I would like to thank everyone who has been working hard to ensure regional MK tournaments take place. The positive energy that channeled all throughout 2010 has manifested itself in 2011 and we continue to see results. Krayzie Bone ran a UMK3 tournament at Ultimate West Coast Warzone 3! this weekend. Results are in for top 8 so far:

1 – Online Tony
2 – McNasty
3 – Mr. Pasadena
4 – Tom Brady
5 – FLoE
5 – Vegeta (Utah)
7 – Filthy Sal
7 – Big Nasty

Congrats to Online Tony on his win.

Now, I’d like to get into some things that I’ve been hearing lately and take the time to fill people in.

It is to my understanding that there are many players who primarily play online and would like to come out to tournaments, however they are preventing themselves from doing so because they feel as if they would be betraying their loyalty to a certain website, or something to that effect. Let me make it clear, the tournaments run by and sponsored by the people from this site and other sites, are not specifically tournaments designated for these sites alone. They are run at larger tournaments, coordinated by people who have nothing to do with this site, other than they support MK at tournaments and allow us to be there in general, and need people to help. No one site has a monopoly on 2D or 3D MK tournaments and by working together, we can raise the turnout attendance considerably. There is, however, more to it than that.

It is true, that for the most part, if it weren’t for the hard work of the staff of UltimateMK.com, there would not have been UMK3, MKII, or any MK tournaments and the games would be completely dead today. That is because for years (even as DarkTemplarZ before we were UltimateMK) we have taken the initiate to rebuild the MK scene and forge a presence in the fighting game community that is respected and sought after. It is because of this hard work that others can step in and help us out where we cannot be. When Tim Static runs a UMK3 tournament at a major or a small SF tournament in Ohio, it helps the scene. When Konqrr runs a side UMK3 tournament at a 3D tournament and introduces the game to new and old players, it helps the scene. When UMK3 debuts at a West Coast major out of nowhere, it helps the scene. When MK comes to Final Round, it will help the scene. When players show up to these tournaments and play, it helps the scene.

When players don’t show up to a tournament minutes from their house out of spite for another website, it doesn’t help the scene. When players talk trash about the offline scene as if they have any influence or authority on it, it doesn’t help the offline scene, and it hurts the online scene. No one is turning their backs on online players or stepping on anyone’s toes by running tournaments. No one needs permission from any one group in the community to run an MK tournament, but don’t expect to arrive and overshadow an existing sponsor (anyone who already puts money, equipment or promotion into a tournament) and run in it in their place.

The online 3D MK players have a scene waiting to be tapped into. I cannot stress it enough that once you go to a real tournament, you have a hard time going back to the online environment, or at least looking at it in the same way. Don’t be afraid to make the transition. There are many a testimonial to the fact and anyone who says that offline is not the standard for a fighting game is living in their own world and quite frankly doesn’t know any better. The fact of the matter is, there are a lot of online players, and they all way recognition. Unfortunately, their status will continue to go unrecognized until they get serious and start making an effort. We are more than willing to work with tournament coordinators to get the 3D community a position to be at a major. We’ve tried to run 3D tournaments in the past, and have been unsuccessful at drawing their audience. In fact there was an MKDA tournament run on the pool tables in the back of University Pinball at NEC3 in 2002, never to be heard from on the east coast again.

A lot of these players don’t realize that most of us have been around a long time. I’ve been playing SF and MK since day one. A number of the great players weren’t even born the first time I myself got beat down in World Warrior. There’s a reason why the tournament scene for all fighting games is bigger than it’s ever been and why there are so many dedicated players to every scene, in every community. SF has many games that are still played, Super Turbo, Marvel, Third Strike, Super 4, HD Remix, Alpha 3 and you still see side tournaments for other games. Why is it that for the last 9 years, the most prevalent MK game has been UMK3? Can’t the other MK games get in on this? We’ve tried and are finally starting to have some success with MKII. We don’t expect there to be tournaments for MKDA, MKD, and MKA, but at least one of them and MKvDC can be represented at tournaments, and this won’t happen unless the players make it happen. When a part of the community reaches an extreme goal, and the turmoil of the rest of the community is what keeps it down, it cannot be an accepted excuse. Suck it up, and take things seriously.

Anyone interested in helping run MK tournaments, feel free to contact me. If anyone wants to know when tournaments are being run, they are always posted at UltimateMK.com, classicmk.com and testyourmight.com. We still spread the news at other sites where players might be interested but just don’t realize there is a community to be a part of and that’s understandable. We just ask, please don’t try to tear down what a lot of us have worked hard to give back to the players who couldn’t be a part of it.

Shock

UltimateMK.com Staff

Krayzie Bone is eager to get some MK games going at Ultimate West Coast Warzone 3, if you’re on the West Coast, this might be a reasonably good chance for you to get some MK action in and prove your skills. The lists are already starting to shape up, let’s hope we can add more.

https://ultimatemk.com/vForum/showthread.php?t=4837

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3:

1. Krayzie Bone – CA
2. Hugo101 – CA
3. Online Tony – CA
4. McNasty – Nevada
5. Offcast(Streamer) – CA
6. GunzaBlaze – CA
7. Tom Brady – VA
8. Rissing – Ok
9. Storms – York, PA ???
10. Darkhood – CA
11. Dammit Rab – CA
12. Sal Says – CA
13. Twztid – CA
14. Shoryuken – CA
15. Wonder Chef – CA
16. Ermac2 – Utah
17. Phantom88 – CA
18. WC-66er – CA
19. WC-Ownage – CA
20. WC-Hitman – CA
21. CoMeBaCk386 – Philly
22. Big[Nasty] – Texas
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MKvsDC:

1. Krayzie Bone – CA
2. Tom Brady – VA
3. Rissing – Ok
4. Storms – York, PA ???
5. Darkhood – CA
6. GunzaBlaze – CA
7. Sal Says – CA
8. Twztid – CA
9. Shoryuken – CA
10. Wonder Chef – CA
11. Marvaz – CA
12. Phantom88 – CA
13. WC-66er – CA
14. WC-Ownage – CA
15. WC-Hitman – CA
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You can register for the tournament and buy shirts at www.necphilly.com. Thanks to Big E for running so many great tournaments all year such as Winter Brawl, Summer Jam, and North East Championships, and providing us with the chance to showcase the MK community. He opened up to us back in 2001, let us do our thing, get the word out, and overall has been a major proponent in rebuilding the UMK3 scene. What started with a random 12 person tournament for UMK3 and an 8 person tournament for MKII at NEC2 in 2001, has slowly become an expected, and respected part of every major tournament Big E runs. We can use the momentum to help the rest of the MK games garner some attention as well, and with the new releases coming soon, we’ll be sure to host some tournaments for them as well.

www.necphilly.com

Videos from The Summit at Summoning’s are going up right now. If anything, watch them to see Phil knock me out of a tournament for the first time, and the massive projector screen we’re playing on. To put it into perspective, the screen you see is about 12 feet from the camera and the characters are around 3 feet high. The finals were played on a UMK3 cabinet and probably should have been the whole night.

http://www.youtube.com/theultimatemk

For whatever reason the Finals got set to private but they aren’t anymore. Check them out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxjhRoAP1Iw

UMK3 list up date and now MKII will begin to have a list as well. I will prepare MKII as soon as a couple more confirmations are made. MKII is slated for Saturday, probably any time since it’s a pure side tournament, $3 entry fee. UMK3 most likely Sunday mid afternoon, $5 entry fee.

UMK3:

1. Shock
2. 9.95
3. Summoning
4. iloveu
5. AC1984
6. SweetJohnnyCage
7. LI MAverick
8. DarkRob
9. Comeback Kyle
10. Julian
11. DreemerNJ
12. BlueIX
13. Kona
14. Flare
15. Steve N.
16. Al Dagod
17. JusDave
18. Malevolencia
19. Juggneetto
20. REO
21. MRIGOTBASS
22. Sans Power
23. Kazi
24. TimStatic
25. STORMS
26. DCIGuy
27. Compy
28. Jeron

MKII: (tentative)

1. Summoning
2. Julian
3. Shock
4. DCIguy
5. Steve N.
6. DreemerNJ
7. Tim Static
8. Comeback Kyle
9. AC1984
10. Compy
11. BlueIX

Originally posted here: Summer Jam in Philly

UltimateMK.com will be hosting UMK3, and possibly MKII tournaments at Summer Jam this year. Mostly like MKII will take place on Saturday as a free side game (or at most a $3 entry fee), and if we have time, maybe a free PSX MK Trilogy Tournament, but that’s just an afterthought for now. Big thanks to Big E, who invites to all the majors he runs and we try to be there as often as we can to ensure a smooth tournament with all the necessary tools is possible for the dedicated players who turn out.

UMK3 will be hosted on Sunday and at the very least the top 3 will be streamed. I’m hoping we can get the semis for at least the losers streamed as well, but we’ll take the Winners Losers and Grand Finals. It will be played on MAME, and projected on our own smaller setup (50″ on the wall) for casuals if there there is room, otherwise, it’ll be run on a TV.

We will supply at least 5 different dedicated UMK3 arcade sticks based on our personal inventory, and at least 2 PSX gamepads. Remember, gamepads are very annoying to configure over and over in MAME when someone wants their shoulder buttons a certain way, so please be prepared to play on a specific configuration. We will try to get that squared away if possible early on, so if you have a specific gamepad you wish to play on that you will use for other games, we will need to configure it and make an additional setup for you. It might be best to try what we supply first and see if it works for you.

Right now, for UMK3 we have at least 16 players expected, with more to come so we’re looking at:

UMK3:

1. Shock
2. 9.95
3. Summoning
4. iloveu
5. AC1984
6. SweetJohnnyCage
7. LI MAverick
8. DarkRob
9. Comeback Kyle
10. Julian
11. DreemerNJ
12. BlueIX
13. Kona
14. Flare
15. Steve N.
16. Al Dagod
17. JusDave
18. Malevolencia
19. Juggneetto
20. REO
21. MRIGOTBASS
22. Sans Power
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If this list holds, we’ll most likely exceed 20 with additional players. If any players are missing from the “likely to be there” list, let me know. If the tournament reaches 32 players, Eric will throw in another $50 to the pot.

We are planning on doing some more casuals on Sunday July 11th, with me, Phil, Rob, and Simon. Hopefully we can perfect the streaming method this time. The time I’m looking at to start no later than 8PM EST and run til midnight the latest. Since we have all day to set up, we should be able to get things started earlier. It will probably be the last time we use ustream before we move to Justintv.

http://www.ustream.tv/user/ultimatemk

http://www.ustream.tv/user/ultimatemk

Approximate start time is 8PM. Shock, 9.95, Dark Rob and LIMaverick represent some more stream testing for UMK3. We’re going to attempt to do direct video feed with a mic or webcam tonight on the players.

It’s looking a lot better. I’m liking sweeps, uppercuts, the jabs, canceling, juggling. Mileena’s roll hits normally from a distance it seems, but the flip it makes them do is like Rain’s MKT Lightning, which is weird, and for some reason they don’t flip when getting hit by the Forceballs, which again I don’t understand. In fact, I don’t know if the Forceballs will be as dominant as they were in UMK3, gotta see more. Sub’s slide making them flip and having juggling properties similar to whatever game that was in previously is a good add for him. Scorp looks to have possibly the forward teleport, air throw definitely, but that stupid ass overhead pop up. If that can’t be blocked low, I’ll say fine, but smashing someone down like a frigging basketball is idiotic. Cage’s counter move looks good, and he gets a jab juggle to flip kick after. XRay supers seem interesting for now. Glad to see a lot of old special moves return like the Ground Freeze, Scissor Takedown, air throws, etc. Not a whole lot of blocking displayed, but it is in there and it looks like the character actually responds to the contact of the hits, where as in the previous games they were plagued by poor collision response during blocking.

That’s it for now, I’ll have more thoughts as I watch more.

1. Joe “iloveu” Ciaramelli
2. Shock
3. AC1984
4. Chin
5. John “SweetJohnnyCage” Gallagher
5. Sci cvs2
7. Alex “blueNINE” Smith
7. Rob “Dark Rob” Schillaci
9. Nose
9. Oscar Camarena
9. Seas of Cheese
13. Jeron “Hiro” Greyson (EMP)

Youtube Videos are going up now at www.youtube.com/theultimatemk