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Sorry for the delay, we ran into some editing issues, but the good news is that the videos are now distributed by Machinima which means a larger audience. Whee! The rest of the vids will be put up today/tomorrow and I will update the post accordingly. Also, hi-res 60FPS vids will be put on bit torrent soon. Enjoy! Moar vids after the jump…
Losers Finals
Grand Finals
The most exclusive tournament in the country is back and you can watch it live and in person this Sunday at Jake’s Burgers & Billards in Pasadena, CA. As you may recall, Jake’s was the home of Bar Fights I and II and we are excited to have another SF4 event there.The first round matches are:
Sunday, March 28th – Doors at 5PM, Tournament at 7PM
Jake’s Burgers & Billiards
38 W. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena CA 91105
Special Note:
All players that entered the LA Riots III Qualifiers at Family Fun Arcade on February 15th or 26th receive TWO free tickets. If you are one of those players and would like to come, please send an email to lariots@gootecks.com and we’ll put you on the Guest List.
If you would like to download and print out your very own gorgeous high-res LA Riots III poster by camiwins, click the image below:
(7.83 MB – JPG)
If you missed LA Riots II this past weekend, here’s your chance to catch all the action you didn’t get to see! LA Riots II is now available to download in its entirety! LA Riots is the most exclusive tournament in the country, only 8 players are invited, Top 4 from LA Riots I and Top 4 from Bar Fights @ Hooters last month.
So as to not spoil any of the results for those who enjoy the suspense, I’ll only list the first round matches so you don’t know who wins or loses.
Thank you to Kelly Bracha from GYTNews for these pics! You can view more on her flickr.
As I mentioned in the LA Riots I post, we are trying out different distribution models for LA Riots and this is an opportunity to try another one. I found out yesterday that there is a 3 GB file size limit for all the torrents on MiniNova. LA Riots II is 3.4 GB, putting it well over the limit. Because of that, LA Riots is available to download in two forms: free via Bit Torrent and via direct download for $2.99. If you don’t want to download the whole thing, it’ll be on YouTube soon so sit tight.
As with LA Riots I, Bar Fights II and Arturo vs. Daigo: Match of 2009, LA Riots II is available for download via Bit Torrent for free. Unfortunately, as I mentioned above, the file size limit is 3GB, so I had to split it into two torrents.
Download Part I
Download Part II
Also available for your convenience is a direct download option for $2.99, which means you:
Unexpected results, great matches and plenty of surprises, LA Riots 2 was quite a show! Here are the quick results:
Those players are invited back for LA Riots III which will be announced soon.
5. Combofiend
5. Keno
7. Yeb
7. Jayce the Ace
These players are eliminated and won’t be in LA Riots III unless they make Top 4 at the next Bar Fights qualifying tournament which will be announced soon as well. :)
Shizza had a great run, defeating Ken I in winners and losers bracket as well as LA Riots I winner Combofiend. Combofiend was then eliminated by Kai’s El Fuerte, extracting some revenge for losing to Combofiend last time.
Jayce the Ace, who was a last minute addition, subbing in for Shady K, put on a good show but unfortunately went 2 and out against Combofiend and Ken I. Yeb also went 2 and out, losing to Keno in winners. Thanks to those guys for playing, better luck next time!
Wrap-Up Posts & Images
Please check out Xensin’s flickr for pictures and Coin-Op TV for their wrap-up. Thank you to TheStream.tv for having us, Coin-Op TV for production assistance and interviews and Mad Catz for kindly providing stick prizes for the winners! :)
Thank you to everyone who watched at home, our numbers were huge! LA Riots III info coming soon!
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LA Riots, SoCal’s most exclusive high-level tournament, is back again for round 2! This time, we have three new competitors, as well as five returning ones to complete the line-up (and one guy who got eliminated and then got his spot back!).
The new additions to the LA Riots line-up were the Top 4 finalists from Bar Fights @ Hooters last month, where Alex Valle, SoCal’s #1 player, defeated Our Hero Ken I, the Legend of the Orange Sweatshirt to win his spot at LA Riots II.
Also joining them, from way down south, San Diego’s favorite sons ShadyK and Yeb! ShadyK, who teamed up with LA Riots I competitor and Arcade Infinity Ranking Battle Season 3 point leader ComboJack this past weekend at The Box Arena’s Duael 2v2 and placed 2nd out of 42 other teams. His Akuma placed 5th at Evo 2009, so we’re really excited for his LA Riots debut!
Yeb beasted his way to LA Riots II by placing 4th at Bar Fights @ Hooters last month, beating out over 60 other competitors with his infamous Gen to secure his spot at LA Riots II.
Ken I, who went 0-2 last time with Akuma and was eliminated, is back because he got 2nd Place at Bar Fights @ Hooters last month. His Rufus came really close to beating Alex Valle’s Ryu in the Grand Finals, but ultimately Valle clutched it out for the win.
LA Riots I winner Combofiend, is back to defend his title and see if he can make it two LA Riots wins in a row with Abel. He and Valle teamed up this past weekend at The Box Arena’s Duael 2v2 to win the whole thing. Thank you to The Box Arena for letting me do commentary with Viscant and Killer Kai, it was a lot of fun as always! If you haven’t been to one of The Box Arena’s events at the Miramar Speed Circuit, you should go because in addition to a fun tournament, there is also go kart racing, which is where the Our Hero, Ken I image came from.
Keno has been doing well for himself recently, placing 7th with teammate Mike Ross this weekend at Duael. Last time he was sleep-deprived from The Specialists event at House of Cicada in Moreno Valley, CA and STILL managed to get 2nd, losing only to Combofiend with Balrog.
Kai’s El Fuerte is sure to be a crowd pleaser, as he had an exciting run last time, defeating Shizza’s Chun Li and Combojack’s Sagat to finish 3rd. He recently got 4th place this weekend at Arcade Infinity’s Ranking Battle #3.2, beating out over 50 other competitors, including Ken I, owning him pretty hard with a double Perfect in Top 8, something I don’t think I’ve ever seen before.
Finally, Shizza, the up and comer from the inner city, is back with his Chun Li. He placed Top 8 at the Bar Fights @ Hooters tournament and he is the only pad player on the line-up. If you play on pad in favor of a joystick, this kid should be your role model!
We’ll be streaming live on TheStream.tv, starting at 2PM. If you missed the first LA Riots, you can download the first half via Bit Torrent or Hotfile.
Commentary will be provided by myself, Mike Ross and West Coast Warzone co-director John Rog!
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Here it is! We have part 1 of LA Riots available for download. It’s an hour and 20 minutes long and part two will be out shortly. If you’re wondering why it takes so long it’s because we had to edit and fix a few things in the editing room that we got wrong during the original live broadcast. Also, I’m interested in hearing what you guys think of the release format because we can try it different ways.
Download links & pics after the jump…
I’m trying out different distribution methods for LA Riots. The first is using Bit Torrent to distribute via MiniNova for free and the second is direct downloads via Hotfile. The advantages of distributing through Bit Torrent and MiniNova are:
The disadvantages of Bit Torrent are:
The advantages of distributing through Hotfile are:
The disadvantages of distributing through Hotfile:
So that’s the difference. These are the two methods with which we are able to distribute high quality videos for free at no cost to the downloader. Other distribution options include DVDs and charging per download, both of which may be additional options in the future. For now, these seem to be the best methods for distributing free downloads without having to pay for additional bandwidth.
YouTube is great for discovering new videos and watching short tutorial/combo videos, but not so good for distributing longer videos. The goal of LA Riots was to produce a tournament with a run time that people will actually watch (sorry, I refuse to believe that anybody watches all 20 hours of a 2-day tournament). Due to the 10 minute length limit, YouTube is not the best place to distribute long videos. Yes, we can cut them up into 10 minute segments, but I want people to have the option to download the videos in a format they can store on their hard drive (h.264) or take with them on their portable devices (iPhone/iPod format).
If people are downloading the videos and adding them to their iTunes/Winamp/whatever library, I feel like they have more staying power and more value because they’ll be treated with the same respect as MP3s and downloaded movies. In addition, these videos that we are putting out have a fair amount of production effort put into them and so I would rather they be distributed as they were meant to be seen (in one big chunk or sitting, not in 10 minute bites).
Do you prefer:
I’m leaning toward the last option so that we would have the files named as such:
gootecks_Coin-Op_TV_Evo_Energy-LA_Riots-120509 (folder name)
WB stands for Winners’ Bracket and LB would stand for Losers’ Bracket.
The naming convention is derived from scene MP3 releases, which I believe are organized and packaged very efficiently and effectively. The reason for splitting up the matches is very simple. I’m viewing this event as a “video album” where each track is an individual match, rather than putting out one long album without tracks. This way you can load them into iTunes, Winamp or whatever you use to watch your videos and be able to transfer them to your portable devices easier.
Of course this is probably going to have to wait until LA Riots II (January 16th, 2010 BTW) or at least until part 2 is finished.
These photos are from Coin-Op TV
[h.264] 871MB – 1hr20min
[iPhone] 900mb – 1hr20min
[h.264] Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
[iPhone] Part 1 - Part 2
Thank you everyone for coming out to Bar Fights at Hooters in Anaheim on Friday! Hope you had a lot of fun, it was a lot of fun for us to put together and hopefully we will be able to do more of them in the future. The event was a huge success, nice to see a lot of new faces as well as familiar ones. 
Special thank you’s of course to Mad Catz for providing sticks to play on as well as a stick for our Match of the Night Winner, Jason! Also, thank you to Justin Wong and TriForce from Empire Arcadia for coming out as well as San Diego’s The Box Arena crew for coming out and bringing their fiercest competitors, Shady K and Yeb.
Thank you as always to Get Your Tournament, for providing excellent coverage. You can check out an interview Glenn did with the show stealer himself, 15 year old Jayce The Ace.
Full results, pics and vids after the jump…
1. Alex Valle (Ryu)
2. Ken I (Rufus)
3. Shady K (Akuma)
4. Yeb (Gen)
5. Jayce The Ace (C. Viper) <- Match of the Night Bonus winner
5. ComboJack (Sagat)
7. Hugo101 (M. Bison)
7. Shizza (Chun Li)
1st-4th place, in addition to winning the entrance fee pot and bonus $200 pot, also received LA Riots II invitations as well as Hooters gift cards! Actually 5th place got Hooters gift cards too, so thank you to Jeannie from Hooters for making that happen. 
This means that the LA Riots II (Saturday January 16th) player lineup is:
Thank you to Kelly from Get Your Tournament for taking these awesome pics! You can check out more of them on her Flickr.
I apologize for the shitty quality of these. I screwed up the direct HD footage that we recorded, so instead we have the ustream recorded clips. Sorry about that, my bad. 
More videos on the way as they are uploaded to YouTube.
GRAND FINALS: Alex Valle (Ryu) vs. Ken I (Rufus)
LOSER GETS 4TH: ShadyK (Akuma) vs. Yeb (Gen)
LOSERS FINALS: ShadyK (Akuma) vs. Ken I (Rufus)
LOSER GETS 5TH: ComboJack (Sagat) vs. Yeb (Gen)
*Match of the Night*LOSER GETS 7TH:
Shizza (Chun Li) vs. Jayce the Ace (C. Viper)
LOSER GETS 7TH: ComboJack (Sagat) vs. Hugo 101 (M. Bison)
Just wanted to give a quick preview of the first match from LA Riots this past weekend held at TheStream.tv. It was an 8-man invitational tournament that we streamed live featuring some of the best players in SoCal! We are currently in the process of editing the entire video in preparation for a Bit Torrent release, but in the meantime, you can download the first match here to whet your appetite for the rest of the video which will be coming out very soon.
Download link & stream after the jump…
[MP4] 15min – 233MB (via HotFile)
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