Michigan Masters (Tournament) is coming! 12/12/09

December 12th, 2009 by Slappy

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From shoryuken.com:

Welcome to the first ever MICHIGAN MASTERS tournament!!!

The location has been updated. Take a look in the When and Where spot in this post. Also, check out the attached file to see the bracket for the exhibition tournament!


What

Michigan Masters is a Michigan regional tournament. As well as regular tournaments, there will also be a special single elimination exhibition tournament where the top 8 players in the state will face off against each other, winner takes all! I want this to be the best MI tournament yet, so bring all your friends, tell everyone you know about it, and get people from out of state up here!

When and Where
The tournament will take place in East Lansing, Michigan, on December 12th, 2009. It will be in Classroom 130 in North Hubbard Hall on Michigan State Campus (http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=Hu…01929&t=h&z=16) The doors will open at 11:00, and the first tournament will begin promptly at noon. If you are late, you can still be placed in an open spot in the bracket, but there will be a $3 penalty.

Games
Street Fighter 4 (360) – 12:00 noon
Street Fighter 3 (PS2 – 12:00 noon
Street Fighter 2 HD Remix (360) – 2:00
Capcom vs. SNK 2 (PS2) – 2:00
Melty Blood Actress Again (PS2) – 4:00
Tekken 6 (360) – 4:00
Guilty Gear: Accent Core (PS2) – 6:00
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DC) – 6:00
Blazblue (360) – 6:00
Michigan Masters Exhibition starts – 6:00
Michigan Masters Finals – 8:00

Entry Fee and Prizes
There is a $5 base charge for all tournament participants. The money from the base charge will all be added to the prize pool for the Michigan Masters Exhibition. In addition to this, each game you enter will cost an additional $10. The game money will go into the prize pool for the game you entered. The prize pool is split 70% to 1st place, 20% to second place, and 10% to third place for that game. If 6 or less people enter a game 2nd place will get their money back, and 1st place will get the rest.

Rules
No button macros, no pausing, no turbo. For game specific questions, PM me.
Each tournament will be double elimination format. If 5 or less players are in a tournament it will be round robin instead.
SF4, BB and Tekken 6 will be seeded according to the Michigan Rankings. Players from the same town will be separated in all tournaments, so you won’t have to fight your friends right away.

Exhibition
The Michigan Masters Exhibition is an 8-man single elimination, winner takes all SF4 tournament. The top 6 players from the Michigan Ranking Battles will automatically be invited. The two remaining places will be filled by the best placing players in the SF4 tournament on the day of Michigan Masters. It is likely that the top players in the tournament will already be invited to participate in the exhibition. If this is the case, the top two players who aren’t already invited will be allowed to join. If a player in the top 6 can’t make it to the tournament, an additional spot will be opened up for players to qualify on the day. The first place player at the end of the Exhibition will be given all the money from the base entry fee ($5 per person), and possibly some extra money if I can find some. GET HYPE

12/05/09

December 5th, 2009 by G-Boobie

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11-28-09 Play: New Blood

November 29th, 2009 by Slappy

There were many new faces playing Street Fighter this Saturday, and that’s great. Cuban’s better half Nora is on the ranbat scoreboard now with her excellent Chun Li, and Mark showed us all some very solid kung fu courtesy of Fei Long. Hope to see you back again!

After most everyone went home I witnessed ULX regulars Joel and Zack falling in love with Street Fighter, totally hooked so expect to see them learning fast in the near future.

In addition, many of our newer regulars made it back, becoming MORE regular (without any help from fiber), and we even played a little Smash for a change, which I love.

For me personally the highlight of the night was facing Sagat (hotsauce) while ULX staff (or was that Rock Band?) blasted “Eye of the Tiger” at full volume. That song is just so…. It should be played during every fight basically.

RanBat 1.5 results:

1st -- SmurfTac0s (8)

2nd -- Slappy (7)

3rd -- Hotsauce! (6)

4th -Mark (5)

5th -Cuban_Ace (4)

6th -Fred (3)

7th -Nora (2)

8th -- CakeFarts (1)

Rock Band Beatles was playing all night and now it’s stuck in my head…

11-21-09 Play: The Return of Perrin & Aaron

November 27th, 2009 by Slappy

Super late writing this so sorry, I forgot most everything that happened.

Welcome back Dutch and Aaron who haven’t been around for a while, it was good to see you back!

Aaron was kicking ass and taking names as usual. Also was it my imagination or was OctopusOnFire really really really really on. More than usual I mean. Been training hard?

An important discovery was made today: ULX has a cappuccino machine. Nothing fancy but beats the heck out of a plain pot of coffee (and energy drinks imho). Drink up, they are just $1.00!

Street_Fighter___Psycho_Coffee_by_PoucasTrancas

RanBat 1.4 results:

1st -- Aaron (8)

2nd -- Slappy (7)

3rd -- Haypultone (6)

4th -- OctopusOnFire (5)

5th -- HoldySnausages (4)

6th -- Hotsauce! (3)

7th -- Dutch0 (2)

8th -- Chauncy “Tru” Talon (1)

Cody, Guy, and Adon Confirmed For Super Street Fighter IV: Ibuki Teased

November 24th, 2009 by G-Boobie

Today Famitsu revealed three new additions to the Super Street Fighter IV roster: Guy and Cody from Final Fight, and Adon, from Street Fighter the first and the Alpha series. Expect to see all three wrecking fools in mind boggling 3D when the game releases this spring.

Counting the three previously confirmed characters (newcomer Juri plus T. Hawk and Deejay of SFII fame), six of the rumored ‘eight to ten’ characters have now been revealed. If rumors and Seth Kilian can be trusted, that leaves between two and four remaining characters to be announced… All of which should be Dudley from Street Fighter III. I’ll even tell you how it fits into the fiction: the car in the already revealed bonus stages? The one you beat up for ‘points’? That belonged to Dudley’s dad, and now you have to pay. Search your feelings: you know it to be true.

Note also that Guy is punching a kunai out of the air in his upper right hand screenshot: the kind of kunai that a certain less than totally dressed ninja girl from Street Fighter III has been known to toss around. The caption for the picture asks, “Who’s kunai is that?” Not Ryu’s, that’s for fucking certain. I’ll leave it at that and let you draw your own conclusions.

Pics below.

Guy SSIV

Adon SSIV