Been a while since I played Blanka.  I am pretty rusty but I managed to get some wins on XBL last night.  The new matchups are still confusing for me.  I feel like Blanka beats T hawk but loses to Ibuki possibly.  I think I am going to stick with Blanka for EVO.  Time will tell.

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skemaroo007 from SRK put together this great video.  Check the credits at the end!!

Pools at West Coast Warzone. Thanks glenn.

Thanks to Glenn from getyourtournament.com for recording this video. Mongolo Robokop is a beast.

WCW2 last weekend was the most fun I have ever had at a tournament. The amount of high level players there was amazing. I ended up going 4-2 in SF4 losing to Tatsu (vega) and 1-2 in HDR losing to Mongolo Robocop and Rice247. Videos to come soon.

Full Results here.

Street Fighter 4:
1. Justin Wong (Rufus)
2. Peter “Combofiend” Rosas (Abel, Cammy, Akuma)
3. Alex Valle (Ryu)
4. Ricky Ortiz (Rufus)
5. Kai (El Fuerte)
5. Online Tony 213 (Seth)
7. Eric Choi (Rufus, Sagat)
7. Shizza (Chun-Li)
9. Filipino Champ (Dhalsim)
9. AndyOCR (M. Bison)
9. Jayce The Ace (C. Viper)
9. Long “ShadyK” Tran (Akuma)
13. Demon Hyo (Blanka)
13. Ari “fLoE” Weintraub (Sagat)
13. ComboJack (Sagat)
13. 200 Yen (Sagat)

3rd Strike:
1. 5 Star (Ken)
2. Justin Wong (Chun-Li)
3. Rom (Yang)
4. Amir (Chun-Li)
5. ReNiC (Alex)
5. Ricky Ortiz (Chun-Li)
7. Horrible Dudley (Dudley)
7. Ken I (Makoto)

MvC2:
1. Justin Wong (Storm, Sentinel, Cyclops)
2. Neo (Storm, Sentinel, Captain Commando)
3. Demon Hyo (Storm, Sentinel, Cyclops)
4. Clockw0rk (Strider, Sentinel, Doctor Doom)
5. Reset (Storm, Sentinel, Captain Commando)
5. MvC2 Roundhouse (Storm, Sentinel, Iron Man)
7. Genghis
7. Bill W.

HD-Remix:
1. Afro Legends (Dee Jay, Balrog)
2. Snake Eyez (Zangief, pad player)
3. Alex Valle (Ryu)
4. DGV (Ryu)
5. Aqua Snake (Fei Long)
5. Count Fuddulous (Dee Jay)
7. Mongolo Robocop (Chun-Li)
7. Blue Tall Can (Blanka)

Tekken 6:
1. MYK (Lars, Bruce)
2. Kane (Bryan, Lily)
3. Rip (Law)
4 – 8: Gotta find the bracket

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift:
1. Bang Camaro (Bang)
2. Dacidbro (Bang)
3. ZONG_one (Carl)
4. render (Ragna)

SF4 3v3:
1st: Team We Hate Kai | Justin Wong (Rufus), Eduardo “vVv Scrub” Perez (Balrog), Ari “fLoE” Weintraub (Sagat)
2nd: Team NorCal 1 | Ricky Ortiz (Rufus), Martin “Marn” Phan (C. Viper), Filipino Champ (Dhalsim)
3rd: Team Rush Kings | Alex Valle (Ryu), Peter “Combofiend” Rosas (Abel), Shizza (Chun-Li)
4th: Team Level Down | Long “ShadyK” Tran (Akuma), Online Tony 213 (Seth), Kai (El Fuerte)
5th: Team Name | AndyOCR (M. Bison), Jayce The Ace (C. Viper), Richard Nguyen (Sagat)
5th: Team NorCal 2 | Hugo101 (M. Bison), Nima (Akuma), Vance (Zangief)

Westcoast Warzone 2 is happening this weekend (April 2-4) in Long Beach, CA.  This is one of California’s biggest fighting game tournaments and is expected to have hundreds of entrants for SF4 and the other participating games.  I will be attending this event with the rest of the NorCal crew.  Check back later for results and money match videos!
For More information check out www.warzonetournament.com

I just installed my plexi and stick art from www.tek-innovations.com.  Thanks to d3v from SRK for the template.

Street Fighter IV
Winner: Justin Wong (7-1, cammy, rufus)
2. Combofiend (cammy, abel, sagat)
3. Ricky O (rufus)
4. Shizza (chun)
5. Juicebox (abel, ryu)
5. Mike Ross (edmund)
7. ShadyK (akuma)
7. AlexMan (viper)

Tekken 6
Winner: Mr. Naps (7-0)
2. Aris
3. Chetchetty
4. Ricky O
5. Got Soymilk
5. K30
7. Just Frame James
7. Suiken

I just registered for the Level|Up Tournament in Orange, CA. Looks like it will be a great tournament capped at 64 entrants. More info to come soon. For now, check out the trailer.

http://levelup-series.com/

I attended my first Shadowbrooke Games SF4 tourney this last weekend.  It has a pretty good turn out (22 entrants) and it sounds like they are expecting bigger turn outs going forward.  I will probably be going to these weekly.  Check out the SRK forums for more info on their scheduled events.  I went 2-2 in the tourney, losing a very close match to Allen’s Cammy in winners and getting destroyed by Filipino Champ’s dhalsim in losers.

The final results were:

1. Ryan the filipino champ
2. Scunsion
3. Hiro
4. Grimmz
5. Npartoi
5. Blk_brotha
7. Tyram
7. Marcos

Eltwopee vs Filipino Champ