JusTheBest29
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Yo yo yo, JusTheBest here! Or UnholySerpents... Or JTB Serpents27... Eh, call what you wish I guess.
So at Winter Brawl X, I finally decided to make my offline debut. When I got there, me and my friends(I went as a part of a school field trip, don't judge me) were pretty excited to compete and see how well we'd do. I participated in DOA and BlazBlue, while my friends wanted to compete in SM4SH, KI, TTT2, and SC. Since I was on the main floor, I decided to look around and have casuals in other games such as Skullgirls, and Darkstalkers on arcade machines, it was from that point I knew that I CANNOT play on stick to save my life. But onwards to my DOA adventures.
While watching my friends play SM4SH, I noticed there was a lone DOA setup being played by @Fullmetal (aka Blackmoonrisingx) and a friend of his. I decided to watch for a while until Blackmoon passed me a controller. I played his friend and lost horribly. I always knew of how it would take a while to get used to playing offline and playing on the monitors but I didn't expect it to be that devastating. After a while I had a long set with Blackmoon right after and I started to feel more in tone with playing on the monitors, although the set ended in I believe 15-7 Blackmoon's favor, nonetheless I felt a bit better about how I was playing.
I also played a few games against an opponent who was also in my pool named Blk Patriot, who mained Tina, and I had a good set with him as well, making me feel even more assured as to how I might do in the tournament.
Tournament time comes, I check in with @Katsu Hayami the entire time to see who my opponents are, and I win my first match by default, as my opponent didn't show. Second match is against Blk Patriot which I managed to win and advanced. Next match makes me panic as its against Blackmoon, and it was streamed so it made me even more nervous. As soon as I got up there, all that training on the monitors turned to nothing and I dropped every combo, looking back on it made me cry a bit, and I end up losing. As soon as I lost I told him "If anyone put me in loser's, I'm glad it was you." Now in the loser's bracket, I tried to keep a cool head and go on.
My loser's run was kinda short, but for my next match against another Tina named Metsy, I win in a close set I had to clutch it out for. And then Katsu tells me I fight @LordXav1er on stream. Just like with Blackmoon I panic while playing drop all my combos, and miss punishes (sensing a trend here?), And I ultimately lost, getting eliminated from the tourney. After beating me, Xav1er says "4th in pool, pretty good for a first timer", I take these words to heart and it made me feel accomplished. So in the end my record was 3-2. My only regrets are not winning a match on stream and not talking to many people while I was there.
Coming home, I tell all my friends about my experience and they said I did great and that everyone was rooting for me in the stream and all. That made me smile as I thought I let a few people down. But overall, I'm glad I came and didn't go 0-2 like I thought I would lol. I'm definitely going to attend more tournaments in the future and I hope to see some of you there, Summer Jam or ECT might be the next one I go to.
Some shoutouts-
Blackmoonrisingx - Being the first person I actually met at the tournaments, helping me get used to the monitors and giving the awesome " I'm a Fighter" necklace and Terumi and Hazama pins. Oh and I also kinda failed for kicking people's asses in Blazblue, did pretty bad lol.
LordXav1er - Making top 8, and finally playing and meeting you offline as the words of kindness you gave after eliminating me.
@LightSonic (NoctTengu) - Congrats at making Top 8 man, unfortunately I wasn't there to see it, but I heard you did well, keep up the good work man.
AeroUsagi - Despite not competing, you were always there right next to me for support whenever I needed it, giving me more confidence along the way and congratulating me after it was all over. Also trust me, I got you next time we play DDR lol.
Everyone in stream that was supporting me- Sorry I didn't win a match on stream and all but it was nice to know that you all had my back spiritually.
PSN Buddies - You guys know who you are, thanks for everything you guys have done for me to help me get better as a player and giving me motivation to always try my best.
And lastly you - For reading this long mess of a post lol.
Without you all I probably wouldn't be where I am today, so thank you all very much! Until next time.
So at Winter Brawl X, I finally decided to make my offline debut. When I got there, me and my friends(I went as a part of a school field trip, don't judge me) were pretty excited to compete and see how well we'd do. I participated in DOA and BlazBlue, while my friends wanted to compete in SM4SH, KI, TTT2, and SC. Since I was on the main floor, I decided to look around and have casuals in other games such as Skullgirls, and Darkstalkers on arcade machines, it was from that point I knew that I CANNOT play on stick to save my life. But onwards to my DOA adventures.
While watching my friends play SM4SH, I noticed there was a lone DOA setup being played by @Fullmetal (aka Blackmoonrisingx) and a friend of his. I decided to watch for a while until Blackmoon passed me a controller. I played his friend and lost horribly. I always knew of how it would take a while to get used to playing offline and playing on the monitors but I didn't expect it to be that devastating. After a while I had a long set with Blackmoon right after and I started to feel more in tone with playing on the monitors, although the set ended in I believe 15-7 Blackmoon's favor, nonetheless I felt a bit better about how I was playing.
I also played a few games against an opponent who was also in my pool named Blk Patriot, who mained Tina, and I had a good set with him as well, making me feel even more assured as to how I might do in the tournament.
Tournament time comes, I check in with @Katsu Hayami the entire time to see who my opponents are, and I win my first match by default, as my opponent didn't show. Second match is against Blk Patriot which I managed to win and advanced. Next match makes me panic as its against Blackmoon, and it was streamed so it made me even more nervous. As soon as I got up there, all that training on the monitors turned to nothing and I dropped every combo, looking back on it made me cry a bit, and I end up losing. As soon as I lost I told him "If anyone put me in loser's, I'm glad it was you." Now in the loser's bracket, I tried to keep a cool head and go on.
My loser's run was kinda short, but for my next match against another Tina named Metsy, I win in a close set I had to clutch it out for. And then Katsu tells me I fight @LordXav1er on stream. Just like with Blackmoon I panic while playing drop all my combos, and miss punishes (sensing a trend here?), And I ultimately lost, getting eliminated from the tourney. After beating me, Xav1er says "4th in pool, pretty good for a first timer", I take these words to heart and it made me feel accomplished. So in the end my record was 3-2. My only regrets are not winning a match on stream and not talking to many people while I was there.
Coming home, I tell all my friends about my experience and they said I did great and that everyone was rooting for me in the stream and all. That made me smile as I thought I let a few people down. But overall, I'm glad I came and didn't go 0-2 like I thought I would lol. I'm definitely going to attend more tournaments in the future and I hope to see some of you there, Summer Jam or ECT might be the next one I go to.
Some shoutouts-
Blackmoonrisingx - Being the first person I actually met at the tournaments, helping me get used to the monitors and giving the awesome " I'm a Fighter" necklace and Terumi and Hazama pins. Oh and I also kinda failed for kicking people's asses in Blazblue, did pretty bad lol.
LordXav1er - Making top 8, and finally playing and meeting you offline as the words of kindness you gave after eliminating me.
@LightSonic (NoctTengu) - Congrats at making Top 8 man, unfortunately I wasn't there to see it, but I heard you did well, keep up the good work man.
AeroUsagi - Despite not competing, you were always there right next to me for support whenever I needed it, giving me more confidence along the way and congratulating me after it was all over. Also trust me, I got you next time we play DDR lol.
Everyone in stream that was supporting me- Sorry I didn't win a match on stream and all but it was nice to know that you all had my back spiritually.
PSN Buddies - You guys know who you are, thanks for everything you guys have done for me to help me get better as a player and giving me motivation to always try my best.
And lastly you - For reading this long mess of a post lol.
Without you all I probably wouldn't be where I am today, so thank you all very much! Until next time.
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