Yes...THIS is what we need. Activity, conversations that don't take two week hiatus', money matches, **** talk, practicing as individual regions to flex our strength at tournaments (CBus has always been an amazing central location for everyone to duke it out...shoutouts to AlphaZealot's tournaments), organizing ahead of time to make traveling as an entire state possible for people of all financial statuses and rolling deep onto other peoples' turf (I'll tell you right now that I can drive as many as three extra people OoS for a reasonable price as long as people make it up to NEOH via bus or whatever other means).
Back in the day Cinci was the place to beat, no question about it. With the rise of the original God Kais, Kel, Overswarm, and the abundance of other players that were rising from the ground up...I wanted nothing more than to travel down with Beegs, both of us all practiced up, and rep myself/NEOH by taking out the biggest names in the state at the time. Going last hit with Y.b.M. when he came to Test Your Might, repeatedly getting stomped but slightly less so each time by Infern's wacky style, going even with Smash64 in friendlies, holding my own against Overswarm's MK the very first time I played him at Wings and Brew, beating AZ for the very first time at that same tournament, meeting every single one of you...becoming acquaintances with some, friends with others, comrades, adversaries, rivals, there are a lot of experiences I've had with all of you (and that's not even counting my time with Melee beforehand) and I'm not quite ready for it all to come to a halt. I KNOW Ohio has life left. I KNOW Ohio has a lot of potential in our players that has yet to be unlocked. I KNOW we all still secretly have that hunger to take back our place as the strongest location in the region...the place to be in all of the MW, and eventually...even somewhere the other stupidly stacked regions could take seriously. I'm not ready for it all to end and I will start by making NEOH one hell of a hot spot to visit. I was the hungriest, most obnoxiously driven mutha****er in the state back then and I'm BACK with a vengeance to fight for the throne (I'm looking at YOU Shugo and Kel). Then I'm coming for YOU Michigan. Let's all get ****ing HYPE, and let's make **** happen!
2013...we in there Ohio.