MLG Raleigh is this upcoming weekend and it is said to be the biggest tournament for a MLG event yet.  Upstate Fighting will have a slew of competitors on the scene.  If you want to check out the live stream, head over to mlgpro.com.  Singles are Friday night and Saturday afternoon and the team tournament is Sunday.

Will ZTS repeat his ECT2 performance?  Will Zzy return to the tournament scene and storm over competitors like he did in VA?  Will OFDP? put his opponents in his patented “hold back sleeper hold?  Will Ben111 stay classy and create a lightening storm in the building with his electrics?  Check out the stream to find out!

Pre-reg for the Showdown at the Sheraton tournament is now up.   Check out the Showdown at the Sheraton announcement thread for more info or just PRE-REG NOW!

This guide was posted up on youtube and is good for some general anti-Leo information.  You won’t see too many Leo’s, but it is a character that can do a lot of damage very quickly if you don’t know how to deal with it’s basic moves.

Anti-Leo

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

Come watch the greatest tekken in the country, live!

EVO STREAM

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

Forum link

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.

http://shoryuken.com/f7/upstate-ny-majo … xt-241249/