'In the end, there can only be One'
LOL Highlander quote for the win. Post the first King Of the Ring, the buzz was pretty big. It went down well and it had a better showing then I ever expected. There was buzz about other character tournaments (none which ever came to fruiton). Because of the demand I said that I would run a second KOR and this one would be called King Of the Ring: Nemesis.
I posted on Tekken Zaibatsu and the hype was building up again. The prizes were back, the guaranteed $50, the trophy, the IC card and the right to be called 'The King'. This time we had a even bigger turnout. New people were added to the mix and ironically some people who attended the first one didn't come out, our reigning champ Kaz King included. However we still had 12 people attend this time. We had more then 70 matches played. It was crazy and I will say it would have been impossible for me to run without a little help from Tara. It was a testament to KOR with the diversity of people attending. Everyone wanted to get in on the action. We had Kei who was a Lee player, Spike who was a Lei player, Erks who was a Nina/ Anna player. King was not their main but they still came and played and enjoyed themselves.
In the end, the winner was Andrew (or as he is known as now, Lucky Strikes), who anyone in the Sydney Tekken community knows to be a beast. Props must be handed out to Mario (MMT) whom came in second and was the only person able to defeat Andrew and stopped him from being undefeated. Me, lol, I did worse then last time and came in equal sixth with Genxa. Definately not my proudest moment. I was happy through, KOR wasn't a flash in the pan tournament. It was a success and people were enjoying themselves. LOL even Hwan (quote from TZ)
"Thx to : Everyone at the KOR last night. Enjoyed a LOT! Special Thx to : Drago and Tara. thx again!don't know why, but somehow, i have this farking tendency to be SO excited! "
And he wasn't even playing in it!
I knew then, that we had to have another one.
This tournament also stood out for me because of the post dinner celebration. A lot of us got together and we had a ball at a chinese resturant, it was the best of times, I wish I still had that photo that was taken by that off kilter waiter. Also another personal highlight was it was the first tournament where my clan Pigeon came together and came out in force.
A couple months later, I made the announcment that again due to popular demand that I would be running a third KOR tournament. KOR: Vendetta would be it's name and this time I was determined to make my mark.
So by now you know the drill. I offered the prizes, set the date and once again the people came out. We had our usual suspects of me, Dean, Mario, Genxa and Tara but we also had the =NOT= guys come through as well in the form of Tim and Yous (Liger 7). Once again the tournament was run extremely well, it seems that me, Yous and Tara were getting the hang of these things. And for me, it was a moment of celebration. After placing 4th in one and 6th in another, I finally won a KOR. The trophy picture is actually the trophy I won. I was humble and thankful and I was just happy I was able to celebrate it with all my friends. This tournament also stands out because it was also the very first tournament in which Tara won a match and it was against Tim, LOL poor Tim. The dinner I remember wasn't as epic as the last one but we still went out and had a good time.
Whilst I was happy I won the dang thing I was also happy that an idea that me and Danis Kool had over a dinner session at Burger King had got to this point. It was soon that not only the Sydney people were talking about it but people outside of Sydney as well. People wanted KOR to be run whilst they were in town so they had a chance to prove themselves and win the crown. It was becoming a phenomeon and I was happy to be a part of it.
I knew for sure that we would have to have another one but it would have to wait because I was going overseas. I figured we would have it when I got back and I also had the perfect name for it picked out 'Return of the King'.
So concludes part 2.
In the final chapter, I will discuss Return of the King and Requiem and how something that felt so right, went so wrong.
Above is the trailer for KOR: Requiem. It was to build hype for it. I actually made two trailers, I made this one mainly because a good friend of mine, mention no names *cough* yous *cough* didn't like the 'emo rock' I used. I am also uploading it here also because Warner Music Group made a music claim on the youtube one and it annoys me that the video is now out there but not the way I intended it to be.
In closing... Fuck YT and WMG.
pP
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