Absolute Guard

We went a bit long today, but it was worth it! NinjaNam joins Benny and Jon to discuss his fighting game career, and sheds some light on the world of commentary in the FGC. We also grabbed some drinks for this episode, maybe that's why we went long!

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In our third "Drinks" episode, Benny and Jon bust out iced teas and IPAs to go meta as we chat about the origins of our podcast and Benny's flight school experience. We also reflect on fightsticks in the SF4 era.

What's the latest story? Jon and Benny sit down with investigative blogger KingHippo of themsfightingwordsblog.com to go over his competitive history in Arizona and his experience with the Netherrealm Studios games (MK9-11, Injustice 1+2), as well as history as a blogger and some of the waves he's made in the national scene. We also touch lightly on NFTs and the new Tekken and Street Fighter news from the past few days.

Jon and Benny sit down with Driftwood, a TO and SF4 top player, to go through his history with the Arizona fighting game community, and his contributions as a tournament organizer. We also chat a little about the parallels between fencing and fighting games.

In this episode, Jon and Benny sit down with FrankAZHP, the founder of AZHP, to learn about the organization's origins and history woven throughout the AZ FGC. We also talk about the different audiences that a tournament can cater to, and offer a variety of perspectives on the role of a TO.

Roch Kiss has entered the room, and he had next! Jon and Benny discuss Roch's competitive history and a bit of his mindset as a player. Then, all three of us discuss the history of Hitbox locally and weigh in on its legitimacy in competitive play in 2022.

Note: There are some audio glitches due to connection issues throughout this recording. 

Jon and Benny chat with Dragon Ninja about his fighting game origins all the way to his power combination of top player and community TO. We also discuss DOA at length, its F2P model and the impact of the end of developer support on a modern community.

In our second "Drinks" episode, Benny and Jon continue with the 1:1 chats over drinks. Tune in as we reminisce on our origins as tournament organizers in the Arizona Fighting Game Community, and advice to new aspiring TOs in 2022.

We listened! Our most-requested guest, SabreAZ joins Benny and Jon with a high-level retrospective of his competitive fighting game career, and his experience at Evo 2022.

In the first of our new "Drinks" mini-episodes, Benny and Jon chat 1:1 about topics with our beverages of choice. Both of them had some stories to share from their past weekend, with Benny attending GameOn Expo in Phoenix and Jon attending Evo in Las Vegas.