December ST and VS Tourney News update

Here are some Super Turbo results for this month plus one from the fall. Shiro and K still in there. Another great whiteboard drawing from the Ko-hatsu staff blog. UPDATE: added two

October 10th
Game41 Singles
12 entrants
1st Kikai (Guile)
2nd Namara Bison [Fujishima] (Boxer)
3rd Daisuke (Dictator)
Video

December 5th
Yotsukaido Messe Singles
1st Numa (Boxer)
2nd AFO (Blanka)
3rd peco (Ken)
Videos

December 12th
Newton Singles
15 entrants
1st Shiro (Ryu)

December 13th
Gian Recital Encore at Ooyama Newton
12 teams
1st Hakase (Dhalsim), Noguchi (Claw), YuuVega (Dictator)
2nd Gian (Dhalsim), Oji (Ryu), Kiken (Ken)
3rd Dragon Boy [K] (Boxer), Masato (Boxer), Abeabe (O.Sagat)

December 20th
Ko-hatsu 2on2
6 teams
1st Hiropon (Blanka) & Teppei (Guile)
2nd Mogura II (Dictator) & Gura (Dictator)
Video

Gian Recital Encore at Versus
19 teams
1st Kusumondo (E.Honda) & Gian (Dhalsim)
2nd Gakuzan (Zangief) & Numa (Boxer)
3rd AFO (Blanka) & KKY (Dhalsim)

December 27th
Nagase Cup 7 at UFO
32 entrants
1st Danjiri Dhalsim
2nd Jerome [Tsuji] (Boxer)
3rd Futachan (Ryu)

December 30th
Gowasu Cup 6 at F-1 Fukaya
23 entrants
1st KKY (Dhalsim)
2nd Masato (Boxer)

F-1 2on2
14 teams
1st KKY (Dhalsim) & Ryokucha (Ken)
2nd Kannami (Ryu) & Kashiwagi (Ryu)

December 31st
Nagata Shogatsu Happy New Year Special 2010 at Baba Mikado
24 teams
1st Yoshimura (Dhalsim) & Nia (E.Honda)
2nd Jenety (O.Chun) & Isaji (Cammy)
3rd Milky (Dictator) & Satou [MoreBalrog] (Claw)

Nagata Shogatsu Akemashite Omedeto Special

Mikado's annual Happy New Year's tournament is scheduled for Thursday at 10pm (Japan.) It's a 2on2 where Shogatsu fights the winning team at the end not this year. Mattsun's planning a live stream maybe here.

Aka Zangief linked to the official poster by Takepon in this post.

Darkstalkers Carnival 2009

Tournaments for Vampire, VH and VS went down on Sunday. I didn't have a chance to link to the live stream, but the archive is available here. The "extramatch" was a 19-on-19 showdown between T2ya's team and DD's team.

Savior Results
13 teams
1st DD (Sas), Kosho (Bulleta), T2ya (Zabel)
2nd Sasazuka (Lei-Lei), Teitoku (Jedah), Fumio (Felicia)
3rd Shimatsuya (Jedah), Chikyu (Anakaris), Kaji (Lilith)

SF2 Fan Site Survey #4, Super Ojisan Boy

Aka Zangief recently conducted another survey on the SF2 Fan Site. Full results here.

1) Where do you play SF2?
Arcade (59), Online - XBox (15), Online - ggpo (8), Online - PS3 (1), Spectator/Retired (1)

2) Which SF2-related sites do you regularly browse?
T.Akiba's site (42), 2ch player thread (31), Individual players' sites, blogs, Mixi pages (22), SF2 Fan Site (19), SF2 wiki (18), 2ch HSF2 thread (13), 2ch beginner thread (12), Mixi community (11), Ichirou's site (9), Individual arcades' sites, BBSes (7), None (7), SSF2THDR wiki (5), Other (5)

3) Which version did you start on?
WW (34), HSF2 (10), CE (5), ST (5), HF (4), Console (2), Super (1), HD (0)

4) Male or female?
Male (60), Female (0), No answer (1)

5) How old are you?
31-40 (33)
21-30 (23)
Under 20 (4)
Over 40 (1)

9) What type of material would you like to see on this site?
Tournament info (37), Arcade info (33), Vids (31), HD info (18), Various surveys (15), Aka Zangief's blog (13), Updates on other sites (6), Links (6)

SF4 17on17 Video 121309

Another full-roster showdown went down the other day — Chiba vs. Saitama this time. Great stuff. Mulder on the mic.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3040635

There's going to be a Kansai vs. Nagoya (Chubu) battle on December 30th at 3pm (Japan.)
Promo.
Live broadcast.

Yotsukaido Messe 102 Vids 120509

Semis and final are up on a new YouTube account. Peco took third place. h/t Aka Zangief

AFO (Blanka) vs. peco (O.Ken)

JK Boy (Boxer) vs. Numa (Boxer)

AFO (Blanka) vs. Numa (Boxer)

A-cho Olympics Videos 011009

http://a-cho.com/
"ARCADE" -> "大会動画" (sixth link on the left)

acho_sp2x_20090110a.asx - Quarterfinals
Tsuji (Boxer) vs. Roku (Honda)
SIN (Honda) vs. Kawamura (Ryu)
Otochun (Chun) vs. ARG (Claw)
Kachu (Claw) vs. Saito (Zangief)

acho_sp2x_20090110b.asx - Semis, 3rd place and finals

The SF4 vids should be up soon. Jinbe kindly posted the Savior Olympic matches over here.

A-cho Vids 110809, Tourney News, Maximum Seki

This event used a king of the hill format where the winner stayed on the machine as if playing casual games. The players who got the longest win streaks — ARG with 7 & 9 games, Futachan with 7 and Seki with 10 — then slugged it out in the finals. Details here.

http://a-cho.com/
"ARCADE" -> "大会動画" (sixth link on the left)

acho_sp2x_20091108a.asx - Best Bouts:
Kusumondo (Honda) vs. Prince (Chun)
ARG (Claw) vs. Akashachi Kancho (Blanka)
The SuperStar (Boxer) vs. Seki (DeeJay)

acho_sp2x_20091108b.asx - ARG (Claw) vs. Futachan (Ryu)
acho_sp2x_20091108c.asx - ARG (Claw) vs. Seki (DeeJay)

Thunder Beast Cup Results 112909

1 Otochun, Seki, Gunze
2 Futachan, Prince (Chun), Wassekun (Dhalsim)
3 Tani (Guile), MAO (Claw), Murasaki Vega (Dictator)

ARG, Aniki (Guile), Noguchan (Ken)
Star, Oh!!J (DJ), Hanayama (Ryu)
Super Gutsman (O.Sagat), Niwa Carnival (Ryu), Moritaku (Ryu)

X-Mania 10 champs strike again! Actually the Nagase team struggled in the initial round robin; both Guts and Prince smacked them around. None of the Kanto players came down for this one.

Pic of the winning team here. Videos: stream archive, best bouts.

End of the Year X Tourneys

There are a bunch of tournaments happening this month including:
Nagase Cup 7 - singles at UFO
Gian Recital Encore - two events to commemorate the DVD release
Nagata Shogatsu Happy New Year Special - Mikado's annual New Year's 2on

Seki Placings

Seki had a really great year so far. Here's a list of some of his results.

Seki DeeJay 2009
Feb	Kasugai 50	Second
5/4	A-cho	Third (w/ Batayan, PG)
6/22	Kasugai 50	Second (w/ Oh!!J)
6/27	Ko-Hatsu	Second
7/30	Ko-Hatsu	First (w/ Gunze)
8/23	X-Mania 10	First (w/ Otochun, Gunze)
9/13	Ko-Hatsu	Second (w/ Star)
Oct	Ko-Hatsu	Second (w/ Nero)
10/11	Star Cup	Tied for Third
11/1	Ko-Hatsu	Second (w/ Gunze)
11/8	A-cho	First
11/29	Thunder Beast Cup	First (w/ Otochun, Gunze)

Vampire Savior Tourney Round-up

I just copied this new post from DD Sasquatch into English. Poke around the YouTube accounts for more footage from these events. Art by Arekki.

DD wrote at the bottom, "by the way, Kaji has been winning every tournament he enters. Lilith is top tier."

10/10
Kansai: Ibaraki VIP
17 entrants
1st Takahashi (Gallon)
2nd Dara (Demitri)
3rd Ryota (Zabel)
Vid

10/17
Tohoku: Playland F1R
10 entrants
1st Kaji (Lilith)
2nd Kosho (Bulleta)
Vids

10/31
Kanto: Baba Mikado
13 entrants
1st Kaji (Lilith)
2nd TKO (Sasquatch)
3rd T2ya (Zabel)
Vid

11/1
Kanto: Club Sega Shinjuku
14 entrants
1st Sakamoto (QB) & Osakana (Aulbath)

11/14
Kansai: Ibaraki VIP
9 entrants
1st Orekon (Sasquatch)
2nd Dara (Demitri)
3rd Negitoro (Sasquatch

11/15
Tohoku: Playland F1R
14 entrants
1st Kosho (Bulleta)
2nd Hagure (Sasquatch)
3rd Shimatsuya (Jedah)
Vids

11/22
Kansai: Sega Avion
11 entrants
1st bow (Aulbath)
2nd SIN (Sasquatch)
3rd Newman (Aulbath)

11/28
Kanto: Baba Mikado
14 entrants
1st Kaji (Lilith) & Buzz (Gallon)
2nd T2ya (Zabel) & Ego (Lei-Lei)
Vid
Vid