Who is getting the train to Belfast on Saturday?

bush

How did it go lads?

Doctor DooM

Bush80 wrote: »

How did it go lads?

If I am remembering correctly, 56 players, top 8:

1) Blag
2) Doctor Doom
3) Redman
4) Chunkis
5-8 Ian Mc Tetley Yreval Orim Kanped


Got loads of vids, will upload the final tonight. It's pretty entertaining if I do say so for a fight which involves me

Ian McTetly

Next time you put me into losers Doom, I wanna see that chip sonic boom reflected in your sunglasses! GGs to everyone, it was a tough top 8 for sure. Not quite as tough as groups though. :pac:

bush

Nordies on blast

roy nelson

chris mc mahon got stuck when his car broke down otherwise he was pretty confident he would take 1st place. he had been working on new moves all week. congrats to everyone else

bush

roy nelson wrote: »

chris mc mahon got stuck when his car broke down otherwise he was pretty confident he would take 1st place. he had been working on new moves all week. congrats to everyone else

You the don king to him?

roy nelson

yes, i can arrange a signed photo for you

Doctor DooM

Few comments on the day:

Q con rocked. I have attended quite a few gaming cons in my time in college and none of them, including Gaelcon, could match the level of professionalism on display so thanks alot to the staff. I hope more people can make the effort next year.

Special thanks to Vyze/ Vaughn for sorting out our entries and running such a good tournament, I especially enjoyed the hype megaphone "Brain Doom vs Chunkis... no, hang on, the Communist Red man"

There were a few decent undiscovered players there, an extremely tight Viper that was a joy to watch whose name I didn't catch, Kanped's Honda was apparently the match of any in Ireland and Chunkis had a mean ass Vega in his group who he only sneaked by.

There was also this weird thing going on where for the first time I felt like one of the old school SF "gang". There was a clear demarcation between the practiced DS/ Inferno players and the crowd and several times there was appreciate gasps/ applause while we were playing. That was so nice to see, it was like a tiny bit of pay off for all the work.

GG's especially to Redman who I only barely beat in a couple of rounds with sneaky backhands and Blag. It's like a different fight every time we meet.

We need a focal tournament like Q Con down south I think.

something to consider.

Doctor DooM

Ian McTetly wrote: »

Next time you put me into losers Doom, I wanna see that chip sonic boom reflected in your sunglasses! GGs to everyone, it was a tough top 8 for sure. Not quite as tough as groups though. :pac:

You never chip damage glasses rog! you could turn punch or headbutt through it...

Bush80 wrote: »

Nordies on blast

Yeah. Next time someone moans about having to travel to Dublin for a tournament ...

roy nelson wrote: »

chris mc mahon got stuck when his car broke down otherwise he was pretty confident he would take 1st place. he had been working on new moves all week. congrats to everyone else

Lol. Is his real name Farz by any chance?

UberPrinny_Baal

Gratz to Doom for the 2nd place.

Sorry I couldn't properly drop you home. There was actually a really clear signpost for Santry one set of traffic lights up from where I left you

Couldn't do a U-turn on that road though with the margin in the middle :mad:

chris mcmahon

roy nelson wrote: »

chris mc mahon got stuck when his car broke down otherwise he was pretty confident he would take 1st place. he had been working on new moves all week. congrats to everyone else

haha these words were never uttered by me as i never even intended on going, and i drive a very reliable car, although looking at the standings i probably should have went, might have been in with a shout for the north.
was there any girls there dressed as zangief?

when i say rice....you say pea

chris mcmahon

roy nelson wrote: »

he had been working on new moves all week.

ken only has one move.......... SHORYUKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if you havent seen this video about ken, watch it, f*****g hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uZWArSOmCc

Ian McTetly

Doctor DooM wrote: »

You never chip damage glasses rog! you could turn punch or headbutt through it...

Yeah you're right, really all I wanna see in that reflection is 'Rog's huge head :pac:

Scavenger XIII

T'was an alright weekend, I did absolutely bloody pathetic in SF4 though. First match in groups being against Doom didn't do wonders for the old nerves. :pac:

Vyze

Doctor DooM wrote: »

:words:

Thanks for the words of praise but it was Kyle who really headed up the SSF4 tourney since I wanted to make sure it was in a safe and experienced pair of hands!

We ended up with 54 players total after a couple of people dropped out and new people were added in late. We were hella pushed for time and barely finished the final match in time to boot everyone out for the short closing period before the evening slot of the event. Very similar thing happened with Tekken later in the day (38 entrants, totally unexpected!) where we just finished in time for the closing ceremony!

Orim and Kanped, you need names that I can make dumb comments on! :P

Thanks to everyone who showed up and took part, I hope you all had a great time!

Doctor DooM

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

T'was an alright weekend, I did absolutely bloody pathetic in SF4 though. First match in groups being against Doom didn't do wonders for the old nerves. :pac:

You got to try to not give a damn who you are fighting. Stick to your game plan and come out fighting (or turtling, in our case.)

Vyze wrote: »

Thanks for the words of praise but it was Kyle who really headed up the SSF4 tourney since I wanted to make sure it was in a safe and experienced pair of hands!

We ended up with 54 players total after a couple of people dropped out and new people were added in late. We were hella pushed for time and barely finished the final match in time to boot everyone out for the short closing period before the evening slot of the event. Very similar thing happened with Tekken later in the day (38 entrants, totally unexpected!) where we just finished in time for the closing ceremony!

Orim and Kanped, you need names that I can make dumb comments on! :P

Thanks to everyone who showed up and took part, I hope you all had a great time!

It was great, and it made me feel all of us who put in an effort to grow fighting games are doing good work.


Final's uploading as we speak.

Doctor DooM

Grand final is up.


I am told this is a great fight.

Gonna repost in the irish vids thread too.

Also, I am still feeling very unwell (I couldn't talk for about an hour after Q-con, I thought it was funny at the time!) So it might be a couple days before I drip more up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW1RJT9FQPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXF2a27qAU

I've never felt a crowd behind me before

FutureGuy

To the guys that have attended Inferno 9 and Q-Con, how do both events compare in terms of quality of players attending?

blag

It'd be much more difficult to win at inferno. Mike and Chris(Cobelcog), arguably the two best players weren't at Q-Con as well as other possible contenders like Bush,Azza,Roogle,Hound,Dreddy etc.

Edit:To answer your question,the quality in the groups was very poor IMO, I spotted a few players who looked to have some potential but at the same time there was some bizarre stuff like Orim getting ultra'd from full screen by a Ken,you just can't legislate for that kind of randomness!

The last 8 was of a good calibre though I'd say.

chopperbyrne

Doom and Blag in particular had very easy groups.

Doom had one decent Guile player in his group, but was never going to lose that mirror match and he had someone in his group who may never have played Street Fighter before who was literally just mashing buttons.

My group was quite competitive and Orim had a decent Viper player who we hopefully see again (anyone inform him of the regular DS events?).

Misty Chaos

It looks like Blag was all over you in the final, Doom. Though you put up one hell of a fight as well yourself.

Doctor DooM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Doom and Blag in particular had very easy groups.

[HYPE]Myself and blags groups were easier, yeah?

No, we just MADE them look easy. [/HYPE]

In all seriousness the groups were a walkover for me and it was more of an endurance test of 7 fights in a row with different people.

The top 8 felt just as competative as most tournaments I've been in (Inferno 8 being an exception as big names were killed all over the place in that one).

Doctor DooM

Misty Choas wrote: »

It looks like Blag was all over you in the final, Doom. Though you put up one hell of a fight as well yourself.

Blag plays the perfect anti Guile game. I think I only got 1 boom zoning game going in the whole thing.

I felt I was only getting my defense up when I ran out of time

Love fighting blag though, it's a learner.

Scavenger XIII

The thing to remember though is that Q-con isn't primarily a hardcore fighting game gathering, lots of people are just there to cosplay or play Warhammer, etc and just hop into the FG competition for a random bit of craic.

Placebo

good fights brian
just like the real thang

Vyze

Ian McTetly

Big props on such a well executed tournament guys, really nice setup with 4 swift lag free TVs, improvised anti-glare tarpaulin, life saving giant fan - with so many people in groups and the time constraints you had to deal with, lesser men would've let it all fall apart, great job.
Also, for the record, the name's Duignan - Chris Duignan.

Orim

Ian McTetly wrote: »

really nice setup with 4 swift lag free TVs,

All other points are correct but those TVs where not lag free. At the least the two closest to the projectors were laggy. Someone was saying that the others were better. They were different brands.

But that's not to take away from a fantastic tournament adn what looked to be a great con. Nothing like watching a final while security tries to kick you out.

bush

I thought they bought lagless monitors up there?

Orim

They bought one(?). I don't know where it was but the street fighter comp was held on 4 tvs.

I'm assuming roogle stole the monitor and feld to China. just a guess :pac: