Over the weekend I attended a tournament in Orlando called Arcade Renaissance Tournament. It's a fighter tournament held annually for gamers in various fighting games. This year was no different from the last when it comes to exciting competition and spectacular comebacks. The games that were all on show were the following:

Guilty Gear AC
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Capcom vs SNK 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Super Smash Brothers Brawl

Tekken 6, Virtua Fighter, and KOF were unavailable due to a low entry count. I would have loved to see the Tekken players, but it's so new in the states not many people are confident to play it in tournament play. The biggest crowd this year was no surprise, SSBB had a total of 48 people enter in the brackets. Guilty Gear was second with 27. And, CvS2 with 18 coming in third.

Smash Bros.- All eyes were on Super Smash Brawl making its first appearance at Arcade Renaissance.

Super Smash Bros. is a great money maker for tournaments. The entry for Smash alone paid for the rooms fee for the hotel. The Smash community is so different from the rest of the fighting games. The crowd is a bit more docile and quiet when playing. It took people from the MvC2 bunch to bring cheering and applauding for the winners and losers (Oh boy, the MvC2 crowd booed the losers, lol). Personally, I find watching Smash really boring, and most people there did too, but the hype crowd really kept us in the moment.

Whenever I know Guilty Gear is being held at some event, I always expect some crazy ish to happen. This was no different. GG has the weirdest crowd of people I have ever meet in my life. It's like Walt Disney himself draw these characters, and send them off to Guilty Gear events. There were heated discussion over pancakes vs. waffles...Seriously, a fight almost broke out due to some disagreement about pancakes. However, GG event was pretty exciting. Turns out to be on of my personally favorites throughout the tournament.

Guilty Gear - Hate'em or Love'em, these guys are passionate about their game. I just wish they use deodorant before they leave the house...

CvS2- Intense...Very Intense.

3S - Big games for the Big Screen. One of the best battles in the whole event was in Street Fighter 3.

Finally, MvC2, 3S, and rest of the fighters all had their share of glory during the long exhausted day. Overall, a great day and people enjoy themselves. People from, Tampa, Maimi, Tallahassee and many other places around Florida came to this event. It's always great to see gamers come together and socialize with each other in person. Nothing against online, but meeting friends and getting tips on games in person is best for any community of gaming. Next fighting event I plan on attending is Ashburn, VA on May 23rd. The legendary Justin Wong, and many other veterans of tournament fighting will be there. Then after that it's EVO, BABY!!!!! Missed last year due to work, but this year I request those days off way in advance. I luv Vegas...Anyways, if you ever want to come to Arcade Renaissance please visit http://forums.shoryuken.com/ and look for the section tournaments and events. there you can look for Orlando tournaments or even tournaments near your hometown. Peace!!!

Two dope boyz in a cadillac! Yes, this is my high school album. The Source robbed them from 5 mics on this album ( don't worry they got back on the next album: Aquemini). From the Intro to the remix this album is 100% c1assic. While people were playing Master P click, Wu-tang, Biggie, Nas, and Pac I was bumping this to school. Actually, if they heard this album chances are it was coming from my car. "Is that Atliens? Yeah, Tee must drove up..." I'm an Outkast when it comes to anything. My philosophy comes from Andre verse:

If I gotta, my alta mater be that I follow/ I bite whatever that's looking tasty, water it down then swallow/
I hope you vomit, won't call no names cause that's not my job/ It just applies to whom it may concern you know who you are.

Anyways, this is a must-buy album if you never heard it before. Even if you don't like "rap" this album is still good. It's Outkast the guys who brought you "Hey, Ya" and "B.O.B" These guys are artisit. Not your everyday studio rapper with a budget. I also suggest picking up their first album "Southerplayalisticadillacmuzik." If you liked The Chronic, you'll like this album, also.

Andre3000 is the best rapper alive. Big Boi is in the top 10.

All you gotta do is just walk away and pass me by
Dont acknowledge my smile when I try to say hello to you, yeah
And all you gotta do is not answer my calls when
Im trying to get through
To keep me wondering why, when all I can do is sigh
I just wanna touch you

[chorus]
I just wanna touch and kiss
And I wish that I could be with you tonight
You give me butterflies inside, inside and i

All I gotta say is that I must be dreaming, cant be real
Youre not here with me, still I can feel you near me
I caress you, let you taste us, just so blissful listen
I would give you anything baby, just make my dreams come true
Oh baby you give me butterflies

[chorus]
I just wanna touch and kiss
And I wish that I could be with you tonight
You give me butterflies inside, inside and i
I just wanna touch and kiss
And I wish that I could be with you tonight
You give me butterflies inside, inside and i

If you would take my hand, baby I would show you
Guide you to the light babe
If you would be my love, baby I will love you, love you
til the end of time

[chorus]
I just wanna touch and kiss
And I wish that I could be with you tonight
You give me butterflies inside, inside and i
I just wanna touch and kiss
And I wish that I could be with you tonight
You give me butterflies inside, inside and i
I just wanna touch and kiss
And I wish that I could be with you tonight
You give me butterflies inside, inside and i

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfWV9i5yBJ0

Definitions:
I. By best, I mean the highest quality of an attribute.
II. By favorite, I mean an attribute that is best based on personal preference.

Axioms:
I. To determine the highest quality of products, skills, and substances their must be a criteria.
II. The criteria must be factual. It would be absurd to set it on untested thought.
III. Criteria must be universal. If not, then it's nothing more than personal judgement.

Propositions:
I. In order for something to be the best, there must be a lesser.
Proof. - If it is best to have money, then it would be lesser to have none. These two factors are symmetrical of each other. For that you can't have one without the other. Q.E.D
II. Favorite is an substance in itself. No need to have a criteria.
Proof. - For that we love what our soul is moved by and that what moves the soul is infinite, we don't need a defined reason to love something.
Corollary. - Hence why someone can love chocolate ice cream, and another loves vanilla ice cream.

Notes:
I wrote this post based on the fallacy in System Wars. Many topics about "best *** **** ever" becomes a "favorite *** **** ever". Many people will say Halo is the best FPS of all time. Well, what makes it the best? What is the criteria? Is it best graphics? That goes to Crysis. For story, music, and gameplay we must set criteria for them first. What makes the 360's library the best? The triple A system? But, the triple A system is based on opinions. The same opinions that can be easy influenced by dollar amount from an advertising company. Even in a justified world the triple A system is still invalid. Their opinionated reviews are based on their favorites(Prop. II). Their is no such thing as " the best game" unless you set a criteria. Many professional analysts based their criteria on sales. Sales are factual statements that can be proving unlike reviews... If you going to say something is the best, then you better have an argument to back it up and not IMO...