Random Naoto

She certainly seems strong, but she's not over-represented in the player rankings, and to be fair, Karincho has more hours and more matches than anyone else on the first page except for FAB.

I'll be off Thursday if anyone is down to play games.

I'll probably go.

What are they playing other than smash?

I'll be off Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week for anyone who wants to play.

I'm off Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Text me if you want to play.

No. I play Zappa.

Big thanks to Jet for hosting yet again. I'm off Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Text me if you want to play. Also we have to play some gg might.

As we approach our sixth and final ranbat of the season, here are the point totals for (most people in) each game. Both of them are still very much up for grabs, so practice your shit. See you on May 10th. BB: Betadood - 27 Sunfish - 25 GeniusChampion - 23 Pozerwolf - 17 Oso - 12 Pfhor - 9 Chickzama - 7 Woofx7 - 5 HarakiriTiger - 5 Cookie - 2 Guilty Gear Betadood - 29 Kryan - 25 UncleGary - 24 Sunfish - 21 HarakiriTiger - 13 JohnnyMatrix - 8 AdamantiumBanchou - 5

Just as a reminder so people don't tell me they didn't know again, the second to last ranbat of the season is tomorrow; same time, same place. FX Game Exchange in Plano, 2:30(ish). If you see this and you know you're going to be late, text me.

Text me if anyone wants to play games this week. Any day but Tuesday.

You might be right, I'm just looking at it on my phone at work. I'll watch the rest of the matches tonight, someone's bound to either get hit by it or block it crouching. Almost every time it gets used as oki they're either messing up the timing or the hitbox is really thin.

Just a reminder, 4th ranbat is this weekend, the information is the same as always. BlazBlue is still $4. The matches I recorded from last week are up on my youtube page, and Oso's should be up on his. Here are the points so far: BlazBlue GeniusChampion 20 Betad00d 15 Pozerwolf 10 Oso 9 Chickzama 7 Sunfish 5 Woofx7 5 Harakiri Tiger 3 Pfhor 3 UncleGary 1 Cookie 1 Necro 1 Guilty Gear Betad00d 23 Kryan 14 UncleGary 13 Harakiri Tiger 8 Johnny Matrix 8 Sunfish 7 Woofx7 5 Oso 1 Edgar 1 Remember the end of season total that decides the pot winner is only your five best scores, so at this point if you have at least like... 3 points in each game you could conceivably win. Also I finally got my place worked out, and I want to make it a place for people to stop by and play during the week whenever they have free time. If you want to get some games in during the week, text me and we'll make it happen unless I have to work.

Anything you can get people for, I'll make a bracket and whoever is around can report results, the bracket program I use is really simple and I just do payouts and points at the end of the season by going back and looking at the brackets. The issue is just the number of setups; we don't really even have enough as it is for when the tournaments are going. Once GG gets going and BB starts, there are like 3 tournament setups, and maybe one or two for people to get warmed up, and if there's no casual setup and people have to play their BB matches cold because there's like a 5 man bracket running on an AH setup people are going to get salty. We have a lot of people who can bring consoles, but there aren't enough monitors to go around. If Oso isn't selling his monitors for some dumb reason like saying he's quitting games or something I might get one and recruit someone else to bring a PS3, but even then the more setups we have the better off we'll be. Last time MB was there that guy whose name I can never remember ran it on a lap top so if you want to do that go for it, but I might need people to play their matches in other games to keep the brackets moving along. Regarding the ranbats in general, I'm trying to figure out a better way of doing the brackets and points anyway so I can post them, but challonge requires an internet connection to run properly, and the one I'm using now has problems with the upload feature. If anyone can run a facebook/social networking anything for us, that seems to be how everyone who isn't on here found out, I just have no idea how to do any of it. In the future if Oso continues to show up I'm going to have him record on my SD card so we can upload every match, because the way it's being done right now where only some matches get recorded isn't really going to help people improve since they probably don't get any matches uploaded if they go 0-2, myself included #fuckingBBCP If you have the gift of gab, know anything about the games being played, or speak English, please do commentary. If we have anything other than just raw match footage to entertain anyone interested in going that watches a match, it might help. Since we're pretty much down to two main games with the apparent death of p4, I'm considering raising the entry fee for BB and GG to increase the pot size to something people would actually be willing to practice for. I can be convinced otherwise, but unless you have pictures and two forms of government ID to prove someone's been forcing you at knife point to smoke all your money through a crack pipe, I probably won't believe you when you tell me you can't afford a five dollar tournament. Unless you don't have a job (beta, I'll sponsor you, but I get ten percent and I get to choose your tag). It would also allow us to pay out for second and third provided we had enough entrants. tl; dr, we're coming up on the third ranbat of the season and I'm going to do some things differently and try to run things as well as possible, but if we keep having sub 10-man by the end of the season especially for BB, we'll be in a bad spot. I take the majority of the blame for not being better at the internet and promoting but fuck you, come at me bro.

Oso going back to sweet lady CRT?

This made me laugh very hard, well done. Anybody and everybody who can come to the ranbats this Saturday at 2:30 at FX Game Exchange in Plano (/plug) please do. The turnout was really low this week and it makes the scene look bad when we start showing up with 7 and 8 man brackets. If you're upset about not winning money, come practice and get better, or put your name on it and play some money matches, I fully endorse gambling, let's get the salt going. I f you're already coming bring a friend. If you don't have any friends, hire an escort, I also endorse Craigslist.

Almost everyone is going to Texas Bar Fights out in Ft. Worth for BBCP. Next weekend is a ranbat at FX Game Exchange which you need to go to.

I'm down too. Let me know how much it will be and when you're planning on coming back.

Let me know if anyone wants to carpool or needs a ride to TBF.

Dear Beta, I have your stick. PM me your address and I'll drop it off on my way to work.

I'll bring mine. for anyone coming to the ranbats tomorrow, please bring a monitor/setup if you can.

Reactionimage.jpg How much room will there be for anime setups?

Anyone want to carpool to TBF? I'll be coming from Plano.

But an important lesson was learned about pre-jump frames and how they relate to up-backing, and that's what matters. Also to everyone, my strategy of recording the ranbats as one big file has backfired, so the vids from this week will not be put on youtube, but from now on it will be back to the old format. I'm going to put it in writing here that vids will start going up next day for anyone who actually watches them.