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hauntsHope everyone had a relaxing long weekend, that is if you got MLK Day off! I know many of you tuned in for the numerous streams we produced this weekend, but if you happened to miss some of them I'm posting up the best of the best here!
Of course, you can check out all our recordings on our uStream channel here.
DROMS COMICS STREET FIGHTER 4 TOURNAMENT
This is a tournament, which like many others, started off as kind of a snooze fest. I don't think anyone expected the Grand Finals to be as great as they turned out to be. It ended up with Filipino Champ in the losers bracket battling it out with Eric Choi who was in winners. Eric Choi uses Rufus and Filipino Champ who is an avid Dhalsim user mentioned that the match up is really hard for Dhalsim. He switched it up and played Seth in the Grand Finals and it was really one of the most intense I've seen in quite sometime.
There are some other great matches that led up to the Grand Finals as well so be sure to check those out too. Also, a HUGE shout out to iPlayWinner's THXYOUTOO for not only running this tournament but also producing the stream. This guy not only is a great player but does a great job week in and week out producing a ton of Bay area streams for IPDUB. PLEASE thank this dude in the comments for giving you stream monsters something to watch each weekend.
KEYSTONE II WEAKLY SCAMBATS
This weeks Keystone was a good one for me -- I ended up getting third! That may not sound like much to some of you guys but we have some really fierce comp up here, and when you're trying to run a stream and also play it can be kind of difficult to get your head in the game! Since I've been running the Keystone streams I really haven't done that well in the ranbats so I was happy to actually get at least one point for the season.
WARNING: DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED
I had some great matches between Terry from Kineda.com and also Itayon who is an up and coming C. Viper player. I ended up getting completely mauled in Winners Finals by Ramin who plays Abel and I am still not sure how to approach this match considering Abel has such and easy time getting in against Sagat! After being sent to losers I battled it out with Ricky Ortiz in the losers finals. I did better than I usually do against Ricky but missed some key opportunities to clutch out any wins really. I'd be lying if I said I don't psyche myself out a bit everytime I play Ricky! Anyhow, besides my matches there are a ton of other great matches in this recording as well so don't sleep on those either.
HAUNTS VS THE WORLD
As some of you know, I've started to broadcast a daily stream where I accept invites from XBL/PSN SF4 players for the whole world to see. This week was a lot of fun with a ton of great matches. I just love meeting new people and fighting with players from all over. It's far more entertaining than just playing on my own anyway!
Last night I did a first to ten with FindMyFarms, one of Texas's up and coming players. He just started with Street Fighter 4 being his first fighting game and is already one of the best players in the region. He is also someone I talk strategy with on the popular NeoGAF forums. Many of the forum members have wanted to see us fight for sometime now so we made it into a bit of an event. FMF invited a ton of his friends from TX into the chat so it turned out to be a lot of fun.
There were some seriously laggy moments unfortunately but over all it was a pretty good set. We both screwed up pretty bad in some parts but I think this is worth posting so those of you who just started playing can see you can become a real powerhouse if you just learn how the game should be played.
Also, here is a great set between Maximillian who is one of the best Ken players I've ever played. Truth be told he usually has my number when we play but I've thought about why I lost so much when I've played him in the past and actually put up a fight this time. Check it out:
Reader Comments (6)
Haunts vs the World? That's pretty cool... how could I go about getting a match in against you on XBL?
I was going to ask the same thing. I live in Alaska, but I have a pretty good connection with anyone on the West Coast. I'd love to play a FT10 set and test out my Honda.
The IPW team rocks! Keep up the great work. You guys are the best streamers by far.
Haunts - I'm coming for blood the next time we play again!!! GGs :)
grats on 3rd place Hanuts. that tourney has quite a few killers coming in 3rd there is a nice feather in ones cap
Spiron, you told me I had to step my game up! LOL
as far as haunts vs the world goes, I kind of uhh...do it whenever I feel like it.. sometimes in the afternoon, sometimes at night. The best thing to do is just follow @iplaywinner on twitter. I always post when it's live there.
Indeed Sir! next step second or first!!!!!!!!!!!!!