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We'll just make sure 10stars comes up and sit on you while you're trying to sleep. That's always a lot of fun! :<

Wut.

Shoutouts to smart. Edit: Who is going to ECT and plans on staying at the hotel?

This fucking guy.

Canada was hype. Everyone should go next year!!!

Does that PS2 include GGAC, and does your copy of BBEX come with a PS3?

Sup losers.

Any of you guys coming to ECT?

Who is coming to this that could bring a PS2/PS3 and/or a CRT/monitor? I need to know if we're going to fall short in being able to support a specific game. Right now, here is our schedule: Saturday Run BB to top 8 then hold it to be on Sp00ky's stream to be run THAT NIGHT Run Skullgirls to top 8 then hold it to be on Sp00ky's stream THAT NIGHT. Sunday Guilty Gear. Depending on what we're told to do that day, we're either going to roll through all of it on my stream or hold top8 or top4 for Sp00ky's stream. It would be nice to have 5-6 setups for Skullgirls and BB. GG would run great with 3 setups. Monitors: 4 more needed PS3s with Skullgirls (Myself, DIO): 4 more needed PS3s with BBEX (Myself, DIO): 4 more needed CRTs: 2 more needed PS2 with GGAC (Myself, DIO): 1 more needed Note: If you bring a console and/or a display, there is a very good chance you could receive some compensation for your troubles! ALSO, PLEASE POST UP IF YOU PLAN ON COMING. I WANT TO GET A GOOD IDEA OF HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE IN EACH GAME!

So, that was a godlike weekend. Thank you Montreal for wanting to host and event and following through. THANK YOU FOONZO. Easily the best venue I've ever been to. It's perfect for tournaments of this size. Good beer, good food, and excellent service. The employees were so nice! You guys did very well for your first event and I probably only have 1 complaint (things you SHOULD change) and 3 pieces of advice (things that you should THINK ABOUT changing) for your next one: Complaint 1). Please make GG 2/3 rounds and not 3/5. I'm not sure who made that call officially, but this is the first tournament I've ever seen do this... ever. It added a lot of time to the event. Time is valuable at things like this. I can only complain and whine because it's not my tournament and you guys are allowed to do what you want, but I'm just letting you know that 2/3 rounds is usually the way to go. Advice 1). There were a couple times where I saw 2 empty BB setups when we were in the middle of brackets. This wastes time. You should always have a match on deck behind the match already being played on that setup. This goes for GG as well. Usually this is something you learn and get better with over time, but I'd thought I'd just share this small piece of advice. 2). If you want to have a stream and you know that the venue internet is sub-par, then make sure you hard-wire your internet. This makes your connection way more stable. If you're going to be far from the access point you should plan for this in advance. Buy yourself a 75-100ft cable (these are actually pretty cheap) and just run it around the walls. Gundam didn't help :< (but you know this). 3). Something I noticed while I was there was that above a couple of the setups there was space for a TV/monitor on the wall. If you guys plan on doing more of these events in the future, you should look into seeing if you could invest in some HDMI splitters: run the signal to the ASUS monitor and the overhead display so that everyone can watch the match that is going on. MLG DOES THIS!!!! The tables were pretty low, so if there were tall people in the front it was hard to see. It was pretty hard to watch the stream setup as well if you weren't a commentator or in the front row. The only real solution I can think of for this is once you get to top 8 for BB/GG, take some of the couches and move the out of the way for spectators and require everyone to sit unless you're in the back. The couches were godlike, but during finals they did more bad then good. SO, take all of that with a grain of salt. This event was fucking amazing. Your community is amazing. Next time I head up there I'm definitely going to schedule an extra day. It was really nice to meet new people. I finally got to put some faces with names! To everyone I met, thanks for coming up and introducing yourself. I won't list everyone but just a few people that stood out in my mind: pochp, you did a good job running brackets for your first big event. Now you know why I don't enter the ones I run! Bibi, good job setting up your stream. It's a shame the webcams wouldn't work for you. I understand your pain of running a stream ; ; Kirbster, 2nd place scrub. #USA #USA #USA!!!! Real talk: you're a strong player. Buff your defense and you'll be even scarier. Nice seeing you again. You're too fucking hype. Brice, thanks for being Brice. Hype machine. Thanks for buying me drinks and taking us to get Poutine. Next time I come up you gotta take me to the godlike spot. Thanks for showing us the way to and from the train station as well. That was a big help. Kaeru, your Bang was too hype!!! Thanks for buying me a couple drinks. You're an awesome fucking guy. XDest, fuck your Tao!!!! I hate that match-up!!! Yucorp, you are the hypest man alive!!!! STAY GODLIIIIIIIKE! Niniheart, I didn't need your Canadian funny-money anyway! Canadian guys who come to US tournaments all the time: you know who you guys are. It was nice seeing you all again. Fuck you Roldy for dropping Relius! Traitor!!! We were supposed to have something special :< To the people I played in tournament: Dai-Loli: You're the first Plat I ever played so I just kind of winged the match-up. I got lucky!!! Punish back-dashes!!! Lynthium: Your Mu is solid. It's another match-up I had never played before. That character is really annoying. I got lucky in this match too! Calm101: I hate Jin!!! I can never win! K2: Fuck May. Fuck May. Fuck May. Fuck May. But I took your burst so it's all good! Ntype: Lows beat Jam parry. Your Anji is good, and you would've won if you had more match-up EXP. Zeero: I got robbed and I want my run-back sometime in the future! (Shoutouts to 4 command-grab shots.) I hope you guys keep running more events like this, and if at all possible, try to make it down to the US for ECT and/or NEC. NEC will be the hypest tournament ever this year! You won't want to miss it! The more people who come down the more hype it will be! STAY GODLIKE CANADA!!!

I can't wait to meet the rest of the MTL scene.

I hear of this place called Solid Gold. Opinions?

4/27, 5/11 or 5/12. 4/28 is Team St1ckBuG in NYC.

Poppin bottles into ice, like a blizzard.

Usually a rep of jC > j9D can get them high enough. Two reps definitely. By sacrificing more wife meter with 9D you're taking out the risk of them being too low. Careful you're not making the combo too long though.

After Anime Matsuri I'm not doing any heavy drinking for a while :< I'll still have a few drinks, but I'm not going the fuck in like I did at AM.

Leonil come to ECT or NEC!!!

So we get in Friday night at about 7:30. Will anything be going on at Foonzo?

Any of you thinking about attending ECT?

Are any of you planning on attending ECT?

I know this is usually implied with tournaments nowadays, but BB will be on PS3 correct?

Tickets booked. We in there.

Room booked. Gonna take care of train tickets later today with LK. 2 weeks!

Neutral -Pokes/Specia used for approaching: 5B, 2B, 236A > 6D, 214A > 2D, 5B/2B > 6D -Anti-Airs: 2C, 6B (situational), 4D (situational) -Pokes/Specials used for zoning: 214A > 6D/j3D/j6D Pressure/Mixup It's very important to understand that with Relius (and fighting games in general), most of the time you will be taking risks to mix someone up during pressure. It is important to realize that there is usually and answer to get out of every situation. For Relius this is true for all of his mix-up. You will be leaving gaps in your pressure in order to do high/low and side-swap. The reason this needs to be understood is because there is no 1 mix-up with Relius that will be safe. There will be times when you take a risk and it doesn't work out in your favor. Get over it. Do not try and break down the game so much that you're theory fighting with yourself. Know what your options are, cycle through them in a way you feel comfortable with, and depending on who you're playing against choose your options that you feel suits the situation. It's important to test your options in pressure and know in advanced what beats them. Things you should always test pressure/mixup against: -Mashing -IB Reversal/DP/Super -Chicken Blocking (holding up back) -Backdash -Character specifics Take this opportunity to make yourself a smarter and better player. Fighting games are full of double-blind situations, random guessing, and sometimes illogical decisions. Shit happens. Try not to dwell on negative outcomes too much. Understand that there are answers to your options. Plan ahead. If something happens for the first time during a match and you lose then remember what happened and try to find an answer to it later. This is what good players do and it's not difficult! This is why we have practice mode! With that being said there are a lot of ways you can branch out Relius pressure and mix-up. Most of the time you will be starting your pressure with the neutral pokes used for approaching listed above. From there you will branch out into whatever option you feel like running at the moment. Before you make your decision you should be conscious of your opponents meter and burst. A general blockstring would be something like this: 5B > 6D > 5B > 3C > 2D > Jump > Low Airdash jB > jC or land 2B This is very simple and straight forward high/low mixup that is tight for the most part. If the airdash jB > jC is done to late you will be open to get hit. If you do the land 2B then you will also be open to get hit. It's important to note here that if the opponent gets hit by 3C then the 2D will combo and you will be able to land after your jump and do 6B > air combo. This is what we call an auto-hitconfirm: it covers both pressure and is very easy to hitconfirm. This is just an example of what you can do. It's up to you to come up with ideas and test them out yourself. Know what works and what doesn't. You want pressure and mix-up options that can beat options the list above. Run your option you feel will work and understand the risk that comes with it. Okizeme Relius has a lot of Oki options that, when combined, can cover almost all of your opponents options when getting up. Most of the time you want to end with j214B mid-screen and 3C in the corner. Mid-screen after j236C > j214B -dash 5B (beats tech roll forward) -doll 6D (beats tech roll back but will not meaty) -doll 2D (keeps them in place after neutral tech and beats mashing) -Flying jA or 4D can keep them in place after jumping, but nothing will 100% beat jump Corner after 4D -Walk back 3C > Neutral Jump Un-summon > falling jC (Beats forward roll out of the corner and at the right distances will safe-jump reversals. With forward jump you can meaty jC but it will lose to reversals.) -Walk forward into the corner 3C > 214C (Beats back roll out of the corner but late neutral tech will dodge 214C.) -Walk forward into the corner 214C > dash 236A or jump over (Really good ambiguous cross-up, destroys inputs and Relius cannot be thrown, loses to late neutral tech and roll out of the corner.) -3C > 236C > 214C (Pushes you away from the corner at a distance that makes you safe against reversals and beats forward tech out of the corner. Good for baiting counter-assaults and bursts as well. Against Ragna/Tager/Hakumen you can hit them with a rising jC and the 214C will combo.) These are just a few of the options you have for Oki. Know you options and what beats them. I'm sure some of the information I have listed doesn't cover absolutely everything. It's up to you to come up with different setups and test what wins and loses!!! ***************************************************************** We didn't get very far on combos and we ended up not doing any videos. I think in 2 weeks I'll have another Symposium but we'll start with trying to figure out optimal combos and then get into match-up specific stuff. Everyone should be bookmarking good matches and you should write down the combos that you do so we can compare and share. See you all in 2 weeks!

Oh. Mai. Gawd. The blow up.