Before getting to the prize winners, I want to throw out a few honorary awards. If I weren't getting tossed out of my current place (damn roommates wanting their evil girlfriends to move in), and my living expenses were going to double in March, you'd all get prizes. But, since reality is a hard, cold mistress I hope my praise will do. So, without further rambling:
The Gauntlet Award (awarded to players who fought me with every character):
DanMartigan, senisan82, C2C Shiro, TrailerParkJesus, Nilcam, Smurfee McGee, kirbilot
Longest Winning Streak (the person who spent the longest time at the top of the rankings):
senisan82
Most Hilarious Fighter (the person who cracked me up the most in battle):
Genki-JAM (Seriously, I would play any game with him. This guy could make Yaris fun!)
The Most Courageous (the person who joined the competition, yet had never played a Street Fighter game before last Tuesday):
cwal37 and NoLaw
Nicest Guy to Ever Kick Your Ass:
C2C Shiro
Which brings me to the prize winners.
First, there was The Attendance Award. This is awarded to the competitor who fought with the most theme characters on their respective days. There really wasn't much of a contest. The person who won this award missed only two days out of 17. Once was Christmas Day which wasn't surprising because I was barely online. The other night he was hosting a party. In addition to just fighting everyday, he was almost always the first person to throw down a challenge when I showed up online.
It gives me great pleasure to announce the winner of
The Attendance Award to the soul of this contest:
Nilcam
Nilcam will be receiving an official Street Fighter Fight Night t-shirt from Capcom.com's online store. It's such a badass shirt, and I hope that he will wear it with pride!
Next we have the Cheapest Payer Award. This was an award initially created to encourage scrubbery and cheap tactics from all fighters. Since the Destructoid Community is made up of none but the most honorable gamers from around the world, I had to alter this one a good deal. I wrote c-blogs spotlighting the cheapest of the cheap, and in most cases I made up outlandish stories about some of our competitors. I then put it to a vote. The votes ended in a tie. So I flipped a coin to determine the winner.
The winner of
The Cheapest Fighter Award goes to:
Genki-Jam
He will be receiving a prize that I'm still constructing. It should be completed this weekend. Hopefully, he'll throw up a c-blog when he receives it because it is coming along pretty sweet.
Since I hate to just leave it at that, I'm going to pick up a runner-up prize. This will go to:
Char Aznable
I'll be picking you up something awesome and cheap (to match your fighting style) off of eBay once I have your address. I've already got a few things in mind.
Finally, we have the moment you've all been waiting for: the awarding of
The Grand Prize! This is for the competitor who had the highest score comprised of their total wins multiplied by their win ratio. And the winner is:
DanMartigan
DanMartigan managed to squeeze out a victory at the last second. It really was a photo finish. It all came down to 5 wins for him. Here are the final rankings, complete with the wins and losses, win percentages and overall points for the top ten contestants:
name: points, wins-losses, win percentage
1. DanMartigan: 115, 144-36, 80%
2. senisan82: 106, 141-46, 75.4%
3. CharAznable: 69, 107-58, 64.8%
4. C2C Shiro: 54, 97-76, 56.1%
5. TrailerParkJesus: 49, 93-85, 52.2%
6. y0j1mb0: 36, 67-58, 53.6%
7. Rab: 29, 55-49, 52.9%
8. Nicam: 27, 75-134, 35.9%
9. Smurfee McGee: 25, 64-102, 38.6%
10. kirbilot: 20, 60-122, 33%
11. casualweaponry
12. Genki-JAM
13. Cataract
14. (tied) cwal37
14. (tied) NoLaw
14. (tied) Infinite Obscurity
I truly wish to thank every single competitor for putting in as much time as they did to make this contest a huge success. This was an amazing experience for me to put on, and I hope you all enjoyed it. Congratulations to all of the winners!
Those who have won prizes, please PM me your addresses and I will get to sending/ordering/pre-ordering your prizes right away.
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Congrats seρor DanMartigan! Also, damn youuuuu! lol This was a great experience Haxan. Thank you for created such a great event :)
creating* ugh...Oh if anyone wants to jump on street fighter tonight I'm hosting at 9pm EST on xbox360. I believe CharAznable will also be hosting but at a later time.
@senisan,
I'll only be on for a short time- just until 9:30. But I'm sure we can squeeze a match or two in!
Congrats to the winners!
Haxan: This has been a great experience. I've met some great players and I look forward to seeing you on the field of battle again.
Hooray!
Now add me on PSN you drunk bastard!
Who says nice guys finish last? (I certainly didn't get first but that's besides the point :P)
I had loads of fun being in this competition and I'm pretty sure everyone else did as well.
Also, congratulations to Dan Martigan on placing first place in the competition.
Oh SNAP. I won something?! Ahaha awesome! Haxan, I had a GREAT time fighting you, man. We'll definitely have to play some more Street Fighter sometime (either 2 or 4, depending on when you "recover") 'cause it was just fantastic fighting you! You actually helped me to get better at the game with more characters with this contest.
bros before hos man, bros before hos
And congrats to DanMartigan!
Congrats to everyone, and to Haxan for putting on the BEST DTOID CONTEST EVER. Seriously, this was a hell of a lot of fun, and helped me meet some awesome fighters. Hopefully we'll all get together for a big ol' SF player match orgy some time very soon.
C2C Shiro and I have the same exact win-loss record, but I'm higher? Am I missing something? I hate math, forgive me.
Also, FRONT PAGE THIS!
Genki-JAM is sweet. I still laugh at that speed racer fight.
I didn't even know about this contest :( I woulda participated.
I'm always up for some Street fighter. PSN: RPGEmperor
WOOOoooo!!! I didn't think I would pull that off. Good battle, Senisan. That was a close call.
Thanks for putting on such a kickass contest Haxan. I had a lot of fun and I learned some new moves with some fighters that I wouldn't have picked otherwise. Dhalsim still sucks.
To everyone who joined in, thanks for keeping the spirit of Street Fighter alive, it warms my old arcade cockles. I look forward some some player matches with you guys in the very near future. With HD Remix and SFIV on the horizon, this is gonna be a good year.. I love you man!
Who'da thunk that a game about beating people up would bring out the warm and fuzzy feelings from the Dtoid community? Danmartigan, I'll warm your cockles any day.
If anyone's around late tonight for FNF, I'll probably be hosting HD Remix on XBLA from like 2 or 3 am until question marks EST. My GT is ShinigamiBV. That's a lot of fucking abbreviations, I apologize.
Cool, great contest. I'm back at school with usable internet in a few days, which means that I'm going to start playing again. As soon as I finish all these other games that is.
@Char,
Yeah, I should really get sleep in before I post anything. It's all fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
@takeshi,
Count on it, dude. As soon as I wake up. It's bedtime, yo.
congrats to Danmartigan! You kicked some serious Haxan.
*cues music* You're the best, AROOUUND!
I can't believe I did so horribly; it was the still the best contest ever. Everyone had fun and met some new fighters. Perhaps tomorrow or next week we should do the SF orgy.
Haxan is the man, Dan is the man that beat the man. Front page.
Congratulations to Danmartigan, and thanks to Haxan for putting on this awesome contest. I was apprehensive to join this at first for fear of getting whooped, which I did, but it was a ton of fun and I am completely hooked on SF now. Practicing and competing with all the characters has made me appreciate how great this game is. It was an awesome time and I look forward to more fights in the future!
Yay, Danmartigan is my brother!
We spent many a day in dingy arcades as young folks, being abused by SFII masters until we became masters ourselves. He is a little bit crazier than me now though because he knows all the ins and outs of the HD Remix, but I will still get him... I need to practice up on the HD Remix, perhaps I will join you guys tonight.
It was a good contest, of what little I did compete in it. Still looking forward to getting my ass kicked anytime im on, send me a challenge!
BEST CONTEST EVER