Post by gsgold on Feb 16, 2007 21:53:16 GMT -5
There comes a time in a man's life where his voice changes, there is hair where there wasn't hair before, and he begins to have urges to say "OMG SMASH ROXXORS TEH BOXXORS,".
This is the story of such a boy. In 2004, a boy by the name of GSGold (known as "ShadowNinjaGuy" in the 'Smash Scene') browses SmashBoards before seeing a glorious sight.
Melee FC, a 3-day tournament in South Bend. Immediately, ShadowNinjaGuy asked his mother if it was okay for him to spend three days with complete internet strangers. "Sure!"
And lo, it was a glorious three days. He lost, he cried, he got over it, he had an absolute blast. Yes, he cried. It was his first tournament and he was very upset that he lost the first round.
The next year, he had yet another blast at Melee FC-3. Unfortunately, he lost his controller which resulted in much sadness to all involved.
Then, in 2006, GSGold attacks, for a second...attack. Actually, a third, as FC-6 was on the way. Many precious video games were sold in order to enter this magnificent tournament, which became the largest ever with over 200 people attending.
Except this time there were some twists.
He had a camera.
And he had a friend.
This is their story.
The protagonist to our story. Notice the closed eyes and crossed arms, the true sign of a badass except this isn't quite badass and more of some chubby guy trying to act cool and failing.
This is his friend. For the record, he shall be known as N-Gage. Hi, N-Gage!
Size comparisons. Two N-gages are the width of one GSGold. GSGold is not pleased at having to touch N-gage for any longer than 1 second.
One hour of long driving, and losing $150 to sign us both up for the tournament, and we're here at Trinity Church!
Welcome to the lobby, here's where you chill and get your food when it's mealtime. It's pretty big, there's lots of room on the other side.
These Wall TVs are pretty great. The tournament hosts use them to show important matches or hilarious video clips for us to enjoy. This is the upstairs balcony, which is sort of a circular track that leads to various rooms that for the purposes of the tournament are bedrooms.
Home sweet home!
I don't have any good shots of the Gym, but be assured that there were at least 30 TVs of varying size, 12 of which were massive 36-inch things probably. They were great and awesome to play on.
Neither of us like the high ledge.
Unique to this particular tournament, a concessions stand ran by friendly church kids. They featured delicious things that made me even more fat than I ever was before.
Here's me chillin' with a Pepsi.
Which quickly became out of order. Fortunately, they also had a Coke machine upstairs, showing that Trinity Church does not favor coke or pepsi, and respects both equally.
There is some anger when it comes to dollar bills not being accepted.
They even brought in an N64 in the lobby for some old-school smash dickery. It turns out I suck at the 64 version, go figure. I had a lot of fun with Mario Kart though.
After our three days of excitement and hilarity were over, we went home, satisfied at our adventure, and I enjoyed the company of my cat:
And there you have it. We both played in teams as "The Orange" and lost miserably. We then both lost horribly in the singles round robin during the first round, although I fared better than he did. A bit of video footage was captured, and good times were had by all.
This is the story of such a boy. In 2004, a boy by the name of GSGold (known as "ShadowNinjaGuy" in the 'Smash Scene') browses SmashBoards before seeing a glorious sight.
Melee FC, a 3-day tournament in South Bend. Immediately, ShadowNinjaGuy asked his mother if it was okay for him to spend three days with complete internet strangers. "Sure!"
And lo, it was a glorious three days. He lost, he cried, he got over it, he had an absolute blast. Yes, he cried. It was his first tournament and he was very upset that he lost the first round.
The next year, he had yet another blast at Melee FC-3. Unfortunately, he lost his controller which resulted in much sadness to all involved.
Then, in 2006, GSGold attacks, for a second...attack. Actually, a third, as FC-6 was on the way. Many precious video games were sold in order to enter this magnificent tournament, which became the largest ever with over 200 people attending.
Except this time there were some twists.
He had a camera.
And he had a friend.
This is their story.
The protagonist to our story. Notice the closed eyes and crossed arms, the true sign of a badass except this isn't quite badass and more of some chubby guy trying to act cool and failing.
This is his friend. For the record, he shall be known as N-Gage. Hi, N-Gage!
Size comparisons. Two N-gages are the width of one GSGold. GSGold is not pleased at having to touch N-gage for any longer than 1 second.
One hour of long driving, and losing $150 to sign us both up for the tournament, and we're here at Trinity Church!
Welcome to the lobby, here's where you chill and get your food when it's mealtime. It's pretty big, there's lots of room on the other side.
These Wall TVs are pretty great. The tournament hosts use them to show important matches or hilarious video clips for us to enjoy. This is the upstairs balcony, which is sort of a circular track that leads to various rooms that for the purposes of the tournament are bedrooms.
Home sweet home!
I don't have any good shots of the Gym, but be assured that there were at least 30 TVs of varying size, 12 of which were massive 36-inch things probably. They were great and awesome to play on.
Neither of us like the high ledge.
Unique to this particular tournament, a concessions stand ran by friendly church kids. They featured delicious things that made me even more fat than I ever was before.
Here's me chillin' with a Pepsi.
Which quickly became out of order. Fortunately, they also had a Coke machine upstairs, showing that Trinity Church does not favor coke or pepsi, and respects both equally.
There is some anger when it comes to dollar bills not being accepted.
They even brought in an N64 in the lobby for some old-school smash dickery. It turns out I suck at the 64 version, go figure. I had a lot of fun with Mario Kart though.
After our three days of excitement and hilarity were over, we went home, satisfied at our adventure, and I enjoyed the company of my cat:
And there you have it. We both played in teams as "The Orange" and lost miserably. We then both lost horribly in the singles round robin during the first round, although I fared better than he did. A bit of video footage was captured, and good times were had by all.