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I'm late with these but hey, better late than never. Shoutouts to: Kaeru for keeping up the tradition for bodying me with your awesome Bang and as always being helpful with advice and being chill all-around. Brice for offering to help me out with the bunking situation, repping Tager, and a ton of other stuff. Nini for having a badass Makoto despite only semi-playing the game and getting 4th even with my crappy controller. And for being hilarious. Kirbster for winning T12 and repping Montreal and Rachels. Even through just the GO events I could see a ton of improvement and your drive to get better. You deserved it, man. Oh, and for not getting upset when you having short hair made me briefly think you were someone else after a night of 4 hours of sleep. pochp for being the sane in a room of crazy. And for agreeing to do commentary. Montreal in general for like, essentially "unofficially adopting me" in the BB tourney. Luke for showing a different side of Mu and having a beastly Urien in 3rd Strike. FreezerB for being a freaking life saver and making me even getting down there possible. Roldy for carrying my sorry ass in Blazblue teams. NeoRussell for not only making this possible, but for the whole pre-reg thing. Level6 for making me remember why I simultaneously like AND hate Tsubaki, and for leveling up. Mortified for making me respect the 720 and leading me to go and experiment with a ton more anti-Tager tactics. Leo for taking good care of my stick when I wasn't using it. Fugu for keeping calm and being nice when I flipped out and got salty over your Litchi being too good in casuals. Also, shout outs to everyone involved in the tournament, having an absolute blast, all of the epic matches, and Ottawa for repping us well, and making me feel like 'one of the guys'.

Thanks for the stuff and helping me out with things, to you Montreal guys. Was awesome to see you guys make top 4. Almost made me feel "unofficially Montreal" for a day, lol. And awesome job winning T12, Kirby. You deserve it man, and even though I've only played a few tournaments with you, I still feel like you've come a long way, man.

I don't think you have to worry about Montreal representing you guys well Bibi. And I wouldn't worry about there being 2 Kirbsters, Lythium. I know there's a couple of people who well, have doubles, lol.

Watch out Kirbster, it's a trap!

Pochp, I PM'd you a list of stuff with like hotel and rate info if you guys are still looking for spots and stuff. Everything should be around 1km from the T12 tourney. Get back to me on it when you can, or hit me up on MSN or AIM. I should be on most of the day still looking for more. Edit: Also, if any of the Montreal guys that are coming down tomorrow for it, want the info and stuff, just let me know and I'll PM it to you too, or contact you on IM or something.

Well, I'm coming in with Johnny aka FreezerB, and he's leaving Ottawa at around 5 or something I think. So, I'd probably get to TO at around 11 or something, and at that point I don't think there'd be any plans set since he'd just go to his folks for the night and can likely just drop me off wherever.

Cool, since those are actually the nights I'm going to be there for. If you want, I can even get you guys some figures or something and PM them to one of you or IM if any of you have that.

Hey, just thought I'd ask if any of you guys that are going to T12 would want to go in on a place to crash for the tourney or have any open spots in any places? I don't know, it's just I found out I've got a ride there and back, but no place to crash so well, if any of you guys have anything, just let me know how much to pitch in and where or whatever and I can get back to you. Thanks a ton.

That sucks Bibi, but hey, work on that Makoto and I'll hopefully see you next GO event if nothing else.

Kr3wman bringing the de-hype, lol.

Yo Montreal. Just wondering if I'll be seeing any of you guys at T12 next weekend or not? Just wouldn't be the same without some of you guys reppin'.

Haha, yeah. I can see if Nini/Brice/Kaeru and the gang feel generous.

So uh...bit random and late I know, but anyone from either Ottawa or driving through the Ottawa area en route going have space in their car? Been tryin' to get stuff sorted for over a month now, lol.

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. And well, I hadn't even thought of the emergency tech thing, lol.

Yeah...I guess. Practice really IS the only way to get stuff down.

Well, yeah, but I just never noticed the Heat difference before and figured it was just easier to do 2B>6C>236A>6C>j.D instead. And plus, whenever I 22B in a combo and have the 22BBC part, I just go 22BBC instead of 22B>22BBBC because I ALWAYS mess up on the second bit or take too long with it, or drop it or something. Which is stupid because it doesn't even seem hard and it's not like I'm trying to throw in 5 reps of 66C>22B>66C either.

Since this IS the combo thread, and I figured mentioning something that was suggested in the self-critique thread would be off topic if not here, I've got to thinking. In terms of meter gain, is it ever a decent idea to change up the 214A>2B>6C>236A part of a combo to something like 214A>2B>6C>22BBC>66C, or something like that? I'm just curious. And well, keep in mind I'll probably never get the CS2 Haida down until like...the day before CSX comes out, lol.

Haha, will do Kage. Will do.

Yeah, you've probably got a good point about netplay. I'm sure keeping an open mind helps a ton. If nothing else, it's half decent for learning to gauge what the general habits of people that play a certain character are.

It's alright, Chiizu, I was expecting it. But yeah, a bit of the thing with nerves was that well, I found myself doing moves that I had no intention of doing. Like, as soon as those random j.D's came out, I was like "oh crap, oh crap" because I knew it was stupid. A lot of those dropped combos, namely the ones following a Muzzle Flitter were I'd have to guess from getting anxious and pressing the buttons too fast. Too many times, I found myself mashing 2B>6C so fast that either it'd skip over 2B entirely and just do 6C, or that the 6C would turn into 236C. Another thing I encountered was that I'd run into a situation where the Bang or the Makoto got knocked down by something and it'd be like...since I didn't expect them to I'd be like "wait, what?" and miss my combo opportunity. The same thing was the case when I'd wind up accidentally doing a 6D instead of either a Fenrir corner ender, or a j.D combo continuer too. So yeah...half of those Drives and random drives were me freaking out about things and my hands rebelling (it's actually funny you mentioned blanking out, because like I said, that was kinda what was happening). It's weird, I know a bunch of normal gatlings, frame data, normal strings that lead INTO drive combos, throw combos, hell even some Astral setups (though I'm not going to pretend I can semi-consistently get off more than 1 rep of 66C>22B>66C with a lucky 2nd Haida thing), and do them without issue in practice, and even a bit so online (since well, I'm a 45 minute drive from the city so Online's my only way to play against people most of the time). It's just like...having someone actually there that I'm playing against in a tourney setting and being like "if I mess up, everyone's gonna laugh at me" just REALLY gets me sometimes. Thanks for the advice though.

I guess I'll put a couple of links in here from a GamingOttawa even I was at last weekend. I always get randomly nervous whenever money's involved and sometimes do things I shouldn't I know, but hey, I figured the 2 links and any advice could help. Only warning is that they were recorded using a digital camera off of an HD monitor. They're watchable of course, but because of it, there's a bit of glare. Any advice would be appreciated. Even if it's as extreme as "learn Noel all over again, now" lol. Also, I guess, advice for getting rid of tourney nerves would help too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnK-XiPVEBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8PyyjgjhzQ Thanks again.

Man, this whole thing's going to be so hype. Can't wait.

I'd hope so. I mean, if the only main difference to that corner combo turns out to be "no double Fenrir ender, so you can only do 1" then that's fine for me.

Yeah, that would be kinda silly unless they un-nerfed it.

Thanks. A lot of the technical stuff I learned about and some combos I wouldn't have thought of were through you and Hexanoid anyway, so it's appreciated. I doubt I'm going to be the first to hear about much or whatnot, but if I do hear about some changes, I'll let you know for sure.