The SIM Exhibition Thread

[Baghdad Baghdatis]

SIM was born on 17 Aug '09 @ SIM Test tournament. However 3 months after the launch the SIM concept was then thrown back into the "ITST workshop" to try and re-invent what SIM lovers were crying out for - ultimately to break free from the stacked player creation set up.

On 30 Nov'09 "The List" was released to the ITST world, having been carefully manufactured and perfected by a diverse team including Djarvik, Aniltje & the late 'Rob ITST'. 18 SIM warriors were born. Following a few modifications over the initial months and more recently the addition of 3 new pro's on 07 Jul'10 the roster is now 21 strong.

So following on from the success of "The Exhibition Thread" (created by Mack 2300) I thought it appropriate to start an official SIM Exhibition Thread - Welcome and encouraged for all XBOX & PS3 SIM lovers, pro's and newbies. Whether it be a slightly frustrating encounter or a titanic topspin battle fought right down to the wire just drop in your experience, the SIM Pro used and your opponent as you see fit.

Game on!

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To kick it off I just played two matches with Mack2300 - first Match Baghdad (Cannon) vs Mack (Mahone) 6-3 7-6 then Baghdad (Swatkowski) vs Mack (Mahone) 4-6.

Both matches were high intensity and rally driven - the newbies Mahone and Swatkowski match up nicely. Mahone appears to be a more ITST tourny player and I can see his popularity rising amongst all levels. Saying that Swatkowski in the right hands can be really effective, to overcome the 54 power with some nice LT's and the occasional LT+RT will have him competing at a high level.....

[djarvik]

Good thread. You mind if I move it to "Top Spin 3 General" ? This way PS3 players will know to check and post in it as well.

[Moralspain]

Yep, good thread, i've played several matches against Djarvik, and i think i didn´t manage to win any of them, but we had good fun.
I remember playing once with Mahone v Djarvik using Grissom, the first set Mahone was unstoppable but then Mahone got exhausted and Grissom's high stamina started to work....Gil won the match in 3 tough sets

[Baghdad Baghdatis]

Good thread. You mind if I move it to "Top Spin 3 General" ? This way PS3 players will know to check and post in it as well.

I don't mind at all Al - absolutely the best place for it in hindsight....

[djarvik]

Yep, good thread, i've played several matches against Djarvik, and i think i didn´t manage to win any of them, but we had good fun.
I remember playing once with Mahone v Djarvik using Grissom, the first set Mahone was unstoppable but then Mahone got exhausted and Grissom's high stamina started to work....Gil won the match in 3 tough sets

Yeah, good matches.

You actually won one. You used Grissom and I used Swatkowski. 7.6 3.6 6.1

Grissom is one "nasty" mofo You really need to keep the ball away from him, and make him run. I think the fact that he is short is good - cause if he had a few more inches he would be unstoppable. I tried to mix with Swtakowski the best I can and even that last 6-1 set was far from blowout, it was close with me having BPs in every service game. I think my biggest issue was that I got so used to serving with white stat that all of a sudden having so much on serve hurt me. I used the timing wrong and basically sucked on serve.

I like how Grissom is ANTI-Mahone, somehow they match-up extremely well!

[coke4]

Played Alex the other day in a Mahone v. Mahone match, I won 7-5, but it could have been Any Score.

He starts off straight away by holding a tight service game then breaking me for a 2-0 lead, however i hold then break back for 2-2, after this every game had at least a break point, we constantly saved break point after break point. At 4-5 he had 15-40 and a second serve, i save it by serve and volleying then saved the second one. At 5-5 i manage to get a break and i somehow manage to serve it out easily.
He had 1/7 break points, i had 2/8.
Mahone has a really weak serve and we both really struggled holding. My BH was the 90 and his FH was the 90 so we had lots of my FH to his BH rallies then one of use would take a risk by going to the stronger wing.
Tough mental game, glad to win this one

[Andymachine]

Good thread. You mind if I move it to "Top Spin 3 General" ? This way PS3 players will know to check and post in it as well.

Nice thread yes , so we can change the exhibition thread i made to just MS then ? Just to avoid confusion ? I think thatd be better idea

[djarvik]

Played Alex the other day in a Mahone v. Mahone match, I won 7-5, but it could have been Any Score.

He starts off straight away by holding a tight service game then breaking me for a 2-0 lead, however i hold then break back for 2-2, after this every game had at least a break point, we constantly saved break point after break point. At 4-5 he had 15-40 and a second serve, i save it by serve and volleying then saved the second one. At 5-5 i manage to get a break and i somehow manage to serve it out easily.
He had 1/7 break points, i had 2/8.
Mahone has a really weak serve and we both really struggled holding. My BH was the 90 and his FH was the 90 so we had lots of my FH to his BH rallies then one of use would take a risk by going to the stronger wing.
Tough mental game, glad to win this one

I always have these with Alex.....like, who will pull the trigger first...so cool!!! Love that part about SIM! We both know that these exchanges are not meant to heart us, we both being very patient and not taking it on the second ball, we both wait for that slightest opening, that shorter then normal ball, or that less of an angle - to attack.

....some of the rallies I have with Moralspain is plain "Insane!" ....we both are willing to exchange slower places shots and or deep top spins (alla Nadal ) So we end up getting the ball so high...it almost looks like a power-lob-kinda-stupid-ball....but tons of fan!!!

[Andymachine]

p.s the original exo thread was meant for both ms and sim but yes i think its good idea to have seperate ones , and itl be good guage to see who is the favorite sim char so far out of the new ones i mean

[Andymachine]

And on that note , I had a great Sim exo with Otlichno today , he won 64, 36, 62 , i was shocked how much he upped his game to win it in the final set he played superb and made hardly a mistake

[Mack2300]

Yeah those sim matches with Baghdad were great fun. His Canon character in the first match just frustrated me to death though with how amazingly brilliant his weaker wing(50 something backhand in this case) was. I had 90 on my backhand yet he was winning all the backhand to backhand duels. I didn't think it was possible to come up with crazy angles with such a low stat but it is testament to how good he is at sim

[picachu211]

Yeah those sim matches with Baghdad were great fun. His Canon character in the first match just frustrated me to death though with how amazingly brilliant his weaker wing(50 something backhand in this case) was. I had 90 on my backhand yet he was winning all the backhand to backhand duels. I didn't think it was possible to come up with crazy angles with such a low stat but it is testament to how good he is at sim

You were crazy as Venus. Forehand is his weaker wing.

[Mack2300]

Yeah those sim matches with Baghdad were great fun. His Canon character in the first match just frustrated me to death though with how amazingly brilliant his weaker wing(50 something backhand in this case) was. I had 90 on my backhand yet he was winning all the backhand to backhand duels. I didn't think it was possible to come up with crazy angles with such a low stat but it is testament to how good he is at sim

You were crazy as Venus. Forehand is his weaker wing.

Yeah I don't really use gameplans But seriously when you see someone with an 87 forehand and a 53 backhand it seems obvious which side is going to be their weaker wing. But yes I'll just target the forehand side exclusively next time if I can

[Andymachine]

I getting into this sim malarkey a bit more despite another loss again to Otlichno but he is so good , 63, 36, 61 to him but got some good advice from him which im gonna try out , i just find it hard to seperate my MS game from the SIM game but i hopefully will get there

[Baghdad Baghdatis]

I getting into this sim malarkey a bit more despite another loss again to Otlichno but he is so good , 63, 36, 61 to him but got some good advice from him which im gonna try out , i just find it hard to seperate my MS game from the SIM game but i hopefully will get there

Which SIM player do you use AndyMachine?