Be Excellent To Each Other

I am thinking of organising a SFIV tournament in a similar fashion to the SWOS one run by Romanista a while back. A league where we play each other twice and then a knock-out stage at the end.

If you are interested in this, post here and we shall see what the interest is.

Those who have shown interest so far:
11 Challengers:
Nirejhenge 10 pts
zaphod79 8 pts
Craig 4 pts
ChocoboOfDoom 4 pts
Scarysheep3000 4 pts
Tippy 4 pts
TheVision 2 pts
Zardoz 0 pts
Morte 0 pts
Rominista 0 pts
Trousers 0 pts


Rules:
The tournament will be in a league format with a knock-out round at the end (the four highest players will participate in a single match semi-final and a single match final). Each player will play each other twice, in the schedule randomly chosen at the beginning of the tournament. All players will play all opponents once before completing a second round of matches. A match will consist of three rounds each of 99 seconds. Players may choose any character they wish (including identical ones) and may change character from match to match. The player hosting the match should choose their character first unless the players agree otherwise.

As there are likely to be quite a few players it will take too long to play one match a week. Therefore each player will be given three matches to play each week. They should aim to complete them before the next week begins. If a match has not been completed by the end of the second week each player should contact me explaining why. If neither player contacts me the match will be deemed a no score draw. If one player contacts me claiming not to be able to contact his opponent and his opponent does not contact me to explain why then the player who communicates with me will be awarded a win. If a player misses two matches in a row he/she will be disqualified. If the first round of games has not been completed then all points won by this player’s opponents will be removed. If the player is disqualified in the second round of matches only those points won in the second round will be removed.

A win will earn 2 points. A draw will earn 1 point. I am not sure if it is actually possible to have a Double K.O draw but we shall make the provision. A draw may also be awarded if both players agree to it but there must be exceptional reasons for this to occur (not being able to play the match will not be accepted).

The first week of matches will be posted on the 9th of March.

Week One Matches (to be completed by the 15th of March):


Scarysheep Vs Chocobo of Doom : Chocobo of Doom Win
Nirejhenge Vs The Vision : Nirejhenge Win
Tippy Vs Zardoz : Tippy Win
Zaphod Vs Trousers : Zaphod Win
Craig Vs Morte : Craig Win

Trousers Vs Craig : Craig Win
Zardoz Vs Zaphod : Zaphod Win
The Vision Vs Tippy : TheVision Win
Chocobo of Doom Vs Nirejhenge : Nirejhenge Win
Romanista Vs Scarysheep : Scarysheep Win

Nirejhenge Vs Romanista : Nirejhenge Win
Tippy Vs Chocobo of Doom : Tippy Win
Zaphod Vs The Vision : Zaphod Win
Craig Vs Zardoz
Morte Vs Trousers



Week Two Matches (to be completed by 23rd March):
Zardoz Vs Morte
The Vision Vs Craig
Chocobo of Doom Vs Zaphod : Zaphod Win
Romanista Vs Tippy
Scarysheep Vs Nirejhenge : Nirejhenge Win

Tippy Vs Scarysheep : Scarysheep Win
Zaphod Vs Romanista
Craig Vs Chocobo of Doom : Chocobo of Doom Win
Morte Vs The Vision
Trousers Vs Zardoz

The Vision Vs Trousers
Chocobo of Doom Vs Morte
Romanista Vs Craig
Scarysheep Vs Zaphod
Nirejhenge Vs Tippy : Nirejhenge Win

Week Three Matches (to be completed by 31st March):
Zaphod Vs Nirejhenge
Craig Vs Scarysheep
Morte Vs Romanista
Trousers Vs Chocobo of Doom
Zardoz Vs The Vision

Chocobo of Doom Vs Zardoz
Romanista Vs Trousers
Scarysheep Vs Morte
Nirejhenge Vs Craig
Tippy Vs Zaphod

Craig Vs Tippy
Morte Vs Nirejhenge
Trousers Vs Scarysheep
Zardoz Vs Romanista
The Vision Vs Chocobo of Doom

Yip - i'll give it a go.

Myp will be so hurt.

Colour me entered.

Oh cool. I didn't realise Romanista ran one as well.

Ooops.

Potential interest from me.

Count me in!

Count me in.

if I actually get round to buying this and if I'm remotely good at it I might be interested. Can we do a tekken tournament instead?

I'd play, but I've got it on PS3.

This will have to be EggBox only I'm afraid.

I'm game. I'm utterly shite at it though - so you might need to put my name down as "bye"

no he was just kicked out painfully

anyway, am interested, but it will be a few months for i buy it

*grumble* *grumble*... Xbox owning fascists!

Are we going to have to pick one character and stick with them for the whole tournament, or are we going to be able to pick anyone throughout?

I'm sure this will come up in the rules but I thought I'd raise it now... Doesn't bother me, I'm only good with one character!

I think I'll have a go at this. I don't reckon I'll be worthy competition but it's interesting playing against other humans. I still need to fix my headset though..

Yeah we need rulz plz

It'll be fun being beaten up by people I know rather than getting slapped silly by random nerdlets.

Nirejhenge I've just realised you're not on my friends list. I will rectify the situation.

I wanted to gauge support before coming up with the rule set. But generally speaking I envisage each player to play each other twice (like any football league) and at the end the top four or so can have a quick knock-out competition to find the winner.

Matches would be the basic 99 second three round bout. Any character can be chosen by either player. The 'home' player can host unless he/she agrees not to.

If anything else needs clarifying let me know.

I'll give having my arse handed to me a go.

I'll give it a few more days for people to join before getting it organized and announcing some starting dates.

Please bare in mind that this tournament could go on for some time so if you are thinking of getting the game in a few weeks time put still want to join in it may be worth while spending a few extra quid on it now, money which can be recouped via the enjoyment of playing with people in the tournament.

Perhaps.

Don't be shy.

Watch out everyone! I just beat seth on Easy after a mere 11 continues.

It aint ower till the fat lass sings tha nars
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I gave up around attempt number 5. Can get through Easy without using a continue (I think I only lost one or 2 rounds total) until bastard cunting Seth.

bought it yesterday when i was for work in spain, it just lay there '2ndo mano' for 42 euris and i could resist, so count me in..

manual is in spanish and primissed 'text in castillano' but seems english on screen..

now only those special moves.

I managed to beat Medium with Akuma and 3 round battles! It took 2 continues on seth. I struggle most when he starts teleporting. If I can keep him at a distance the air fireballs do him in. I can't imagine beating him with anyone else.

Nirejhenge... If I'm about tonight, give me a nudge.. we'll have that fight you wanted!!

And then have a game of SFIV.

As Chun Li try flying kicking the bastard then when your in close - crouch/medium punch him in the gut. You can kinda trap him that way. Got to get your timing and positioning just right though.

With most characters you can beat the other player into the corner and 'hold' them there while you pummel them however seth just does his power move (either the teleport throw or the ultra combo) and your toast.

I found with him getting 'just out of reach' - popping in to hit him then retreating back worked out quite well for most of the 'standard' fighters (ryu/ken/sagat/akuma/etc)

I'll de-lurk for long enough to throw my hat into the ring.

Throwing my hat might well be the limit of my offensive arsenal, btw.

Oddjob's in SF4?!

Well, to get round legal issues he's based half on Blofeld and half Odd Job - Oddfeld.

In preparation for the forthcoming tournament I took on TheVision last night. A fairly even match up but he's certainly a killer with Zangief. A thoroughly enjoyable match up. Shame my headset is so dodgy. I couldn't hear you for the most of it Mr Vision, especially toward the end. I believe you said something before we parted but I didn't get any of it.

I've played very little SF4 due to other games. I intend to rectify the situation over the weekend.

I might buy this in the next day or two, as I've sold enough stuff via Amazon Marketplace to make it viable.

How much should I be looking to pay online for the game? And how much in one of those old fashioned shop things?

I'd like to give this a go although:
a) I am pretty rubbish
b) My BT home hub (what state of the art technology, hey?) seems to be playing silly buggers when matching up sf4 games.

Its quite strange the lack of different characters you face online.

The most common ones are Ken / Sagat / Ryu and Akuma (who is a real b****d for his super move which seems to be unblockable (die 1000 deaths))

After that there are the Zangief players who once they have mastered the moves just wipe the floor with you and the Gouken(?) ones who stand back and just fire multiple fireballs.

I think i've played one person with Guile and one with Blanka and no-one on any of the others so despite the vast character lists for online it comes down to about 5 characters who are spammed by everyone.

Online about £28 for most places or £24 at the hut (from Savygamer) : http://savygamer.co.uk/search?q=street+fighter+iv

Shop wise I think Asda had it on special for about £29 , most other places I think its about £32/£33

Asda had it for £27 something last time I was in.

How is it with the standard controller then, chaps?

Work colleague says it sucks harder than Myps dad.

Wow, that sucks hard then. Ange almost killed me when my steering wheel arrived, so I won't be getting a hori stick for a while.

Plus I've run out of room to store plastic Xbox peripherals.

Just buy the game and then slowly realise you want/need a stick and buy it later.

I've never got on with fighting games, really. I just want to smash your face in.

I'll slap you silly in whatever game. You got Soul Calibur? It's cheap now.

No, I don't own a single fighting game. I used to like SFII years ago, which is what's piqued my interest in IV.

I love fighting games... by which I mean I really used to love the Tekken series. I did also, however, enjoy the original SFII, so much so that I even played the abysmal Amiga version of it.

I think I'll double check that this isn't oddly cheap in my local Game store, and then buy it off of that there internet.

As such, count me in for the tourney, though I will be double plus bad.