Arcade Infinity 3v3 Tournament 10/3/2010 RESULTS & SHOUTOUTS

Tournament Results
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Top 8 Results:

1 Fleece Johnson (AndyOCR/Dictator, Tatsu/Claw, Warahk/Guile)
2 Who’s the Master? I am! (Alex Valle/Ryu, Combofiend/Abel, OnlineTony213/Seth)
3 Check Your Pulse (Clakey Dee/Ibuki, ComboJack/Fei Long, KillerKai/Ryu)
4 Look at Your Man, Now Back at Me (Jonny/Ryu, Keno/Boxer, Mike Ross/E. Honda)
5 Yum Yum Hunters (Fuson909/Guile, Moval/Blanka, Supa/Cammy)
5 Suck It Chun (Bryant/Zangief, DJ Divine/Cammy, LainySky/C. Viper)
7 PG-13 (Francisco/Ken, Ivan/Boxer, Kilomax/Ryu)
7 Hugo101’s team (Gootecks/Rose, Hugo101/Dictator, Kai/El Fuerte)

I was very happy with the turnout and support from everyone – thank you for coming out and hope to see you all again soon. I understand there were a couple teams that ended up not coming, so I hope you can come out next time.

One dude (no name drops!) came up and asked when I’ll start the tournament (he was pre-registered), then he left and never came back. WTF.

I legitimately DQ’d a team after calling them out a dozen times. DQ is a DQ – if you missed your match somewhere early in the loser’s bracket, come back during top 8 and try to dispute the decision, tough luck. At least one team member should have been paying CLOSE attention. “I was right there” is not a valid excuse.

Now that I’m done with the highlights, onto the shoutouts:

Valle, Gootecks – Thank you guys for bringing setups. I was originally planning to run the tourney on the arcade setups only, but thanks to your console setups I was able to finish much earlier than expected.

All the SD guys – Thank you for always driving up and showing support. I really appreciate it. I will definitely try my best to make it down to your tournaments.

LainySky, Bryant – We had a good run! I’m pretty happy with how we did.

Keno – I really didn’t wanna play you! Damn it! ^^;; Cammy can’t do anything to Balrog =(

Fleece Johnson & Who’s the Master? – Congratulations guys. Sorry I had a little mixup with taking extra money from Alex’s team and having to re-calculate things. It worked out in the end. :sweat:

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GG’s at 3S, gentlemen.

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mad shoutouts to AI for havin sick ass setups. i just might reconsider practicing over there again.
it was good seeing all your faces again. congrats to Andy/Warahk/Tatsu

and one more thing.
@Kai & Fuson: im running it back with that win. just you both wait :smiley:

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Thanks to DJ Divine and Bryant the Tyrant for letting me play with them in their team! I’m honored :]
Thank you Chris, also for organizing and running the tournament. :]

Congratulations to Andy, Dustin, and Tatsu for taking the tourney!
Good games to all the teams we played. Thank you to That one rog guy, Moval, Supa(?), Fuson, Jonny, Keno, Combofiend, OnlineTony for the good games.
Good shit, start button. Props on beating me like nobody else did. :]

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It was cute ? ~ !!!

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god like

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Host more of these buddy! I’ll be there with my team Every time!!!

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Thanks For the tournament Chris. It was more than i expected. The noise, the atmosphere, the skill. It was perfect. I will gladly pay money to participate in these events.

Just a side note: There were two games on the big screen set up that had a pause during the match. It couldn’t have been a mistake since the way the start button is positioned. so…

Could they have been sneaky attempts to mess with the match, or could there be something wrong with the machine? just a thought. It would suck to lose a round on a count of a machine malfunction, wouldn’t it?

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Had a lot of fun playing and watching, thanks for making my first time at AI awesome.

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thank you for coming! i’m glad to have your support. expect new announcements in the upcoming weeks!

both pauses were caused by heavy slamming to the controller panel. the way the controller pcb’s are wired beneath the panel can sometimes activate pause if you slam on it really hard. as for the 1st pause, it happened during an up-close moment between the two characters and the DQ rule had to apply. the 2nd pause happened after the ultra came out, so the match carried on. the pause rule basically translates to, if pause happens during an ultra that requires additional inputs (like balrog u1, you have to start the ultra with PPP/KKK and let go, hold KKK again, etc) that will DQ you right away, but otherwise, it can carry on.

on a related note, on my next tourney i will remind players not to slam on the controller panel D;

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Put nails on the surface around the buttons. :wink:

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In the next tourney, if someone pauses on me, I won’t take the round. Instead, I will request that I get a free hit + any subsequent combo i can land after that free hit. I also would like to request positional advantage. That should make everyone happy.

Edit: Unless it’s on Tony’s Seth, in which case it would be no different from me taking the round anyway.

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with only 3-4 set ups and nearly 100 players, the tournament took over 5 hours. If you prefer a longer tournament than don’t pay attention to me. But if you want it to be shaven down to 4 hours or less, I and my friends can bring in additional consoles and TVs next time to help move things along.

Besides the Tournament time, in the early morning lots of people want to get in practice matches. Lots of people were only able to put in a a few warm up matches because of the few setups.

More consoles, more games, more happy people and a faster tournament?

Sound good to you?

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hahaha@Kai’s post

The tourney was fun. Haven’t been to one in a long time.

Thank you Chris for running this amazing tournament. Very much appreciated.

GG’s to everyone I played. Fuson/Kai, you guys are mad good.

I’m definitely looking forward to the next AI tournament!!

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thanks for the offer – however, if there are too many setups for just myself to manage, it doesn’t actually help the situation as much. i think 4-5 setups is fine, and i can easily get 3 volunteers to bring setups on top of the 2 arcade setups.

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double post ftl

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gg 3s and seeing old folks again. i miss the good ol days.

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More setups. Diminishing returns.

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fun tournament!
gg’s to all and congrats to Team OC!

PS next time Chris how bout a 3v3 with NSB rules aka each player can use two characters??

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When’s the next tourney!!!