I'd be really surprised if Capcom actually kept both TvC and MvC alive as their own separate entities simultaneously, especially when Ultimate All Stars didn't even get an arcade release.
Anyway, Season's Beatings was pretty awesome. The TvC turnout was really small due to the fact that it only had a community-run side event, but there was still some good competition there, including RyRy, Keits, and Kurasa, who took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the side tourney, respectively. I could actually keep up with them for the most part as long as my execution wasn't sloppy, except for Kurasa's Doronjo, which is just a nightmare to deal with. Incredible control of the screen and deceptively long normals that lead into stupid awesome long palm tree + rocks combos. Dude even rocked a Doronjo t-shirt and Doronjo stick.
Like, I got to the TvC corner of the place and the first thing I see is RyRy running a train over some people with 100% combos from Jun, but when he knocked me into losers I could actually make a game out of it, taking him down to 1 character with 1/3 health both times. Could have beaten Keits in casuals had I not dropped what would have been a clutch baroque combo. I could handle Kurasa sometimes if he didn't have Doronjo or Saki in play. I went back and forth with most of the other guys there. I feel confident with Morrigan, but my Ryu is scrubby. I still can't find a solid 2nd character. ._.
One of my friends that came with me trolled with YatterRoll with some great results. Some kid running Jun/Chun just started cursing constantly every time Roll fell out of his flashy combos and I turn to him and say "And this is why I dropped Jun." Hate dealing with that shit. :lol
Playing new faces for basically 2 days straight was so awesome. I feel like I could actually compete if I could get that sort of match experience in more often. It's a crime that it's more or less impossible to find a local scene for this game if you don't live in Cali. It deserves so much more love. At this point I just hope that it's not too difficult to transition into MvC3 from this.