Virtua Fighter@Final Round XVII: [March 14-16, 2014] Atlanta, GA "FINAL ROUND XVII"

The stream equipment is screwing up royally unfortunately, so it will be uploaded recorded matches similar to last year

 

Alright, time to make the obligitory post-tourney...uh...post.

First and foremost, I have to apologize. No bones about it, the VF touney stream was a blowup. I tried 4G and wifi from 2 different ISPs and the venue internet, and nothing worked. It was pretty much out of my hands at that point, but I apologize none-the-less. Equipment issues screwed up the sound as well, delaying it badly. BTW, this is the same exact equipment I use to stream RAW every week since October, not to mention the countless other streams and videos I made using it in the past two years. In fact the entire reason for me even running these streams and creating content was in preperation for this tournament, but unfortunately not everything went as I had planned.

But most of all, I apologize to all those who took time out to try and check out the stream and look for VF action at Final Round -- I am solely responsible.

The tournament itself had low turnout compared to last year, but we had fun regardless, and out of the ones that did compete, 2/3rds of the players walked out with cash profit. Ryan Hart won a over $200 from winning the tournament alone, as well as $250 for winning the Friday Night RAW challenge -- congratulations to him. 7th and 8th made a $10 profit each.

Despite the burning fires of the stream situation, the players here that showed up were all appreciative, some even surprised of seeing Virtua Fighter in a tournament like Final Round. Laughing and joking was abound, and the tournament was fun. Most of all, I want to thank them, as despite all of the issues, they were all focused on having fun playing VF and little else fazed them. I'm truly indebted to you guys.

Bracket results -- https://twitter.com/oBLACKSTARo/status/444614323260772352/photo/1

 

I ended up recording matches in the same manner as I did last year, individual matches. The sound is really delayed in them unfortunately. I'll start to put them up when I make it back home.

 

Hyena is a Alabama Sarah player, he's pretty good, he also plays Tekken.

In fact, there were like 3 VF players from Alabama, and they were all legit. I was surprised since it's pretty much just me and Brodi left in GA

 

I'm really sorry I didn't do this earlier, but I gotta do it because you guys really really deserve it.

I wanna take the time out to highlight and thank all of the VF fans that took the time and came out to my tourney and support VF. It wasn't the best tournament I ran, but it was still alot of fun, being one of the rare times we can actually get together and play dat offline VF (REAL VF, not that garbage, latency-filled, fraudulent online 'VF' western players seem to love to cling to). Thank you guys that came back again this year to support the effort, such as BrodiMAN, BlueLink, and Ryan Hart; I really appreciate it. I was really happy and surprised to see players from largely underrepresented regions, like Alabama, DC and not to mention Brazil of course, come all the way out to Georgia to support VF and Final Round as a whole. I'm really sorry I didn't get more casuals with you guys, considering that would likely be the last time we got to play each other offline, but I hope we can play again soon.

@Arjay
@EmperorPaine
@Negative_Nanzy
@daRockReaper
@ToyDingo
@ghabstopr
@mkl
@BlueLink
and all of the other guys that aren't on VFDC but came through and showed some VF love.

Big shoutouts to @Party Wolf for supporting the effort and donating $10 to the prize pot!

I can't thank you guys enough, you all did me a big favor for coming through and making the tournament fun.

 

Also to all you Alabama VFers, I have family in Alabama, so if you guys ever have a time where you might get together and play VF, I'd seriously like to come through and play you guys

 

Alright, I need advice from the players that attended.

I mentioned earlier that this tourney wasn't perfect and had problems; much of it was compounded because of time constraints (this was out of my hands -- it had more to do with the Final Round staff than myself, but I digress. what's done is done.).

That being said, if another VF tournament happens at the next Final Round, would you mind the tournament starting at a later time? 4pm? 5pm? 6pm? Friday was pretty much the only option I was given for the available date of the tournament by the way. What do you guys think?