[quote:post_uid0="Tidus2K2"]TOC II

After Toc II i didn't play for a while because of personel life reasons but when I came back I trained harder than ever and I joined this tournament. I remember fighting with profe$$or every single day to get myself ready for the Toc. When it began I stayed in the java chat every single day waiting for people and waiting to fight. I remeber 2000warrior and I were always worried about the points and the wins and losses. We kept taking ranks from each other. I made it to the top 16 and had to face my first opponent who was DXzero. I lost the match but let me tell you, him and fear had the worst lagg on the planet. I didn't complain just went told zing about my loss and just said it was a bit laggy. Then zing talked to a couple of peopel and found out that he did have bad lagg. So I made it to the quarter finals. And wouldn't you know it I had to face nferno666 in order to move on. All i could think of was winning the match and just doing my best.[/quote]
theres two sides to every story... but
memories.. brings back the flame..
*evil laugh*

[quote:post_uid0="2000warrior"]Strange... I've been seeing Quass and Zing79 in and out of here more times then I've ever seen in the past year, yet still no comment about the tournaments they should BOTH know better then anyone else :biggrin:[/quote]
You probably should have posted this topic in the other general section. They'd have saw it there.

Well i all i can say is i'm cursed for tourney's for this game...
TOC1:
don't really remember my opponents but i was doing good and not losing any round to any1 untill i faced the laggiest person of all time...before this ever happened i just returned from a 2 month leave from the game cause i was very upset seeing as how i was robbed of the 1st tourney i had the best chances of winning cause i defeated every1 on my list and was the only one undefeated...but my opponent never showed up and then the tourney got called off but once i came back every1 talked about IMAGINATION so i gave it a good and beat him with ease. when the time came for me to fight him for the tourney he got to host so i was pretty much screwed and my curse came back to haunt me.
TOCII:
i was very prepared for this...i was up all night fighting and prepairing myself for it. it was about 5am when i decided it was enough training and i'll just get 3 hours of sleep and wake up ready to go...i'm not really a sleeper so i didn't think i would over sleep but once again my cursed got to me..i woke up around 3 hours late for the tourney but i found manontherun and told him he didn't stand a chance if it was me and him in finals and i proved it to him and got a perfect on him so i wasn't so upset seeing as i beat the living hell out of him.
TOCIII:
this was also just like my 1st tourney..i was unstopble and went on with 9-2 i think not sure but i didn'y lose much. I had a great match with Tidus and he was pretty much my only good and fair match. after that it was me vs fear to advance to finals to face the winner of TarkanX and Slk_Rik. he hosted the 1st match he whooped me and i could believe what was happening...2nd match it was close but once again i lost...i was feeling angry and sad at the same time cause i knew what was up..once again i was being haunted by the damm curse i had being down 2-0 and knowing it was over i went mad and won the 3rd and 4th match with ease...i got alittle confident that i might win but he had the upper hand and last match he hosted...i was 1 super away from winning and i connected but nothing happened to him and i keep hitting him but his health wouln't go down at all so his hits were connecting and he finished me with the shinku hadoken..after the match i told him that he was playinf full screen seeing as how he played most of his opponents in full screen in the 1st round and he admitted that he played the last one in full screen. once again i gotten so close...but it just wont happen for me so my only goal left i have to acomplish probably wont ever happen. i beat slk_rik for 3rd place but that wasn't anything good for me...Zing said that top 3 would get prizes but non of us got anything...

toc 3 existed werenr on forum..

Moving this topic to general comments and strats..

Alright Zing79, Quass, 2000warrior, or who ever is deleting my posts, Dont delete this one, I wont even swear or make mean comments about the mods alright????

TOC3
[B]
This was the only tourney that I had been in, and since I had improved so much I decided to enter this one. My first views about it were that it was going to be hard to find all the people on our lists to challenge and pkay against, and have the person that you lost against actually tell the truth and admit a loss. Although People did end up telling Zing79 that they had beaten me when they hadn't. Well I was hunting down people on the lists, beating them one-by-one and awaiting the next set of instructions. After the we were finished finding people to play we started the actual bracket part of the tourney. For some reason I dont know who I had to play during the bracket part of the tourney, the only matches I remember are the ones against TarkanX and Nferno666. My match against Nferno666 was fun, I remember always wanting to be able to beat him and then when I realized I was real good I awaited to fight Nferno666 in the tourney. Well I guess it was a good match, it could have done without the complaining at the end and the accusation of me intentionally causing the other person lag( which I dont know how it could be done). All I have to say about that match is, gg. and Nferno666, if I had made the screen bigger that wouldve slowed me down alot and wouldve made me unable to block as often as as I could. So why would I make myself slower and unable to block in order to cause you more lag??? Ahh and then there was my final match with TarkanX......I was pumped for it since I had always viewed TarkanX as unstoppable and he had trained me, I wanted that final match to prove once and for all that I was the best. Well we played, I am not sure if we played 1 or 2 sets of best out of 5 games. Well i remember it being 2-2 in the last set, I know I will hear #### about this from you and everyone else but I let you win both of those wins you had in the finals. I let you win because you were so angry at me for winning and for thinking that I was lagging like hell, that I had to let you win atleast 2 to show that you could beat my "intense" lag and that I wasnt unstoppable. Because I remember us playing before the bracket part of the tourney and you reported to Zing79 that you did beat me and Zing79 said " so he isnt unbeatable, i guess he can continue then"(something like that), because if Zing79 thought I was unstoppable then I would have not been let to continue in the tourney so I gave you a few wins. I know it seems like I am making myself out to be better then I am(which I am not), that is just how it happened and I was trying so save my ass from being dq'd so early in the tourney. Well after I had beaten TarkanX in the finals I reported to Zing79 that I had won and I awaited an email response telling me of what I had won and when I would be recieving my prizes. I had not recieved an email for several days so I wint in IRC to find Zing79 and asked him what was going on and he responed that I was to be DQ'd because of non-tournament related matters. I was pissed because I knew that he did not like me and needed an excuse to Dq me, and me giving out a password was the perfect excuse. Eventhough I was constantly yelled at because of my lag and I was DQ'd from the tourney, I still had fun because i got to prove to everyone that I was the best....that I beat the best of the best when they were at their best...............

Before anyone even thinks about contesting what fear_tetsuo said, keep this in mind...

This is a place for everyone to post your memories and past experiences from TOC's... this includes fear's.

If you have any qualms with what he said... including reasons he was DQ'd or why he won bracket/prelim. matches, discuss this elsewhere (ie: a messenger or pm convo would be appropriate).

Trying to bring your arguing here will get your post deleted :biggrin:

You know some of you guys think I'm some kinda vet because I can recall those events...

I just read topics like this and consume them fully

A matter of a fact I recall what soup TarkanX was eating...Ranmas noddle soup I think......

A matter of a fact he stated cheating one match but I'm not going to scare his great name...

you think the hype of TOC 4 is high enough ?

well i sure remember the first one !
TOC, aka TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS !
people were all like...
!!!!!!!! CHAMPIONS !!!!!!!
THERE'S A PRICE !!!!!!!!

people ran for the registration, that's why there was so much people to join it !
the first tournament to have a PRIZE for the winner, and it was definetely worth the tourney !

unfortunetely, there was two main reason why i didn't entered in it !

not the fact it had only ryu.
but the fact that TarkanX and basically the whole top 10 was there ! that was too much for my little rank 300 (about the last person in the rank) was nothing compared to those great fighters !

the second reason i didn't entered...
my lag... even thou i was playing at school on their T1 line.
at my house it was a totally different thing.
my phone modem had trouble keeping up with the game, had a lot of sync lost and the worst, was when i was able to play the game. i had so much lag, plus the fact i had trouble with my old AMD 500mhz... it all made it impossible for me to actually have any chances !

i also feared TarkanX...
for he was the only true great fighter i asked to fight !
i gived myself a challenge "try to keep up until at least 30 seconds had past !" all this because i heard he could kill an opponent in 3 seconds ! was i a foul to think it could have been true ! i holded up until the counter reached 27 ! he was also one of the few that wasn't HADOKEN THROWERS like the rest, he was like me and relyed a lot on HAND TO HAND moves !

anyway...
that was one of the major reason i didn't join in !

TOC 2 came too...
same commotion as the first one, but now they were all saying...
"you beated me in the first TOC now it will be my turn to kill you !"
i didn't joined for the very same reasons as the first. except my rank was even lower cause of all the people who recently joined.

TOC 3
was my first and last attempt at joining a tourney !
i was about to join when suddently my computer crashed.
had to miss this one !
but i still knew i would get beaten easily, still i was for the first time in history of this game, i kicked my ass once and ofr all and decided to join and proves myself what i was made of.

but the stupid computer chrashed on me...

TOC 4 is now coming...
my computer is running fine !
had my old AMD 500mhz...
now i have that P4 1700mhz
and there is the fact that my modem give me a ping of only 250-500 when it used to give me over 3000 at all time !
i'm all set-up, i'll guaranty that i'll be a good challenge even if i lose in first round !

Ahhh...the TOC's, or as I like to call them -- the raping, and pillaging of my free time :).

The original TOC was the only one I entered (and will probably ever enter). To this day I don't have ANY idea what I was thinking about when I uttered the words "Tarkan you'll play me for my spot in the finals, and you can host first." I knew the moment we started that match there was zero chance of me winning. It had always been like that between the 2 of us -- guy who hosts is the guy who wins.

Even though I know I essentially threw away my own tournament victory (because there was NO way Tantum was going to touch me), I'm glad I did what I did. Just something about the guy who hosts the tournament winning the tournament made me think it would cheapen the tourney for everyone.

Even though there have been other TOC's I consider them all dismal failures compared to the original. I kept trying new things, and new ways to keep the tournaments fresh, and they all never seemed to click the way the original did. However you can all rest assured, that TOC:SA is going to take everything that worked in the other TOC's, and throw away anything else.



Edited By Zing79 on Feb. 27 2003 at 02:02