Ivy's back in her rightful place!
Ok, first of all, I'd like to thank GOD Waffel and GOD Mistmöhre for organizing yet another fantastic event. EBO is getting better and better with each year, it's more like a family reunion than anything else! I really hope people will continue to support the game and we will meet again next year. I really do. I was glad to see that the SC community in Europe is still alive!
What can I say, I wasn't expecting to win but I'm glad I did because I worked very hard for it and my effort was not in vain. I realized that I need a different approach to learning SC5 because I can't count on my character to make up for my lack of knowledge etc, like I did in SC4 but I know I still have a lot of room for improvement (eg Dodo beating me with Yoshi shenanigans in 5vs5 ._.)
Wow, I have a lot of shout outs to make... I apologize in advance if I don't mention someone, there were so many people this year :D
@ Malek: It was great to see you again! I'm glad you still support the game even though you dislike it, like you said. You really seem to care about the SC community and it's awesome that we have people like you. You did really well in the tournament, too! I also learned something from our matches, I focus too much on iCS. I must incorporate more regular CS into my game.
@ Pantocrator: I wasn't expecting to survive our encounter :P you probably know why. But in the end, we talked a lot and had some great games. Just like in Malek's case, I'm glad you support the game. You play an impressive Siegfried as always, congrats on your tournament placing.
@Dranakal: it was great to have finally met you offline after all this time (early SC4 I think?) Mitsu OP! I will try to go to Cannes next year, but I can't promise anything at this moment.
@ Sazayel: we didn't play, we didn't even talk... but it was still good to see you there with the other French players.
@ Hyrul: what can I say, amazing performance as usual. You have come such a long way! It seems nowadays wherever you go, you get to top 3 :P I'm glad we got to play so much, but it was not enough for me. It sucks that we play on different systems... get a PS3 pls! :) I hope we will meet again in the near future.
@Grunt Dude: two matches in three days! that's it, I wish we could have played more. Our online session has reminded me that I need to brush up on my anti-Xiba, so thank you for that ^^
@ Joel: I know you wanted to play me more but there always seemed to be an issue with the converters. Next time it won't happen. In the meanwhile, we can play on PSN. You did really well in the tournament! Shame about the self-RO thing, though haha
@ Trio Infernale: nice to see you still rocking! Fantastic performance in the 3vs3. I'm glad that I could play at least 1 match against each one of you ^^ Also special shout out to Kerrigan for sticking to ZWEI, imo he's among the worst characters in the game so I'm guessing it must be really tough to compete with him on high level play!
@ Kalas: the hat must be destroyed :P I know you're probably disappointed, but you still did extremely well playing the OP Leixia. Because of you I must re-evaluate the Ivy vs Leixia MU, I'm starting to think it's not *that* good for Ivy after all. Sucks that I couldn't convince you to join my team, maybe we would have won!
@ Dropical: Really, one of the biggest surprises for me in the whole event! I first noticed you play Ivy when you beat Matt-JF. You're really an amazing SC player, please keep playing the game. I'm sure we were both disappointed with the fact that we had to play in the tournament just after the groups. I was pretty nervous because my anti-Ivy sucks xD I hope we will be able to play on PS3! DarkSlayer and Malek are also on PSN.
@ Fleshmasher: Natsu OP :p Well, we didn't play much but at least we can play on PSN. I need to brush up my anti-Natsu, she's so annoying.
@ ChaosK: I knew one thing for certain, I couldn't leave Germany w/o playing you offline. You escaped from me after only a few matches, but at least I kept my promise ^^GGs! I hope I can fix my connection in the near future, so we can play online.
@ DarkSlayer: it was good to see you again. I was really surprised you decided to play different characters in the tournament. I play lots of chars but I probably wouldn't dare to try them :P I'm not a fan of counter-picking but well, to each his own! You still played really great, thanks for the Ivy/Pyrrha games I understand the MU much better now (fuck 22K :p)
@ Dodo: Damn, you exposed me :P I still lack a lot MU knowledge, not knowing how to roll/ukemi a UB from Yoshi was an epic fail. You're a great player! Thanks for the great games. You live in Austria, no? I know there are some people in Vienna (XshadeX, Yamaraja, Robdom) that are looking for offline competition. You should contact them!
@ LeLLe: Another great surprise! You almost beat me in the groups, and defeated Malek in 5vs5. Great performance! Just like in Dodo's case, our matches were an eye opener for me. Now I know where to improve.
@Soulassasin: fellow Ivy player! :) I wish we could have played some more. You have some really great knowledge about the game. I remember your comment about having bad reflexes, but imo the most important thing in this game is MU knowledge, everything else is secondary.
@ Team PB: It's always nice to see you guys. We didn't get to play much, perhaps next time!
@ Chazy: I hope your controller is alright :P
@WhyYYZ: it was so good to see you man. I wish you and Soulassasin had PS3 so we could all play together. Good games for what it's worth, even though we didn't play a whole lot. I was surprised you play Ivy on arcade stick, CS buffer is loud and extremely obvious, it's not that easy to catch ppl with it offline I guess. Hope to see you next time!
@Tad_today: I was soo surprised to see you there! Last time we played was about 4 years ago! It's awesome that you decided to keep up with the game. Best of luck to you.
@Spyder: Sorry about the arachnophobia comment, I hope I didn't scare you off! Hahaha. If only I knew you would be leaving so soon... but hey, since you live in Germany now and play on PS3, maybe we could try to play online.
I'm a little cofused, there were two Raphael players, right? I know Vigo is one of them but I don't know which one exactly ^^ GGs to both of them! Don't hate me if I forgot someone =s
Ugh, so many people and not enough time to play them all! It's always the same every year haha. Lastly I want to say we should try to keep the game and the community alive for as long as we can, to show Namco that we care about Soul Calibur. I hope to see you all next year!