Jackie Chandler

Mr. Pickle- To be honest, I don't think my combos were all that flashy. I *do* think the setups were pretty ridiculous, if I'm allowed to say so myself though. :3 I'm still looking for suggestions on what to change the song to.

Lumin- Sorry, I was finishing Seiki's reply as you posted. :P I had a lot of fun seeing how many Dead Spikes I could fit into one combo while being as damaging/original as possible. Still not as good as Tetsu's multi-Dead Spike combo though. :3 Once again, the song choice led to the long intro, and I can definitely see why other people might not like it. Milln- Awwww but I recently found out how much I love BSC. :[ And Nuclear Trance doesn't fit at all. Although it IS one of my favorites from them. :3 Thanks for the compliments, though. So then, the song will definitely be changed, although I still need it to be something around four minutes. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the feedback Naimat. To be honest, I'd decided on the song before I had all the combos recorded, and when I was editing it just didn't seem to fit like I hoped it would. That's part of why the intro is so long, too. I wanted to wait until the song kicked in to start the combos. I'll wait for some other reactions, and if it's as bad as I think it might be I'll re-do the video with a different song. I think a video guide for Bang would be interesting, and I'd definitely watch it if you do one. I've kind of thought about doing one for Blazblue's system in general before (Ragna's admittedly not that complicated) but I could also see it being very tedious. If you're serious about pursuing it, though, I can try to help you out.

Combo video is up. Let me know what you think.

Awesome. Thanks Star. :D I'll wait until the last two MTN videos are done uploading before I start to upload the combo video, so idealistically it'll be up some time tonight, or more pessimistically early tomorrow.

Uploads got hung up at some point last night, but I'm working on getting the rest of them up now. In addition, I sat down and got the entire first draft of my Ragna combo video done today. I'd love some opinions on it before I make it available for the public though, so if I make it private/unlisted and post the link here, would you guys mind giving me some critique/opinions on it?

I swear to god if these videos aren't all uploaded by the time I wake up tomorrow I'm going to be so pissed.

Doromac, you're my hero. If you do any more, I expect to see some vidjas of it.

Capcom's going to make Iron Fist a projectile-based character just to troll you now, Naimat. I dunno about Doctor Strange. I'm willing to give him some time to see how he pans out, but I think expecting him to have bizarre attack properties like being able to damage benched characters or something is a little over the top. Just play Hawkeye, Naimat. His arrows make about as much sense as Bang's nails, poisoning people and capturing them in spider web and shit.

Lawlz @ all the Baste Burt stuff. Especially Astaroth's. Pure win. But Naimat, from the looks of it, Doctor Strange has Steins a la Mu, a cross up teleport that activates when attacked, and a Beam Hyper that beats out Akuma's. And he's not strange enough for you? :P Also, before anyone decides to be clever, you might wanna ban the new Zero glitch Milln.

"Baste Burt" is now officially added to the MTN vocabulary.

Video situation- I've kind of said "screw editing out just the matches" since the matches are split into different videos already. That means significantly less editing for me and significantly FASTER viewing for you guys. Besides, the tourney dialogue and shenanigans between matches can be rather humorous, and if you want to see just the matches you I'm sure you know how to use Youtube. I've got 8 uploaded of 15 total matches, so expect them all to be up within the next day or so.

Man, the quality of these tourney videos are pretty crappy. No offense, cameramen- it's just that HD video doesn't mean shit when you're recording composite. Nevertheless, I've got some of them edited and will be uploading them tonight. Look forward to them. Also look forward to a Ragna combo video I'll be getting out some time after I'm done with editing these videos. It'll be neat, I promise.

I'll need to make some money for gas this week, and I doubt I'd be able to spend the night, but I'll do my best to show up if only for the night.

Tech doesn't start back until the 29th. So that's a no for me.

This. Don't worry about it, Star. I remember going pale-faced at CSII Ragna's initial loketest changes- 5B -> 6A didn't work, Gauntlet Hades couldn't be comboed after, and Forward Throw didn't even corner bound until the final changes. Besides, even with all the nerfs she's gotten so far, she still seems like a solid character. And Eshi, Tsubaki's changes aren't that bad, are they? 6A Fatal Countering seems like it could open up some amazing possibilities, especially since it forces crouch. With 2D's charge time increasing, I don't see the weird 5D change being too bad. And now you can FINALLY MUGEN IN THE AIR! I know you've been waiting since day one for that change.

Holy shit, it's LuminAbyss. Dat other Ronald McDonald Ragna. I'm pretty hyped about Carnage Scissors being completely projectile invulnerable now as well. Now I'll stand a fair chance against Pisces Albafica. http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?12216-BBCS2-new-version-loketest-8-11-11-UNHELPFUL-POST-TEMPBAN Don't expect good news for Noel, though. :[ EDIT: LOL the new Burst mechanic is even awesomer than I thought. Check 8:02 in this video. Even if Bursts hit an opponent's projectiles instead of the actual character, you still get the 25% Heat gain. <3'ing CSII+ so much right now.

Double Gold Burst Factor FTW

Observed. Also, CSII+ has balance changes? Shit just got real. 6D causes bound on OTG?... What the fuck does that even mean? However, I WILL say that I'm uber excited about this: Because it means 150 Heat combos with two bursts. Fuck yeah.

Indeed, next MTN is August 27th.

EX Story suggests it.

We don't have a nurse fetish rep, nor do we have a sideboob rep (let alone an underage one).

It would make about as much sense as Tsubaki learning to use the Izayoi in like a day, Platinum being able to beat half the cast, or Phoenix Wright being in a fighting game. I could see it happening. All it would take is an Armagus falling into her lap and she'd go looking for Litchi. Bam. Instant playable character/story mode.

More information about Relius/CSII+ in case you guys are interested. http://kalfisquine.com/blog/?p=1401#more-1401 Seems like the release date is fall- not the winter Famitsu originally reported. Loketests with the 19 characters will be held from August 11th - August 17th. And looking at this screenshot of the character select screen: We can probably look forward to two new characters on top of Relius. My guesses are Jubei and Kokonoe, but I guess that Phantom, Torakaka, Linhua, and Saya are also possibilities.

D: I didn't know you lived in Baltimore to begin with. That makes me really sad. I'll be sure to keep in touch and actually be on PSN to play you more often. Besides, look at the fifth line of the MTN OP. "I don't wanna hear any distance excuses." That means you've gotta make it back down occasionally (at least). The same goes to everyone who's moving out and going to college and other bullshit. I don't expect you guys to make it down every time, but makes plans to do so every once in a while. You'll always be a part of the MTN community. That sounds fucking awesome. Be sure to post if/when. Like Blazfests (even given my track record) I'll always do my best to make it to get-togethers like that.