read him like a book or so to speak lol .. baited his two of his bursts (two matches = 4 burst total) the matches were intense as hell .. I wish they were recorded I IB'ed the second hit of her overhead and punished with 2A (thank you FlyingVe) the next time I IB'ed her overhead, he dp'ed my 2A .. smart move indeed .. need to add this to the matchup section hehe. Chun is really good to bait her 2C .. gonna add this to the matchup thread too. he tends to jump after a blocked 3C(97% of mu's do that); I airgrabbed that shit everytime in the first match.
Jorden, his bro, showed me the bang wrath; BANG IS BROOOOOKKKKKEEEEEN btw in case you didn't fucking already know and so is litchi lol.
I was nervous as hell when I played him .. I airgrabbed then 2D instead of 2B lol .. that's how nervous I was but I put him in his place in the end hehe. And I take pride that I finally blocked Bang's double overhead on fucking reaction 5c > 6b .. this is something I couldn't do online .. lol netplay.
That's pretty much all the important matches .. and yeah Caleb's Ragna is tough but he fell to Jordan's after a hype match.
summary, Thank god I learned the Mu matchup, woulda lost otherwise and thank you Ve.
now back to organic chemistry ...