Milln

Rachel zone versus Litchi combo resets. I'll take the former.

Block low and see what happens. Yeah I'll play, man, when I get home at 9.

Out of staters are welcome to come and -try- to knock people out of the brackets. (disregarding the fact that they did, last time.)

Tad, can you help me dual mod my Horimitsu stick next tourney, or give me pointers on the process? Astaroth, if you're tired of not placing, GIT DAT TRAININ' cause now you have my Baby Jin to go through. =3

New Tournament thread is up! http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?11044-Middle-Tennessee-Needs-BlazBlue!-Tournament-February-26th

Now with a youtube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/MTNGNetwork for all videos of the happenings and goings on. BlazBlue Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Soon to be Middle Tennessee Needs Gaming, with the inclusion of MvC3 and possibly other fighters. Look for MTNG as the topic title next month! Every good show deserves a trilogy! Let's go wiiiith.... WHERE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT PLAY BLAZBLUE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE? MAKING UP MEMES? I call bs, Kyle did that for us. You're coming to the Game Galaxy Arcade in Antioch, Tennessee to beat the tar out of each other in some BlazedBloo! Tell all your friends! I don't wanna hear any distance excuses. Alabama? Georgia? Ohio? Knoxville? There's a Super 8 right down the street from the venue for out-of-staters. Middle Tennessee Needs Times! Signups start at 11:30. If you're bringing equipment, I need you here earlier. Tournament should start at Noon(approximately). We will stay on schedule as much as possible. I need every participant at the scene directly at 11:30. Venue opens up at either 10. Closes at 9. PLEASE be on time. I will consider starting without you if you are late. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is 4:30pm in the arcade. Middle Tennessee Needs Locations! Game Galaxy (inside the mall) Hickory Hollow Mall 5252 Hickory Hollow Parkway, Antioch, Tennessee 37013 Middle Tennessee Needs Rules! Hosting on Xbox360, setups are encouraged. If you're coming, please bring a 360(we'll put your name on it in case we have some unsavory types) with a game, tv and component cable or better. If you have an SDTV, Composite is okay, but please no composite on a flatscreen. Please confirm with me if you can bring one. We had five last time and only needed three and we managed to record all the matches, but more and more for casuals and other tournaments and games is fantastic. Top placers of last month will be seeded into this month's brackets. If you have a wireless controller it has to have a sync cable attached throughout the whole set and must be turned off after the set is finished. Other TO's will DQ you for this. BlazBlue - If you pause an already started match and your hair is -not- engulfed in flames, you forfeit the rebel. - First to 2 wins, Best 2 out of 3 rebels - First to 3 wins, Best 2 out of 3 rebels for finals games (losers, winners, grand) - Double elimination so don't get emo if you lose once. - Time limit will be at 99. - Makoto and Valkenhayn are allowed. - No Unlimited Characters - No Beginner Mode Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - If you pause an already started match and your hair is -not- engulfed in flames, you forfeit the match. - First to 2 wins, Best 2 out of 3 matches - First to 3 wins, Best 2 out of 3 matches for finals games (losers, winners, grand) - Double elimination so don't get emo if you lose once. - Time limit will be at 99. - Damage will be set at Medium Middle Tennessee Needs Food! Out and to the right is whatever food you can handle. We will officially break after Winner's or Loser's Semifinals for some grub. Group vote for IHOP or Steak N' Shake afterward. If you bring food or drink in, please throw it away. Middle Tennessee Needs Other Announcements! BlazBlue: Entry fee is 5 dollars, Venue fee is an additional 10 dollars. We'll be playing in The Staging Room. Money Matches are allowed, just let me know so we can all hype it. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Entry fee is 5 dollars. Venue fee is 3 dollars. If you are entering BlazBlue as well, the venue fee is reduced to 1 dollar. Price for both: $21 MTN3 now promises even smoother running matches with brackets available for display and theoryfighting at all times during the event. Depending on how many people we get, it'll be 50/35/15. An increase in players will make it more lopsided towards first. All or most MTN3 matches will be recorded and posted to Youtube asap and I will make sure of this. I'll also be around taking walkaround videos and pictures.

Pools start at 12 noon. Four hours and a time change means we must leave Antioch by 7. Which means I must leave my house by 6. Which means all of you must be PROMPT AS HELL. Given track records for the past two tournaments of you all showing up on time for 11:30-12:00 signups? I'm not going to miss pools by waiting for you guys and demand we leave Thursday night after everyone gets off of work, no hate intended. Finals of all matches will be played on Sunday so that they can stream it UNLESS someone in top 8/top 16 has to leave before Sunday. In which case, they'll finish the tournament that same day. Get someone to doppelganger you, Naimat. We need dat Furinkazan rep. All I hear is school johns, come on, guys. Edit: I just got off the phone with KO and he said he'd come down with us to hang out and be our cheerleader. =D Howzat, Midnight/Naimat?

Star. BlazBlue at Final Round is on Friday. We'd be leaving Thursday afternoon, probably.

What I, personally, take it to mean is that you can rearrange anything on the Button Check screen, but can't manufacture macros through your pad or anything for things that -don't- appear there. I'd double check on their forums or something, just to be sure and I encourage everyone else that uses a controller to do the same. Edit: Doing some checking reveals that you may only be allowed to rearrange things that appear in the arcade version of the game. I'd definitely get with a TO on their forum and ask. They changed it last week, after that poll to decide which game (GG or BB) to stream on Saturday went through, so those two game switched time slots. Sorry, man. Maybe if you win MTNBB 2 and Kumite then you can convince them! Eh? Eh??? Seriously. All you need to do, Jackie, is just segment the match videos and delete the middle parts. Other BlazBlue tournament matches have character selects, heck even have "Press Start to Play" on the front. No one cares as long as the match is there. Get with Tad, i'd say. I have the impression that he is made out of sticks and converters.

Alright, man. Hope to see you there. We need that hype Tager!

Doro give me that footage asap. It doesn't even have to be cropped, just get it to me. Astaroth! What's your situation for Final Round?

I think maybe I should be in charge of all the footage next time. Nine days is a little much. I'll bring my terabyte hard drive and get everything uploaded within three days. AND WHERE'S DOROMAC WITH FINALS?

I recall Nu being the reason I stopped playing Calamity Trigger. We will not have a Calamity Trigger tournament, even for nostalgia.

No, we shouldn't.

I'm still waiting on the peeps to make sure they're going. Confirm list: Milln, Midnight, Jackie, Naimat. Alpha is traveling on his own, do you need a room, man? Grimstar I need to know your status asap. Pickle I need to know your status asap BLAZBLUE IS FRIDAY!

Such fun things that happen in Tennessee. You aight, Tad. We figured something was up.

I only belong to one lady and only need one. Awwwwwww Yes, CS does have lag compensation. It synchronizes at the beginning of the match.

Hakumen's neat. Very very long pokes with his giant friggin' popsicle stick. His meter is really cool, too. I'll play ya if you want, I have a new character to learn.

Just got confirmation clearance for February 26th. MTNBB 3 has a date. I'll throw the thread up in a few days.

Hazama's really cool and has a TON of mobility. Flying around the stage on snakes is definitely fantastic. Most of his bread and butter comes off of 3C which is a low trip move and you bring that into an air combo. Ragna is a very straightforward character. Probably the easiest to pick up. He's got a shoryuken, but no fireball. This is a glaring difference, but each character's is their own little gimmick that adds their uniqueness to the game. Ragna has giant waves of blood and darkness and crap that drain hp. Carl has a robot that he can independently control, giving him TWO characters. Noel has a branching gatling system.. You could sort of equate it to Rekka. A lot of her combos involve links, too, rather than cancels. Hazama swings around on snake chains to give him a tie for second best mobility in the game. Lambda shoots swords giving her very easy zoning Rachel controls wind, which blows characters and her own projectiles in that directiong, giving good zoning. Bang has guard points, which auto-guard a specific attack and then he counters with another move. He also throws nails. Hakumen has a straight up counter and a variety of them into throws, pushes, spins, etc. He also has a different meter than everyone else's that enable his specials. Tsubaki is Order Sol. Unfortunately, she's pretty garbage in Continuum Shift. Continuum Shift 2(in spring), she gets a buff. Jin freezes opponents for a short time allowing to continue combos. He also has EX moves that can refreeze the opponent. Taokaka has diving claw slashes that she can cancel to stop where she is or go behind the opponent. She has the best mobility in the game, I believe. Valkenhayn turns into a werewolf and gives him second best mobility. He also steals Jon Talbain's Beast Rush. Makoto charges up her moves for a split second (There's a guage, it goes 1 to 3) to empower her moves, giving them wall splat and skid properties to gain combos. She also has a lot of fake crossups with her dopple move. Mu-12 throws out turrets that shoot one laser. She can then activate them to shoot another laser or explode them before she has to redeploy. She has the shortest combos of the cast. Tager cannot dash or air dash. He has magnetism to counterract this. His big electrical moves magnetize the opponent to where your throws and other magnetic moves pull them IN CLOSER, making throwing easier. He also has an anti-air throw. Arakune has a curse meter that, when you fill it up, he can throw out fish bees(I'm not kidding) if he's not blocking or getting hit that are complete bullshit and give him 160 hit combos and 90% of your health bar if he starts off on the right move. Litchi has, basically, two movesets. One with her staff, one without. She can also flick her staff at you to continue combos. Platinum, coming soon, shoots cat missiles and hits you with frying pans. Another big difference between this and street fighter is you can combo and get really good damage off of throws, rather than using them to set up your opponent for mixups.

Hahaha wassup Richard! Grim may be a better choice since he's more available than I am, but i'd be happy to teach you stuff on the forums. General gist is you win with mixups and tech traps that lead to high damage combos. You can Rapid Cancel back to neutral standing, similar to Focus Cancelling(or whatever it's name is, I'm sorry, i'm a chump with Street Fighter 4 terminology) and it takes the same amount of meter. Tager is the big-ass grappler. Jin Kisaragi has EX moves that take up additional meter just like in SF and have increased properties if you want to use characters that can be seen as "sort of" similar.

I agree, sir.

OKAY GUYS GUESS WHAT. I just won a random doubles Smash Brawl(ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww) in Scrubville, TN and I won a big Tails plush, a small Diddy plush, and a bunch of N64 games on store credit. FLYING DRAGON SIDE TOURNAMENTS???!! MARIO FUGGIN' TENNIS SIDE TOURNAMENTS?!?!?!??!?! Or, you know, Perfect Dark.

I know exactly where the MTNBB 2 videos are. NOT EVEN EDITED BECAUSE JACKIE IS GOOFING OFF PLAYING BLACK OPS. WHAT THE HECK, JACKIE? I UPLOADED MINE.