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The date is too early for me to consider going this year #teach! But there is potential for me to take a PNW contingent on a road trip in the future... #TecmovanAnyone?

This is more of a nerd and history post since I don't want to include this stuff on every new CFT season post. Our history will be updated here as well. Admins (of which I am one) I only post this in Live Tourneys because there isn't a Live League section. THE REST OF THIS POST IS HIGHLY TECHNICAL AND NERDY. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK... Visions for the future: This will continue to be a major summer event going forward with added seasons sprinkled in Fall like CFT 3 in November or CFT RNG could randomly pop up like it did in January. Eventually I would like to grow this to be a 16 game season. This could be done over one weekend (2 days or 3) or spread over over more time (1 day on consecutive weekends or something like that) With still around 12 players I could still do it in my garage and we could do a 16 game season where each team plays each of the other 5 same conference teams twice and the opposite conference teams once 5x2 + 6 = 16. I know thats a lot of tecmo to play in a short time, so we'll see how that develops. Joey B's spot has proven to be a major addition to the PNW host venues and there's hope that Manyo's Camp David (Hand Down the BEST spot for live tecmo) will be back in the mix in the not so distant future. I also hope to get some non PNW KampBuddies out to future CFT seasons. I envision pairs of tecmo brethren from around the same region could take a tecmocation out here to the PNW where it's pretty much great weather once you get past July 4th, and usually before hand as well. Like my Chicago chaffeurs to Madison @modeezie and @toolie, B&G Vets @stalltalk and @MattyD, NTF brethren @chiefsjr83 and @redskinsfan1124 , and @arncoem and @baxterbear12 . Other considerations include making this a regional event, holding part or whole seasons in different PNW locales and providing time to take in the scenery wherever it may be, and perhaps some local haunts. Another potential for the future is to carry forward with the goal of having a dynasty type season setup starting in the 60s like Manyo planned (or perhaps the 20s like my nerdy ass would want) and do a few short seasons a year during the Feb to Jun or July months (like Manyo planned originally for dates on the 3rd Saturday of each month). Hacks included on Rom: The goal is to have these hacks (mostly for stat purposes) while not affecting any change in the actual game play itself when compared to playing a TSB Season on an actual TSB Cart and NES console. Tapmeter - Counts and displays taps in man grapples. Play Preseason Games in Season-Mode - Allows us to play in preseason yet still have stats kept, and use the Season Mode space for the other hacks we need (if I'm not mistaken). Injuries in ALL Modes - Toggles injuries for our set up playing our games as Preseason Games in Season Mode No Fumbles in End Zone - To prevent loss of stats. This may be adjusted if it's possible to hack the game to allow End Zone fumbles (cuz the feeling of forcing one is SO DELICIOUS) without losing the stats. Still waiting for an answer to that question. Keep Quarter Scores Intact if game goes to OT - If this hack is not included, then the scoreboard on the recap page does not accurately display the scores in each quarter, as you can see here in these epic (and only) OT contests from Season 1 involving @invader_star64 . Here vs @DT. http://www.pnw.puretecmo.com/main/dsp_recap.php?gID=40 and then here in an elimination game vs @Tick http://www.pnw.puretecmo.com/main/dsp_recap.php?gID=46 Track Fumbles - Shows each teams number of fumbles and fumbles lost in the recap. Track Time of Possession - Allows us to see Time of Possession for each team in the recap. We found a bug in this one because it uses space that we are using that online leagues do not, which causes BUF QB1 (John Elway in our Season 1 rom tests) to accumulate weird stats when not even playing any games, like lots of passes and 100% completion rate of those passes for very minimal yards and TDs and a TON of INTS. So the set commands will be a little different for our league. Will update when fixed. edit: it's been fixed but there's not code posted about it. Recording Tackles - Tackle stats on recap and stat pages. Player 2 Conditions Fix - Fixes the display of attributes to match the conditions for P2. Randomize Sound Loop Used for Each Play - Randomizes the sound or music for each play. Playoff music can occur on any play. Other potential hacks are in the works, however none are meant to affect gameplay. Mostly they will be for additional stats. I'm hoping to be able to track some other things like JJs, CCs, picked plays, Yards after Catch, maybe individual player's fumble stats, JJ ints thrown and caught, Passes Defensed. Forced fumbles and fumble recoveries. Not sure how much we can fit and logistically do before this season, but hopefully we get a good deal of them. How this will work: First of all a lot of thanks and gratitude must go out to the Godfather @Knobbe and @davefmurray for their contributions in ensuring this site meets the needs of all our tecmo brethren. Much thanks also to all those who share how to hack this in such a way we can enjoy it in this fashion. @jstout has shared so much (and was always very helpful when I would bug him about stuff a couple years back) and @bruddog for basically being the shining beacon of hope that allows us to not only approach doing this, but get the support to troubleshoot and basically provide so much of his time and resources so generously. Much thanks and praises also to @brookstonfowler for his help with our CFT Phile. Getting Started with the Regular Season: The way we are able to do this is through using the rom created with aforementioned hacks on an Everdrive. We start by using the initial rom on all the Everdrives SD cards for week 1 and playing in preseason. I'm not sure if we need to set Team Control for each team to Man in the Season Game menu for our regular season games, but we will have to for the playoffs. After each game, a state is taken from the Everdrive and the ED's SD card is pulled. From the SD card, the state is saved to the CPU, then run through an Everdrive State Converter (linked below) which converts the state to a Nestopia like state which can then be uploaded to our Website (CFT Phile). Each Save State from Week 1 (in its Everdrive form I believe) is then merged with the other Save States from Week 1, one at a time (to the previously merged save state) using a tool Bruddog "whipped up" and the final version (Rom aka Save State) after all the Week 1 states are merged will be labeled as our Week 2 rom, and then copied to the ED's SD cards to be used for Week 2's games. This process will be used all the way through the completion of the regular season. Regular season stats and standings will be available to peruse on the rom and cartridge itself, as well as on the CFT Phile website, which will be updated with each game uploaded right after completion. There were some logistical concerns and flat out problems in our efforts for season 1 that will inform how we make season 2 and beyond happen. Problem number 1 was that we were unable to get the merges to work properly and consistently during the first season and the reasons included a lack of familiarity with best practices for making saves visible on the SD card and then trying to make a lot of this stuff work without allowing enough time to test it out before Game Day. Luckily we were able to manage to get the saves to show on the SD card using the knowledge we had (basically, after saving the state with a Select and Start button push, the state saved would not actually be saved on the SD card itself until a different rom was loaded). The end result was that we essentially played every game in season 1 with the same rom, but for each game, the rom's name was changed to include the week number and teams involved in order to ensure each file was named to clearly describe what it held. I also used a protocol for saving and converting these states for upload that included the creation of file folders for each week and game, and in each game's folder was an extra folder for the actual converted to nestopia state format since the names of both pre and post converted states were identical. Long story short, I was creating a lot of the folders while also going forward with the conversions and uploads and there was a lot of wait time for everyone else before the next set of games could be played. My plan to improve the logistics include having all the folders created for each week before hand, as well as to have extra SD cards so that when, for instance, the first 3 or 4 games of a given week are played, those SD cards can be pulled from the Everdrives and be replaced with other SD cards that have the rom for the rest of that week's games on them while the work to convert, upload and merge is being done. I'll also try to incorporate more help from guys there so it doesn't have to be just me doing the file work. @invader_star64 helped out a lot last season, and I think we can get a crack team to make it as efficient as possible and minimizing wait times between weeks. Everdrive State Converter - Converts Everdrive state to one that matches Nestopia states and thus can be read and uploaded to our Phile. Merge Tool - I don't have a link for this but we use it to be able to carry conditions and injuries over from week to week as well as be able to see the complete season stats with the Rom on the Everdrive in the NES itself. PLAYOFFS??!?!? - For the playoffs, the final rom save after all the final week's mergers are done will be hacked to put the teams in their respective places in the Playoff Bracket that Tecmo Super Bowl console seasons utilize. I saw this in action yesterday and about flipped my lid. In this case the Team Control in Season Game menu needs to have all the playoff teams set to Man. Once this rom is loaded, no changes need to be added to it. The two potential logistical issues I foresee and want to get in front of are: 1. How can we ensure that we are able to get a state that we can upload from the end of each playoff game? and 1A. If we do pull the SD card to convert and upload the playoff save state after each playoff game, how can we do this without making the wait in between games too long? I know there is a way to create files on the Everdrive that can serve as placeholders (and using efficient nomenclature) for save states so that one can choose which file on the SD Card to save the current SRAM to. I'm hesitant to trust this method without ensuring we have a good save to upload before moving on to the next playoff game. I guess my thinking is we can save that SRAM to the file and pull it out quick, copy it to another SD card and use the next SD card for the next game while we work on converting and uploading the state for the just completed playoff game. (Having the actual SD card not being used by the current playoff game being played will make it easier to pop the card (in its Everdrive) in to the NES and "push" the save to the SD card, using the methodology from season 1. I apologize for this last bit of rambling (stream of consciousness) We will work it out. Cascadia Tournament Historical Links: PNW Honbasho 1 Behind the Woodshed 1/26/19 1st DT, 2nd Gripsmoke, 3rd kamphuna8, 4th PTitteri CFT RNG 1 Sammamish Smshmth 12.30/18 1st Invader, 2nd kamphuna, 3rd and 4th DT and Stu (lost in Conf Championships) CFT Season 3 GrgeDys Revsted 11/10/18 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Stu, 3rd and 4th Tick and Randy (lost in Conf Championships) CFT Season 2 Grit City Tecmo 7/28/18 1st Randy, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd and 4th DT and Stu (lost in Conf championships) Portland Tecmo 2 JJ's Birden 1/27/18 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Gripsmoke, 3rd Tick, 4th DT (Greats rom side tourney 1st Gripsmoke, 2nd kamphuna8 Seattle Pimpin' Ain't Easley 9/3/17 1st Ptitteri, 2nd Mort, 3rd DT, 4th Invaderstar (Consolation Champ Tailback King) CFT Season 1 Tacoma 7/8/17 1st kamphuna8, 2nd DT, 3rd XtraLargent, 4th Invaderstar CFT Season 0 Centralia 3/11/17 1st Tick, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd DT, 4th Manyo 3Portland 1 JJ in the Beaver 1/28/17 1st Invaderstar, 2nd Gripsmoke, 3rd Manyo (Consolation Champ 1991Huskies #shoottheJ) Pac Rim 3 Seattle 9/4/16 1st Moonwalk, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd jim jensen, 4th DT (Bottom Bracket Winner Boogiewithstu over gripsmoke) PNWTC 5 Centralia 7/2/16 1st Gripsmoke, 2nd SirTed, 3rd Tick, 4th Manyo Mayhem 5 Centralia "Dick" 8/29/15 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Invaderstar, 3rd Gripsmoke, 4th Manyo PNWTC 4 Centralia 7/11/15 1st DT, 2nd Gripsmoke, 3rd SirTed, 4th kamphuna8 Mayhem 4 Centralia "play 2" 1/2/15 1st kamphuna8, 2nd manyo, 3rd grip ( Night mayhem 1st kamp, 2nd manyo, 3rd TailbackKing) PNWTC 3 Centralia 6/21/14 1st gripsmoke, 2nd Invaderstar, 3rd Sir Ted, 4th Randy F Mr. GiGGles PAC RIM II Seattle 4/12/14 1st Invaderstar, 2nd Gripsmoke, 3rd Sir Ted, 4th Stanley? Mayhem 3 Tacoma Trailer Tecmo 4/4/14 1st kamphuna8 Mini Tourney Winner Invaderstar Mayhem 2 Centralia 3/1/14 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Sir Ted, 3rd Manyo, BoogieWithStu Mayhem 1 Centralia ACTUAL 2/15/14 Manyo over kamphuna8 Mayhem 1 Centralia 8/17/13 Didnt happen... PNWTC 2 Centralia 6/30/13 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Randy Foulfield, 3rd Sir Ted, 4th BoogieWithStu PAC RIM I Seattle 4/7/13 1st Randy, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd tie Sir Ted and Tyler J PNWTC 1 Olympia 6/23/12 1st Randy, 2nd GoNickMontana5, 3rd Manyo, 4th BoogieWithStu RESULTS Rumblings by CochiseBlue(Luigi) and MadManyo and GoManyo360 Edmonds at Another Castle 5/20/11 1st Manyo, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd Boogie with Stu RECAP RodWoodson aka TecmoGodfather aka PNW Live Tourney Godfather **UPDATE** Field Guides! CFT2 Field Guide.xlsx CFT2 Field Guide.pdf

Hear ye, Hear ye. It is time to start gearing up again for THE BEST TECMO EXPERIENCE ON THE PLANET! (Don't @ me) The following describes not a tournament per se, but rather a live console season in which many games will be played at the same time rather than having to wait for 1 game. All season stats will not only be available for perusal on the game roms but also updated on our CFT Phile as we proceed. The goal is to give all owners as close to the original live tecmo season experience as possible, without taking so much time to complete, and with all teams closer to each other in overall attributes. In so doing, we all accept our fates and acknowledge the greatness that is the Tecmo Super Deities, and their love that will rein down upon us in all its forms and greatness, whether it be the JJs, the CCs, the condition or injury love/hate, and that most barbarous and diabolical form... THE JEALOUSY! Our goal is also to have at least 12 (more is possible) owners join for festivities. Location: The Eagles' Nest (Overlooking Majestic Lake Sammamish in the Cascadia Foothills) Due east of Seattle, Joey B's money spot. Date/Time: July 27, 2019. Begin at 9AM Pacific Time. YES 9AM DAMMIT! Cost: $15 (Super Bowl Winner collects all monies) All Praises to the Tecmo Gods Website: http://pnw.tecmobowl.org/main/main.php (has rosters) Streamed? YAS! The goal is to Record all games and Stream one to two (to 4?!?) games at a time (depending on how the game(s) are shaping up.) Yes Inspired by the Red Zone Channel and other similar stream styles where multiple games can be displayed. Streams will be on https://www.twitch.tv/kamphuna8/ All previous CFT playoff games and a healthy amount of regular season games are all on my YouTube channel. Format and Draft: All games will be played on NES Consoles using Everdrive Flash Carts. Teams will be drafted in a non-Snake format using the attached Spreadsheet. Draft order will be based on previous year's performance. Those that were not there will be placed according to my discretion. The draft will be similar to HSTL format in terms of rosters. Each position group including QBs (x2) RBs (x4) WR/TEs (x6) OL (x5) DL (x3) LB (x4) DB (x4) will be drafted by each owner. All the OL, DL, LB and DB tandems are going to be locked in to their alignment that is on the original Tecmo Super Bowl rom. No WRs or TEs can carry the ball on a RB run play. A salary cap will also be utilized (according to the tecmo_salary_cap.xlsx spreadsheet from @bruddog ) where no team can go over the $100 mark. K/P will all have the same attributes (50 50 I believe) and Owners can provide names and faces for their idiot kickers. A night will be organized and announced for the draft on our discord channel. This year the draft will take place on or nearly after the anniversary of the Mt. St. Helens Eruption on May 18, 2019. More draft details will follow, including possible modifications to the format in terms of cap costs (using the season 3 method of adding a dollar to the price of the previous season's players and taking away a dollar from undrafted players, as well as potentially mixing up the tandems, including OG rom Kicker/Punters and their costs. Time shall tell. Draft order will be posted below prior to the draft. Regular Season: Regular season will be determined once we have our final participant list There will be 2 conferences (no divisions in the conferences) with (hopefully) at least 6 teams in each conference. For owners that participated in previous CFT Seasons, the same teams will be used (this may change, I just have to flesh out the implications of how it will all be displayed and accessed when looking at team histories on the CFT Phile). We should have at least 6 stations and ideally we'll have upwards of 12 players. With 6 stations (Everdrives and NES plus CRT) we will be able to have 6 games at once and just merge without having to do 2 sets of games in a given week (which I think has caused issues with stats merging in the past). Conditions and injuries will function as they would on a normal console Regular Season, with conditions carrying over from week to week, and injuries that can result in a player missing up to two more games after the game in which the injury occurred. All the season stats will also be available on carts as we go along. It is JUST LIKE REGULAR SEASON ON TSB! ALL HAIL THE Tecmo Super Deities! and bruddog. Never forget bruddog. Playoffs!!?!: After the Regular Season concludes, the playoffs will all be played on one console with each playoff game streamed. Playoff seeds will be determined using Tecmo Super Bowl's tiebreaker logic, with teams in each conference seeded from 1 thru 6 according to regular season record, and the tiebreaker is point differential. In the event of a tie with same point differential, the team that won the regular season matchup will get the higher seed. Top 2 seeds in each conference get that Wild Card Round bye. The final regular season Rom save will be hacked to place the 12 playoff teams into the TSB Playoff bracket. The Playoffs will determine the Cascadia Effin' Tecmo Super Bowl Champion for Season 4! If we don't get 12 players, we will do the playoffs differently. Participant list for Season 4: CFT Player Profiles linked as well. 1. kamphuna8 - CFT History 2. @boogiewithstu - CFT History 3. JoeyHoneyBee - CFT History 4. @Tick - CFT History 5. @XtraLargent - CFT History 6. @DT. - CFT History 7. @bruddog - CFT History 8. @gripsmoke - CFT History 9. @~Tailback King~ - CFT History 10. @ptitteri -75% in CFT History 11. @invader_star64 -Probable CFT History Not Commited 12. @manYo720 - CFT History 13. @TheProfessor - 14. @SirTed - CFT History JayMC425 - CFT History @gonickmontana - @GameHigh - Team TBD Owners Confirmed Out. Kevin aka LBird33 - CFT History @fairfensheeding - CFT History Cascadia Tournament Historical Links: Ickey Shuffle 1 - CFT - The Shuffle Draft: The Silence of the Lambs 11/19/19 1st gripsmoke, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd Manyo CFT Season 4 - Sammamish Smashmouth Tecmo at the Eagles Nest 7/29/19 - 1st PeteT, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd and 4th gripsmoke and Tick PNW Honbasho 1 Behind the Woodshed 1/26/19 1st DT, 2nd gripsmoke, 3rd kamphuna8, 4th PTitteri CFT RNG 1 Sammamish Smshmth 12.30/18 1st Invader, 2nd kamphuna, 3rd and 4th DT and Stu (lost in Conf Championships) CFT Season 3 GrgeDys Revsted 11/10/18 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Stu, 3rd and 4th Tick and Randy (lost in Conf Championships) CFT Season 2 Grit City Tecmo 7/28/18 1st Randy, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd and 4th DT and Stu (lost in Conf championships) Portland Tecmo 2 JJ's Birden 1/27/18 1st kamphuna8, 2nd gripsmoke, 3rd Tick, 4th DT (Greats rom side tourney 1st Gripsmoke, 2nd kamphuna8 Seattle Pimpin' Ain't Easley 9/3/17 1st Ptitteri, 2nd Mort, 3rd DT, 4th Invaderstar (Consolation Champ Tailback King) CFT Season 1 Tacoma 7/8/17 1st kamphuna8, 2nd DT, 3rd XtraLargent, 4th Invaderstar CFT Season 0 Centralia 3/11/17 1st Tick, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd DT, 4th Manyo 3Portland 1 JJ in the Beaver 1/28/17 1st Invaderstar, 2nd gripsmoke, 3rd Manyo (Consolation Champ 1991Huskies #shoottheJ) Pac Rim 3 Seattle 9/4/16 1st Moonwalk, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd jim jensen, 4th DT (Bottom Bracket Winner Boogiewithstu over gripsmoke) PNWTC 5 Centralia 7/2/16 1st gripsmoke, 2nd SirTed, 3rd Tick, 4th Manyo Mayhem 5 Centralia "Dick" 8/29/15 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Invaderstar, 3rd gripsmoke, 4th Manyo PNWTC 4 Centralia 7/11/15 1st DT, 2nd gripsmoke, 3rd SirTed, 4th kamphuna8 Mayhem 4 Centralia "play 2" 1/2/15 1st kamphuna8, 2nd manyo, 3rd grip ( Night mayhem 1st kamp, 2nd manyo, 3rd TailbackKing) PNWTC 3 Centralia 6/21/14 1st gripsmoke, 2nd Invaderstar, 3rd Sir Ted, 4th Randy F Mr. GiGGles PAC RIM II Seattle 4/12/14 1st Invaderstar, 2nd gripsmoke, 3rd Sir Ted, 4th Stanley? Mayhem 3 Tacoma Trailer Tecmo 4/4/14 1st kamphuna8 Mini Tourney Winner Invaderstar Mayhem 2 Centralia 3/1/14 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Sir Ted, 3rd Manyo, BoogieWithStu Mayhem 1 Centralia ACTUAL 2/15/14 Manyo over kamphuna8 Mayhem 1 Centralia 8/17/13 Didnt happen... PNWTC 2 Centralia 6/30/13 1st kamphuna8, 2nd Randy Foulfield, 3rd Sir Ted, 4th BoogieWithStu PAC RIM I Seattle 4/7/13 1st Randy, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd tie Sir Ted and Tyler J PNWTC 1 Olympia 6/23/12 1st Randy, 2nd GoNickMontana5, 3rd Manyo, 4th BoogieWithStu RESULTS Rumblings by CochiseBlue(Luigi) and MadManyo and GoManyo360 Edmonds at Another Castle 5/20/11 1st Manyo, 2nd kamphuna8, 3rd Boogie with Stu RECAP RodWoodson aka TecmoGodfather aka PNW Live Tourney Godfather **UPDATE** Field Guides! CFT2 Field Guide.xlsx CFT2 Field Guide.pdf

@allamerican1569 you're doing gods work here

I responded earlier (in 2014) with a Holy wow thinking this was the same game I remembered playing as a kid, however, the game I played was MUCH more rudimentary (and probably happened earlier in the 80s). What I recall ( I don't recall actual teams being used) was that you basically were given 4 choices on both offense and defense. Short run, long run, short pass, long pass. After you and the opponent (I played against the cpu) it would spit out the results of the play (think Gain of 4 yards, or something like that). Sounds like I played a precursor to this? Is anyone familiar with what that might be?

Paging @DT. and @~Tailback King~ ... Talk amongst yourselves.

Start Here. Lots of good tools and way more than one way to do it. https://tecmobowl.org/forum/167-hackingemulation/

Bump again

Simply Amazing. Really, I'm getting chills. Yes, I caught that Shimoji and Tomie pic. AMAZING!

I gotta say. I LOVE the cheesedick rivalries that @DT. has with @Tick and @XtraLargent. Can't believe Tick got an 0 for 3 vs DT, but the hate is real! lol. And Tick gave Pete 1 of only 2 losses on the day if my math is correct. Kudos man. @ptitteri brought his A game!

Pete, I respect the hell out of you traveling up for CFT 3 and this Honbasho and leaving because 'sponsibilities. I feel a little sorry in that I didn't get to play you again in the bracket since you had to leave, and I was very guilty of taking some time to enjoy the day and thus pushing things late (HEY I wasn't the ONLY one). But regardless, I did want to do a sorry, not sorry deal for you. I am sorry because I wish we could have played our 3rd game of the day. Not sorry because I was very thoroughly enjoying myself. Also, 3 dicks inside could have saved like 5 minutes of time if they would have opened the back door, but instead I got some bullshit response like You Forfeit (thanks @Tick ) and Nope, Yokozuna Off the table ( @XtraLargent ). So I blame them for like 5 minutes of that.

I have thoughts. First off, it was great to get back to hanging and playing with the fellas. Ultimately, this is what I look forward to the most. I really enjoyed the format, up until the choices for the playoffs got real cheesedicky. Here's a recap of my day. Spent most of Friday ( a day off ) working on the stream setup and overlay. The sound on the stream was fine but my laptop had some kind of Sound error for output that ended up having me spend hours on it until late in the night when I quit and watched the end of day 14 of Hatsu Basho 2019, and then the incredible Women's final in the Aussie Open . In bed late. Wake up and already had most everything packed but still got off to a late start leaving Tacoma (my bad), but I did end up bringing some larger TVs and some systems to the party. Arrive and briefly catch up with the crew while unloading the Forester. Great to see 91 Huskies, JBrooks, and GRIP again, it had been since July or before since seeing any of these fools. Sad that Stu and 6Killer couldn't make it. But I was mostly busy setting up so we could get started. Finally get set up and parked my car and now we ready to roll after DT gave some "description" as to what was going to go down. I learn that if I won I could secure Yokozuna status. This had a YUGE impact on me. Mentally tried to get dialed in and... Game 1 Week 11 vs PTitteri - I win toss and the best choices are TB DET, KC RAMS, CHI MIN, and ATL WAS. I choose DET TB and pete takes Barry. So I tried to get dialed in and... I get waxed. I lost like 17-3, and it should have been way worse. I threw 3 picks with Vinny and if not for getting a couple of fumbles, this would have been (well really it was) a total demolition. GG Pete. Game 2 Week 12 vs Invaderstar - Vader wins toss and selects DEN KC. I take DT and he's in excellent. So were the Tecmo Gods favor towards me again, this time I'm able to use their divine gifts to secure a win. Sorry about the shit luck Vader. Vader was pretty down, I think starting 0-2, but he turned this around after this game. 21-13 Chiefs, thanks to a DT blocked XP on Denvers 1st TD as well. Game 3 Week 13 vs XtraLargent - He wins and calls DAL WAS. I take Dallas and both of his QBs are in bad. I giggle and said something funny about the status of his QBs. I had a good game. DAL 21- WAS 3. Game 4 Week 14 vs Gripsmoke - I win toss and while there are some solid matchups in this round, I take WAS RAMS, a matchup I really despise. Or maybe Grip called this one? I think I called it and he picked the RAMS and Everett and Green were in EXC. I got stomped. 44 -14. Played bad and Grip OWNED. GG Game 5 Week 15 vs XtraLargent - Grip wins toss in his game vs PTitteri and calls IND NE. for once I want to win the coin toss, but XL does and he does NOT call IND NE like I request. He picks CIN MIA and I take Danny Boy. I don't remember much about this game but the final says 35 -7. I'm sure I got some cheesedick luck in here somewhere, but I was peak Donkey in my own mind at this point, playing THE SUPREME DONKEY. GG Game 6 Week 16 vs GRIP AGAIN - I'm really pissed that we play week 14 and 16 when we could have played IND NE like we ALWAYS do in Week 15, but the Torikumi did not support us this day. Of course I win the toss and there's not a lot of enticing matchups this week. Somehow I thought I was slick and picked SD MIA, really hoping that Grip would take SD, but little did I realize (because my own fault) that Butts was hurt. There's no way Grip takes SD with the uncertainty of Butts status for this game. He takes MIA and Butts DOES come back. A really tight game 17-10 late looks worse on the final score 26-10 after I got a key stop on an outtap (grip claims, I thought I had a drone stand up from losing a grapple on the line of scrimmage and help) on 4th and short where we met in the hole. I get a score and grip takes a safety. This was a key game (or so I thought) because we were both 3-2 coming in. GG Grip Game 7 Week 16 vs PTitteri - Pete wins the toss and calls KC RAI. I know I need to win this to secure a bye in the bracket, and hopefully hand Pete his first L of the day. The man was on a mission. I take KC because DT and really I won because Jay Schroeder, even in solid condition, sucks balls. Multiple wide open doinks, and I pull it out, 34-21, securing the 2 seed and a bye. Playoffs - I get winner of JoeyB vs JBrooks, and Joey handles his business with the young buck who was having a rough time. The kid did great man. But Joey is solid and so it goes. I win the toss and the options are less than stellar. THE best matchup of the 4 in the divisional round is CIN SEA. The other Options were RAI BUF, GB CHI, and WAS SF. I throw CIN SEA as I don't trust that I could stop the BILLS with the Raiders D, and despite a rocky start am able to hold on 17-10. Playoffs Rd 2 - I play grip and I'm about to lose my shit, because I won the toss and my 2 choices are SEA BUF and GB SF. After a while, I select SEA BUF before DT intervenes because we should only be in the divisional round according to his calculations. So played on a different cart THANK GOD. I have a MIA BUF option and choose it. Grip takes BUF and finds QB BILLS, and Thurmal in EXC. Reed too I think? and his LBs were on point too. I am able to get an early fumble, but Grip gets a ridonk CC to end the half tied 21 21. 2nd half I'm forced to punt and he scores and then I throw a pick to Kelso needing to score. GG BUF 35-MIA 28. I'm a little perturbed at this point because winning the toss seemingly meant losing in the most crucial part of this tourney. It happens again after I wait out Joey vs Invader. Joey pulls out the W and my choices are BUF HOU or CHI NO. I would rather not give Joey a good QB, so I select CHI NO and it pays off. It almost didn't, because Joey was still pulling some magic from an excellent Tomczak to good and excellent twins Morris and Davis WRs. I hang on for a 17-14 win. Pete had to take off because it was so late and he had JBrooks with him and had to drive back home to PTown, so I essentially got a bye past him. I played the loser of DT vs GRIP, with the chance to play the winner in the finals. We agreed on playing out on the SF HOU super bowls that were left (there were 2). I won the coin toss so DT had SF. I lost 13-7 even though I got 2 key fumbles late, there was zero connection downfield when it counted for Warren Moon, so 3rd place it was. Great time. Look forward to another Honbasho with perhaps the higher seed getting to call whether they call matchup? Or some other fix for the final rounds. I ended up packing the car and giving Grip a ride to his car and friend's spot in Burien then head home to catch the final bouts of Senshuraku of Hatsu 2019. Tamawashi wins the Yusho, his first at age 34, pretty impressive, and his wife gave birth to his 2nd child on the same day. Then I watch the Aussie Open Men's final. I stan for Rafa, but damn he was thoroughly dominated by the Djoker, probably the most impressive I've EVER seen him, and that's saying something. Great to see everyone again. Didn't get to say by to @XtraLargent so that sucked. Until July I guess? CFT! CFT! CFT! PNW TECMO RULZ!

It was stated at the beginning of the Honbasho that 40 points will get you Yokozuna status, and if I won, those 8 points would get me to said Yokozuna status. Needless to say I was extremely PUMPED!. Then some things happened, but like the great Konishiki who was the reason I got into sumo back in the 80's I was able to secure Ozeki. Banzai!

And that ending tho. If that were to happen in real life????

Another intricacy (that really only matters if you're actually playing man vs man in the Tecmo Bracket) is that not only does the AFC always get P1 Homefield in the Super Bowl, the best seed to get is actually the 2 seed, as they are on the top of the bracket and whomever they play in the conference championship, they will be home (P1)

I fixed the CFT results you had (I won CFT 1 and 3, Rando won CFT 2. ) Also, Invader was also CFT RNG 1 Champ. ? PS I love the descriptions added. Shoot the J!

Haha, I think @DT. is doing that, but I could help?

I actually lost to @invader_star64 in the Super Bowl after we BOTH went 1-5 in the regular season. I'm not sandbagging, you're sandbagging! I'm not @fairfensheeding , you are! I DID win CFT 3 in November though.... I think?

No Avail FTW

Not for this one. This is all or mostly og rom carts.

How goes this season?

There is also a Sumo game on the NES (Famicom really) but guess what, it's made my Tecmo! Pretty fun too! Couple more on the N64 but the NES version is more pick up and play.

Let kamp play as your opponent for every game "disguised" as the CPU

I'm of the same mind. Upon seeing this thread I tried to see what I could definitively remember about this time. When Tecmo Super Bowl first came out, me and a few friends of mine played a full season of it that weekend at my friend PK's house. Most of us were in our first year of college (we graduated 1991) and me and PK wore the original Tecmo Bowl out. Always as CHI SF and he was always SF. His favorite team (at that time, home boy is a Seahawks fan now) was the Eagles as he was from the Philly area (and Cincy area too) before moving out to the PNW. We would go on to have my one of 2 epic TSB rivalries with me as the Cowboys and him as the Eagles (he ended up dominating the all time series after a time where he pushed the above .500 lead to like 30 or 40, and I was able to keep it 50 50 after that). But this is about the release of TSB. Us guys got the game ( I'm fairly sure I bought the cart ) and played around with it and saw we could do a season mode, so we started a season and ended up spending most of that weekend in his family's entertainment room learning and learning to love all the additions and advancements this game had. The teams included were of course Dallas and Philly, one guy was the Raiders, another the Chiefs and another was the Giants. We might only have had 5 guys. During that weekend, I fondly remember leaving PK's spot on I believe the Saturday night to go see our alma mater Edmonds Woodway play one of the Shore- schools, Shoreline or Shorewood. I tried looking up that date and our WESCO AAA Basketball scores or schedule but no luck other than this season preview from the Seattle Times back then. That preview was dated Thursday Dec. 12 and I found the WESCO AA preview for Friday DEC 13. Both seemed to suggest that the conference schedule was about to start. We left mid season (and FUNKY, as in we hadn't really showered since starting the season Friday night) and caught the game, and Edmonds-Woodway lost. I'm fairly sure we finished that season early Sunday after running games all night and guys waking up whoever had to play next. I did end up winning the Super Bowl, although I don't remember playing a human for it, I think the Raiders and Chiefs owners lost to the computer. I'm pretty sure I snuck into the playoffs that season with an 8-8 record too. Now, for the date, I also considered what was going on in the NFL at that time. 1991, my favorite team was in the middle of a resurgence that was semi expected, but surprising in that the run of wins started with a game in which Aikman got injured and Beuerlein stepped in and finished the eventual Super Bowl Champs the Redskins off with a play that I was reminded of when Amari Cooper caught that ball that bounced off the Eagle DB in OT and then hurried into the end zone. To beat the Redskins, Beuerlein hit Irvin near the 5 yard line with Darrell Green closing in from behind him, Irvin bounced the ball up, caught it, pivoted and took it in the end zone for a 21-7 lead against the 11-0 Redskins early in the 4th quarter. Here it is queued up on this YouTube vid. Later on you can see this pick of Aikman injured walking the sideline in front of Tommie Agee with Craig Kupp (Cooper's Dad) in the foreground. Well, to get back on point, the last 2 games of the season I recall where I was, and it was with PK both games. Week 16 saw Eagles vs Cowboys. Winner basically had the playoffs locked up if I recall correctly. The Eagles D was absolutely a TERROR! I think they sacked Aikman 11 times in the first meeting, a bludgeoning shutout. Well the Eagles had their own QB issues as Jeff Kemp was needed because both Randall and McMahon were injured. Kemp started that season sucking for the Seahawks who lost Dave Krieg pretty early that season as well, so I had some faith that the Cowboys might be able to pull it out, even though that D was literally a threat. They did, thanks to a huge Punt Return from Kelvin Martin for a TD to give them a 15 - 10 lead I think. I remember watching this game at PKs house with just PK upstairs in his parents room because I think his Dad had some sort of NFL Ticket back then, because I didn't have a way to watch it at home. I've never connected this as part of that same weekend of the first weekend of Tecmo, although it very well could be. Pretty sure it was a 10am start here in the PNW and it was just me and PK, so the rest of the guys must have bounced ( I might have too, to go home and shower and come back, just can't recollect). The next weekend, I remember going with PK and some of our crew to the Northgate mall for some last minute Christmas shopping, and I was listening to the radio really tuned in to the final standings for who would lead the league in rushing (and receiving, but I think Irvin had a much bigger lead, and Emmitt had competition Barry (who missed week 1 in a Lions 45-0 loss to the Redskins). I'm pretty sure I heard the confirmation that Emmitt won the rushing title as we left the mall when all the games with Barry and Emmitt ended. It feels more likely that our Tecmo weekend happened the previous weekend upon reflecting on it. Basically, I kind of feel Dec 13 feels right. We were excited to play it. Probably planned on getting together to play it on that day because it was just coming out, but also guys were coming back from college (not really that far, they mostly went to UW a few miles south, and I was at Shoreline C.C. and living at home). Perhaps it was S.O.P. for these games to be released on Fridays? IDK. That's what I can add... PS I'm also going to try and hit up those guys to see what they recall, maybe we can hammer that date down and get some other memories from that weekend.