Cork Street Fighter Tournament - 20th November

Speedhaak

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Well then, they could take a trip over here and we could introduce them to the wonder of the woolshed kareoke.

Trying to coax City dwelling hobbits from their perch in London is no easy feat. Similar in art, to getting your Dubs down to Cork.

Doctor DooM

Speedhaak wrote: »

Trying to coax City dwelling hobbits from their perch in London is no easy feat. Similar in art, to getting your Dubs down to Cork.

Ah ah ah. The ONLY reason we're not there is because we already promised we'd be in Belfast this weekend

Believe me I would be supporting this if I could, just like DS and the glacial league.

Speedhaak

Next time Gadget, next time...

Sairus

If anyone can bring a TV it'd be fantastic. We've got a surplus of xboxes vs TVs for the moment!
And multitap extension leads, those are always handy!

prenelf

Just got back from the cork tournament. I thought there was a good turn out. congratz to Sairus and SpeedHaak who gave me some good games today. Until next time gentlemen.

Sairus

Cheers to everyone who came. 14 attendees in total was plenty enough for the first event in my humble opinion.
A full list shall be up later, but for the moment the top three were:
1st) Sairus
2nd) Speedhaak
3rd) Prenelf

See? I can win tournaments people know about too! I just have to carefully time them so all the Dublin folk have other tournaments to go to elsewhere in the country.

Dunjohn

I'd appreciate if you'd only post the names of those who placed 1st-13th.

Misty Chaos

GGs to everyone I played today, good fun, though Seanalots Bison left me feeling a little salty. :pac:

Not to worry, I'm going straight to the lab to work out how to beat and punish what he destroyed me with.

Doctor DooM

Not often I get to say this.


Where's the videos?

D4RK ONION

Sorry I didn't make it down lads, I simply couldn't afford it

J.I.M.

Congrats to Sairus, it was a good tournament. I thought I was doing good until the second phase, where I lost to Sai and then Seans Bison. Had to wash the salt away with a pint :P

And the absence of Honda players was... relieving

Sairus

J.I.M. wrote: »

And the absence of Honda players was... relieving

This. A thousand times this.

Videos being converted at the moment. Thay'll be up in a few hours.

raah!

Misty Choas wrote: »

GGs to everyone I played today, good fun, though Seanalots Bison left me feeling a little salty. :pac:

Not to worry, I'm going straight to the lab to work out how to beat and punish what he destroyed me with.

What did he do? I played him many times today.

Sorry I couldn't make it guys, I was extremely stressed and kinda thought it was next weekend as well.

Sairus

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Not often I get to say this.
Where's the videos?

I dont have my videos up one the same night as a tournament this one time and people are already impatient...

Cheers for Misty_Choas for taking command of the camera during the top 8. I cant leave my camera running like the Doomcam so I generally just record my matches, or matches when I'm not playing so I can turn it on and off between games. This time you get to see non-Rose matches!
Also I sort of forgot to charge the camera before the tournament, so I figured it'd be better to charge during groups than miss out on the finals like I have a habit of doing. =/

As there was only 14 at the event we did 3 groups and then a top eight. Seemed to work out grand enough.
The venue was also pretty perfect. Plenty of room for the 6 setups and heaps of extra space to expand when the crowds get bigger.
Cheers to everyone who brought equipment in the end - those monitors were a little better than the tiny CRTs I remembered at the last second in my house.

Grand Final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDVSG0AdqwU

Winners Final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRHBfp9cO_Q

Losers Final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjm9FO5cOVo

Losers Semis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68744qNHk_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7krkDc64AY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8GdbN54S1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKNQ3lITvMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dimJg4NqpW4

Sairus

Oh yar, forgot to list the actual rankings

Final rankings from the event were:

1st - Sairus
2nd - Speedhaak
3rd - Prenelf
4th - Dreadmonkey
5th - Storm
5th - Seanalot
6th - J.I.M
6th - Erinsoup

Misty Chaos

And here is the vlog based on what I shot from camera phone yesterday.

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

BTW, the first bit with the moving statue people was added in for randomness.

UberPrinny_Baal

Glad to see my friends from Tralee participated in the end (Storm, Erinsoup, Fruitpunch and co), I wasn't sure if they were going to make it despite my constant and frequent pestering. Gratz to some of them making top 8 too

Also special props to Robot JIM, who seems to attend every tournament held anywhere :pac:

Speedhaak

Good weekend guys, great games had. Thanks to Sairus for organising the day out. And thanks for the videos, of which you can also view on a site I've been developing for small scale Street Fighter Communities. http://www.mordor-mashup.com/ - Results from another Tournament are also up (Mordor Mashup) - You should check out the 'Gief that wins, he is quite good.

Feel free to register and comment on stuff, the more the merrier

Cheers all.

J.I.M.

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

Also special props to Robot JIM, who seems to attend every tournament held anywhere :pac:

I have to get my SF-fix somehow! Though I fear this could end up being my last tourney in Ireland, with my semester ending soon, and I'm going back to Finland in January

And the fighting game scene in NON-EXISTENT there. Donkey-balls.

Scavenger XIII

J.I.M. wrote: »

And the fighting game scene in NON-EXISTENT there. Donkey-balls.

Not so long ago I was certain the scene here was non-existent, there's always hope.

J.I.M.

Here's hoping. Maybe I'll have to start a SF website myself and start organizing tournaments. It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it!

Ganondorf

hola to all boards people, was a class day in cork, just said I'd make a post here to say thanks to ye guys for setting this up and for spreading the word around to get a good few lads up and fighting was a really great day, here's looking forwards to the next one hopefully.

Only one issue I have about the day those vids on youtube, the one titled "Tempest 1 - Sairus (Rose) v Storm (Chun Li-Guile)" isn't right, I would know being Storm myself I can say that I wasn't in that fight at all it's someone else's.

anyways thanks again for some great fights, really was great to see that there are some damn good gamers still alive and kicking around here and yeah hopefully see ye again for the next bash up if numbers are needed.


Storm (Stormcloudlive on xbox)

Doctor DooM

Chun Li- Guile sounds like Burning Eclipse.

Sabre0001

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Chun Li- Guile sounds like Burning Eclipse.

He, like myself, didn't make it down......unless he said he wasn't and he really did - extra practice eh!

UberPrinny_Baal

Good to see you posting on the FG forum Storm. Glad you were able to bum a lift to the Cork tourney in the end.

Ganondorf wrote: »

"Tempest 1 - Sairus (Rose) v Storm (Chun Li-Guile)" isn't right, I would know being Storm myself I can say that I wasn't in that fight at all it's someone else's.

I watched this and was thinking that it did seem odd that you had dropped Blanka/Zangief, and suddenly mastered Guiles FADC Flashkick.

Also seemed weird that based on the post-match silhouettes of the players, that you had either grown a goatee, or now needed glasses

Sabre0001

While this topic is hot, I would like to extend an invitation to the Glacial Super League session this weekend for the Munster brethren...

Ganondorf

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

Good to see you posting on the FG forum Storm. Glad you were able to bum a lift to the Cork tourney in the end.



I watched this and was thinking that it did seem odd that you had dropped Blanka/Zangief, and suddenly mastered Guiles FADC Flashkick.

Also seemed weird that based on the post-match silhouettes of the players, that you had either grown a goatee, or now needed glasses

Nope my eyesight has not degraded and my aggressive fighty guile hasn't been struck down with downleftitus either haha naw it's class play just very different to the way I do play, was kinda thinking myself did someone record one of the many casual games I had with him but nope that's defo someone else.

Had a chuckle when I dug out this account, seems my last 2 posts were 5 years ago about some QQ at the dudes guild in wow whooooaaaa oldmanfeeling. but yeah feel free to add me on xbl will be living on there in about 2 days when that wow account finally dies

Fergus_

J.I.M. wrote: »

I have to get my SF-fix somehow! Though I fear this could end up being my last tourney in Ireland, with my semester ending soon, and I'm going back to Finland in January

And the fighting game scene in NON-EXISTENT there. Donkey-balls.

Awwww. And I studied up the Sakura/Guy matchups. Good luck with setting a scene in Finland. Sure it happened in Ireland

erinsoup

Good games guys, also good **** especially to Sai for a smoothly run event. Looking forward to more in the future. Digging the Tempest name, very fitting.

Sairus

Ganondorf wrote: »

hola to all boards people, was a class day in cork, just said I'd make a post here to say thanks to ye guys for setting this up and for spreading the word around to get a good few lads up and fighting was a really great day, here's looking forwards to the next one hopefully.

Only one issue I have about the day those vids on youtube, the one titled "Tempest 1 - Sairus (Rose) v Storm (Chun Li-Guile)" isn't right, I would know being Storm myself I can say that I wasn't in that fight at all it's someone else's.

Hm. I have honestly no idea who that is then =/ I remember not bothering to say who it was on camera because it'd be so obvious who was playing XD

Cheers again to all who came, hopefully the next one'll be in January. I'll start scoping out a date for it.