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The battles in the Bay continue with a tournament every weekend in the month of April!

This past weekend San Francisco State University's Rack-N-Cue arcade held a tournament for Street Fighter 4, Street Fighter III: 3s, Capcom vs. SNK 2, Tekken 6: BR and Marvel VS Capcom 2. Players all the way from Davis to San Jose California showed up for Street Fighter 4, making it the main attraction with 40 total entrants - almost double what the other games saw.

Although the tournament started a bit slow with very little hype and many people getting used to the stiff P360 joysticks and unfamiliar set up, by the time it got to top 8 we saw some very intense matches with people yelling and screaming as rounds came down to the last hit. With so many of the players becoming so serious about the game, this tournament was a true testament to the fact that right now anyone can beat anyone in Street Fighter 4. Almost each and every match could have gone either way.

As you'll see the iPlayWinner.com crew had a very solid showing taking 4 out of the top 8 spots with our very own Crackfiend taking 1st place!

Street Fighter 4:

1.Crackfiend - Boxer - (sent to losers bracket by Ricky)
2. Ricky Ortiz - Chun Li - (Lost to Crackfiend 2x)
3. Young Legend - Ryu - (Lost to Crackfiend and Ricky Ortiz)
4. Jack - Ryu - (Lost to Crackfiend and ???)
5. Jeff - Rufus - (Lost to ???)
5. A-Rival - Chun Li - (Lost to Crackfiend 2x)
7. Haunts (Lost to Nick and Jack)
7.Coopa (Lost to A-Rival and ???)

Both Jack who plays a solid Ryu and Coopa who plays a very entertaining Zangief (for real this guy is awesome to watch play - very animated and friendly dude. Thanks for recording the vids!) who came all the way from Davis, CA placed in the top 8. To my knowledge this is Jack's 2nd or 3rd top 8 placement in the past month alone so watch out for this guy.

Some hard fought battles from A_Rival who used Chun-Li through out the entire tournament to take people out; Jeff who is mainly a Tekken player who made his way to top 8 with a mix of Zangief and Rufus; and of course you'll see I placed somewhere there in too, sticking with Sagat through out the entire tournament.

Young Legend placing top 3 as usual with his extremely solid Ryu, only peaced out by Ricky Ortiz and Crackfiend. For those of you who don't know, Young Legend is only 15 years old and is already one of the best Street Fighter players around. This was a reminder that although he has the skills he still has a ways to go to take out the guys who have been around for a while! Can't teach that experience!

The Grand Finals between Ricky Ortiz (who got either 1st or 2nd in every other game at the tournament!) and Crackfiend had to be the best display of skill throughout the entire tournament - both players feeling each other out through out the entire two sets, playing very solid footsie and zoning games. With Crackfiend losing earlier in the tournament to Ricky sending him to the losers bracket, he had to beat Ricky twice to take the number one spot. A lot of hard work but he did it due to his solid execution and mind games with Balrog!

All in all it was a great event with a ton of new faces reminding us that there is an entire new group of players who are hungry to get better in this game!

Here is top 8 for all the other games:

SF3:3S
1. Ricky
2. Rom
3. Emphy
4. Ian
5. A-Rival
5. Haunts
7. Anthony Y
7. Walter

Tekken 6 BR
1. Jimmy
2. Ricky
3. Andy
4. Sean
5. Jeff
5. JT
7. Will
7. Josh

CvS2
1. Ricky
2. Emphy
3. David
4. Baker
5. Isaiah T.
5. LB
7. Gordon
7. Daniel R.

MvC2
1. Rom
2. Ricky
3. Albert
4. Long
5. Lamerboi
5. Eric Choi
7. Madeinca
7. Bihn

Be sure to check out the iPlayWinner.com YouTube channel for more videos from the tournament!

Comments

[Jack]

Nice write-up Haunts =P.

We will continue the rivalry at FUDDRUCKAHSSSS

[haunts]

ITS ON.

SAGET vs RYU

classic. lol.

[Crackfiend]

SAGRAT vs RRRYU

[Avatar2]

The skill levels in those videos are amazing. That Ricky / Crackfiend video was exciting to watch. Great writeup, Haunts!