Season's Beatings: Redemption, Oct. 15th - 18th

Its that time of year again. I’m sure anyone reading this is well prepared for the Midwest’s premiere fighting game tournament, but in case you are a new comer I would suggest venturing over to the Shoryuken boards and introducing yourself to some of the best and brightest minds when it comes to this amazing tournament. Now because of last year’s incredible turnout there I would suggest getting your money and skills in order. There will be a $30 dollar flat rate to enter the venue, so why not save up a couple extra shillings and enter a tournament or two.

As per the usual, I will be there with my camera documenting the event -- heck, I may even try my hand at a tourney or two. Rest assured, this is a tournament you do not want to miss. Daigo, Gamerbee, Choco and Momochi have already confirmed to be in attendance and if that doesn’t get you hype, then you may want to reconsider calling yourself a fighting game fan.

Stay tuned for further updates on SBV: Redemption.

After the jump are the details and official press release about the event thus far.
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What:

More than 500 competitors from across North America competed for $7,000 in cash at last year’s Season’s Beatings Street Fighter videogaming event, with Japan’s national champion earning victory in Columbus, Ohio.

This year, the world’s champions from Japan, Taiwan, the U.S. and Canada converge to battle for paydays and pride in front of their peers and 10,000+ viewers across the globe. Season’s Beatings: Redemption will feature more players, more sponsors, more media (including contracted photo, video and Internet-broadcasting crews) and continues a series of excellence that Godlike Entertainment began in 2005.

When:
Friday, Oct. 15, through Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010.

Where:

MoMo2 KTV & Tea Zone and Entertainment Center
2895 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43202

Why you should care:

• A world-championship face-off in one of the country’s most popular pastimes: gaming!
• Street Fighter IV, with millions of copies sold, has resurrected the glory days of arcade brawling for both Gen-X old-schoolers and a whole new generation.

Please contact me with any questions:
Chris Hatala, co-organizer and media director
330-962-4300
hatalawriting@gmail.com

Season’s Beatings homepage, featuring news and interviews:
http://godlikeentertainment.blogspot.com/

Photo trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZ_9OG32Ks&feature=player_embedded
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Venue fee is $30, pre-registration/pre-payment only. Spectators will pay the same rate because of the venue cap, so it's worth your while to play some games. More details to follow.

No WALK-IN registration. This event will likely SELL OUT at venue's capacity.

Official Games List:

Super Street Fighter IV (PS3) -- $10 -- ($2,500 pot minimum, Top 5 payout)

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DC) -- $20. ($3,000 Guaranteed Top 8 payout - Powered by Hevad Khan, Marvel mastermind.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo (Arcade) - ($50 entry, $300 pot bonus, Top 5 payout) (+ PSX ports)

X-men vs. Street Fighter (Arcade) -- $5 ($300 pot bonus, Top 5 payout) (+ PSX ports)

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Arcade) -- $10 ($400 pot bonus, Top 5 payout)

Guilty Gear:AC (PS2) -- $10 ($300 pot bonus)

BlazBlue:CS (PS3) -- $10

SSFIV Teams 3v3 (PS3) -- $10/person -- will be on Friday, teams will be capped. Pay on-site - run by Noel Brown ("The Professional")

3rd Strike Teams 3v3 (Arcade) -- $10 -- Get your matches in with Momochi!

*It's up to you to arrange your three-man team and inform Ghaleon of your team name + members. If you're unable to get two or three teammates, you will be assigned to a random team.

Marvel and Super Turbo will be 3/5 throughout, 4/7 Winner's/Loser's Finals, and a Race to 7 for Grand Finals.

Friday

SSFIV Teams (32-team cap) - 5 p.m.

3rd Strike 3v3 teams - 8 p.m.

++ Community-run Side games, listed below ++

SFIV character auction (Friday night, run by Keits)

Tekken 6 (Friday night, run by Axiom)

Melty Blood (run by ?)

HDR (run by Thelo, Saturday night)

Saturday

SSFIV - 11 a.m.

Guilty Gear - 1 p.m.

X-men vs. Street Fighter - 1 p.m.

UMK3 - 3 p.m.

Marvel - 4 p.m.

Sunday

SSFIV - 11 a.m. (Pools will be scheduled for Sunday depending on # of entrants -- everyone will know their pool before arriving at SB:R)

Blazblue - 11 a.m.

Super Turbo - 11 a.m.

Top 4 in each game

Top 8 in SSFIV

Possible Friday side games, run and organized by a rep from each game's community: Melty Blood, Tekken 6, TvC, HDR.

If possible all games will run on CRTs.

Comments

[Alphonse]

tournaments like this one are a total madness, in my neighborhood we organize a tiny tournament with games like those, well of course we can't give so wonderful prices like in this tournament, we recollect a little subscription to buy food and why not beers, the game that we more use is street fighter 4 and the king of fighter 98.

[cell]

Well done...thank you for your post ,it is so benefit to learn from it ,will come back