Knowing that Super Street Fighter IV is coming (and we'll probably do a for-money tournament for it), is this something anyone else would be interested in? I don't mind talking some meat n' potatoes SF (or fighting games in general) skills with people, and I'm sure some of the other guys (COMBO, Akulious, etc.) wouldn't mind sharing their pointers or spending some time giving people tips on match-ups.
Anyway, if people are interested (in either playing or talking shop), let me know. We can probably get this rolling before Super comes out on April 27th.
Speaking of April 27th... that's my birthday, and Kai-El's as well. I've already arranged to have the next day off so I could play Super all night (I'm a sad little man when it comes to my fighting games). If anyone else is interested in coming out for my birthday, it sounds like some of the people mentioned above are going to hang out already. We might get some good winner-stays action rolling. I have a two larger TVs and two 20'inch widescreens, two xbox 360s and a PS3 that could be used to run nothing buy Super SFIV all night. That being said, I can only fit so many people at my apartment, so it's a first come first serve with people I know more having some preference.
Let me know if anyone is interested in either thing.
Lastly, it's probably worth mentioning that I will no longer have access to a large number of monitors and TVs to use for large-scale tournaments. Things like the FPS event will probably be a no-go from me for a while until I can find a steady source of equipment to use. I will probably be focusing my time more on the fighting game events, promotions, and releases for the remainder of my admin days here. If anyone else wants to get some side events going and use this site as a promotion for it, I can add them as a writer (subject to some proof-reading). Sorry for that... things are just too busy for me to do anything except what I love to do. Galaxy LAN is likely expanding in the near future and will have the kind of gear we would need to do larger events... so I imagine they'll take over for some of those with a little help from the community. No word on that though at this time.
]]>All the data from the ranked matches has been updated in the Friday Night Fights Leaderboards. They are a running total of players' scores based on the bracket they ended their tournament or ranked match run on. These scores will continue to grow and make seeding for future events possible.
We had three ranked matches (ranbats) in the following games: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, and Street Fighter IV. All were run as double-elimination, best 2 of 3 rounds, and best 2 of 3 games. Several people tried to get some BlazBlue ranbats running, as well as Soul Calibur IV... but we just aren't getting the people out to play those games. It might be time to have a 3D/Aksys fighter night with some Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, Soul Calibur, Tekken, and Virtual Fighter. Maybe I'll figure out a non-FNF night for that.
The results are:
Street Fighter IV
01: COMBO
02: z.epiphany
03: Crossover Ken
04: opello
05: Denny
06: Akulious
07: Kyle
08: Fei Long
09: Alex W
10: Matt K
11: Logan R
12: Shey
13: Matthew R
14: Gavin L
15: Jason
16: Edgar R
17: God
18: Alicia K
19: Stephen
20: Dan W
Street Fighter III: Third Strike
01: z.epiphany
02: Crossover Ken
03: COMBO
04: Nick E
05: Denny
06: Akulious
07: Fei Long
08: Kyle K
09: Logan R
10: JR
11: Shey
12: God
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
01: z.epiphany
02: Nick E
03: Fei Long
04: Shey
05: Crossover Ken
06: COMBO
07: Kyle K
08: Akulious
09: God
Thanks to everyone who attended, helped out, and brought extra gear for people to use. I'd also like to give special thanks to Bandith (Mr. B), Dan (opello), and Tim (Akulious) for donating a total of $50 for the night... it's much appreciated! That was half our expenses right there.
If you have any feedback, suggestions, or ideas on how to run these in the future - let me know. I can't change much unless I know what you guys like or dislike. If it helps, I can throw up a discussion forum as well if people want that kind of thing, or I can setup a group thread in the SRK forums to accomodate our group as well.
]]>Bring your own controllers, games, systems, save files, or other gear if you want to play or play on something other than default systems, controllers, or the games listed below.
The following are available (and might be playable based on demand):
The plan is to run round-robin ranbats for the Street Fighter (HD Remix, III: Third Strike, IV), BlazBlue, and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (if there is interest). Other games may be included if sign-ups are solid.
We've had kind of a diminishing returns on players recently, so hopefully we'll see a boost up this month. If not, I might need to start considering a different avenue for running the event. Last time, I only needed two consoles and that's something I could easily run at home.
Hope to see you there!
]]>We rented two stations, played some Street Fighter IV, BlazBlue, Samurai Showdown, and Virtua Fighter 5. It was still a good outing, but would've been nice to have a few more people around.
Thanks to everyone who came out, and thanks to Bandith for donating some cash for the event. I appreciate it!
If you have any feedback, suggestions, or ideas on how to run these in the future - let me know. I can't change much unless I know what you guys like or dislike.
]]>Otherwise, I'll see you there!
]]>Bring your own controllers, games, systems, save files, or other gear if you want to play or play on something other than default systems, controllers, or the games listed below.
The following are available (and might be playable based on demand):
The plan is to run round-robin ranbats for the Street Fighter Series (HD, III, IV) and BlazBlue. Other games may be included if sign-ups are solid.
Hope to see you there!
]]>For Smash Bros. Brawl, it would be 1v1 All is Brawl Rules (Restricted Levels, All Characters, No Items) and 4-Player Free-for-All (All Levels, All Characters, All Items, No Smash Ball for obvious reasons).
For Mariokart Wii, it would be 2 4-Player Free-for-All Races (All Courses, All Characters, Default Bikes and Karts only) but the events would be seperated based on items (one event will be All Items Open, the other would be Basic Items Only, such as Banana Peels and Green Shells).
We're looking at a late February to early March time frame and for as little cost as possible. I'd like to know if there is any interest whatsoever in doing this, so drop us a line either here or on facebook and let us know.
]]>All the data from the ranked matches has been updated in the Friday Night Fights Leaderboards. They are a running total of players' scores based on the bracket they ended their tournament or ranked match run on. These scores will continue to grow and make seeding for future events possible.
We had three ranked matches (ranbats) in the following games: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, and Street Fighter IV. SSF2THDR was run as a 3-match Round Robin, while the other two games were run as double-elimination, best 2 of 3 rounds, and best 2 of 3 games.
The results are:
Street Fighter IV
1: Akulious
2: The Prizm
3: Shey
4: z.epiphany
5: Josh
5: opello
7: Kyle K
7: Crossover Ken
9: Mexkoala
9: Matt K
13: Driven2B
Street Fighter III: Third Strike
1: Crossover Ken
2: Shey
3: Kyle K
4: z.epiphany
5: The Prizm
5: JR
7: Akulious
7: Nagol
9: Josh
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
1: The Prizm
2: z.epiphany
3: Shey
4: Josh
5: Akulious
6: Crossover Ken
7: Matt K
Thanks to everyone who attended, helped out, and brought extra gear for people to use. It sounds like everyone had a great time!
This was the first time we ran Street Fighter III: Third Strike, but it certainly won't be the last since it seems people were having a good time playing it. Round Robin format was apparently the way to go, since everyone who played SSF2HDR commented on it. There were some requests for playing more frequently at possibly different venues and running some team-based events, which we will probably do.
If you have any feedback, suggestions, or ideas on how to run these in the future - let me know. I can't change much unless I know what you guys like or dislike. If it helps, I can throw up a discussion forum as well if people want that kind of thing, or I can setup a group thread in the SRK forums to accomodate our group as well.
]]>Hope everyone had fun!
]]>We'll be running ranked matches round-robin style so that everyone plays everyone in a best of 3 total sets (2 out of 3 rounds, winner stays with character) format. Ranbats will run for Street Fighter IV, Super Street Fighter II HD Remix, and BlazBlue... as well as Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Street Fighter III: Third Strike assuming we get enough people interested in it. Everything will be run on X-Box 360s unless someone suggests otherwise. We've taken the tally quite a few times, and again and again we have way more 360 players than PS3 players.
I'd be down with some 2v2 match-ups in the future, so I'll probably promote that for the next FNF set... and hopefully we'll run a mini-tournament for the Hori Stick I won at the DSU tournament (what goes around comes around apparently).
I hope to see everybody there!
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