A couple of days ago, I participated in a fighting game tournament for a game based on the popular Granblue Fantasy franchise. Specifically, a beginner bracket.
Fighting games aren’t exactly for everyone, and there are multiple genres within the overall genre, but every so often I like to enter and see how well I stack up against the competition. The last time I entered something similar, I ended up winning a single 2 game set before losing two consecutive sets and being eliminated from the tournament.
Where do you go to improve, when you only have a finite amount of time to play; and aren’t able to sit for hours on end and play like your contemporaries? Also, how would it work if you don’t have friends to sit down in the same room with and play?
To that end, I ended up adapting a schedule used by Qudans; a Tekken player who returned to competitive play in 2017; after spending a large part of his formative years conscripted into military service; then working as a social worker in his native South Korea. I’m gonna try my hardest to keep this schedule!