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[drasle]

Alright dudes, listening to Phil's underdog story of how he destroyed Greg Mk.II and Ethan in the latest episode got me all hyped up, so if there's enough interest here, I'd like to start running game nights for SF4. I'm hoping to see a crazy upset victory by Tigerriot in grand finals, personally.

The genre introduces some unique variables however, so I'd like to get some input before I start organizing things.


• Day and Time

In the past, people have been unwilling to show up on weekends, and if I hold it on a Thursday (or any weekday really), I then have to find that magic hour before east coast people are calling it a night, and after west coast people are getting home from work. Tournaments take a while to run, depending on number of entrants and how fast individual games go by so I'd like to start as early as possible.


• Tournament Format

Depending on turnout, there are a few different ways to go with this.

• Round Robin
  
  An all-play-all tournament. With a really low turnout, (5 or 6 people) this is the format I would go with. Everyone plays one another and each player's total wins/losses determine placing.
  
  
• Double Elimination
  
  As the name implies, this is a standard tournament with a loser's bracket. I would go with this for a 5-16 player tournament.
  
  
• Single Elimination
  
  Again, this is a standard tournament with no loser's bracket. I would only use this if there was a huge turnout (17-32 players)
  
  
• Ranking Battle Season!!!!11one!!1!omg
  
  If the interest is relatively high and consistent, this is what I think would be the most fun/interesting. A ranking battle season is played as such: at the end of each tournament, the top finishers (top 4 in double elim., top 3 in single elim.) are awarded points (1st = 10, 2nd = 7, 3rd = 5, 4th = 3) and at the end of the season (6 tournaments) the player with the most points wins.
  Spoiler

  What exactly you win, I have no idea. If we actually make it to the end of a season, I will actually send the winner some kind of trophy. It may be a literal trophy, or it may be a pack of starburst. Who knows.

All tournament matches would be best of 3, with grand finals being best of 5. I put up some polls, so vote away. Another thing I need to decide on is how to coordinate the matches. I'm leaning toward using IRC currently, but if anyone knows of an easier web-based option I'm open to suggestions.

[mrplaid]

I'm up for some online Street Fighter, but maybe we should just pick a night we can all get together and play before we set up a tournament. I'm up for whatever, though. You guys pick a night, and I'll bring the pain

Spoiler

of getting my ass kicked by everyone else

.

PS, the fuck is ranbats? A Ninja Turtles character? Ranking battle?

[juanster]

Thursday for me. Round robin or a season would be really fun.

[Amishpriest]

I'm up for this...only bad day would be Saturday for me, but otherwise whatever's fine.

[mik]

Remember when Michelangelo killed the ranbats using a cheese pizza (ranbats are notoriously lactose intolerant--to a fatal degree--but they can't resist tomato sauce)?

[drasle]

Remember when Michelangelo killed the ranbats using a cheese pizza (ranbats are notoriously lactose intolerant--to a fatal degree--but they can't resist tomato sauce)?

i got this shit on vhs!

the other episode on the tape is the one where shredder and michelangelo's brains get switched, and shredder keeps saying "cowabunga" the whole time.


/edit:

btw, i'll probably leave this poll open for another week or so. i won't be around this weekend, and i need to make sure my bracket program still works

[mik]

Maybe this Friday the rest of us scrubs can party up and just do some practice matches. Like pair off and play first one to 5 or 10 wins, then rotate around so we get to play everyone.

[mrplaid]

us scrubs

You, sir, are the opposite of a scrub.

[mik]

There are degrees of scrubitude. How about that?

[KinectFan]

Two questions.


1) Which platform are we talking about here?


2) Why is Calcifer assuming I suck so bad?

[kiwicha]

1) Which platform are we talking about here?

Hope is 360, hope is tonight or 3 weeks from now.

[drasle]

Two questions.


1) Which platform are we talking about here?


2) Why is Calcifer assuming I suck so bad?

1) Way more people are playing on 360, so that's what I'm going to run it on.

Spoiler

Probably wouldn't be any fun with just the 4... maybe 5? of us on PS3.

I'll edit the thread title. If it goes well and we have another, I'll even borrow my brother's 360 and play in the next one.

2) Having not actually seen anybody play yet, I would put my money on mik, because he was rocking an E. Honda avatar before it was fashionable

Come on dude! I know you want those 10 points!

[LiK]

i'll join in. my list is full but i have mik. so mik can invite me if you guys need 1 more guy in your party.

[KinectFan]

1) Way more people are playing on 360, so that's what I'm going to run it on.

Spoiler

Probably wouldn't be any fun with just the 4... maybe 5? of us on PS3.

I'll edit the thread title. If it goes well and we have another, I'll even borrow my brother's 360 and play in the next one.

2) Having not actually seen anybody play yet, I would put my money on mik, because he was rocking an E. Honda avatar before it was fashionable

Come on dude! I know you want those 10 points!

Wait, so you're hosting the 360 tournament, but you don't own a 360?

Also, what are these points you keep talking about?

[drasle]

lik's post reminded me, 360 has a party system

so if everyone can get each other into a party, i can do away with the IRC requirement. i would just need one person to be on AIM or something that can pass the matchups on to the rest of the party, and report everyone's wins back to me. this is only if i can't play by then, btw, which i'll know definitively after this weekend.

Wait, so you're hosting the 360 tournament, but you don't own a 360?

Also, what are these points you keep talking about?

yep. i figured i should start these asap, while the game is still fresh for everyone. all i'm really doing at this point is putting the bracket together and coordinating matches. if it turns out i can play, though, i definitely will.

and points, somewhat simplified:

• Ranking Battle Season!!!!11one!!1!omg
  
  A ranking battle season is played as such: at the end of each tournament, the top finishers are awarded points (1st place = 10pts, 2nd = 7, 3rd = 5, 4th = 3) and at the end of the season (6 tournaments) the player with the most points is the RanBat season champ.
  Spoiler

  What exactly you win, I have no idea. If we actually make it to the end of a season, I will likely actually send the winner some kind of trophy. It may be a literal trophy, or it may be a pack of starburst. Who knows.

so if this one goes well, i'll hold another within the following month or so, and so on, and hopefully it'll be a close race. i think, somehow, it encourages more competitive play

[mik]

I would put my money on mik, because he was rocking an E. Honda avatar before it was fashionable

Don't read too much into my dirty fetish for fat Japanese men.

[KinectFan]

I'm definitely interested in whatever tourneys are organized.


In fact, I just want to put this out there, so there are no doubts. I will take on all comers, all characters, on any stage in the game, on any day of the effing week,.......... and will probably lose to you. I'm just sayin, I'm not afraid of losing to anyone! Do you hear me?!?

[Spiz]

I'll play on Friday.

[Kholdstare]

Whenever, wherever.

[drasle]

would the 20th work for you guys? that should give everyone some time to practice up, and maybe even enough for me to finish my 360 stick

[Oakstout]

I picked the game up today and as suspected I suck really bad. Can't even figure out how to do one decent special, but I'm game for playing and letting you guys beat the crap out of me online. lol

Just let me know when and where

[SlimX]

It sounds fun, but I find the game to be pretty much unplayable if the connection is less than four bars. So, I'd hate to show up and be a wet blanket, saying, "I won't play you or you or you."

[mik]

And I find the bars to be not even remotely representative of the quality of the connection I have with a person. I've had plenty of four bar connections that were wretched, and loads of zero bar connections that were butter.

[Spiz]

Yeah those bars don't mean anything. For the most part online matches are fine. It's a shock when I actually see bars.

[SlimX]

Heh, well, I wouldn't be surprised if my connection is just bad, but any match I've tried below 4 was consistently unplayable. Sticking with 4 bars has only very rarely had brief bursts of lag, maybe once an hour.

I didn't just decide it's 4 bars or bust the first time I sat down with the game; it came from (bad) experience.

[Spiz]

JUST PLAY BLAH

I have to take a break from SF IV though. I lost like 8 or 9 straight extremely close ranked matches. Some of them were to Ken too so that made me even more angry. Stupid $^*(^$@(@&!%^*)(*&^%$@

[drasle]

sup dudes.

im gonna postpone this for the time being for two reasons:

a) i just remembered, the patch will allow for replays to be recorded, and if i only do one of these, i don't want to NOT make a video.

2) the console i was going to borrow is on its way to texico, and my 360 stick won't be finished until the last week of april, anyway


you should all play each other as much as possible until then though, the best matches are usually between people who know each other's play styles.


頑張って下さい！

[juanster]

I'm with Mik in that in the meantime, we should create a party and start fighting each other. Soon, preferably.

[mik]

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[mrplaid]

My Dan skillz (what little there were) have all but vanished apparently. I need to get mah swing back.

Also, Mik is a filthy disconnecting cheater.

[mik]

That was unfortunate. You were really appreciably better than the first time we played, though--especially with weaving in lots more focus attacks and combos. Those were some good matches.


FUN!

[mrplaid]

That was unfortunate. You were really appreciably better than the first time we played, though--especially with weaving in lots more focus attacks and combos. Those were some good matches.


FUN!

Just joshin'!

I don't want anyone to feel bad if they've got to quit or disconnect for whatever reason. I know that you people have lives.

[mik]

I didn't leave though, my shit froze up. SFIV has been doing that to me a bit lately. It did it the other night when I was playing nasero. We could still talk to each other, but we were stuck n the vs. screen.

[mrplaid]

I didn't leave though, my shit froze up. SFIV has been doing that to me a bit lately. It did it the other night when I was playing nasero. We could still talk to each other, but we were stuck n the vs. screen.

I believe you may be staring down the barrel of hardware failure. Maybe not RROD, but my 360 was pulling similar shenanigans last year. If it keeps on doing that sort of thing and it's still under warranty, I'd call up MS and tell them it's red-ringing.

[mik]

It's not under warranty. And if it dies, so does my 360 gaming career.

[mrplaid]

It's not under warranty. And if it dies, so does my 360 gaming career.

I don't blame you.