My Kountermove trick..
-Sign up with as many email accounts as possible.
-Look for free contests on BE, etc.
-Join those contests with all your accounts, picking different combinations of fighters on each
-Hit with one of them.
-Abandon all other accounts now that one is actually worth something (don't want to get caught!), build on that for free.
I have 50 bucks from a free contest in an account that I've been playing small entry fee games off for the past 8 months.