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chunkis

Sup peeps,

Hi my name is Dominic, I am new player on the irish fighting game scene although i am veteran fighting games player. Most of you probably don`t know me so i will just write a few lines about myself.


First of all I was born in Ireland, I lived here until 1999/2000 and then moved to london where i got into the fighting game scene. I started out playing Alpha 3 as my main game, but also touched on games like Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Third Strike, Capcom VS SNK 2 and various other old school fighting games.


I have won quite a few tournaments on various fighting games and have competed in over 400 tournaments world wide, including KSKs third strike ranking battle in Japan and the evolution fighting game championships in the USA. I was briefly sponsored to play games in 2003 by electronics boutique. In 2004 I won a series of tournaments and qualified to be on the UK Team to play against the Japan National Team in the first ever showdown between Europe and Japan. here is a picture taken from Arcadia Magazine which featured a 2 page spread on the event, The photo of Team UK features from left to right, Richard IMX” Williams, Hollis HEAT” Wong, Damien Bon, myself and GeeJay. Team Japan from left to right features RF, Daigo The beast” Umehara, D44-BAS, Ino and Chikyuu.

Since then ive been more of a tournament organiser than a player but now that Street Fighter IV is out ive been considering playing again.


Recently I took part in Uks biggest Street Fighter IV 3 on 3 team tournament and thanks to my amazing team mates Richard IMX” Williams and Ryan The Prodigal son” Hart we took 1st place.

I am currently back and forth between the UK and Ireland but i am here for most of January, i think i will miss the next inferno ranking battle as i will be in the UK that weekend, but hopefully in september i will be studying and living here full time and will become a regular part of the fighting game community here in ireland, for now i would like to introduce myself and hopefully arrange to meet up and play some games.


If there is anything going on within the next week or two please let me know.




Later

Azza

Nice to meet you.

Don't imagine anything happening next weekend. Except for maybe some casuals in the XGC. Just keep an eye on the forums here and you will see annoucements about upcoming Dragonslayer Ranbats (Belfast) and Inferno Ranbats (Dublin) and LanParty.ie SF IV tournaments (Dublin).

Doctor DooM

Your user name is really, really familiar. Have we fought before?


Maybe sonic doom? Or hadoomken?

EDIT: I could have just seen you in a few vids if you've been in such high visibility matches

Dreddybajs

Hey chunkis, savage to see you posting here. Have seen a few vids of you on youtube, would absolutely love to get some games in with you next weekend if you're around!

chunkis

Hi Azza, nice to meet you, i can`t wait to play your bison, he is such a tricky charatcer in this game i look forward to playing against bison as we have no bison players in london.

DOCTOR DOOM, I don`t think we have played before as i don`t play online, but as soon as i do i will be sure to add you.

Dreddybajs, i am here for a while. so you let me know where you guys are at and i will come play anytime.

What is the xgc? Is that like an internet cafe or something?

chunkis

RopeDrink wrote: »

Big welcome to you - Not much to say, really, not part of the tourny/event scene myself and I presume you'll just be another of them filthy console players

Either way, Azza's said it all - All events tend to get posted ASAP here on the Forums for all to see so keep those eyes peeled.

Cool, thanks

Dreddybajs

Yeah, it's a net cafe with an upstairs area that has ps3s/360s, it's where we usually meet up to play. It's on Liffey St. in the city centre (near the ha'penny bridge, just down from pravda and across from games workshop).

A lot of Saturdays we meet up for casuals, I'd be up for it this weekend anyway.

animaX

Hey man, welcome to the forum! Usually some of us will gather in the xgc in dublin city every saturday so you're welcome to come along and teach us a few lessons no doubt

Doctor DooM

*Checks out Chunkis' videos*

Yeah I definitely saw you that way.

Unfortunately we don't have any arcades worth mentioning in dublin so XGC is the best way to go. Works out pretty cheap.

I'll be along this sat if people are heading.

chunkis

Dreedbajs - cool, sounds good.

AnimaX - Thanks, heh, However I am really a beginner on sf4 myself but playing together is the quickest way to get better. If you guys are playing each week i will try to make it down. What time this saturday? I don`t know if i am free, but i will be more than happy to make the trip down, i live in dundalk so its not too far for me.

chunkis

Doctor DooM wrote: »

*Checks out Chunkis' videos*

Yeah I definitely saw you that way.

Unfortunately we don't have any arcades worth mentioning in dublin so XGC is the best way to go. Works out pretty cheap.

I'll be along this sat if people are heading.

How much does it cost to play?

Ken B

Hi Chunkis, if you're about next weekend I'll try to get in for an hour or so and I'll definitely be about for the ranbat in a fortnight. I use Vega and I believe there's a decent vega player in England called Agent Hoy, you might know him...

Doctor DooM

I can't remember the exact costs but it never stretches to more than 5 euro each for 4 hours.

We usually go for a pint or two after if there's a few willing, too.

ayjayirl

Hi Chunkis.

Its always good to have another player who can beat me. I was getting bored of everyone else beating me =p. (I wish I was kidding)

Joking aside, welcome . Since you are from Dublin you probably know where it is but just in case

Upper Liffey St, Dublin 1, Co. Dublin City, Ireland
Link: <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=upper+liffey+street&sll=53.348323,-6.264009&sspn=0.00415,0.011652&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Upper+Liffey+St,+Dublin+1,+County+Dublin+City,+Ireland&ll=53.351294,-6.264052&spn=0.0083,0.023303&z=15&iwloc=A&gt;


Aj

animaX

chunkis wrote: »

What time this saturday?

Generally we'll be there by 2 o clock or a bit earlier and stay till around 6. The console section is upstairs so you can just walk in and up the stairs. Then just listen for the sounds of "tiger, tiger, tiger"!

chunkis

Ken B - yeah agent hoy is very good, I saw him beat the **** out of zak in the 3 on 3 and eliminated his team from the recent the tournament, i didn`t have the pleasure of playing his vega, vega is another character we don`t have in london but i look forward to playing yours.

AYJAYIRL - lol...thanks for the link

ayjayirl

animaX wrote: »

Generally we'll be there by 2 o clock or a bit earlier and stay till around 6. The console section is upstairs so you can just walk in and up the stairs. Then just listen for the sounds of "tiger, tiger, tiger"!

Followed by "Terry Destruction....."

Owwmykneecap

A ha, story horse!

There's a couple of french third stike players moving to dublin for 6 months soon too, unfortunatly without a cab to play on, it'll have to be on a lappy in the xgc.

Sabre0001

Chunkis was also mentioned for his participation in DreamHack DooM - people were trying to figure out if he belonged to us

Welcome! You're in the right spot. Definately check this forum and (I'll do some self-promotion here of course) eSports.ie (and the events calendar). Always good to have more Irish players (even if they're just based here )- if you are competing, know Irish who are or know of an event that has been missed, give me a shout - always good to build the knowledge base

FoamyMushroom

HI hi nice to meet ya! Just wana say your link to a picture isnt showing

You should pop to the XGC for a few games indeed

D4RK ONION

Wow, a real life pro! You're way cooler than DooM! (Changes fan clubs)

(welcome )

Jim

Always great to see another new face. Welcome! I'll be up for casuals this Saturday as well.

FoamyMushroom

is there casuals this week?!

Doctor DooM

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Wow, a real life pro! You're way cooler than DooM! (Changes fan clubs)

(welcome )

Banned.

FoamyMushroom wrote: »

is there casuals this week?!

Yarp, I think so.

K.O.Kiki

I'm bringing BlazBlue, if anyone wants to play. Forgot how easy it is to play.

Placebo

an SF3 opponent? :eek:

Orim

Placebo wrote: »

an SF3 opponent? :eek:

For Doom? :P

Welcome Chunkis. Look forward to seeing you around.

Doctor DooM

Placebo wrote: »

an SF3 opponent? :eek:

Pfft, a total noob bet you in one fight sure

Placebo

i won that tourney

undefeated champion

Ramza

Hey man welcome to the forums! I remember seeing you on the UK 3s road to SBO videos? (or maybe it was someone else?) I also came across a lot of your videos back a long time ago like SvB and I remembering seeing you around NeoEmpire! I used to be a pretty avid follower of the UK scene a long time ago (I know, pretty ironic!) used to talk to/see videos of the guys like Naz, Raju, Rakurai, Ryan Hart etc. I was thinking of going to one of the SvBs one time aswell but never got around to it! Anyway I don't know if you still play 3s or A3 but maybe we could get some games in along with SFIV!

Peace

chunkis

OWWMYKNEECAP - French players? Wow thats cool, i can`t wait to play them, i know a lot of the french third strike players, do you know which ones are coming?


Sabre0001 – Yeah i always try to sign up as an irish player to events, because a lot of people think that i am english so whenever i can fly the irish flag i do, anyway dreamhack was cool, i would recommend it for anybody. I was actually doing a little bit of tv presenting while i was there and featured on live swedish tv, they had me in the studio talkin about ryan and zak as the finals were going on, it was cool to be in the studio and on tv and stuff, but i missed the craic with all the lads when the finals were going on, the guys were giving it loads to the crowd, it was some atmosphere, I can`t wait to go back later this year and i would recommend it to anybody.



Foamymushroom – Sorry but you need to be logged into facebook to see the picture


D4RK ONION – nobody really considers themselves pro, this is just a hobbie, its for fun, sure its nice whenever you win some money or get to travel to nice places, but fighting games isn`t really a professional sport, but a lot of people seem to think that we are professionals, its feels weird when you sign peoples joysticks or appear on tv or anything like that, but we don`t really look at ourselves as pro. Everybody is equal, but some are more equal than others lol. The fighting game community is fun, its fun because you get to meet so many people and travel to different places and enjoy playing games with people who share the same interest as you, its also great because no matter where you come from people treat you equally and thats one of the reasons i really enjoy being apart of the community.




Jim – look forward to playing you


Placebo – yeah i play street fighter 3, do you play it?


HMUYA – Thanks i look forward to playing you.


Ramza – Hi, yeah ive been in a few vids, and i am definitely up for playing anything like 3s or a3! and of course some sf4 lol

Ramza

chunkis wrote: »

Ramza – Hi, yeah ive been in a few vids, and i am definitely up for playing anything like 3s or a3! and of course some sf4 lol

Awesome, can't wait to meet in person, should be cool!

Xinkai

Sup Chunkis you done with London for good now haha

Leprekaun

Welcome to the forum! We're a bunch of arseholes so it'll take a bit of time to get used to us! .


Nah, just messing, we're grand. You'll definitely be an interesting addition to the community as we are pro-less.

I'll make it down this weekend for some casuals anyway. Its been far too long since I've properly played SFIV (although, thanks to Azza, yesterday, I've learnt that my win ratio to him is 1:10 so that isn't any good). So, I main Akuma so who is your main?

chunkis

Xinkai wrote: »

Sup Chunkis you done with London for good now haha

Nah not yet

chunkis

Leprekaun wrote: »

Welcome to the forum! We're a bunch of arseholes so it'll take a bit of time to get used to us! .


Nah, just messing, we're grand. You'll definitely be an interesting addition to the community as we are pro-less.

I'll make it down this weekend for some casuals anyway. Its been far too long since I've properly played SFIV (although, thanks to Azza, yesterday, I've learnt that my win ratio to him is 1:10 so that isn't any good). So, I main Akuma so who is your main?

I don`t have a main character just yet, i play most of the characters equally as bad as each other.

Cunny-Funt

welcome to the forums!! Fantastic to have someone with experience in the bigger London fighting game scene and someone who's travelled and experienced others (a world warrior eh? ......I'll get my coat)

You'll be a valued member of the Irish fighting game community (we're really only getting it going but we're growing fast)

So welcome, and please spread the word to let any other irish players know that there is a scene here

Placebo

Leprekaun wrote: »

Nah, just messing, we're grand. You'll definitely be an interesting addition to the community as we are pro-less.

why u gotta embarrass us?

Doctor DooM

Placebo wrote: »

why u gotta embarrass us?

Can't bring him anywhere.

chunkis

You guys shouldn`t put yourselves down, there is only one difference between ireland and the rest of the world when it comes to fighting games and that is the lack of arcades, if ireland had the arcades everybody else had we would definitely be up there with the best of them.

I go to japan once a year, and you see the same players in the arcades everyday playing 4 or 5 hours a day, this is why those players you see on youtube are that good.

For ireland to become as good as everybody else, we need to start meeting up more regularly than once a week, although meeting up once a week offline is really good, its not enough.

The ranking battles should be as regular as twice a month both in belfast and in dublin, I know a lot of people are busy with work or uni or school, but regular play is the quickest way to get better.

What about the arcades in dublin? I heard DR Quarkys has a bunch of new tekken machines, i think it would be easy enough to convince them to get a street fighter machine considering the amount of players who are interested in the game.

Has anybody ever tried to contact them about getting a Street Fighter IV machine?

Placebo

that place is dodgy, xgc serves us well and since sf4 the scene has rocketed off. We have a some great players as well.
I played sf3 religiously but have not touched it in a while, would love to catch some games, some one will need to bring a laptop.

Doctor DooM

chunkis wrote: »

You guys shouldn`t put yourselves down, there is only one difference between ireland and the rest of the world when it comes to fighting games and that is the lack of arcades, if ireland had the arcades everybody else had we would definitely be up there with the best of them.

I go to japan once a year, and you see the same players in the arcades everyday playing 4 or 5 hours a day, this is why those players you see on youtube are that good.

For ireland to become as good as everybody else, we need to start meeting up more regularly than once a week, although meeting up once a week offline is really good, its not enough.

The ranking battles should be as regular as twice a month both in belfast and in dublin, I know a lot of people are busy with work or uni or school, but regular play is the quickest way to get better.

What about the arcades in dublin? I heard DR Quarkys has a bunch of new tekken machines, i think it would be easy enough to convince them to get a street fighter machine considering the amount of players who are interested in the game.

Has anybody ever tried to contact them about getting a Street Fighter IV machine?

Even when Dublin did have an abundance of arcades Quirkeys had a terrible reputation for not maintaining machines, etc. Barneys was the arcade of choice because you could just walk up to the employees and they'd sort stuff out quick, and would listen to the players. Now it's just slot machines.

Not the mention the fact Quirkey's is a nasty environment in general.

chunkis

All valid points, but i have a few things to say about that. Anyway i gota go talk to you guys later.

D4RK ONION

chunkis wrote: »

For ireland to become as good as everybody else, we need to start meeting up more regularly than once a week, although meeting up once a week offline is really good, its not enough.

This is all well and good for those in concentrated areas of SF players, but I'm pretty much Clare/the west's only player, and I don't think there is much of a community here. I'll be in Dublin for the next ranbat, but it's a bit of a journey with work and college it's difficult getting up.

Doctor DooM

D4RK ONION wrote: »

This is all well and good for those in concentrated areas of SF players, but I'm pretty much Clare/the west's only player, and I don't think there is much of a community here. I'll be in Dublin for the next ranbat, but it's a bit of a journey with work and college it's difficult getting up.

Move to Dublin.


Problem solved.

Doctor DooM

chunkis wrote: »

All valid points, but i have a few things to say about that. Anyway i gota go talk to you guys later.

Genuinely look forward to hearing them.

Retr0gamer

Over drinks I hope

Ramza

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Not the mention the fact Quirkey's is a nasty environment in general.

Yeah, I think people would prefer going to XGC (or any other better arcade for that matter)

Doctor DooM

Ramza wrote: »

Yeah, I think people would prefer going to XGC (or any other better arcade for that matter)

Yeah, if there was a nice arcade in the city I'd prob already be popping in and out once or twice a week.

chunkis

I agree that the arcade can sometimes be a very unfriendly place to visit, especially when you have a bunch of scumbags who just go there to cause trouble, londons biggest arcade the Trocadero had this problem for many years and still has its fair share of trouble making teenagers that go there, but nobody ever causes trouble around the games, i can`t imagine too much happening in dublin, there is also the maintenance of the machines which most establishments seem to neglect, which trocadero was also guilty of, but we came together and ended up buying our own sticks and buttons for the machines, and that worked out just fine, sure its a bit annoying to buy the sticks and buttons as well as having to play to play, but thats what we did.

Anyway having street fighter 4 in an open environment has many advantages, players can go and play anytime of the day and don`t need to arrange to meet up, also in such a good location like central dublin an arcade would attract a lot more players into the scene, alot of students come here from overseas and if there was arcade for them to visit i am sure that these players would find there way into the community, i see it happen in london all the time, students come to study. and sometimes if your lucky enough you end up with top players from other countries who might spend 1-3 years studying and playing games, but without an arcade these players can come and go without even knowing the is scene for fighting games, having an arcade allows these players to get in touch more easily and become apart of the community.

For example, i am irish and i didn`t know anything about you guys until recently, thats how how hard our community is to find, we need to change that.

I think having an arcade with street fighter 4 in dublin would change the scene here completely, there is no reason why dublin shouldn`t have a street fighter 4 machine, especially from what i hear about dr quarkys having 3 or 4 brand new tekken 6 machines in linbergh cabinets. It would be easy enough for them to put sf4 in one of those cabinets.

Anyway it would definitely be worth looking into.

chunkis

D4RK ONION wrote: »

This is all well and good for those in concentrated areas of SF players, but I'm pretty much Clare/the west's only player, and I don't think there is much of a community here. I'll be in Dublin for the next ranbat, but it's a bit of a journey with work and college it's difficult getting up.

Its not easy living in a place with no competition, i guess for players like you online is one of the only options, and also travelling whenever you can to play, a lot of respect goes out to players like yourself, its not easy living in the middle of nowhere and having nobody to play. But online play these days is very good and i would recommend it to anybody who lives out in the sticks lol. My friend ryan was living in germany when street fighter 4 came out and the only competition he had was through online play and occasionally playing offline whenever he could, but its definitely good enough to learn how to play and get to a decent level, but nothing beats offline play.