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To see the bracket full size, follow this link. For those of you who don't know, over the last couple of weeks the Street Fighter 4 Dtoid community has been holding a ranbat. Ranbat stands for ranking battle; it's pretty much just a tournament where points are assigned to winners based on placement. These points are then used in subsequent tournaments to determine how best to match opponents up and set the brackets. Plus over multiple tournaments it becomes easy to see who is stepping their game up. Anyway, here is some detailed information on how the tournament went down, match by match: Participants: Jesus H Christ Cataract Senisan82 Solgrim de BLOO KD Alpha Wedge Char Aznable Buster Slash mourning orange ScottyG Danro VashTS madfigs crazy beethoven ZServ First Round: Jesus H Christ (Ryu) vs mourning orange (Ryu) 2 - 0 KD Alpha (Rose) vs ZServ (Balrog) 2 - 0 Senisan (Balrog) vs madfigs (Sakura) 2 - 0 de BLOO (?) vs Buster Slash (?) 2 - 1 Cataract (Honda) vs Danro (Ken) 2 - 0 Solgrim (Honda) vs. Crazy Beethoven (Cammy) 2 - 0 VashTS (Cammy) vs. Char Aznable (Akuma / Fei Long) 2 - 0 Wedge (Dan) vs. ScottyG (Sakura) 2 - 0 Losers Round 2: Danro (Ken) vs Buster Slash (Abel, Dan) - BusterSlash is eliminated 2 - 0 ZServ (Balrog) vs madfigs (Sakura) - madfigs is eliminated 2 - 0 ScottyG (Sakura) - crazy beethoven (Cammy) - ScottyG is eliminated 0 - 2 Char Aznable (M. Bison) vs mourning orange (Dan, Ryu) - mourning orange is eliminated 2 - 0 Winners Quarter-final: de BLOO (Ken/Akuma) vs Cataract (Honda) 2 - 1 KD Alpha (Rose) vs Senisan (Balrog) 2 - 1 Jesus H Christ (Ryu) vs VashTS (Sakura) 0 - 2 Solgrim (Honda) vs Wedge (Dan) 2 - 0 Losers Round 3: Char Aznable vs Senisan - Senisan is eliminated Senisan forfeits :( Jesus H Christ (Ryu) vs ZServ (Balrog) - ZServ is eliminated 2 - 0 Cataract (Honda) vs Crazy Beethoven (Cammy) - Crazy Beethoven is eliminated 2 - 0 Danro (Ken) vs Wedge (Dan) - Wedge is eliminated 2 - 0 Winners Semi-final: Solgrim (Honda) vs VashTS (Sakura) 0 - 2 KD Alpha (M. Bison) vs de BLOO (Akuma) 2 - 1 Losers Round 4: Cataract (Honda) - Char Aznable (Bison , Zangief) - Char Aznable is eliminated 2 - 1 Jesus H Christ (Ryu) - Danro (Ken) - Jesus H Christ is eliminated 0 - 2 Winners Final: KD Alpha (Zangief) vs VashTS (Sakura) 2 - 0 Losers Quarter-final: Cataract (Honda) vs Solgrim (Honda) - Solgrim is eliminated 2 - 0 de BLOO (Akuma) vs Danro (Ken) - de BLOO is eliminated 0 - 2 Losers Semi-final: Cataract (Honda) vs Danro (Ken) - Danro is eliminated 2 - 1 Losers Final: Cataract (Honda) vs VashTS (Sakura) - VashTS is eliminated 2 - 1 Grand Finals: KD Alpha (Dan) vs Cataract (Dan) 2 - 0 Results: 13th, earning 4 points in the ranbat: madfigs, BusterSlash, ScottyG, mourning orange 9th, earning 8 points in the ranbat: ZServ, Wedge, crazy beethoven, Senisan82 7th, earning 10 points in the ranbat: Jesus H Christ, Char Aznable 5th, earning 12 points in the ranbat: de BLOO, Solgrim 4th, earning 13 points in the ranbat: Danro 3rd, earning 14 points in the ranbat: VashTS 2nd, earning 15 points in the ranbat: Cataract Grand Champion, earning 16 points in the ranbat: KD Alpha 
A few pretty interesting things happened in this tournament. Unfortunately, Senisan82 had to forfeit fairly early in the tournament due going on vacation. He and Char are on similar levels of skill, so it would have been interesting to see how things might have gone differently. As you can see above, the Grand Finals match was a Dan mirror match. Cataract and KD agreed on the forums to test their Dans against each other. As Danro pointed out, Cataract had no idea that KD is a Dan Grandmaster. VashTS considerably stepped his game up for this tournament. Maining Sakura of all characters, he made it all the way to the Winners Finals. Vash has Sakura's mix up game down to a tee, and took me out of the tournament with a perfect round in our last match. The Danro vs Cataract match up turned out to be one of the marquee matches. Facing each other in the very first round, they met again in the Losers Semi-finals. Both matches were very close, and we were lucky enough to get the second one on video. A big thanks to everyone who participated. We'll be doing these regularly once SOUPA DOUPA comes out in two months! 
Now I'd like to share some thoughts on the Street Fighter Dtoid community. There are about 10 of us or so who constantly talk about SF in the forums. Go to the games forum and you'll see the proof of how nuts we are about it. As of this writing, the top three most active threads in the games forum are Mass Effect 2 at 742 posts, Demon's Souls at 904 posts, and Super Street Figher 4 at 3,041 posts. Most of those are made by the same ten or so people. Super is coming out soon, and we want you to join us. If you're worried about not being good at the game, don't be. WE WILL HELP YOU. You can only get better by playing, and most of us are willing to offer advice as we play. I have been helped in this same way by our top players, and it has stepped my game up considerably. I am a far better player since I started playing regularly with KD Alpha and de BLOO. Once Super comes out, there will probably be a grace period where we're all fooling with the game and doing the new challenges and learning the new characters, but it won't be very long before we start getting more serious about these ranbats. I personally want it to be a regular thing, and I'm inviting everyone reading this to be a part of them. So keep your eyes peeled on the forums and c-blogs, and start practicing. Also, feel free to hit me up for some matches in the mean time!
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Good tournament, competition was definitely better than the first one. Can't wait for Super IV.
Also, I knew KD would beat me. He's got tricks, man.
Also fuck Honda. /SALTY
Damnit! We need more PS3 people in the future, so make sure to get in on the next one.
..make sure its not a national screwing holiday next time :P
If anyone here wants to play some time for the hell of it, my GT is ShinigamiBV. Usedtabe, it's been a week or two - we need to battle again.
Great show all around, and it's good to see everyone had a blast! I'd need a stick and some practice before I'd even want to show my face, as my skills are pretty sub-par competitively, but maybe I'll participate after SSF4 is released!
Again, this looks like it was incredible! Hopefully there will be more videos in the next organized bouts.
SUPER DYNAMIC COOKING TIME!
I guess I'll be picking up both the PS3 and 360 versions of this one, too.
...even though I'm going to try to main Duddles.
If you notice, I used different characters throughout the tournament while everyone else stuck to 1 or 2. I'm pretty proficient with almost every character in the game, so I could give you a few basic pointers as well as Chun-i specific tips. That is, if you're on the 360. Can't help the PS3 side since I don't own one.