Just got home from the event. To summarize my experience, I've never been so free in my life.
-I went something like 0-15 in casuals against 3 different guys. One Geif and 2 Bison's. They were just much better than me and I got bodied hard in many of those matches. The Bison matches just felt frustrating as hell as these guys got me to the corner quickly and made my life a living hell.
-I got DQ'd from both my matches in SF4. When I entered the ball room, I saw a bunch of set ups for AE and I thought that was it. Me not really giving a damn about anything else, I didn't wander off to check out the rest of the ball room. Several hours later I run into a guy and we talk about our pools. He tells me that mines already started and might be over already. It turns out that there were more SF4 stations on the other side of the room that's separated by the seats where the audience can sit down to watch the main stream. I had no idea and because it's so loud in there, I couldn't hear them even if they were shouting my name out loud.
-I figure I should play at least one more set of casuals just to try and make up for the DQ. I ask a couple of guys and they decide to do a long set before changing(FT5). They finish and coincidentally they announce the start of the next set of pools so they kick off everybody playing casuals
-So I'm walking out with my head low. Then I spot the mod station. I've always wanted to do that select button mod so I can plink jab. I ask him about it and he says he'll do it for $5. I told him that I'm going to get money. I get back and a girl is there and told me that he had just left to play some ST matches. Where? I have no idea.
The end, I drive 2 and a half hours back home to post this :*(