The *Official* Pittsburgh Melee Weeklies Thread of the LoL WoW Love

[A-Laon]

I thought you were supposed to call me .

I guess its getting late now, and if we were to play, i dont think we'd be able to play till a late time. Idk, when's pound vs. when is the next possible event before pound?

Taki, since you seem to be the least priviledged with transportation, do you think we (Me, Rob, Evan) could meet up at your place Friday / over the weekend? I'm sort of speaking for everyone, but I personally would very likely have a ride and the others have their own cars, so it looks like it could work out quite nicely if you could host.

Nail -- I could be up for that if enough people are interested. The more to do over the summer, the better.

..but ftr, Blackjack > Poker, especially since I card count.

 

[Nakamaru]

Hey, I hate to take away from one of the weeklies, but I have a graduation party at my house on Saturday, June 23rd. Ill have my plasma screen dedicated to Gears or Halo, and probably 2 TVs for smash. Also, a poker tournament, pool, food. I would like to have a SSBM tournament, like $5, double elimination, paying percentages to top 3 or so. But I'd need you guys to come, because of the local people, none of them would pay to play SSBM, because they suck. I live about an hour south of Pittsburgh, and its 51 all the way.
Address:

104 Vernon Ave
Belle Vernon 15012

EDIT: Oh yea, its starting at 2

Halo or halo 2...

If its halo 2 im there... plus... You graduated!? O.o I thought you were like a sophmore. .__.

 

[Na!l]

@Alan, if I can find someone willing to be the house (AKA, lose lots of money) then we can play blackjack, but its holdem
@Naka, yea, its Halo 2, i edited that into the post. And yea, I'm a senior

 

[Nakamaru]

I'll be there. If you have two TVs we can use for halo 2 then maybe we can do teams.

 

[takieddine]

Friday will probably not work, because I have work , so we'd have to get this thing started pretty late (at least for my liking).

Saturday, is up in the air right now. The family is out on a picnick(spelling?) and they'll force me to go, or just wont let me host anything while they're gone.

I'll ask and see, if not, I thought Boothunder is host something this Friday. can Evan+rob make it that day?

 

[__HARM__]

i could probally make it friday and own some nubsauce. ATTENTION: corey has been playing lately and i think he has made a comeback to smash. His peach is really nasty.

 

[pockyD]

why would you play blackjack for cash? (for that matter, why play blackjack at all? it's BORING and mostly just a formulaic math game x.x)

just have a buyin, give everyone the same starting amount of chips, and the last man standing wins

 

[Na!l]

just have a buyin, give everyone the same starting amount of chips, and the last man standing wins

For blackjack? If you mean for poker, thats what we're doing, but depending on the number of people who play, i'd like to pay the top 5.

@Naka, we might beable to use 2 TVs for Halo, but I dont know if you would want to, the TV is 60" And getting a TV in that same room would be tough.

 

[pockyD]

i think you have your logic backwards

poker is suitable for a cash game style (which is what you seemed to imply that you wanted to do for a blackjack game) where people take each others' money directly

this doesn't work for blackjack at all, where a tournament style is the only real viable way to have a competition (none of the players play against each other; it's a step up from comparing tetris hi-scores)

 

[A-Laon]

Friday will probably not work, because I have work , so we'd have to get this thing started pretty late (at least for my liking).

Saturday, is up in the air right now. The family is out on a picnick(spelling?) and they'll force me to go, or just wont let me host anything while they're gone.

Very well.

Rob / Evan: either of your places available this Friday / weekend?

picnic*

ATTENTION: corey has been playing lately and i think he has made a comeback to smash. His peach is really nasty.

Whatever you say Mr. Secrets of Smash.

why would you play blackjack for cash?

Because it has the greatest winning odds for the player out of all casino games.

Dale: Then whats his main?

Roy.

 

[pockyD]

Because it has the greatest winning odds for the player out of all casino games.

but that's a preposterous reason to play among a group of friends, where the goal is to get the greatest enjoyment

also, as a group, there is no money to be made; whose money are you taking exactly?

and did i mention BORING?

poker is just way better; even mediocre games like hearts are better

it is almost trivial to simply write a computer program that plays blackjack and can break even; impossible to say the same type of thing for the better card games

 

[A-Laon]

but that's a preposterous reason to play among a group of friends

Yes, which is why it was in response to the question of why one would play it "for cash."

 

[D20]

So, how was Smashtality?

 

[Renth]

Naka Battle of the bands is 10 if you buy a ticket 15 if you pay at the door, i'll probably pay at the door but if you want a ticket you've got to let me know.

Also, i'm super rusty someone should pick me up and let me stay with them for a week or two lol i'm good i promise =)

 

[pockyD]

Yes, which is why it was in response to the question of why one would play it "for cash."

i think you're just intentionally trying to piss me off by completely ignoring the context of the argument and it's working

no one in their right mind would play a blackjack cash game at anywhere but a dedicated gambling environment (casino or cardroom basically)

 

[* Tha Judg3 *]

main i so wished i can go to one of these ...... so many tourneys in the east it makes the other states look bad......

 

[Mogwai]

Pocky's right, but the truth of the matter is the Bridge is just better than either blackjack or poker, so everyone should play Bridge. Also, Forward's Sheik and Falco are both totally hot and amazing and everything I want my Sheik and Falco to be

 

[pockyD]

DID YOU KNOW:

forward counterpicked chu-dat's ice climbers with sheik on pokemon stadium

and won

fun stuff, videos will be up within the hour

edit: yeah bridge rocks... we should play bridge at pound

i know we've been wanting to play since freshman year lol -_- so long ago

 

[A-Laon]

i think you're just intentionally trying to piss me off by completely ignoring the context of the argument and it's working

Actually, I had just made a friendly, out-of-context remark (which I used a smiley to stress) towards Na!l with the soul purpose of expressing my personal preference of gambling game. I never suggested that BJ should replace Poker as a friendly game, and when you had questioned why I'd play BJ "for cash," I took that as if you were talking about serious gambling.

Simple misunderstanding... not something to get upset about.

 

[takieddine]

Holy hell, Alaaoon(french acccent) stop being so rediculous.

So Cory knows the secret of smash too? Evan you shouldnt tell it to anymore people man, I thought it was a secret. Next time I know the rob$ look-alike from cybercon is gonna pwn me, just cause he knows the secret. ::

 

[A-Laon]

Holy hell, Alaaoon(french acccent) stop being so rediculous.

So Cory knows the secret of smash too? Evan you shouldnt tell it to anymore people man, I thought it was a secret. Next time I know the rob$ look-alike from cybercon is gonna pwn me, just cause he knows the secret. ::

You know me better than that.

And I swear on my life, if Evan isn't making a characteristically huge exaggeration, I demand a $50 mm with Corey. Just gotta watch he doesn't own on my washed up Falco.

 

[Nakamaru]

@Nail
--If you have room for another TV just IM me. I believe you have my IM name: llxeell
I can bring one. I can also help you run tournament stuff if you need the help.

 

[Mogwai]

Alan. . . BJ !=(does not equal) blackjack. I read that post and got very confused for a second -_-'.

 

[A-Laon]

Hey Naka... where the hell you been recently? We need to smash again sometime soon.

 

[Nakamaru]

I've been living in my ditch, and finaly out of school. Now i'm on to finding a job. Fun fun in the sun.

We really do have to play again soon. Hopful i can make it/host a weekly so i can get some play in this summer.

 

[A-Laon]

My place is always open if you're ever interested. I'm trying to get Taki / Rob / Evan over on some occasion as well, so you could catch one of those.

 

[Na!l]

@Naka-If you want to run a Halo tournament, go for it. Im not sure how much smash or video games ill be playing at all. Ill be bouncing around the house all night, because people will want to talk to me, and pictures...all that fun >_> Ill play a few matches here and there. I can tell you that Scooter, Mike Perry, and maybe Dale will play in a Halo tournament, maybe Kevin too. They're all pretty good at it.

Taking a second look at it, we will have no room for two TVs. But you shouldnt have too much of a problem 2v2ing on 1 huge TV. Though ive never 2v2d on Halo. Infact, ive played maybe 8 matches total on it.

SSBM tournament, ill need some help with too, because I dont know how to design double elimination brackets.

I would like more of you guys to come, it would make $$ tourneys more interesting. You dont have to bring anything.

 

[__HARM__]

tournament? if theres a $ tourny i will be there.

 

[Na!l]

Hey, I hate to take away from one of the weeklies, but I have a graduation party at my house on Saturday, June 23rd. Ill have my plasma screen dedicated to Gears or Halo 2, and probably 2 TVs for smash. Also, a $5 buy in poker tournament, pool, food. I would like to have a SSBM tournament, like $5, double elimination, paying percentages to top 3 or so. But I'd need you guys to come, because of the local people, none of them would pay to play SSBM, because they suck. I live about an hour south of Pittsburgh, and its 51 all the way.
Address:

104 Vernon Ave
Belle Vernon 15012

EDIT: Oh yea, its starting at 2

yea, this thing here. I would like to have a $ tourney, but there wont be a lot of people in it unless some of steel city comes.

 

[o.Odyssey.o]

I could come, I only live 3 counties away.

 

[Na!l]

its possibly that you only live 2 counties away, because my house is in fayette county, but its 3 blocks from westmorland county

 

[Nakamaru]

I ment help with the smash tournament. You kinda need a large number of people to do a Halo tournament. I'll just be playing people from time to time. Just let me know when you need to run the smash tournament and i'll get you the brackets.

 

[pockyD]

nail you can just use this to run tournaments

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=90655

does brackets, round robins, etc.

 

[Na!l]

Nice, but the download link isn't working. Naka, ill be in and out of the basement playing, but once we have all the smash players here, ill tell you so we can start. Id like to get that done, because theres like...3 other partys from my school that day.

 

[cowboyardee]

A CAUTIONARY TALE:

I picked up my controller and plugged in my GC for a few minutes yesterday. It's been a while. Picked marth. Tried dashdancing. It was hard. Tried wavedashing. It was hard. Tried shffling. It was hard.

Then I tried wd back to a shffl fair, spotdodge into dashdance grab.
I was concentrating so hard, I peed on myself.


Just a tiny little bit. Like a few drops, max. Still.

Hope all you pgh people are doing well. And if any of you haven't played for awhile, don't wear the nice new pants your girlfriend just bought you.

 

[takieddine]

ROFL...

I lol'd!

 

[A-Laon]

Cowboy for president.

 

[Na!l]

@Cowboy HAHAHA

Hey, i just realized, Naka, ur the only person whos real name i dont know....unless Naka is your real name. In that case, sorry.

 

[SwiftBass]

hey can someone list whose goign to pound from pitts? I keep forgetting

 

[D20]

Right now it's Alan, Evan, and myself for sure... maybe Taki.