MNM VII: Old Guard & New Blood Semi-Finals This SATURDAY!
By wapcaplets– January 15, 2013
There are two amazing semi-final games going on this weekend. The winners of each will be representing the absolute best of their respective divisions and will go on to face each other for the championship! No, I’m not referring to the NFL Conference Championship games, I am referring to the semi-finals for Monday Night Monster VII! Both of these games will be going out live on Vassal. I encourage everyone who wants to see some amazing Monsterpocalypse games to tune in.
Game 1: The New Blood (Saturday, January 19th @ 10:00 AM Central / 11:00 AM Eastern)
Louis Brenton (Mega Voltron) vs. VolkenVaderland (Ultra Zor-Voltis) – In a cross-oceanic conflict Louis Brenton (AKA “The Sinister Minister”) will take on international man of mystery VolkenVaderland. Louis is a die-hard Voltron player and will be piloting his beloved Pentamorph against one of the best monsters, on paper, in the game. Volk is relatively new to the game but has grown & improved in leaps & bounds. This should be quite the tilt!
Game 2: The Old Guard (Saturday, January 19th @ 12:30 PM Pacific / 3:30 PM Eastern)
Scott Williams (Mega Mucustos) vs. Marcus Utley (Ultra Tyrannix) – I’ll squeeze in one last pro-wrestling reference and say that this match is like Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI. I don’t know about the rest of you guys but I feel like Jesse Ventura leading up to this event being completely indecisive as to who I think will win this match. One thing that both Scott and Marcus have in common is that they play virtually flawlessly. I can’t wait to see how this turns out.
Join The Back-Channel!
Something I’d like to do for both of these games is have an environment where people can talk to each other. I will set up separate Webex sessions for each game wherein people can call in (with a telephone) or Skype in (assuming you’ve purchased Skype credit to call to an external number) and talk to one another while these awesome games are going on. Webex has a little more “oomph” to its infrastructure and can handle multiple callers much better than Skype. If you’d be interested in joining this back-channel please PM me an e-mail address to which I can send a Webex invitation.
I’m Ultra Voltis – Israel was Mega Macross
Fixed!
Sooo…with the Ultimate Warrior vs. Hulk Hogan analogy, are you saying:
(A) Scott & Marcus’s game is staged
(B) Scott wears make-up, rainbow-coloured tassles and only his underwear while playing
(C) Marcus only has a six-pack in his photos, but not in real life
(D) The attending audience will be rednecks?
The answer is B. I will also snap into a Slim Jim during the match.
Now for everyone who’s met Scott in person – VIZUALISE IT! SEE THE IMAGE IN YOUR HEAD!
That’s actually what he was wearing when I met him at MonCon last year.
I would give a million bucks to see that.
The Warrior/Hogan analogy is perfect. I’m confident that even if I do get past Mike, it will just be so I can get my head stomped in by a true pro.
Just a friendly heads up about the newest Vassal mod. I started looking into Vassal 3.2.2 and when I tried it, the maps don’t render. I can see all the other pieces and go through the log file, but the Map stays black. In the 3.1.20 version it works fine. There were a lot of changes in the new version so things may need to be fixed in the MonPoc Vassal module before it works with the latest Vassal engine.
“The Sinister Minister”??!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!(seriously, I laughed for a long time)
Man, I’ve been doing this for 21 years, & I’ve never heard that one…where has that title been all my life??