KOR: A retrospective (part three)

(NOTE: this was originally intended to be the final part in my KOR: A Retrospective series. I have now decided to extended it by one more part)

The scene was set, I was coming back to Sydney after my first visit to the states and my future wife. It was also around this time Lord of the Rings fever was going on so I decided on a perfect name for our fourth KOR. Return of the King. LOL not trying to sound full of myself but I did actually win the last one so it felt appropriate. I would also be the first winner of KOR whom actually returned to defend his crown.

The prizes were offered up again and this time we had a decent turn-out. We had 8 people which include the usual bunch of Me, Mario, Yous and Tara and Tim. New to KOR were Hussam, Alex (Tim's little brother) and my protege Teddy. I also made sure this time around most of the matches were capped and I had access to it (thanks to my investment in 'Pinky' aka my digital camera) because I had definitely had something in the mind to do with the footage.

The eventually winner of the tournament was me and I was able to win it in the very first tie-breaker in KOR. It was the classic comeback story, Mario beat me in the round robin part of the tournament but he lost to Tim. I beat Tim therefore we both needed to play one more match and I won that match. It was a moment of triumph that I won two King Of the Rings back to back. More highlights was Alex the shining protege and at the tender age of 14 doing iSW combos on people, like WTF man. He also beat his older brother LOL.

I was also happy that we had enough footage that we could make a highlight reel. After the tournament and I uploaded all the matches (which can be seen at www.youtube.com/group/kingoftheringbish along with matches from most of the KOR tournaments) I then went to work on the highlight reel. The highlight reel (which was included in the first part of my retrospective) is a crowning achievement for me as well. Never had a song and theme for a video came to me so easily. It even gain props from people like Cyrax a renowned King player from Melbourne who said

"Nice, I like your style and the idea all together, maybe I can make it in there one day"

It was also during the KOR: ROTK highlight reel that I announced that we will be throwing one more KOR. It's name would be King of the Ring: Requiem and as the name implied it would be a farewell to KOR. I did not know at the time, how right I would be.

In the final part: KOR: Requiem and its aftermath.

Plus the future of KOR? Is there one?

Above is the first KOR: Requiem trailer. I am especially proud of this trailer, even through certain people didn't like it as much as the hip hop one. I picked the song because I love Evanescene and I like how I editted the song, anyone who has actually heard the song, know that I editted a whole part of the song out but to me it sounds so natural.

LOL a not so proud moment was when I messed up and on the scene where I put all the previous King of the Ring titles, I accidentally put Return of the King not once, not twice but three times. Oops.