EVO 2011 Results and Other Goodness

Here are the final EVO 2011 results.

King of Fighters XIII (side tournament)

1. BALA
2. Romance
3. Mr. KOF
4. Reynald
5. El Rosa (Mex)
6. Xian from Singapore


Tekken 6

1. DMG|Kor (Bob)
2. Fab (Bob)
3. Reepal (Law)
4. JustFrameJames (Law, Baek)
5. Crow (Bob)
5. Mr. Naps (Bryan)
7. LLL|Ryan Hart (Kazuya)
7. MCZ|Tokido (Bob)


BlazBlue: Continuum Shift

1. Spark (Hakumen)
2. Lord Knight (Makoto, Litchi)
3. MCZ|Tokido (Noel)


Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition

1. Fuudo (Fei Long)
2. BrokenTier|Latif (C. Viper)
3. Poongko (Seth)Poongko (Seth)
4. MCZ|Daigo Umehara (Yun)
5. eLive|Kindevu (Yun)
5. MCZ|Tokido (Akuma)
7. WolfKrone (C. Viper)
7. Flash Metroid (Zangief, C. Viper)


Marvel Vs Capcom 3

1. Viscant (Wesker, Haggar, Phoenix)
2. DMG|PR Balrog (Dante, Wolverine, Tron)
3. EG|Justin Wong (She-Hulk, Wolverine, Akuma)
4. cc.coL|Combofiend (She-Hulk, Taskmaster, Spencer)
5. UVG|Noel Brown (Wolverine, Wesker, Akuma)
5. cc.coL|Filipino Champ (Magneto, Sentinel, Phoenix)
7. Mine (Wesker, Taskmaster, Phoenix)
7. X-Ray (Dante, Amaterasu, Magneto)



Mortal Kombat 9

1. DMG|Perfect Legend (Kung Lao)
2. vVv|REO (Mileena)
3. JOP (Johnny Cage, Raiden)
4. LB|ChrisGNY (Reptile)
5. Denzell Terry (Johnny Cage, Liu Kang)
5. 16-Bit (Katana)
7. FR|ATL Redd (Liu Kang)
7. OnlineTony (Kabal) 


For all the crap that I talk about current Capcom fighting games, The SFIV was actually quite fun to watch, it's hard not to get enthused with the crowd and all, even if it was a Yun/Fei Long fest. 
Marvel Vs Capcom 3 is still garbage though :D


They had a Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition exhibition and it's looking really good. It definitely looks better than Street Fighter IV does.



The best part of the EVO stream was the Aris and Kayo Police Tekken 6 commentary.
(lolz)



Balrog : Behind the Glory was awesome too.



Here's the final SF IV matches, where you can see Latif totally choking :/



Tekken 6 Grand Finals.



BlazBlue Grand Final.



Here's was* the  final hour of MvC3.

*Video has been removed by shoryuken.com?! Way to go Shoryuken.

Good times :)

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EVO 2011 Streaming Video Feeds

EVO 2011 is starting tomorrow morning, Friday 7/28/11. I wanted to post the live feeds here for everyone.
(These) feeds are being run by Shoryuken.com

Feed 1 is covering Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition on Friday and Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 on Saturday.



Feed 2 is covering Mortal Kombat 9 on Friday. Tekken 6 and BlazBlue Continuum Shift 2 on Saturday ^.^



There's a LOT going on at EVO this year, here is a schedule of events.

Orochinagi and Dream Cancel are holding a King of Fighters XIII side tournament and Kei Yamamoto (KOF XIII producer) is challenging the winner of that contest!

More later.

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California Extreme 2011

This weekend the good DoctorC and I went to Santa Clara for this year's California Extreme.
California Extreme is like a giant arcade game and pinball convention that is held every year in northern California. This was my first year going and it was hands down the best arcade I've ever seen in my life!
The scale of the thing was just completely massive and the sounds......the sounds were overwhelming :)


I took a bunch of pictures. You can view the entire set HERE.

Our press passes ^.^

Pins

A homemade Video Pinball TRON mod.

Missile Command...is it the fast cursor or the slow cursor?

PONG Doubles

Spy Hunter pin

Punch-Out's!

Gold Neo-Geo

Baby Pac-Man

Big Six

A happy, bustling arcade :)

Finally got to play TRON Legacy :) It has steep ramps.

They had like this whole section of auto playing ragtime instruments that was mind boggling!

Ragtime Piano

A row of Candy Cabinets.

A deadly Berzerk game :)

A deluxe Super Sprint?!

A cockpit Star Wars and a Spy Hunter.

They had lots of merch tables selling all kinds of cool stuff!

There was a huge amount of vintage pinball games at the show. They all looked SUPER classy and were really fun to play!

The oldest pinball games were all very pretty with great sound!

Alice in Wonderland
The vintage pins ended up being my favorite part of the show I think :)

Most impossible games ever :)

Aside from the arcade itself, they had a bunch of bands playing in the hotel!

Playing were:
Jean Baudin
Survival Guide
Gnarboots
A_Rival
The Phenomenauts
ComputeHer
8 Bit Weapon
The Megas
crashfaster
Awkward Terrible

 Here's part of 8 Bit Weapon's set



DoctorC shot some video footage which has yet to surface. In the meantime ccyrus77 shot some video of the show for everyone to enjoy.
This video isn't even half of the arcade though, the place was seriously huge.





We also picked up a copy of Doctor Kong: Cutting up the Competition at the show. Although the movie is only 18 minutes long, I thought it was very good and worth the ten dollars I paid for it. Hank Chien is very funny in the film.

Overall, California Extreme was one of the funnest places I've ever been to and it is now a mandatory annual show for me :) If you haven't gone yet, you're missing out on the coolest arcade ever.
THANK YOU to everyone who put the show together! See you next year!

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