As you may know, today is June 16th, 2009. One month and one day from now, the biggest fighting game tournament is about to happen. That’s right, Evo season baby! With a new game like Street Fighter IV in the mix, a lot of stuff could happen. We’ll also get to test out Tekken 6, which both Steffan and Tyler are probably the most excited out of us three. I’m looking forward to meeting some of the SRKers that I speak to online and reunite with old friends from the GTASF. Who could also forget about all the mad hype matches that are going to happen. Daigo vs. JWong again maybe? Or is Valle going to show what the West Coast is really made of?

Evolution 2k9 is going to be one of the best Evolutions since the time they were introduced, why? Because it’s finally a fresh start, out with some of the old, in with the new (somewhat). With so many new gamers coming down to see what the hype is all about, how can one not be thinking that Evo 2k9 will be the best one. Granted I’ve never been to one and I believe that going to this one is a great start for me to see how things will go.

This being said, I’m not really looking to place at Evo, after all, I can barely place here locally, what makes you think I can take on the world. But at least I can take out the trash aka Andrew, but then again, so can anyone else in the scene.

But even though I won’t place I’d like to see myself do somewhat fairly decent, and this my friends, is why for the next month, Thurs and Fridays will be my practice time with everyone here in SFIV, and some people in 3S…that also means I have to reconstruct my stick from Finkle. Better do that soon too. Along with Steffan, and Tyler sometimes, we expect to see many people who can’t make it to the usual Ranbats on Friday on the Thursday gatherings, even though they don’t count for anything, it’s better than sitting at home doing diddly squat. So I’m expecting you guys to show up. It’s summer time too so that gives no excuse to some people!

Anyways, hope to see you guys out THIS Thursday and/or Friday.

Road to Evolution 2009 Trainee,

James “Korea” Kim