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.

Makoto won the 19-game series, 10-6.

The video of the match is above. Stats from the match are here.

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.

Check it out after the jump ...

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.

The stream following the jump ...

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.

I've wanted to do a type of tier list for Super Street Fighter IV for a while but in a different way. It wouldn't be based on my opinion, but rather the community's performance. So yes, those that played in a tournament had a direct impact on what the above graphic is.

This graphic is the beginnings of a tier list for Super Street Fighter IV. This is a statistical tier list, in that I have a formula in my head and have applied it to more than 2,000 rounds of competitive play. Today's list is a draft, and will become official when I reach 5,000 rounds on my database. Click on it to see it in a larger size.

Almost all of the matches involved in this tier list come from tournaments. The exceptions have been showcase exhibitions such as Level|Up's 19-game series. I wanted it to be based on matches that counted. There's also a mix of online and live tournaments, although mostly live.

My primary question out of this was ... based on competitive play, what would a tournament tier list look like? This is not without precedent. When Brawl was released, someone charted character usage of the top eight players in tournaments throughout the nation. A point total was awarded, and a tournament tier list was formed. Meta Knight was tops, with Snake close second. When the SBR tier list came out, it nearly mirrored the tournament tier list.

I told myself I wouldn't consider thinking about a tier list until I had 1,000 rounds of tournament play. There wasn't any other reason other than it was a nice number. But I passed the 2,000-round mark earlier this week and I figured it's time to start planning it out.

Two thousand rounds was an ideal time. The statistics in my database are starting to level out. Example: The player that gets the first combo wins nearly 64 percent of the time. A major movement in gameplay would tilt that statistic; one match can't anymore.

So with that in mind, it turned out to be good to come up with the tier list. This will change as more matches happen. When I have 5,000 rounds of play, the next and official update will come in, which should be a couple months.

There's five rules to this at the moment:

1. The factors involved are win percentage, usage percentage and win rate with more than 50 percent health remaining. Obviously, if you don't see a character on here, it means I don't have a match of that character in my database (that would be Hakan, Gen, Gouken and Dan). And by the way, if you have a tournament match of a missing character, let me know. But just because I get one Hakan match doesn't mean he'll jump immediately to mid-tier. There'd have to be a load of Hakan matches AND he'd have to win.

2. The ONLY opinion I have in this is the weighted factors. I value wins and strength of wins over usage but slightly. If 50 out of 100 players use Ryu and they all go 1-2, then I consider the .333 win percentage a little more important than the .500 Ryu usage.

3. While I am based in SoCal, there's a wide range of matches that have counted toward this. Among the events have been broadcasts from FADC (East Coast), iPlayWinner (NorCal), and the Pacific Northwest. I don't cherrypick matches. When I see a tournament, I chart as many matches as possible from it. So if a tournament happens to have a lot of Sakuras, it just happens and I chart it.

4. This is NOT meant to replace any current or future tier list made by anyone else.

5. This list, at the moment, is based off of 2,000 rounds. Today I'm showing you what I'm planning for. At 5,000 rounds, I'll put out the "official" list.

This will always evolve with more matches. And I'll always keep adding matches to my database. So maybe we'll see things change. But who knows?

Finally, just because one character is listed ahead of another doesn't mean it's a done deal. I'm fairly sure Sagat can beat Cammy consistently. But Cammy, in the matches I've charted, has had a more consistent usage and success rate. Sagat has barely been used in any of the tournaments I've charted.

G4 TV will be at Evolution next week, helping providing more than 40 hours of tournament coverage. In addition to that, their X-Play show on July 20 will be solely dedicated to the happenings of Evolution.

The network plans to provide coverage of all six main games in the tournament series.

UPDATE: I, as well as a few others, believed this meant two streams, because Level|Up was first  announced as providing a broadcast for Evolution. Level|Up and G4 will be teaming up to provide the live broadcast of the tournament.

There's more on the Evolution site:

Beginning at 9:00am PT July 9th, G4TV.com, powered by Stickam, the first live streaming video network, will offer unprecedented access to the EVO 2010 world championships with 45 hours of non-stop live streaming coverage. The exclusive stream will feature tournament matches between top players, with live crowd audio accompanied by expert commentary to explain all the onscreen action.  This streaming event will run from the start of the tournament on July 9th through the finals on July 11th.

“Live streaming really ups the ante for viewer engagement,” said Steven Fruchter, CEO of Stickam. “Since 2006, Stickam has truly paved the way for real-time interactive Web television, and we’re excited to see how G4 fans react when they can truly take part in the EVO world championships.”

Gerald Anton Herrera was one of the many participants in the AllisFighter iPlayWinner Online Ranbats tournament series. He was one of the top Rose players in the tournament and won two tournaments in the series. However, it wasn't enough to claim the season championship. The video above has his final match in the tournament, against Stoic.

Earlier this week, I asked him about his experience in the tournament series and what type of player that he is.

GLENN: How did you find out about the online tournament, and how excited were you to participate?

ANTON: JuniorMints (the tournament organizer) just told me to join. I was just there to have a bit more competition than online ranked match when I'm home, ha ha.

GLENN: Do you participate in live tournaments, or are you strictly an online guy, and why?

ANTON: I go to locals as much as I am able too. Being 15 and all, it's pretty hard to get rides/full trust from my parents.

GLENN: Stoic used Rose against you in that last grand finals. Did you see that as a slight or a chance to prove to people that you have the better or best Rose?

ANTON: No. The match is moot. It's really a ticking time bomb. It's about who knows their characters in and out. And apparently, he didn't know about the glitches that Rose has, including the glitch where she can walk forward and not get hit with slides that aren't heavy.

GLENN: I think you went almost Rose the whole way. Why Rose?

ANTON: I felt bad for her. She saw NO play last game. So I decided to prove everyone wrong and just went with her ha ha.  (not to mention that I used her in the alpha series - she was the most appealing looking character haha.)

GLENN: Did you use Rose in regular SF4? How much does Ultra 2 help you?

ANTON: Yes I did use her >.> U2 is arguably the most versatile (best) ultra in the game.

GLENN: You seemed to sit back in matches but once you got and activated Ultra 2, you became aggressive. Is that the way you like to play?

ANTON: It's the way you saw me play. Honestly, I couldn't take him (Stoic) seriously. I knew he won the Ranbat, so I decided to taunt. If you really want to see my play, watch me play some player that I can take seriously.

GLENN: Are you going to Evolution? Who do you think will win it?

ANTON: I would, it's only 2-3 hours away from me. I cannot play though. I'm an X-Box 360 pad player (who btw wants some dual-mod controller modding please). Also, I'm 15, so I can't really sign up without a parent's permission and again, I'm 15, I don't think my parents would ever really let me go unless they have something to pull off on the same weekend. And just because I'm realistic, someone from Japan or Justin Wong will win :).

New Evil Geniuses member Marn has finished 4-0 to win his group and advance to the bracket round of the eSports World Cup on Friday. Justin Wong also won his group, going 3-0.

The Day 2 results, according to the ESWC:

Justin is now 3-0 since joining the Evil Geniuses one week ago. Marn is 11-0 since joining the team, this his second tournament with the squad.

Lord DVD took his first loss in ESWC play this year. He won the French qualifier undefeated. Two of the three French players in this tournament, taking place in Paris, are still in it.

It's unknown who will face whom in the final eight, which is reportedly single elimination. Three players remain undefeated, five have one loss. The final eight are as follows:

More updates can be found on the ESWC site.

Some Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 action is going on right now. Casual play brought to you by Dark Rob. If you're looking for a brief break from the main tournament games, check it out.