RetroAcademy Kick Off Tournament 3 May 2014

[Torchiador]

Will Stox be there too?

No he will not.

It is a name that scares also the strongest Kick Off divinities. No one can face a such perfection. Himself apart, of course.

[Freshmaker]

I thought Stox=perfection...

Hm. Back to the drawing-board...

[alkis21]

He means Maurizio!

[Torchiador]

Alkis, you must be like Harry Potter, who is the only one who calls Voldemort by name!.
btw, you resumed a very nice thread! ))

[Freshmaker]

Stox would mean it was Stox.

[Torchiador]

we spent a very nice day in a town that isn't so used to host kick off tournament. it will be Papozze 1 for the records but it will be remembered as RetroAcademy 1.0.
A well organized retro event with much hardware, much software and much software that isn't so software, do you know NEO GEO video games? quite far to be soft...

the tournament was fun, fun place too, between 2 goals of a 5 a side soccer pitch. 4 amiga stations, 9 players, 3 newbie that said already they will challenge again Fabrizio in Papozze, town mates) and 6 old koa faces.

Thanks to Fabrizio to organize such a great event + the kick off tournament!
I posted some pictures on fb ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/185040304886988/ )with the phone, here will follow a review of the day with some more and detailed pictures, in case some of you would like to join a tournament like this next year.

[Freshmaker]

Seems awesome

[Torchiador]

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[Torchiador]

Here is the review of the saturday's retrogame event.
Papozze is a small town in the North Est of Italy, near to Venice, we spent 2 hours and half to reach the venue by Car.
The team you know it already, in the first row Cousin and me, in the second row, my brother and Flavio.
Flavio reached Milan the night before as for him, it was a very long trip (very far North West to very far North Est), so he split the trip and the costs too.


the Venue was a stand used for sports and cultural events. a nice new 3 years old building with much wood for the roof.
RetroAcademy, the retro game and computer event gathered many collectors that have much stuff to show and to sell.
In fact it was possible to see a load of retro stuff, in many case very rare pieces of hardware and software masterpiece, just for those who were able to recognize it!







MAME had a special corner with a couple of Cabinets arcade style.


There was also some room for retro robots Art!



Although our love for retro stuff, we were there also to play kick off! it was GAMETIME!
Koney K wasn't sure to be there although he lives in the neighbourhood due to job issues but we were delighted to see him and, above all, his amazing ultra professional Commodore Drive Joystick!!!!


Of course also Fabrizio, the organizer of the RetroAcademy was attending the tournament. it was said that, perhaps some newbie could join the tournament, and in fact that was: even three young 21 years old boys joined their first tournament. they just know about the legend of the hardest and best soccer game ever, they wonted to join the legend.






Much people went among the soccer goals to see what we were doing. on the other side ladies were playing Mortal Kombat (ladies with mortal kombat???? WTF????) and kids were playing Super Mario Bros




The tournament didn't offer many surprises.

Remarkable notes:
Among the newbies Davide scored the first goal winning a pin to remark it! a pity that it was the only one he scored!
Sandro and Alessandro played an amazing, tense and fun match. Sandro caught a very nasty penalty kick, in the end of the match Sandro was leading by one and Alessandro had also a red card on his back, but cousin was able to rob the draw thanks to a last second lob! a gaol that gave Alessandro the second place in the tournament! Sandro was punished with his same weapon!
Koney was drawing 1-1 with me (he marked this many times in front of his arch rival Fabrizio).
Flavio scored much! I see him in a very good form!
Alessandro played well, in particular he had a very good performance with me scoring 7!
Sandro in cleaning the dust on his joystick, he'll be ready for the World Cup, hoping we will have one this year!
Our newbie friends were hammered but whey wanted it! they wanted to see how strong play players that enjoy the game since 1990 when they weren't even born. and it was even said that a world champion (sorry, a THREE times world champion!) was attending the tournament. we couldn't disappoint their expectations!
Well, the good news is that they liked very much the game and, as they live near Fabrizio, who have much hardware and room, it is possible that something might start there.
After the tournament there was some room to play arcades. Alessandro showed his skills with R-TYPE and Sandro demolished another one arcade playng Hyper Olympic (Track'n'Field)






It was a great Saturday, we had great fun, sure we will attend RetroAcademy 2.0!!

[Torchiador]

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        Davide B  0 - 10 Alessandro V
        Matteo B  0 - 9  Flavio Z
       Martino C  0 - 5  Sandro T
         Koney K  3 - 4  Fabrizio R
        Matteo B  0 - 8  Gianni T
       Martino C  0 - 10 Alessandro V
         Koney K  0 - 5  Flavio Z
      Fabrizio R  3 - 4  Sandro T
       Martino C  1 - 1  Davide B
         Koney K  1 - 6  Gianni T
      Fabrizio R  0 - 8  Alessandro V
        Sandro T  7 - 4  Flavio Z
         Koney K  3 - 1  Matteo B
      Fabrizio R  3 - 0  Davide B
        Sandro T  3 - 6  Gianni T
        Flavio Z  5 - 9  Alessandro V
      Fabrizio R  2 - 0  Martino C
        Sandro T 11 - 0  Matteo B
        Flavio Z  9 - 0  Davide B
    Alessandro V  7 - 9  Gianni T
        Sandro T  6 - 0  Koney K
        Flavio Z  7 - 0  Martino C
    Alessandro V  8 - 0  Matteo B
        Gianni T 13 - 0  Davide B
        Flavio Z  8 - 2  Fabrizio R
    Alessandro V  7 - 3  Koney K
        Gianni T 14 - 0  Martino C
        Davide B  0 - 1  Matteo B
    Alessandro V  5 - 5  Sandro T
        Gianni T 14 - 1  Fabrizio R
        Davide B  0 - 6  Koney K
        Matteo B  4 - 1  Martino C
        Gianni T  8 - 2  Flavio Z
        Davide B  0 - 8  Sandro T
        Matteo B  0 - 7  Fabrizio R
       Martino C  0 - 2  Koney K

[Abyss]

Wow - we couldn't hope for better ambassadors!

Very nice report Gianni!

[Steve Camber]

Excellent stuff!

Dammit, I should have been playing Mortal Kombat all these years..

[r.cross]

Congratulations - seems to have been a cool event!!
But Turrican on a Super Nes? Blasphemy!!