The Starbase Arcade Thread: $5 wednesday night 3pm - 11pm

Coming back from 0-2…clutch! I was sweatin’ it fosho. Good shit Jay. Your my goldmine.

Funniest thing afterwards Jay was talking about it he goes " I was watching Abe in casuals and I thought Damn, this kids better than me"…LOL"

Good times.

abe choked hard. as for a rematch naw abe doesnt like sf4 and he really doesnt want to put the time into practicing it. Even though if he does i think he can get HELLA good. cuz the last time he played sf4 was Jose’s house after the best buy tourney. he only plays a lot of Mortal Kombat.

in airthrows though
Abe-1 Jay-0

there definitely shoulda been a $2 per airthrow rule in force JK

Can we get this for SSFIV?

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buhahahah->“Your my gold mine”.

We should do Marin Vs Sonoma 5 vs 5. Every player puts in 5 bucks!
Furthermore We should have playoff to see who gets to be on the team.

that would be sick! tourney mode!

i don’t even think marin has 5 players without you jose. i’ll see if i can get a hold of these other people that play in marin

Me, Hooman, Jay, Frankie? (lives in Marin but has ties to SC),???

If SC gets Jose can we give them Arthur too?

we should do it in more games than just sf4.
HD remix
3S
cvs2
alpha3.
i saw that little promo of the save the arcades with starbase and bob was playing ddr.
i say Jose vs Bob in a DDR match.

I lived in Sonoma County From 99-03’ and lived in Marin from 03’-Current. Just based on numbers alone, I should be considered part of Team Marin :slight_smile:

Definitely like Francisco’s idea of the 5v5 being more than one game. We could either do the 5v5 for each game, or have a set of games and each team picks their best player out of the bunch to represent each one.

Also Jose depending on his schedule, we could possible fill in the ??? with Terry. We all knows he plays 3S, ST, HDR and SFIV.

No joke…CVS2 needs to be in the 5v5. I need to shake off the rust.

no other games for me sorry. havent played some of those games in 7+ years. im strictly sf4. no time for anything else.

Same here. Unless you guys wanna play Guilty Gear Reload.

how would this go down then if marin is only gonna play SF4?

Not sure. We could always do best representative for each game, for example:

SFIV: 1 Sonoma Player/1 Marin Player
CVS2: 1 Sonoma Player/1 Marin Player
3S: 1 Sonoma Player/1 Marin Player

Also we should totally make Game #4 Guilty Gear XX Slash or XX Accent Core.

Los, Jay and I were also talking about making the 5th game drawn at random. That makes it easier if you don’t have a rep for every game listed.

So I posted this also in the Sonoma thread. But the 5 on 5 SF4 Marin qualifiers will be held at Carlos’ house this Friday! We are still figuring out how the structure of the tourney will work. But basically the top 5 Marin guys will exhibition against the top 5 guys of Sonoma the following week at Starbase.

edit: and like I said on the other thread. the 5 on 5 sf4 is gonna be for sure. we can have the 1 sonoma player/1 marin player representative matchups for the other games.
Jay can represent Marin in Guilty Gear
Terry 3s
Franky CVS?
Or whatever. Post up your ideas. This should be fun!!

Let me know how you guys are going to run the 5v5 Qualifiers. We can’t have it like a normal tourney, mostly because brackets would be random and the order would be too random.

I think an idea (if we have the time), depending on the people, we have each Marin Player play each Marin Player in a Best 2/3–2 Rounds. For every match they win (2/3) they get a point. For every match they lose, they get 0 points. Top 5 players with the highest number of points out of points possible will be the Marin Representives for the SFIV 5v5.

For Example (if we have Los, Jay, Myself, Hoo, 2 randoms) Point Possible Total= 5 (Excluding The Player)

-Los beats Jay, Myself and 2 randoms but loses to Hoo= 4/5 points
-Hooman beats Los, Jay, Myself but loses to 2 randoms= 3/5 points

Lemme know what you guys think. We would have to pretty much have everyone there at 9pm and start right on time to get shit from getting into overtime.

My g/f will be with me on Friday, so I really hope I don’t choke in SFIV again in front of her :frowning:

Excellent idea!
Should be a fun night. I really hope I can get this other group to show up. They are the other Marin crew that you all haven’t seen yet. Last time I played them they were pretty good.
And Franky don’t worry. Jay trained you not to choke already.

Issues I see with proposed ideas:

if we have 7-8 ppl show up and we do it round robin, we’re looking at over 100 matches. That would take 6+ hours. How did the qualifiers for the ncr work?

Also, the week after is Xmas so that might not be the best time to do the exhibition.

Well we got 4 days to put our heads together and figure it out.

Frankie, I don’t like how I’m losing in both those examples =\

I say just do it tourney bracket style and top 5 get team spots. Double elimination so there’s no excuses.

I lose in both examples too! haha

That was the problem I saw with the idea I put out as well. It was the most fair way to do things, but also (by far) the longest. I can’t remember, but I think the 5v5 SFIV for EVO was done a similar way, with all the NorCal players having to play each other for a spot (Ricky, Choi, Filipino, LPN, Crack, Magus, etc)

I would be down for having a Double Elimination Tourney, but my problem with that is what happened last time. If we get a weird number, there are going to naturally be 1st, 2nd or whichever byes. I think with playing for a 5v5 spot there shouldn’t be any byes for anyone, keeping it fair. If we can make sure we get past the byes, we can always do it like the mini-tourney we had this past week.

This is true, but as Jay was explaining how I play, it’s always Vietna…maybe. Get 2 monster rounds and lose the next 3 with Seth :slight_smile:

Also another idea that came up in my brain, is sort of modify the style of a ranbat to fit our time constraints.