Beating up all your buddies at home? Time to take it to the streets. Every Friday, chipdamage.com hosts a weekly fight club... for video games that is. A group of local fighting game enthusiasts gather at the University of Manitoba Science Lounge and duke it out in video games, like Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom and Soul Caliber...
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| here's the report... |
Background
Outsiders to video game fighting may not know, there is a competitive, world wide community of gamers that take this "stuff" seriously:
-EVO hosted the world's largest fighting video game tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada this year, to crown the best fighter in the world at many different fighting games.
-Finalroundbat, the tournament of East vs. West, pits the best of Japan against the best of America for money and, more importantly, braging rights.
But where does Winnipeg fit in the grand scheme of things?
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| ...admiring some sweet Soul Caliber skill. |
Date : Friday, Feb 17 2012, 1900hrs
Location : University of Manitoba Science Lounge - Armes Building
It was time again for Chipdamage.com's Friday Night fights. I decided to come alone, but I still felt comfortable. Everyone seemed to know each other here. I approached Jim, one of the guys from Chipdamage.com running this event. He`s been working on promoting the Winnipeg Fighting Game scene for some time now. "They way I look at it..." said Jim, "...Winnipeg is like Nintendo..." when compared with how far ahead other Canadian scenes were. But they`re working on that. By promoting local tournaments and events, Chipdamage.com is helping put Winnipeg on the map. Even though tonight was a very casual vibe, you got a sense there was more going on than just some dudes playing Street Fighter.
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| Dudes with their sticks... um.... yah |
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| The tools of the trade... |
Check them out, Happy Thrifting.
Suggested watching - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkvN1fPXVLU&feature=related
Wow, why'd it take so long for this to get noticed? :P
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed the scene though, it's always growing (we've began to stream online tournaments, I believe we did it before your visit but not sure if it was mentioned). Make sure to drop by once in a while, maybe get in some casuals! :P
I'ld love to make it down one night. My co-blogstar LP is trying to convert me to using a fight pad rather than controller, and I think he's right. Seeing some of the sweet ones there, I gotta get one now before going down. Keep up the good work!
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