ok ok so let me break down how we NW folk handle Team Selection. That is IT right there, TEAM SELECTION. These quals will have 6 winners. These winners + myself and Scrubydan will make 8 members of the team. From the moment of this qualifier to the second week before evo, ALL 8 of those players will be practicing…TOGETHER as a TEAM.
Right before EVo we will all group up and decide, AS A TEAM what the NW SF4 roster should be.
So this means that at that moment, if lets say Row got on the team and he ends up having a better dhalsim then myself. I will step down and let Row be the dhalsim. Cause this is not about individuals. This is about properly representing the NW and getting our strongest players on that 5v5.
I do believe this will generate the best 5v5 and we will go into EVO smashing FACES.
So with that said…starts to clap NW NW NW NW NW NW NW!!!
Fight for NW Top 10 Elites!!!
Format: Round Robin
Rules: First to 3/One Character
Date: 06/06 (Saturday)
Time: 12 noon
Location: THE NEW AFRO-DOJO!!!(address coming soon =P)
Players: 27 Entrees
King - Zangief
Mickey D - Ryu
Jason "The Future - ?
John Michaels “LTB” - Ken
Nolan - C. Viper
Frank da Dank - Bison
Mark Santos - Zangief
Rowtron - Dhalsim
Mechanica - El furte (?)
Rattana - Sagat
Jmar - Sagat
James ShowWrecker - Balrog
Adam - Ryu
Josh - Akuma
15)Julian (Airthrow) - Bison
Random Select (Portland Tourney) Top 5
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17)
18)
19)
20)
Wild Card Players
21) Deezo - Chun-Li
22) Peachy - Blanka
23) Paul Lee - Sagat
24) Munky - Abel
25) Paul G - Akuma
26) Kyle - Rufus
27) Ian - Bison
“Get ready for a long day of SF4, if you are not up for this please let me know and I will take your name off the list.”
Dang it! I live in Idaho and I was going to come up for the Qualifiers. :sadface:
's cool though. Not complaining. Just inner anguish. Taking the Top 20 down to the 5 is good stuff.
What if I’m still working on getting money for a plane ticket? Have a room offer but I get 10 hours a week or less (home sick today from one of my two work days >_<) and can’t save money :sad:
and what exactly has stopped you? it was always the plan to not have it all decided in one night. not really fair to everyone that way.
Quick questions: Lets say player A is amazing at Balrog and Ryu, and Player B is really good at Balrog but thats it, Now after qualifiers it comes down to Player A vs Player B in finals and they both play Balrog, player A wins so he gets Balrog rights but player B cannot compete on that level of competition with any other character, should player A play his equally good Ryu and let player B be the Balrog, because he was able to beat everyone but player A with that Balrog.
I believe you commit to a character for this, but maybe I’m wrong. You’re playing to prove your character so play the character you are trying to get on the team. Also, it’s not going to come down to one match I believe because it’ll be round robin (not the first giant qualifiers, but afterwards). So the one mirror match you played only has as much weight as all your other matches.
In that scenario, since “player b cannot compete on that level” then that sucks for them. You need to be on “that level” for Evo.
I am actually going to need help with peoples names from other areas (like portland etc…) Id appreciate it if people could PM or maybe one person give me a list of the top 5 in that area that will be attending. I would really appreciate the help folks. I want to include all top players that are coming from a far distance.
Thanks folks
Nate - You have one character and one character only. Mechinca is right, you are trying to prove u are the best candidate for the character you use. If there is a tie in the round robin with two balrogs, then both balrogs will go through an identical gauntlet for a final score, winner will be the one.
aiight i think im gonna start bringing my ps3 sticks since its what im gonna be using at evo. ive never actually switched out a stick that was plugged into a console. but yes,
If you hold it at your place in June, you can use the Random Select Tournament on May 30th as a Qualifier for top Portland players and see who wants to compete.
Just wanna add that in this hypothetical situation, whoever runs the gauntlet second should not be able to watch the first player’s gauntlet so they don’t learn matchup tricks/learn from the other player’s mistakes, or otherwise scout out the matches they’ll have to play. :tup: Though maybe the gauntlet will be harder for the second player after the gauntlet opponents are used to playing that character? Hmm.
