tournament start

as some of you may know, the first ever national tekken 6 tournament was held today and i had a blast, tekken fan boy that i am, watching all those quality matches.

the set up:

• 4 tekken 6 machines
• machines 1 and 4 are connected to the big screen which can play both matches simultaenously
• booming t6 sounds from speakers (first time that i actually heard t6 soundtrack. i liked the jungle stage bgm)
• matches consists of best of 5 rounds
• players are "randomly" assigned to machines 1 to 4 via the colored chip they got from the fish bowl

the players:

players 1 to 8



players 9 to 16



players 17 to 24




players 25 to 32

first round highlights:

• players must win 2 matches to advance to the next round
• the emergence of STRONG (jail - marduk) as the crowd favorite
• top seed players dropping out, mawts - nina, happy - jin
• highest ranked player (raijin?), lim yun soo - lei, in the tournament surprised no one when he advanced to the next round

top 16 players (abooooot peys!)

second round highligts:

• players must win 3 matches to advance to the next round
• strong makes it to the next round
• cris(???) - kazuya almost did a lazarus on LYS when he came back from a 4-0 deficit, tying the series to 4-4 but alas came short when he failed to clinch the 5th and final round of the match
  
  

the top 8

third round highlights:

• players must win 5 matches to advance to the next round
• fufu - devil jin eliminates clan mate and crowd fave STRONG
• LYS sweeps (d/b+4) this round

the final four
from left to right: paulo jugo (devil jin), lim yun soo (lei), daniel xavier chua (xiayou), carlo manuel racela (bob)

semi-finals highlights:

• players must win 7 matches to advance to the next round
• losing players will play against each other for 3rd place
• winning players will play against each other for 1st place
• fufu - djin vs pms - bob
• dacs - xiayou vs h+s - lei
• crowd cheered for every round that dacs won
• first four matches of dacs vs LYS was close, but LYS slowly pulled away the following matches

the finals

finals highlights:

• 5 matches to win the title of the first ever philippine tekken champion
• crowd intently watching the pinas vs korea match (hehe)
• crowd cheered for every round that bob won

and the winner is...

LYS taking home the bacon with the timezone big wigs and yes, the infamous wendy valdez

afterthougts:

• sorry for the blurry pictures.
• i hope they organize another tournament next year.
• LYS and PMS will be representing the philippines in the international competition
• mark your calendars: december 13, 2008 the day of the international competition that will be held at the trinoma lobby.
• they will be playing against new zealand, singapore and australia's champion. and whoever wins there will be playing against a player from japan.
• someone might be bringing in T6:BR for play testing. *crosses fingers*
• thanks to all the sponsors especially to timezone!