Haha, the world needs to know the truth. You make a good uncle and are really good with children. Thank you again, Alvin.. for looking after it - I really do not know who put it up on the table for the swarm of kids in the first place while I was away!

SWATwolf: in truth the thing can really take a beating but why put it to the test?

I hope this helps to shed some light into the ssup with the camera issue.

The sub-par quality video stream was captured with a mediocre 3.0MP PDA-phone hybrid device. It has no auto-focus function, let alone any German-certified optics. Ergo, let's classify this as a "candid shot".

Buy hey hey ssup? What was going on in my mind then, when I decided to record that? Darn, I left my trusty camcorder at home so we'll just have to make do with what equiptment I have on hand. I regret that whatever precious visuals we lost, it's gone for good - together with the value of knowing what happened on-screen that fateful day. Audio and blur visuals focusing on young kids simply would not do justice to the viewer experience - we can barely see the TV screen to know what's happening.

Perhaps in future I will be more obliged to ensure further investment to secure resources, to procure higher quality captures.

I truly apologize for any inconveniences caused.

yeah ive added you on msn. sure, just tell me whatchu need and we'll negotiate, on msn.

im off for now, thursday night = freeplay night

oh and im probably getting my TE stick tonight, not sure if its a wise move to buy it though..

lease feel FREE TO GIVE ME FEEDBACK regarding todays Mines Wonderland Sony SF4 Mini Tournament ...

Need to provide feedback to official SONY SIDE.

Please be honest ok? Cause I needed these comments to make our gaming industry on Tournament side much more better....

Thanks

honestly speaking, many of us are thankful for these kind of tournaments, but personally i did feel that the organizers today did not have a full idea of what they were doing. interrupting players IN THE MIDDLE of their matches, banning sticks, and 2 round games all the way up to semi finals, 60 second rounds, and infinite round time for semifinal onwards...

i hope they get someone who actually knows the game to draft up the rules, the next time they attempt these things.
it could have been so much better.

and honestly, i think it's reasonable whoever wants to use pads can use pads, but banning sticks is... i mean yeah, if you think it's unfair that we have sticks, pls feel free to borrow one of our dear sticks, we'd love to share it. we feel unfair too when we are forced to use pads.

About the tourney: I had a blast. But I cant help but think if the tourney actually allowed sticks, I wouldn't have this much of a chance of winning. Bravo to the usual stick players (Desmond, Alvin, BigMac, Alan and the rest) to show up on pad matches, something I didn't do when the situation reversed on megamall. I'm glad I won anyway, I don't win much competitions so this is pretty much made my day. Desmond we'll have our real rematch on the next good tourney!

Ok, the GOOD feedback on The Mines' tournament:
• Very well-organized event
• Rope cordon were used to separate the crowd from the contestants' area
• Played on 40" Bravia Vs. No eye-strain nor lag noticed
• Scoring system clear, and the notebook was even routed to a Bravia for all to see
• Attentive staff
• Interesting MC
• The customary cosplay Ryu and Chun Li. I like their presence and shouts out loudly this is an SF-event
• It's free
• Door gift (t-shirts and towels) given to participants
• Proper SF4 tags were printed and distributed (hung around the neck)
• Decent prizes to go around for the top 8 winners

Now for what I feel needs to be highlighted:

• Very badly-organized Street Fighter event. Many opportunities to make this better.

• Event held in a (IMHO) tight and confined space. Aside from participants, they should know that fighting games make good crowd attraction, especially on a busy weekend. They should capitalize on this and use the mall's concourse area to stage the event to draw a better crowd and sell their brand better (though there may be budgeting or setup challenges for this).

• No choice to bring your own stick. This severely brings great handicap to players (example, a likely-to-be EX-Sony supporter like myself). Bringing a stick does not guarantee the user the championship. It's skill. This is what a tournament is about, an open challenge of skill. Best man (or woman) wins. Since this is an open invitation (public), you leave the options open as well. Do not limit or restrict the capacity for a player to play his/her best. If bringing sticks shy the public away, may I then ask you to look at today's results. People will definitely sign-up no matter what they see being used to play, to at least gauge how well they fare and try their luck at the prize. People will also leave, due to the need to be somewhere else, or getting beaten by the better pad player. Or as some people I met quoted, "good game, bro. takde joystick tak best la *balik*".

• No choice to bring your own pad. This is acceptable, if only the pads were in good condition. Sadly they were not. Mike, a good Abel player is someone who seldom complains on hardware fault. He lost unconvincingly and shared that the pad had a worn-out d-pad. By that time it was too late to inform the organizers as it was already at the knock-out stage and we had little evidence to prove.

• No choice to customize the settings on the pad. So I decided to join the pad tournament, which makes myself seem like joining the Special Olympics (no disrespect to pad players, you know your game and are better with it, it's just like I am useless on it). I tried hard to make the temp transition, and it seemed ok as long the PPP/KKK buttons are mapped from the right shoulder buttons to the right ones). To my horror (the rules were not posted online, and only announced/published at the venue), even button customization is strictly banned too. I can understand the banning of mapping Focus Attacks or Throws together, but this....???

• No choice to use certain characters. No, we're not talking about Seth (in fact, Seth has weak attacks and defence - no more reason to ban him). There's 3 PS3 setups.

Setup #1: Fei Long, Akuma, Gouken, Seth, Rose, Dan and Gen are not unlocked
Setup #2: Everyone unlocked
Setup #3: No one unlocked. Default arcade characters.

So anyone who uses these characters need to pray hard that they are assigned to the correct machines.

• 2-round games, even in the semi-finals. Only finals and 3rd-placing decider went to best-of-5-rounds

• 60 second games. This was too fast and encouraged plenty of people just hitting hard then jumping back to wait for time-out. But anything you say, dear organizers.

• I have no qualms about the score keeper. He initially interrupted people in the midst of battle to ask for their tag number and current score, but after feedback he was more thoughtful and sensitive. Thank you for this.

True, it is your event and you have ultimatum over the rules. The keyword here is "choice". I have a choice to enter this tournament or simply stay at home and stay contended. You need to do your homework before organizing an event like this, or you will definitely make yourselves look bad. This message may not mean anything to you as it's just from some guy in cyber-space. But I hope this is reflected upon and well-taken as a very honest, no-frills one - as I know, you're looking towards setting up an online community as evident with PlayStation Friends @ Facebook. So you need to start to listen to people within this channel.

Thank you for the event, overall I enjoyed myself as I had a good company of friends but am questioning the effectiveness of your corporate office's leadership team, over yesterday's event.

I would like to note that the tournament setting for both the Penang and KL market is totally different! I find that the KL people are slightly more efficient than in Penang. Even though there are still some places which still needs improvement, overall it was an enjoyable event!

I totally agree with you about that stupid organizer who walks around and interrupts players all the time! I mean, I totally lost concentration and my "steadiness" everytime I got interrupted! People playing halfway and he goes like, "Ei, you no 013 ah? You win or lose ah? So now you win lar?" I was literary glaring at him and the crowd was cursing him for interrupting the matches. He deserved it, in my opinion!

The rules are quite fair but like you said, I think its also fair that we are allowed to bring our own controllers or arcade stick. I mean, its just a controller/ arcade stick! Its not like you can input some special button where you press to "focus punch" immediately. I hope that future tournaments would take this into consideration as I believe its important to allow players to feel comfortable in their own environment. Personally, I found that some controllers were rather "faulty" in the sense that the button sensitivity was off. My friends and several other contestants complained about this as well. I would also like to comment on the time limit. I think that all tournaments should follow the standard time of 99 seconds instead of 60. It was pretty shocking for us when sometimes, we just realized that its 60 seconds instead of 99. Haha!

All in all, I really enjoy gatherings like these! I will input my feedback to the Penang organizers so they would do a better job in organizing the other tournaments to come!

STREET FIGHTER 4 GATHERING AT OUTPOST

DATE:Sunday, 2 AUGUST 2009
TIME : 1PM TILL NIGHT
WHERE: OUTPOST CAFE CINELEISURE DAMANSARA 2nd FLOOR ( NEXT TO CATHAY )
TERMS: PURCHASE FOOD RM 15.00 AND PLAY WHOLE DAY

MINI TOURNAMENT AND WIN PRIZES...GET TO KNOW YOUR NEW FRIENDS AND LEARN NEW STUFF. KEEP THE PS3 COMMUNITY TOGETHER

PLEASE BRING PADS OR STICKS

ALL WELCOME -- PC PLAYERS who is planning for purchasing PS3 soon also welcome.

Also register as PS FRIENDS in order to get to know more events and tournaments...

Alan

Cheers! See everyone on Sunday ...

Ah! Good good! I will probably be able to make it then! See you guys there! *smiles*

Alan, the nice stages do not even have the bunnies on the wall. 'nuff said LOL.

Had a great time watching all the pros/sifus play. I especially AWED and jaw dropped seeing the Gouken(I believe he's wearing the Wii Fit tshirt?) and Balrog player(Aiman I think or Darkstalker).

I have to agree using sticks are way way better than normal controllers. It feels much smoother, all the buttons are at the tip at your fingers. Even though I cant even do my basic moves with sticks but at least I gave it a try.

I wish they could think like us. It's sad for me to predict that T6 as 'the next big thing for Sony' will totally result in no more or very minimal SF events once T6 comes out. Having a good feel from my participation in all their sponsored-tourneys... they really don't care and they are only doing what's right in the corporate world. Enough has been ranted and written to share this feedback to them.

It's always an uphill battle for independent communities like Outpost & ourselves to have larger-scale tourneys without sponsorship - there's always this ceiling getting in the way. Well, just like playing SF, we really need to do more and work harder to be better at the game!

I just wanna share more thoughts on what happened yesterday.

For one thing, we got to see the progress of lots of players, particularly those that weren't so strong last time.

Case in point, Alvin did well yesterday.  He may have won only one match but his skill and ability to read situations has vastly improved as opposed to when I first met him.  A pity he kept messing up the tougher Sakura reset combos, I've been hit by them and they are tough to get out of.

Same to Carl (Alvin's brother), who has always been very consistent with combos and almost made it to the knockouts but unfortunately lost in the playoffs.  I also like that he seems to be taking more chances and showing improved strategies too. 

Yao Han too improved, whom I've only met the gathering before yesterday.  He used to be spamming cHK as Guile a lot and kept getting punished for it and yesterday he was much more conservative and used it sparingly.

Everyone else brought their A-game to the gathering too.  Definitely one of the tougher times yesterday.  But that's okay.  I like socialising, and I like competition.  These gatherings and tournaments are perfect as opposed to say, a cybercafe which tends to be more isolated and somehow is filled with people that take games to seriously (no offence, I'm just speaking on the darker side of ccs that I have seen).

Special thanks goes to rawfish for always looking out for the rest of us with his technical expertise with sticks and offering parts when he has them, and Alan of course for always organising these events for us to take part in.

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Alan, if you need help for the next event, just gimme a call or SMS or something and if I'm free I'll go over early and help out.

As for date, not sure.  Puasa month starting soon so any date you pick I'll be fasting, so I can only eat at night.

However, I would like to request to NOT make it the 5th/6th of September.  My birthday's on the 7th so I'd rather celebrate it that weekend.

The recent tournament was fun and well organised, with a good turnout, was extremely fortunate to have won something though  .

Alan, since you mentioned it, I do believe, I too might have sparred with you at the Sungei Wang arcade years ago (the casual matches we played at the tourney brought back some faint recollections, ha ha) and I was always being thrashed left, right & centre by the regulars there (6 fingers, TristanX, Raw Fish, Freddy .. the whole group). Those were the good old days.

Since you highlighted block rolling to Akuma ultra punishment, let me relate ye the ways you can punish rolling attack by a super/ultra, which I experienced through matches with a friend:
Ryu can Super on hit/block, while Dictator can Super on standing block.
Abel and Chun-Li can Ultra on hit/block, while Claw can Ultra on block and El Fuerte can Ultra too on block, but after a step forward.
Cammy can Super/ultra on hit/block and Seth too can Super on block, ultra on hit/block.
Akuma, Boxer and E.Honda can Super/ultra on block while Rose can Super/ultra on standing block.

However my number 1 most feared rolling attack super & ultra punish.

^ Gief can do one thing, kara-EX Green Hand.

Block, then when you recover immediately HK to EX Green Hand (cannot see HK).

You will be able to catch Blanka juuuust before he lands.

Timing is hard though, and since you kara from a normal attack, you cannot see the Reversal sign.

Hey guys... first time posting here. Was at the mini tourney last Sunday playing the joypad Abel. Just wanted to say thanks to alanmukkl for hosting the event, I had a great time and it's good to know that there are events like this in KL. I particularly had fun with leongteng's Zangief in the tiebreakers lol that's one match I'm going to remember for a long time. I also learned a lot from the other Abel player there, its good to know that 2 Abel's made it to the top 8. Represent!

Looking forward to the next one tourney, hope its soon. Yup I'll be trying to learn how to play with a stick as soon as I can afford one

About the tournament format, maybe we can try a swiss format next time? Less time consuming, pairs players of equal strength and we can pool all the players together. I have a program that can record tournament results and pair automatically so that can help speed things up too.

aih...why no tournament for xbox one? zZzz.....

phew...just 1 week didnt log in and voila' took me 2 hours to read back everything i missed.

Yikke! you use what character now?

MAsterAlvin..yeah..still havent got chance to battle with u.

GUYS..I just got out from GI JOE movie...really nice action packed movie and a must watch...all the way action and shooting with explosives...THANK GOD they didnt screw this one up !!!