The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

Way, way back, when I bought Super Street Fighter IV, I did it because a certain Morbid Coffee was planning to host an online Tournament with people from Talking Time. I knew I’d have no chance of winning the tournament, but I figured I could maybe win a few matches and it would be fun either way.

Now the tournament has finally started. And Coffee is doing the coolest thing: He’s uploading all the matches people send him to Youtube. I don’t know why, but I seriously think this is amazingly cool. Certainly makes the tournament feel more… important. So I thought I’d share the videos of what’s happened so far with you. It’s my fall from the winner’s bracket in video form!

My first match was with Matchstick. The original name for the tournament was Matchstick’s Pony, supposedly, so he’s partially responsible for going at it. He was bringing a Chun-Li to the mix. I was using my trusty Abel, the guy who I’ve mained since Super Street Fighter IV for no real reason I can tell, but I’m pretty decent with him, and he’s an odd choice, which gives me the element of surprise against a lot of people who are used to Akumas and Kens and don’t know what Abel is capable of.

I won it in two. The first round, and second round. I didn’t have much trouble. Abel has this really great combo that I can actually pull off. If I can abuse that, I tend to win easily. If I can’t, I have more trouble. Matchstick couldn’t seem to figure out how to get Chun-Li to punish that combo, so I did it a bunch, and pulled off the win. Still, it was a fun fight, and we had fun talking during it. Very good times! I moved on from the first round! Whee!

Second round I was matched up with Shivam. This is a guy who went on and on on the Cast at Demonhead about how Street Fighter is the best game ever. (Granted, he has a lot of best game evers, but still!) I thought for sure I had done some practice fights with him before and he had been much better than me, so I figured I was in for a schooling. I was a bit wrong, though. We had some damn good matches, with a super-dramatic finish! I won the first round. He had said he decided Guile was his best, but he spent a lot of time jumping, and my Abel beat him without too much trouble. After you lose, according to the rules, you can switch characters, and he then switched to T. Hawk. Remember the situation I explained earlier? The one where you don’t know how to approach a character because nobody ever plays him against you? This is how I was with T. Hawk. I was pretty clueless in the second round, and Shivam slaughtered me with Mexican Typhoons. Even after I figured out what I should be doing, it was difficult. Abel isn’t the most capable ranged character, and Shivam could pull off those Typhoons with no problem, which made it hard to approach him. After that, I had a choice. Abel is pretty well my most practiced character, but I needed some range in order to take T. Hawk on. Therefore, I decided I needed some fireballs. For the third round, I switched to Sakura. This worked out better. I actually felt like I had answers to a lot of T. Hawk’s moves, and I felt like I held my own a lot more competently. Still, even with a dramatic Ultra at the end, I couldn’t pull off the win. But they were damn, damn good matches. I never mind losing in fights like that. It was fun times.

That’s about where I stand right now. Soon, I’ll start my loser’s bracket matches. My general hope is that I move on in the loser’s bracket once before I hit people I just have no chance against, but eh, we’ll see. Either way, I’ll give it my all, and continue to have a ton of fun. Because it is a ton of fun! I tend to like fun. Yeah.