Skullgirls is an instant favorite. For most of the day Saturday every monitor in the house was playing this!

The results of the first tournament were:

1. Swifty McQuick – Peacock
2. Slappy – Cerebella
3. Danimal – Peacock/Valentine

Due to a last minute laptop emergency, the brackets were done the painful old fashioned way (on the worlds smallest piece of paper):

Jim Nardecchia

Trying something new here, I’ve set up some Round Robin tournaments on Challonge for the community that anyone can join and participate in.

For now I’ve done one for each game we’re running at the ranbats, but we can do more if people want.

SFxT: http://mifgc.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/ce6fwnnac5
UMvC3: http://mifgc.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/xmf7xi6qvr
SSF4 2012: http://mifgc.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/4vehtxfvrk
SCV: http://mifgc.challonge.com/tournaments/signup/5zwmeet7n4

WHAT IS IT?
An organized way to get more people in the community playing together, in an effort to help each other improve.

HOW DOES IT WORK?
Go sign up to participate, you will need to create a Challonge login, please make your username something people can easily identify you by so they’ll know how to get in contact with you and set up your match.

Once signups have ended we will have a round robin tournament set up, get with people and set up a time to play your games (online or in person) and record the results.

I don’t want to split or limit this by system, but be warned I think we have more Xbox users. If you can’t find a way to play a match against someone then just move on, when we end the league we’ll record all these matches as draws.

We’ll run this for a few months at least or until all the games are completed, there are no prizes or anything but it will be a good way to see where you stand. If this goes well we can run one every so often and you’ll be able to track your progress.

Round Robins are limited to 40 people, if we go over that we’ll create another tournament and even things out.

FORMAT
Play a first to five match using tournament standard rules (best 2/3, loser can change characters, no gems, etc.)

HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS
After you’re done playing have a discussion with your opponent (in person, voice chat, Facebook, etc.) about the series, both of you can talk about your strategies going into the match, how they changed during, tips on the matchup, things to improve on, anything that can help people level up. The more discussion the better, the idea is to get people talking and sharing ideas and feedback.

Slappy 6-0
Flip 4-3
Maximum Rafiki 3-5
Swifty McQuick 1-6

Lets avoid the “I hope your ______ was ______.” formalities and cut straight to the chase. A lot has happened since the year started so here’s a quick run down of the action.

Frosty Faustings IV was on the 7^th of this month. First place went to MCZ|MRN Wolfkrone. However, a couple of local players placed in the tournament as well. Holden ‘Holdy’ Isom took 9th place, while Ben ‘OctopusOnFire’ Wilson took 10^th. The tournament stream was archived; so if you’re patient you can see them in action. Octopus also did a review of the tournament on The Fighters Alliance website.

On the 14^th our very own Slappy participated in what was supposed to be a Michigan Vs. Illinois 5v5 tournament at Experience Points in Elkhart, IL. While the tournament was plagued with last minute cancellations and an impending snow storm Slappy still attended; and even took 3^rd in the tournament.

Lastly (almost done) we have the upcoming events for the next couple of weeks. Keep in mind that these events will be posted on the GrapSF calendar, and updates will be posted when needed.

• Jan. 21^st – GRRanbats 4.3
• Feb. 18^th- Elkhart vs Kalamazoo 5v5: The Beginning

That’s it for now; if we missed anything or you would like your event posted on the main site or calendar just private message Natetendo64 in the forums.

Fall Brawl 2011
Dearborn MI
Saturday, November 26 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114752308631204

WTR1BE Fighter’s Brawl Tournament
Kalamazoo MI
Friday, December 2 at 7:00pm – December 3 at 12:00am
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=237079306345642

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
1. EG | Momochi (Cody)
2. EG | Ricky Ortz (Rufus)
3. Uryo (Sakura)
4. MCZ | Tokido (Akuma)
5. MCZ DMG | PR Balrog
5. Totalheads | Poongko (Seth)
7. EG | Justin Wong (Rufus)
7. MCZ | Mago (Fei Long)
9. cc. Col | Mike Ross (E. Honda)
9. Dieminion (Guile)
13. EG | fLoE (Sagat, Yang)
13. Infiltration (Akuma)
13. Alucard (Balrog)
13. Wolfkrone (C. Viper)

Mortal Kombat 9
1. VSM CD Jr
2. vVv REO
3. VSM Maxter (Raiden)
4. VSM Erik Warda (Kabal)
5. LB NYChris G (Reptile/KungLao)
6. m2dave (Freddy)
7. DRS THTB (Reptile)
8. EMP Tom Brady (Kung Lao)

Marvel vs. Capcom 3
1. Flocker
2. BOX | Viscant
3. MCZ DMG | PR Balrog
4. CoL.cc | Filipino Champ
5. IFC BT | Yipes
5. EG | Justin Wong
7. FC | Twisted Jago
7. Dj Huoshen

The results of the round robin we had this last Saturday. Bracket’s are still open if anyone needs to play catch-up.

Top 5 will be the West-side team in the East vs West 5 on 5 at Michigan Masters.

When: October 29th Where: The Gamerz Lounge Questions? Ask: Daniel Streety Details and RSVP here!Webpoll: Donate our setups?

The date has been moved from the 1st to the 29th, please plan to support the Michigan scene by showing up to this!

This is the annual tournament East Michigan has been throwing after their RanBat seasons. Usually the top two players of the day (who haven’t already qualified) get to play in a special exhibition tournament afterwards with other top Michigan players who qualified during the course of the East Michigan RanBats.

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GrandLAN seems to be a good fit. Plenty of room, just enough privacy, creepy haunted house attached.

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Tournament Results:

Mortal Kombat
1st. Hove
2nd. Chauncy “True” Talon
3rd. YoJimbo

BlazBlue
1st. Leonil Requiem
2nd. CommanderofTroy
3rd. Lance

3rd Strike
1st. Alucard
2nd. Miller
3rd. Cakes

Marvel
1st. Alucard
2nd. Hove
3rd. Freddie Audio

Super Street Fighter 4 AE
1st. Wolfkrone
2nd. Checkmate
3rd. Weapons Left

Full results coming soon.