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new years eve party for me, i'll be busy.

yeah, redmond and tacoma areas are the two hot spots in washington.

yes he does.

you should come up for gameclucks! I also wanna see all you washington people there, you've got a months warning and there's no holidays, no excuses!

they're all on irc like fools.

what time ar epeople planning to show up?

will be there.

unfortunately i can't go up to illinois around christmas/new years since I'm heading up for my grandmothers 90th birthday next month.

I'm gonna be busy tomorrow unfortunately, which means no tournament for me

If I have a job by that time I'll come out on either date, otherwise probably not either(though still possible).

Yeah last night was pretty dead at digipen, I asked people if they wanted to make the trip up, but there was only one TV of BB at digipen and the line for it wasn't very long(and no GG players other than me were there).

Not sure if the guide will ever be updated, but feel free to ask any specific questions if you have them. Looking at the guide the only thing that was really left blank was the keeping pressure on, which is hard for baiken to do, the best thing you can do is space yourself well when you get them in the corner(which you will because of j.d) and end blockstrings in tatami FRC.

nec GG finals were super hype as well btw!

gameclucks tourney was lots of fun, they said they'd like to have another tournament on friday, and then another one the saturday a week after that. It's a very good venue and the workers are cool, they have lots of crt monitors, lots of space and comfortable chairs(and the internets!). I think we should try and get as many people out there as possible on friday instead of digipen and show 'em we can bring in the numbers. edit: also thanks a lot to dusty and kayeff for showing up and hanging out even though there was no BB, and dusty even joined the GG tourney. Mad props to both of you!

I can bring a ps2 with GG.

is game clucks gonna have CRT monitors available or do we need to bring our own?

for the wake up thing, I believe any knockdown that leaves you face down(which is most air throws) removes cross up guard, this is how say robo ky can air throw and then do an ambiguous horsey cross up, all you can really do is watch for the cross up or guess. If he is just standing on one side of you you just have to block like normal, nothing special. I can't give any real general advice for the chip matchup since our chip player hasn't played for years and I don't remember it all that well. Just make sure you have good hit confirms, even really weak combo starters are going to mess up chip really bad, so make sure you make the most out of every hit.

catch means they need to hit you while your doing, testament does a little stance thing and if he gets hit whiile doin git he teleports with a blood attack, if he doesn't get hit nothing happens.

Is anyone gonna take over the set up for him?

Don't worry about it, we all started in the scene being pretty bad!

First friday in a long time where nothing crazy is also happening on firday/i'm not sick, who all's coming!

Here's one of me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjTrZ-hajbM I did alright, some dropped combos here an there, some stuff that didn't make sense(forward heavy after sakura FRC? twice!?), and a couple tiems where i did far slash and didn't even ATTEMPT to j.d afterwards even though that's super easy on potemkin.

Where's the gear finals at?

Thanks a lot to you new guys who showed up, glad to here you guys had a ton of fun, start showing up to the tuesday/thursday meets! Polka thanks a ton for running, I know a lot of people were giving you a hard time and it was a stressful situation, I hope the rough times didn't sour you on hosting tourneys(the more people we have willing to do it the better!). IF you have trouble with setups again(assuming same venue) just ask me, this time I had the stuff we needed all along in my trunk and even if i didn't it's like 20 minutes round trip max o get to my house. Large tournaments are always gonna run long, and free tournaments at anime conventions are always gonna have flaky people that are gonna make it longer. I had tons of fun and would gladly go to one of your tournaments again! Thanks a ton to people who donated prizes(especially robo alex/christian with their triple digit donations, and rebecca again for donatin gstuff on top of running the whole thing), way to support the scene guys!

I actually may not either, that's why I'm asking, I've been feeling really crappy on and off for the last week or so.