>>492758959>there's no proof of his tournament career in the 90sThere were two massive Killer Instinct tournaments sponsored by big gaming magazines and a company that introduced Famicom to Russia in early 90's via a Chinese knockoff copycat called "Dendy", which became super-popular. Company's name was Stapler, if I recall correctly. First Russian KI championship was held in 1996 right in the middle of Moscow city, at the TSUM trading center, which is literally next to the red square. The event went for roughly 4 days and over 600 players participated, coming all over from Russia, other neighboring CIS countries, and even some foreigners out of Europe came apparently.
The reason why I know all that about it, is not because of that Kawayol anon, but because the event was so huge that even local mainstream news were covering it and there was footage of it as it was ongoing, right on state TV channels. If you search up Russian gaming magazines such as Great Dragon, Igromania, and Gameland/Strana Igr, they were covering that shit back in the days.
And second big KI championship was held in 1998, at the same place in Moscow's TSUM, with about 1400 participants registered that time around, it was going for about a week, almost like Olympics.
There was never anything such grand as these two gaming events, in the history of Russian and CIS gaming community, ever since. MFA (the CIS territory's "EVO") pales in comparison, with it's usual registration numbers being in low 400's.
I dunno who this Kawayol guy is or how well he played during the second championship, but it's a documented fact that those two Killer Instinct championships actually happened, as there are extensive proofs of it in mainstream media coverage, in profile magazines and outlets, and etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2DB3jNrxgkBottom line of it: he didn't lie about it even one slightest bit. Everything he said actually happened.
