You are really good since you play only 3 days and you used DS3. You would be even better if you play for more than 2 weeks and use a joystick.

Haha...I think maybe you are right. I've seen too much of Ryu and Ken so maybe it seems a little repetitive when I saw the final match.

the tournament is very exciting~!
good job alvin~! this is the best tournament i ever participate~!

Tristan, thanks. Wish I owned the game, and a stick.

I must also say you have the best reaction anti air Dragon Punch I've seen. It was slightly safer to jump in at your friend than against you. If you saw me during the practise rounds before the semi finals, I had Alvin's bro try to teach me the range of the walking EX Dragon Punch, which stops jump ins from like 80% of the screen!

This post has been edited by Darkstalker: Mar 1 2009, 11:40 PM

Wow, really good tournament organized by Outpost and Sony Malaysia. Wished we could see more of this in the future Congrats to the winners and the mini tournament held after the movies was kinda fun as well

My report (from the cheapo Dictator with Tekken 4 stick):

First and foremost to Alan and team:
WELL DONE! For a TWO-day tournament of this scale and media attention you have done an EXCELLENT job! People may share their first-day (Saturday) experience as being somewhat draggy but you guys were being very fair by using a more preferred points system (winner = 2 points, loser = still get 1 point, top 4 from each group with the most points at the end of the day will progress to Sunday's elimination system). As the saying goes, "you can't please everyone", you took a bold step to ensure everyone had a fighting chance even when they lost their first few matches. Overall I believe Saturday's agenda went smoothly and according to schedule. Kudos!

Your flexibility to accommodate both pad and stick players are commendable, as with your ever-entertaining crowd-pleasing commentating. At the end, you and team made everyone a winner and brought the fighting game community closer together. Also, good cosplay with appearances from Ken, Chun Li and Sakura - to match your Ryu. Tournaments of these types has been long-desired and thanks to you it has materialized. Please bring in more of these in future, and as spoken you don't need to be ambitious to make it a regional event - let's start off with building the local scene first!

To FatCatLim and GameAxis:
Good MC-ing and coverage - and thanks for bringing news of this event to us as well. You absolutely got the right words out whenever something spectacular happened during the elimination rounds today! Good to have a fellow gamer being The Voice.

To Sony Malaysia:
More please! As from the turnout you can see there IS a community!

The Experience:
I witnessed many people playing their best today, some being tenured arcade veterans, some being more casual-like players who showed remarkable sportsmanship, and some of the "armchair champions" - good players who don't need to bother with a stick to become good, as evident in their flawless execution on a pad. I managed to put a face to some of the PSN friends whom I play almost every night with, and made friends with many more who share the same passion.

Taking 1st place was Kenneth (Ryu, non-forumer and friend), which played his best IMHO today and his religious daily sparring with our gang since the game came out paid off, in the form of a PS3 set with SF4. He earlier eliminated my Dictator and I readily admit he was the better man as he played extra safe unlike my carefree rush down and by now predictable game play. Could his win be attributed to widely-discussed character tier-rankings as on professional SF forums e.g. SRK, NeoGAF and Capcom-Unity?

1st runner up by a very close and tension-filled match was the amazing TristanX which gave his best with Ken. He was very patient and made the most of his given opportunities, which did not come by much due to the carefulness of both players. It was truly a classic battle to the finish between the series' two main protagonists - the crowd went wild at every comeback and life-bar depletion. Wow! In my many years of knowing him, he has shown great consistency in high-level matches and he carved his way to the finals with extreme surgical precision!

Freddy (Blanka, non-forumer and friend) took 3rd place with a very skilled Blanka. He took advantage of every opening, wow-ing the crowd when he took the first round with an ex-ball through Ken's fireball. He was on equal par with our long-time friend TristanX and both played very careful matches against each other but it was Ken who had better advantage via keep-away and Blanka's missed Ultras. It was very tension-filled and really gave atmosphere to the eventual finals.

Darkstalker (Boxer) was good too and secured 4th placing. He didn't had many openings against Kenneth (Ken) and Freddy (Blanka) but managed to hold up well. This is a player who plays on a pad and has only FOUR days' worth of experience at Outpost Cafe - with given time who knows he could have climbed higher in ranking! No chance for any Ultras after a Buffalo Headbutt in the last few deciding matches, as seen through his road to the semi-finals, punishing his opponents with this move!

In the end, EVERYONE wins - it was truly a good move forward for the SF scene - and a good comeback from its dormant years a decade ago. WE WANT MORE!

This post has been edited by rawfish: Mar 2 2009, 12:04 AM

editing photos now.
thanks guys for the matches on the mini tournament
Im having real fun since i miss the real big tourney.

got beaten up by ryu... (can anyone help me recall what was his name? )

will upload the pic here soon. *TING*

The Ryu was Kit Fai I believe.

Btw, for those that didnt' stick around AFTER the mini tournament, a bunch of us played a few more rounds as it was raining heavily and it was jammed outside anyway.

I had my revenge against Alvin's bro in a SECOND Gouki vs Gouki after the mini-tournament. Anti air Raging Demon is really fun.

I also played Gouken vs Gouken against Alvin, the Gouken in the knockout stages, but got schooled by him.

I believe he was the younger of the Leong brothers. He was very good with Ryu and his timing to juggle and execute Matsu Hadouken was excellent. Couldn't get any better during the mini tournament

i guess im lucky to avoid a few of alvin bro's akuma ultra

A big clap to the organisers, the announcers, and the sponsors!
to be honest with you guys, this is the a tournament that both winners and losers goes home with a happy heart, WHICH, is ultra (i'll start using this word a lot from now on) rare.

i've only been to CS tournaments before this but i can tell you that this is the best of any competitions that I've ever been to.

Great job Alan.

one thing about the tourney that i'd like to suggest is maybe they should make the front row spectators sit or something, most of us had a really hard time trying to watch the game from outside the circle, although it was really only a minor part among all the other good things.

I dare say that all of us would rush to the next SF4 tourney organised by the same people.









p/s: i hate cross up jump kicks

This post has been edited by MasterAlvin: Mar 2 2009, 02:09 AM

referring me izzit?

nah, not you. ryu & ken cross ups. the rest not so much of a problem, yet.

uploading the pic up soon.

Man wanted to go there today to see the follow up but had to get my Street Fighter DVD (that came with the Ori Game and if you did import a CE version, it comes with it) and King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match.

Plus as I was about to grab a cab to Curve it started to rain x_x

Eh Darkstalker its me, the guy that said won't use any of the shotos XD. Wonder you can remember or not haha what with you and your gf asking me why I used El Fuerte for my qualifying. Ah top 4. Was hoping you and Tristan would have been top 2 XD. At least top 4 congrats!

But I must agree there were so many Ryu, Ken and Zangief users that it became really tiring. Can't blame anyone for choosing them though being the safest bet but would have been nice if there were more variety going on (hence why I used El Fuerte despite knowing I'll lose with him). After the first day I was literally drained. Hope someone will be posting up videos of the finals!

Anyways watch out for the anime. I'm pretty sure our Malaysia stores will get them pretty soon but incase you've heard of it but don't know what it contains, the movie is bout how things started before SF4's tournament takes place and some other promo videos.



Apparently its enough to fit into a DVD so yea, should be out soon if anything (not sure if its out on the net though didn't check).

Congrats to the winners and thank you Outpost for the event

Wait till u see other cross ups I do know how to do it on most of the characters.

I've used Ken all the way to final for this tourmanent cause I was barring myself of taking advantage using other characters. I could use Ryu, Ken and Zangief effectively. Using a single character was a rule on my previous tournaments and I believe it is also a rule for the most of the tourmanents for overseas. It is actually good rule cause it will force you trying to win a fight against a bogey character. There are bogey characters for everyone.

I've done it before on my old days.

The reason for having so many same characters is because the time for training is too short. You can't expect people to have a new character ready for a tourney in 3 weeks. I've also train a lot less frequently compare to old times.

This post has been edited by TristanX: Mar 2 2009, 03:40 AM

that's why i said "yet".
kekeke...
havent faced other effective cross ups yet.
coz most of the fighters i faced are ryu, ken, ryu ken, ryu ken, zangief, zangief (repeat the list and you'll get the whole picture.


and being a new player means i am more open to explore with new characters (hence Gouken XD)

This post has been edited by MasterAlvin: Mar 2 2009, 03:40 AM

I know. Hopefully there are more tourneys for this in the future so other characters could shine. I know a C Viper player who is very good.

It was the best tournament for me compare to previous ones. Thanks for organizing such a great tournament. Keep it up.

Thanks. Yeah, my DP is quite accurate. Used to be around 90% though. I heard from my friend that you practiced jump positionings against Ken's DP. I don't how much that will affect my game if I play you again but I know when not to use it most of the time. Hope we meet again some other time. I'm sure you can be a very good player. The amount of time you practiced just to get to this level is just amazing. On top of that, you are using DS3.

I lost my concetration on the final. I used too much of it fighting my friend's Blanka. He's really a more of a headache than any other friends cause his Blanka is my Ryu/Ken's bogeyman.

This post has been edited by TristanX: Mar 2 2009, 04:28 AM

Agreed. It's about time we have our own team to represent Malaysia in SUPER BATTLE OPERA aka ARCADIA Cup Tournament! That would be awesome.

Well said! Your match against Blanka was my favourite and the one I was looking forward to the entire tournament. Tense all the way to the final round! Freddy also placed his focus on you the most too hence his game play was thrown off a bit in the end, agreed? Nevertheless he fared well over Boxer later on though I expected he (Boxer) to have a 50%-50% equally good chance of winning.

Best tournament? Agreed - in terms or organizing and overall experience. I'd like to fight Aiman too - I can see he did plenty of research for his character e.g. d+lp/lk links to Buffalo Headbutt > Ultra (KPKKK/KKPKK variants to see which hits best?) for best hitting percentage. And he doesn't lose his focus easily.

As I said earlier - EVERYONE WINS. Plus did anyone mentioned the champ and TristanX fought again on the big screen before the movie? But was for fun only on the DS3 pad - both plays on sticks only

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Added on March 2, 2009, 7:26 amWho knows

But it's going to be a really long way, looking at the Jap players - no, let alone Singaporeans who had a great head start ahead of us.

This post has been edited by rawfish: Mar 2 2009, 07:26 AM