http://www.upstatefighting.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=374
certainly a highly anticipated game, and one of the most competetive. Starcraft 2 is comming out VERY soon and i’m very excited to play it. on tuesday, july 27th this will take over my life for about a week and everyones invited to join, or re-join, clan boobs!
Upstate New York’s Major
Showdown at the Sheraton!
Upstatefighting.com, the Sheraton Hotel, and E-Gamer’s exchange bring you the first true Major in Upstate New York fighting game history.
When?
September 11th and 12th, 2010
What games?
Super Street Fighter IV
Tekken 6
BlazBlue Continuum Shift
Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Guaranteed Pot?
-$400 Guaranteed for Tekken
-$500 Guaranteed for Street Fighter with potential for more if we receive over 100 pre-registers.
How much to register per game?
$15 for Tekken and Street Fighter to ensure a bigger overall pot.
$10 for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
$1 Rock, Paper, Scissors
What’s the venue fee?
$15 Venue fee for Pre-Registration
$20 at the Door
Where?
Sheraton Hotel
801 University Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13210
How do I preregister?
Visit UpstateFighting.com and Pre-Register there.
All people who pre-register save money on the venue fee AND will have access a special offer through E-Gamers exchange. We are allowing those who pre-register to trade in their used or unwanted Video Games to E-gamers Exchange for their in place of their venue fee. Just let us know when you pre-register if you would like to take advantage of this offer.
Hotel Arrangements:
Call the Sheraton at () and ask about the discounted rooms for the tournament.
Rooms cost $95 a night but come with Free Wireless Internet, TVs that are console compatible, Access to a swimming pool, and discounted breakfast buffet.
What else?
The tournament will be taking place on the second floor in one of the Sheraton’s Grand Ballrooms. We also will have an entire extra room dedicated to casual games and money matches so as to not interfere with the tournament itself. Also in this room you will be allowed to run any number of side tournaments you wish, whether you want to throw a Melty Blood tournament or a Guilty Gear one you can but please understand that your tournament will take a back seat to any of the major ones. Also the Sheraton Hotel is right next to the Syracuse University Campus and it’s only a block away from Marshall Street a strip in Syracuse with bars, restaurants, and places to hang out.
What’s the format?
Tekken 6:BR singles: $15 Registration
Pot Split 65/25/10 +Extra $400
Best of 5 Rounds,
Best of 3 Games except in Losers and Winners where it is best of 5, and Grand Finals best of 7.
Double Elimination
Regular and Regional Seeding to ensure a well run Tournament.
Super SFIV singles: $15 Registration
Pot Split: 70/20/10 +Extra $500 to ??? if we have 100+ people
Best of 3 Rounds,
Best of 3 Games except in Grand Finals best of 5.
Double Elimination.
Regular and Regional Seeding to ensure a well run Tournament.
BlazBlue: CS singles: $10 Registration
Pot Split: 65/25/10
Best of 3 Rounds
Best of 3 Games except in Losers and Winners where it is best of 5, and Grand Finals best of 7.
Double Elimination.
Regional Seeding to ensure a well run Tournament.
Rock Paper Scissors: $1 Registration
Winner Take All!
Best of 3 Games until Winners, Losers, and Grand where it is Best of 5 Games.
Regional Seeding is available
Street Fighter Teams:
Pot Split: 70/30
Best of 2 Rounds
Best of 3 games Pokemon Style, until Winners’, Losers’, and Grand when it is 6.
Character Locked.
(WTF does Pokemon Style mean? It means you can constantly switch your order up. You are not locked into first second or third)
Any other game you want to run.
Schedule-
Saturday:
Sign ins start at 12:00PM(Noon)
Street Fighter will start at 2:30PM
Tekken will start at 4:30PM
BlazBlue: CS will start a 6:30PM
Sunday:
Sign ins again start at 12:00PM (Noon)
Street Fighter Teams starts at 1:30PM
BlazBlue: CS Top 4 to 8 depending on # of entrance
Street Fighter Teams Top 4
Tekken singles Top 8
Street Fighter singles Top 8
as with every tournament schedule subject to change
Zero the Shadow aka ZTS aka Joe the Shadow is the lone Upstate representative at EVO 2k10 this year. ZTS received seeding to the event after his impressive 3rd place performance at ECT 2. What do you get with EVO seeding you ask? Not much apparently as Tony ended up in a bracket with the likes of Mr. Naps, Kor and Chet Chetty. Nevertheless, look out for Tony on the EVO stream this Saturday as he aims to gain respect for Upstate and solidify Upstate’s position of churning out top players using very mediocre characters (and school girls)!
Follow the stream here! http://stickam.com/evo2k
originally posted by jhonda
Thanks to everyone who came by to support and hope it was a good day spent for everyone.
SSFIV
1. Jugg – Buff
2. TinkieWinkie – Albany
3. Glory
4. Eiji – Albany
5. Nasty93, Tony P. – Buff
7. Nunie – Albany, ZeroFXI – Buff
9. Dan M – Buff, Jeff P – Buff, C.Monster – Albany, Quang – Roc
13. Grifter – Roc, Cosme01, Theli – Buff, Tony G – Buff
17. Cha Cha – Buff, Vinh – Roc, LTguy, Cretin, DSRO, Kyo – Buff, Alex T, NickPSI
25. Keegan, XGrayNinja, Kinetic, Don Frye, Damus, JBlaze, PoPo, Daryl
SSFIV Teams
1. Team AIDS
* – We ran teams on a sheet of paper after Nick had to leave and I lost it. Was Satly Run Back and Team Sars #2 and #3?
T6
1. GM – NYC
2. Lingmassacre
3. Ben111
4. OFDP
5. Polishmafia, Kaluen
7. Eiji, Cha Cha
9. Antoine, NickPSI, Damus, Dan S.
13. Kinetic, Glory, Real Law, PoPo
Brackets can be found at http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5 … 823?ref=ts
If there are any errors in the above please let me know and I’ll edit. Thanks for coming out and make sure to check out the Upstate Major in September. Showdown at the Sheraton with guaranteed POT BONUSES for winners.
Upstate Fighting is proud to host another fighting game tournament at the E-Gamers Exchange on Saturday, June 26th. The featured games of the day will be Tekken 6 and Super Street Fighter 4.
Come out to E-Gamers and support the fighting game scene in Upstate. Start getting hyped now and make sure to check out the tourny announcement threads on Upstatefighting.com, Tekken Zaibatsu and Shoryuken.
East Coast Throwdown 2 was a major fighting game event hosted in Whippany, NJ and had roughly 300 players in attendance. Games included: Super Street Fighter 4, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Melty Blood: Actress Again, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, Marvel vs. Capcom, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, and Tekken 6.
Some of you may know “Zero The Shadow” as a guy who likes to argue a lot on forums (and usually gets banned) or a guy who resulted in flipping his family vehicle over when attempting to use it as a race car on the highway, but yesterday, Upstate’s very own Tony “Zero The Shadow” Filosi put on an impressive performance in Tekken 6 battling against fierce competitors such as Tom Brady, Incognito, Bloodhawk and NYC Fab, securing his spot for 3rd place at this tournament. This has significant value because Tony should be automatically seeded for Evo this year.
Congratulations to Tony and let the wheels on the bus keep on raping. You’ve made Upstate proud!
Posted 18 minutes ago to the MvC3 Facebook page, Seth Killian gets a little feisty:
Marvel vs Capcom 3:
I have MVC3 sitting on my desk, have been playing fighters longer than some of you have been alive, and I’m TELLING you what it’s like, but that’s somehow no good (because “he’s PR,” … See Morealthough I do not work for PR, and am credited as “special advisor” for very real reasons, and regardless of any of that, what I’m saying is RIGHT).
“ZOMG it’s ruined!” crowd, on the other hand, are basing their despair on one sentence from a scanned magazine article. The article was a first-look overview (and a pretty good one)–but clearly not intending to get into the kind of details that the hardcore guys care about. I understand your concerns, but (so far, at least), they are off-base.
As before–let’s hold the “ZOMG it’s ruined!” talk until you play the game. You’ll get a chance before too long, then we’ll talk. Sound fair?
best,
Seth
For the last three weeks you have been staring at a computer, watching match videos. Constantly scanning your favorite message board for strats, juggles, what links, what doesn’t, frame data. You may even debate what works and what doesn’t, who is best with your character, you might even talk some smack to someone you have never met face to face. You play online for hours at night, racking up big win totals, mastering your character to the point where you feel good about what is coming in the next month: Big Tourney X at N location.
You get together with your boys and you discuss what your plan is, room and board, who is driving, who’s paying what, what time you are leaving, who you are meeting along the way. You arrive, three states over, and setup your post with your group. Everyone has their equipment, you just put fresh hardware in your stick, the JLF feels crispy. You register for your game and pay your entry fee. What bracket are you in? Oh, what a bad bracket, it shouldn’t be stacked that way, the regions are bad, where is the seeding? Nothing you can do about it, go with it.
You hear your name called to play against someone you have never heard of or met in your entire life. “Shit, he mains X character, that’s a 7-3 matchup in his favor. It’s ok, if he doesn’t know the matchup I got this.”
He knows the matchup.
You lose bad, but you still have a chance in losers. They play through for a while and you hear your name called again. “No one mains that chick, I have never even fought that matchup! Alright, can’t be too tough, she’s low tier anyways.”
Deuced.
It is quite understandable to be mad at this point. You had something to prove. You wanted to show people that you were the man, and you want to be recognized on youtube or be a common name in association with your game. “How did I pull two bad matchups? This is ridiculous.”
These things happen. What is the reason you are mad? You couldn’t be in the limelight? You traveled all that way, you feel ripped off, you feel like a scrub. Do you depend on this? Do fighting game tournaments feed your kids?
Don’t be salty. I have taken death threats from people at arcade machines, tough guys trying to impress their girlfriend get owned by a 12 year old playing TJ Combo in KI2 and claim they are going to kick my ass. I have watched people smash their hands up on walls after getting beaten early. Walking away without shaking a hand or saying good game. I get the intensity, but really, this doesn’t help the community. Don’t detract from everyone else’s experience because you lost. You were only going to use that money to buy a new pair of shoes or something anyways.
Lets all have a good time in the spirit of competition. Be intense during the matchup, but not afterwards.
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