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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!
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!).
New Players
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.
Returning Players
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!
Live On Saturday at 2PM
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!
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…
Distribution Methods and Naming Conventions
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:
no bandwidth costs
faster download speeds
visibility to a new audience
The disadvantages of Bit Torrent are:
some ISPs throttle Bit Torrent downloads
sub-optimal download speeds if not configured properly
requires additional software to download i.e. uTorrent (Windows), Transmission (OS X)
The advantages of distributing through Hotfile are:
no bandwidth costs for the distributor
no Bit Torrent knowledge necessary for the downloader
faster download speeds for premium users
The disadvantages of distributing through Hotfile:
slower downloads (capped at 150k/s) for free users
one download at a time for free users
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.
Why Not Just Use YouTube?
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:
one large file release (total runtime is 2hrs30min approximately at about 2GB file size)
two releases of halves (this part is 871mb, part 2 should be about 950mb)
weekly releases of approximately 40 minute files
one large release of the matches cut into individual files
I’m leaning toward the last option so that we would have the files named as such:
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.
Line-Up
Keno (Balrog) vs. Shizza (Chun Li)
Kai (El Fuerte) vs. ComboJack (Sagat)
Ken I (Akuma) vs. Combofiend (Abel)
gootecks (Balrog) vs. Mike Ross (E. Honda/Zangief)
