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Fighting Tournament Weekend: Defend The North, Wiz World Columbus, VSL Tekken, Smash

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pixelish

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if haitani wins this, he'll be the second player after jwong to qualify for two different cpt regional finals (haitani won cpt australia to qualify for the asia regional final).
 
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mnz

Unconfirmed Member
90TilInfinity said:
CCL got turned away from a Japanese CPT ranking event for "not having a JP passport", and now Japan is top 2 at a European one. GG.
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By whom? There have been all kinds of internationals winning tournaments. Like Wong in Brazil for example.
 
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mnz

Unconfirmed Member
Ryan Hart being a player, commentator, interviewer and translator at Sonic Boom is pretty dope
 
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woodypop

Member
When is Defend the North SFV top 32 starting? What stream?

Stream schedule in OP says top 32 to top 8 was supposed to start 9am Pacific, but I only see casuals on the KPBLive stream.

EDIT: guess they're just running late.
 
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ScribbleD

Member
Is the schedule messed up for Defend the North on Spooky's stream? I thought Smash 4 wasn't until later in the afternoon and Pokken or USF4 top 8s would be starting now?
 
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salty_Josh

Member
woodypop said:
When is Defend the North SFV top 32 starting? What stream?

Stream schedule in OP says top 32 to top 8 was supposed to start 9am Pacific, but I only see casuals on the KPBLive stream.

EDIT: guess they're just running late.
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Apparently half the top 32 bracket didnt show/ is running late. Instead of DQing them they've been waiting over an hour for them to show up.
 
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ScribbleD

Member
salty_Josh said:
Apparently half the top 32 bracket didnt show/ is running late. Instead of DQing them they've been waiting over an hour for them to show up.
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The fuck? It's 1pm on the east coast. I'd DQ every last one of the people in top 32 not showing up on time. That's ridiculous.
 
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Tripon

Member
Osu 16 Bit said:
Almost positive the losers top 16 matches are screwed up and they're running the wrong matches.

https://smash.gg/tournament/defend-the-north-2016/brackets/15354/57476/187584

This bracket follows everything correctly except the 3 losers top 16 matches. Like Arturo confirmed he beat Yipes off stream yet he played Shin Phoenix for top 8, which makes no sense.

This is pretty important, it's a CPT ranking event...
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Oh man, Defend the North TOs, what are you doing?
 
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Osu 16 Bit

Member
Actually I think whoever set up the transition to top 32 to top 16 screwed up the order of the winners side. So what they did is right, the site is wrong.
 
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Parallax Scroll

Banned
http://www.defendthenorth.com/schedule-brackets

You see two inconsistent schedules depending on whether you click on "Event" or "Stream". "Stream" put Smash 4 finals first while "Event" put it later in the day, so Stream is probably the more accurate one for today.

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It says nycfurby when it should say teamsp00ky though.
 
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mnz

Unconfirmed Member
How do these Wizard World events work? They always seem to get some big names for side stuff, commentary etc.

Are they all getting paid to be there?
 
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Tripon

Member
mnz said:
How do these Wizard World events work? They always seem to get some big names for side stuff, commentary etc.

Are they all getting paid to be there?
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Yes.

10/0 productions (Chris Ceg's production group, handles all the major FGC events like EVO, CPT U.S. premiers, Capcom Cup, etc) was hired to run the stream and production issues. The Hadou was hired to be the T.O., Justin Wong and Gootecks were hired to run their SFV clinics. Markman, and RIP were hired to commentate Tekken and run a Tekken 7 clinic. Sajam and Tasty Steve were hired to commentate every game there.


Edit: They're also comic conventions, so a bunch of people locally are going there to attend the event anyway. With free entry, it's an excuse to play video games.
Others travel to the event because most Wizard World events are part of the Tekken Tour and has a $3K pot bonus. Street Fighter V also has a $3K pot bonus, which attracts enough people to the event to at least field a decent top 8.
 
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ScribbleD

Member
In case you aren't watching, KI top 8 is on TeamSpooky right now. Matches have been fire so far with the exception of Bass' first match in winners.
 
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mnz

Unconfirmed Member
So, according to schedule they should already be playing UMvC3 at DTN, but they're still at KI.

Are they really 4 hours late or did something change? When is SFV top8?
 
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Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
mnz said:
Are they really 4 hours late or did something change? When is SFV top8?
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They started late because the Top 32 players for SFV couldn't wake up in time, then Smash 4 did what Smash 4 does and ran for freaking ever.
 
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