At Evolution 2009 this past summer, a very special LIVE Dogface Show took place with some very special guests: Tom “inkblot” Cannon and Tony “Ponder” Cannon, creators of many Fighting Game Community standards such as Shoryuken.com itself, the Evolution Fighting Game Championships, GGPO, and more!

Part 1 of this interview was posted up here on SRK earlier. You can try to catch part 2 before watching this final part 3 of the Live Dogface Show. And this episode is noteworthy because or a special award given at the end, so stick around until the end of the interview to see a very special award introduced at Evo 2009.

ACTivegamerS LA & UFRAGTV present…

Two Days of Gaming Euphoria: Hollywood Massacre & Triple Threat!

Join us on November 13-14 for the biggest gaming event to hit Southern California thus far!  ACTivegamerS LA is putting together two amazing events to cater to the fighting game community!  A weekend of fierce gaming competition, good company, and passion for fighting games!

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TEKKEN 6 LAUNCH EVENT

Presented by ACTivegamerS LA
In cooperation with SDTEKKEN, SHORYUKEN.COM, and the fighting game community!

Sponsored by Namco Bandai Games, Mad Catz, & Starbucks.

Southern California fighting game fans!  Get ready for the next battle!  Celebrate the launch of TEKKEN 6 in style with ACTivegamerS and the rest of the fighting game community as we party the night away on Saturday, Oct. 24 in Hawthorne, California.

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Community members Fugee and Ghaleon are back, once again, to bring you their annual gift to fighting game players everywhere;  Seasons Beatings 4!   Running at MoMo2 KTV in Columbus Ohio starting tomorrow and going all weekend long, Seasons Beatings is in its fourth year and has become the tournament hot-spot for the cold winter season.

This year’s main event will be a rematch of the Evo2k9 Street Fighter 4 finals, in which Daigo “The Beast” Umehara will face off against Justin Wong in a first-to-ten-wins battle for worldwide supremacy.    On top of that, tournaments for the hottest fighting games will be running all weekend with a live stream showing off the best and brightest matches from the USA’s greatest competitors.    While the Daigo v. Justin event will not be streaming, the finals will be streamed all weekend, with the hottest games finishing up on Sunday.   And as the icing on the delicious cake, Seth Killian himself will be in attendance to lend his commentary to the proceedings.  Rumor has it that he is bringing the latest build of the US version of Tatsunoko vs Capcom with him to show off as well!

You can live it through the live video stream this weekend, or buy that last minute flight and come join us in Ohio for a holiday bash like you’ve never seen.  Stay tuned to Shoryuken.com for a link to the live streaming site, or just keep an eye on the thread in our forums.

At Evolution 2009 this past summer, a very special LIVE Dogface Show took place with some very special guests: Tom “inkblot” Cannon and Tony “Ponder” Cannon, creators of many Fighting Game Community standards such as Shoryuken.com itself, the Evolution Fighting Game Championships, GGPO, and more! Watch this very, in Victor “Dogface” Ratliff’s own words, insightful interview with two people who have influenced the Fighting Game Community in more ways than you probably know.

As before, we’ll be splitting up these video interviews into 10-minute segments and releasing them on a weekly basis. Share your comments here or over on the official website, where we’ll be posting the follow-up segments on a weekly basis.

The biggest and baddest tournament is in two days. Some are packing their essentials right now and most will do it the night before leaving for the Vegas. Do you have everything needed for your stay in the City of Sin? The following list will give you an idea of what to pack for the best weekend of your life.

Check it out after the jump…

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One weekend. 6 tournaments. 50,000 matches.

On July 17th, the world’s largest and longest-running fighting game competition returns to Sin City at the Rio Resort and Casino. The heart, history, and unbelievable skills of the fighting game community will be on display as the planet’s top fighting gamers assemble from around the globe to duke it out on today’s hottest games, including Street Fighter IV, Soul Calibur IV, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, and a special BlazBlue exhibition.

EVO 2009 World Finals will feature:

• Special appearance by Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono
• The world’s largest live Street Fighter IV competition
• Tekken 6 playable on console
• Watch all the action streaming live, for free, featuring top players and expert commentary
• The best players from around the US and the world, including Japan’s legendary champion Daigo Umehara
• The newest build of Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
• First publicly playable Marvel Vs Capcom 2 for X360 and PSN
• Complete coverage from IGN Insider, recording HQ, direct-feed tournament matches available for download following the event
• And more!

Spectators can attend the event for free, and are welcome to play at one of the dozens of freeplay stations. For those who can’t make it to Vegas, EVO 2009 will also be streaming live all weekend. The live stream will run all day from July 17-19th, and feature non-stop tournament matches between top players, with live crowd audio accompanied by expert commentary to explain all the onscreen action.

The stream can be found at http://www.evo2k.com/live , http://www.shoryuken.com and http://www.capcom-unity.com

The 2009 EVO Championship Series is powered by Capcom, Namco-Bandai, and PlayStation 3

From Peter Livingston (SRK name: Etep1)

First I would like to thank the great people from Ignition Entertainment and EVO for putting on the tournament and Element for hosting. You guys did a great job handling everything and everybody. I felt like it was an overall success. Thank you guys.

I know this is a few weeks late but having just graduated from college, moved into a new place, and trying to get everything in order to live life in “the real world” has slowed me down a bit. This is going to be the first of three stops I will be making this Summer to fighting game tournaments: KOF XII in Hollywood, Devastation (SF IV) in Arizona, then EVO 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. What else is a college grad to do (besides get a nine-to-five…)?

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With this very special edition of The Dogface Show, we are coming to you from Denjin Arcade, home of one of the hottest Street Fighter IV scenes in Southern California! And that makes it appropriate that we bring you our next guests: Kai Ramond “HappyTang” Tang and Paul “SoMuchDamage” Sai, two SoCal players who have recently been making a lot of noise in the Street Fighter IV scene.

As before, we’ll be splitting up these video interviews into 10-minute segments and releasing them on a weekly basis. Share your comments here or over on the website, where we’ll be posting the follow-up segments on a weekly basis.

Battle for the South (Saturday, June 6 2009)

Tournament report – Evan Coffey (SRK & PSN: Molander16)

Because this is my very first competitive level tournament (I made it to Round 3 of the Gamestop tournament, but I don’t really count that), I’ve decided to write a tournament report.  I have 3 goals in writing this:

1) I want to chronicle my first tournament experience so that I can reminisce later.

2) I want to show the world that there is a scene in Mississippi (albeit a small one).

3) I want to give a different perspective of a tournament to the SRK community, from the POV of an average player instead of from the POV of someone already at the top.

So.

This is one of the smaller crowds in the room, at the 3rd Strike area.

For those of you that don’t know, Battle for the South was an all-day event in a suburb of New Orleans which included tournaments in six fighting games: Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Soul Calibur 4, Guilty Gear (can’t remember which one), and, of course, Street Fighter 4.  It was paid for by Patrick Henry (Vegita-X), there was a very good turnout (from what I understand, there were over 60 players in the SF4 tournament), and it was run very smoothly.  Hats off to everybody who put the event together!
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