LET THE BATTLE BEGIN @ POWNZ on 02/28/2009 (SFIV/STHD/TvC/3S)

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This will be the first GTASF console tournament for Street Fighter IV

DATE:
Saturday February 28th, 2009

LOCATION:
307 King St. E
Hamilton Ontario
L8N1C1

OFFICIAL TOURNAMENTS
Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter HD Remix
Tatsunoko vs Capcom
Street Fighter III Third Strike

POT SPLIT = 70/20/10

SCHEDULE
3:00pm - Registration begins
4:00pm - Street Fighter IV begins (42’ LCD Screen)
4:00pm - Street Fighter HD Remix begins (42’ LCD Screen)
4:00pm - Tatsunoko vs Capcom begins (32’ CRT Screen)
4:00pm - Street Fighter III 3rd Strike begins (32’ CRT Screen)

FORMAT FOR OFFICIAL GAMES
Street Fighter IV (PS3)
$5 entry
double elimination tournament
2 out of 3 games per match
3 out of 5 games per semi final match
4 out of 7 games grand finals

Tatsunoko vs Capcom (Wii)
$5 entry
double elimination tournament
2 out of 3 games per match
3 out of 5 games per semi final match
4 out of 7 games grand finals

Street Fighter HD Remix (PS3)
$5 entry
double elimination tournament
2 out of 3 games per match
3 out of 5 games per semi final match
4 out of 7 games grand finals

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike (PS2)
$5 entry
double elimination tournament
2 out of 3 games per match
3 out of 5 games per semi final match
4 out of 7 games grand finals

SITE FEE
If you are not a POWNZ member then there is a one time $15 registration fee. They will give all new players 6 hours of free play ($20 value) as a thank you to the GTASF for registering. All current POWNZ members will pay $10 for six hours of play (as opposed to $20).

DIRECTORS
SFIV = Nagata Lock II
STHD = Jay Wang
TvC = ???
3S = ???

PRE-REGISTRATION
This tournament will enforce a 16 player requirement for all games. I’m kindly asking that everyone post up for whatever games they are planning to join. If the previous POWNZ tournament showed anything, it was that there are numbers for all games.

STREET FIGHTER IV (29 Pre-Registrations)
Nagata Lock II
Jay Wang
DaflipmastaXV
Psychochronic
YellowS4
The Iron Shiek
Mongoose
WB!
RXS
C3
Cynar
Hisham
nGuman
Mtran66
Amordien
HIJINX
Davero
Bill307
Gerjay
DuranMana
Javid
DayGhost
Noodleman
RPGv2
Chipter
Darko
Fareed
IKE
CQ

STREET FIGHTER HD REMIX (21 Pre-Registrations)
Nagata Lock II
Jay Wang
DaflipmastaXV
Psychochronic
The Iron Shiek
Mongoose
WB!
RXS
Hisham
nGuman
Amordien
Davero
Bill307
Gerjay
DayGhost
RPGv2
Chipter
Darko
R_T_S_D
Fareed
CQ

STREET FIGHTER III 3RD STRIKE (16 Pre-Registrations)
Nagata Lock II
DaflipmastaXV
YellowS4
The Iron Shiek
WB!
RXS
Mtran66
HIJINX
Bill307
Gerjay
Ebonheart
Darko
R_T_S_D
Zaijian2009
IKE
HeavenlyStriker

TATSUNOKU VS CAPCOM (14 entrants, 3 required)
Psychochronic
RXS
Mongoose
Mtran66
Bill307
DuranMana
Ebonheart
nGuman
Javid
Gerjay
Faiq
Grungy Hamster
Darko
DefinitiveVersion

CAPCOM VS SNK 2 (7 entrants, 9 required)
RPGv2
Veggiebob
Chr0nic
Fobstar
Noodleman
Gerjay
Angel Of Rage
Javid

I hope to see everyone in a month. Train up in the games that are out and make sure you get yourself a copy of Street Fighter IV on opening day and practice up for the tournament.

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ugh
in for:

st hd (i can direct this and make good brackets ;p)
sf 4

i’ll bring a ps3 with games too

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Justin: "You gatta preregister you just gatta"
Me: Naooooo

So ya, SF4 and 3s and HD, and maybe TvC if Girth teaches me it

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Sign me up for SFIV i guess.

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SF4/STHD/TvC for me.

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SFIV
CVS1
3S
Roti chicken

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I’d like to sign up for SF4, HD Remix, and 3S.

Any chance we can get some SNK lovin’ in this tourney (e.g. KOF '98 Ultimate, KOF XI, or MOTW)? I’ll be more than happy to host them if needed.

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I’m sure I can make it though but sign me up for SF4 and HD Remix.

Edit: If someone can give me a ride who lives near me, I’d really appreciate it.

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You could sign me up for SF4 and HD Remix also, but I have no idea how get there. I have no car at all :frowning:

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Before moving forward with PS3 STHD, i think there needs to be a serious look at the difference between the performance of the ps3 and 360 versions.

There were a few comments amongst some players yesterday that the PS3 version seemed to have a little bit of lag (not sure if this was due to convertors or the actual game itself) I’m sure someone else will mention it but it’s worth being looked into.

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Vince; I will likely pop by POWNZ tomorrow (I have the day off) with my PS3 and do a comparison between their STHD on 360 and my PS3. The TV’s are side by side so comparison should be easy.

Shiek; I kept the game roster pretty limited this time around. We were spread a little thin at yesterday’s tournament leaving no option for using 2 TV’s for one game and what not when time became a factor. If I find everything can run great with these four games (which will be a staple because they’re new or in 3S’s case draw well) then we’ll open it up a bit. I’d like to add at least one new game each month like Fate Unlimited Codes or the upcoming Arcana Heart 2 so increase the diversity of play and players.

While on the subject of new games, we should touch on the old. The old being CvS2/MvC2/A3 and all the other old favourites. Simply put, I’m no longer running any of those tournaments on a monthly basis for the foreseeable future. There are enough new games that people could and in some cases should be playing that we no longer need older games to bolster the roster.

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3 of the top 5 finishers play on PSN so we might be “used to the lag” you are referring to (whatever it may be: converters, tv, etc?). The other 2 (JED and WB) don’t have either console and I don’t think they complained about any lag.

The converter belongs to Kymah and he was nice enough to donate it for everybody’s use during the tournament. YellowS4 and myself were able to play STHD with the converter before the tourney and didn’t notice any distinct “lag”. The PS3 was system of choice as I volunteered to bring my system in for use.

Nagata will be visiting pwnz at some point this week and he will do a comparison so let’s wait and see what he finds.

3s could have ended alot quicker if we didn’t run a shitty CvS1 tournament on the side. worst idea ever. Anyways there are only 5 TV stations at pwnz and we have 4 games coming up so even if we have 2 of each, we might not even have room to set up stations??

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Oh also, if there was one thing evidenced by the last tournament is that we really should have a proper supply of consoles & games. Third Strike could have ended a lot quicker with just a bit more foresight. Basically what I’m asking for is people to volunteer so we have 2 consoles and 2 games per game on the list. I know some people may not want to bring their next gen console but everyone has them by this point so it will be the norm regardless.

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SF4/TvC for sure.

Moar Guilty Gear pl0x. (Yes, I’m serious. No, I don’t expect it to get off the ground.)

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What’ll be the difference between 360 and PS3 if you’re doing local multiplayer?

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I didn’t notice any lag really. The main issues with the PS3 were the fact that resetting the controls were annoying to say the least. We go to options, change the control settings only to start the match and find out they’re still not set up properly…this was really annoying.

I also am used to the Xbox EX2 stick so it was a touch hard to adjust to using the PS sticks and even the Tekken sticks that I used to use a long time ago. This is just an issue I could probably take care of myself by getting my old Tekken stick off of Justin and just practice on GGPO or 2DF.

Other than that, well, I lost because I played really really badly and I have no excuse for that other than to practice better and be better prepared for the next tourney.

Oh yeah, and sign me up for SFIV, STHD and 3S. Probably not going to try TvC ever again until I can actually get my hands on a Wii and learn how to actually play the thing…:lol:

EDIT: More Castle Crashers plz.

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I’ll get back to you guys on this one…

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Hey, can you sign me up for SFIV and STHD.

Also, will I have to get a POWNZ membership or something in order to play?

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Not really sure if it will be useful, but I can bring my PS2. For Third Strike, and MvC2.

No not really, just wanted to put the Marvel players on tilt.

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Sweet, im in for this tourney. Hopefully i won’t be as hungover this time around