08/18/03

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike

Tournament Wrap Up

Capcom Pentathlon Game 3

This tournament really brought out some players that we haven't seen in a while including Judgment Day, and the winner of our first pentathlon Trigon. (Who now is going by TFS.)  There was a lot of good competition in this tournament.

The format for this tournament was as follows;  4 pools of players play everyone else in there pool.  The best winning record automatically advances to the finals.  The second best record goes to a wild card pool.  In this tournament due to three three way ties for second it was decided to eliminate the last chance pool, and all three who tied would be in the largest ever wild card pool where we would take the top four records to the finals.  Here are the results;

Pool 1

This is where all the trouble began with the ties.  One three way tie would have been ok but three.......

Once again another three-way tie for second with 2/2 records.  This time however one of the players was our current pentathlon leader Ali.

In the largest Wildcard Pool, the four best records were supposed to advance.  However there was again a three-way tie for the fourth best record.  Instead of advancing them all I would allow them one more chance in a three way tie breaker.  In one of them could beat the other two he would advance.  If it ended in another tie then all three would be eliminated.

In the first round of the first game John would get the win in a very close round.  In the second round Liu would come back and win big.  In the third round however John would take one of the closest wins of the night.   Liu would tie things up with the second game, and go on to win the match in the third game in another close one.

Ali Vs. Liu

After Ali took the first game,  Liu would win the first round of the second game and have a considerable lead on Ali in the second round.  Ali however came back from behind to tie up the game and went on to win it in the third round.

Judgment Day Vs. Liu

Once again Liu taking attention away from the other match with another interesting show.  Judgment Day used Alex and Liu used the rather strange Twelve.  Liu was able to tear right though Alex in the first round.  However JD was ready in the second round and tied up the game.  By the third round JD would return the beating given to him in the first round.  In the second game Liu would go with Yang.  JD would go on to win the match however.

TFS Vs. John

John would get the victory of the first game when he fired off the wrong move to finish of the player formerly known as Trigon in a very close third round.  In the second game TFS would dominate the first round, but John would take the second forcing the third round.  TFS would take the third round tying up the match at two game each.  In the third game TFS would win the mach in another close ending.

Matt C Vs. Liu

Liu once again pleasing the crowd as he used Twelve to take on Matt C's Alex.  Liu would take round one of game one and Matt would tie it up in round two.  In round three after Twelve morphed in to an Alex look alike, Liu would take the first game.  In the second game instead of staying with who won him the first game.  Liu would switch to an even stranger character, Q.  Most everyone cheered Liu on as he used the odd Q to win the second game and also the match.  

This would be a rematch from the prelims when JD beat TFS sending him to the Wildcard pool.  Both players would use Alex.  It became a waiting game of sorts as each player was watching the other waiting for them to make a mistake.   Time ran down as each player could only take about another hit.  With 8 seconds left TFS would make his move and take, at least me as an observer by surprise, as he hit JD and won the first round.  TFS would take the second round and take a one game lead over JD.   In the first round of the second match time once again played a factor as there was round 15 seconds left.  Once again TFS would take the round.  Now JD had his back against the wall.  With momentum on his side and playing a great game TFS would take the second round, giving JD his only loss for the tournament.  TFS, (or the True Fist of Saginaw) would take the tournament going undefeated in the finals. 

Congrats to TFS and Judgment Day for a great showing.  Thanks to all those who came out.   Stay tuned to this web site as we continue to give you coverage of the....

Capcom Pentathlon 3

-Shawn