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When I was at the Detroit Kumite tournament last weekend, a number of players from the Cleveland area who I had never met before attended as well and we all had a great time! Many of these guys already get together a few times a year to play casual Tecmo Super Bowl at various venues. I collected emails and some cell phone numbers for players that wanted to provide one. This post is to see who would be interested in getting together potentially quarterly to play Tecmo Super Bowl and perhaps consider doing a Fantasy Football League in the fall for anyone who enjoys both Tecmo and Fantasy Football and lives in or near Northeast Ohio. If this is something that interests you, please message me and provide your email address and cell phone number, as I will be creating a text distribution group in addition to the email distribution list once we finalize the initial details. If you could also let me know ideas for places to meet, how many systems, cartridges, controllers and TVs you would be willing to share with the group, that would also be helpful. The idea is to simply get a group of great guys together semi regularly who enjoy both Tecmo Super Bowl and NFL football. Thanks in advance for your consideration. More to follow after I collect everyone's thoughts and responses.

Below are the details of our first Northeast Ohio Tecmo Meetup: Who: First 16 guys to respond What: Tecmo Super Bowl When: Sat, May 6th, 12-5pm Where: Italian Garden Restaurant 10511 Main Street, Mantua, OH 44255 Cost: $20, Payouts with 16 participants: 1st: $160 2nd: $80 3rd: $40 4th: $20 Confirmed participants: 01. Ryan M. 02. Chris H. 03. Jason A. 04. Cliff P. 05. Steve R. 06. Clarence J. 07. John C. 08. Jon R. 09. Louis B. 10. Francis B. 11. Tom J. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Please let me know if you are able to bring any of the following: -TVs -NES Systems -NES Controllers -Tecmo Super Bowl Carts -Extension cords -Power Strips If if you are able to bring any of the above items, please come 30-45 minutes early to help setup. Format will be informal, decided the day of the event and depend on number of participants and systems available. Most likely it will be some variant of the Detroit Kumite rules (TBD): -Players with like records play each other for a few rounds -Everyone advances to the bracket with a draft format excluding SF, NYG, BUF & HOU. -Draft order based on records This format allows everyone to play a lot of meaningful games and is extremely fair and laid back Participants are welcome and encouraged to order from the menu and BYOB. I have eaten there a number of times and everything is great - the dough is homemade every day and they make awesome pizza (I also love the JoJos) below is a link to the menu. Hope to see you there! https://www.orderstart.com/mobile/italiangarden#menuPage

I a bit far to make the meet-ups, but if there will be a journal Northeast Tecmo Quarterly I will probably take a subscription.

Awesome! Count me in for sure!

Eric, Matt, Joe and Chas ran a great tournament last weekend! If you haven't been to a Detroit Kumite and are on the fence, this is a great tournament to attend. There was a nice mix of players - some who have attended for years to many different tournaments, some only to this tournament and some new faces as well. This was the third Kumite I attended. Having run tournaments myself as a host and competed in quite a few over the past 7 years, I know how much preparation and work go into these events. Eric, Matt, Joe and Chas did a fantastic job as usual. I had the opportunity to meet some tourney vets that had I never met at previous events, the opportunity to connect with old friends and meet some new ones as well. I loved the format as it allowed "2nd tier" players like myself the opportunity to play a lot of meaningful games even if we didn't make the top 16. Being matched up against players with similar records for the first 5 preliminary rounds left me at 2-3 and the 4th seed in the lower 16 bracket. Two of my three losses were to Eric and Matt who are both great players. Shoutout to Matt on capturing the title this year as it was only a matter of time before he got one. It's hard enough to win a title at one of these tournaments but even more when you are hosting and trying to keep everything organized and moving along! Two highlights of the day for me were: 1) Playing a close game vs. Eric on the stream where I missed a long field goal that would have won the game as time expired. Final score 14-12 (DET over SD). 2) Losing on a last second Hail Mary pass against Mark Nutter in the lower bracket finals. Final score 17-14 (DET over MIN). I have seen other players talking on the boards about "quality losses" and having the ability to play against top competition makes everyone better. Eric and Matt have uploaded all of the streamed games to Twitch and YouTube which is great to analyze how other top players compete. I enjoyed watching the replay on Twitch to see what other players were chatting about while I was playing and watching games I didn't have the opportunity to see while I was playing another game. It's always nice to see others critique especially previous Madison champs like Derek and Joey offering their insight. The ability to draft a team in the bracket round based on seeding and keeping them for that portion was a nice touch (heard DT came up with the format so shout out to you brother) 49ers, Giants and Bills were excluded but every other team was fair game. Nearly everyone stayed until the end and people who were eliminated from the bracket round stayed to play pick up games on extra systems or watch the bracket games still in progress. i also connected with a number of new players from the Cleveland area close to where I live and we exchanged email and phone numbers. Would love to put together a group that gets together a few times a year to play Tecmo and perhaps a fantasy football league as well. This event got me even more excited for Madison next month. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. Long live Tecmo Ryan

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