Down into the depths of the Earth we go!

The ping pong table served a greater purpose this night.  This was a night of playing Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One.

July 11, 2015

The Halo Master Chief Collection has landed. Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4 multiplayer maps all in one package!
Custom grand champion trophy hand crafted by Lady Cake Ninja!

WE’VE GOT A NEW KING!

Epic connection problems with Halo : The Master Chief Collection resulted in unplayable games. Parties were torn apart from each other, then hidded, locked, pushed into new parties. It was a disaster! Luckily, we were prepared. It took only a few minutes to connect our three remaining Xbox 360s up and the tournament began in earnest with 16 matches of Halo 3, followed by 8 matches of Halo 4.

Our first batch of players: Nick Phoenix/Nick, Lady Cake Ninja/Janel, Ivan0003/Eddie, VK Meatball/Cruz, VK Guppy/Josh, VK Heman/Jonah (AKA Herman), and VK Eggroll/Rob.
Recuring Juggernaut and Free For All matches were used to gain points and determine team captains. Team captains took turns choosing the remaining players to fill out their rosters. Players then collected points based on team wins. This format worked well to create a good parity of teams.

Reinforcements arrived two thirds of the way into the Halo 3 round. VK Guppy was replaced with Brady, VK The Dude/Isaac, VK Hippo/Paul, and VK Your Face/Aaron. They fought furriously to make up for lost time, but when Guppy announced, quite harsley, “Last game!” an epic match ensued. Team Blind Yellow Lynx defeated the Green Bob Cat Bears Things 600pts to 590pts. a difference of 1 kill.

In the end Eddie won the trophy with 14 points, Paul and Isaac collected Halo posters with their 9 points each.

Now on to plan the next one, and hopefully Halo MCC will have been patched up and be ready to go! My only regret is that we did not get to play Husky Raid. Next time.

November 24th, 2007. 7pm

VK XIII – The Old Man and the Kumite — “It’s not how long you live. It’s how well you die!”

In honor of the founder of VK’s birthday, VK13 will be a tribute to him.
Featured custom games include:
(1) VIP – Protect the founder against would be assassins.
(2) Juggernaut – Kill the founder again and again …. and again.
(3) Oddball – Take the founder’s skull and run. Or beat other people senselessly with it.
(4) Territories – Bring your friends to the founder’s favorite places on the map and slay them.
(5) Neutral Bomb Assault – Bring your present to the founder’s base and arm it. Happy Birthday!
(6) Capture the Flag – Is your flag bearer lost on the way to the party? Slay him … and bring the flag yourself.
(7) Crazy King – Find the hill and bury the founder in it.

… and much much more.

No medals. No trophies. When asked why not, the founder says, “Let them eat cake!” (Cake supplied by the Cake Ninja. Please thank her … then slay her.)

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Links to the pictures of the cake, and the video can be found via this link!

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And the winner is…

The Cake Ninja

Here is are the full final results.

Player	Score
Jack Lo	208
Nick Phoenix	305
The Cake Ninja	353
VK Abramo	196
VK Brady X	147
VK Guest (aka John)	287
VK Jonah	104
VK Josh	98
VK Junior	115

Players are linked to Bungie.net Stats.

Weapons trophy winners were:
VK Guest (John) – Sniper Champion
Nick Phoenix – Needler Champion
The Cake Ninja – Melee Champion

 

VK returns for it’s twelfth installment, seven years after the original! Do you have what it takes to claim the trophy? Quite frankly the answer is NO! Please… you have not practiced, you have no Xbox360 or even original Xbox. Face it, you are a loser, and you will continue to lose. But look on the bright side, you make me laugh! You are like a clown. You make Janel laugh very hard, and it is she who is current trophy holder! You think you can beat her? You can’t even come close. However, you may have luck on your side. She may be called to take care of Faith, a handicaping if you will. Do you think you can win that way? We shall see. In the words of Brady, Bring it!

Main Event – Team Halo 2
Teams will be selected at random. The losing team shall draft a player from the winning team in an endless cycle. Winning team shall select the game type.
Team wins will be tallied for each individual. The top players will play a best of three to determine the Kumite Champion.
Xbox Live Friends will be considered for entry, but NOT for any prizes you sandbaggers!

Secondary Events –

Jimmy Foot Challenge – Street Fighter Alpha 3 or Street Fighter 2 Turbo Old school Street Fighter, just powered up a little. Original Character Moves. All Character Moves. IGN Guide.

Halo 1 – The Forgotten Maps
Play original Halo matches on Sidewinder, Rat Race, and other original maps.
Free for all play, best two face off for the prize.

Soul Edge – Soul Blade, Soul Calibur 2, or Soul Calibur 3
Pick one game, we don’t have all night to play you know! A few round robin matches while we eat, and then on to the finals.

RESULTS – official scoresheet in MS Excel format.

The spoils.Halo 1 – The Medal and a Halo pen
Street Fighter – The Headband of Glory! (there’s got to be a cooler name than headband)
– – and Sound drop keychain if they arrive from Hong Kong in time.
Soul Edge – The Samarai Sword leter opener!
Halo 2 – The Trophy and **2** Halo pens
and T-shirts

and Janel’s cookies.
 

 Widening our Horizons

Virtual Kumite XI
4/22/06
Brady on a keyboard and mouse, 37″ widescreen HD lcd in the living room, movie projector in the dining room.
This kumite had everything a kumite can have. Except the tournament.
Halo 2, pizza, Halo, Burnout, pizza, Halo, Fusion Frenzy, Street Fighter 2, MK3, cheese steaks, 1943, Legendary Wings, Gauntlet 2, and Dance Dance Revolution.
But I forgot to give out the pens. I also forgot to finish the flashing medals, we’ll give those out next time.
Thanks for coming everyone, can’t wait for the next one. What technological advancements will it bring?

Also, the doily has been removed from the trophy.

 

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Hail to the Queen

For the first time in Virtual Kumite history, the Grand Master is a woman. Yes, you heard me correctly, our Virtual Kumite Champion is a female. She fights like a girl.

Femanistic opinion: Wonderful! Women rock! I think it’s great the women can share in the fun and compete as well as men!

Manistic opinion (commonly reffered to as male chauvinist): WHAT!?!! How can this be? How did this happen?! What is the matter with you people?! Can’t even beat a girl! You have disgraced men everywhere! Who were these dopes who lost? (Nick, Cruz, Jonah, Josh, Enrico)

The players: Nick, Janel, Cruz, Jonah, Josh, Enrico.

Thus concludes the Virtual Kumite. You think YOU have what it takes to dethrone Queen Janel? Bring it! Because right now the Queen is redecorating the Virtual Kumite Trophy in little hearts and lace. That’s right, the trophy for the next kumite will be a DOILY! I hope you are satisfied.

 

Fifth Anniversary!
March 5th, 2005

Virtual Kumite 9, as in 9 players. Too much carnage with 9 people over 3 xboxes? Mel would say yes, but he is a newbie, and he will learn that there is no such thing as too much carnage. But the newbie put the vets to shame by winning two events. Jonacide had stiff competition from Enrico and Matt, yet he is still the man to beat at Halo and Halo 2. Jonah takes home the Kumite Trophy as Kumite Champion.

Too much carnage? No. Too much food? Yes! We may have to ban all food from the next tournament.

Let us hope we have all learned one thing at least. When Junior says “Random?” it is best to respond in the negative.

Players Nick the media center edition Cruz the Madagascar of HALO Jonah the level 7 Josh the tahitian Mel the virginian Dann, friend of Jr. Enrico, friend of Matt Enrico’s friend Matt Brady “Where’s jump again?”

Games Halo 2 Soul Calibur 2Results Soul Calibur medalist = Mel Halo 2 teams medalists = Mel and Matt Halo 2 singles medalist = Jonah Kumite champion = Jonah Full Results

“Virtual Kumite The Trophy” is awarded 

February 21st, 2004.

VK8-1 Champion Josh officially changes name to:

“Bring me the head of Cruz”

Results report: 8-16-04 – Well… Much has transpired since that day, I don’t think we stuck to the format, I really can’t recall. I am pretty sure the kumite turned into a large amounts of ONLINE Halo carnage via Xbconnect.
We were each taking turns being eviscerated by people who play the game WAY TOO MUCH!!!

If you have information on this kumite please send it to oldsenileman@nickflor.com.

 

Results: Many, many fights broke out before the games. Kilik, Assassin, Talim, and Voldo received game misconducts, and were ejected. Nadia caused a delay of game with her vomiting. She was cleaned up, was doing well, and put back to bed after some bedtime stories.

After the fights and vomit, the Flyers (Josh) beat the Devils (Jonah) 6 to 5.
The Leafs (Jonah) beat the Chili Dogs (Nick) by a large margin.
The Bruins (Josh) beat Poland (Nick).
Jonah’s eyes hurt at this point.
The Bruins (Josh) beat the Wild (Nick).
Therefore the winner can only be Josh.
Josh wins the Kumite Cup in name since an adequate prize cup has not yet been found.

Jonah then proceeded to kill Nick and Josh in 3 rounds of Halo.

July 5th, 2003. A day to make history. The stage is set on an extremely hot and humid summer day. Out of nowhere comes the storm of malcontent. Angrily the storm batters the power lines to the Stage of History. Several attempts to darken battlefield are needed before the storm achieves success. But eventually the storm leaves, laughing evilly as it goes.

For the first time in history, the Virtual Kumite must be canceled.

Undaunted, the Flor brothers arrive on the scene, hoping power will be restored shortly, and that carnage may be reaped. However, after eating some pizza in the sweltering heat of an unlit apartment they have had enough. Heading for the cooler air outdoors, Nick collects his PSone with lcd screen and plugs it into the jeep’s power outlet. Finally the Kumite can begin!!!

The format has changed however, Soul Blade is our only game. And the test is not completely skill, but endurance. We must survive the relentless heat, the biting insects, and the carbon monoxide from the jeep. Truly a survivor series.

The Results:

 

Win	Loss		Win	loss		Win	loss
Josh	Jonah		Nick	Josh		Jonah	Nick
Jonah	Josh		Nick	Jonah		Josh	Nick
Josh	Jonah		Josh	Nick

Final

Josh VS Jonah – WINNER – JoshCongratulations to Josh for winning the Soul Blade Master Medal. VK8 part 2 shall be played soon to award the remaining prizes.

 

Learning to count was half the battle.

Date: March 1st, 2003.

Format: After some warm ups we had – 1 vs 3 play. The single player’s goal was to get as many points as possible. Those points were added to his total after each game. At the end of round one, the 4 worst players faced off in a rocket launcher match, the winner played the 1st place player the final match.

Initial round: 10 wins to win, 5 lives only.
Second round: Last man standing, rockets only, 5 lives in “The Longest Hall”
Final round: Last man standing, one on one, 3 lives each player, pistols only, in “Battle Creek”.

GRAND PRIZE:
A single VHS copy of a highly coveted movie! Oh yes, you will want to kill for this prize!

Combatants: King Friday(Cruz), King Saturday(Josh), Destroh-nah(Jonah), The One King(Nick), Through The Portal(Brady)

Results: As with all of my tournament formats, most players were left scratching their heads. Hey, I’m just trying to mix it up and keep it interesting! Anyway, I thought the team play worked well. However true greatness cannot be overcome by sheer numbers. I destroyed the competition again.

After 2 rounds King Saturday was the 2nd place winner. Who was, shortly thereafter, dispatched by No.1, The One King.

Not being one to hog my own fabulous prizes, the Grand Prize went to King Saturday.

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(Virtual Kumite 3 was actually the collegiate name for Virtual Kumite 6)

Saturday October, 19th, 2002.
Plasma rifles, pistols, shotguns, grenades, rocket launchers, warthogs, and diplomas.
Choose your weapon. All contestants must wear a cap and gown. Winner gets to payoff financial aid loans.

Virtual Kumite 3…
Nick wins. Enough said.

 

(Virtual Kumite 5 was dubbed Halo Kumite 2 to taunt Bill Gates)

August 10th, 2002. 7:00PM

Double the Xboxes means octuple the carnage! Thanks to Enrico we were able to hook up 2 Xboxes for the nastiest Kumite yet. Eight players had at one another simultaneously, game after blood soaked game. The most memorable games involved the aptly named Blood Gulch, and the “Nothing But Rockets” rounds.

The Heroes:

• Jonah “The Hamburglar” – Gold Medal – Grand Master
• Brady “Lord of the Cheese Rings” – Silver Medal – Team Champ
• Cruz “Royale with Cheese” – Silver Medal – Team Champ
• Josh “Chicken Fingers” – Bronze Medal – Revenge Champ

The Roadkill: Nick “S.P.A.M.” Vince “Veal” Enrico “Super Size it!” Matt “Mystery Meat”

Official Referee:

• Nadia “Fresh Milk”

Additional info:

• Submit your own customized games to me now!
• Multiplayer Games Guide.
• Halo game manual in pdf format.
• Halo Multiplayer Maps
• Crown Awards

Microsoft tried to undermined Halo Kumite 2 by announcing they will hold their own Halo National Championship on the exact same day! I am thankful that Microsoft released Halo, however, nickflor.com will not be defeated! Therefore Halo Kumite 2 went ahead as scheduled. I am issuing an invitation to Bill Gates, join us at the next Halo Kumite and you shall experience the ONE TRUE HALO TOURNAMENT! LONG LIVE VIRTUAL KUMITE!

 

Halo has consumed him. The desire for revenge boils in his very soul. To destroy the Halo Master Chief is his only goal. Jonah has become transformed into Jonacide, Frag Master Apprentice. Driven by a Darkness as black as the armor that adorns him. He grows more powerful every match, and soon I shall not be able to contain him! I must not go over to the Darkness with him! For if I do, then no one shall stand before the combined will of the Flor Brothers and not wet his pants.

I shall keep a log of the battles waged, so that you may see to which side the balance is shifted. Darkness or Light…

date	game type	winner
03-19-02	25 Frags – Rockets	Jonacide
03-19-02	2 minute hold the skull	Nisk
03-19-02	2 minute time accumulation	Nisk
03-19-02	3 round capture the flag	Nisk
03-19-02	Reverse tag	Jonacide
03-19-02	15 Frags – Snipers	Nisk
03-31-02	Jonah brought Josh, Beth, and Stacy to try and distract me and tilt the odds in his favor. After an initial win, he was once again put in his place with a couple crushing defeats by me. Actually it was very close.
03-31-02	10 Frags – Wizard	Jonacide
03-31-02	10 Frags – Damnation – no snipe	Nisk
03-31-02	15 Frags – Battle Creek – snipe	Nisk

 

(Frag Fest 1 translates to Virtual Kumite 4 in Swedish.)

	February 23rd, 2002 The tournaments are coming faster and faster now, and Microsoft Xbox brings us new technology for our gaming pleasure. Breaking from hand to hand fighting games, we move to the first person shooter front for the first time.
Games Halo for XboxPlayers Brady, Cruz, Jonah, Josh, Nick

Results
Players enjoyed 4 player mode for the first time. Scoring Kills + Assists – Deaths, the game became horrifically unbalanced. By the end of the first 5 rounds, Nick had 33, the next highest score was 2, and then scores went into negative numbers. So we scraped the scoring and everyone just tried to kill Nick. Nick versus 3 players at a time! The other players rotated in, and everyone failed, even at capture the flag! But that’s to be expected, Nick had 3 targets and the team only had one.
I must admit I did expect to win this tournament, every other player except Jonah had never played before, and I had been playing for weeks. That had something to do with skipping the trophy. Instead of a trophy we had a Surprise package from Archie Mcphee. Finger puppet roaches, glow in the dark skulls, gila monsters, growing body parts, and glow in the dark spaghetti and meat balls. These are a few of my favorite things!

In spite of the unbalance, Brady’s cries of “No! One more time!”, Cruz’s anger, and Josh’s skydiving, I believe this will be the preferred game for the next tournament! Jonah already scheduled a rematch for three days after!

Excel spreadsheet planned tournament.

 

 

Past Tournament Games

 

2014: Halo 3, Halo 4, and hopefully soon, Halo Master Chief Collection (after 343 fixes it!)

 

(VK2.5 was renamed VK3 due to poor understanding of the decimal system.)
(no sloths were injured in the playing of this tournament)

December 1, 2001. I couldn’t wait, we had to have another Kumite. And this tournament would introduce for the first time Gaming Battle Couch Yamato, the largest blue couch ever constructed! This would be the perfect opportunity for Cruz to seek his revenge. This tournament was dubbed Virtual Kumite 2 1/2 : Battle on the Big Blue Couch – Vengeance is Served.

Games
Soul Calibur for Dreamcast

Players
Aaron, Brady, Cruz, Jonah, Josh, Nick, and Vince

Results
The tournament took on a single game but with an epic new twist. Three rounds were fought. The first round depended on random character selections. The second round saw players choosing characters with no restrictions. Points were awarded to players that determined how the third round was played. The third round was named the Gauntlet. The Gauntlet required the highest-ranking player to defeat every other player until all were defeated or point accumulations pushed another player into first.

Epic and Grueling, the Gauntlet was the longest part of the tournament. Spectators cheered, chanted, and yelled. Some spectators begged for an end. Finally as Cruz met his last combatant, Josh faltered with fatigue, and Cruz became the Grand Master of Kumite 2 1/2!

Excel spreadsheet, with results, used for the tournament.

Josh, Brady, Jonah, Cruz, Vince 

March 3rd, 2001. Virtual Kumite 2 : Soul Kumite. Games Soul Blade for Playstation and Soul Calibur for Dreamcast Players The magnificent seven participants were; Nick, Cruz, Brady, Jonah, Josh, Vince, and Aaron. Results The Grand Master was Nick, the runner up was Cruz. There was some controversy as the final deciding battle was chosen on the fly and favored Nick. Cruz’s revenge boiled away inside of him. He would taste vengeance one day.

 

Cruz did not wear a tux to the tournament.

Games Street Fighter 2 for SNES, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, for Playstation, Soul Blade for Playstation, and Soul Calibur for Dreamcast.Players Nick, Brady, Cruz, and Aaron Results This was the first time a tournament had been convened. A trophy, similar to the one pictured under VK2, was crafted as reward proclaiming its owner Virtual Kumite Grand Master. I don’t remember how we played or kept score, but in the end Cruz ruled undisputedly as Grand Master!

Kumite Events	Style	Winner	Runner up
1: Street Fighter II Turbo	Choose set character	Brady	Cruz
	All same character	Brady	Cruz
	Never same twice	Nick	Brady
2: Mortal Kombat Trilogy	Choose set character	Cruz	Nick
	Never same twice	Cruz	Nick
3: Soul Calibur	Choose set character	Cruz	Nick
	Never same twice	Brady	Nick
4: Soul Blade	Choose set character	Cruz	Aaron
	Never same twice	Cruz	Brady

Points	Aarron	Brady	Cruz	Nick	Winner
Street Fighter II Turbo	0	7	2	3	Brady
Mortal Kombat Trilogy	0	0	6	2	Cruz
Soul Calibur	0	3	3	2	Brady/Cruz
Soul Blade	1	1	6	0	Cruz
Totals	1	11	17	7	Cruz