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!
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.
The West Michigan GRAPSF Ranbat season kicked off with a bang this weekend at ULX. It took a while, due to obligations other than pugilism by digital proxy, but by the end of the night we had a very successful first run.
The results for the evening are as follows:
1st)SmurfTac0s
2nd) Slappy
3rd) G-Boobie
4th) Haypultone
5th) Tru Talon
6th) Holden
7th) HotSauce
8th) Octopus On Fire
Which leaves the Ranbat points at:
Smurftac0s (8)
Slappy(7)
G-Boobie (6)
Haypultone (5)
Tru Talon (4)
Holden (3)
HotSauce (2)
Octopus On Fire (1)
The next Ranbat tourney will be the week after next: ULX will be hosting a Call of Duty tournament this upcoming Saturday, which means we’ll be playing somewhere else (to be announced soon).
Highlights from this last Saturday include Slappy upping his Zangief game enough to take the semi-final win from yours truly, in a one sided match that left my Blanka wondering just what the Hell happened. Also pondered was the size of Gief’s testicles, which poor Blanka could feel crushed against his face every ten seconds or so. It’s hardly conclusive evidence, but if Blanka’s face is to be believed, a certain Russian wrestler has been on steroids for quite some time. Singe blew all our minds by parrying Remy’s multiple projectile super “Light of Justice” in third strike, not once, but twice in regular play. His Ken did terrible things to everyone, losing only to my Remy (despite the ridiculous parry crap) and Urien (Go Die, indeed). Making this even more impressive is the fact that Singe had just switched from pad warrior to using a stick THAT NIGHT.
The final match of the evening was between Slappy and Smurftac0s, who picked Sakura to play against Slappy’s Godless Red Devil. Smurf pulled it off too, defeating Slappy in a close and fun match that had the place jumping. Smurf is a beast, and remains the guy to beat at GRAPSF.com.
We had some technical difficulties with Haypultone’s HAVA recording device, so there’s no footage of this weeks’ play. We should have it figured out by our next meeting, so look forward to HD quality footage of things going forward.
