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Results from Triple Threat, Play N Trade SF4 tournaments
The Triple Threat tournament in Hawthorne, CA has been wrapped up. There was over $2,200 up for prize money in the Street Fighter 4 tourney. The competition had a good turnout and several entertaining matches, but there's a thread on Shoryuken.com bringing up some issues with how the event was ran.
Also, a Play N Trade tournament took place in New York earlier in the day. To see the SF4 results for both tournaments, including the brackets, just hit the link below.
Street Fighter 4 — Triple Threat tournament, final results
1. Martin "Marn" Phan (C. Viper)2. Justin Wong (Rufus)
3. Ari "fLoE" Weintraub (Sagat)
4. Alex Valle (Ryu)
5. Ricky Ortiz (Chun-Li)
5. John Choi (Ryu)
7. Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez (Dhalsim)
7. YeB (Gen)
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• Shizza was eliminated by YeB (Gen).
• Gootecks (Balrog) was eliminated by Filipino Champ (Dhalsim).
You can find tons of photos of the event on Xensin's FlickR page.
Thanks to GYT for providing a few of these updates.
Other results from the early rounds
• Justin Wong (Rufus) defeats vs. Mike Ross (Zangief) 2-1. This was a bit of a counter pick for Mike Ross, but he has been known to play Zangief here and there in tournaments. After Mike opened up strong, Justin fell more into a zone with Rufus and it ended up being a very competitive and back and forth set, but Justin again made clutch moves to pull it out. This happened in one of the latter rounds of the Winners Bracket.
• Peter "Combofiend" Rosas (Abel) defeated John Choi (Ryu) 2-0 in an early round of Winners to send Choi to the Losers Bracket. Combofiend mostly dominated this match up, Choi couldn't get much going at all against Abel's rushdown.
• Alex Valle (Ryu) defeats Moval (Blanka) 2-0. Valle used excellent spacing against Blanka's Slides here to sweep him nearly every time Moval tried to go under Ryu's projectiles.
• YeB (Gen) defeats Evil Elvis (Sagat) 2-1. This was a VERY close set until the end. Evil Elvis had a strong lead being up 1-0 by winning the first three rounds to put YeB on the brink of being knocked into Losers. YeB bounced back hard with his trademark huge combos from Gen to take the set though.
Other stuff
• MarkMan said that Mad Catz, the guys behind the Tournament Edition FightSticks, have new things in store for fighting games in 2010, although he couldn't go into details.
There's a side compartment he uses to store his cord and apparently sandwiches sometimes.
Street Fighter 4 results — Play N Trade Smithtown New York tournament
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2. Damdai (Ken, Sagat)
3. AquaSilk (Zangief)
4. The Realist (Blanka)
5. Pvt. O'Malley (E. Honda)
5. Rico Suave (Abel)
Posted by Firegod on November 14, 2009 at 3:39 p.m. #1
cool, love to watch good matches.
Posted by blahblah on November 14, 2009 at 3:52 p.m. #2
I swear tourneys pop up outta nowhere nowadays.. Good to know that there are tons of 'em going on, tho.
Posted by chanz on November 14, 2009 at 3:53 p.m. #3
I am very happy that the stream is showing me new fighting techniques.
You are all doing very well! Keep fighting hard!!
John Choi I have seen You in other videos. Do not worry for losing, you are skill and I know you can still have chance.
Posted by lol on November 14, 2009 at 4:51 p.m. #4
Chanz is gangsta
Posted by zukuu on November 14, 2009 at 4:57 p.m. #5
@eventhubs.com mods
I'd REALLY appreciate it if you could make a little reminder some time BEFORE those streams start. It's rather lucky to see the post right when the stream starts.
For me, event hubs is the ultimate source of sf4 news, so i only check it. but it's sad that i'm gonna miss those tournament streams =/
I'd appreciate a reminder 1-2 days before the event starts with some info maybe.
thank you^^
Posted by Lonestar451 on November 14, 2009 at 5:07 p.m. #6
This stream needs more Princess' legs.
Posted by Garuda on November 14, 2009 at 5:09 p.m. #7
Guys, this stream is pretty much fail.
Fadc is doing another stream right now at ustream.tv/channel/fadc-live
Go there.
Posted by yes4me on November 14, 2009 at 5:16 p.m. #8
UltraDavid seems to make interesting design for joysticks.
Posted by FADC on November 14, 2009 at 5:23 p.m. #9
yeah this stream is kinda boring. i'm heading over to the FADC stream. east coast baby.
Posted by classy on November 14, 2009 at 5:52 p.m. #10
ufrag stream sucked, all they do is talk and advertise
Posted by chanz on November 14, 2009 at 6:34 p.m. #11
That is Very Strange looking arcade stick!
I wonder where to Buy arcade sticks like that from??
Posted by Balloon on November 14, 2009 at 8:29 p.m. #12
Didn't Damdai win in New York?
Posted by fadc didnt have enough views on November 14, 2009 at 8:34 p.m. #13
event hubs im guessing you guys are from the west coast but being biased and only advertising "ufrag" was pretty dumb. smithtown had much better matches and a much better stream cause it was done by FADC.
Posted by @fadc didnt have enough views on November 14, 2009 at 9:22 p.m. #14
Heh, you must not like to scroll down because that tournament was covered on here. Just take ten seconds to look at the results.
Posted by Catalyst on November 14, 2009 at 9:48 p.m. #15
@zukuu
That's a good idea. When I know about a stream for sure, I'll make a post about it on the front page of the site 1-2 days before it happens.
Some events are a little sketchy about their live coverage, but when it's a sure thing there's no reason there can't be a heads up for people ahead of time.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Posted by blazblue on November 14, 2009 at 9:58 p.m. #16
the ufrag people frakin talk to much about nothing, they dont even show causual matches with pros.. they just sit there and advertise and talk for 45minutes b4 u see a match
Posted by lol on November 14, 2009 at 11 p.m. #17
they kicked me out of the ufrag stream cause i complained about the broadcasters being boring lol
then i went over to the FADC stream and saw some GODLIKE matches, Rico Suave is the truth.
Posted by @lol on November 14, 2009 at 11:30 p.m. #18
yeah they were banning for no reason because they think they were the best live stream.. when they were the absolute worst
Posted by classy on November 14, 2009 at 11:31 p.m. #19
holy crap marn was a frakin beast!!! his viper is insane
he so good at canceling in to ultra, and he even did some new ex seismo cancel to a throw.. its insane how good his execution is
Posted by MarnJockage? on November 14, 2009 at 11:34 p.m. #20
Uh Oh, I sense a fanboyism shiftage.
Commence in
3...
2...
1...
Posted by classy on November 14, 2009 at 11:35 p.m. #21
@marn jockage
if u watched it, u can't deny how good he was
Posted by TSmoov on November 14, 2009 at 11:39 p.m. #22
Marn wins. LI Joe wins. End of story.
Posted by IrPanda on November 14, 2009 at 11:49 p.m. #23
WTF Aquasilk i play him on psn. Congrats dude. I see more and more of psn in tournys everyday.
Posted by blahblah on November 14, 2009 at 11:58 p.m. #24
Woah. Not seeing Justin in 1st.. Surprising..
Couldn't watch the stream, but hopefully I get to see the matches on youtube soon..
Posted by 50k Sports Bet on November 15, 2009 at midnight #25
Marn doesn't choke for once. Amazing.
Posted by Catalyst on November 15, 2009 at midnight #26
The Triple Threat tournament was freezing cold, perfect time to bust out the SF Snuggie! Too bad no one did. :P
Posted by Ruiz on November 15, 2009 at 12:05 a.m. #27
I swear I played that Marn guy at Arcade UFO before. Either that or it had to be another fat guy that looked just like him and had a killer Viper. He left the joysticks REALLY sweaty and greasy.
It was my first at that Arcade too. I practiced so hard and he crushed my Viper like it was nothing. :(
Posted by to chan on November 15, 2009 at 12:58 a.m. #28
haha i love your comments chan xD
Posted by t3try on November 15, 2009 at 4:48 a.m. #29
Didn't think Marn could ever beat Justin, guess his Viper is better than his Rufus now. Nice to see Ricky come out of nowhere.
Posted by the44show on November 15, 2009 at 10:18 a.m. #30
nice job by marn, it's a shame for the EC that him and jwong are moving out to the west.
and good ish to damdai, played his ken in sf4 online. GDLK.
Posted by blahblah on November 15, 2009 at 11:03 a.m. #31
I thought only Marn was moving to Vegas? Wong is going, too? Wow..
And all that ish that's being discussed over @Shoryuken.com is bananas...
Posted by classy on November 15, 2009 at 1:11 p.m. #32
does this mean they are not with empire anymore? maybe they can train gootecks to get better
it seems like all the westcoast players are begining to get pwned bad, except for alex valle
Posted by Ghost of Pat Riley on November 15, 2009 at 2 p.m. #33
"There was over $2,200 up for prize money in the Street Fighter 4 tourney."
And apparently the tournament organizers stiffed players on some/most/all of the payout.
Posted by @ghost on November 15, 2009 at 2:46 p.m. #34
the organizers were the worst dicks ive ever seen
Posted by :P on November 15, 2009 at 7:46 p.m. #35
Triple Threat stream was garbage. As usual the FADC stream was top class. They could learn a thing or two from Seb.
Posted by Catalyst on November 16, 2009 at 12:07 a.m. #36
Here's another write up about the event, with some nice photos.
http://www.kineda.com/activegamers-la...
Posted by THTB on November 16, 2009 at 7:57 a.m. #37
Good stuff Marn for taking first!
And LOL @ that lunchbox stick. I want one of those! O_O
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