| 16 November 2008
SAN DIEGO - Aris Bakhtanians and Christian “Vicious Suicide” Gonzalez are really good friends and have played each other plenty of times in “Soul Calibur IV.”
They put their friendship aside for a few minutes Sunday to battle in the finals of the latest tournament held at Games On in Pacific Beach.
Bakhtanians found the upper hand late in Game 5 of the finals and prevailed, 3-2 to win Sunday’s tournament with an undefeated record.
Bakhtanians said the finals was a toss-up and could have gone either way.
“It was just a matter of who plays their sharpest right now,” the champion said.
It was Bakhtanians who did just that, narrowly taking out Gonzalez’s Lizardman after it appeared that Gonzalez was going to force a second final.
For the second consecutive tournament, the winner used Siegfried. Mark Martin was the defending champion going into Sunday’s competition. But Martin finished seventh out of 25 competitors.
“We came out today to take out Mark M.,” Gonzalez said.
In the second semifinal, Gonzalez narrowly lost the first round, then put on a brief dominant display to go ahead 2-1. But he let Round 4 go and then escaped with a Round 5 win that got the crowd cheering.
After exchanging high-fives with some of the other competitors, Bakhtanians wasn’t so quick to compliment his friend, who he was soon to face in the finals.
“Oh don’t be so happy. You’re about to get (expletive) up,” Bakhtanians said.
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