A winner is you!

Weeks have gone by and yet I still pine for our beloved Street Fighter 4 tournament. I feverishly try to make leagues out of everything now; secretly challenging my family to pooing competitions and seeing how many more cups of tea I can drink per day. All have proved fruitless so far. Never mind though, for as I mentioned earlier, bigger and better things are now in the works!

For now, just enjoy this bevvy of post-tourney material:

Vandalworks and myself facing off at our winners ceremony:


Vandalworks allowing his figures to frolic with their newly-acquired friend:


A desktop image lovingly provided by Cr0nt, may we all set it as our backgrounds in some sort of display of uniform weirdness:

The Split-Screen Street Fighter 4 Tournament - THE END

It is both upsetting and a slight relief to say that our beloved Street Fighter 4 tournament has finally come to an end. We've seen fighters come and go and we've had endless delays, but you all stuck with it and for that I can't thank you enough. So, in case you hadn't already heard the news, there is indeed a winner and that man is the ever-awesome VANDALWORKS! Give the man a round of applause ladies and gentlemen, for he is one with a true fighting spirit; a noble warrior and a great opponent. Vandalworks, I salute you and I am more than happy to be handing over the gold trophy to you. This means that I came second place and get to keep the silver for myself, which is nice. Whilst I intended to mail the trophy, I think a celebratory pint and mini awards ceremony is in order, I'll see if I can twist Mr. Works' arm and get some photos of that on here too.


Special mention goes to Prof. Membrain and Bojack for coming so close but losing out on the semis. Man of the tournament award goes to Nafunk for sticking with constant beatings for as long as humanly possible. His determination and courage is an inspiration to us all. I would personally like to thank you all for taking part and generally giving a shit, not to mention putting up with the numerous delays. A particular and heartfelt thank you goes out to my brother Krandal (justtherightbullets) for single-handedly organising this and making it all work with his immense knowledge of systems, leagues and those pesky numbers.

Despite reaching the end, I'm finding it hard be too saddened. I've learned so much from this and enjoyed it so much that more events and tourneys are already in the works. I'm always cautious of making grandiose promises about awesome things I'd love to do, so I'll keep it under the few hats that know for now, but hopefully the future will bring bigger and better things for our expending community.

For now, keep reading, keep listening to the podcasts and know that I am truly grateful for every second you spend here. Thank you all.

The Split-Screen Street Fighter 4 Tournament -This time, it really is AWWWWN

Well, that was another embarrassing delay, wasn't it? Thankfully, it's over now and we are very much entering the 'business end' of the tournament - the Semi Finals, thanks to Muzzledgrunt graciously bowing out due to his crippling connection issues. Somehow I have managed to creep into fourth and secure myself a place, I still am totally unaware of how this came to be. Nevertheless, I am giggling with glee and simultaneously shitting myself with fear. This is a messy and socially crippling combo. Here's the table ya goddamn Juggalos.

The fact that there is a seven point deficit between me and my next opponent is what has me cacking myself. Wait..............I mean BRING IT AWWWWN!

SEMI FINALS -BEST OF 5

Prof. Membrain (1) vs The Faux Bot (4)

Bojack85 (3) vs vandalworks (2)

Good luck gentlemen. No retreat, no surrender.

I was going to apologise for how badly written this is until I remembered that I'm doing this just after waking up and before I leave for work. I've not even finished my coffee yet. I'm probably going to have a headache all day now. I hope you appreciate it. Bastards.

The Split-Screen Street Fighter 4 Tournament - Weekly Update

After our first week of free-for-all-ing, this is how the leaderboard looks:

Some incredibly close matches this week: I'm informed that vandalworks and the Prof fought right down to the wire, as I know I did when fighting therightbullets. The Red Cyclone and Sagat always make for an interesting match-up. Prof. Membrain continues to play up to the suggestion that he may in fact be able to manipulate the Matrix as he daps me with a rising dragon punch, despite the round seeming as if it was over. My psych-out tactics, faithfully replicated from the Bart Simpson school of psych-outs, seemed to work on Bojack this week as my Zangief finally beat his Cammy.

I hope you are all enjoying the free-for-all template as much as I am, keep having your fights and check back at the end of each week to see how you all stand. Also, I've noticed that all of my fight-commentating concerns my matches only. If you want your tales of daring-do recounted here, give me exciting details and/or quotes when reporting results.

The Split-Screen Street Fighter 4 Tournament - A New Age Has Dawned!

YAY! It's finally here! The second stage of our very long-winded Street Fighter tournament. I can only apologise for all the delays and tomfoolery, but sigh no more friends, for the second stage is far more exciting and in case you hadn't already gathered: it's here!

As I mentioned before, all we have to do now is fight each other once more, but this time we won't be confined to schedules. You know who you have to fight, so quit stalling and go fight! Due to this new structure it is now more important that both fighters feedback the results to me. I have a little notebook to jot them down in and the table will be updated weekly. Here's where we all stand right now:


That's it! Go fight ya jerks!

The Split-Screen Street Fighter Tournament: Update! (again)

Just another quick update to make sure we all know what's going on. Right now, we are one fight away from what I'm thinking of as 'game time'. Basically, once Bojack fights MuzzledGrunt (formerly known as J JOHNSON) then we will have each fought each other once. From thereon in you will have to fight everyone again, but this time you won't be constrained to our fixtures schedule.
The whole purpose of the schedule was because I assumed there wouldn't be that much interest and as usual, I would have to bully people into sharing my enthusiasm. Thankfully, I was proved wrong and everyone has thoroughly gotten into it, something for which I am incredibly grateful.

When the next round begins, we will have weekly updates (at least) to the table so you guys can keep tabs on each other and see who you need to beat. After that, we get the semis and the finals and then two of you lucky chaps get to walk away with shiny, shiny cups. NaFunk is still yet to rejoin us, but the loose structure of the next round will be much more accommodating to people's schedules which will allow him to rush a heap of matches before the semis start, if he so wishes.

Keep watch on here as always for an 'official' announcement, here's how we all stand right now (not counting fights held this week):


The Faux Bot

The Split-Screen Street Fighter Tournament: Update!

Just so you all know what's going on: Nafunk has sadly had to drop out for the time being due to not being able to get on Live. So, instantly Bojack gains 2 more points as does Prof Membrain seeing as he would be fighting Nafunk in the next round. Nafunk, it's a shame to lose you mate, hopefully you'll be good in a week to participate in the second rounds. Either way, you still have our respect for being what is commonly refered to as 'A Trooper'.

With that said, I now wish to formally announce that IT IS FUCKING AWWWWWWWN! AND I DON'T JUST MEAN 'ON', I MEAN 'AWWWWWWWN!' WITH 7 W'S. THAT'S RIGHT, 7, COUNT THEM. 7. YOU KNOW THAT MEANS WE'RE BACK IN BUSINESS! Just go fight whoever it is you are yet to fight and keep watch on here for the updated table. Thanks for sticking around gents.

FUCK YEAH! GET FIGHTING!

The Motherfucking Faux Bot

.........time waits for no man

Just a quick update for anyone who's getting as antsy as I am about this round of the Street Fighter tournament taking so damn long. We have Bojack85 and Nafunk to blame, who have yet to get their shit together. Boys, sort it out, before I start threatening you with forfeit losses.



Lovingly,

The Faux Bot

The Split-Screen Street Fighter IV Tournament: Round 6: FIGHT!

Well, Gentlemen. The scores are getting increasingly interesting, wouldn't you say? I know that time is getting on now, but this week we get to see a truly almighty match-up. This week, the mighty Vandalworks will battle the equally mighty J JOHNSON! Can you believe it?! No, me neither. But it's happening. So keep practicing and keep having fun. Right now we are toying with the idea of skipping the second load of match-ups so that we can get to the finals quicker. Once everyone has played each other once, then we may move into the eliminations. What say you? We'll be going with the majority on this one, so make yourself heard below.

Here's where we all stand:


And here's this week's fights:

The Faux Bot vs therightbullets
Bojack85 vs NaFunk
ULTIMATE GMX vs Prof Membrain
J JOHNSON vs vandalworks

Mike Haggar for Mayor!

The Faux Bot

The Split-Screen Street Fighter IV Tournament: Round 5 - FIGHT!

This week I want to send out a special thank you to NaFunk. His courage and determination is a inspiration to us all. I've also noticed this week that there is a distinct lack of trash talking going on! What's the matter pussies? Too scared to call me out in the comments box, huh? Hopefully it'll ramp up when the finals begin to close in. But for now, the order is self-deprecation and good old-fashioned sportsmanship. If I'm honest, that's the way I like it. So bravo gentlemen, bravo.

As always, here's the table as it stands:


And this round's fixtures:

Bojack85 vs therightbullets

Nafunk vs Vandalworks

Prof Membrain vs The Faux Bot

J JOHNSON vs ULTIMATE GMX (battle of the capitals)

IN-DE-STRUCT-A-BLE!!!

The Faux Bot