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:

“Sorry guys, I’ve tried to be nice with my clarifications, but you’re simply off-base. The MVC3 control scheme is overwhelmingly similar to MVC2. Imagine there was a contest between TvC and MVC2 control schemes, with some people arguing for each side. With the way the controls are at the moment, the “We want controls like MVC2″ team has unquestionably won.” -Killian, yesterday @ capcom-unity

Marvel vs Capcom 3:

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.

This is my first post to the blog, but I wanted to express my enthusiasm over how UF has really brought the Upstate community together. The forum now has 82 members and the Facebook page has 73 fans! Our gatherings for random casuals are starting to cause our usual venues (Ballin Castle, and the Cockpit) to burst at the seams and our local tournaments even have walk in randoms show up off the street. We even have a Twitter now, and I have no idea how to use it!

I’m not even from Syracuse originally, I am from Worcester MA. I have been playing street fighter since 92 in the arcades (remember those?) and have always loved playing street fighter casually. I never really got into the competitive scene but drooled over articles in GamePro as a kid about Alex Valle, Mike Watts, and even Tomo on the west coast scene and what they were capable of in SF. This guy wins with Zangeif? Blasphemy (I was 9).

I moved out here and always trolled SRK since like 2000. I found the upstate thread and jhonda’s PSN name (I know, stalker). I converted a couple FPS players at work to playing fighting games, and we unknowingly played the Upstate crew in the Gamestop National SF4 tourney, in which I am pretty sure Adrian mopped the floor with me. I eventually hooked up with Jared, Tony, and Jason at Jared’s palace. I was pretty pumped to play SF4 with a group of people (even though everyone around here is at heart a Tekken junkie) and get my ass FADC’d all over the place by Jared, and I even lost to ZTS’s Gouken (I know, I know).

I then went to Kyle’s house for the first time with Cretin and JBlaze and we all threw down in SF4. I got my ass handed to me like 900 times from Polish Mafia and his Ken tick throw mixup. I then joined up legit with Upstate and now I host casuals all the time, run brackets at tourneys, and basically do whatever I can to support the community. I have people crash here for major tourney road trips, and allow random people I have never met to come in my house and play games. I even play Tekken every now and again, and watch my copy of TVC collect dust.

So again, I want to thank everyone for coming out to the tourneys and the small gatherings we do (Big gatherings are cool too!), making new friends, and throwing down in fighting games. Remember, we play everything, so even if you are a world class Hokuto No Ken player, or you can’t get enough GGX#W@#!@$RELOAD ACCENT CORES or whatever version it is at now, or you want to throw a Tobal Number One event, holla at us. We cater to everyone’s needs!

Continuing this week’s string of wacky videos I present to you KOF 89. What happens when the Famicon’s greatest characters team up and battle it out for supremacy? I dunno but I really wish I had a copy of this game. Also a special guest shows up at the end of the video, you may recognize him.