GameStop Winners Circle! 2/21/09

Name: Harrison Tong
GameStop location: Rosemead, CA Store #2257
Character(s) used: Ken

players entered: About 40ish people signed up but about 10 didnt show up. but had like 3 people late join.

Place finished: First ? but since its round 1 both first and runner up moves. so it counts as first.

Comments:
My store was very gay. Very unorganized. They accepted so many late players and even people who didn’t hear or sign in. It messed up all the brackets.
There were 5 people left. My brother, me , this guy who uses vega, this guy who uses zangief, and another ken player.

They fucked up bad. It was suppose to be my brother playing against vega,
me playing the zangief or ken player and then me or my brother playing the remaining.
but most likely it was suppose to be my brother & me to move to round 2.

kinda gay since they went out of order and then they realized that after they made US play each other and i won, that they made a mistake that my borther wasn’t supposed to play with me and they still didn’t fix it. didn’t give him a chance to remake it with the other guy.

tournament at this location is very unorganized.
screen was freakin tiny
controllers were all used up and oily and bashed up.
and it wasn’t wireless or wired like 6-7" ft cord. it was like stuck on the machine lol
so it was kinda gay having the other player arms around yours. =/

anyways i wouldn’t recommend going to this gamestop to play a tourney again. i noticed some places used big LCD tv and shit. this tourney was cheap and wack at my location.

they need to have better organizers and not fucked up retards to moderate this tourney but, hey! its a free tourney so whatever. no money involved.

Name: Jason S.
GameStop location: East Meadows, NY
Character used: C. Viper

players entered: 20ish

Place finished: Second

Comments: Alot of Shoto players, one gief, and one chun li. I already was going to the second round, but me and the guy who won had to play just to see who gets the yellow headband and the wrist band. I lost to a good ken player. Funny thing was that i was only person that used one of the new players. Oh well!!! And yes the 360 d-pad sucks. Did pretty good for my first SF tourney.

Name: Tony P.
GameStop location: Paramount, CA, USA, Earth
Character used: Claw

players entered: 15-20

Place finished: Second

Would have taken it except for the fact that all my flip kicks translate to XBOX pads as wall dives, and EX’s weren’t coming out. Fought against a fellow SRKer in semis because they switched the brackets around, otherwise it would have been him and I in the finals. Kinda unorganized and weird, people didn’t necessarily know what they were doing so I was yelling things from afar. Lots of people didn’t show up, as well.

Still, I’m ready to scrape in round two.

Name: John Rog
Gamestop Location: Irvine, CA
Character: Balrog

players Entered: 20

Place Finished: 1st

Dannahan showed up but the GS store owner was nice enough to put us on opposite sides of the bracket. Met some very nice people. On to district!

Name: Cesar DeAlba
GameStop location: Santa Maria, Ca
Character(s) used: Ryu

players entered: 40

Place finished: First

Comments: Very fun it was pretyy much me and my buddy in finals again me and him won the game crazy tournament couple days ago too very fun though when its organized

Name: Ralph Brown
GameStop location:Warwick, RI
Character(s) used: Dictatot

players entered: 13

Place finished: First

the people at my location were terrible

also fuck 360 pads

Name: Ryan Bracamonte
GameStop location: Vista, CA
Character(s) used: Ryu

players entered: 40 ish? i dont know

Place finished: First

Comments: Fun tournament. I think im better on pad than i am on stick. lol

how the fuck do I get second at one of these garbage ass tournaments and lbr who NEVER plays the game gets first? I FUCKING HATE SF4 FUCK EVERYONE WHO PLAYS THIS PIECE OF SHIT GAME!!! :annoy::annoy:

YOU MAD!

Who’d you lose to?

way to go john rog!!! :lovin:

Gamestop Location: Monterey Park, CA
Character: Balrog

players entered: 51 signed up, probably half of that showed up

Place finished: 1st

They had some weird fucked up way of running the brackets so I ended up having to play R|C who was definitely the second best guy there. Shoulda been me and him in the finals. Oh well, WTG gamestop, you are teh suck. Also, apparently we HAVE to play at the district store which is Pico Rivera. What did everyone else’s stores say about round 2?

Name:Chad Whitaker
GameStop location: Austell, GA
Character(s) used: Ryu

players entered: 50 ? i dont know

Place finished: 2nd

pretty dope game, was my first time playin it. ryu basics ftw!

Name: Matthew Argao
GameStop location: Alexandria, Virginia
Character(s) used: Boxer

players entered: 20-30~ (don’t remember too well)

Place finished: First

Shotos stink, Boxer was here.

Mame: Al Murray
GameStop location: Philadelphia, PA
Character used: Gief

players entered: 8

Place finished: First

mostly scrubs there but there were 2 guys that weren’t too bad. also used it as a chance to promote the local arcade.

yo kyle, you wanna carpool next week?

Name: Brandon Brown
GameStop location: McAllen , Tx
Character(s) used: Sagat

players entered: 25 - 30

Place finished: First

Comments - First tourny ; hated using 360 pad ; http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/18/l_2e4eb1e8bd3e41838b42fa1c1ce941be.jpg

Gamestop Location: Hunt Valley, MD
Character: Abel/Chun

players entered: 15 signed up, only 6 showed

Place finished: 1st

I’m glad only six people showed. I had shit to do yesterday.

Abel on a pad is fucking impossible. Chun on a pad is easy as pie.

Name: Nick Bibey
GameStop location: Minot, ND Store#3499
Character used: Ken

players entered: 14

Place finished: 1st

Like you wouldn’t win anyway but yes rufus on pad. Quick win.

Rufus is the easiest character in the game to play on pad imo which is why I played him too. Tri jumps are easier and I pulled off ex messiah kick fadc snake strikes/ultra a few times at my GS.

name:Nick Mariani
store:Newmarket shopping center #2511 Newport News,VA 23605
number of entries:10
character(s):sagat
placed:1st

comments: i was really disappointed in the tourney at this store
i quickly destroyed everyone, no one there had any real knowledge. it seemed like they just wanted to play sf4 for free lol.

examples: 1.i won an entire match with sweeps, the i was accused of “playing this game too much” i’m not kidding.

2.i won an entire round with throws “man that’s cheap”

3.most of my matches started with my opponent jumping at me, one round i won with all standing roundhouse anti airs.

4.every person there (except me and one other person), used ken, and did nothing but jump in roundhouse, crouching roundhouse. and full screen ultras.

and those sticks were some ole bullshit. one didn’t even have the grip on the analog hahaha

Name: Tyson Covington
GameStop location: Redding, CA 909 Dana Dr # 2E
Character(s) used: Ryu

players entered: 33

Place finished: No comment.

Comments: Insanely close game, I took first 2 rounds against Ken, he got the next 2, then he beat me by a sliver in the last match…sigh at Shoryuken spams.

Name: Adam Hill
Gamestop: Jax, FL (store#2900)
Characters: Dictator
#players: 10ish
Place: 2nd

Standing roundhouse and ex headstomps got me to the finals. The guy running the tournament kept asking where my psycho crushers were. I ended up losing to my friend who wasn’t even going to enter, but I convinced him to. Couldn’t break his Guile defenses. Hoping we can get at opposites ends of the brackets next time as well so we both have a chance at going to round 3.