They’re paying me $70 an hour (God bless triple time) to sit here and do nothing because Bell can’t close their offices for one fucking day. As a result, I’ve got time on my hands and will be sifting through GTASF threads and recapping what I feel is worth mentioning:
JANUARY
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
The GTASF hit up Tokyo Game Action. We were supposed to have a large group going but I couldn’t make it and Stephen ended up taking Antoine, Roger and Eric 10 hours just outside Boston.
SFIII: 3rd Strike Singles (34 entries)
1) AneursymX [DU]
2) Js Master [CH]
3) Smoothcat [CH]
4) iLL wiLL [MA]
5) Jjuice [UR]
5) Dark Dragon [CH]
Marvel vs Capcom 2 (18 entries)
1) JS Master
2) Ratio1BeatDown
3) Tony B
4) Caddles
5) Nestor (forfeit)
5) Josh Wong (had to leave early)
NOTES
Eric “JS Master” Liu wins a local Shanghai 3rd Strike tournament.
Sauga thread sets the record for least amount of posts in its history with 49. This comes after Anant comes up with the idea of editing original posts instead of making new ones. The thread is actually pretty interesting when you read through it though a bit confusing.
X-Sapphire is the first person to bring up the idea of Ranking Battles at ORBIT. The irony of that statement is mind blowing.
G3EVO holds their first tournament of the year. Their records don’t go back to January so I don’t have top 5.
FEBRUARY
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
RANKING BATTLE 1.1
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (14 Entrants)
1st - Gerjay (Matrix) (10 Points)
2nd - Joker (Magneto/Iron Man/Storm) (7 Points)
3rd - JS Master (Matrix/Scrub) (5 Points)
4th - g3nn (Rowtron) (3 Points)
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (9 Entrants)
1st - JS Master (V Sakura) (10 Points)
2nd - YellowS4 (V Zangief/A Ryu) (7 Points)
3rd - Phastestpig (A Zangief/A Sakura) (5 Points)
4th - Nagata Lock II (A Charlie/V Ryu) (3 Points)
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (20 entrants)
1st - Chris (Akuma) 10 points
2nd - JS Master (Chun) 7 points
3rd - Louie (Urien) 5 points
4th - Dickson (Yun) 3 points
RANKING BATTLE 1.2
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (12 Entrants)
- Gerjay (10 points)
- g3nn (7 points)
- Jiggabry (5 points)
- Quan (3 points)
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 (9 Entrants)
1st PokeGuy (K-Terry/Hibiki/Blanka) 10pts
2nd Noodleman (A-Vega/Bison/Blanka) 7pts
3rd Cyrus (A-Vega/Bison/Sak/Blanka) 5pts
4th JS Master (A-Bison/Chun/Rolento/Cammy) 3pts
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (24 entrants)
1st - Chris (Akuma/Ibuki)
2nd - Louie (Urien)
3rd - Samir (Yun/Ken)
4th - JS Master (Chun)
RANKING BATTLE 1.3
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (12 Entrants)
- Jiggabry [10]
- g3nn [7]
- Teddy [5]
- Gerjay [3]
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (8 Entrants)
- JS Master (V-Sakura) [10]
- YellowS4 (V-Zangief) [7]
- Phastestpig (A-Zangief, A-Sakura) [5]
- Psychochronic (V-Mika) [3]
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (25 Entrants)
1st - Jebeezie (10 points)
2nd - AdamB (7 points)
3rd - Chris (5 points)
4th - JS Master (Chun Li) (3 points)
NOTES
Jeff “Ack” Au shocks the 3rd Strike community, becoming the first foreign born player to win a Japanese 3rd Strike Ranking Battle.
Sauga begins what would appear to be pre-emptive strikes making threads early so I can’t beat them to it.
Anant begins The Candy Bar Race and subsequently bails at the end of the month.
MARCH
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
As per tradition, March is highlighted by the Montreal Annual Tournament. MAT V was the biggest tournament in Montreal’s history. The GTASF came with 21 players. Combined with Ottawa and Montreal’s large local scene, it made for a great time.
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 TEAM TOURNAMENT (12 Teams)
1st - Team Toronto (G3nn/JS Master/Jiggabry)
2nd - Team Wildcard (Lord Magnus/Joker/Ratio1beatdown)
3rd - Team Shady (AznRetro/CB/AkenienG)
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE TEAM TOURNAMENT
1. JS/Yellows4
2. FreddyLoco/Phoun
3. Samir/Dice01
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 TEAM TOURNAMENT
1.Pts-one/arcadekid/ Heero
2.1hitcombo/jreinert13/Freddyl0c0
3.Gwai-Lo/CB/Ratio1beatdown
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (32 Players)
1) Jiggabry
2) Gerjay
3) Samnang
4) JS Master
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (29 Entrants)
1st - Samir (Yun/Ken)
2nd - YellowS4 (Dudley)
3rd - Heero (Chun Li/Ken)
4h - Phoun (Dudley/Ken)
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 (23 Entrants)
- Heero
2. Ratio1BeatDown - Freddyloco
- Karamba
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (16 Entrants)
- Tony (Temujin)
- Reagan (prez)
- Alex (Arcadekid)
4. Eric (JS Master)
SUPER STREET FIGHTER II TURBO (21 Entrants)
1st - Mass
2dn - Ajmal
3rd - BK
4th - Freddyloco
X-MEN VS STREET FIGHTER (16 Entrants)
1 - 1hitcombo
2 - jiggabry
3 - Martin
4 - ratio1beatdown
MARCH MADNESS @ ORBIT
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (13 Entrants)
- Jiggabry
- JS Master
- g3nn
- Ratio1Beatdown
TEAM TURMOIL @ ORBIT
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (9 Teams)
- Jiggabry + Lord Magnus
- Gerjay + g3nn
- Ryan + Sean
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (6 Teams)
1 - AneurysmX / DarkDragon / RX50cent
2 - Nech_Neb / Samir / Chun
3 - Pocari Sweat / Sinclair / ???
MARCH MADNESS @ G3EVOLUTION BASE
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (15 entrants)
1st - Jeebus (A-Chun, V-Sim, V-Akuma)
2nd - Kevin (V-Akuma, A-Gen)
3rd - JED (A-Charlie, A-Akuma)
4th - Badguy (A/V-Akuma)
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (8 entrants)
1st - Dice01 (Ken, Yun, Dudley)
2nd - Badguy (Alex)
3rd - King Koopa (Yun)
4th - AlterGenesis (Ken, Chun-Li, Ryu, Makoto)
RANKING BATTLE 1.4
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (12 entrants)
- Jiggabry [10 points]
- Teddy [7 points]
- g3nn [5 points]
- Ryan [3 points]
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE TEAM TOURNAMENT (9 Teams)
1st - Chris (Akuma) / Burton (Q)
2nd - C-Royd (Dudley) / Adam B (Ken)
3rd - Dickson (Yun) / JS Master (Chun)
RANKING BATTLE 1.5
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (9 Entrants)
1st - JiggaBry - MSS(10)
2nd - Gerjay - SSCyke(7)
3rd - Ryan - MSS(5)
4th - G3nn - Row(3)
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (23 entrants)
1st - Gaijinblaze (Ken)
2nd - Burton (Ken/Twelve)
3rd - Chris (Ibuki/Akuma)
4th - Samir (Yun/Ken/Dudley)
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (8 entrants):
- JS Master (V-Sakura) [10]
- YellowS4 (A/V-Zangief) [7]
- Gerjay (A-Dhalsim) [5]
- Psychochronic (V-Mika, V-Karin) [3]
NOTES
Dorothy is humped by a 150lb German Sheppard
Bear Ryoma vs Sauga Crew “At least he doesn’t put the FAG in dicksuckingfaggot.”
Driving Poeta up the wall making him think I cancelled XvSF at T8 and ignoring all his posts.
The XvSF Macros Thread.
Was AsnSyn ever revealed to be Samir?
Burton explodes on Nech_Neb at ORBIT, resulting in Nech_Neb retiring out of apparent fear.
Best part of Toronto thread in the first page
APRIL
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
TGA GOT RUINED BY LIFE @ ORBIT
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (11 Entrants)
- Jiggabry
- Spiral Guy
- g3nn
- Gerjay
TORONTO CONSOLE TOURNAMENT
GUILTY GEAR XX SLASH TEAM TOURNAMENT (10 teams)
- ZeroFalcon (Zappa), K2 (May, Eddie)
- DarkDragon (Baiken/Jam/Faust), JS Master (Baiken)
- X-Sapphire (Chipp), FTK (Johnny)
MELTY BLOOD: ACT CADENZA (10 Entrants)
- Badguy00
- ZeroFalcon
- Anthony
- X-Sapphire
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (10 Entrants)
- PhastestPig
- JS Master
- Dice
- DarkGiygas
RANKING BATTLE 1.6
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (10 Entrants)
- g3nn [10]
- Jiggabry[7]
- DaflipmastaXV [5]
- Lord Magnus [3]
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (10 Entrants)
- JS Master (V-Sakura) [10]
- WB! (A-Gen, V-Akuma) [7]
- Nagata Lock II (A-Charlie, A-Chun-Li) [5]
- Psychochronic (V-Karin, V-Mika) [3]
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (17 entrants)
1st - JS Master (Chun)
2nd - AdamB (Ken)
3rd - Chris (Ibuki/Akuma)
4th - Gaijinblaze (Ken/Dudley)
RANKING BATTLE 1.7
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (12 Entrants)
MvC2 (12 players):
- g3nn [10]
- Ryan [7]
- Gerjay [5]
- Sean [3]
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (25 entrants)
1st - Jack (Makoto)
2nd - Chris (Akuma/Ibuki/Ken/Urien)
3rd - King (Chun)
4th - Burton (Ken/Twelve)
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (8 Entrants)
1st - JS Master
2nd - YellowS4
3rd - Phastestpig
4th - Poke Guy
NOTES
Noodleman shows everyone why no time bet is safe from his driving.
Sauga invades Casinorama. Poeta discovers the insane slot machine that always pays out. We come across the guy playing mega high stakes slots ($100 a credit) and an hour later he’s playing nickel slots. OWNED!
Afro Rich sues the Mississauga Police Department for 12 million.
“FREE BOX! FREE BOX!”
A-Deal runs one of his many weed scams on Sauga Crew, causing major drama.
Jiggabry smushes a cheeseburger in Adil’s face. Hilarity ensues…
MAY
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
May always brings about ECC. Except this year it was swalled by the monster that is EVO and became EVO East. The GTASF put together a team of 12 players and headed into Stamford Connecticut.
EVO EAST
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2
1st - Sanford Kelly
2nd - Justin Wong
3rd - Chunksta
4th - Demon Hyo
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRKE
1st - Justin Wong
2nd - Hold Dat
3rd - Paul Wall
4th - Exodus
CAPCOM VS SNK 2
1st - Justin Wong
2nd - Sage
3rd - Sabin
4th - Sanford Kelly
- Jiggabry (5th) and AneurysmX (7th) both qualified for EVO World in 3rd Strike.
RANKING BATTLE 1.8 (Final Session)
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (18 Entrants)
- Bry [10]
- g3nn [7]
- Gerjay [5]
- Ryan [3]
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (20 entrants)
1st - Adam B. (Ken)
2nd - Phastestpig (Ken/Chun/Ryu)
3rd - Don (Yun/Yang)
4th - Chris (Ibuki/Akuma)
RANKING BATTLE 1 WINNERS
MvC2 = Jiggabry (playoff with g3nn)
CvS2 = Poke Guy
3S = Ibuki Chris
A3 = JS Master
TORONTO CONSOLE TOURNAMENT
GUILTY GEAR XX SLASH (13 Entrants)
- Justin (Sol)
- Tony (Slayer)
- ZeroFalcon (Zappa, Anji)
- Anthony (Ky)
MELTY BLOOD: ACT CADENZA (8 Entrants)
- Pui
- Anthony
- Tony
- Cheatah
RANKING BATTLE 2.1
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (14 Entrants)
- Jiggabry [10]
- JS [7]
- g3nn [5]
- Ratio1Beatdown [3]
NOTES
This one is obvious. The biggest story to come out of May was the controversy surrounding Samir’s alleged cheating at EVO East. It was contested by Henry Cen that Samir changed the damage settings in System Direction to give him an advantage. This spawned a near brawl at the venue and heated aftermath on SRK. You can read the thread here
Adil is banned from T8 after taking a cheap shot at me. The chain reaction from that banning are still being dealt with today.
THELORDGUY joins SRK. I still contend it’s one of the funniest avs on the forums.
There is a fantastic retrospective on the history of the Sauga scene done by DaDesiCanadian. I’m not doing multiple links to his posts (there are 3 parts spilling into the June thread) but they’re worth tracking down.
JUNE
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
RANKING BATTLE 2.2
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (13 Entrants)
- g3nn [10]
- Sean [7]
- Bry [5]
- Roger [3]
RANKING BATTLE 2.3
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (13 Entrants)
- g3nn [10]
- Gerjay [7]
- Jack [5]
- Sean [3]
GENN MISSED THE DYKE’S MARCH FOR CYRUS STUPID TOURNEY
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (14 Entrants)
- Gerjay
- g3nn
- Sean
- DarkDragon
NOTES
We get a great piece of beef as Matt and Quan get into a big arguement about bets and why one guy won’t show up at the other’s house and blah blah blah. It’s pretty funny stuff watching Quan get heated. To the surprise of no one, Adil is smack in the middle of it all. This actually spills into almost 200 posts worth of bitching.
JULY
July brings about the biggest tournament of the year in Canada, the T tournament. This year I organized the event with Nathan as the General Manager and Stephen as head Director. This tournament was the biggest one in Canada’s history. The numbers are as follows:
Venue Fee: $2000
Players: 217
Games: 12 (CvS2/MvC2/3S/GG:AC/ST/A2/A3/MB:AC/T5:DR/SC3/SSBM/XvSF)
Cities outside of the GTA: 8 (Victoria/Edmonton/Winnipeg/Ottawa/Montreal/New York/Chicago/Detroit)
Directors: g3nn, Phastestpig, Noodleman, Dogberry, X-Sapphire, Badguy00, Psychochronic, RPGv2, Neorussell, Shiro
Contributors: Nagata Lock II, DarkDragon, g3nn, Gerjay, JED01, Bear Ryoma, B4K4, Poke Guy, DaDesiCanadian, Quan, Psychochronic, BKB, Phastestpig, Ultra Nyo, DarkGigyas, Guff, Jim_Kim, Shifty Nevers, WB!, Green, RTL, Dublo7, Dice01, NeoRussell
People reading this owe a big thanks to the above people for the TV’s, Consoles, games, sticks, controllers, Power Bars, and Converters that made this tournament possible. It took a lot of work, money, and generousity from a lot of people to make this tournament what it was.
RESULTS
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE TEAM TOURNAMENT (18 Teams)
1st - Team Empire (JustinW/Sabin/Dice01)
2nd - Team RX50Cent (AneurysmX/Don/Louie)
3rd - Team Hai (AdamB/King/Dickson)
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 TEAM TOURNAMENT (10 Teams)
1st - Team Empire (JustinW/Sabin/JS Master)
2nd - Team Montreal (Jiggabry/Freddyloco/Karamba)
3rd - Team Toronto (Flightwing/Prez/Ratio1beatdown)
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 TEAM TOURNAMENT (9 Teams)
1st - Team Empire (JustinW/Sabin/JS Master)
2nd - Team Natural (Lord Magnus/Gerjay/Jiggabry)
3rd - Team Trescoronas (Cito/Joker/Ratio1beatdown)
GUILTY GEAR: ACCENT CORE TEAM TOURNAMENT (10 Teams)
1st - Pui (ZA), K2 (MA), Anthony (KY)
2nd - X-Sapphire (CH), Rt142 (BA), Teyah (ED)
3rd - Tony (SL), Tim (TE), FTK (JO)
TEKKEN 5: DARK RESURRECTION TEAM TOURNAMENT (9 Teams)
1st - Team UnBalance (J3moonAce, Mahir, MadDogJee)
2nd - Team Cortland/Asquidtookashower (Phunnykidd, LingMassacre, Ben1111)
3rd - Team MTL (Trevor, Shyft, Herny)
STREET FIGHTER III: 3RD STRIKE (62 Entrants)
1st - Justin Wong
2nd - JS Master
3rd - Dickson
CAPCOM VS SNK 2 (30 Entrants)
1st - Justin Wong
2nd - Freddyloco
3rd - Sabin
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (22 Entrants)
1st - Justin Wong
2nd - Jiggabry
3rd - Gerjay
SOUL CALIBURE 3 (8 Entrants)
TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT (20 Entrants)
1st - Trevor
2nd - Shyft
3rd - J3moon Ace
GUILTY GEAR: ACCENT CORE (21 Entrants)
1st - Zerofalcon
2nd - K2
3rd - Teyah
TEKKEN 5: DARK RESURRECTION (37 Entrants)
1st - J3moon Ace (D.Jin)
2nd - Trevor (Feng, Steve, Ganryu)
3rd - Strider Yoshi (Yoshi, Julia, Lili)
X-MEN VS STREET FIGHTER (20 Entrants)
1st - Liquid Metal X
2nd - Joker
3rd - Shiro
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 2 (16 Entrants)
1st - Justin Wong
2nd - Arturo Sanchez
3rd - Ranaku
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (17 Entrants)
1st - Sabin
2nd - Justin Wong
3rd - Dublo7
SUPER STREET FIGHTER II TURBO (20 Entrants)
1st - Justin Wong
2nd - Sabin
3rd - WB!
MELTY BLOOD: ACT CADENZA (22 Entrants)
1st - Zerofalcon
2nd - K2
3rd - Tony
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 LOW TIER (24 Entrants)
1st - Justin Wong
2nd - VDO
3rd - Ratio1beatdown
TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT (20 Entrants)
1st - Trevor
2nd - Shyft
3rd - J3moon Ace
I haven’t really discussed this with anyone but I actually had two small panic attacks over T8 weekend and had to basically take some time for myself before I snapped. The first was before anyone even showed up. I got to the venue and waited for the owner to show up. When he got there I hit up the bank machine for the deposit ($1000) only to find out after trying to make two withdrawls of $500 each my account had been locked. When I went to call CIBC they told me that I had to come into a branch in order to have it unlocked. Of course that wasn’t possible with people starting to come in, the owner breathing down my neck for his money and the fact I was already parked and didn’t have actual cash on me to pay the toll. So basically I freaked, and the attendant caved on me having to hit up a branch. Ownership was really adamant about getting that deposit and had told me that I wouldn’t be allowed to bring in more equipment unless that was paid up front. Complete and total mess.
The second freak out was obvious, the power outages. I don’t think people quite grasped how close I was to a nervous breakdown. It wasn’t just the situation, it was the heat coupled with having what had to have been 30 people come to me asking not only about the power but other stuff as well. I honestly don’t know how I didn’t just snap and curl up into the fedal position. I’ve been directing in one capacity or another for 5 years and I have NEVER felt stress like that in my entire life. I’m honestly proud I was able to think on my feel that quickly re-distributing the power while having so many people hounding me because if I didn’t that would have been the end of the Friday.
To be continued…
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