Vancouver May 2014 Results

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So I'm bored on my break at work, so I've pre-emptively started this thread, which will be updated after the weekend with personal highlights and tourney results.

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Tue May 06, 2014 7:53 pm

holy smokes what a tourney! we didn't have much time to pull the whole thing off but we did it and i think the result was one of the best tourneys we've had in a long time if not the very best.

it'll probably be a while before vids go up, of course, so SPOILERS BELOW:

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anyway yeah great tourney, it should be somewhat easier for me to do the audio for all the vids so i'll try and get them up as soon as possible.

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:44 pm

good news bad news time: the doubles will be up by mid-Friday at the very least, but the singles will have to wait until august 16th or so to even start going up. this is probably ok though as the singles are an awesome tourney and that will just allow everyone to a) catch up on the most recent tournies and b) hop on the ever-rolling hype train.

so uh, get on it i guess

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That's fine there are a ton of matches in the singles (some of them are cancer though).
I loved the doubles because almost every match was highly strategic in nature, with teammates talking to each other. Also, lots of OTs

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:54 pm

2v2 is quickly becoming my favourite gametype in SFA... i've played so many damn singles and there's something so appealing about working together with someone now lol

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Team co-ordination is a newer meta to a game

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as much fun as team koji god mode was i felt like I was kind of doomed to fail since WWORQGUI is much worse at the game than anybody else in the tournament

maybe we could figure out a system where everyone plays on a team with everyone once in a round robin and the best results move on, the player with the best results gets paired with the worst that makes it into the playoff round or something?

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I like it. Try hards could exploit that with sandbagging. But I like the idea of different match-ups in the Round robin. Maybe like top 4 choose from bottom 4 sort of thing, and do a double elim from there.
Also, Cac got screwed in a similar manner

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i forgot martinez was in the doubles, for some reason i thought he sat out

also I honestly didn't really try all that hard in the doubles, stuart and I just picked peppy and ran at the enemy without getting weapons

EDIT: I like Whaleu's casual "Good game boys" after Ryan carried him in the finals.

Ryan is actually really good now too, he beat me a couple times 1v1 before the tournament started when we were playing for fun

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Yeah, Ryan has gotten better, and we seemed to communicate decently throughout (intense while trying to calm him down most of the time)

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:10 am

STG wrote:: maybe we could figure out a system where everyone plays on a team with everyone once in a round robin and the best results move on, the player with the best results gets paired with the worst that makes it into the playoff round or something?

tourney 0--3 was... kinda... similar to this. it was pretty messy though and there was only one winner in the tourney instead of a team winning it which was weird in retrospect to say the least.

i do really like the idea of making people play with different teams though. we need to experiment with that for sure

STG i'd like to point out that Pep is basically the only character for which "run at the enemy without weapons" is a potentially viable strat but yeah both you and Cac kinda got screwed on that one

really though i'd go so far as to say everyone's gotten better, i don't think anyone's gotten worse at all which is surprising considering none of us play this game terribly regularly lol.

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:31 am

I chose my partner.

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I think I did too

If I have some free time before school i'm gonna try to get the match stats that I did before up again, and more like how characters/players do on said stages and players against other players.

ALSO WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THAT HIGHLIGHT VIDEO THAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN

I might exclude some players from the stats, because it skews stats in stomps (i think i 10-1'd stuart or something at an old tournament or something)

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Sat Aug 02, 2014 2:38 pm

highlights are still coming don't worry! they're just also delayed until the 15th or later. i gotta do something really epic for Honke and his gauntlet too, it's gonna take a little while

Cac mentioned doing a stats count after the singles go up as well. i'll leave you guys to it, i don't particularly fancy discovering i have a negative KDR Razz

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No I meant that super awesome highlight video you were gonna do with that google doc that people added candidates for highlights/fails on that you probably forgot about

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I feel obligated to reply to this as I think good ol' HEXage is busy, but he hasn't forgotten the list. He mentioned it a week or two ago, I could get you the link for it if you wanted.

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that's be cool, i've long lost the link since the old forum died

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Yeah, we should attempt to re-create that. We should sit down and search the videos one long night and make a list.

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:21 pm

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Well played! Let's add stuff to this once the singles go up. There's a lot to add to this list.

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Fri Aug 15, 2014 2:31 am

i was actually discussing this with Cac before i left town a couple weeks ago - we both agree there is probably enough to make a short highlights vid at the moment and what with the current prosperity of the game it's probably a good idea. we've also played a whole ten tourneys under the timed matches ruleset now and that's a good number to start on, so yeah

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Yeah, we seemed to be working on a highlights and a fail highlight video. We have plenty of material to go with

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Mon Aug 18, 2014 5:37 pm

in case no one's noticed: singles are finally going up!

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getting fashed as peppy since 2014

also peppy is terrible on sarg lol

Subject: Re: Vancouver May 2014 Results Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:51 pm

i so disagree with that, i think it was just cause i went fox

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