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Sun, 31 May 2026 06:19:24 +0200

Hello, this topic is for the various tournaments around MGF! Here I'll explain how I'm planning on running them and welcome any suggestions for future tournaments, entrants, or changes to the format.

So, the first tournament was a 64 entrant battle of our favorite series specifically. It had to have at least two games in it for it to be included. After this tournament, some changes were made. I tried to be diverse in the gnres included, but sports games did so poorly I think I'm going to remove the FIFAs and Maddens and such. Also, single games were requested, so I scoured the internet and my own gaming history to find popular enough ones to include. Only problem is I kept going, adding both individual games and other series I'd forgotten or omitted and found myself at ~150 entries.

So here's my thought:

I took the top 80 of these entries and put them in a "premiere league" of sorts. They'll be included in every tournament, but if they never get any votes, they'll be downgraded to the secondary tier. The way a full tournament will now work is their will be one additional round from the initial 64 entry one from the first tournament for a 128 randmoized brawl. These will be called Grand Tournaments and will be yearly so we don't overdo them. They'll include all 80 premier titles and 48 random secondary titles to spice things up. Maybe you'll discover a new game or series to try from these! Each time we have a touramant winner, that series/game will be retired from future grand tournaments so it doesn't get stale and one of the better performers from the secondary tier will replace it in the Premiere tier.

I'll also be doing probably 2-3 mini-tournaments every year in addition to the main Grand ones. These can have previous winners in them as they're more casual and probably themed. Leaving MGS out of a best stealth game mini tournament would be silly right?

Lastly: here's a list of previous tournaments, the winners, runners up, and what games and series are in which tier.

Retired Winners:

Current Premiere League:

Current Secondary League (48 randomly will be selected for a Grand Tournament):

Previous Tournaments:

Refluxe has been preserved

Sun, 17 May 2026 22:54:51 +0200

The Crab

Sat, 16 May 2026 06:18:08 +0200

A story by BK, who can't write for crap but insists on doing so anyway.

Tr0nic woke up to the sound of his alarm going off. He sighed as he hit the button on his clock, wishing he could sleep in a bit but duty called. He'd received a message through Praying Mantis's computer from Dirty Duck to meet him at the MGF staff office at 0800. Couldn't have scheduled it a bit later?

Tr0n got dressed, picked up some breakfast from the Mantis cafeteria and stepped outside. Cloudy day he thought as he started the walk to the MGF staff office. It wasn't far; few blocks and that was it. He saw a few other members out and about. Most were still getting ready or probably still sleeping. One had an animal they'd freshly caught in a cage from one of the habitats.

Tr0n arrived at the door and went in. Their was a woman behind a nice desk typing away at a computer. "Hello, Maxine," Tr0n said, doing his best to not sound tired. "I have a meeting with Duck at 8. Do you know where at?"

Maxine stopped typing and glanced up for a second, "They're in meeting room 2. Down the hall on the right. You can go on in." She continued typing away at whatever Duck always had her working on.

They? Duck didn't say anything about anyone else....

He made his way down the hall. Nice building, but a little earthy for his tastes. Duck had picked dark green for the wall colors in the hall and a faux wood paneling on the bottom half. He came to the door with MEETING ROOM 2 on the sign next to it. He twisted the knob and went in.

Dirty Duck was sitting at the head of the table with Null, Gene, black king, and Nate sitting around him. Duck noticed tr0n enter, "Ah! Good, you're here. Take a seat tr0n."

Tr0n took a seat next to Gene. "Offer you some coffee or caffeine, mate?" Gene asked.

"I'll pass, thanks," tr0n replied. "I will admit I'm surprised. I didn't know you'd all be here."

"Yeah sorry about that. Null asked me to be discrete." Duck replied as he sipped something out of a cup. "I'll let him take it from here."

"Tr0n, myself and other old admins from MGSF have noticed something odd. The site has been sending an odd transmission to prominent old members asking them to return."

"Strange," tron replied, "I haven't noticed any messages."

Nate chimed in "Yeah; Henry, Fluxe, and the other old admins have been containing it from the their accounts logged in here."

"What we want to ask is a little...unorthodox" Duck started, "But with you being a private investigator I figure you might be able to help us figure out what's going on. Technical malfunction is most likely. Old site is falling apart."

"We need The Crab back on the case" black king added.

Tr0n was surprised. It had been ages since he'd been on MGSF after Tappa ruined it. Even longer since anyone had called him The Crab.

"The old forums shouldn't be too dangerous," Null said, "Mostly just bots roaming around selling lord knows what."

"Spells and potions last I checked." Duck said in an annoyed tone. "Still, we'll pay you and arm you accordingly. Nate?"

Nate reached down and pulled out a leather case and slid it over to Tr0n. He peered inside and saw a firearm with two boxes of ammo.

"Those are special bullets." Nate explained.

"Yeah, they instaban anyone they come on contact with. You shouldn't really need them unless they have some aggressive advertising going on." Gene added.

"We'll of course also support you by codec if needed." black king said.

Tr0n looked at the bad and inspected the bullets. They had a faint orange glow to them.

"I'm guessing the banning power came from Null?"

Null and Duck smiled. "Your eye for detail doesn't disappoint." Duck said.

Tr0n nodded and thought for a moment. He reached into his coat pocket, took out a brass lighter and flicked it open and closed a couple times. "Alright. I'll take the case. Be interesting to see the old stomping grounds again. Even if it is in ruins."

Duck gave an einthuiastic nod "Glad to hear it! I make a monthly pilgrimage, but don't go past the entrance. The memory is definitely better than the reality I'm afraid."

A few minutes of well wishing later and tr0n was heading towards the MGF Station. Every site had a station that led to every other site on the internet. A lot were in disrepair or abandoned anymore. Places like Reddit or Facebook seemed to hold all the traffic. He hopped on and set his destination as MGSForums.com and took a seat. The trip would take a bit so he pulled out his old iPod. He'd been wanting to try disconnecting from his phone more often and figured the train heading towards a relic of the 2000's would be an appropriate place to see if it still worked. He clicked to a song he'd downloaded after a recommendation from black king as the train went off to his assignment. The Crab was on the case.

A series of drawings by NateDog

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:52:48 +0100

My son is in hospital for a few days so we've been looking for things to keep him occupied. His grandmother sent up a bag last night of a few bits including colouring pencils and a copy book. Here's what I've done all from my twisted memory so far, all criticism welcome:

#1: The frog enemy from Dark Souls

Well it started out as that. I don't know what it ended up as apart from a disturbing look into what my mind thinks a frog looks like.

#2: Tonberry (Final Fantasy)

I don't know why he's a longboi.

#3 +4: Evil Kirby + Kirby in eating mode

No notes.

#5: Luigi

He's scared because he saw drawings 1-4. I'm not sure why I gave him a twirly black moustache. It felt right.

#6: MWario

At some point this turned from Mario into Wario. I don't know when that was but it felt like a natural inclination to me.

#7: Cloud Strife

Don't ask why he has a big whisk or brown loafers.

#8: Yoshi in Mario Kart either after getting hit with a shell or about to throw a shell, possibly both

Self-explanatory.

I will continue to add as long as I have ideas.

After 25+ years, I finally did it

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:57:00 +0200

I've taken a while to post this as it actually happened a few weeks back but things have been a bit busy and I was still irritated at how heavy I look in the picture as I've been gaining weight given my back issues in the last year have stopped me from exercising much.

Anyway, I've been with this series from a very early point in my life. I had a PlayStation 1 which I got with Crash Bandicoot after having had a Sega Master System 2 and I played so much stuff with my cousin that I lived with over the years on it. I distinctly remember us renting and then buying Battle Arena Toshinden 3 and him staying up 2 nights in a row to unlock as much of the huge roster as possible for us to play as. One thing we often got was the Official PlayStation Magazine. Back then those magazines often came with demo discs, but as far as I can remember these ones had some great games on them, stuff like Tomb Raider, Dino Crisis, Cool Boarders.

One issue we got came with a demo which had this game called Metal Gear Solid on it. I watched my cousin play through it first and thought it looked amazing. I was pretty young (must have been 7?) and gave it a try but I was dreadful at it. I eventually managed to get into the Hangar but that was all I could muster up. But we both enjoyed it so much that my cousin bought the game and I watched him play through it and was mesmerised by the whole experience. The voice acting, music, cutscenes, action (and avoidance of action), everything was incredible. I gave it a try but could still hardly get past the Hangar and then gave up. But my cousin gave me that copy which I still have to this day (one of the few ties to my family that I still have), and I tried again a year or so later and finally managed to beat it on my own. Haven't really looked back since. I haven't beaten any other game more than I've beaten Metal Gear Solid and nothing has ever toppled it as my favourite game or series of all time.

So many characters in the series have impacted me but something about Snake has always felt so relatable. But especially after all the hubbub with the change to Kiefer Sutherland with V and then finding out that Kojima had been trying to get rid of Hayter for years before that, my understanding and appreciation of what David Hayter gave to the series has grown so much. I replayed MGS4 recently and don't think I fully understood in 2008 just how much of an effort he put into that performance and the fact that it seems like it did some real damage to his capabilities long-term but he still did it. He hated what happened because the man loved Snake and being Snake and gave his all to portray him as genuinely as he could. David Hayter, to me at least, has always been Snake and always will.

So after all these years of waiting, I finally had the chance to meet the man himself and despite a few hiccups, about 4 hours of extremely painful waiting while standing and a 6 hour round trip, I wasn't going to let anything get in the way.

They say don't meet your heroes, but he's no hero, never was, never will be he was genuinely lovely. The queue to see him ended up being probably the longest in the whole arena. His manager came around a few times and said Hayter himself was stunned by it and couldn't understand it. The queue was so big that it actually started to block off areas so people had to keep trying to walk through it.

He spent so long with every person that the staff had to try to push him to rush along a bit after a period and he still wouldn't. That same manager kept telling us they had to push him to take a break and get some lunch and he didn't budge. He then had to go for a period because he had a panel on with Quinton Flynn, which I was really looking forward to seeing but couldn't get to because I had been in the queue for hours and couldn't manage joining the end again as I knew it'd be an extra hour or two again the way it was going. But while I saw loads of other guests just get up and go, he came out to us at the front of the queue and apologised for leaving and said "I'm really sorry to... keep you waiting". He was so friendly, I was nervy so I didn't say much but I mentioned to him how long ago I played that demo and he said "ah yes I remember that one". Then as I left I thanked him and walked away and he shouted "Hey!" at me and I figured I left something at the table, and I turned around and he says "you're pretty good!" and I giggled like a schoolgirl. I had seen he had said it to some others but not in that manner.

I also met Quinton Flynn! I didn't get a picture but he and Hayter both signed my copy of Substance which has my favourite art of Snake and Raiden. For some reason I asked him to quote the one thing that always comes into my head when I think of Raiden. Completely unserious quote but perhaps that suits Raiden. Hayter laughed at what I picked, "ah, and I did keep you waiting" which was the only reason I went with it.

Would you guys want orgs back?

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:03:27 +0200

This isn't my ultimate decision FWIW, that's up to Duck - but I've been kind of surprised by the early activity levels here and the amount of people who have come back. Obviously, there's no way to tell whether the activity will last (that's up to us) but while it's like this, I feel as if orgs should be a consideration. I just wondered what the rest of you guys thought.

YO FUCK GRU

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:26:17 +0100

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