Tami and I took a trip down to ACTivegamerS LA with Northern California’s top SFIV players. After some serious partying the night before the big event, Ricky Ortiz, John Choi and Filipino Champ, all managed to place in the Top 8. Marn, who recently moved to Las Vegas from the East Coast, won 1st place against U.S. National Champion Justin Wong. ACTivegamerS also ran Femme Fatale, a side event strictly for girls to get their feet wet in Street Fighter IV competition. Congrats to Miyuki on taking 1st place with her crazy Abel against Princess Aura’s Ryu.
Despite feeling like a frozen popsicle inside the hangar the tournament was held in, I still had fun. There’s never a dull moment when hanging out with crazy gamers! As for the ACTivegamerS competition, I’m extremely disappointed at how long they made us wait to get in (event was supposed to start at 11am but didn’t until close to 3pm), and even more disappointed in how the prizes were handled. Apparently, the guaranteed prize money wasn’t so guaranteed when it came time to pay up. The players in the winner’s bracket were up in arms and were ready to call it quits. I don’t have the entire details, but we caught a vid of the explanation on our iPhone. This type of mismanagement of tournaments can ruin the competitive Street Fighter scene, so I hope things will all be sorted out and the winners get their due winnings.
Congrats to all the winners, and I hope to see you all at NorCal Regionals in Santa Clara, CA next weekend. It’s a Kineda sponsored tournament, so you know it’s going to be hype!
1. Martin “Marn” Phan (C. Viper)
2. Justin Wong (Rufus)
3. Ari “fLoE” Weintraub (Sagat)
4. Alex Valle (Ryu)
5. Ricky Ortiz (Rufus, Chun-Li)
5. John Choi (Ryu)
7. Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez (Dhalsim)
7. YeB (Gen)
ACTivegamerS LA Photo Gallery
Nice pics T! Who’s the artist (3rd row last pic)? She’s cute! Too bad about the shadiness. :(
[...] winners did NOT get the “guaranteed amount” of $2,200. Head over to Kineda for the full scoop, as well as a video caught live at the event as to why ACTivegamersLA couldn’t give out the [...]
I love the pics too but any videos of actual gameplay? I wanna see Marn and Justin matches.
WORST TOURNAMENT EVER! I WANT MY MONEY BACK! First they charge us $36 for entry and then $10 for PARKING?!!!! SHADYASS PROMOTERS!!! I will never support them again. They should be on the tournament promoter BAN LIST!
[...] bright thing that came out of the ACTiveGamerS Street Fighter IV tournament, was meeting convention sketch artist Jessica Gaona. From my brief talk with her, Jessica has been [...]
Is that Tami smiling at John Choi in this pic? http://www.kineda.com/activega.....amersla39/
jj41 – I don’t have any vids but uFragTV might. Check there.
djmikey – Ya, that’s Tam smiling after John won his match against Yeb’s Gen. What a dork.
That some seriously shade shit. Sorry to hear about that. :(
Did everyone still have fun overall tho? It looked like a good turnout.
http://www.kineda.com/activega.....gamersla3/
Best T-Shirt ever, LOL
activegamers?????? More like ACTIVELAMERS! Wasted my money and time at this crap event. I’ll never support them again!!!
Why are there so many hunnies at this CRAP event? LOL :D Is Tami going to be at NCR too? I have it down on my calendar.