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A little self-promotion goes a long way xP But if you really think nobody'll show up. There are tournaments on Sunday already that have a fair number of entrants anyways, as far as I know.

So no Burning Up this week, it sounds?

You were in the EU tournament though. Where are you located?

*reloads handgun*

This is assuming a thing even happens.

Nuh, Taylor and Shady are signed up under two of the eight individual slots, so there's only seven actual teams involved right now.

Whoop I have a team member now. Is there a way to conjoin us in Challonge somehow or will that all just be organized quickly on Sunday?

Wait you're both doing 2v2s on Sunday? I don't know about this plan, RD.

2v2? EDIT: Looks like I have a team member now. Teehee.

*waves half-heartedly*

Posting late D:

Sorry I couldn't be there, Bloo u~u I really want to see this event keep going, so having to duck out felt really bad, but it sounds like people are still enjoying it, which is great to hear.

wow get bent :D

This could be pretty neat, really... Sort of like having a big lobby but with an actual purpose. I like it, and to be totally honest in a positive way, I assume the formula is going to need a bit of tweaking, but I think the idea itself is really workable and sounds fun.

If you're doing these each week, it'll be a good excuse for me to turn the PS3 on. I'm in for this Sunday for sure!

I'm just one person! Unless that weekend is seriously bad for people overall, it's not a big deal.

This is Toryuken weekend. I'm definitely out because I'll be bodying actual fools~

Nah, it just disconnected me as I tried to log back on -_- Let's pick it back up tomorrow. I definitely want to keep playing you. You've got real oki now! (PS please safe jump after 5D)

Okay, I guess my Internet is acting up? My PSN just dropped altogether that time u_u Not sure why this is happening x:

I'm still here. Nudge me on PSN or invite me or something when you're on. How many games do you want to go to? o:

H'okay, any of the guys I talked to yesterday, I've got the game on now if there's a good time for anyone. We ended up not going out today and I got all my stuff done early so I'm free to play for the evening. I'll be around.

If I'm available for the previous matches, you and I can definitely play too! We could definitely do to play more after last weekend. That sounds fun.

Harass me when this happens. I wanna join (though I might be out of the house Saturday afternoon :c) I wanna have a set with you sometime too, Bloo. You've gotten better and I'd like to see how much. Would you like to do a FT5 or FT10 sometime this weekend?

On Flux. And I want both sides to read this. It might not be much but I want to close the gap a bit. About Flux doing IK. His intents were nothing more than to want to hit it. Maybe he enjoys IK. We would probably enjoy our IKs too. I'm Naoto. If I hit IK in tournament, I would dance all across the rooftops of the world. That would be awesome! It wasn't intended as anything else but the fun. That's innocent enough. Flux, though, I'm going to word this to be honest and calm-toned, so please try to understand it without commentary yelling its head off. When you do something like that, it "suggests" either one of two sides of things, even if you didn't mean it to suggest a thing. It either A) suggests you think the opponent isn't good enough to deal with it and that you'll just get it, or that you're just going to catch something and take the whole game off that (moreso in the case of other IKs like Mitsuru, Yosuke, Yukiko IKs). Or it suggests B) that you care so little about your opponent and the outcome of the match that you're willing to risk throwing away the entire round and potentially the entire set, by using that 100 SP pointlessly and wastefully. It's a lot more about B). What does your opponent feel when you suddenly throw all the dice on the table for fun when you're already up by a huge lead? "Oh I'm winning by a ton, this is definitely in my favor, so I'm going to risk all my resources and play with my food now, here we go." A lot of us in the netplay tournaments, and I know this includes you, because you said so, can only play in the netplay tournaments, and we're trying our damnedest to perform well. Some of us struggle a lot more than others. Some of us aren't very good at all and try to seize everything we can. So we take all the matches very seriously. I'm not talking about gritty grumpy "GRR GOTTA WIN GRRRRRRR" seriously, but you know. We treat it like real. Our tournament life is on the line. That's important! As someone else said, if it was a real life tournament at a major, you (probably?) wouldn't do that. Maybe you would. Banana Ken did it and he was making a statement, or maybe he just wanted to have fun too, and it was hype, but it was also against LK, where statements mean a lot more and the player is very good. In a sense, it's fine if you don't take these netplay tournaments seriously, but a lot of us do, and they're important to us as our only outlet for improving, and when you start going so thoughtlessly ham that you do that sort of IK, it can bother people in a lot of ways. Something that definitely has a very high chance of not succeeding, and you just do it just because you're willing to risk the actual lead that you gained for yourself by playing. I hope you can understand how I mean it. And I hope you know that I and the rest of us understand it that you just flatly wanted to do it for your own reasons. I just want you to see what sort of effects or implications it can have, even though you don't mean them. And frankly, it would be a lot worse if you DID actively mean it to step on people and disrespect them, but I know that's not what you want. And the guys on commentary are loud and easily prone to loudness and opinions. Their sentiment isn't wrong, and they go in really hard on this stuff, which I think goes a bit too far, but I'm also not going to say they shouldn't have said what they said. And as they definitely said, nobody has anything personal against you. You as a person, we're all good. It's just that sort of play that gets on peoples' nerves. I don't think anybody hates anybody here. That's all :c I hope that this helped somewhat. (Feel free to rip on me if this is all dumb. I have to try sometime, though.)

Confirmed word that this is still happening today at 4PM EST, and that everyone should be ready and present by then. It's 10AM EST at the time of me posting this, so six hours from now. (Even if you mess up accounting for DST, it's still six hours from when I'm posting, so!) Presumably it will be at http://www.twitch.tv/token as usual.