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-My Tekken poolman, that was something. My first match was against a Bryan player. I was up two rounds in the first game and this girl who was talking to the guy running the pool accidentally leaned forward and turned off the monitor while we were playing. Uh, whoops. It was all good though, we just restarted the match and gave me the first two rounds. I didnt feel too bad since I was quite a bit better than my opponent, so I think I definitely would have won even without that hiccup.

-Anyway, immediately after my first match, the pool runner asks me to stay put, so I dont even have time to celebrate my first EVO win before Im thrust right into the next match. The guy picks Dragunov, and hes much better than the first guy. Even though Dragunov is one of the best characters in the game, I really dont mind fighting him that much since I have decent experience in the match-up. So I win the first game pretty handily (I did a goddamn sick combo in that game, I still remember it vividly, Im still so proud of myself haha), but then this dude switches to Claudio. Uh oh. I have very little practice against Claudio, and hes kind of a YOLO character, so hes pretty effective in tournament. He ends up 3-0ing me the second game, but I was somehow able to turn it around in the third game and clutch it out. Holy shit, when I stood up after winning that second match, it was the most exhilarating feeling ever. I dont want to oversell it, but there was so much adrenaline pumping. Such an amazing feeling.

-Nothing too exciting happened after that. I won my third match against a Geese player pretty unremarkably, and then I lost to a really good Eliza player. I have no clue what to do against that character. In losers, I went against the same guy I faced in my second match, and he asked the pool runner to do a blind pick. That was kind of annoying and unnecessary since this dude watched me play Nina in all of my matches and Im not some gormless counterpicker, but whatever. He picked Lars and won. After that he thought he made it out of pools, but he still had one more match to win and then he got bodied in his next match. I know it probably reflects poorly on me, but I got a little bit of satisfaction watching him lose since he was kind of cocky and the blind pick thing really rubbed me the wrong way. Overall, Im very happy with going 3-2. Hell, I would have been happy just winning one, so I definitely exceeded my own expectations. And I did better than the rest of my friends, so Ive got these sick bragging rights. baby.

-I spent a lot of time checking out the artists alley. I was kind of bummed by the lack of Nina related merchandise, or Tekken merchandise in general. There was a lot of Asuka, Lili, and Lucky Chloe, and even some Kazumi and Eliza, but no Nina! Come on you guys, Nina is Tekkens OG bad bitch, show her some love. The most popular franchises represented were easily Overwatch, Persona 5, and My Hero Academia. There was a ton of merch for those 3 in particular. Lots of cool stuff, but I just ended up getting a cool Persona 5 shirt, a Street Fighter poster, and then neat little King Dedede button.

-It was awesome getting to see all my favorite players and personalities out and about. At the convention center I saw JDCR, Qudans, Sako, Infiltration, Xian, Infiltration, Justin Wong, Yipes, Gootecks, Daigo, Rip, Woolie from 2BFP, and a bunch of others Im sure Im forgetting. I even got a picture with Harada-san, who is legitimately kind of my hero, which is so freakin cool.

Sunday in the Arena
So my brother and I did something really stupid on Sunday. We woke up early to see Guilty Gear top 8, and we stayed in the arena pretty much until Street Fighter V top 8 ended. Basically, we were in the arena for 16. Fucking. Hours. Why on earth did we do that? That was pretty fucking dumb of us. Now I know for next year, to, uh, not do that. We were so exhausted by the end of it that we kind of wanted to die.
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