Ahh the good ol' days. Above is the King Of the Ring: Return of the King highlight reel. I must admit I edited like a madman for this one and it came out really well. It was on youtube for the longest time but then it got music claimed and it was pulled off. I really like this video, so I originally just wanted to post it up here, where it can still be viewed and not 'violate anyones IP' (lol not bitter, not bitter at all). As I uploaded it tho, I got caught up and thought about KOR and it has now become this, a King Of the Ring retrospective, from the person who actually conceived and ran it.
Way back in 2006 (really? was it that long ago) when I started playing King in Tekken seriously, me and a fellow King player Danis Kool came upon a random idea whilst we sat at Burger King. We said to each other we should have a King and Armor King tournament and we should call it King of the Ring (after the wrestling event known by the same name).
I posted this idea up on Tekken Zaibatsu and it drummed up some interest. One of the earliest thing I remember doing for it was asking my future wife to design a banner for it. She did a great job I believe.
Anyhow on April 22nd, 2006, King Of the Ring went down. It was a success and 9 people attended. LOL even people who did not even play King as a main played in the tournament and the end result was a big victory for Kaz King (a Korean King player, maybe one of the first serious King players in Sydney at that time). I ended up coming 4th. No excuses I thought I was going to do a lot better. The tournament had some funny moments, the actual winner of the tournament actually didn't come for the tournament, he was actually there randomly playing and we pulled him in. I also remember yelling out the first person to get an iSW would get a dollar (which saiyuk won) and some very random matches. None of it was capped which we would remedy in future tournaments.
KOR stood out from other tournaments from the get-go. First it was purely a King or Armor King tournament, second, it was run round-robin style, so that everyone would actually have to play everyone, to really figured out who was the best at King/ AK, third there was an incentive cash prize that no other tournament in Sydney was offering at that time and fourth, the winner would get other prizes as well, that being a IC card and a converted KOR trophy. Now not blowing my own trumpet but the last three things were provided by me, the cash prize, the trophy the IC card I brought and paid for with my own money, because any money gained from tournament entry was actually put into the machines because it wasn't run on console. All in all, it went down well. So well in fact that there was talks about a second tournament. A second tournament called King Of the Ring: Nemesis.
In the second part, I continue to walk down memory lane and revist KOR: Nemesis and KOR: Vendetta
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