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So, in case anyone is keeping track, we had 39 people register for ranked matches at the last Friday Night Fights event making this one of our most successful events to date. 

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.

Kind of a slow fight night with just 10 people showing up due to weather concerns and other commitments.  Is the idea just running out of steam, or was it just a bad night for a fight night?  Should I be doing things on a different day?  Let me know what the fight nights are missing or need to do to keep on rolling.

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.

So, in case anyone is keeping track, we had 22 people register for ranked matches at the last Friday Night Fights event. That does not include a 10 people who were just there to have some fun. So, in total, we were looking at 32 people who attended the event (or at least alerted me that they were there for the event).

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.

We had kind of a small turnout for our free-play night last weekend, but it picked up around 9 that night.  What I gathered is that people just don't want to play a bunch of retro fighters... in fact, we ended up busting out Street Figther IV due to player request.  Maybe it was poor advertising on our part, or Hobo Days in Brookings... but we had four stations and a total of 16 players for the night.

We had no ranked matches or tournaments this last time, just people playing fighting games.

Thanks to everyone who attended, helped out, and brought extra gear for people to use.  It sounds like everyone who was there had a good time.  About six people (myself included) stuck around until well after two in the morning playing Street Fighter trade-offs.  Let me know what you guys want to see at FnF and I'll do my best to bring it.  If we started doing something that turned you off to FnF, let us know as well.  I wouldn't want to lose players because of something we tried.