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Just saw this on Kotaku today: http://kotaku.com/5147660/biggest-street-fighter-tourney-ever http://www.gamestop.com/gs/tournaments/sf4/default.aspx Biggest Street Fighter Tourney EVER By Brian Ashcraft, 10:00 PM on Thu Feb 5 2009, 4,393 views There are tons of SF fighting tournaments. So what makes the Street Fighter IV National Tournament special? It's the biggest live fighting game event ever, that's what. Capcom USA has joined forces with retailer GameStop and fighter tourney EVO Championship Series for this nationwide tournament, which kicks off February 21st at literally gajillions of GameStops across America. The second round gets underway February 28th at regional GameStop stores, and the winners advance to the March 14th semi-finals. The sixteen finalists that emerge will be flown to the finals in San Francisco on April 18th for some SF in SF action. Finalists will also get Mad Catz SFIV sticks and pads, limited edition tourney belts and a spot in the semi-final bracke...

Pinoyxbox successfully held its SOULCALIBUR IV tournament at Anicon 2008, drawing so many players to its Soulcalibur IV playing area before the tournament for free play, and eventually having over 51 players sign up for the actual tournament itself. In gratitude for all the players who were present at the Soulcalibur IV area in the Pinoyxbox booth, I'm listing every single player that registered for the Soulcalibur IV tournament in this blog post. Apologies if I misspelled some of the name(s), maybe I'm just having a hard time reading your handwriting....I'm posting this in appreciation of your participation at the Pinoyxbox booth, for playing Soulcalibur IV with other players and generally just having a good time and making our booth arguably the most fun booth in the entire convention area :) SOULCALIBUR IV SIGNUPS 1. Joepen Adelantar 2. Red Ollero 3. Michael Allen Scebatim 4. Jayron Zapanta 5. Jelani Mancago 6. JC Noble 7. Don Regis 8. Miko Sabalboro 9. Leo Carlo Delos...

Join us at ANICON 2008 this Sunday, October 5 at SM Megamall, Megatrade Hall 3. We'll be having a SOULCALIBUR IV Tournament at 4:00PM in the afternoon! Here are the rules for the tournament: Rules for the Pinoyxbox-ANICON 2008 SOULCALIBUR IV Tournament Definition of terms: - A ‘bracket’ is a match-up between players. - For this tournament, one ‘MATCH’ is a single game with a maximum of five rounds. The first player to win three rounds out of five rounds, wins that match. - ‘Single Elimination’ means that the two players will only have one ‘match’. The winner of the match advances to the next bracket. - ‘Round Robin’ means that each player will play against all the other players at least once. In this scenario, player match ups and qualification to the actual tournament will depend on the number of wins a player accumulates against all the other players. Mechanics: Players must sign up at the Pinoyxbox booth for the Soulcalibur IV Tournament. Sign-ups may end either once the limit o...