ElvenShadow

Absolutely. I could even add it as an official tournament if someone wants to run it and theres enough interest.

Without further delay, I am proud to preset Frosty Faustings IV. Chicago's major winter tournament series. If you care at all about support the Guilty Gear scene and showing the world that GG is far from dead, come support this event. There will also be SSFIVAE, Marvel, MK, BB and more. I AM TAKING PRE REGISTRATION IN THIS THREAD. IF YOU PLAN ON COMING, PLEASE POST YOUR TOURNAMENT NAME AND THE GAMES YOU WISH TO ENTER. I WILL COMPILE A LIST AND KEEP IT UPDATED. (pre registration is not required but it helps us to make brackets faster and will be beneficial for everyone coming.) When: Saturday, January 7th, 2012. Where: Nickel City 555 Waukegan Road Northbrook, IL 60062 Closest Airport: Ohare Airport (ORD) Start time: 11:00 AM - Sign ups for all games begins. 12:00 AM - GGXX, SSFIV, MK start as for UMVC3, BB, and KOF... those games will start roughly an hour or so after the other games start. Teams start once all singles tournaments are finished. We have the venue until 3 am. All tournaments will easily finish before then, but we will have extra time for casuals and money matches. Also remember that there will be casuals at Nickel City on Friday night from 7 pm. Regardless of what games you plan to enter, please be there at 11 AM for registration. Even though some games start later, we want to be able to make brackets as fast as we can Though Nickel City is an arcade, all games will be played on console Fees: There will be a $10 venue fee. Please help out by bringing any TVs or consoles that would help things run smoother and allow for more casuals and tournaments to run faster. Anyone who brings a setup that we use in the tournaments will get 5 dollars off the Venue fee. Tournament games: the main event... Guilty Gear XX Accent Core: singles PS2 $20 entry fee (with top 8 payout) best 2/3, double elimination. Semi finals 3/5. Grand finals, 4/7. prize split 1st (50%), 2nd (20%), 3rd (12%), 4th (6%), 5th (4%), 6th (4%), 7th (2%), 8th (2%) (1st place will also get an additional $200 pot bonus on top of the prize split from entry fees) Standard tournament rules (no Kliff, Justice, gold, or shadow characters) Winner must keep character, loser my switch Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition: singles xbox360 $20 entry fee (with top 8 payout) best 2/3, double elimination. Semi finals 3/5. Grand finals, 4/7. prize split 1st (50%), 2nd (20%), 3rd (12%), 4th (6%), 5th (4%), 6th (4%), 7th (2%), 8th (2%) (1st place will also get an additional $100 pot bonus on top of the prize split from entry fees) Standard tournament rules (all characters and ultras are selectable) Winner must keep character, loser my switch Ultra may be switched anytime Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 xbox360 $20 entry fee (with top 8 payout) best 2/3, double elimination. Semi finals 3/5. Grand finals, 4/7. prize split 1st (50%), 2nd (20%), 3rd (12%), 4th (6%), 5th (4%), 6th (4%), 7th (2%), 8th (2%) (1st place will also get an additional $100 pot bonus on top of the prize split from entry fees) Standard tournament rules (winner must keep team, loser may switch) BlazBlue CS (version TBA)* ps3 $20 entry fee (with top 8 payout) best 2/3, double elimination. Semi finals 3/5. Grand finals, 4/7. prize split 1st (50%), 2nd (20%), 3rd (12%), 4th (6%), 5th (4%), 6th (4%), 7th (2%), 8th (2%) Standard tournament rules Winner must keep character, loser my switch *(I am willing to use whatever version the BB community wants. BBCS Extend will be out in Japan by the time FFIV happens but I don't think the US version will be. If some people can provide import copies of the game and bring it, I am fine with having BBCS Extend. Please make your voice heard on this issue BB players.) Mortal Kombat 9 ps3 $20 entry fee (with top 8 payout) best 2/3, double elimination. Semi finals 3/5. Grand finals, 4/7. prize split 1st (50%), 2nd (20%), 3rd (12%), 4th (6%), 5th (4%), 6th (4%), 7th (2%), 8th (2%) Standard tournament rules King Of Fighters XIII (PS3) $10 entry fee (with top 5 payout) 3v3 60 sec round timer, 2/3 matches. Grand finals 3/5. All stages, dlc/unlockable characters (so far) are allowed. Loser can change team and order, winner can change order. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core: teams PS2 $10 dollars per player ($20 dollars per team) 2 on 2 team tournament no same character teams single match, double elimination prize split 1st - 70%, 2nd - 20%, 3rd - 10% Standard tournament rules (no Kliff, Justice, gold, or shadow characters) Waseda style Super Street Fighter IV: teams Xbox360 3 on 3 team tournament no same character teams $10 entry per person ($30 per team) best 2/3. double elimination. Semi finals 3/5. Grand finals, 4/7. prize split 1st - 70%, 2nd - 20%, 3rd - 10% Standard tournament rules (all characters and ultras are selectable) Winner stays on Ultra may be switched anytime I am willing to have Marvel teams IF we have time. It depends on how quickly things move along. (team games begin after singles) Osirun from Power Up will be giving away $30 redemption coupons to all of the 1st place finishers of each of the main events at Frosty Faustings IV. There will be one ticket for each main tournament (singles), so that would be a total of 5 tickets (GGAC, SSFIV, UMvC3, BBCS, MK9). This is a nice added bonus and is in addition to any prize money that the top finishers will win otherwise. Thanks to Osirun for giving these away! For more information about Power Up 2012, check the thread here. Other tournaments Here are side tournaments that people plan to run. Arcana Heart 3: singlesPS3 (by Greats) $5 entry fee (top 3 payout 70/30/10 split) Best 2/3, double elimination. Winners finals, Losers finals, and Grand finals are all 3/5. No game breaking glitches (i.e. Tyr Nazuna lock glitch) Winner must keep character, loser my switch. Both players are allowed to switch Arcana on win or loss. Blind arcana select is allowed (by the games built in function) Arcana Heart 3: teams PS3 (by Greats) $5 entry fee per player, so $10 per team (top 3 payout, 70/30/10 split) Double Elim Waseda format (first 2 players play, second 2 players play, then if it's a tie the winners play for a tie breaker, and the teams can decide what order they go in) Same rules as singles otherwise. No extra matches for finals except for GF if the team from losers bracket resets it. Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code 1.07 PC Ver. (run by Brandinoli) - $5 Entry fee (payout's 70/20/10 for top 3) - Double elim, best of 2/3 games, winners finals, losers finals, and grand finals will all be 3/5 - In game macros are allowed - No game breaking glitches, pausing will result in forfeiture of the match - Winner may not switch characters, losers may switch character, both players will be allowed to switch moon styles win or lose. Skullgirls: Frosty Faustings will officially have a Skullgirls demo setup for people to try out throughout the day. A representative from Reverge Labs will be there to answer questions and show the game! If you haven't tried it out yet, now is a great chance to try what is shaping up to be an excellent game. Parking: Plenty of parking at Nickel City Hotels: Red Roof Inn Chicago - Northbrook/Deerfield 340 South Waukegan Rd Deerfield, IL 60015 847-205-1755 http://www.redroof.com/reservations/property-detail.aspx?pid=00188 Cheap rooms and right accross the street from Nickel City. Stream We will have an official live stream run by Medina4life. Please help out by bringing any TVs or consoles that would help things run smoother and allow for more casuals and tournaments to run faster. About me and Frosty Faustings: I used to live in Chicago and am one of the most well known Guilty Gear players from the US. I have been living in Japan for almost 4 and a half years. Every year, I visit Chicago and run Frosty Faustings to help out the scene and get some games in with everyone. Please come support this event!

blog updated again I took some pics, not sure when I will upload them but I will post when I do

I finally got around to uploading a TON of pictures dating all the way back to June. Check out my pictures page if you are interested. Link is on my blog.

Blog updated. Candydad, yea dude it was cool running into you at Mikado. Good games. See you next time you visit Japan. St1ckbug, yea bad timing. Hopefully next time

Actually poker isnt all that popular here. Most of the people we play with are just other foreigners (aside from one Japanese guy and my girlfriend). Yea, sucks I wont be around this weekend. My sports festival landed on the worst possible day for me this year.

blog updated i tried uploading a bunch of old photos last week but flickr was being a bunch of bitches so it wasnt working for some reason. i will try again soon and post if it works

Dont worry, I plan to make it to that poker game the next day so i wont go TOO crazy... plus last weekend I drank way too much. So yea, you guys should join me at the bars.

Alright then, I can meet up with you guys Saturday night after Final Roundbats is over. If you want to go out drinking, I can take you guys to Current, PSY, and GODZ. If you just wanna take it easy and play GG casuals, I suppose we could play at Kyles place if he doesnt mind. Sunday, I am playing poker in Gunma so I wont be sticking around. The following weekend is my schools sports festival so I have to work and will probably just end up staying in Gunma the whole time. So, the only time I will see you is probably Saturday night but we can play games or drink or whatever. Ill pm you my cellphone info.

Hellmonkey, how long are you going to be living here? I might not be around in Tokyo the weekend you arrive but Ill be around in Tokyo fairly often as usual so im sure we will find some time to drink and play games. Blade, I think I already uploaded those on my flickr page. I actually have been super lazy with uploading pics and I have ton of pictures from a while back up until now that I need to upload so I should hopefully have those up sometime this week. I will post on here when they are uploaded.

blog has been updated St1ckbug, what exact dates will you be here? I'm sure I can probably meet up with you around some point. The first weekend of September, I will be just staying in my town. I should be in Tokyo the weekend of Sept 10th and the Final Roundbats tournament is going on at Hobgoblin in Akasaka so if you are interested in coming out to play some SF and Marvel or just to chill and drink and eat pizza, that would be cool. As for the weekend of TGS and SBO... it pains me to say this but I cant make it to SBO this year. My school's sports festival falls on the same day as SBO this year so I have to work. Im not sure what my plans are going to be like for that weekend. I may or may not even go to Tokyo. As far as recomended places, if you wanna play GG, you should go to Mikado. Its right next to Takadanobaba station in the ally by the Lawson. You can see it from the station platform. I guess if you have any more specific questions just let me know

Ikagki-chan, I dont know their reasons for it but as far as general rules or whatever, its totally fine to play in a tournament that you are running. I always enter the GG tournaments where I run brackets like at Frosty Faustings and other past Chicago majors that I have ran the brackets for. The only real down side to it is that things can slow down slightly when you are playing your match cuz you cant call new ones but if you have someone to help you out or if you call lots of matches on deck before you play, things will continue to run smoothly for the few minutes you are playing your match.

I know I ocved like 2 teams at least and I was sometimes using the blue faust. RF used black faust the whole time so it must have been me. what characters were on the team?

nice show, just listened Steve, im more than happy to give you a run back anytime. please come to frosty faustings.

lol stay free have you ever even played him?

GGXX results singles 1. ElvenShadow (FA) 2. Josh the funk doc (AB) 3. Afrika (OR) 2 on 2 teams tournament 1. ElvenShadow / Afrika 2. M.Song / Chronosabre 3. Nives / Ukyo Tachibana good tournament. good people. good times. Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition 8/13/2011 64-man bracket 1 Wolfkrone 2 Big Marcus 3 Scrimps 4 BP amoco 5 TFA Octopus on Fire 5 Grouchy 7 PGFX Kiu 7 IFD Humbag 9 WLA Juggernaught 9 Saltymad 9 American Cyclone 9 Ben L 13 Sgt Toasty 13 Nick Pants 13 Jason Y 13 J-Money 17 Tactics 17 Kobashi 17 B Lit 17 Aki 17 Drew A 17 Saixhinata 17 Danke 17 Elvenshadow 25 KONKRETE 25 HungryMan 25 Ladyboy-One 25 Ladyboy-Two 25 Rashad 25 Nolan 25 Joe Fernandez 25 The Guyver 33 Koose 33 TFA DeeDogg 33 Michael Tackett 33 Young Raida 33 Dan V 33 carefree 33 Footmeetskull 33 Frank 33 Andrew Suh 33 TFAholdie 33 TJL 33 Nick Vidmar 33 Ken Playuh 33 Ronaldo V 33 The Blackness 33 HOUSEFACE 49 Grant L. 49 Madwak 49 Nyfe 49 xSquatx 49 Callisto 49 Lifeless God 49 Joey D 49 Falconoclaf 49 Twin 49 Ben O 49 JSUN2k 49 Noski 49 Sam G 49 Young Tatsu 49 qqcent McFury 49 Zachina Box Marvel vs Capcom 3 8/13/2011 64-man bracket 1 Brightside 2 Squirrel Jobs 3 WLA Juggernaught 4 J-Money 5 Ronaldo V 5 Jerry Seinfeld 7 Mystic Bill 7 Frankie G 9 Kerahima~<3 9 Nives 9 EmptyShiki 9 David Acevedo 13 Danke 13 Flying_V 13 Armadirro Pirrow Pet 13 Tony K 17 Chronocide 17 Elvenshadow 17 The Guyver 17 David Costello 17 SonicSpear 17 Zachinabox 17 Rashad 17 IFD Humbag 25 BP amoco 25 carefree 25 Ted Swyers 25 lifelessgod 25 The Blackrose 25 Sgt Toasty 25 Killah J 25 Juggler 33 Killtz 33 B Lit Mortal Kombat 9 results 35 entrants 1. Slips (Scorpion) 2. 16 bit (Kitana) 3. Josh tha Funk Doc (Kano) 4. Juju (Kung Lao) T-5. MOE (Kung Lao) T-5. Dizzy (Johnny Cage) T-7. TBK T-7. Treadmill (Reptile) more results will be posted in this thread soon (if people bother to do it) also... beer

ill be on the show tonight.

Leaving to go back to Chicago tomorrow! I'm hype for it!

blog updated this will be the last one for about a month since im going to be in the US for 3 weeks, leaving tomorrow

fragile, check your private messages

another update posted

yea, i will be running the GG tournament. please come out and support this event! will be good times for sure!

blog updated Also, I made some mistakes on the previous blog post regarding the tournament results from Final Roundbat 1 but you can find full brackets and results here http://www.finalroundbats.blogspot.com/

that shouldnt be a problem. id probly have that in my system anyway lol

spirit juice, only if the old man tournament involves lots of booze