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|  "SNK Revolution Tournament Results"
, posted Wed 4 Aug 14:33:
As many know there was an unofficial SNK tournament at Evolution featuring many games such as KOF 2003, 2002, 98, Samurai Spirits 5, Samurai Spirits 2, SVC Chaos, and Last Blade 2. Fierceslash's Uncauzi unfortunately couldn't make it due to being jacked up at the airport. We missed him. Anyhow the locals here at California really came together (especially K-Force crew) to set a precedent for future and make history by holding the USA's first major SNK tournament. All told over 60 people played in the tournaments and more joined us as spectators. The SNK presence was definitely there and we were blessed with the presence of some of the world's best KOF players. Unfortunately none of us could locate a Samsho Neogeo cartridge...but samsho will get its chance in Overdose coming up. And I'm so glad to have been able to contribute my part with games and the like. I was eliminated first round in 2k2 by XTG who ended up getting 2nd in MOTW with Tizoc!?! Anyhow I'd like to highlight some of the major posts made by others about this tourney over at SRK. I go by Terry Fanatic over there and my 2k2 team was Kim, Shermie, Athena. I was still undefeated in 98 when we were kicked out around 2 am.
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67912&perpage=15&pagenumber=1
I quote: OK guys the time is here, the time to start this revolution and show what the SNK scene is in the US. As most of you know we will be having tournaments in the lounging area. We have a couple of people coming from Japan and London so lets show them some good stuff. This event has gone gold and there will be GOOD SNK COMPETITION with DVDs available later of the matches. So please come and play to represent the American SNK players. Good shit. Too bad no Sam Shos got loved, maybe next time. Good to know they got 60 people though...that's as much as fucking VF4 got last year in an official tourney.
Hmm.. I was expecting to see more updates.. so I'll go ahead and give my recap for the day. I'm not sure about the rest of the days, but on Fri, I think only the KoF 03, KoF02, Garou, and SVC Chaos tournaments were finished. 98 definitely didn't finish on Fri, but it may have resumed Sat (I didn't go). 02 had a fairly large tournament, and if I wasn't imagining, I think it ran about 4 hours. Garou's turnout was rather small, maybe about 12 people entered, and I wasn't watching SVC Chaos. There were people wearing K-Force shirts running the tournaments, and I believe at least one person in that group placed in each tournament played. As an added bonus, a couple Japanese players happened into the lounge, and one of them played a few people in 02 after the tournament, including the champion. I'd say he put on a pretty good show. If I understood his friend correctly (my Japanse kinda sucks), this guy was amongst the top four in some tournament in Japan (SBO maybe?). All in all, it was a fun day, w/ plenty of SNK gaming for the whole day. Another pleasant surprise was that there didn't seem to be a $20 entrance fee as initially stated.
Thanks for all the Garou I got to play it was alot of fun. The tourney was cool and all you K-force guys are really chill. Thanks again for hosting. Oh and to everyone I played in garou there were some really good matches Ren your to GOOD! and Nate god damn you landing 2 P.power 720s on me, TIIIIZZZZOOOOC!! Yes the K-Force guys did a really good job with everything keeping the whole tournament smooth and fun for everyone. Yes Nates Tizoc aka The Griffon definetly kicked ass i hate grabs they take too much but oh well my hotaru put up a great fight but came down. Cant wait to the videos i hope ours gets posted.
NOW THE RESULTS: http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1728912#post1728912
Hey guys I'm finally back it was a long weekend but we did it, thanks to everybody who showed up it was a great turn out we had a diversity of players from different countries like England, the Middle East, Asia, and South America, for some of the tourneys. A very good show and some nervbreaking matches.
KOF 02: 20people
1st:Eric [K-FORCE] (clarck,Iori,Chris)
2nd:Ryan Hart(clarck,Iori,Ryo)
3rd:Jimmy(Vanessa,Angel,Billy)
4th:The Answer[K-FORCE] (Yashiro,Billy,Chris)
(BTW, RF(KOF master) dint join this tournament)
KOF 03:12people
1st:RF(KOFMASTER)Duolon,Benimaru,Daimon
2nd:Eric[K-FORCE]Duolon,Jhun,Iori
3rdtie:K4 and Me (duolon,malin,daimon and king)
SVC Chaos:20people
1st:Eric(EIori,Gesse)
2nd:Ellias(Gesse)
3rd:K4[K-FORCE](Zero,Tessa)
4th:Kindevu(Takuma)
Garou:12people
1st:Magician(Grant)
2nd:XTG[K-FORCE](Tizoc)
3rd:Me =P(Rock)
4th:Caesar? (correct me if I'm wrong, please)(Hotaru)
SPECIAL MATCH:
RF(KOFMASTER)vsEric(KOF02Champion):
The only thing I have to say is that RF is a MASTER. (keep an eye for the video)
Once again thanks to everybody who showed up and participated specially Terry Fanatic, and the guys who helped me with the garou tourney. Special thanks to the EVO staff for leting us make this and not trippin at all and we actually helped each other. Sorry K-FORCE vs JUSTIN W couldnt go down due to Justins lack of time. And finally, Videos were recorded they have been sent to NY for UnCuazi to Edit and post them they should be available this week keep an eye on the up date. Nice work on this SNK tourny. I'll be waiting to see some vids sometime soon. And I hope this goes down again next year...maybe even bigger. Good, I'm happy the matches run well... Also, No KoF98?...Aaawww. Anyways, Congrats from the 1st place to the last place, just for being there and compete u deserve a big GRATZ! More SnK,plz! Wow...where do I start? Being a part of this SNK Revolution tourney was one of the most rewarding/interesting/fun events of my life. I must give mad crazy props to everyone from the K-Force crew especially Oscar and Nate and many others whom I respect. The tourney ran until they kicked us out at like 1:30 am or something like that in the middle of 98 tourney. We were cleaning up around 2 am or so. I was definitely stoked to see many famous players in too many high level matches. Another highlight was the sheer variety of the characters that got used.
We had specialists for almost every character. I remember Angel, Vanessa, Heavy D!, Maxima, Andy, Vice, NFT, Kyo, Orochi NFT...hell the only character I don't remember seeing were like Chin and Ramon. Plus Griffon got very far under XTG which is downright insane if you ask me. And Eric's play was both fearsome and inspiring. I learned a lot and came away with a sense of inspiration to grow. I had to pressure K-Force members and dog on them a lot cuz I thought that was my way of helping them make sure everything went smoothly. I apologize for that. =P I do hope we organize something better next year and I sincerely hope to keep in touch with all the cool people who came and represented. I may suck but I salute you all for coming to play. Once again many thx to The Answer, the awesome K-Force members, many others who came and really played their hearts out... This was indeed a very special and historical event. Btw, I believe there were 12 people in the 98 tourney. i had some awsome matches in the garou tourny magician was to much though hes grant beat me down!!! well i guess xtg got hes revenge on me beacause i beat hes tizoc in our first match but he took me down in semi's well i hope to keep in touch with every one and thanks cant wait until our next encounter magi and xtc sorry i didn't get to play oldman but maybe next time (hotaru for life) shoshoshin!!!! Too bad I couldn't make it out to play with you guys. Sounds like it was a blast. A Tiz player gets second? That's nuts, way to pimp the bottom tier. Eagerly awaiting vids. Once again, good shit for K-Scrub, I told you I'd beef up your Griffon son. =p Big Fall forever dawg. =p Hey guys once again thanks for your positive comments I was expecting a bunch of haters (as usual) but this feels good.
BTW my name is OSCAR feel free to say hi is you see me at the arcade. It was very stresing but we managed to come through at the end at least all of my members and my self went 22 hours with out a single bite of food. It was hard but it was worth it. Remember this is a proof of when the SNK community really wants something it can happen, we just need to come together organize and make this happen we need everybodies help if we want this to keep on going, lets not let it die here. Am glad I had my team on my side and the fact that they had my back on everything. The same way if anybody else wants to do something let me know and Ill try to help them to keep this alive. Lets aim for something bigger. THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN. Well at least i know your name now oscar im Cesar De Alba and i hope to keep in touch and maybe one day i can play you guys again i need my rematch at garou versus nate!!! Well its late im out peace! The Future Is Now!!!!!!! In summary, RF placed 4th at SBO Japan for 2k2. Also Kindevu or Kingdevu I hear took 1st at SBO Japan for CVS2. And Ryan Hart is the feared Tri-state champion for UK, France, and Kuwait for 98. Eric the Beast who is a local put on quite a show for us. Quite frankly, I was downright inspired by their play. My props to Jimmy for taking skill characters like Angel and Vanessa to 3rd. Also I'd like to thank everyone who couldn't be there but supported us anyway. Thanks for reading & sorry for another long ass post. XD
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| "Re(2):SNK Revolution Tournament Results" , posted Wed 4 Aug 15:23:
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You've mixed up with Maan.
Ryan's no more any crown. :p
Besides at a KOF '02 tournament, which took place the 31-01-2004 in London, organized by R. Hart himself : no english player hasn't passed the "poule" and all the 8 quarter-finalists were French. lol
The current champion of KOF '02 in France is Cesar, the champion of KOF 98 & '02 of Chile, who lives now in Spain.
OMG, nobody play Choi in the '02 tournament ?
Why Grant was allowed for the Garou tournament ? and where the Kevin R. players ?
Oh yeah, Mann of course. How could I forget as an ONer?! Anyhow, I blame Gunsmith for always touting Ryan as UK's only claim to fame against those beasts in France. lmao... And yes I did hear about that UK tournament where the French ruled. XD Anyway, some of the other famous players from Europe...Salim, Farid, Bruno etc. Well now the USA's KOF scene has Eric. Btw, Ryan's Clark was as sharp as ever. Insane Clark rushdown...I was speechless.
Apparently nobody knew how to play Kevin or something like that. And people just decided to allow both Grant and Kain for some reason. I think there was one Kain? Overall the top tiers weren't whored all that much. People tried to choose a wide range of characters I think? Hell, Griffon/Tizoc took second...he kept landing 720s and big falls... Same for 2k2. I can't remember if I saw any Chois or not... Anyhow, my Shermie and Athena got wasted. Kim was my only chance.
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