Ricky Ortiz and Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez won The Box Arena Team Ranbats 1.6 tournament on Saturday, the finale in the series.
Coming all the way from Northern California, the duo defeated Long "ShadyK" Tran and Mike Ross in the title match, holding on after losing in the first championship match.
ShadyK and Mike were competing in the finals for the second consecutive tournament. ShadyK also completed the amazing feat of being in every finals match in the tournament series; he was the only player to make the Top 8 in all of the tournaments as well.
I'l have stats of the tournament tonight. Big thanks to Edward Sebastian Jr. for the bracket image.
There was a new champion for Tekken 6 in the 2010 MLG season. Meanwhile, it's the same ol' in Brawl.
JustFrameJames defeated FightingGM, 6-5 in the contination Race to 6 finals for Tekken 6. He won the tournament undefeated and never trailed in the final match against Fighting GM.
In the final game, James had a 2-0 lead, but GM came back with two straight rounds, including a perfect, to tie it up. James stormed out to a big lead in the deciding round and held on.
None of the six games played in the final match were sweeps, and James won five of the six opening rounds, including a rage win.
James had 20 juggle combos in the matchup for an .800 per-round average. GM, by comparison, had just 12 for a .480 average.
In Brawl, Mew2King took home the title, his third this year. Except, he didn't have to face Ally in the finals. This time, he faced Lee Martin. Lee went to secondary characters late in the title match against Mew2King's Meta Knight.
According to AlphaZealot at MLG, Mew2King dropped only three games the whole tournament.
The World Cyber Games' U.S. finals tournament is scheduled to take place Sept. 10-12 at the Global Theatre at Universal Studios.
The winners of all the online qualifying tournaments will all take part in the tournament, with the winner of that event being the representative for the United States in the WCG world finals later this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
All of the games in this year's tournament series will have their finals tournament at Universal Studios. For Tekken 6, there are 10 players scheduled to take part. Unless they did not notify the WCG (the deadline was Tuesday night), these are the players scheduled to participate:
Genesis 2, the sequel to the popular 2009 Super Smash Bros series tournament, has been announced for July 15-17, 2011 at the Contra Costa Fairgrounds in Antioch.
Very few tournaments are announced a year ahead. Much like the first Genesis, the tournament organizers have put out the notice well ahead of time.There will be competitions for all three games in the Super Smash Bros. series.
Want to experience the best smash tournament of your lives?
Want to be a part of close to 500 people explode in chants screaming at the top of their lungs sending chills down your spine?
Or how about watching the best grand finals sets you will ever witness in person?
This wont be your average tournament. I almost don't even want to call it a tournament, and rather call it an experience that you will never forget.
I cannot sum up what Genesis 1 was in words. You simply had to be there. Missing Genesis 2 would be a shame, because we WILL out do ourselves, and we WILL put on a show for everyone the likes of which have yet to be seen in this community.
We are going above and beyond to make this the best thing you will ever experience in your smash career. You will be begging for more at the end of it, and wont want it to end.
Perhaps the most notable part of the announcement is the tournament organizers have said they will not broadcast the competition -- there is no internet at the venue -- and they will not make a push to get Internet so they can stream it.
After a hiatus of a couple years, there will be a Players Bowl tournament to kick off the Madden 11 tournament season. This year's event is scheduled for Sept. 25 in Philadelphia.
Not only is $2,000 on the line, but the winners in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 divisions will both receive free passes to the D.C. Madden Challenge, scheduled for Oct. 15-17.
Registration is $30 before the tournament, $40 on the day of the event.
We use to have Playersbowl twice a year a few years back but because of my EA Madden Challenge schedule and now MLG I couldn’t swing it but THIS YEAR Sponsors contacted me "PERSONALLY Fellas" and my SEPTEMBER IS OPEN BECAUSE MLG IS NOT UNTIL MID-OCT and along with RADIO COMMERICALS SPONSORS WANTED TO BRING BACK THE ONLY MADDEN RUCKER’S PARK KNOWN TO OUR COMMUNITY LOCATED IN PHILADELPHIA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON!!! HOW ABOUT THAT WHEN THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY IS ON THE SAME EVEN PLAYING FIELD SO THAT MEANS ITS WIDE OPEN!!!!!! ANYBODY CAN GET THIS
European Rose player Luffy won the Super vs Battle 20-X Super Street Fighter IV tournament on Sunday, beating Ryan Hart in the title match, 2-0.
Luffy (3-0) now has Dreamhack Summer and Super vs Battle on his 2010 championship resume.
The top eight was a field of well known individuals, but the Europeans held serve at home in what was a single-elimination Top 8.
Hart (2-1) defeated Daigo Umehara, 2-0. Daigo went with Cammy in the first game -- he had been playing Cammy in friendlies -- but Hart put that down. Daigo switched to Ryu, making it a mirror match; that still didn't matter to Hart.
Daigo defeated Yota in the third place contest.
Newest DMG member Eduardo Perez was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Daigo.
Following the tournament, the Guinness Book of World Records honored Daigo with a new world record, most international wins in a video game.
Taiwan defeated Hong Kong, 8-5 to win Cross Straits Cup 3, its first win in the series between regions.
This was a nearly even Super Street Fighter IV team match, despite the score. The teams traded victories five times. The last trade came in the end, where Taiwan's RB defeated SLHiro111.
Gamerbee, one of the stars at Evolution 2010, went 2-1 in the matchup. He went second for Taiwan, and that's where the back-and-forth battling started.
God of Guile, the Asia Cup finalist, went 1-1 for Hong Kong. However, his win was the penultimate for Hong Kong, who lost four of its final five to Taiwan.
The biggest winning streak for either team was three, by Taiwan. Hong Kong didn't have a winning streak; four of its five wins came after a loss.
Madden 11 creative director Ian Cummings announced Friday that EA Sports began punishing those who quit or disconnected an online ranked or Ultimate Team game in Madden 11 before it was over. More information was posted on the EA Sports blog this morning.
There were also notifications about stats being altered in the shorttime because of these fixes. But if a hit in stats means fixing what seems to be a glaring issue, I'd take that everytime.
This is one of two major fixes they'll be putting into the game. The other one will be the option of using the regular audible system, which will be put in via a patch sometime in the next couple of weeks.
1. Any quitter / disconnecter in a ranked game will automatically be given a loss. The victim will automatically be given a win.
2. We are currently monitoring the leaderboards and planning on zero’ing out the stats of any accounts found to be using quitting tactics (via high DNF / win percentages and game logs). This monitoring will be standard practice moving forward as well, as we have built in notifications to our server team that will automatically zero out any folks caught “boosting”, or using one account to quit immediately and award a win.
3. In a Madden Ultimate Team game, a person quitting will have a game burned off of his contracts for the players in the game to discourage this practice. The victim will always receive coins, prorated based on the percentage complete of the game (i.e. if it’s the 1st quarter, he’ll only get ¼ of the coins he would have gotten if he were to finish, if it’s at the end of the game, he’ll get ~90%, etc). The same note applies as above on anyone caught “boosting” after this fix is rolled out – they will be punished with bans, contract removals, or any other tactics we see fit.
4. We also found an issue where PDLC OTP boosts were being subtracted incorrectly. Anyone that had this happen has had their boost coin purchase refunded.
Players who quit in the first half of a Madden 11 online game will now get punished, according to the game's creative director, Ian Cummings.
Friday afternoon, Cummings posted a couple messages back-to-back talking about the changes. Those that quit in ranked and Ultimate Team games will be punished.
Quick summary part II: victims of quitters still get their wins in ranked games / prorated coins in MUT. Blog coming soon (I hope).
So be prepared, starting today, to take a loss if you rage quit. Most people who have messaged Cummings over Twitter this afternoon have praised the move, with some saying they sandbag in the first half in hopes that their opponent doesn't quit.
Over the weekend, Eric "Juicebox" Albino signed with Connecticut-based Borderland Gaming. The signing was made official during the Summer Jam tournament in Philadelphia. The deal is for one year.
Juicebox is widely recognized in the Super Street Fighter 4 community as the best Abel player in North America (Abel is one of the many selectable characters in CAPCOM's Super Street Fighter 4 title) and he will once again be showcasing his talents at this weekend's event. It is the hope of BLGaming that this sponsorship will be a positive influence on competitive gamers everywhere, showing that you can travel around the world and earn money doing what you love - if you work hard enough.
According to the organization, Juicebox is the first console player it has signed. Team Spooky posted video of the signing.
In one of his first blog entries on the site, Juicebox talks about getting into competitive gaming and how players can have an epiphany when they realize games can be competitive.
Players who do not think of the game as a competitive outlet will stumble upon an experience that changes their perspective on the game at some point or another. In the past, this could simply have been someone at their local arcade beating them over and over again. Maybe one of their friends figured out how to charge a Sonic Boom and a Flash Kick at the same time and suddenly Guile became unbeatable. Sometimes, after these experiences, those players will write it off as unimportant to their enjoyment of the game and forget the experience. Other times, those players will allow themselves to admit the truth of the incident; “There is more to this game than I am currently aware.” This is the crucial first step towards being competitive. If you are like me, logical and curious, the next step practically takes itself; “I will explore the depths of this game and try to implement my findings in my gameplay.” After that declaration, multiple things should occur. First, you should set yourself up for success by overcoming the barriers to entry in Street Fighter.
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