Tekken UK Major

I attended the biggest Tekken tournament in the uk this year which was held in london (aug 17th) and it was awesome! Competitors from all over the UK attended and even as far as europe (sweden) which told you it was as the title suggested; a "Major" event.

What i like about the hosts (360GAMINGUK) is that the owner (joe) creates mini events before and after the start of main event to get the players and community hyped and give unheard players a chance to prove there worth.

The main event did take longer then planned to start but once it got started it was hoyyypee!
The finals was as tense as ever. People were rooted for the underdog moments of  game-breaking silence occurred and leaned forward off their seats in hope. It was that tense.

After the main event there were a couple of extra events where people were give chances to win prizes. Me and my team beat team sweden who were really formidable opponents.

The tourney i feel should've been cheaper if not free for spectators. That way the venue would've been filled with a lot more and have a mix of audiences as well as sex's. Nonetheless 360GAMINGUK still pulled off a great show.

To me the major showed how united us, the Tekken community are when we all have the same intentions. To play Tekken and have fun. We are most definable heading in a positive direction.

Rather than a tourney; the vibe to me was positive and very social. Everyone was enjoying speaking, meeting  each other and just having good games. It was a success!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdvmBESftRA

The H.O.G: London SVB event (sat) 2013

SVB is a pretty huge video game tourney event hosted in london every year. I heard that it was happening at The Heart of Gaming ( a place where i usually go to meet some friends and play some vidyagamess!!) and i was pretty much free Saturday so i decided to check it out.

The moment i walked in i was amazed at the turnout. Never in my time at the H.O.G (since its grand opening) have i seen so many people there. Especially due to the late announcement of SVB.The games were announced like a day b4 the event but that didn't stop the hoard of gamers. I was looking for space to play, lol and baffled at the amount of people there so early but we all had the same intentions i guess. To have fun playing games and enjoy it offline with the people around us.

The influx of players were mainly from the super smash bro's community as a smash bro's tourney was hosted on the day.I never knew there was such a huge smash bro's community to be honest. They made other fighting game communities (persona 4 arena, tekken, blazblue etc) look like a friends last minute get together where no one really turns up in the end. Not to say that the communities in the brackets are inferior; they just still have some shaping and moulding to be done.

As the day went by i started to see a lot more women coming in and jamming on a 3ds, eating, playing dance games etc without any signs of uncomfortableness. It was purely GENUINE. It's good to see that woman aren't gonna leave all the fun to the guy's and quite refreshing.

All in all it was a very hectic, fun day. Got some great sleep after the day was over :),

Filming @ Hyper Japan (July) 2013

Since i was busy on friday i decided to go to the London Hyper Japan event on saturday. I still didn't know all the capabilities of my camera and my stabilizer but i couldn't miss this opportunity to put my tools as well as myself to the test.

My main objective was to find awesome cosplayers to film for a cosplay vid i have been planning on creating for a while now. There were a lot more cosplayers than i expected there since the event isn't a cosplay event but a japanese culture event but how i was wrong.
So many awesome cosplay's for my camera to go to town with. So much variety and striking costumes.I couldn't miss out on filming any.
 
In the early hours of filming i also bumped into Queens of Winn's videographer Nathaniel. Queens of Winn are a well known team who film cosplay events here in london. I have been watching their vids for a while now. Even before i started videography.Nathaniel is the videographer of Queens of Winn so he isn't seen the vids much. I spotted a dude with similar equipment to me and we were like twins; equipment wise, hahaha. I only knew who he was when he pulled out the Queen of winn business card. He gave me a lot of vital advice and tips on how to become a better videographer which was really cool of him.

You can see there cosplay vid of the day here:

The Saturday event actually became so packed that they didn't let people back in. Even if they payed! That was the scale of how many peepz were there.It was hype yo!

Here are mine:

I still have a lot of improving to do but i will get there!