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I was recently on the I Play Winner podcast for episode #2 hosted by haunts and also featuring Oichi. The main topic of conversation was training by top players. Check it out on I Play Winner and check out Oichi’s site, Versus City, a site about the Japanese fighting game scene.
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Tonight at 5PM PST/8PM EST is the premiere of Ian Cofino’s I Got Next documentary about the fighting game scene. It’s going to be streamed on UFragTV and afterwards there will be a Q&A session with myself, Mike Ross, iloveu and Ian.
For those of you not familiar with I Got Next, here are Ian’s words:
I Got Next is a free documentary on the fighting video game scene created by Ian Cofino (with much support from my friends, professors, and family). It originally started as my senior project at Purchase College, School of Art and Design, and has grown into something much bigger thanks to the dedicated and passionate players in the community. Originally envisioned as a short documentary, I Got Next has grown into a feature length production, which will see two releases, a short cut in June and a longer cut in the winter of ‘09.
It features Justin Wong, Mike Ross, iloveu and myself, with appearances by familiar faces in the community such as dogface, James Chen, Ed Ma and Alex Valle. It follows some of the regional SF4 tournaments that we’ve been in this year such as Sinsation Fight Club and Final Round XII.
If you can’t catch the premiere live, you’ll be able to download it later for free in a few days from the I Got Next site.
Watch it now after the jump…
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Saturday June 27th is the very first all-girls Ladies of Street Fighter 4 tournament at Arcade Infinity. It’s being put on by shoo, who organizes and runs the SF4 AI ranking battles. Yes, you read right. An all-girls Street Fighter 4 tournament! Could be the next mud wrestling, who knows? Either way, it’s going to be a lot of fun. Here are some of the pics of a few of the girls:
Also, Get Your Tournament did some videos with some of the girls including Keno and his girlfriend Teresa, JayJay and her cousin UTJ (SBO Qualifier MVP!) and of course shoo and nomnomnaomi.
So come check it out tomorrow, I’ll be there.
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Just got word of an online SF4 tournament you may be interested in. It’s Newegg’s Summer Warfest and there are $25,000 in prizes (but only $1,250 for SF4 :(). Either way it’s free to enter and it starts on June 29.
The format is best of 5 rounds, best of 3 games, SINGLE elimination. So man up lol no losing here! Here’s the other games:
# NHL ’09 (1v1) on Xbox 360 starts June 29th
# Street Fighter IV (1v1) on Xbox 360 starts June 29th
# Counter-Strike 1.6 (5v5) on PC starts July 6th
# Dawn of War 2 (1v1) on PC starts July 6th
# Gears of War 2 (4v4) on Xbox 360 starts July 13th
# Left 4 Dead (4v4) on PC starts July 13th
And ESEA is involved in some capacity so you know that it’s going to run smooth (they did the tourney logistics at WCG Fighters Club and the Target booth at E3).
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I’m over at Devastation right now in Arizona. Today is the first day of Street Fighter 4 and it’s going to be streamed live by djWHEAT and Slasher.
Aside from Street Fighter 4, the plan is to stream Tekken 6, Guilty Gear Accent Core, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Guitar Hero: World Tour, SF3: 3rd Strike, Marvel vs Capcom 2, SSF2 Turbo HD Remix, and King of Fighters XII. The video feeds for all the games will be hooked up directly to the cabinets for great quality. This will also be the first Tekken 6 tournament in the US, and the first major KOFXII event, in case you care about those games. 
Big names that are here include SBO qualifiers Combofiend and fuburduck, Ed Ma, Ken I, Mike Ross, Justin Wong, fLoE and Marn.
There will also be commentary by myself and whoever else we can collectively get to make the stream a little better. There is also a chat room, go to djWHEAT’s ustream channel.
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