OK SO....the first rule of fight club is...no I'm not THAT cliche'

But seriously, I'm not gonna lie, I have no interest in Street Fighter or TVC or any fighting games, I simply went to be a part of the community and meet Snow in the flesh (I also saw RagingDemon, awesome dude!)

Here is Snow doing a silly face

And one of him talking to Brian (PR guy) another awesome guy from Capcom

SO, I arrived on the scene at around 7:15, it took roughly an hour to get there since I live in NJ and traffic sucks.  Me and my friend proceeded to the back of the line, which was several blocks away, being laughed and mocked at how we would never get in.  Then at 7:30, Snow called me and told me to come to the front of the line to be let in! (I made sure to mock those who mocked me)

I was greeted by Snow and Seth, quite the humbling experience and proceeded to be introduced to our very own RagingDemon!!  I was like, " ZOMG ITS RAGINGDEMON I KNOW'Z YOU!!!"  Me and Raging hung out for most of my time there (I needed to leave by 9:30 so I was only there for 2 hours)

The building would only hold 250 people at a time, and there were 2 floors, but it was still pretty damn claustrophobic.

This is the main floor, you can see there are TV's with TVC or MVC2 or SF4 hooked up, using either controller OR fightstick btw.

This is the basement, where there was a DJ and was generally very hot and smelly, it got so crowded down there that people weren't allowed to enter until more people came up

The walls were filled with artwork from Capcom games, here is a nifty poster on one of the walls.

and a drawing on one of the walls (sorry for low quality and bad positioning, but you try and take a decent shot while being shoved by 5 people eager to kick some ass in TVC)

There was also free pizza and drinks!

Even managed to catch Kotaku as they secretly moved about the crowd (kinda hard to tell but thats Crecente behind this dude)

Media was going back and forth constantly during the whole event, it was quite an experience.

What surprised me the most was people's attitude.  At things like this, especially with such closed quarters and very low moving space, I expect people to be moderately disgruntled at times, but everybody was great!  It was just an awesome time, if you needed to get through the crowd, you kinda just put your hand on someone's shoulder and said excuse me, and people would make room for you.

Here is a vid I took standing near the entrance to the basement, I basically couldn't move so I had to hold my phone above everybody to show you just how insane it was.  (Sorry for the weird noise, my phone can't handle so much stuff going on so it scrapped the audio)

Snow took pics with me and Raging so be sure to look out for em!

I was on the live stream for a couple seconds, I wrote out *Bastion* on a plate and held it up next to my face, dunno if anybody saw it.  I went on the Ustream chat afterwards to answer peoples questions, it was an awesome feeling, actually interacting with the community.  Stuff like this is why Capcom>all over game companies.

Can't wait for the next NY Capcom event!!!