# I won Marvel vs. Capcom at VanDammage this weekend! :D **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 22, 2014, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-marvel-vs-capcom-at-vandammage-this-weekend-d/691357 "2014-06-22T09:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-marvel-vs-capcom-at-vandammage-this-weekend-d/691357/1 "2014-06-22T09:50:41Z")
https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=virtualdojovienna&parent=boards.straightdope.com&autoplay=false …And I sincerely hope the stream archive has the videos of me playing. I took the tournament in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. This is my first noteworthy tournament win, and it paid for the weekend in Vienna. 😃 I beat pretty much every noteworthy player there, going 3-2, 3-0, 3-1, 6-0 in losers top 8. I just felt like sharing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-marvel-vs-capcom-at-vandammage-this-weekend-d/691357/2 "2014-06-22T23:33:02Z")
I have no idea what any of that means but it sounds very cool. Gratz! ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-marvel-vs-capcom-at-vandammage-this-weekend-d/691357/3 "2014-06-22T23:38:39Z")
If you didn’t beat Justin Wong or Daigo Umehara, it doesn’t mean much. j/k, great job. 😃 Also, seriously there’s a tournament for the VS series? The latency is terrible even on the arcade versions, you won’t get the same quality of play as the SF series. I tried some of the early versions but gave up because I was moving too fast for moves to register. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-marvel-vs-capcom-at-vandammage-this-weekend-d/691357/4 "2014-06-22T23:46:40Z")
Congratulations! I’m pretty sure this makes you the reigning champ of the Straight Dope, FWIW. This means you win an all-expense paid trip to your living room to practice up, in order to represent us properly at the next tournament. Do not take this responsibility lightly. The eyes of the world are upon you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-marvel-vs-capcom-at-vandammage-this-weekend-d/691357/5 "2014-06-23T00:50:55Z")
This is a videogame tournament, right? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-marvel-vs-capcom-at-vandammage-this-weekend-d/691357/6 "2014-06-23T12:01:18Z")
Nicely done! And more people will likely understand the headline over the Game Room. Moving this one there. * * * **Hal Briston** – MPSIMS Moderator and 1982 New Jersey regional Atari Pac Man champion (won myself five 2600 games for that performance!) ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-marvel-vs-capcom-at-vandammage-this-weekend-d/691357/7 "2014-06-24T10:29:43Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > If you didn’t beat Justin Wong or Daigo Umehara, it doesn’t mean much. > > j/k, great job. 😃 > > Also, seriously there’s a tournament for the VS series? The latency is terrible even on the arcade versions, you won’t get the same quality of play as the SF series. I tried some of the early versions but gave up because I was moving too fast for moves to register. UMvC3 is right behind Street Fighter in terms of player base for competitive fighters. I don’t know what you mean about latency - I find it perfectly responsive. And yeah, it’s fast-moving. Check it out: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2rRfzh-ZJ9Q/hqdefault.jpg "VanDammage|7.1 - UMVC3 Top 8") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRfzh-ZJ9Q) I’m the guy on the left in that first screen - on commentary. And here’s a timestamp from the start of my triumphant trip through the loser’s bracket: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2rRfzh-ZJ9Q/hqdefault.jpg "VanDammage|7.1 - UMVC3 Top 8") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRfzh-ZJ9Q) I was running Team NovaScrub (Nova/Doom/Vergil - the “scrub” part is the Doom/Vergil shell, upon which you can place pretty much any point character and do well). 😃 > [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](#): > > Congratulations! I’m pretty sure this makes you the reigning champ of the Straight Dope, FWIW. This means you win an all-expense paid trip to your living room to practice up, in order to represent us properly at the next tournament. > > Do not take this responsibility lightly. The eyes of the world are upon you. 🙂 Hey, it’s not Evo, but it’s a start. 😃