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Ranbat 4: New Challengers

phire — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:02:42 +0000

The fourth ranbat went down. We had a ton of new people as well as some special guest. A few players from Philly stopped by the store(DemonHyo, Magneto, Dr. Chaos,One and Kaizoku) , one Issei and apparently someone who went deep into the Gamestop tourney.

The numbers were right about at our average at 30 but the competition in this one I feel was a bit stronger.Alot less randoms and more familiar faces minus a few. A new player stepped up big( Aulord), while a regular put in a lot of work (Rico) .Things got a little testy in one of the matches but in the end it all smoothed out a bit. So before hand I apologize to the ‘Rog and Dictator players in the header video. I couldn’t remember who was using who. Issei totally tore me a new asshole in the second part of the video. I think it was pretty cool but that’s what I was used to when I was out in Japan back in 07 so it brought back memories.

the final standings for this one is as follows. When Justin’s done globe trotting he’ll do the CLP

1)Marn
2)Dr. Chaos not to be confused to Professor Chaos
3)Capmaster
4) aurord
5)Rico Suave,Fascinating
7) Mariodood,one
9)Issei,Eric,Mike,Noel’

Sorry about the delay but Streetwars is going down so I was busy helping out with that.

here are the videos:
Aulord vs Capmaster

Rico Suave vs Aulord

Rico Suave vs Noel

Rico Suave vs Sanford

Rico Suave vs Mariodood

Marn Vs Issei

Marn vs Issei pt2

Mariodood vs One

Dr Chaos vs Sanford.

Issei vs One

Dr Chaos vs Aulord

Erik Vs Aulord

Magneto vs Terrance

Dr Chaos vs Capmaster losers finals.

Marn vs Dr chaos the finals

Ranbat 3

phire — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:50:53 +0000

This weekend we held the 3rd Ranbat, solid turn out considering that WCG was running an event at the Samsung Building.Also there was a tournament that took place in I believe it was CT no not Chinatown but Connecticut (Andre and Rahsaan dominated in I heard). We had a turn out of 32. So Justin will do the clp for that and we’ll up date the standings. Due to last minute entrants and people forgetting to sign in there was minor hiccup on the bracket so it got cleaned up, nothing major.

Here’s a rundown of top 8 spots.
1 Marn (Rufus,random select. Yes he went question mark)
2 Eric (Gief ,Sagat)
3 Arturo (Seth,Sim)
4Javitz (Boxer)
5 Mario Dood( Dictator) Rico (Abel)
6 Danny C (Boxer) Jeron( ?*)
7 Chrids*(Ryu),Romes(?)
8 Phire (Cam,Viper) ,John(?) , Fernando (?)

(*I probably butchered his name. He preregistered but I didn’t have the list. ? means didn’t catch who they were using.)

Arturo got third? Eric won second?! Wait? What Phire actually did something other than just scrub out!?!! This is madness!! Madness? This is CL !!! *boot* Maybe I’ll start playing more and for serious.

All memes aside this tournament was good in terms of competition as usual. We also got it done fast on 3 set ups .Finished around 6.It’s always a pleasure having you guys hang out with us.

I’m also thinking of starting semi-pro/pro-am circuit for this so some players can hopefully raise their games to that level . Hit me with some feedback if you’re interested.

And doesn’t it look like Viper’s farting fire?

For some reason Correll decided to include piece of what i previously edited onto the next project, yes I suck but you have to admit i got this done fairly quickly. Also there’s a lot of talking in the background by ,UGH, me sometimes and other people hope it isn’t too unbearable. I’ll upload the brackets after I get them scanned in.

Without anymore delay here are the match vids:

Arturo Vs Mariodood

Eric Vs Marn(finals)

Arturo vs Marn

Arturo vs Javitz

Arturo vs Chrids(?)

Battle the begins! :Struggle for clp!

phire — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:32:59 +0000

So since we totally blew it last month. We’re going to have to repackage our stuff for March’s random select with some other cool stuff.
In any case we began our ranbat series at playntrade(thanks joe!) it was a strong turn out 40 people despite the less than stellar weather. Later on it cleared up so it wasn’t that bad. There were tons of new faces there which is always good and even some Jersey players came out to grace us. Unique, the stores so far undisputed SC champ ( he was unknown and came back from losers to take it all) showed up which was a surprise, unfortunately lighting doesn’t always strike twice. I apologize that we did not have a camera on hand till the end where Josh achieved Bankai and just dispatched Rahsaan. That was indeed an intense match. There were some other gems scattered in there I just wish I had the cam to capture them. It was good times it’s always fun meeting you guys. I enjoyed my matches,hope everyone did too.

Andre took it all. Surprise surprise!I figured Rahsaan might have taken it he looked really strong in the first few rounds of the tourney but I guess bad match up? Anyway here is the point break down after 1 tourney
1. Andre – 215 CLP
2. NerdJosh – 107.5 CLP
3. Rahsaan – 77.4 CLP
4. Mariodood – 30.1 CLP
everyone else has 1 point.

Thanks to everyone for coming! We’ll start his up with other games too so it’s something fun! If anyone was wondering L.Dubbs was off in tex-ass trying to make it to sbo.

so with out much further delay here are the brackets

Winners winners 2

Losers Losers 2

I’ll update this when a certain someone gets me the dvd/CD.

till the n.

phire

Random Select Episode 2: Comic Con / Sinsation touranment.

phire — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:31:58 +0000

Alright so since we split the team up for this one Justin came in on Friday and played TvC (Tatsunoko Vs Capom) for a few hours against random players and went like 70 and 0, I checked out some various titles too. The big thing for me was Dc universe online. Oh muh Gee, I’ve never really lusted after a PC as I do that title. It was really my first convention that I’ve ever attended and I had boat loads of fun. I lost my voice. Day 2 was Kubuu from Deadly Alliance. We both cos-played. I did Hollow Ichigo from bleach and he had the most epic static shock costume ever. We hung out and took tons of photos with people. I never really cos-played before this year. I think with being black it limits the characters that you can believably do. That’s why I’ve never really did it you know? There’s soo much stuff to cover but most of the good stuff is in the videos already.
Day 3 resident hunks Sin and Chilly came and played Gears of War 2. Not much to be said Sunday was the day the con kinda broke down. and everyone was beat. It was an overall positive experience.. I am kinda sad that we took forever to get this up and this stuff isn’t still even all of the footage. I still have a random DV I found 2 weeks after we dumped the information on to the hard drive. I promise we’ll do better next time. I swear.

So other folk will talk about what went down in some detail..ready go!
-phire

Hey guys and gals I know the sinsation article is kinda late but we have been busy with lots of other stuff. The event which was held in Fairfax Va was great and many people came out to enjoy Street Fighter 4 which was sponsored by Perfect Sin who is also the co-founder of Team Kapital. The event consist of many tournaments such as Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Street Fighter 3rd Strike, Guilty Gear Accent Core, HD Remix , and of course Street Fighter 4. There were special exhibitions events such as the 2v2 event such as Iloveujoe/Demon Hyo vs Gootecks/Combofiend, A first to 7 match with Gootecks vs Marn and another first to 7 with Justin Wong vs Combofiend. The Iloveujoe team clutched the win from the west coast army, which lead the east coast believe that “we also can compete” The west coast player, Gootecks answered our statement by destroying Team Kapital member, Marn in the first to 7. Score was 7-1. That was a ouch that was heard all over the hotel. Now the last exhibition event was Justin Wong vs Combofiend. It was very convincing, it could’ve went either way, but the Combo master himself clutched it out with his combo friendly Balrog over Justin’s arsenal of characters such as Chun Li, Guile, and Akuma. Score was 7-5. Now it became 2-1 West Coast. Only thing we could do now is win the touraments which was held at Sinsation. In the Tatsunoko vs Capcom tourney, Combofiend was eliminated early and the finals came down between the two Kapital members, Justin Wong vs Marn. Justin clutched out the win with his Jun/Chun team over the “Unstoppable Team” of Karas/Morrigan. Everyone was going crazy over the match. The Street Fighter 3rd Strike tourney, everyone was getting wrecked by the WC Duo and the only person to stop their tracks was Justin Wong. His Chun Li wrecked everything that the Gooteck/Combo team possibly thought off. In the HD Remix tourney, no one from the West made top 5 and also in GGXX, none of them did either. In the main tourney of Street Fighter 4, the WC duo showed EC why they were a threat. Combofiend lost to Marn and Justin Wong but the lone Gootecks defeated Justin Wong and iloveujoe. It just tells the East Coast that when the next encounter happens in SF4, Team Kapital and other members of the East Coast community will be ready!!!!!

For more information, please visit
www.tornadoflame.com
www.gootecks.com
www.shoryuken.com
www.team-kapital.com
-Jwong

Kinda funny the way I ended up involved with volunteering at Comicon, which eventually lead me to you fine people. Walked into Play n Trade and they were like come help out at the coolest thing ever next weekend. So naturally I was like Heck YES!! I was at Comicon the whole weekend and I was never bored. There was so much shit going on at all times and I loved it. The only thing that sucked was you could easily drop 225$ on a rare only release in Japan, light-up, Iron Man figure. Or in my case spend tons of money on little tiny things like a mini figure of Tifa Lockheart. The point I’m trying to make here is that I was free. Free to be my geekish self. For the first two days I wore the basic t-shirt and jeans. Day one was my Star Wars shirt that got some attention and Day two was Snoopy. But nothing compared to Sunday. I got a whole lot of attention and wandering eyes on Sunday when I put my Halloween costume to use one more time and be Sexy Girl Robin (aka Stephanie, Spoiler). I think the permanent camera flash in my eye really expresses how much people liked my costume. Overall Comicon was kick ass and it definitely opened many opportunities and I made many new friends while bonding on what we do best – geeking it out. Peace.
- Angel.

Here are some of my photos

Hey guys,

Its me Jago (Andre) i am here reflecting on my experience. So let me begin by saying it was one of the most fun experiences i have ever had in my life, we practically lived like kings for 2 days thanks to my friend Matt Aka Hol Dat who gave me room and board in the Marriott hotel where the event took place in.
In the morning we had had a breakfast buffet to gear up for the tourney, then we went back to the room to take our “complementary showers”, after that i headed down to the rooms where they were holding the tourneys, everything was setup well, and this was honestly my actual first major tourney where i entered at least 4 different games, so i was being called back and forth going from game to game, it gets mentally straining so i give alot of props to players who go out there and place high in multiple games.

with out much further adieu the videos!

Part 2 of 3 comic con coverage

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Part 3 of 3

kubuu and brawl

Gears with Sin and Chilly

the b-roll

Sinsation Coverage.

Opening for sinsation

Justin and Jago signing up at sinsation

Justin-kun in some tourney matches.

Random select: No more filler

phire — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:43:10 +0000

Yeah it’s about 10+ hours of cc footage and some really good sinsation matches we have to put up. I promise we’ll be done by this weekend. Here’s some new illegal sf4 footage until then more on the way >;D

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Shopping in Shibuya 109-2

phire — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:50:29 +0000

Yeah so I was out shopping in Shibuya this past summer 08 and they were playing the genki rockets in the store.