Rave: Strictly Business

It almost been a week since the first money/ major Tekken Bloodline Rebellion tournament in Cincy. In hindsight, I have to put in my 2 cents on how it went down.

First, one can't ask for a better venue. We had good space, machine was on free play. Game Works has been treating us extremely well thanks to Mike and the workers there so I can't write a rave without giving them their just dues.

Second, organization. Once again Mike delivered here. We had more then enough drinks for everyone (paid from Mike's own pocket so kudos there too). The tournament was run extremely well. Sure we had only 11 people but it was still a smoothly run tournament. No confusion with whom was next. We had a couple late-comers but in the end, the tournament went off without a hitch. We also had pizza for days as well. The $10 venue fee was more then adequate for everything we recieved.

The actual tournament. Now one thing I really liked about this tournament was it brought out all the serious players. We had 11 people but everyone was good and brought their A game. People who some thought would be a push-over brought a new level of gaming. Damon (CoCoIchi) and TRKT (The Real KT) both went above and beyond in bringing some good games.

On top of that, our established players brought the fire too. Skeez beat Derrick in the losers. Derrick beat me in the winners. LOC was wrecking shop as well. I even played some of the best Tekken I have played in awhile. The magnus opus was the inclusion of HaiGuy from MI. We had a bonafide talent come through and give us some seriously solid matches in casuals and the tournament. It was nice to play against a player of this calibur and I felt I was playing better by just hanging out with him.

In the end HaiGuy won pretty comfortably over me (forgive me Nati) but we all had fun. It was a great tournament and in the end it only makes me look forward to more.

With T6 immenient release on console. I feel Cincy/N. Ky/Dayton as are a gaming community are going to shine at lot more this time around. We all have what it takes to get the same level HaiGuy is. Now it's up to us to realize our potential and run with it.

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