Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 10:19:24 CDT
From: <U58505@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.games.sf2
Subject: Streetfighting at UIC

Hey all.  What's shaking?  Well a new semester has begun at UIC (University of
Illinois) at Chicago.  Not Champaign; yeah, you Champaign dorks know who you ar
e.  Yuan?  Is that you?  Where's Clay?  Ha ha.  First off, my stupid school sti
ll doesn't have the champion edition; blech, we've only got classic.  I strictl
y play the champion edition now, so I don't play much when I'm at school.  Howe
ver, I still come by to just watch.  If I played, I'd be compelled to pick Ryu.
  And we all know how sucky Ryu is on classic now; don't we?  Yes, we do.  I di
d play today though, picked Chun Li.  By the way, she does look hot on her SNES
 ending screen; much better than the arcade.  Boom boom.  Well most of the regu
lars are back from last semester, a lot of new faces too (i.e. guys new to the
school).  The regulars have a certain etiquette amongst themselves; namely the
match starts out pretty normal, no ticking.  On a whim, someone might initiate
a tick; but the match pretty much stays friendly.  I wish we had the champion e
dition here for several reasons.  I have yet to go up against a Dhalsim stud on
 TCE; my home area doesn't have any.  But my school has loads of them.  Plus I
feel I don't have an accurate gauge of my skill level compared to these guys.
Before TCE came out I pretty much lost all the time here.  Now that TCE is out
Ken has really been improved and I am anxious to see how I would fare.  I can p
retty much womp most people in my home area, but I realize the level of competi
tion isn't the same as school.  So until the administration here gets its ass r
olling I may never find out.  Such is my fate.  Anyways all the regulars are pr
etty much good friends with each other.  They can all joke around and tick each
 other without anyone getting too upset.  They're into switching off players an
d what not; you know, that tag team shit.  Although I pretty much played everyd
ay along with these guys; I recognized them and they recognized me, I never con
sidered myself one of them.  They can be real fucking jerks sometimes though.
Case in point; that tag team shit doesn't bug me, but I could see how it bugs o
ther people.  Tag teaming here is different than most places I think.  Most pla
ces its a good guy and a sucky guy, here both are good.  Sometimes they give yo
u second, sometimes they don't.  One of the Zangief studs was going up against
a new guy (he was new to the school and new to the game, you could tell).  They
 pulled that tag team shit during the match.  The first guy whipped out an SPD,
 then the second switched places real fast and whipped out another SPD; they ev
en got a third guy in it.  All that in the same round.  Yeah they all just laug
hed it off and shit, but you could tell the new guy was upset.  Like I said, th
ey can be fucking jerks.  Basically they were saying, "You suck big time." and
kicking the sand in his face.  I'm sure they didn't think anything big about it
, but that new guy probably hates them all.  Ha ha.  Yeah, you can say it's jus
t a game, but do you really believe that?  I've seen guys get really upset over
 it.  Maybe you're reading this and thinking I'm not like that; I don't get ups
et, it is just a game.  To some people, Streetfighter is some serious shit.  Ta
ke some guy who SAYS it's just a game; more often than not he'll tick or reso
rt to pattern play just to stay on the machine.  Just a game, I don't think so.
  It can be a major ego boost and a major let down.  As for me, I think I'm doi
ng a decent job of keeping everything in proper perspective - I think.  Well, w
ithout further ado we have come to the purpose of this post.

I proudly present to the readers out there in Netland


THE UIC REGULARS ROSTER (in no particular order)

1)  Court - The UIC Streetfighter god supreme.  Indian guy, about 5'7" or 5'8".
  A master of all characters.  Highly respected, most feared for his Zangief.
This is the guy responsible for my terminal case of Zangief fear.  If he catche
s you, you're dead.  Doesn't initiate ticking but will make you suffer painfull
y if you tick him.  Highly skilled opponent with lightning reflexes, also the b
est Guile here.  Just how good is he?  When UIC had a tournament everyone parti
cipated except him.  Go figure.  Doesn't really acknowledge me.  Like I said, t
he regulars are a closed group.

2) George - Chinese I think, about 5'8'.  Haven't seen him yet this semester.
Not one of your really studly players but formidable nonetheless.  We have a sa
ying here at UIC - if you are winning a round, have a majority of your health,
have your opponent down to a pixel width of his health and still end up losing
that round; you are said to of had "Georged" that round.  Common phrases are "A
h man, I Georged it!" or "Man, you Georged that one!"  Poor guy.  He's probabl
y seeing a shrink right now.  Ha ha.

3)  Dwayne - White guy, about 5'10".  Hard for me to really gauge his skill, as
 he's usually trading off with someone.  Plays mostly Zangief though.  For a ti
me people were trying to start using his name instead of George's.  "You Dwayne
d it!"  Never really caught on though.  Too bad, has a much nicer sound to it.

4)  The #2 Guile stud - Chinese, 5'8".  Haven't seen him yet this semester.  He
 does it all, all the combos, all the auto stun multi crap.  A very very danger
ous opponent.  I ticked him once, ONCE.  He smiled and said, "Come on you can d
o better than ticking."  Give me a fucking break, I'm going up against Guile an
d using Ryu.  Please.  We all know what a sorry matchup that is.  Bear in mind
now this is classic version.  So I feel I was justified.  Ha ha.  Go figure.

5)  The #3 Guile stud - Chinese, 5'10".  Really cool guy.  He works at the stud
ent arcade and I've been on his case about getting the champion edition here.
so far, no results.  A very honorable opponent, won't intiate the tick; but wil
l tick you back without hesitation.  He does it all as well.  All the combos, a
ll the autostun routines.  Also the best magic thrower, can pull it out consist
ently.  I just realized something - You seen one Guile stud, you've pretty much
 seen them all.  Ha ha.

6)  Simon - White guy, 5'10".  Not a studly player but still formidable.  Plays
 mostly Ken.  Fave combos include fireball, fireball, fireball, roundhouse (rep
eat sequence).  Yep, he's one of those guys.  Wink, wink.  My favorite sparring
 partner.  The matchup simply degenerates into a Dragon Punch fest.  Nothing bu
t "Ah-you-ken"'s coming from the machine every three seconds.

7)  The #1 Blanka player - Filipino guy, 5'9".  All his hair is one length and
goes slightly past the shoulders which he keeps in a ponytail, looks really coo
l.  Not sure if he's the #1 Blanka stud, but everytime I see him on the machine
 he's using Blanka.  Nice eyes and a very good facial structure, rather envious
 of his looks actually.

8)  The mediocre Guile - Black guy, maybe 5'10".  The term mediocre I use in a
relative sense.  He's not as good as the other Guile studs here so that means h
e's deadly.  Very honorable opponent; but hey, what's honor?  Right?

9)  Frank - Chinese, 5'3" or 5'4".  Chun Li player.  Very talkative fellow.  On
e of them Chun Li studs that give me major problems.  Doesn't jump around a lot
, relies on Chun Li's long reach.  Possibly the best ticker, haven't seen him y
et this semester.  Probably graduated.

10)  The #1 Dhalsim stud - Black guy, 5'11".  Fave combos - yoga fire and forwa
rd kick opponents to death.  Need I say more.  Despite all the thrashing I neve
r acquired Dhalsim fear; Dhalsim frustration yes, but Dhalsim fear - no.  I not
ice I have very different psycho-emotional responses to certain players.  Court
, as I mentioned, is the #1 Zangief stud.  I absolutely cringe when I go up aga
inst him.  With the #1 Dhalsim stud, I don't know exactly what it is.  I mean,
I know I'm gonna lose; but it's like, it doesn't really matter or something.  W
ell it does matter; but it's like I'm in for 198 seconds of sheer and utter bor
edom (that's two rounds, being 99 seconds each).  He's starting to get into Ken
 and Ryu now that they've been pumped up in TCE.  Sure enough, he plays Ryu lik
e he plays Dhalsim.  What's the fucking point?  Go back to Dhalsim.

11)  The #2 Dhalsim stud - Chinese guy, about 5'8".  Yep, he realizes it too.
Endless yoga fire and forward kick.  Otherwise Dhalsim sucks.  Also plays Chun
Li.  Like the #1 Dhalsim stud, he's getting into Ken and Ryu since TCE came out
.  Seems like there are all these trendy Ken/Ryu players who get into them now
that they've been really improved.  Anyways, he's a very likable fellow.  Takes
 the time to say hi when I show up and get a conversation going every now and t
hen.  Granted I realize I'm not very receptive to him sometimes (I think becaus
e of the fact I hate him cause he plays Dhalsim most lethargically).  That's so
mething I know I have to change.  I'm gonna make a mental note to say hi to him
 first before he says hi to me next time.  Wish I knew his name.

12)  The psycho Chun Li - Black guy, 5'11".  Very nice guy.  Talks a lot.  I ha
rdly know him really, but he up front asked me if he could borrow a token one t
ime and paid me back the next day.  You may say it's just a token, no way man,
it's one game of Streetfighter.  Haven't seen him yet this semester, rather dis
appointed about that actually.  Offers little jolly ranchers to bide the time w
aiting to play.  Sure miss those jolly ranchers.  He's a big guy and not exactl
y a finesse player yet; in other words, he jerks his body a lot when he plays.
 Went up against him once and he nearly knocked me over.  Ha ha.  His most memo
rable trait about his play style is that he never blocks.  Weird huh?

13)  The #4 Guile stud - White guy, possibly 6'.  Also good with Blanka.  What
is it about Guile?  Why do guys pick him?  I can't figure it out.  That's sarca
sm, please don't respond and say something like - "What are you?  Stupid?  Guil
e is the most powerful character on classic."  Talked to him maybe once I think
, seemed nice.

14)  The Babe - Hispanic girl, 5'8".  long curly hair.  The kind you can yank a
nd pull.  Great bod too.  Love it when she wears baggy jeans and a high cut-bod
y contour fitting halter top that shows her belly button.  No she doesn't play
streetfighter but she does work at the arcade, so you see her a lot.  Ha ha.

There are maybe five or six more regulars that don't come to mind right now.  A
ctually they do, I just don't feel like typing on this damn keyboard much longe
r.  Well today I saw a matchup between This blanka guy and a ryu guy.  The Blan
ka guy is one of those guys that you see maybe only once or twice a week, not a
 regular but shows up often enough.  The ryu player was a new guy, probably a f
reshman.  Well the Blanka guy lost first round to an end dragon punch but laugh
ed it off as if it were nothing.  Then proceeded to womp on the Ryu the next tw
o rounds.  I can handle that, no big deal.  But the thing that really irks me i
s that the Blanka guy thought he beat the Ryu guy with skill.  Which is the mos
t laughable thing to assume.  No such thing as character advantage you say, oh
please.  Well the Ryu guy stuffed in another token and beat the blanka with tic
king.  Very amusing thing it was to see the expression on the arrogant Blanka p
layer's face when a different facet of the game is introduced.  I laughed my bu
tt off, well actually it was a grin and slight shrug of the shoulders.

Well finally there's me, The X-Man
Later all.