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☆SPOTLIGHT:SFxT: ItsXMikeXMason (Hwoarang,Sagat,King,Law) With Interview HD

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A SFxT Gaming SPOTLIGHT on the talented Mike Mason! ☆☆☆PLAYER INTERVIEW IN DESCRIPTION☆☆☆ 1) What is your real name? Michael Lee Mason Jr. 2) Where are you from? Trumbull, CT 3) How Old are you? I just turned 18 on 4/18/14 4) What are your hobbies? Let's get the obvious out of the way; I play fighting games, mainly AE (Ultra when it comes out) and XT. Other than that, hanging out with the family and friends. 5) Whats your top 3 Main Teams in SFxT? I have a main character in Hwoarang, but I'm always switching secondaries. But my best 6 would be Hwo, Sagat, King, Law, Jin, and Akuma. I just grew up with Tekken more than I did SF. 6) How long do you practice per day/been playing SFxT? Since Day 1, but took a break after the summer in 2013. It was getting annoying playing without anyone. Then I was able to go to NEC and I met most of the players that have been on these spotlights (Ice, Braynestorm, Kelvin Jeon, Tampa Bison, Jibbo, etc.) And the rest is history. 7) Who is your favorite player/look up to in the FGC? For XT it depends, all these characters have a lot of representation. So Jibbo, ZombieDriver, Saionide, Hero of Time, it goes on. For FGC in general, Smug, Chin, BJ Unchained, Snake Eyez, Pr Rog, Justin Wong, Ryan Hart, Alex Valle, and Tampa Bison just to name a few. I just look for great footsies and as well as great rush down. 8) Do you participate in local tourneys? if so, which was the most memorable? We have a local scene in CT, a lot of big named New England players come out for it. New Challengers run the events. Memorable moments from locals would be, playing against EMP Hiro in XT. I would learn something every time I played him. And he always gave me advice. But big moments would be NEC and WB8 (Winterbrawl 8). I just learned a lot from both of those majors. NEC, I played Wong first round in my pool in XT. Lost, but then ran through my entire pool which also had Jan in the pool (Still want to run it back!) then to get to losers finals and my button jams because of my hype. WB was good, I met more people and played Cody in AE well, and people like Smug were telling me I was getting better. And I played Romance in AE lost in a close 2-1. Both majors really fun. 9) What is your worst match up and why? Ok now this is hard, XT we all know the top tiers are ridiculously good. But I typically lose to footsie based characters (I.E Chun, Bison, Guile, etc.) Since my footsies are hot garbage, I struggle because they know where the whiff ranges are. In AE same thing, claw, boxer, dictator, chun, guile, etc. It is just something I'm trying to learn this overtime. I mean its working kinda haha. 10) Are you a Pad or Arcade stick player and why? Stick player, actually MVC3 was my first competitive FG. Plus, I was a little kid and I always went to the arcade with my dad and I played on stick. I didn't know how to fireball, all I knew was J.Rh and sweep. So learning stick was tricky but I think I'm ok now. So because of my dad and wanting to get better at FGS is why I play on stick. Not hating on pad at all. I played on pad a lot too. 11) Whats next for you? What's next, jeez I don't know. Hopefully go to another major (possibly TFC or Summer Jam), prepare for Ultra, keep making my family proud doing what I love, and keep meeting new people. Oh in ultra I'm playing a lot of characters along with my favorite prisoner Cody. Yun, Yang, Ken, and Sagat are all secondarys and rolento ohhhhh how I missed you. 13) Any shout out you would like to give? Shout Outs to the CT Scene as always for motivation. To TSC (The Steam Co.), for letting me spread the name around the brackets during tournaments. The FGC for being the best community. Shout outs to the XT scene for reminding me where I came from. And family and friends for dealing with my antics. And you for letting me conduct be a part of this interview. BONUS 2)Why the combination of your Main team? Combination of Hwo and Sagat came from Jibbo's team of Jin/Sagat. I wanted to put my own flavor to how the team could work. And the other characters because I always liked those tekken characters and akuma is just a badass lol. 3)How can people reach you? Follow me on twitter @TSC_Mike_Mason for all of my antics make sure you follow tube Olympic gaming for more of these spotlights, also @thesteamcovapes for all your ecig needs. And @newchallengers for the latest updates from the CT scene. → Can i get a like on this video? Subscribe if you're new! → FOLLOW ME: https://twitter.com/AKumahMatata