trip to Seattle with Martin for Northwest Majors!
Last weekend, Martin and I headed up to Seattle for the fightgames tournament!
I wrote about it at length on my tumblr (Day 1, Day 2), but the upshot is that we had a great time, and that Martin is the raddest for coming along and being supportive and asking questions. I think he finds this whole fighting games community hullabaloo fairly interesting; maybe in general, it's compelling to watch people who are excited and skillful and competitive do their thing.
This was a really serious tournament, especially for Tekken: Seattle has a very active, competitive scene, and pretty much all the greatest players from around the US were there. I played a bunch of really interesting casual matches against a bunch of players, and it was super fun.
When it came time to actually compete, I defeated the #2 player in Seattle, in the sense that he was scheduled to play me, but he didn't show up, so he got DQ'd! Then for my next two matches, I got thoroughly wrecked by some tournament veterans; two very strong Pacific Northwest players who ended up placing 4th and 5th respectively in our pool. I was sad about losing so hard for a minute, but then we got lunch and came back to watch the rest of the matches.
Also, the Seattle area is *beautiful*. It's so green and so hilly, and the water is lovely, and we had a great time exploring the city itself. We went to a rad bar/coffee shop on Saturday night, then on Sunday morning, walked all around the city, including going down to the water and the area around Pike Place Market.
I could totally see wanting to live there (or Portland) at some unspecified point in the future. Winters might be rough, just due to gloom and short days, but they couldn't possibly be nearly as rough as midwest winters.
I wrote about it at length on my tumblr (Day 1, Day 2), but the upshot is that we had a great time, and that Martin is the raddest for coming along and being supportive and asking questions. I think he finds this whole fighting games community hullabaloo fairly interesting; maybe in general, it's compelling to watch people who are excited and skillful and competitive do their thing.
This was a really serious tournament, especially for Tekken: Seattle has a very active, competitive scene, and pretty much all the greatest players from around the US were there. I played a bunch of really interesting casual matches against a bunch of players, and it was super fun.
When it came time to actually compete, I defeated the #2 player in Seattle, in the sense that he was scheduled to play me, but he didn't show up, so he got DQ'd! Then for my next two matches, I got thoroughly wrecked by some tournament veterans; two very strong Pacific Northwest players who ended up placing 4th and 5th respectively in our pool. I was sad about losing so hard for a minute, but then we got lunch and came back to watch the rest of the matches.
Also, the Seattle area is *beautiful*. It's so green and so hilly, and the water is lovely, and we had a great time exploring the city itself. We went to a rad bar/coffee shop on Saturday night, then on Sunday morning, walked all around the city, including going down to the water and the area around Pike Place Market.
I could totally see wanting to live there (or Portland) at some unspecified point in the future. Winters might be rough, just due to gloom and short days, but they couldn't possibly be nearly as rough as midwest winters.