Tag Archives: Spoony

League of Sharpies C rank match 1: Spoony

Carnage (Hakan Dorter) aka the Mega Troll or King of Comedy recently proposed the idea of a Topanga-style league that the Melbourne FGC could use to train together and improve as a whole. The league would take place over several … Continue reading

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I wrote something for something part II and BAM5 thank yous

http://dustycartridge.com/features/bam5-wrap-up-five-years-of-salt-sweat-and-the-return-of-the-bomb/ Finally BAM is over. I for one am very happy that is over. Because that means I can start practicing like crazy again. And that means hopefully I will stop sucking big, hairy donkey balls. BIG Thanks to the … Continue reading

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My favourite Ryu player: Vol 2

Many of my friends know that my favourite Ryu player is not any of the current top SFIV Ryu players but actually John Choi aka the Korean Inferno. I still get asked sometimes which Ryu player I like/study. And when … Continue reading

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The death of CCH

When I walked into the new Shadowlogic venue in Footscray for the first time, my first thought was “This place is…freakin’ awesome!” It was near the city in Footscray, and only about a ten minute walk from the Footscray train … Continue reading

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Shadowloo Showdown 2012 Recap: Saturday

My alarm rings at around six, and we get our bleary-eyed butts down to the venue. We start shuffling things around for an hour until more people show up. Spoony shows up at seven. I think Kevin and Andrew shortly … Continue reading

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Shadowloo Showdown 2012 Recap: Friday

I get up around nine in the morning, rubbing grit out of my eye. SS is finally here. Time to do work. I pack my stuff up and make my way to the venue. I get to CQ around eleven … Continue reading

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Shadowloo Showdown thank yous

I will probably do a longer post later. Hopefully my memory holds up enough for a recap. Anyway here we go. Firstly, thank you so much to my Marvel staff, I did we did a alright job. Gabneto, Fish, James, … Continue reading

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Soul Symphony or WHEATON!

Great to see all the work that the CW guys like Loki, Spoony, Berzerk, Ali, Chris Ho and Andrew put into the CW Fighters Festival event result in something great like this. For you guys that don’t know, we ran … Continue reading

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Don’t be a Scrub Podcast Episode 11: TTC ToXY

“Normally, you have a chance to catch up with some hard work. See, luckily most talented people are lazy. Usually. But when they’re naturally talented…and hard working? Then that’s when it becomes so, so, so hard.” Jeff, one of the … Continue reading

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AE in Melbourne and CCH 07-01-2011: Ted Danson edition

I just was at CCH last night, and it was really nice to see such a good turnout. I guess all my pessimism about the two versions of the game splitting the scene was pretty much unfounded. And it was … Continue reading

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Don’t be a Scrub Podcast Episode 4: Zan

Spider Muttons Productions © 2010 is back with the fourth episode of the Don’t be a Scrub Podcast. Continuing on with our community focus, this time we interview Couchwarrior’s Zan. We talk a lot about Couchwarriors, the Melbourne community, and … Continue reading

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CCH 12/11/10 Recap or How I found out about Mago!

I held off posting this post earlier on because obviously I didn’t want to spoil the big news 😛 It’s been a rare week in which I have had plenty of chances to play offline Street Fighter. First at Spoony’s … Continue reading

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Final Round Couchwarriors 2010 Recap

I’ve put off writing this recap for a while for two reasons. The first reason is that while I was very disappointed and salty with my results, time passing by and a lot more training has washed away most of … Continue reading

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Monday at Spoony’s

After being so disappointed at placing last place at the last Couch Warrior Ranbat of the year, I actually feel even more desire to train harder despite the Ranbats not starting up until March. I couldn’t sleep at all on … Continue reading

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Final Round- Preparing for the last Couchwarriors of 2010.

I haven’t been posting my usual strategy talk, event recaps, and training progress stuff recently because I have been so busy with the Don’t be a Scrub Podcasts. For that I apologise. (Well, if there’s anyone out there who actually … Continue reading

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