MLG Raleigh NC Wrap Up

Wow, that was actually a very good waste of a weekend.

I spent part of Saturday, and most of sunday watching MLG, and omg it was worth the time. Soooooooooooooooooo crazy.

Ok, so the least amount of my time went to WoW. I will admit that I did watch some of it. 5 minutes of it. For years I've heard of the infamous "competitive WoW", and I've always wondered wtf that includes. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand it makes perfect sense. 3v3 pvp. But like, I've never touched the game nor will I ever. Fuck some MMORPGs, 'specially ones with micropayments. So watching WoW made absolutely no sense to me. The commentators were talking about "Good plays", but WoW is LITERALLY a game where if you don't play it, you can't understand it. I actually wanted my 5 minutes back.

Next amount of time went to the times I looked at the Brawl blog updates. Yeah, Brawl can't have a MLG stream looooooooooooooooooooool. But I did thumb through the updates a few times to see how my friends were doing. I mean, I thought about it and I was like "Why? M2K's gunna win. He's M2k, it's brawl, and he's got a whole array of wack stages to make sure his pocket stays fat" Sure enough, destruction. Props to m2k.

After that, I spent a decent amount of time watching SC2. Watched 2 games of grand finals. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND I gave it 'bout the same response I did WoW. I don't play SC2, therefore it don't make sense to me. There's a difference though. Unlike WoW, which is a completely foreign concept, I could look at SC2 and understand that "Hey this guy has 2 units trollin' the other guy's base, picking off some units." And I could understand how that is some good micro, but where I get lost is what effect that has on everything. Like, big picture stuff is obvious in SC2, but details and outcomes are lost to somebody like me cause, well, I don't play the game nor do I know a damn thing 'bout it. In short, I respected what was going on, but they would have done the same to have Mancala.

Then there was Halo3. Now, I didn't expect to watch much of Halo, everytime I flipped to the stream there was no action. I was getting kinda impatient with it. But finally I caught some action and I was hooked. It's been a while since I've seen some teamplay FPS (for people who don't know, I used to play TFC years ago, and I was a rep. on team USA in attack/defend). So yeah, as much as I like to poke fun at Halo, I was subscribed. I watched Dynasty blow the win against Instinct in oddball and that was the match that kept halo somewhere in the background throughout the rest of the time. High energy, high impact gameplay. Even in the finals (maybe losers finals?) when Instinct was camping in DM, you could cut the tension with a knife. I liked the player headset listen-ins, too. Totally changed the mood from hearing 3 guys idly talk about a game to hearing 4 guys frantically comm'ing locations trying to set up 2 on 1s or set up pickups. Intense.

But the reason why I even bothered to go to MLG this weekend was Tekken. And not because I play it, no Tekken is still relatively alien to me in the realm of fighters, but because of ATL. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah man. First thing that caught my eye when I opened MLG's page was all the talk of the ATL crew. I have a quote in an earlier blog, but for those who aren't in the region, that's how it is. God bless your soul should you face off against one in tournament, because you will have every single one of them who's not playing behind you goin crazy. It's actually pretty entertaining to watch and more fun to be a part of. ^_^

I wanted Pokchop to make grands soooooooooooo bad. If for nothing else, to be the big talk of Tekken. I'm still happy he did as well as he did, but the grands panned out to be like just about every other community. Cali vs NY. East vs West. He was so close to making something of it. Literally one 50/50 away. It was depressing. Teams on the other hand? Clint almost did the impossible. Came down to him and him alone, and he had to win games in teams vs Kor Crow and Mr Naps. And he almost did it. That junk was craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.

Best believe I'll be favoriting some Tekken when they pop up on youtube.

This weekend, was a good weekend.