February 2012
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Plateau Report - 2/24/12
Alright. It’s time to get serious again.
Street Fighter X Tekken is nearly upon us. I’ve been counting the moments, reading all the reports, and wishing that I didn’t have any responsibilities so that I could’ve actually attempted an Cross Assault audition. (Though I doubt I would have made it anyways due to a lack of “tournament cred”.) But all the while,...
January 2012
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Prologue: "The Wake-Up Call"
Saturday, January 7th, 2012 - Frosty’s Faustings
Going into this tournament, I did all I could to train up. Countless online matches, local matches with people who would massacre me up and down, trying to bone up on combos—Not going to lie, it was a stressful week. In the midst of it, I reached that point of debate that one tends to hit when they’ve had their ass handed to...
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My Love-Hate Relationship With A Notebook
If this is going to be a log of this journey I’m going to be undertaking, I might as well start out with something honest to break the ice.
Warning in advance: Honesty may equate to total dork sappiness.
When I started getting serious about Street Fighter, I tried to keep a daily log of my time online. A big yellow spiral-bound notebook with “Street Fighter IV Training Notes”...