Stephen Tchaou

This season's so much tougher and sweatier than last. I'm constantly running into other top players and had to learn several new strikers just to live. Finally rewarded though by making it back on the leaderboard to my highest peak. Honestly, this probably the best I've ever been at a team shooter.

Power creep incarnate

Fighting game idea: a toggle option to hide your ranked points so that you are blind on how many points you have or gain/lose. Just can't see anything until the surprise 'You just made Master' announcement.

RESSHOUMANIA 2025 REGISTRATION IS LIVE!

- DECEMBER 13 + 14
- EARLY REG INCLUDES THE SHIRT
- 2 DAYS OF GAMES
- BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE PGG CREW AND FACTION BREWING
- TICKETS AND MORE INFO AT resshoumania.eventbrite.com

Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday's Tag In Battle!
Here are your winners for the following games:

Akatsuki Blitzkampf Ausf. Achse
🥇 SuddenBlackout
🥈 @bubbaex.bsky.social
🥉 @theosmeo.bsky.social

Capcom vs SNK 2
🥇 @pattheflip.bsky.social
🥈 DJcream
🥉 @zero-hourx.bsky.social

Legend of the Black Shawarma - Infected Mushroom
Return to the Sauce - Infected Mushroom
Love Death Immortality - The Glitch Mob
See Without Eyes - The Glitch Mob
Immersion - Pendulum
In Silico - Pendulum
Outrun - Kavinsky

Tag In Battle Winners (cont.)

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2
🥇 Joy
🥈 @bubbaex.bsky.social
🥉 @espadapete.bsky.social

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising
🥇 @zero-hourx.bsky.social
🥈 @juicer5024.bsky.social
🥉 Cecily

You can find the VODs from yesterday over here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mn...

Took some crazy grinding, but I just hit a new peak! Had to learn some new stuff and venture out of my comfort zone with some new Striker suits, and it hella paid off in the end. As a nice bonus, I also managed to get back and a lot further into the top 500. Game is still insanely fun! 😇

I'll be commentating the two Ft5s along with @kevatog.bsky.social. Tune in!

Got back in Champion and Top 500, this time in the full Mecha BREAK game and not just a beta. This game is so fun; I'm having an amazing time. Even the losses are honestly fun!😁

July 2025 Caliburst Chaos Code NSC Side Tournament:
🥇 @bubbaex.bsky.social
🥈 @cloudstrife420.bsky.social
🥉 UisZtupid

Great games guys! I'll see you at the next one!

I guess a digital trophy will have to do...

Galleon is hella fun, and she feels like she has a lot of sauce. This was the most GBVS Rising that I've played in a long time. I don't usually go after grappler-types, but this one's doing so many other things that it seems like a very refreshing take on the archetype. Maybe I'll grind GBVSR more.

It's always a great pleasure to chill, eat out, and play games with local buddies and out-of-region homies that I don't get to see regularly and to meet new faces that I've only talked to online until now. Shout-outs to all of you. I'm looking forward to running it back at Combo Breaker next year!

For Mystery, overall this might have been my worst major in those events, but that's just how mystery games go sometimes. Regardless, it's always fun to team with Poco and then hang out after the tournament. I will try to see if I can actually participate in some of the online mystery weeklies.

As for myself, I somewhat recently made a switch from Catherine to Kudlak (not permanent, just fancied learning the char), and I'm pretty happy that I was actually able to get my best performance going solo Kudlak.

Just a couple years ago, a couple friends and I started a little fledgling scene for Chaos Code in NorCal and it's awesome to see us doing more and more damage at majors as time goes on.

For Chaos Code, this was definitely my best performance in that game at a major ever. I beat Franzen who had knocked me into losers last year, and in losers I barely lost to LosetonChurchill on game 3 to miss out on the top 4 spot. Still, it was cool to see NuklearPapaya rep us in there.

Both of my losses were close game 3 sets to @cadedac.bsky.social (who got 2nd at the whole thing, congrats!) and @espadapete.bsky.social. Naturally the loss to Pete was bittersweet, but I was honestly proud that his first win on me was at a major, and it felt nice to see a friend carry on the torch.

Combo Breaker 2025 reflection:
GG Xrd - 25th
Chaos Code - 5th
Mystery - 257th (went 2-2)
Mystery 2v2 - 25th with @airdash.bsky.social

Avoided breaking my streak of making it out of Xrd pools. Didn't get further than that, but I haven't been playing Xrd much so I can't be too disappointed with that.

May 2025 Caliburst Chaos Code NSC Side Tournament:
🥇PerfectlyBabbaloo (Me😤)
🥈SeniorChildren
🥉NuklearPapaya

Thanks for joining guys, see you at the next one!

YouTube video by Stephen Tchaou Experiencing Testament Gold Burst for the First Time

youtu.be/KYxQBtYLmkA

YouTube video by Stephen Tchaou Stupid Testament Web

Clearing out some videos on my drive and decided to upload some goodies
youtu.be/BBOipvCt3ZA

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2
🥇 @pattheflip.bsky.social
🥈 Thumbtack
🥉 @bubbaex.bsky.social

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising
🥇 @zero-hourx.bsky.social
🥈 @itsflox.bsky.social
🥉 @juicer5024.bsky.social

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Shout outs to all the 0-2 Boyz who went out to Slashback! You guys all killed it out there!!!

CHAOS CODE -NEW SIGN OF CATASTROPHE- Results:
🥇PerfectlyBabbaloo
🥈NuklearPapaya
🥉SeniorChildren

GGs and thanks for playing!

April 2025 Caliburst results:

1. @tomsq.bsky.social
2. @bubbaex.bsky.social
3. @hatsunethemikus.girlkisser.pro

Everyone put on a great show!!

Also, thank you Bears and @citriux.bsky.social for the ube mochi brownies and Arnold Palmers 🙏

#rev2forev2