ShinBlanka – Thanks for not being a schmuck about it. Like I said, I knew Final Round gets a lot of hype and attention, but I’ll admit I didn’t realize it got THAT much. And, like I said, I can’t think of any Midwest majors that get 250 people for one tourney…those are numbers that any TO would be proud of.
Also, I got a neutral rep with the message “fuck atl”. o__O’
Oh shit.
K.O.!!!
I wish I had stuck around for more finals matches, but whatever sickness I have, it owned me so hard that I was in bed for sixteen hours a night. As it stood, though, Garou and Samurai Shodown II finals were hype as hell. Sure as shit piqued my interest in those games.
wow…ok let me set the record straight…I LOVE FINAL ROUND…ive gone 3 times…it gets better every fkn time. I will continue to go as long as it runs. I think shinblanka, roninchaos, etc. all throw a tournament that is 2nd to none. I was merely pointing something out that bothered some people. Them clarifying the situation is all that was needed. I, in no way, am hating on FR. I always considered FR to be one of the biggest events of the year…ive been travelling to tournies for 8 years…and FR has always been a favorite of mine. Please try to read my post, as shinblanka has, to understand that i had no bad intentions for my posts. i loved FR so much.
Shinblanka: thanks for actually understand my post. I didnt intend to bash your tourney…honestly i think its 2nd to none. you dont have to convince me to come again next year. I will come again always…and buy even more of those sexy stickers yall made! hahaha
PS: i LOVE the way yall handled that outbreak over the “opening a door” thing. I was outside when you squashed it…perfectly handled dispute. gotta love it
LET ME SAY THIS OFFICIALLY SO NO ONE MISUNDERSTANDS - IF YOU DIDNT GO TO FR THIS YEAR, CONSIDER YOURSELF DEPRIVED OF THE BEST TOURNEY IN YEARS
What an awesome weekend! This tourney will only get better and better Larry keep up the excellent work. Im very happy with myself for placing top 8 in my first ST major ever. Next year Im placing top 4!! I got you next year Damdai.
P.S. Im never switching characters during my tourney matches again. That is the only thing I regret, switching my best character for O. Sagat when I lost. Never again.
Lol, that Door Fight was some funny shit.
Dude about exploded over it.
Good shit at the tournament ernesto! You and juan are the future for the ATL in sf. With that said I aint handing the torch away. You got to take it for me! 
Door Fight was hilarious. Uncle Rukus looking dude was really salty he couldn’t just son me.
No worries man. I made the same mistake. I know Justin planted that cute girl to fluster me. You so smart Justin!
Larry - Thanks for doing this for so long. Being front and center for those SF4 finals was just nutz. Great setup and entertaining showmanship from the contestants. I’m relatively new to this scene, but that set the bar so far. I loved it.
PS - Forgot to sign the cab.
I will make it to fr13 next year and I will bring a load of Philly players. Road trip anyone.
I’d go to FR again. Just not for Smash. Some dumb rules going on there+me having to run the bracket+being put in a separate corner of the hotel and missing all the hype=sumall bullshit. GGs to everyone I played in Smash and Guilty. I was the Zappa/ZSS/Kirby player. Didn’t get to play SFIV, sadly.
Anyone know how I can contact Larry or whoever it was that put this together? I didn’t want to discuss the rulesets he used until after the tournament, because I didn’t want it to seem like I wanted a rematch after I lost just because the rules were retarded. I played the guy later and he won waaaaaay more than I did, so I probably would have lost the set, but still…
Nice meeting Latiff, ThaNewGuy(I think that’s his name), and some of GA’s smashers. Boo on not getting to meet many other people because we were quarantined to prevent infecting the “real” games. Also, thanks to FatherBrain for bringing a universal remote. You’re a lifesaver, man.
Now, we hit the all-time low in morality that comes this time every year:
Post-FR. Gotta wait another whole twelve damn months for a godlike tournament unlike any other.
Good shit, and huge thanks to everyone (especially Larry, duh) that makes FR possible.
As far as future Final Round’s go, I think I speak for everyone when i say Larry, as long as you’re selling, im buying.
What happened at the door?
Good shit as always, Larry! My second FR and it was still HYPE as shit. I had a run in with financial problems, but I said fuck it and came anyways. My money matches were literally my bread and butter XD
Glad to meet and hang with some awesome peepz. Shoutouts to come.
And also, I’ll be sure to drag Jason Wilson next time I see him. He lives 15 min away from me 
starkid isn’t anakin, or so he said he isnt.
I’ll definitely make it next year when T6 drops. That DR shit is lame now.
Dont worry about nuthin’ Larry, me and juan are only going to get better. Im so hungry for some high level ST but sadly nobody plays it like that in GA that I know of. I only just heard about 2df so Im going to try that out.
Yeah, gotta learn from your mistakes. GG’s to you Damdai, you are the only top level player that I didnt beat during ST casuals. I beat Jeron twice and NKI once. Too bad that GA is dried out when it comes to ST players.
damn player did you forget i got the best claw in the ga or yours rivals mine, son! what happen quick to forget about me. we gotta mm for this or do a seriouse first to ten for copy rights about the best claw in ga!you know you like how i dodge juans shit wit my claw he head butts and i flip and i slam his dumb ass.:lol: i still think you and juan are better then me since im still new to the game.thats being honest
Joel… Nato is way better than you, and you know it lol
Yo Kyah…can you please change my last name to read “Roski” in the 3rd Strike results? Thanks.
Major thanks to Larry for running another great Final Round. So much ridiculous shit happened in SF4.
That’s what I get for doing that shit when I’m half asleep :lol: You got it bro.
I put the following in the first post, but I’m putting it here as well because I want everyone to read it:
UPDATE 3/17/09: I know that the results aren’t fully up yet - I’m very sorry about that, but this is the first chance I have had to get on SRK since I got back. I plan on posting the FULL results for every game that I have access to (the Marvel and Tekken brackets were lost, I think, but we’re working to automate the process for next year so that doesn’t happen again). Check back tomorrow for more results.
EVERYONE PLEASE READ:
I want to address something that people have been talking about regarding Justin and SFIV: so that no one gets the story wrong, Justin got to the hotel at about 11:30pm Saturday night, not 1:00 AM, not 2:00 AM. The decision to give him (and the other players that were considered “top”) a bye was Larry’s decision, and I back him up on it - it gives other less-skilled players a chance to compete without immediately getting peaced out. The fact that Justin was at the bottom of the bracket was also Larry’s decision, because he wanted to give the guy a chance to get here before immediately sending him to the loser’s bracket in case his plane got delayed (and whadda you know? It did!). That didn’t matter though - where you show up on the bracket has no bearing when I run a tournament, I will skip matches to get other matches done until I absolutely cannot skip any more matches and the tournament is being held up. Then, unfortunately, you get DQ’d (which, by the way, actually happened very little over the weekend - I think there were only two before Sunday evening).
By the time Justin got to the hotel, I had already started running both the winner’s side and the loser’s side of the bracket just to get as many matches out of the way as possible with the people that decided to hang around - we didn’t have time for a bunch of waiting around on matches with a bracket that big. Nothing had to be held for him - I treated him just like I treat everyone else when I run a bracket, and gave him the benefit of the doubt. There were PLENTY of other matches that couldn’t be run because people just left for whatever reason without saying anything. However, I didn’t DQ them and decided to give them an opportunity to continue on considering the circumstances, so I went on to other matches. All those DQ’s that you guys heard Charles shouting out didn’t actually happen, because that’s not the way that I like to do things.
So, let me make this as clear as possible: Justin did NOT get any preferential treatment. He got exactly what everyone else did.
And that being said, he showed up in time to play his 2nd round winners match (because of the 1st round bye), he won, and he went on to day two, and to win.
Thank you all for your constructive criticism - we realize that there were some issues with lag after the fact, but I had no idea at the time - not one single person even mentioned it to me personally until we were in the top 32. We are working as I write this to improve the experience for all of you, and I have a STRONG feeling that you guys are going to be VERY happy with some of the changes that are going to be made. I’m glad everyone had such a good time - I know I did!
Thanks!
