On 08/14/10 I’ll be hosting a tourney/all nighter at my home in celebration of 1 year of grapsf.com scene!

Details here

Fellow GRAPSF members. It’s time for us to yet again march side by side into that great fight and take our places as the champions we know we are. Alternately, we could stumble into the darkness weeping in shame, but hey: we’ll do it as a team.

I’m speaking of Midwest Championships, of course. This is the midwest’s very own major tourney, and considering the successes we’ve enjoyed both as a community and as individuals in other tournaments, we owe it to ourselves to go. Two days of fighting game fun, surrounded by fellow enthusiasts, buoyed by energy drinks and shitty buffet food… It’s like heaven, if heaven smelled like a gym locker and didn’t let girls in. How can it go wrong?

The official thread on SRK is located here.

The event will be held on May 8th and 9th, which are Saturday and Sunday respectively. Hotel rooms are seventy dollars a night, which split between two people (or more, if you’re feeling saucy) is downright affordable. In the GRAPSF.com forums, you’ll find a thread in which plotting, wheeling, and dealing for the event may proceed: you have two whole months in which to prepare. Get hype, Pringles, Scoops, Blast, and all that malarkey.

In other news, Super Street Fighter IV has been confirmed at the long-rumored forty dollar U.S. price point on it’s release date of April 27th. Be aware that the game will actually be available for purchase on Wednesday April 28th, as the 27th is simply the date it ships. Unless, of course, you pre-order at the Gamestop on Wilson by Rivertown Mall, which is holding a midnight release event. Be sure to pre-order from SmurfTac0s, one of our finest digital pugilists and manager of said store, to ensure that you get a head start. That few hours may be important, as we’re holding a GRAPSF.com event on April 28th to celebrate. Details as they develop.

I know what you’re thinking. “What in the smoky ass fingering fuck is Capcom thinking releasing Street Fighter IV on iPhone”? I know that’s what you’re thinking, because that’s what I’m thinking too. After all, this is the device that’s capable of making both “Adventure” for the Atari 2600 and “Dragons Lair” for literally everything else unplayable messes. I’m sure a fighting game on a system without actual buttons will be awesome.

We have only ourselves to blame for this misappropriation of time and money, though. We’ll buy any goddamn thing with Street Fighter in it. There were five official Street Fighter II games, five official Alpha entries, three Street Fighter III installments, and somehow there is more than one Street Fighter EX game out there. How many versions do we need? Why did I buy “Fighting Street” on Virtual Console instead of something with actual value? Because Capcom knew I would. Game developers are, after all, inherently lazy. They only work when they have to. Instead of doing something useful, productive, and HARD, like porting TvC to a real console or getting started on that HD Darkstalkers game, they can quickly shit out a terrible, inferior port of their latest opus and make a quick buck. Shame on you, Capcom. I almost canceled my two pre-orders for SSFIV, threw out the Udon artbook and t-shirts I just bought, and melted my Blanka action figure with a lighter when I read about this iPhone business, but  I was already sitting on my couch eating potato chips trying to relax. You got LUCKY, Capcom.

In other news, Brian Crescente of Kotaku received a package from Capcom the other day containing a single blue boxing glove clutching a rose. Not a very subtle hint. In fact, it doesn’t even qualify as a hint, because they didn’t try very hard to  conceal their intentions. If PR stunts can be compared to clever innuendo and flirting, then Capcom just pulled their dick out and offered to let us suck it. Which I would do, by the way. I bought Fighting Street on Virtual Console, after all. Motherfuckers.

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You can rest easy, good folk: Super Street Fighter IV is almost upon us. After moving the title back from it’s original release date of mid March into a nebulous “2011 fiscal year”, Capcom has finally announced April 27th as the firm release date for the next installment of everyone’s favorite digital pugilism simulator.

In other news, Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom releases this week, and I just happen to own two Wii arcade sticks. Coincidence?

Look forward to TvC casuals this Saturday at ULX: where the eyeliner and teenage angst rolls hard.

The Ranbat season is almost over folks, and despite appearances, I HAVE been keeping track of who got what when. Updates have been long delayed, mostly due to work and holiday commitments, but fret not: The results for the December 5th meet up and the December 19th meet up are listed below.

December 5th:

1) Aaron – 8
2) Hotsauce – 7
3) Chauncy – 6
4) G-Boobie – 5
5) Dro – 4
6) Singe – 3
7) Cuban – 2
Cakefarts – 1

December 19th:

1) Octopus On Fire – 8
2) Hotsauce – 7
3) Holdy – 6
4)Slappy – 5
5)Singe – 4
6)Chauncy – 3
7)G-Boobie – 2
Cakefarts – 1

Results for the entire season are now updated in the appropriate section, conveniently located to your right. Slappy is still the leader, but Hotsauce is very close behind him, followed by the ever incredible Smurftac0s.