Lets start by saying that I love video games but my favorite genre is and will always be fighting games.Why? For one fighting games are more then just mashing random buttons and hoping you win. There is just something about beating down your opponent so bad that they just give you this look of really? Or just rage quit. HA anyways in a shooter like call of duty, battlefield, medal of honor, etc everything is random you can not do anything if you get shot in the back or get a random grenade to the face but in fighting games you control the outcome ether you win or lose. You won because you are better and outsmarted the other person or you lost because the other person is better and outsmarted you. If that's the case you can always hit the lab (training mode) and better your skills for next time. Its a mind game like chess every move you do counts for a lose or a win. You need to think on the fly and adapt to the other players play style. For one I HATE to lose I absolutely hate it. I do not mean to brag but i have won a couple of local competitions over at the rosedale mall. Every 2 months they hold a tournament for people who think can come and take every ones money AKA me :p.
I am very competitive when it comes to things that I like. So whenever the time rolls around when i need to head over to the mall and body some fools I hit the lab and get ready. Like I said its like a chess game you never know what the other person is going to do or thinking. When a better player comes around and just makes me look like a fraud it just gives me motivation to get better and get some sweet sweet revenge. Some people think "why do you waste your time playing these games so competitively?" Hey i bought my car with winnings from fighting games so i do not really think its a waste of time. Its one of my many skills and why not take time to hone them and make a profit right? I am even in the works of talking with a potential sponsor who will fly me out to bigger events paid in full. Even though i have bigger dreams in life then just playing video games its making me money, its better then any job I have ever had and I freaking love doing it. Its more then a game to me it is a passion.
It all started when i was young. I would say 6-7 years old growing up in Brooklyn NY every weekend we would go to the local laundromat. This is where my love for competition started. They had a old arcade system that had one of my favorites and one of the greatest of all time, Street fighter 3rd strike. I would sit on that thing for the whole time we where there and one after another people would come and say " I am going to beat this little kids ass so bad" NOPE i would dominate people one by one and one by one they left a couple quarters short and me with a smile from ear to ear. It was like that every weekend for about a year straight. It got so big that it almost became like an even it self. The laundromat even went and bought more arcade machines to accommodate all the people wanting to play. It was so much fun and of coarse people with a much higher skill level then me would come and kick my ass but hey I loved playing and every time I would say to myself I got him this time and soon enough i took the throne. Now i have a will to win that will never fade as well an my love for the fighting game spirit and competition.
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