Feeling a bit hungry after EVO, I took an hour train ride to Sunnyvale, CA this past Friday for a singles and teams Street Fighter 4 tournament. I was running a bit behind and missed my train so I barely made it in time but it all worked out.

The tournament was held at Country Inn and Suites in one of the ballrooms within the hotel. Street Fighter 4 was capped at 64 people for singles and 32 for teams, which may not sound like a lot, but considering they were running BlazBlue, HDR and some other games, the area was pretty packed out by the time I got there.

I ran through the winners bracket for most of the tournament until I ran into Scunsion, another Sagat player in NorCal who ended up taking the 3rd place spot in the tournament. He's probably the one player I know who may have the Sagat mirror match down better than I do. I went on to beat a couple others before finally losing to OG player Eric Choi who uses Rufus. I was hoping to get top 3 to make some money back from the train ride, but just another top 8 for me, tying for 7th. Oh well! Better luck next time.

It was Jack/Steve playing Ryu and Ricky O. playing Rufus in the finals. I assumed Jack would make it pretty far considering he is one of the most slept on players in NorCal and the fact he was feeling real confident through out the tournament. Of course it was no surprise to anyone to see Ricky O. in the finals as well.

After the singles, most people made their way home, but those of us who stuck around decided to enter the teams tournament which started at 1 AM or something. I was really tired but manned up since Thrust07 and Illiterate wanted to play and found myself a teammate-- Allan, one of the dudes who was running the tournament, who plays Chun Li. He fought hard but at the end of the day I ended up having to OCV about 5 teams to get third place. Thrust07 and Illiterate peaced me out, and they went on to play to Ryan the Filipino Champ and Hydro who took first.

Although the tournament ran really late, all in all it was fun seeing so many new people get into the scene. The ratio of new people to old schoolers was really high and reminded me of when I first started going to tournaments. Considering this event brought a lot of new people into the scene, hopefully they will work out the kinks with the tournament running so late, set up some SD TVs instead of LCDs to reduce lag and throw another one because I think this is a good event for the scene.

Here are the results for the games, check out the official thread on SRK for full results soon!

SFIV Singles

1 Ricky Ortiz
2 Jack Waller
3 Scunsion
4 Eric Choi
5 Anime Dude
5 Crack
7 Haunts
7 One3Six
9 KNice
9 Illiterate
9 DopeUyuu
9 Botsu is
13 JT Moses Sales
13 Boy of Joy
13 Evanda
13 Elcubanoloco
17 LordXBlade
17 Andy Ma
17 Lamerboi
17 Jimmy Tran
17 Magus1234
17 G No
17 MiDangMovement
17 EFCE
25 Timmja
25 Jack Zenith
25 Greg Lau
25 Kris
25 Lost
25 Taylor Smith
25 Julio
25 Introvert
33 Eddy
33 Josh S.
33 Nu
33 NabNabDeep
33 John T
33 Thrust07
33 Alan L
33 Snake
33 MisterBiggs
33 Nytemar64
33 Duy
33 Hughey
33 iGauge
33 Kirk
33 Rei Y
33 Liquid Fox
49 Tony ATL
49 TrapperJohn
49 Joseph Jung
49 Darry Dizz
49 Ronnie L
49 Paul Marino
49 Topknot
49 Khoi
49 Vincent Bringas
49 Julikeadobo
49 Andrew O
49 Darry
49 Dase
49 Shino
49 Justin Chen
49 Mike C

SFIV 2 on 2 teams

1) Filipino Champ/Hiro
2) Team Shoulderpads, Shinguards and Boxing Gloves — Thrust/Illiterate
3) Haunts/Allan Chun player

BlazBlue

1 Goryus (NU)
2 Rick Ortiz (RG)
3 Chronofreak (BA)
4 John (TK)
5 Andrew (TG)
6 Scunscion (JI)
6 PhaethonH (CA)
8 snake
8 Eric C. (RG)
8 Ginseng (JI)
11 Thrust07 (NU)
11 Botsu (TK)
11 Renegade (NU)
11 JohnT (TG)
15 AnimeDue (NU)
15 Jeff (TG)
15 William (TG)
15 9Kill (HK)
19 Espada03
19 Boy of Joy
19 Roi
19 Alex
19 Knice
19 Lost

HDR Results

1) Eric Choi
2) Battosai
3) Thrust
4) Moses14 (4 is your lucky number!)
5) Andyman/Vestax
7) Darry Dizz/Lam007
9)El Cubano Loco