On 08/14/10 I’ll be hosting a tourney/all nighter at my home in celebration of 1 year of grapsf.com scene!
Michigan Masters (Tournament) is coming! 12/12/09
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From shoryuken.com:
Welcome to the first ever MICHIGAN MASTERS tournament!!!
The location has been updated. Take a look in the When and Where spot in this post. Also, check out the attached file to see the bracket for the exhibition tournament!
What
Michigan Masters is a Michigan regional tournament. As well as regular tournaments, there will also be a special single elimination exhibition tournament where the top 8 players in the state will face off against each other, winner takes all! I want this to be the best MI tournament yet, so bring all your friends, tell everyone you know about it, and get people from out of state up here!When and Where
The tournament will take place in East Lansing, Michigan, on December 12th, 2009. It will be in Classroom 130 in North Hubbard Hall on Michigan State Campus (http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=Hu…01929&t=h&z=16) The doors will open at 11:00, and the first tournament will begin promptly at noon. If you are late, you can still be placed in an open spot in the bracket, but there will be a $3 penalty.Games
Street Fighter 4 (360) – 12:00 noon
Street Fighter 3 (PS2 – 12:00 noon
Street Fighter 2 HD Remix (360) – 2:00
Capcom vs. SNK 2 (PS2) – 2:00
Melty Blood Actress Again (PS2) – 4:00
Tekken 6 (360) – 4:00
Guilty Gear: Accent Core (PS2) – 6:00
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DC) – 6:00
Blazblue (360) – 6:00
Michigan Masters Exhibition starts – 6:00
Michigan Masters Finals – 8:00Entry Fee and Prizes
There is a $5 base charge for all tournament participants. The money from the base charge will all be added to the prize pool for the Michigan Masters Exhibition. In addition to this, each game you enter will cost an additional $10. The game money will go into the prize pool for the game you entered. The prize pool is split 70% to 1st place, 20% to second place, and 10% to third place for that game. If 6 or less people enter a game 2nd place will get their money back, and 1st place will get the rest.Rules
No button macros, no pausing, no turbo. For game specific questions, PM me.
Each tournament will be double elimination format. If 5 or less players are in a tournament it will be round robin instead.
SF4, BB and Tekken 6 will be seeded according to the Michigan Rankings. Players from the same town will be separated in all tournaments, so you won’t have to fight your friends right away.Exhibition
The Michigan Masters Exhibition is an 8-man single elimination, winner takes all SF4 tournament. The top 6 players from the Michigan Ranking Battles will automatically be invited. The two remaining places will be filled by the best placing players in the SF4 tournament on the day of Michigan Masters. It is likely that the top players in the tournament will already be invited to participate in the exhibition. If this is the case, the top two players who aren’t already invited will be allowed to join. If a player in the top 6 can’t make it to the tournament, an additional spot will be opened up for players to qualify on the day. The first place player at the end of the Exhibition will be given all the money from the base entry fee ($5 per person), and possibly some extra money if I can find some. GET HYPE
11-28-09 Play: New Blood
There were many new faces playing Street Fighter this Saturday, and that’s great. Cuban’s better half Nora is on the ranbat scoreboard now with her excellent Chun Li, and Mark showed us all some very solid kung fu courtesy of Fei Long. Hope to see you back again!
After most everyone went home I witnessed ULX regulars Joel and Zack falling in love with Street Fighter, totally hooked so expect to see them learning fast in the near future.
In addition, many of our newer regulars made it back, becoming MORE regular (without any help from fiber), and we even played a little Smash for a change, which I love.
For me personally the highlight of the night was facing Sagat (hotsauce) while ULX staff (or was that Rock Band?) blasted “Eye of the Tiger” at full volume. That song is just so…. It should be played during every fight basically.
RanBat 1.5 results:
1st – SmurfTac0s (8)
2nd – Slappy (7)
3rd – Hotsauce! (6)
4th -Mark (5)
5th -Cuban_Ace (4)
6th -Fred (3)
7th -Nora (2)
8th – CakeFarts (1)
Rock Band Beatles was playing all night and now it’s stuck in my head…
11-21-09 Play: The Return of Perrin & Aaron
Super late writing this so sorry, I forgot most everything that happened.
Welcome back Dutch and Aaron who haven’t been around for a while, it was good to see you back!
Aaron was kicking ass and taking names as usual. Also was it my imagination or was OctopusOnFire really really really really on. More than usual I mean. Been training hard?
An important discovery was made today: ULX has a cappuccino machine. Nothing fancy but beats the heck out of a plain pot of coffee (and energy drinks imho). Drink up, they are just $1.00!
RanBat 1.4 results:
1st – Aaron (8)
2nd – Slappy (7)
3rd – Haypultone (6)
4th – OctopusOnFire (5)
5th – HoldySnausages (4)
6th – Hotsauce! (3)
7th – Dutch0 (2)
8th – Chauncy “Tru” Talon (1)
SSFIV Trailer #2
A new trailer was released Friday officially showing off the new modes
Bonus Stages for SSFIV
GRAPSF 5: The Wrath of Haypultone
Hotsauce hosts a mean party! Friday night he was kind enough to invite us into his home for casuals, and it was a complete success. There were four TVs running SFIV at the same time, with enough tournament sticks to go around. Cake Farts prepared more hot meat than we could handle, and after a quick beer-run I was all settled into to ruin my next-day.
There were about 15 people by my count, and what none of us realized at the time however, was that we had just signed up for a seminar in game balance courtesy of Haypultone. Now we all feel a little bit worse about ourselves for playing such overpowered characters…
Not to be outdone, Smurf did the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in a match, and then showed some really excellent coaching skills by telling Hotsauce how to destroy my Zangief with just four words.
Lots of new people showed up, it’s nice to see the group growing and growing! Also we all got to see a catfight, which makes the party successful by most anyone’s standards.
Thanks for hosting, and I am definitely looking forward to your next one!
SUPER Street Fighter IV
Two characters for Super Street Fighter IV (Juri and T.Hawk) were leaked today on jv247.com (news and larger images).
There is supposed to be a trailer for it shown here later, and a big reveal here.
The site is quoted as saying (translated):
The mysterious website that recently appeared on the japanese portal of Capcom does effectively hide Super Street Fighter IV. An anonymous source just sent us the visuals of the game. Few informations were leaked, but we know that there will be at least two more characters : T. Hawk and Juri, a character that was created especially for that occasion. We know nothing yet of the format the game will be released (DLC or full game), nor do we know what consoles it will be on. It’s easy to speculate that it will be at least on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The firsts screenshots are available here. Rendezvous this evening at Game Evening for the live diffusion of the first trailer.
Famitsu scans are in confirming DeeJay!
Ono has officially announced this now. Highlights include:
- Disk (not DL) but less than full-price
- Spring 2010 release
- 8 characters added
- New stages
- Bonus stages
- Juri and T.Hawk gameplay seen in background of the interview
- Better online!
- Video here, article here.
There is a ton more info and pictures at the Famitsu website here.
GRAPSF Casuals 09/26/09: GrandLan strikes back!
I arrived at GrandLan Saturday afternoon with a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. There were storm clouds over the downtown area and lightning licked at the rooftops. My worst fears were confirmed when I entered the darkened building to find that all of their x-boxes were out of order for re-wiring.
They taunted us by declaring it was our fault and that we should call ahead next time before assuming they still offered the use of PCs and x-boxes as advertised, then spit in our faces and charged us full price. HoldySnausages had just beaten me there and so I ordered him to take everyone hostage while I sprung into action. I roared and punched out their front window in anger as I headed to my car.
I raced down narrow side streets in my ’99 Mazda Protege as if the devil himself were not far behind me. I screeched into my driveway and barely managed to place my vehicle in park before throwing the door open and sprinting to the house. Grabbing my x-box I dashed back to my car and peeled out of the driveway killing a small family of pedestrians instantly. I would mourn them later but for now there was no time.
Two cigarettes and one heart attack later and I was downtown again. My phone was ringing off the hook as confused GrapSF members arrived only to fall into GrandLan’s sinister trap. I double-parked in front of a fire hydrant while blocking in a police car and raced back to the dark heart of the cursed gaming center.
By then Dutch0, Haypultone, and newcomer Aaron were waiting along with HoldySnausages. We attached the mess of wires to the disgusting orifice on the one tiny television we were allowed to use and fired up my x-box for what may be the last time.
Casual matches began awkwardly as the staff of GrandLan decided that each member of their card game would sit in the lap of someone who was there to play Street Fighter, and that somehow a folding table belonged up my asshole. The locals (part of the conspiracy no doubt) then assigned the area between the players and the screen as the designated pathway to the back of the store, which they visited often for no reason. Somewhere in a back room, the staff set fire to a bag of popcorn in either an attempt to smoke us out, or a bizarre sacrifice.
Just then a chorus of angels could be heard and a light pierced the dark smokey room as MegaTplStrength burst through the door with Mabin, D-Money and CakeFarts not far behind. Having sensed an evil presence on this side of the city, something inside him told him to bring his PS3, a crucifix, and holy water as backup.
The staff of GrandLan recoiled and hissed at the prospect of us having another setup, but they regrouped quickly and decided we couldn’t use any more of their TVs. Defeated, MegaTplStrength declared that he would leave his old life behind and would be known as hotsauce from this day forward. When CakeFarts heard the news his fists clenched and he began to glow. Just when we thought his aura would destroy us all he flew straight up through the roof and rocketed across the sky towards the flat-screen TV back at his place.
When he returned we hardened our resolve to find some semblance of normalcy despite the dark will of GrandLan trying to destroy us. We had one x-box setup and, on the opposite side of the building (divide and conquer), a PS3 setup. It was Mabin, D-Money, hotsauce, CakeFarts, Haypultone, HoldySnausages, Dutch0 (who brought:), Aaron, and myself (am I forgetting anyone?). Two other newcomers showed up briefly but then quickly ran away, vomiting in horror at the chaos our meet-up had spiraled into.
G-Boobie, Mr. Baggs, Tru Talon, SmurfTac0s, and Cuban Ace were nowhere to be seen, I presume the staff of GrandLan had them murdered just hours before we were supposed to meet in an attempt to prevent the RanBat that G-Boobie was organizing.
The main highlight of the day, was getting to play at all considering an unknown enemy was pulling strings behind the scenes to stop us…
The second highlight of the day as I remember it, was the revelation that the new challenger Aaron had been sent by someone or something, to kill us using Abel. No one made it out unscathed. I thought I was doing well with Dhalsim for a moment but then he just switched back to using Abel and violated me in a way that I cannot bear to talk about. He continued to pile up the bodies of anyone who approached a stick or pad.
Also newsworthy is:
- CakeFarts’ (who attended the last session but did not play) debut in the ring with Cammy.
- GrandLan’s copy of Street Fighter is hosed, so we should always provide our own from now on.
- If anyone’s curious, the new wiring setup at GrandLan consists of all the x-boxes being behind the counter, and we only have a USB port by each TV to plug controllers into (apparently latency and inconvenience = good – Keeping track of who they hand games out to in case one goes missing = bad).
- RanBats didn’t happen this time as planned, but G-Boobie will hopefully start them soon, and once they pick up steam we’ll have a backup in place for when he can’t be there.
- HoldySnausages’ huge tattoo of Ken’s Shoryuken.
Thanks to all who made the trip. It was not our best gathering but hey, it makes all the other ones seem a lot better by contrast!
I ended up staying till midnight (my hands hurt) and wondering why we don’t all stay later. It gets a lot busier later; we could order pizza and generally draw in more casuals. It could be perhaps, that I have no life.
About
We’re a group of fighting game players based in Grand Rapids MI, but with members from all over West Michigan. It started as a Street Fighter group, but we play any and all fighting games.
As a group we purchased our own consoles and lagless monitors, hold local and regional level tournaments, and have a competition team sponsored by GrandLan.
Stop by and play a few rounds!