Arcade Scene Cooling Down . . .

Well part of the purpose for organising the MB tourney is also to gather people of the MB community again and see who are the new guys / gals around. I doubt there is any gals and it is always rare to even see one at all. I understand it is always the same few around but it was better compared to back 1.5 years ago where I was like the only one with David and Reiroy camping the old MBAC machine back at Bugis TKA Virtualand.

As the title goes, the scene is dying down quite a bit, even for more popular ones like Blazblue, partly due to the fact of online play / console. MB, AH2 and Daemon Bride has problems attracting new players due to maybe different mechanics, faster gameplay and lousier graphics haha. Well it is the last quarter of the year and I think most people are busy with their own commitments and stuff (I am also having more commitments now)

Friday nights seems to be the day with the most number of people popping down at the arcade, while Saturday these days are dwindling down alot. People come and go and we make new friends every now and then. I should also organise some form of weekend console gaming every now and then for the guys around my area, provided we have enough people interested haha.

And well HI PEOPLE, I know this blog is not very active for a while due to a lazy community leader of MB, and I am gaming hopping around too much for the past few months with other fighting games like TH 12.3, Vanguard Princess, Blazblue, Arcana Hearts 2.

And while updating, to our new players who are playing MB, please head over to round1.sg and join us there in the forums.

MBAA PS2 Console version has been out for a week already as I post the information here. I believe most people would have gotten their hands on it and busy trying out various stuff. So I decided to get our second MBAA tourney going since our Sugarmilktea is heading overseas (correct information?) and there would be no AH2 tourney for a while and it has been like 3 months since our 1st MBAA tourney.

So I need help in gathering names for the next tourney to see how good the response will be.
The date tentatively would be the 1st Saturday of Sept, 5th or the 2nd Saturday of Sept, 12th. I prefer 5th of Sept myself personally. If we have a good amount of names, then it would definitely be a go. So let's get cracking and hit our contacts, phone books etc and get people to sign up !

And some late updating of screenies of the MBAA PS2 game can be seen just below. I also put the images up on sgcafe action gaming forums or round1 forums.

Okie, sorry for being lazy guys, quite alot been going on and i got the pics of our winners here =p


Our winners with the gorgeous announcer from Arcadia. =)




Our winners with one of the managers from Arcadia.




Our champion Farhan the pro white len user !!! \(^^)/




The 1st runner up Serge with his punishable shielding Nanaya Shiki (^^)╧




And our 2nd runner up Dneo with his Hisui Koha Maids Team <(^^)>


You realise Serge is damn pissed off for getting 2nd, he ain't smiling in all the photos which he is in lol

I will go back and upload the bracket pics before I keep forgetting about it. If there is a chance for another tourney, I will try to make it round robin, double elimination or something so that everyone has more chance to play with the other players.

And we really should have taken a huge group photo for the event. Scolding myself for not remembering it (T_T)

T-shirts for tourney next time ?

I wonder if we can actually make some t-shirts for any MBAA tourney next time ? That is a suggestion i got from Hotshot and some of the guys during the time when they were here in SG.

Well if they want a t-shirt made then cost will go up of course =p
We can discuss this further next time when we meet up.

Thanks for all the support for the tourney !

Well it is over, thanks to everyone who came down and gave their support to their tourney. Cheers to our 4 malaysian friends who came down specially for the tourney.

Congrats to Serge, Dneo and Farhan for winning the top 3 for the tourney. Cheers to Ervine who managed to hitch 4th even though he only got to touch MBAA for 1 day.

I will try to upload some pics from the tourney ASAP, will be getting it from Hotshot who is the only one who bought a camera on that day. We need volunteers to bring down their cameras, I don't have one and I asked people on hamachi and only Hotshot responded.

Sugar is getting another AH2 tourney again so in the meantime go train on AH2 first guys, then maybe we see if the schedule and people permits again for me to organise another MB tourney.

Updated List of People Joining for now.

Here is the current updated and so called confirmed list of people joining.

Yukarin with friends ( 7 )
Bing Lun
Ming Jun (Full Moon Expert)
Ming Jun and Bing Lun friends x 2
Sevalle
Kelong aka 電動翡翠
Kiske (Long Range Broken Shit)
Cheeko
Hannybal
Ian
Ahmad
Colin
Serge
Uris
Jon
Dan aka AH2 Broken Player
Farp (Punches and more)
Musta (too much WoW)
David (too much Sanguo)
Ah Di (too much KOF)
Ervine
Joel aka Broken Shit
Zack
Jeff (friend of Jon and Dan)

Currently, we have 31 people in the whole list. We just need 1 more to get our perfect 32 number. GO GO GO !!!

If anyone still wanna join, please inform me through whatever means possible. If anyone seriously wanna join the tourney and no spots left, there are some people who are willing to give you the spot. =)

Finalised Details and Poster to be up.

I will put up the finalised details and poster once farp is done with it. All details are more or less in their finalised forms except for the competition format which will be Single Elimination.

I discuss this with some of the guys and came up this decision cause if we are really gonna have 29 people in the tourney (some might be bringing more), then this will be the more feasible idea.
Even 2 rounds out of 3 double elimination is still gonna take a long time to finish.

We have 2 guests from Malaysia, which is Powa and Ervine from SGMBAC hamachi channel coming over to view the tourney as well as to join in the fun gathering, so welcome them with open arms guys. \(^^)/

Ervine should be joining in the tourney too, and I will try to persuade Powa too. But as he is a keyboard user for MBAC . . . godly one at that too, I leave it up to him. =P

So watch this page for more updates and details again.

(editted : As promised, here is the poster for the tourney, again thanks for farp for all the hard work !!! )