The second Goodbye Phoenix, Hello Phoenix SRK Invitational tournament took place this past weekend, and I break down some of the stats on today's podcast.

The Stats Series #106 - 12/13/2011  no comments

Five years ago, I had this crazy idea. Why not start reporting about tournaments? And thus, Get Your Tournament was born.

It has been a crazy five years, and I can't believe I'm still talking about tournaments today. Obviously, I'm not able to do it the way I was back then, but my hope is that I've been able to bring something of interest to the communities that I follow. And if you're wondering, I do watch a lot of tournaments but not in M.O.D.O.K fashion (ha ha).

I want to thank everyone for coming to the site, whether you've been here one time or more than that.

As part of my thanks, here's a small contest. Everyone that comments will be entered into a drawing for one of two MadCatz TE keychains. The drawing will take place Sunday at 5 p.m. PT.

Thanks again, and here's to five more years!  no comments

 
With only 24 days to the end of the year, obviously the Player of the Year honors are going to start coming up. I think there might be more debate in terms of who is the Super Street Fighter IV Player of the Year outside of North America.

As for the North American Player of the Year, is there a debate about who it will go to? To me, I really don't think there is. There might be more of a debate as to who is second, third, etc.

I'll bring it up again before the end of the year because maybe I'm in the minority on saying the honor is all but locked up.

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On today's Stats Series podcast, I take a look at how the latest Big Two final between KDZ and Dieminion stacked up with the previous championship matches in the tournament series. You can check out all of the highlights on Team Spooky's site.

The Stats Series #105 - 12/7/2011 no comments

I found a couple more stats regarding Wesker's usage at NEC so I decided to share them on today's podcast. To take a line from your late local newscast, the numbers might surprise some of you.

The Stats Series #104 - 12/6/2011 no comments

On the Fighting Game Stats database, I've posted all of the lineups that were in the Top 12 in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Wesker was a big part of it.

It should be noted that Wesker was not involved in two of the victories. Chris G defeated Justin Wong using Hawkeye, Ryu and Firebrand. DJ Huoshen defeated Fecal Penance with Felicia, Super Skrull and Taskmaster.  no comments

 

There's been three Big Two tournaments for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and I think it's time to start looking at some of the teams and how they're formed. In this post, I'm going to look at the point guards in the three tournaments. All of the numbers come from Top 8 matches that have been streamed (and go to Team Spooky's portal to see the matches). There's been more diversity in this tournament series than any others I've seen so far. So let's break this down.

First off, here's the win rate when these characters are the PG.

(GW: Games won; GP: Games played; WR: Win rate)

Character	GW	GP	WR
Storm	6	6	1.000
Hawkeye	8	10	.800
Viewtiful Joe	22	36	.611
Vergil	3	5	.600
Wolverine	8	15	.533
Ryu	14	28	.500
Iron Fist	3	6	.500
Nova	2	4	.500
Amaterasu	5	11	.455
Phoenix Wright	2	5	.400
Dante	4	11	.364
Frank West	2	6	.333
Dormammu	1	3	.333
Magneto	1	3	.333
Firebrand	1	3	.333
Zero	4	16	.250
Hulk	1	4	.250
Doctor Strange	0	1	.000
Ghost Rider	0	1	.000

If you're wondering, Masta CJ is the reason why Storm is at the top. He didn't lose a match in the Top 8 using her.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is that there isn't a Wesker that's been used as a PG. I've had a lot of people cry to me about how Wesker is overpowered and he is the best character in the game. But I've been telling people that we can't make that conclusion yet, especially since the game is about a month old and Wesker gets eliminated first in a match nearly half the time.

Let's look at the survival rate for these PGs.

(GS: Games survived; GP: Games played; SR: Survival rate)

Character	GS	GP	SR
Hawkeye	5	10	.500
Nova	2	4	.500
Storm	2	6	.333
Iron Fist	2	6	.333
Dormammu	1	3	.333
Magneto	1	3	.333
Ryu	9	28	.321
Viewtiful Joe	10	36	.278
Vergil	1	5	.200
Zero	3	16	.188
Wolverine	2	15	.133
Amaterasu	1	11	.091
Phoenix Wright	0	5	.000
Dante	0	11	.000
Firebrand	0	3	.000
Frank West	0	6	.000
Hulk	0	4	.000
Doctor Strange	0	1	.000
Ghost Rider	0	1	.000

The survival rate for a PG is .224 in this tournament series. If I include all of the tournaments in my database, it is .235. Are the PGs on a team just there for initial damage or to get the whole job done. In most cases I've seen, it's just to get one elimination, if that.

Finally, here's the survival rate for the PG's assist characters:

(CS: Characters survived; GP: Games played; SR: Survival rate)

Character	CS	GP	SR
Storm	10	12	.833
Vergil	6	10	.600
Nova	4	8	.500
Hawkeye	9	20	.450
Viewtiful Joe	29	72	.403
Wolverine	12	30	.400
Ryu	21	56	.375
Amaterasu	8	22	.364
Iron Fist	4	12	.333
Dormammu	2	6	.333
Firebrand	2	6	.333
Dante	6	22	.273
Phoenix Wright	2	10	.200
Zero	6	32	.188
Frank West	2	12	.167
Magneto	1	6	.167
Hulk	1	8	.125
Doctor Strange	0	2	.000
Ghost Rider	0	2	.000

I look at this list to tell me how much the assist characters are pulling their weight. Turns out, this is the case for a lot of the characters in the top third.
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He did during last night's Big Two top 8 in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Or, at least it seemed that way. But the style worked because Dieminion reached the finals and reset the bracket, and he gets immense props for that. I talk about his length of matches in today's podcast.

The Stats Series #103 - 12/1/2011 no comments

Mine was the winner of the Goodbye Phoenix Hello Phoenix exhibition tournament this past weekend, and he did it in impressive fashion. He lost just one game on the way to the title. In today's Stats Series podcast, I talk about some of the team stats he put up compared to what's been going on in recent tournaments. 

The Stats Series #101 - 11/29/2011  no comments

The final four in the SoCal Throwdown tournament series is set. Here are your finalists:

Round 1: Shoushi
Round 2: 801 Strider
Round 3: K Brad
Round 4: Damage310

These four guys will go at it in a round robin series next Saturday to determine which player will receive the all-expenses-paid trip to Orange County to compete in Southern California Regionals.

More information can be found at the Beyond Gaming tournament page.  no comments