SB, handling yourself at tournies, & revelations..

Blogged by sighrAx on Monday, October 18th, 2010 (09:16 PM)

season's beatings, what, a, great, blog, post

I suppose that there are worse things that could happen.

You could be served raw chicken and consume half of it before realizing. You could have a medical condition that causes you to wake up via punching yourself in the face. You could find a dead frog in your cup o' noodles.

These are just some of the reasons that let me realize that I should go to Ohio for Season's Beatings 5. It was a good choice.

I've only been a serious member of the Street Fighter 'Community' since Super came out. I did dabble in vanilla but never took it as seriously as I should have, and didn't care about tournaments.

This year I missed EVO due to time and money constraints. But come Season's Beatings, I wanted to be there.

I made a few predictions about the community I would end up meeting there. Who they were going to be, how they were going to act, and how badly I would get raped by them.

It turns out I was quite wrong about a few things. Namely, my thoughts on the community. Turns out, most of the people are really quite nice. ...