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Currently playing: Skyward Sword, Conduit 2, Xenoblade, Soul Calibur V

This week the Soul Calibur V World Championships were held in Las Vegas. I watched the entire event via online stream courtesy of Team Spooky. After watching the entire 3 hour event I realized that my Soul Calibur skills are possibly world contender good. I wasn't impressed with the Japanese or US players, the French players and the one from Dominion Republic were amazing tho.
This thought process got me thinking of what type of level as a gamer I am. Before I get into this, this is in no way an attempt to gloat, or stroke my ego in the matter. Just a slow, almost surreal realization of the level of gamers out there.

In Soul Calibur IV I was ranked 2nd on the XBL servers for ranked gameplay out of tens of thousands of cutthroat, spammy, and amazing players, and in December of 2003 I competed in a Soul Calibur II tournament in Saskatoon and placed first with my main, Raphael. This might not be on the level of World Championship, but the stress and anxiety that comes with competitive play is the same. I feel like I'm one of the best in this part of my country. Even my friend Jeremy Hardie is no slouch and when we used to play SCIV he rarely won a match.

So am I only good at fighting games particularly one franchise? No actually. I'm also a pretty damn solid Tekken player, but I know, I know, both are fighting games from Namco Bandai. For the record I have obtained every achievement and trophy thus far in the SC and Tekken games. Soul Calibur V being the hardest one to complete thus far, but its a slow process and I will master the game. Fighting games aside, there is another game out there that I'm not only a top ranked player, but I'm one of the best on the NTSC servers.

Conduit 2. I'm possibly top 20 in that game. Having no real ranking Leaderboards its not possible to actually figure out where I fit into the top players, but having being close friends with the number 1 player 'Samu5' I feel that I could be easily top 10 without the lock-on feature of the game. Which is a crutch for players who cant aim, and claim they are amazing players, when they don't do anything but lock-on and spray a clip of ammo, but Ill stop bitching about the C2 community. The real FPS ace is my friend Jeremy Hardie, he has owned and beaten a majority of FPSes out there, and not just beat, beat on the hardest, most insane difficulties, a feat I could never do.

I game alot everyday, with my friends and without. Certain games I tend to do well, others I'm average. RPGs are my top rated games, but the Japanese players take those to an insane level of gameplay, so I tend to have world class skills at fighting games. I'm just one person out in the middle of nowhere, I live with gamers, and interact with gamers daily, should I feel an aura of accomplishment or superiority? Of course not. Most world class gamers have egos and look down on the players that got them there. Would I be an amazing Soul Calibur player if I didn't force roommates and friends to fight me in countless matches? Probably not. Would I like to travel the world and play a video game in World Championships and win money and prizes?

No. I enjoy the game immensely, but I don't wanna travel, or attend numerous events, I want no prestige or glory (ironic blog post I know) but that makes one think, are the world champions truly the best? or are they only the best of the people who want the same thing? Could there be an amazing Soul Calibur player down the street from you, that is World class, but has no way or no desire to compete and go to Worlds?

Think about it.

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