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Post by NSL on Sept 12, 2018 9:27:50 GMT
Jeremiah McCoy: (Greets the press with a smirk as he arrives at the backstage area) Light 'em up! *Chuckles* Y'see, for as long as I been a McCoy born and bred, and my feet nestled above the blessed Bluegrass, one thing is clear: Kentucky knows how to win. Look at UK Wildcat basketball. Ain't no team ever made it to more Sweet 16s in the Big Dance than 'em.
And yea, I'm in the Sweet 16 of the 49th now after I beat ol' Michigan's Man. Griner had the gear to go folkstyle, he shoulda went folkstyle. *Pauses for a thought* Y'know what? It wouldn't have mattered, he wasn't catching up with my Run n' Gun. *shrugs, laughs it off*
Representin' Kentucky is something to be proud of, but my McCoy bloodline is what I fight for. Watch me next time out. |
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Post by Firehawk on Sept 12, 2018 20:35:41 GMT
The third round hits tonight, 5:30 Pacific as usual. I've settled on Saturday for the finals, as well. The intention is to run it at the usual time but I might actually start early, because we'll have eight matches plus a Rumble to get through that night (4 quarters, Internet Championship, 2 semis, Rumble, final). And with the Rumble being a 70-man affair, even at 150% speed, well... it's a long one. Just a bit. But tonight, round three, the sweet 16. The end's in sight and we're ready to hit it hard. Reposting the card for tonight for a new page in the thread:
Exhibition: Newfie George vs Sione Tuputala
Ribbit vs. Alan Wright
Allison Avery vs. Jeremiah McCoy
Anthony Kalb vs. Tia Summers
Hypnosia vs. Johnny Morris
Exhibition: Yoshi Tayaki vs Kevin Royce
Lucien Freeman vs. Kira D'Amon
Cecilia Laurence vs. Danger Daniels
Val Morgan vs. Selene Ciel
Geese Walker vs. Georgia Eagles |
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Post by Firehawk on Sept 13, 2018 0:14:05 GMT
Starting in about 15 minutes. You know the place.
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Post by Firehawk on Sept 13, 2018 2:33:19 GMT
The end is in sight. The third round has wrapped up, and the bracket finals have been decided. Only one show remains. Twitch: www.twitch.tv/videos/309399184Youtube: youtu.be/ug_PjETlrRwResults  A pretty solid, hard brawl to open things up tonight. Newfie George showed that maybe he just got caught off guard by Val Morgan last time out... he looked like a serious threat again here, and took out Tuputala convincingly.  Alan Wright continues what may be a dark horse run for the finals. He pulled off a solid win here against Ribbit, ending her improbable run, and perhaps set himself up for a major clash in the bracket final...  While Allison managed to take out Mr. Moonsault last time, she couldn't keep up with McCoy here tonight, getting outplayed in the end and eating a big Spanish Fly, bringing the run of the last Phoenix Rising participant to a close. McCoy looked just as tough as ever here, and could be headed even deeper, now.  Kalb's run finally comes to a close here, but he didn't make it easy on the Alaskan, who had to do quite a bit to keep him down. The Outsider bracket final begins to take shape... and Summers may have her hands full come Saturday.  Allison beating Mr. Moonsault was an upset. This? This was seemingly IMPOSSIBLE. But it's happened: Johnny Morris suffering maybe the biggest upset in the entire tournament, as Hypnosia stuns the Texan and moves on to the Western bracket final. Absolutely unreal.  At the insistence of Royce, this match was contested under "Evergreen rules". Which meant, basically, there weren't any. Weapons strewn about the ring, no countouts, no DQs... and nothing but a wild hardcore brawl from the owner of Evergreen and an AAW mainstay. Tayaki pulled off the win here, but Royce looked solid in what's technically his Phoenix Rising debut.  Kira couldn't quite match the raw power Lucien brought to this one, though she certainly tried, dragging him over the ropes, going for a number of chokes, and fighting back whenever possible. It took THREE White River Floods to finish this one, perhaps a testament to Kira's resilience, or perhaps Lucien's carelessness.  Cecilia's wild run comes to a stop here at the hands of one of ZIP's finest. Danger Daniels is, without a doubt, one of the most dynamic people in the tournament, and he pulled off an impressive win here even with Cecilia staying on the move. A tough leg submission would put this one to rest, and Danger moves on to the Eastern bracket final to face Alan Wright.  For all the power that Selene has, for all the slippery technical ability Val Morgan shows, it all came down to one thing: one simple slip-up, a mistake punished. Selene took this one in a manner that Val is most accustomed to doing himself, catching him in a roll-up and punching her ticket to the bracket final against Tia Summers.  For all the ferocity Georgia Eagles has shown to this point, it didn't seem quite enough against the legendary Geese Walker. Geese took everything that Georgia had to muster, and ultimately, he'd finish off a brutal Rainmaker, and set him up to face Hypnosia in the Western bracket final... is there ANYONE that can stop Geese now? |
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Post by Firehawk on Sept 14, 2018 5:51:02 GMT
Saturday's show will start at 4PM Pacific. That is an hour and a half earlier than the rest of the shows have been, and I'm doing this because I'm intending to do a bonus show afterwards, and I don't want to wind up streaming super-late into the night (I have other stuff I wanna do during the day and all.) The card is simple. Western Bracket Final: Geese Walker vs. Hypnosia
Eastern Bracket Final: Danger Daniels vs. Alan Wright
Central Bracket Final: Jeremiah McCoy vs. Lucien Freeman
Outsider Bracket Final: Selene Ciel vs. Tia Summers
Internet Championship Match: El Froggy Mask (C) vs. Eri Sentarl
West vs. East Semifinal
Central vs. Outsider Semifinal
49th Parallel Rumble
49th Parallel FINAL |
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Post by TheDenizen on Sept 14, 2018 10:46:50 GMT
Wow, Daniels doing me proud by getting to the final 8. Hope I can make it Saturday!
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Post by Senator Phillips on Sept 14, 2018 15:00:41 GMT
Anthony Kalb
Anthony Kalb: Took an extra day here, I can't lie about this one, it hurt. It hurt to come so close, and end up losing. It's not that I'm not used to losing, on small stages, on big stages, here or there, singles or tag. And a long while back, I'd be feeling sorry for myself for all my losses, asking myself why someone like me, with my money, talent and good looks couldn't cruise to victory. Might even be a few fragments of that old self left in me to this day.
Kalb: But the difference now is that I can hear that voice, and tune it out just as fast. Because I didn't just lose here at the Parallel. I came out swinging, and I took some people down. I represented the nation's capitol and I did it with pride. People who thought I was just the old man's lackey didn't know what they were seeing! And best of all, I was the last man standing from the Senatorial Office! Even in defeat, I left a mark! So yeah, I lost. Yeah, it sucks. But even if I didn't get the big trophy, I'm leaving here standing tall. And I'm leaving here with a notice to everyone in the CA, that if they want a fight, they can do worse than matching up with Anthony Kalb.
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Post by Firehawk on Sept 15, 2018 20:22:49 GMT
Remember that the final show is tonight, in about 2 1/2 hours or so. 4PM Pacific. Earlier than usual, because this is at LEAST a two-hour show, plus a bonus stream after for a handful of "what-if" matches. You can expect a few "if this edit had represented this state, what would've happened" scenarios, a few matchups that could've happened in the bracket but didn't for whatever reason, and at least one matchup that I just think is neat that could've happened but seemed exceedingly unlikely.
If time permits, as well, I may do a brief showcase of a couple of new edits as well, some of which may still be WIP. At any rate, I can confirm the two "what-if" entrants:
Firstly, I've mentioned before, what if Mercy Devine represented Hawaii rather than Prince Shu? We'll see how well she would've fared, and see if she could outperform Shu. Secondly, Juliette Erving following the path that CJ Fresh did: would she have been able to go as far as he did? Further? We'll certainly find out.
Anyway, edits that you can expect for showcase matches after all is said and done (if I feel I have the time for it) will be Kevin Royce, Amber Wright, Leona Sterling and potentially a brand-new edit that I've been quietly working on the last few days... a Korean-American named Sung Moon. (I'm not fully sold on her name yet, actually. Korean names are friggin' hard, man.)
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Post by Love Wilcox on Sept 15, 2018 22:06:23 GMT
COME ON GEESE YOU CAN DO IT!!!
:D
I’m off to bed soon but I look forward to watching how the finals play out first thing tomorrow!
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Post by Firehawk on Sept 15, 2018 22:46:59 GMT
We're now fifteen minutes away from start time. This is the big one, the grand finale, months in the making. It's really hard to believe I've actually gotten to this point. www.twitch.tv/firehawk2289 as always. Let's finish this monstrosity. |
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Post by Firehawk on Sept 16, 2018 3:01:48 GMT
Well, it's over. It's done. The whole damn thing is wrapped up and I kinda can't believe it. Gonna separate out the results a little this time around. Twitch: www.twitch.tv/videos/310707683Youtube: youtu.be/sIYPHo9hxd4 (CAN YOU BELIEVE NO COPYRIGHT IN THOSE TWO HOURS) Twitch BONUS SHOW: www.twitch.tv/videos/310716677Quarterfinals and Internet Championship  Hypnosia gave this one her all. But Geese, as before, continued to dominate, and came straight out of the corner with a thunderous STO, and moved on to the semifinal match after a hard-fought battle.  Alan Wright continued to be one of the most impressive entrants in the tournament, taking on a tough opponent in Danger Daniels, and eventually would manage to pull off a tough win. Very impressive from the No Refunds star.  Can you believe it? Jeremiah McCoy just kept on rolling, slipping past Lucien Freeman in a wild one. McCoy worked the arms and finally, in the end, managed the submission victory.  Selene just couldn't be stopped, it seemed. She stuffed Tia's offense wherever she could, didn't fall into the trap of the dangerous leg submissions, and came away with a win and a trip to the semifinals against McCoy.  Eri stepped up against a tough opponent in Froggy Mask, but the Internet Champion was not to be denied. EFM rolled her up in the center of the ring, and once again, defended his title. Semifinals and the RUMBLE  That STO may be the move of the tournament. Wright gave Geese some trouble here, and made it a much closer match than any had been for Geese previously. But the old veteran fought right back and landed that brutal STO for yet another win, and moved on to the final.  McCoy just getting this far was impressive. He did what he could against Selene, but in the end, the Quebec representative pulled off another big win, and set herself up to face off with Geese in the final.  Oh, Rex, why? You killed everyone's dreams in this one, as C-Drive came out at #70 and seemed primed for a miracle run to the end... and then Rex dashed those hopes, shortly before tossing Mayday out as well to complete the win. FINAL  Apparently what it takes to beat a legend is to drop him on his head in a big way. Selene Ciel did what nobody else could, and stopped the legend of Geese at the very end... and may now claim her spot as the TOURNAMENT CHAMPION! Congratulations to her and to Maikeru. (Please don't rag on him for this.) Afterwards, there was a bonus stream of a few "what-if" matches. Here's a couple of the highlights of that stream.  Maybe the best match of the night INCLUDING the tournament matches. This would've been an absolutely incredible bracket final for the West.  Not quite on the same level as the match I got from these two in testing, but a solid one nonetheless.  literally what  I guess it's a good thing Prince Shu entered. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  WAIT WHAT  This closed out the night once and for all. Geese stands tall, at least somewhere. Godspeed, everyone. |
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Post by Firehawk on Sept 16, 2018 3:16:48 GMT
All right, now that the results are posted, and all of that is said and done... Thank you. I owe this community a great deal for even letting this crazy idea get off the ground. This thing had been circling in the back of my head for months before I even decided to take the plunge, and when I finally did, I never expected to get even remotely the response that I did. I figured that maybe, sooner or later, I'd be able to fill it with my own stuff if I had to. But over the months of preparation, you guys helped get this thing not only off the ground, but got it rolling. This has been far and away the most ambitious project I've ever undertaken... really, honestly, in anything. And it's gone off with barely a hitch. We got to see so much from this tournament, so many incredible edits, old and new alike, so many fantastic matches... It's been absolutely wild. And over the last four weeks it's been incredible to see the response to the actual streams as well. I'm going to be somewhat quiet for a while. My focus will go back towards Phoenix Rising, now, and I'll quietly run that on Mondays as I always have, in fact, there's still a show coming in two days, because dammit, I love this game. I love this community and what it creates, I love what it's capable of doing for us all. This is what Fire Pro should be. Enjoying what we've created as a community, enjoying what everyone else has made, watching some of the best virtual matches that you could ever dream of. Even its original meaning: to be the last big, major thing before the update hit, even if that never came to pass? It's all right. Because it doesn't change what this tournament did. It doesn't change what you saw, or how much we all enjoyed it. I think I've managed to say all I wanted to say here, so I'll leave on that note. Thank you, everyone, for helping make this thing. There never would've been a tournament at all without all the signups I got. And even with the transition to C!C in the middle of it, everything managed to go off without any trouble. So I thank everyone that was a part of this, everyone that came to watch, everyone that helped support this crazy idea of mine. Oh, one final thing. I just made a YT playlist of all the 49th shows here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKXk_9iyic1lZEGm2MbUPxr_ehGOsJ6HT if you want to watch them all back in order. |
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Post by Senator Phillips on Sept 16, 2018 4:33:08 GMT
Wonderful job in having the ambition to run a tournament of this scope, properly testing the edits for it, setting things up as well as you did, and carrying it out just about flawlessly. With all the frustrations the community has been through as of late, it's great to see something that worked out as well as the 49th Parallel, a reminder of what we do have, collectively, and again, a credit to Firehawk for making it all happen.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 16, 2018 7:54:12 GMT
Firehawk - this was an incredible undertaking and you pulled it off :) You deserve SO much praise for completing this and doing so as smoothly as you did. As someone who once pulled off something of this scope and then another time didn't, I know how much work and pressure something like this could be. You did an excellent job here. I think everyone who was involved in this tournament (with an edit or as a spectator) enjoyed this and are thankful for your efforts and provided entertainment. I really really wish that I had been more present during this, especially given Geese's participation throughout the tournament. This was the kind of tournament that a year or two ago I would have been promo'ing for after each victory. Thank you for the praise and details for all of Geese's matches. I'm honestly shocked he performed as well as he did in regards to competitiveness and match ratings. I'm glad that it seems he didn't squash anyone as that was my biggest concern. As for show tonight (which I'm sorry I missed): There's no better role for a returning legend heel than making it to the Finals and putting the newer wrestler over. This was a perfect situation for Geese and congratulations to Selene Ciel! The fact that the Finale match got a 100% rating is really cool. It's also cool that Selene won via headdrops given Geese's past.
I'm really happy that Geese was able to provide that "boss presence" in the tournament and hopefully by putting on competitive matches with some newer wrestlers, they helped get some spotlight. It's always been my opinion that a close match elevates everyone, especially newer wrestlers against established ones.
Also really glad to see some of the non-canon "bonus" matches!!
I stood tall because of how proud I am to have been a part of this. Also, Newfie George was probably my favorite edit that was created specifically for this tournament and, given my history of very fond matches with Denizen's edits, it was very fitting that Newfie/Geese closed out the night!!
You said:
That STO is Geese's tribute to Julian Caesaro who used to do the move in UBL.
So Geese (and I) absolutely dedicate our success in this tournament to Ceese. I say that especially because last year I became unable to run the League Tourney Royale I started in honor of Ceese but I feel like this tournament you ran was bigger in scope and ran far better than I had done. This was the true community e-fed tournament that Ceese would have loved and supported. Thank you for doing this tournament.
There's been a metric ton of shit that has happened in the community in the past two months but this tournament was ALWAYS a bright spot that made me happy to hear about and check in on the progress of.
What you did here helped the entire community. I can't wait to continue following your work :)
P.S. If you ever want to use Geese for a Phoenix Rising guest appearance, please go right ahead :) |
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Post by Pandakid on Sept 16, 2018 18:04:40 GMT
I'm sad I had to miss it but have caught it in the vod, thank you firehawk for doing this. I loved seeing so many different edits, and it was a wonderfully relaxed environment for it.
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