i might end up hoppin a greyhound to there from Louisville. ill check the prices and shit, do you have the area code for mapquest?
plus i wanna play you in the arcade

Pz
SaDo

It is confirmed, UMK3 at NEC6.

From Eric's post on Shoryuken.com

"NorthEast Championship (NEC6) in Philly

OK players here we go again this is the thread for NEC6 in Philadelphia Pa. . Park Plaza Hotel--Days INN(2015 Penrose Av.) (215-336-4516)--South Philadephia, 3 miles from the airpot.) will be the location of NEC6."

Sign up players, talk to me here.

Further update on the UMK3 tournament for all of you whom I KNOW are interested...this is a post actually from last year's NEC tournament that Eric re-added from the Prophet.

Attn: All Those who whill be attending NEC6:

(As Eric already stated above) EWA Shock and I (with much thanks to Mike/aka GosBroDansFan for all his contributions) will be running an Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 tournament. Arcade sticks will be provided/on hand, as well as PS-to-USB converters for those wishing to use their own stick/pad/whatever.

For those who are wondering how this is going down we're gonna purchase a bare-bones PC (strictly for fighters) and run UMK3 off MAME, so this is the actual arcade game that will be played...we're gonna go all out with an S-Video TV for the sharp graphics and such...

Anyone who's interested in playing (or if you have any questions/concerns/etc.) post here or PM either me or EWA Shock.

This is gonna be the UMK3 *Universal Championship* people, so start practicing so you can represent come Dec. 4th.

ok count me in, and possibly my buddys Boomer and Doc.

its not gonna cost money to enter is it? and also what is the first prize?

Pz
SaDo

$10 registration fee to get in the doors, UMK3 is $5 entry fee. Practice up.

hey matt, let me pull a wild guess out of my ass and assume your going to use the keyboard..

also what is the grand prize?

Pz
SaDo

No I'll be using stick, but if anyone wants to challenge me on keyboard as Ermac or Kung Lao only I'll gladly oblige them.

glad to hear it, i think its pretty disrespectful to use a keyboard in a UMK3 'arcade' tournament.

im probably better on a n64 controller or ps2 or watever they have but im stickin to the stick as well.

Well, the whole place is a console based tournament so anyone can use whatever they want, if people want to use PSX controllers to play UMK3, they can, it'll be available. I really hope there's more people who want to show up.

i might be going to nec again this year so i'll prolly join

Oh awesome, just get in touch with me if you need directions or anything, I'm trying to get as many people as possible.

well so far im bringin about 6 people with me and we're driving up there. only 3 of us possibly 4 are going to be in the tournament.

also my buddy wants to know what other games are gonna be there for tournament play.

Pz
SaDo

Awesome I really hope you guys show up because it'll make this tournament worthwhile.

Other games will be:

Third Strike
Super Turbo
Tekken 5
GGXX
Tekken Tag
MvC2
CvS2
SC3
DOA4
CFJ
MKD

Get ready to get owned! : D

aight thx

i live right near philly!

but i cant go,sorry

Wish I could go

any cash prizes or prizes in general and whats the address exactly so i can mapquest it and see if i can pull it

I just put it in the first post. The more people who show, the more the winner gets. If there are 16 players 2nd place will also get some cash. Any less than 16 players and the total prize money goes to first place. There's a good chance we'll hold mini tournys on both Saturday and Sunday, but we're hoping at least one day a lot of players will show up. It's $5 to enter, so if there's 15 players, first place gets $75, but if there's 16 players, the total would be $80, so the split would be like $65 for first place, $15 for second place. If a magical amount of players shows up, 3rd place will also get some, but never beyond 3rd place.

For a game like MvC2 that can have 128 players (seriously I have seen brackets with my own eyes of 100+ players in a big tourny like this), at $10 per head entry fee, that's a total cash pot of $1,280, and usually the split is like 70/20/10% unless there's no building cover charge, ($10 cover charge to get in to take care of costs which more than reasonable for NEC). That means first place in MvC2 would get $896. These tournaments take all day. The biggest UMK3 tournament I have ever been involved in was maybe 14 players and that's terrible. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get around when the big UMK3 tournys were happening in the 90s, and now dwindling player lists are all you see.

If everyone who has even vaguely mentioned they'll show up does, plus players I know will be there whom I haven't talked to, there's 13 right now, plus of course people I don't know will be there and might want to give it a shot. At NEC4 there were a bunch of random people who played MKT on PSX with us, but we never got a real tournament together.

id go if throwing was disabled.

Unfortunately throwing is a major component of gameplay, eliminating it changes key moments in the game usually in favor of the person who is on the defensive. To prevent a throw you just hold back, at any time, during any move. For instance you cannot be throw while doing a special move, or if you're locked in a containment move if you are holding back, however, here are some times when throws are useful or present. Remember, thows don't do a ton of damage, if you're getting thrown left and right you're in no simpler terms: bad.

Cross up throws on turtling opponents by landing on top of them making it difficult to determine which way is back upon landing, or beating uppercut cross up counters with throws, this is obviously avoidable by uppercutting with D+B.

Throwing people out of special moves (like Kabal's spin) or even on sudden rushes especially the person is obviously pressing forward and cannot be holding back.

As a method to avoid run jab situations against certain characters by letting yourself be thrown setting up possible counters and trying to get on the offensive.

Allowing yourself to be thrown into the corner by some characters, for example the male ninjas, a throw from a ninja results in a free uppercut before they get up, or a free spin from Kabal, etc.