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There were many new faces playing Street Fighter this Saturday, and that’s great. Cuban’s better half Nora is on the ranbat scoreboard now with her excellent Chun Li, and Mark showed us all some very solid kung fu courtesy of Fei Long. Hope to see you back again!

After most everyone went home I witnessed ULX regulars Joel and Zack falling in love with Street Fighter, totally hooked so expect to see them learning fast in the near future.

In addition, many of our newer regulars made it back, becoming MORE regular (without any help from fiber), and we even played a little Smash for a change, which I love.

For me personally the highlight of the night was facing Sagat (hotsauce) while ULX staff (or was that Rock Band?) blasted “Eye of the Tiger” at full volume. That song is just so…. It should be played during every fight basically.

RanBat 1.5 results:

1st -- SmurfTac0s (8)

2nd -- Slappy (7)

3rd -- Hotsauce! (6)

4th -Mark (5)

5th -Cuban_Ace (4)

6th -Fred (3)

7th -Nora (2)

8th -- CakeFarts (1)

Rock Band Beatles was playing all night and now it’s stuck in my head…

Super late writing this so sorry, I forgot most everything that happened.

Welcome back Dutch and Aaron who haven’t been around for a while, it was good to see you back!

Aaron was kicking ass and taking names as usual. Also was it my imagination or was OctopusOnFire really really really really on. More than usual I mean. Been training hard?

An important discovery was made today: ULX has a cappuccino machine. Nothing fancy but beats the heck out of a plain pot of coffee (and energy drinks imho). Drink up, they are just $1.00!

RanBat 1.4 results:

1st -- Aaron (8)

2nd -- Slappy (7)

3rd -- Haypultone (6)

4th -- OctopusOnFire (5)

5th -- HoldySnausages (4)

6th -- Hotsauce! (3)

7th -- Dutch0 (2)

8th -- Chauncy “Tru” Talon (1)

GRAPSF ULX meetups are full of good folk, good play, and whiny emo children. Two out of three is pretty good.

GRAPSF returned to ULX after a three week sabbatical this Saturday… getting the Monty Python reference out of the way, “and there was much rejoicing”. Four new faces made their first appearance at a GRAPSF meetup: Phildo (TELEDILDONICS REPRESENT!), SwiftyMcQuik, Randall Son, and… Fred. Jolly Pirate Nickname to follow shortly. All four were great fun to have around and made excellent sports. Please make them welcome, folks.

Ranbat 1.3 was another exciting installment that had Slappy taking first with his fucking evil Zangief. There was a great match between Cuban Ace and Haypultone that came straight down to the wire, with HPT’s brutal Sagat finally grounding Cuban’s impressive Vega. Randall Son made an excellent first impression, taking fifth overall with his Chun Li, while Singe makes his first top eight appearance at number four after running through the gauntlet of Sagats with Ryu and Gouken. I suffered this week, taking second to last place: I guess I need to practice a bit!

The final results for 1.3 are as follows:

1) Slappy (8)

2) Haypultone (7)

3) SmurfTac0s (6)

4) Singe (5)

5) Randall Son (4)

6) Tru Talon (3)

7) Cuban Ace (2)

8 ) HotSauce! (1)

The exhibition match in Third Strike, featuring Singe’s Ken and MrBaggs’ (who finally returned to the fold!) deceptively evil Sean was a blast to watch, with MrBaggs’ giving Singe some trouble, though Singe finally came out on top. MrBaggs took his frustration out on ALL COMERS in Blazblue, using Ragna to great effect. My Arakune and Taokaka weren’t up to the task, which pretty much describes everyone who attempted to take him out. Singe, not to be outdone, stomped everyone is Third Strike, showing that low forward into super is still a bitch to deal with even ten years later. Tekken 6 was sampled and ultimately rejected on grounds that real games don’t have panda bears or boxing kangaroos in them. I thought I heard some people playing MvC2, but it might have been my imagination. All in all, it was a great time.

Our next meetup is next Saturday at ULX, starting at the usual time. The season is well underway, with seven more installments to go (ending on January 2nd). It’s still anyone’s game: practice your execution, drink cough syrup, jog naked late at night…whatever you have to do, because it’s only going to get crazier from here on out.

HotSauce and Cake Farts hosted the GRAPSF community on Saturday October 24th, and outdid themselves. Excellent food and drink were provided, four HD setups let everyone play at anytime, and some horrible tequila ensured that my tournament match versus Holden went in my favor. Thanks again guys: your generosity is both appreciated and delightful.

The GRAPSF Ranbat 1.2 tournament lasted three minutes short of fucking forever, because I didn’t bring my laptop and the delightful Tio Tournament organizer contained within, but we made due with primitive pen and paper. Dro616, our newest Zangief, did extremely well for himself losing only to Tru Talon and alcohol. The finals were held round robin style, with HotSauce making his first place debut. The final placement for 1.2 is as follows:

1)Hotsauce

2) Tru Talon

3) SmurfTac0s

4) G-Boobie

5) Slappy

6) Dro616

7) Holden

8 ) Octopus On Fire

See the Ranbat section on the sidebar for current overall standings.