I shall not lose!

It's been a busy weekend for all of us. Last Friday a group of our players had a 3-day trip to Baguio! They compete with some of the teams there (dota), as well as to have their sembreak vacation. Unfortunately, I did not come with them so I have no idea what happened. But I confirmed that they won! Good job guys! (balato naman kame hehe)

Another group went to Mall of Asia last Sunday to compete in the Soul Calibur IV tournament! Our team includes, Harold "ruin" Mallari, Ralf "surebox" Santos, Leo "pheee" Abon and yours truly with special participation of Sir Khenny. A total of 40 players joined the tournament.

1st Match - Leo using Seoung-Mina VS. Taki

We have no access to Xbox360 so what we did is we practiced Soul Calibur 3 in our PS2. Unfortunately, Seoung-Mina plays differently in SC4 but still Leo managed to win 1 round against a very agile Taki. Taki wins.

2nd Match - Ray using Sophitia VS. Sophitia

Sophie's moveset is almost the same in SC4. But I got distracted in Sophitia's costume, wearing her silhoutte undies right in front of my face haha Actually I did not practice with them. I got pissed off the last round because I got ringed out eventhough I positioned myself far away from the edge..

3rd Match - Ralf using Mitsurugi VS. Sophitia

Mr. Surebox had a surewin because he got pinned up with a very beautiful lady haha. He did not even gave her a mercy round! where's the love bro. Hope we can see her again in the next tournament, without her boyfriend haha.

4th Match - Ruin using Kilik VS. Nightmare

Ruin is the most experienced SC player in the team. Too bad he sold his SC4 months ago (nagsawa na daw kasi). I find Nightmare imbalanced, he has this ring out move that seems unstoppable. But Ruin never gave his opponent a chance, Kilik is just too fast for this scary character. Kilik wins.

5th Match - Ralf using Mitsurugi VS. Maxi

Now this is one exciting match. First 2 rounds were won by Maxi the spammer. Ralf managed to win the 3rd round with just a single hit left in his life bar! It was breathtaking...and the spamming continues. Maxi wins.

6th Match - Ruin using Kilik VS. Voldo

I'd heard that the guy using Voldo was the runner-up in the previous SC4 tourny last August. After winning his match, ruin and ralf left the area to buy some drinks, he was unaware that this Voldo was his next opponent and failed to scout on some moves. The result is inevitable, Voldo used his secret snake move and Kilik was caught offguard. Khenny and I failed to inform Ruin about his fighting style. Voldo wins.

And our quest to be Soul Calibur champions is over. Given more time to practice, I think we can really put up a good fight. I find the XBox controller too foreign maybe because we are too comfortable with a PS2 controller. Im not a fan of SC but I highly recommend this game. It's much better than Tekken 6 in some aspects. Plus this game may substitute Virtual Fighter in WCG 2009 since it is more accepted by a lot of gamers, sorry still no Tekken 6 for next year.

Special thanks to Sir Khenny for supporting us. No thanks to Nat haha.