08/31/03

Capcom Vs. SNK 2

Tournament Wrap Up

Capcom Pentathlon Game 5

The format for this tournament was as follows;  3 pools of players play everyone else in there pool.  The top to winning records automatically advance to the finals.  The second best records goes to a wild card pool.  All others went to the last chance pool.  The winner of the last chance pool would go on to the Wildcard pool.  Then the top two in the wild card pool would advance to the finals.  Here are the results;

Pool 1

Taiyon really did well for himself in the preliminaries.  He bested Dan, and Judgment Day.  This would send Judgment Day to the Wildcard while Dan and Taiyon would go to the finals.  David would go to the last chance pool.

Sam secured first place to go on to the wild card.

Dre Vs. Dan

Its always hard to know who to save for last.  I usually can save the two best records and have them battle it out last.  In this case, (as happens on occasion)  The first and second place finishers faced each other in the first round.  Unfortunately with two TVs in action I wasn't able to keep tabs beyond the fact that Dre took the first game, Dan won the second and Dre beat him in the third.

Judgment Day Vs. Dayne

Dayne came it to this tournament with a new strategy.  Using a ratio 4 E Honda.  This worked well against the computer, but didn't do so well in the tournament.  While we was able to get JD down to his last character, (A ratio two M. Bison)  but he wasn't left with much life, and JD was able to take the first game.  After that Dayne went with a ratio 1 Honda and a ratio 3 Blanka. This worked much better for Dayne and in a very close game Dayne was able to tie it up at one game each.  Then in the third game Dayne did well with Blanka again ripping through JD's charactors.  Then with M. Bison JD came out in a fury.  It looked as though JD was going to take it but Dayne was some how able to hold him off in a very very close finish.   Dayne would win the game and the match.

Jake Vs. Matt C.

(AKA your MOM match)

Half way through the first game Jake put on his infamous sunglasses.  Then the mom jokes started to come out of both sides.  Matt was able to take the first game.  Latter as the mom jokes continued Matt was able to finish Jake off, much like his mom.... (oh did I say that.)

Judgment Day Vs. Nate

In the first game JD did well with M. Bison to take the first game.  In the second game Nate did quite well with his Rolento to get the win.  In the third game,  Nate's ratio 2 Chun-Li seemed to serve him well, but it came down to JD M. Bison, and Nate Guile.  JD would get the win.

Jake Vs. Dre

Jake became so frutrated with the match that he put his arcade stick on the ground and turned his back to the TV as he began to blindly mash on the buttons.  Jake would loose in two strait games.

Judgment Day Vs. Matt C

These games always came down to their ratio 2 M. Bison Vs. ratio 2 Sagat.  Matt would take the first game if a very close game.  In the third JD would tie it up.  In the third game they would put on quite a show as it came right down to the wire.  Anyone could have walked away the winner, but in the end Judgment Day won in an incredible match.

Dayne Vs. Matt C

This time E Honda did well for Dayne.  He softened up Matt for his ratio 3 Blanka.  It came down to Blanka (3) Vs. Sagat (2).  Time was running out for them and with only 4 seconds left Dayne was able to get the win.   Then in another nail biter Matt was able to tie it up.  Then Dayne gave up on E. Honda and went with a ratio 4 Blanka.  Matt would do fairly well getting Dayne down to a little over a 1/4 bar left for his ratio 2 Sagat. It really looked like Matt was going to take it.  (even wrote it down before it ended.)  But then suddenly Dayne came charging back.  He not only got Sagat down but now had a lead.  It was now anyone's game, and momentum clearly in Dayne's favor.  I thought I had somehow cured Matt by prematurely giving him the win on paper.   But then Matt was able to turn it back around and get the win in what was a great match.

Jake Vs. Taiyon

With almost all of there matches completed and with no wins for either.  Jake and Taiyon thought they would go for a draw and let time expire with ratio 4 players.  But as time ran down.  They both tried to go for a last minute win.  Jake would be the one to land the biggest blow and as time ran out Jake would be the winner.   Then the next game the played for real and Taiyon was able to tie things up.  Then for the fourth game Jake would loose to a ratio 4 Dan, as Taiyon would pick up the insulting win.

There were a lot of great matches but in the end only Dre was able to go undefeated to win the tournament.   Dan captured second this would give him enough points to get second place in the pentathlon by only four points over Judgment Day.   The winner of the Pentathlon.... well Ali wasn't here again, but it didn't matter as no one would have been able to score over 20 points.  Congrats to Dre for a great performance.  I hope to see you all come back next year and play in more games in the Capcom Pentathlon 4.

Here is a final look at the results for Capcom Pentathlon 3

-Shawn