Toasty Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 (edited) Welcome to Michigan Ranking Battles season 5, brought to you by TFA AaronS and Toasty. This is going to be the smoothest, hypest, and biggest ranbat season yet, so you better be ready to fight! Schedule and Games 2:00 – Blazblue Continuum Shift double elimination tournament, Super Street Fighter 4 Danisen Battle, FREE Melty Blood: Actress Again double elimination side tournament. 5:00 – Super Street Fighter 4 double elimination tournament, FREE Guilty Gear Accent Core and Hokuto no Ken double elimination side tournament. Location and Dates MI Ranbats take place at The Game Yard, a gaming center in Garden City, MI. It’s conveniently located between Ann Arbor and Detroit. Directions can be found at www.thegameyard.com Next event: Saturday, February 19th (there will still be SF and one more free AH on the 5th, the rest will be $5). The tournaments will follow a biweekly schedule, so there should be another one on THE 19TH WILL BE THE LAST RANBAT BEFORE MICHIGAN MASTERS. Pricing and Prizes There is a $3 venue fee to participate in the ranbat. This money goes to Gameyard. Blazblue costs $7. $5 goes to the prize for the ranbat, and $2 goes towards the prize for our end-of-the-season-event, Michigan Masters (more on this later). The SF Danisen Battle is free. The SF bracket costs $12. $10 goes to the prize for the ranbat, and $2 goes towards the prize for our end-of-the-season-event, Michigan Masters (more on this later). Both Guilty Gear and Melty Blood are free to enter so if you haven’t played them before, come and try them out. All cash tournaments have a 70/20/10 prize split. Rules Blazblue Continuum Shift: This is a regular double elimination event. If you lose, you are allowed to switch characters. Matches are 2/3 games, 2/3 rounds. Winners finals, losers finals and grand finals are all 3/5 games, 2/3 rounds. Unlimited characters are BANNED. All DLC characters are ALLOWED. Melty Blood: Actress Again: This is a regular double elimination event. If you lose, you are allowed to switch characters/Moon styles. You can still switch Moon styles even if you win. Matches are 2/3 games, 2/3 rounds. Winners finals, losers finals and grand finals are all 3/5 games, 2/3 rounds. Archetype Earth and all Eclipse characters are BANNED. Guilty Gear Accent Core: This is a regular double elimination event. If you lose, you are allowed to switch characters. Matches are 2/3 games, 2/3 rounds. Winners finals, losers finals and grand finals are all 3/5 games, 2/3 rounds. Kliff, Justice, all EX, Gold, Infinite tension, etc. characters are BANNED. Hokuto no Ken: This is a regular double elimination event. If you lose, you are allowed to switch characters. Matches are 2/3 games, 2/3 rounds. Winners finals, losers finals and grand finals are all 3/5 games, 2/3 rounds. Arcana Heart 3: Regular double elimination event. If you lose, you are allowed to switch characters/Arcanas. If the loser chooses to change anything, the winner is allowed to switch their Arcana. Matches are 2/3 games, 2/3 rounds. Winners finals, losers finals and grand finals are all 3/5 games, 2/3 rounds. Played in Original (4:3) mode. SF Danisen Battle: Danisen Battle is a tournament format in which players compete to reach the highest possible “Dan”. The ranks are 1st Dan through 10th Dan. All players start at 1st Dan, and can only play against opponents that are within 1 Dan of themselves (i.e. a 2nd Dan can fight a 3rd Dan, but not a 4th Dan.) Each match you win will earn you a point. Each match you lose will lose you a point (to a minimum of 0.) Every 3 points you earn will advance you to the next Dan, every 3 points you lose will drop you by a Dan (1st Dan is the lowest). The player at the highest Dan at the end of the season is the winner. If you win a game you can stay on the station and take on another opponent. If you lose or you rank up you have to get up and let someone else have a chance. The purpose of the Dan Battle is to allow us to have a structured environment to practice in. It allows you to play a lot more games against players of similar skill than you are going to be able to play in a regular double elim format. There is no prize for the Dan Battle, but it will allow us to raise the skill level of Mi a lot quicker. Make sure if you win a match to give some tips to the other player. Make sure if you lose a match to ask your opponent what you can improve on. And have fun! Dan battle matches are 2/3 games, 2/3 rounds. SSF4 bracket: This is a regular double elimination event. The brackets are seeded according to the Season 5 rankings (details below). Matches are 2/3 games, 2/3 rounds. Winners finals, losers finals and grand finals are all 3/5 games, 2/3 rounds. If you lose a game you can switch your character. You can switch your ultra if you win or lose. Ranking and Michigan Masters This is a ranking battle series, which means you will be ranked throughout the season based on your performance in each tournament. Points are awarded based on your placing in the bracket: 1st – 8 points 2nd – 5 points 3rd – 4 points 4th – 3 points 5th – 2 points 7th – 1 point This ranking system will be applied to the BB brackets, and the SSF4 brackets. The Dan Battles are separate. Brackets will be seeded according to these rankings. At the end of the season the top 6 players will be invited to participate in the Michigan Masters Exhibition Event. This is a tournament featuring the best players in MI, with a large cash bonus (collected from the league fees from the ranking battles). More details will be posted towards the end of Season 5. Season 5 will be comprised of approximately 6 tournaments (3 months). I’ll see you guys at Gameyard! :D Edited February 9, 2011 by Toasty
Toasty Posted October 21, 2010 Author Posted October 21, 2010 (edited) SRK Thread. Results thread. Current BBCS rankings: 53 pts- Leonil 19 pts- Proto 19 pts- Axis 14 pts- Jago 11 pts- Skye 11 pts- Juicy Chicken 10 pts- BigBadBrownBear 10 pts- Kenta 6 pts- Toasty 5 pts- Jay 3 pts- Grendy 3 pts- MyHeroMike 3 pts- Shadow 3 pts- Troy 3 pts- Luna 2 pts- Blak 1 pt- Lumin 1 pt- vnts I will be updating this post for every ranbat to get a list of who's bringing harddrives and setups. harddrives: (360)Prototype909 (360)ShadowFlash (360)Skye Setups: (PS2's)- Prototype909 ShardZ ShadowFlash (CRT TV) One will be already provided- ShardZ Games: (BBCS)- Prototype909 ShadowFlash Skye (GGAC)- Toasty Prototype909 ShardZ ShadowFlash(if needed) (MBAA)- Prototype909 ShardZ ShadowFlash No need to bring 360/PS3 consoles, the Gameyard will provide them. Shoutouts to AaronS for writing most of the first post other than the BB/GG/MB rules. Please let me know if you are going to bring anything, and don't forget to bring your arcade sticks. Edited February 20, 2011 by Toasty
A.X.I.S. Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 for melty whats a eclipse character? infact what is a arch-type earth?
Prototype909 Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 for melty whats a eclipse character? infact what is a arch-type earth? Eclipse Characters are boss versions of each character (It's a unique style like Crescent/Half/Full Moon), they can only be accessed with hacks but better safe than sorry. Archetype Earth is a playable boss character, basically an extremely broken and overpowered version of Arcueid. On default she is only accessible in Eclipse Style (Only one who doesn't require a hack), but you can do a glitch to get a "Crescent" version of her (Who is still broken). Hence why the entire character is banned.
ShardZ Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 lol crescent arc:earth is awesome. Also, for any tournament I make it to I can bring a CRT TV, PS2, MBAA, and GGAC.
Prototype909 Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 lol crescent arc:earth is awesome. Also, for any tournament I make it to I can bring a CRT TV, PS2, MBAA, and GGAC. I wish she was balanced (And finished) I would main her Having her own sprites would be a good start
Toasty Posted October 21, 2010 Author Posted October 21, 2010 I added your stuff in ShardZ, and I'm assuming we'll see more BBCS and HD volunteers once more people get back from school/work.
ShardZ Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 I could bring BBCS and HD+Makoto too, but I probably won't bother getting Valkenhayn or Platinum unless the eventual balance patch makes me reeeaaally want to play again. Proto - I'm with you on that, but crescent is perfect as is imo. Best specials/EXs/ADs in the game :>
Prototype909 Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 I could bring BBCS and HD+Makoto too, but I probably won't bother getting Valkenhayn or Platinum unless the eventual balance patch makes me reeeaaally want to play again. Proto - I'm with you on that, but crescent is perfect as is imo. Best specials/EXs/ADs in the game :> Her AD is so fuckin ugly, shit wasn't even coded
Grendy Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 So if I'm reading this right the whole season of GG and MB will be free? Then if hype is big enough next season will start with some monies involved? Edit: The dan battles sound pretty awesome, in all honesty I may jump in on those just because it would be some nice practice. If any of the other scenes ever got big enough I hope we would adopt this kinda setup.
Toasty Posted October 21, 2010 Author Posted October 21, 2010 So if I'm reading this right the whole season of GG and MB will be free? Then if hype is big enough next season will start with some monies involved? That's the plan. Free GG/MB will hopefully encourage new players to those games to give them a try, and hopefully build a bigger scene for them.
Grendy Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 I'm fine with that but skye, BO, and toasty I'm expecting things from you. The better be some Fafnir's, Dark Angel's, and Pilebunker's to get the crowd going. Don't worry ill make sure to hold my end as well.
Toasty Posted October 21, 2010 Author Posted October 21, 2010 Updated second post with your info Skye. Grendy, you use Johnny in GG right?
Grendy Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 I'm working on a Johnny, my main would have to be O-Sol just everytime I turn the game on another character looks badass and I gotta try um.
Prototype909 Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 Me and Toasty have discussed some stuff and we've decided that at the end of the season (Roughly a two month period), or approximately 6 sessions of ranbats, we will assess the interest for both GG and MB and determine if their pools merit money entry fees (Each decided differently of course). Mostly restating what was already said, but bottom line is don't take the games being free for granted. If you want to play the games (and are hesitant) get at them while they are free (In more ways than one).
Black Onslaught Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 Pile Bunker > Roman Cancel > Respect xN Anytime I can make it to ranbats I'll bring my PS3 ( Mu, Makoto, Valk etc etc etc ) First ranbat I'll probably do BBCS Casuals, I'm trying to be there for MBAA and GGAC unless niggas are blowing up BBCS or something.
AaronS Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 Count my Potemkin in for GG. SLIDE FUCKING HEAD
ShardZ Posted October 22, 2010 Posted October 22, 2010 SRK thread: http://shoryuken.com/f7/michigan-ranbats-s-5-garden-city-mi-biweekly-254586/
Prototype909 Posted October 22, 2010 Posted October 22, 2010 Due to some shit that went down today in my house life I don't know if I'll be able to attend the first season of ranbats. Will update if the situation changes.
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