Recent San Diego Tournament

Hey everybody!
So this post is on the recent San Diego tournament that happened yesterday... unfortunately I was not able to attend the event but gladly learned that Keno and Mike Ross won. The one clip I DID get to see is the one posted on Youtube right now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8-fShEVYas

Go ahead and watch that video if you haven't already. John Rog's famous quote to Keno "YOU ARE NOT THE BETTER BOXER!" lol... it made me laugh pretty hard. You might think it's weird when you watch it because both John Rog and Keno are simply jabbing and poking each other without any super/ultra/dash punches. This is simply because it was the last match of the night and everybody was tired, they were taking it easy and having a lot of fun with it which is what everybody should do in my opinion!

Bye!

AI ranbat 2.5 & Life

Hey everyone,
so my spirits are not well right now... I just moved out of Keno's house and I miss him a lot and funny to say, but true, I also miss the Street Fighter community. This all seems second nature to me and all of a sudden it's been stripped away and I am back in this hell hole. I wish I wasn't here but what can I do about it right?... So to the AI ranbat that went down last night (SO AMAZING)! Keno got first place out all of the amazing players that went. It's so awesome how he won the first tournament I ever attended and also the :( last one that I attended before I moved out... UGH I am SO depressed... I can't remember the last time that I felt this way. I guess that's what happens when you have your literal "other half" and out of nowhere it's all changed. It's okay though... we are strong and I know it will work out... the situation just leaves me speechless and depressed now. I can't even play Sims 3 without crying my ass off so now I just stopped playing for a while... ugh, so difficult. Keno is not only my boyfriend and the love of my life, but he definitely is a well-respected STREET FIGHTER 4 player because he never fails to impress us all with his surprises and secrets. I love his dedication for his passion and at the same time he has morals and never crosses the line with ANYONE, and I can say that with the upmost confidence in my statement. The tournament was amazing last night and Keno & I couldn't have asked for a more perfect turnout.

I MISS all the people I have met in the community! I don't live super far but now life has taken priority before all the luxuries I had while living with Keno, I didn't have to worry about the dumb shit I worry about now. I met some of the most life changing people in this little arcade infinity... the biggest group of genuinely nice & funny people I didn't even know existed. I can see now why Keno loves to hang out with this crowd. I met some awesome girl players and other girlfriends who are there to support there boyfriend... and I met a lot of guys who were willing to give me tips and pointers on how to better my playing skills and also sat with me for the long hours I would be at the tournaments sitting by myself. There is nothing more that I can ask for from these people who I call my "good friends" and I am so glad that I was open-minded about Keno playing this game because now I know these great people.

I LOVE YOU ALL AND KENO BABY I LOVE YOU THE MOST!

Dizelan Center Tournament

Hey everybody!
I am at E-games with the typical community; Kai, Scott, Keno, Bryant, JR, Miyuki and her hubby, Sherry... etc. It is 8am and we all just all arrived here straight from the night tournament in Azusa. The turnout was really interesting.

1st place winners: Alex Valle, Ken-I, Watson
2nd place winners: Combofiend, Sin, Dash
3rd place winners: Keno, Mike Ross, Combojack

I really enjoyed this tournament and I am so happy that all the teams did so well tonight. I am past the point of being tired and now we are all going to eat dim-sum... waiting until 9am to eat... wow FATASSES! After the tournament was over a lot of people stayed at the tournament location and played a few hours of casuals... Miyuki kept raping the girls! God dammit! I need to practice. Currently I am depressed because I am moving out of Keno's house and back to my old house in Ontario and it saddens me, so I don't really have the time or motivation to practice street fighter 4 anymore. Hopefully I will still see everyone because I met a lot of really great people in this community and they are all special to me (corny but true). I am going to miss all the stories, epic drama, and just being able to all have fun together without spending more than 3 bucks LMAO. I definitely want to still attend West Coast Warzone, but we will have to see. This was the first and only real video game that I have ever spent time on and I am proud of my success because every win was sweet and every loss was a lesson well learned. Funny to say, but so true, the different people that I have met in the scene have changed me as a person; I have never met so many nice people in a group... until I entered Street Fighter 4... LMAO.

Thanks for reading!
Teresa

West coast warzone videos... very funny!

So Me, Gootecks, Vanessa, Kai, and John Rog filmed a little promo for John's event (West Coast Warzone) approaching in September on labor day weekend at the Hilton in beautiful Irvine, California. CHECK IT OUT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3XevvBDg0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l13iR9B3WOM


for those of you who would like to know more about this event, just visit this site below!

warzonetournament.com

turnout of evo 2009

Hey everybody!
I just got back from Evo last night and I am super sick. Las Vegas was a lot of fun and evo was so exciting, the final matches between Justin Wong and Daigo Umehara was amazing! I was on the edge of my seat for every minute of it. Keno did not do as well as we all thought but I am still proud of him... that's my baby! The one person I am extremely proud of is UTJ... he came in at a high 9th place at evo; WOW! My little el fuerte Kai came in at 12th place and it's hilarious because he hates the game but rapes a lot of people, so now no one can say anything about him because he possesses skills that a lot of people do not have. There were a lot of people at this years evo but the ball room was surprisingly cold (FREEZING)... it was a nice set up that they had going on. I am definitely glad that I went with Keno, even though now I am really sick... SUCH BULLSHIT! I met Daigo and he is so nice I really like him. Might I add a very handsome japanese individual. I LOVE YOU KENO! Also good job to the one and only Ed Ma, not everyone can be as good as him; obviously. Mr. Ono was also a very cool guy. So all in all Evo 2009 was WONDERFUL!

Bye everyone

EVO 2009

Whoo hoo! I cannot wait for evo, it's coming up in a few days from now. So I guess I can say that I am kind of nervous and anxious at the same time. Everybody has been practicing so hard for so long and I guess this is the event that will show what they have learned in these past months. I am excited to see the matches with the legendary Daigo, Mago, and all the other good players out there. Hopefully Keno does well, which I am sure he will! I mean come on everyone, it's evo, IT'S VEGAS WITH ALL OUR FRIENDS! It's all good! So good luck to everybody who registered for evo 2009. I know it has to be nerve wrecking but I know everyone will do well.

Bye!

doubtful character change

Hey everyone!
I haven't had anything to really write about for a little while until now. So I have been hitting a bit of a "dilemma" lately. I have been using Balrog ever since the beginning of starting Street Fighter 4 and it's coming to a point where I want to change to Sagat but then again, I don't really want to. Maybe it's all the tricks that Keno has been showing me with Balrog that I can't leave the flashiness behind... but at the same time I have clearly evaluated different scenarios playing other characters with Sagat vs. playing them with Balrog; and I must say that the odds are always in Sagat's favor. It was the recent Denjin podcast that I listened to with Keno that they stated "Sagat is a cheap character". I asked Keno if he thought so too and he agreed. In a way, I can definitely see why that statement applies to the character. He "deals" out so much damage and his life is pretty decent, unlike Akuma, C. Viper, and even El Fuerte. His tiger knees are pretty effective and his combos are undoubtfully damaging! But even with all the pros leaning towards switching to Sagat, I still don't want to let my Balrog go. It is really just the Eagle Eye that I have been slowly but surely learning from Keno and all the jab combos. I took a while to finally get the jab jab short jab head butt combo down and at this point, it would be quite disappointing to let it all go. So with all that doubt in my mind I started playing a little of both characters at Arcade Infinity lately. I guess my mind is kind of set on switching to Sagat... but Balrog will definitely be my follow up character.

Thanks for reading on my dilemma... please give me advice on what to do! I am a girl, all I like to do is makeup, hair and shop hahah so this is out of my league. I would like to learn more so I can further my success in the Street Fighter 4 "scene".

Bye!

Blaz Blue!

So me and Keno have been playing Blaz Blue. It is completely different from Street Fighter 4. It reminds me a little bit of Marvel vs. Capcom. Keno wants to join the tournament that Evo will be holding for Blaz Blue. I like the game, but then I tried transitioning back to Street Fighter 4 and it was horrible for the first 5 minutes. Well everybody, I feel the game is worth trying out for yourself. If you like Marvel, then this game should be kind of touching home base for you! Bye now!

FEELINGS ON THE LOSF TOURNAMENT

Hey everyone! So yesterday was the whole "ladies of sf4" tourney, and I definitely did not do well... at all! But it was a great learning experience and I will take a lot from it and just practice. There were quite a few girls there that I had never seen or heard of. Many of the competitors chose Zangief. That match up is always a tough one for me. The reason I did not do so well is definitely my last minute character change up and the jitters getting to me towards the end. I stayed true to my Balrog and used him after I got raped with Sagat. I was not ready to play with Sagat yet, but you never know what the next AI Ranbat has in store. To all the ladies who entered, it was fun playing with you all! I am definitely looking forward to the next AI Ranbat! Congradulations to Miyuki for winning, even though I missed it! Me and Keno went shopping afterwards. Thank you Shoo and everyone else who helped put the event together; it was a good run while it lasted!

"Gootecks Shimmy"! WATCH IT!

Oh my sweetie Gootecks "why are you just so good?!" Lol. . .


http://www.nfamousgamers.com/featured-blogs/nuyoriquena-blog/214-the-gootecks-shimmy.html

Copy and paste it into your url link area... for some reason the link won't work on here... ahah I am technologically challenged!

Street Fighter Hype/Drama

Hello Reader(s)!
This is a little sum-up of the drama and arguments that I have witnessed since attending all events. I feel like a lot of people take this industry lightly and without knowing the consequences of their own actions. This game is super "hype" and there is always a lot of shit talking spreading around. I personally always assumed that everybody loved each other and played just for fun, but I was thrown for a loop. A lot of the top players take this game so seriously. And when someone takes something really seriously in their life, they will definitely despise whoever tampers with the "image". I have seen/heard arguments about people scrubbing their way through a win, or people talking shit about someone's skills, all the way to judging a person's character based on how he/she plays. The industry of SF4 is definitely different from the way that I had imagined it to be. Simply put, just know what you are getting yourself into, and just like any other thing in life; know where to draw the line and which boundaries to cross/ not to cross. I am not the type of person who is down for all this hype so that is mainly why I am not taking the game seriously. I am just the girlfriend of a professional gamer and I like to play for fun. Thanks for reading!

SF4 post!

First off I would like to extend a huge apology for not being able to practice with Naomi before the losf tournament approaching this saturday! SORRY!

So,
Keno posted a way long blog and it is ridiculous to read, lmao. Thank you to everyone who spent time reading it. Really, there are days where I forget why I am in the scene with him and I lose myself in complete confusion and anger... but he always helps me to realize that he is the only one for me and that is when I let go of the problems and the animosity, and just grow up and love him back. I speak on behalf of every man/woman who takes this video game industry seriously; the games don't represent their ability to love and care... so really, for me, if video games is what Keno wants to do and succeed in then I support him all the way. At the end of the day, he protects me from everything he possibly can.

FEMALE TOURNAMENT THOUGHTS
I am extremely nervous. I would love to do well in this tournament because I want to prove to myself and others that putting in the time and practice has genuinely turned me into a better player. I mean, video games are not my thing but they have definitely grown on me. SO hopefully I win at least one match!

Video Games + Girlfriend = You Just Dont Know

Yo! My name is Keno. I am a competitive gamer in the Street Fighter 4 scene and with that comes a lot of time spent practicing. I can easily play at the arcade for 8+ hours with no break. I am that dedicated to doing what I do. Normally I am attending tournaments at AI (Arcade Infinity). Those tournaments usually run 9 hours. The arcade is loud, full of guys, and foul language. On the other hand it also has some of the most interesting people you will ever meet. This is my life style. Seems awesome so far, now I bring my lovely girlfriend Teresa into the picture. She works roughly 4-5 days a week and wants nothing more than to come home and spend some time with me or go out for a night of adventure. On her few days off I usually have Street Fighter 4 related activities. You see us at arcades together quite often and we are all smiles. There is the other side that YOU JUST DONT KNOW! Now I shall rewind this story to the beginning. Im gonna start off and say this now, I love my girlfriend so much. I appreciate all the support you show me everyday. I LOVE YOU BABE! You are sitting right next to me playing that damn sims game at 5:33 in the morning just like a game nerd! Okay moving on! My girlfriend and I have been dating for over a year now. I had a job and she went to school Monday through Friday. At the beginning of the relationship we would see eachother once a week roughly because of my working schedule typically gave me one weekedn day off every two weeks so seeing eachother wasnt common. We started talking in the month of May. So as time goes by we love eachother and never had a single dispute. Always smiles and on the same page. Then comes the month of November! I was a computer technician employed by the awesome company CIRCUIT CITY that is now shut down! YYEEAAAHHHHH! Early in the month of november everyone was told that Circuit City was going to close 257 stores I believe. My store was one of them. So I worked through the liquidation process and our last day was December 23, 2008. After that time I filed for unemployment and I still am on it, siiiickkk. With this new found wealth and free time I could visit my girlfriend more. She still had school through the weekdays and didnt return home until 5pm. On Fridays and Saturdays would be our days to hang out. Fridays 5PM-10PM, Saturdays 11AM-10PM. Thats A LOT of time to spend together. We loved every moment we had together. We rarely went out. Enjoying each others company was enough to keep us happy. So things go well and in the month of February everything begins to change. Up until this time my girlfriend was aware of what I do for a hobby and she knows I am pretty good at it. I would explain to her what its like but I would always tell her its not the same unless you experience it. At first towards the later part of 08 I was becomming a better player. In 09 thats when my talent really went up to another level. So now I am pretty well known and performs well in tournaments and I tell my girlfriend to go with me to the arcade to see what its like. I take her to Video94. An awesome arcade that I played at exclusively. She went and pretty much was said "this is it?" She sits on a bucket in the back corner and watches for an hour. She says she never wants to do it again. Nobody talked to her and I am in my own little world. She had a taste of the life and didnt like it, as I expected. I felt everyone deserves to experience it once. So February gets towards the end and thats when my girlfriend moves in with me. This right here is the biggest factor in this relationship in my opinion. From here on things begin to change! Oh by the way if you have read this far you are awesome ^_^. So my girlfriend moves in and everything is fine so far. We are getting use to each others habits and its fine. My girlfriend decides to come and watch a tournament that I am entering. The tournament is the AI Season 2 Warm Up Tournament. She goes and this tournament lasted roughly 8 hours. She had never experienced anything like this. She didnt understand the game too much and didnt know what was going on. All she knew was what character I was and understood some of the hype. I am proud to WIN the first tournament my girlfriend watched me play. It was Gootecks and I in the finals. I was in the winners bracket the whole tournament! So after the tournament she congradulates me and we proceed to go to Banana Bay. So now my girlfriend is intrigued by what I do. She then accompanies me to more tournaments. A month more we begin to have some problems, BAD PROBLEMS. We have had arguments that threatened our relationship. A good two handfull of arguments that was a hair away from causing a break up. The topic of the argument ... Street Fighter! At this time my girlfriend isnt attending school and is working. She worked 5 days a week at this time. Now that she stays with me I need to remember that she needs attention and not just ignore her. At the same time there are some things that I do that are appart of my daily routine. I usually play video games for hours and go to the arcade till 4AM in the morning. Those things I had to cut down on because its the right thing to do. My typical mind state is if I dont want to go somewhere im not going. If I am tired then I am going to sleep. I usually would stay home and play games and that leaves my girlfriend with no activites. She isnt fond of the game to the point she will play it so we begin to bump heads. She wants to go out and do things or to talk. I want to practice so I can continue climbing the ranks in my SF4 scene. She doesnt want to spend her 2 days off going with me to tournaments. There are arguments about me feeling she is tying to change me and control me. There were some of her feeling that I choose a video game over my girlfriend and am inconsiderate. This goes on for another month until we both say that this is what were going to do and thats that. My girlfriends decides that the only way to save this relationship is for her to get into Street Fighter. She feels that it will help her understand and be able to participate and not be a spectator. I begin teaching her things and she realizes that it is WAY harder than she thought. She found respect for what I do and was proud of my skills. As time goes on she became a good player and is still learning. She shows some amazing talent that some seasoned players dont even have. We dont argue that much about it anymore. For the most part we go to the arcade willingly and happily and have a great time. All of my friends in the community like her and she feels they are awesome. From time to time we do have little arguments about Street Fighter but the understanding is better now. She knows that I go to AI tournaments no matter what. Thats my thing. If there is extra tournaments I will see and determine from there. I admit I do need to take her out more than just stay in the house. I am turning her into me. A game playing maniac. But hey thats not so bad is it? We have many Street Fighter related jokes. My girlfriend calls ChunLi's Spinning Bird Kick the Upside Down Slut Kick LOL! Currently we are stronger than ever and are one of the cutest couples id like to say. Things were not too easy and definately were hard at times. Understanding and the will to show interest is what has us together today. And now were IN-DE-STRUCT-ABLE!! .... no ones gonna stop us now. In-de-struct-able .. gonna keep em comin. In-de-struct-able ... the LAST MAN STANDIIIIING lol!

LIFE PLAZA DRINK

Hey everyone!
So this blog might just make me sound like a fatty but I don't care! I bought a green tea slush with boba from life plaza tonight and it was SO FUCKING GOOD! You all need to go try it. Keno loved it too and that man is so picky. It is like a green tea milkshake/slush with boba. Buy one get one free!

Practice for SF4

Hey everybody,
So me and Keno were playing street fighter at home and we started this game of HORSE, but in training mode. It began as a game just because I was tired of the same old beating Keno routine (Just Kidding), and We just decided to pick a character and see how many combos we could each do. It was just like horse but instead of H-O-R-S-E, he used S-F-4. It makes sense because the word leaves less room for error. Honestly, it became really good practice for my execution on certain things. Of course we all know who won the damn game... (0_o)! He tried to make me do some freaking professional combos with like ex focus dash cancel and shit... it is not as easy as I thought it would be. So just in case you all wondered what we do for practice... we play "SF4" now. Try it, it's really good for you and your character(s).

Keno quotes: "Practice your trial mode combos everyone.It will definitely help you at this game. Get creative! With Balrog I hit an 83 ex loop combo on training mode with infinite meter! MIKE BLACK MONEY ROSS HAS THE GREATEST WARDROBE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!"