The guys at Big City Tourney, the organization running the Hall of Fame tournament on March 13, have just posted the rules and info for the major event.

The tournament is scheduled to take place at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. At least $3,000 in cash prizes will be awarded.

The competition will last from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. CT on March 13. The tournament organizers said time will be the biggest factor.

Guys this will be a early well ran tournament so we ask you all to be on point an most importantly BE ON TIME because we only have place for only that time period.

Because if we go over that schedule time OMG its a crazy cost!!

So we stress YOU MUST BE ON TIME AND ON POINT!! We won't be running around looking for you ...you will have a small amount of time to show up when your name is called if your not around within that time frame your game will be forfeited without question!!!

The ruleset to be used will be from Major League Gaming; it will be identical to the one used at the Orlando Madden Challenge.

The entry fee is $60 per person; buybacks will depend on whether there is time to run additional rounds.

More info can be found on the Big City Tourney site and Ask Madden.

Registration is now up for the Level|Up tournament, set to take place Feb. 27 at The Block in Orange.

Go sign up now. Click here.

Signups are limited to the first 64 competitors for Tekken 6 and Street Fighter IV.

Last week, the Madden community found out who the greatest player of all time is. Even if you were to separate what seems to be two short generations – PlayStation 2 and next-gen – there is no doubt that the greatest is Problem.

He cemented that status by winning the 2009 Madden Challenge championship, his second in three years. He's the only player to win two Madden Challenge titles; add the three other regional titles, and he ties Big Gene for most Madden Challenge tournaments won overall.

Oh, and let's not forget that he won a regional on the opening weekend for three consecutive years, which is also a record.

This guy could have stopped in 2007 when he won loads of money at all of the events, capped with his first Madden Challenge championship. Others would have stopped for sure. But I think he knew there was more to play for, including the distinction of greatest of all time.

Greatness was on the line and he captured it. And he did it with a punishing defense.

People that don't follow Madden see competitive play as 42-38, lots of throwing, lots of touchdowns, lots of trash talking. But when they see Problem, sometimes they get confused.

This is the best player in the nation? And he barely wins 14-3? And he doesn't yell and scream after every 2-yard run?

Yup.

I remember talking to Problem a long time ago about how he visions a match taking place. If I remember correctly, he envisions the situations of handcuffing his opponent's offense. From there, he wills himself to capture moments of success. If he knows he can hold an opponent to three points, a 7-3 final works.

I didn't truly understand this until I went to the Orlando Madden Challenge – and I had seen and been covering his tournaments for about four years. In his first six games, he gave up a total of 20 points; four games were shutouts.

Against Jet Steele in the Finals Tournament last week, he couldn't get a touchdown after four possessions. That didn't matter. He held Jet to just three points and took a 9-3 lead, which soon ballooned to 22-3 thanks to interceptions and third-down stops.

For all that he's done against his competitors, I'm starting to wonder whether he's the most dominant North American player in a tournament game. Before you say Ken, Isai only cared some of the time. We could go for days about JSB battling everyone. And I'll let someone else tell me whether fRoD is in this discussion. The answer to this probably won't be known for a while, when whatever next generation steps in and plays their games of choice, and we can look back at this current generation of players and games.

With that in mind, if we could list the five greatest Madden players of all time, who would they be? The community has barely started to talk about it, now that the top position has been sealed. Most believe the No. 2 spot is also locked in -- that would be Big Gene. After that? There's a load of players all with championship credentials.

I'd probably go:

• Problem
• Big Gene
• Sandman
• Fool
• Chow

Here's videos from the final three matches of the Family Fun Arcade SF4 Ranbats 1.1 tournament.

If you missed the recap, go here.

 Championship - Justin Wong vs James Chen

 Second Semifinals - Onlinetony213 vs James Chen

 First Semifinals - Justin Wong vs James Chen

GRANADA HILLS- That was a quick final. Justin Wong beat James Chen to win the Family Fun Arcade Ranbat 1.1 tournament.

And as quick as it was, I think there's a lot to dissect from this. Justin Wong talked about it in the interview, and I'll mention a few things here. Onto the recap, which will be quick.

Title match result
Justin Wong 3, James Chen 0

Match breakdown
Rounds won: Justin Wong 6, James Chen 0
First-hit win percentage: Overall 66.7 percent, Justin Wong 100.0 percent (4/4), James Chen 0.0 percent (0/2)
Lead changes: 0

The title match was over when ...
...Justin Wong nailed an ultra and then a super to win Round 1-2. Thatset the tone for the rest of the match.

Player of the tournament
James Chen for using Cammy and getting to the final game. He had to beat OnlineTony213, who had leveled the field up to that point.

Other notes
The final match lasted about 3:45. That's a time frame reserved for Super Turbo and HD Remix matches. This was over quickly and what made it even more astounding was that it was 3 out of 5. The average round time was 31.5 seconds, which is probably a record for a recent final (I'll go look).

Here's Justin Wong talking about the win, and what he does in a match against a Cammy user. 

Melty Blood will be the seventh event of the Evolution 2010 tournament series, the tournament organizers announced just a few minutes ago.

In a fan vote, Melty Blood beat out the likes of Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Third Strike and Capcom vs SNK 2 to get in on the main roster.

However, the tournament organizers said Marvel vs. Capcom 2 will replace BlazBlue on the main event roster. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was second in the fan vote.

UPDATE: Ponder said Melty Blood received 27 percent of the vote. The rest of the list is too close to determine placing:

It's very hard to tell exactly who got 2nd-4th because of the amount of vote fraud for all the games. This includes people who have multiple accounts voting more than once, suspicious patterns in the voting locations, etc. Even so, if you take away all the suspicious votes for Melty, it still wins by a narrow margin. So while we're confident Melty is the winner, we really don't know who got 2nd.

Family Fun Arcade will conduct a Street Fighter IV ranbats season starting Saturday afternoon.

It's going to be a six-tournament season, all on Saturdays at 2 p.m. Don't worry, it's not scheduled to interfere with the three big events coming up in Southern California.

Matches are going to be played on the Xbox 360 version of the game, so be sure to bring your own controller. All characters are allowed.

More info is on the tournament page.

I've always considered the hardest thing to do in a tournament is reach the final match. From there, let the cards fall where they may.

The level of difficulty in terms of getting to the finals depends on which route you take. And perhaps the hardest route is to lose an early match and then win several games in a row through the losers bracket.

How tough is it to make a run in the losers bracket? After two rounds of play (first round and then the first round of losers) roughly a quarter of the field or less is eliminated. And then the chances of getting farther and farther in the bracket go down drastically. The percentages are against you so badly (tenths of a percent).

I’ll mention a couple examples that I’ve seen recently.

Suiken, who finished fifth at NorCal StrongStyle 4 this past weekend, had to make a hefty run in the losers bracket just to get fifth place. He won a tournament-record six matches in a row in the losers bracket before being sent home.

Another great example is Mike Ross. He lost the first match of the UGTL 4 tournament a couple months ago. However, he won the next eight in a row just to get to the Second Semifinals, where he lost to ComboJack.

That’s just two players … out of 174 to do that. That’s 1.14 percent of the field. At the UGTL 4 tournament, the longest losers bracket run following Mike Ross was three wins, done by two people (Nima and Warren). And they were still far from getting to the title match.

I checked out some other brackets, and it's been fairly the same. One person, if any, makes a run among a massive field that gets them to within sniffing distance of the final match.

In the 10 years I've been competing in tournaments and running Get Your Tournament, I've only heard of three times where someone lost their first match and then ran the table. Three ... out of hundreds of tournaments over a span of 10 years!

Insomnotek is the tournament organizer of the Video 94 Tekken 6 ranbats; he’s seen plenty of guys try to make a run in the elimination bracket. More times, those players have failed. Some have succeeded. He talks about what he’s seen in this podcast extra.

The Virtua Fighter community is asking for help to bring VF5R to consoles.

You can show some support by heading to the VFDC site and posting your love for the game. Like other sites have said, there's no reason this game shouldn't get love in this time when fighting games are making big strides.

More info is on the VFDC site:

"A well known and respected VFer in Japan, Kamaage, was invited to meet with SEGA on the 28th January 2010. Leading up to this meeting, Kamaage approached VFDC with an opportunity to express our desire to have Virtua Fighter 5R ported to console directly to SEGA. He suggested we put together a document that explained a little about VFDC along with personalised messages from players in the community. If the document could reach 100 or so pages, then surely SEGA would be impressed, or so Kamaage thought!

"After his meeting, Kamaage informed us that while the document was impressive, it simply wasn't enough. Kamaage now has another opportunity to pass our document to SEGA, but it must have more impact, at least 5x more!"

The Madden Challenge Finals are underway. Philly Ron is providing updates on the Major League Gaming site.

Go here for the updates. To see the bracket, click here.