This is beautiful. Above is a completed version of a golden MadCatz Tournament Edition Fight Stick. There's only 24 of these. Originally, you had to be one of the eight finalists in the Super Street Fighter IV tournament to win one.
Now, there's more ways to get one. Mark Julio of MadCatz announced Monday night that the winner of the Ladies' Super Street Fighter IV tournament will also receive one, and at least one will be awarded to someone watching the live broadcast online.
Also, registration ends tonight at 11:59 PT, so be sure to signup if you plan to participate in the tournament. Head to the Evolution tournament site for more.
Two new tier lists for Super Street Fighter IV have been revealed. Japanese players Mago and Nemo were in the most recent interview of Arcadia Magazine. Azrael over at Shoryuken translated the interview, which you can check out here.
The recent Arcadia had a tier listing plus interview with Mago and Nemo. They compiled two lists - a "Global" list based on info they've compiled from talking to players, on messageboards, etc. And an Arcadia list that they themselves put together.
The obvious differences are that the Global Ranking is broken into thirds, and the Arcadia Ranking is four levels. It's interesting to note that, comparing the lists, Fei Long is in the top tier Arcadia Ranking but in the second level of the Global Ranking. Maybe that will get more people to use him (those that have on my tournament tier list have had almost no success, he's next to last based on win total and usage).
The Global Tier List:
A: Guile, Abel, Chun Li, Dictator, Honda, Boxer, Rose, Blanka
Michael aka Slash5150 broadcast the Slugfest IV tournament on Saturday at Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade in Portland; here's video of the finals between LordBBH and Fatbear.
Several videos of the ESWC Super Street Fighter IV tournament have been posted on YouTube. This one was posted within the last hour, Justin Wong and Marn playing in what appears to be the title match of the tournament.
The match was a 5-game series. The video starts with Game 2, Justin Wong ahead 1-0.
UPDATE: I'm being told this is not the title match, so perhaps this is an exhibition of some sorts.
SECOND UPDATE: This is reportedly pool play between the two guys, and it is a 3-game series.
A week ago, I wrote about comparing team stats between Mike Ross and ShadyK. What happens a week later? They meet in the finals of The Box Arena's Fight Tournament, a singles competition. One caveat: ShadyK went Ryu and not Akuma (which I'm not surprised, being that Evolution is a week away).
The tournament went to a second finals, won by Mike Ross. The stats for the first final and second final are in the stats section. If you want to see it, it's in the video above (it starts at 1:22:04).
A few stats stand out and they relate to Mike Ross. His EX connection rate was a swell .825 (33-for-40) and he won everytime he got the first combo, 7-for-7.
Perhaps the most impressive stat of the night: he never blew a late lead, going 12-for-12. That's the most for a finals that I've seen in a long time. Combining that with the previous two weeks, and Mike has converted his last 16 late leads in finals matches.
The Uryo vs Makoto match in the Godsgarden Online Tournament on Saturday morning was a great match. If someone wanted to see competitive Super Street Fighter IV for the first time, I might consider this to be the first match that I show them.
I think the match turned Makoto's way when he nailed an EX flip kick to win Game 14 and take an 8-6 lead. Had Makoto gotten hit by the burning kick, Uryo wins the game, and this match probably finishes closer than what it was, maybe differently
This was probably the stat of the match: Out of the 16 games played, 13 went to a third round. Uryo won 7 of the Round 3s played, Makoto won 6.
Three games went only two rounds, and they were all won by Makoto.
And out of all of that, the pace of the match was 11 seconds faster than your normal Super Street Fighter IV tournament match. They were averaging 37.11 seconds a round. I have the tournament average at 48.5 prior to adding this to my database (and now it's at 47.6 seconds).
Makoto was well ahead of the curve in most categories. He had an insane .714 first-hit win percentage (15-for-21) and a .685 EX connection percentage (50-for-73).
The Box Arena is hosting the "Fight" Tournament in collaboration with Level|Up. The tournament is scheduled to start sometime after 5 p.m. A load of players have atteneded in preparation for Evolution next week.
GRANADA HILLS - The Team FFA United Ranbats 1.5 tournament is underway. Striderzer0 is bringin you the broadcast of the tournament, live from Family Fun Arcade.
Doing what his teammate Marn did, Justin Wong won his first tournament as a member of Evil Geniuses. Wong won the eSports World Cup championship with an undefeated record.
He defeated Marn, 3-1 in the finals. For winning, he'll take home $8,000.
Wong went 6-0 in the tournament and didn't surrender a game until the semifinals, against Dreamhack champ Luffy.
Marn dropped to 13-1 as a member of Evil Geniuses. Taking out his loss to Wong, and Marn hasn't lost to a non-EG member since joining the team two weeks ago.
The fourth match in the Godsgarden Online Tournament series went to Makoto, 10-6 over Uryo earlier today.
The four-game win might seem like it heavily favored Makoto but it wasn't. Thirteen of the 16 games went to a third round. Uryo forced a round 3 seven times, Makoto did it six times.
Makoto won all three games that didn't go a third round, including the last one which got him the win. The previous two ended a losing streak.
Team Spooky did the English commentary and will post the video later today. I'll have stats from the match as soon as I rewatch it.
The next set of matches in the tournament have not been announced.
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