Welcome chrisp! First and foremost, happy birthday! I'm sure most of us were lurking on the internet at some point in time, I never used to feel that I had anything significant to contribute so I would just keep my mouth shut. That was over 10+ years ago and looking back it was quite foolish and naive.
As for the level of your gaming, everyone starts somewhere. Although I have been playing KOF since '94, truth is I have been playing it casually till XII (but of course that didn't last long) so XIII was first true year of competitive gaming (I've joined tournaments here and there before but nothing too serious) so you gotta start somewhere. Hope to see you post around here.