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Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 02, 2007, 11:48:44 am
Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
(http://avalanchestudios.net/uploads/Garou_splash_screen.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Melty-blood.jpg)


what da fuck is a ranbat???
A ranbat is a ranking battle which is basically a series of mini-tournaments! It'll be explained further below.

sounds cool what are the rules???

Ok so what?
OK, we will be meeting in #capcom (see this topic for IRC connection info etc: http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=20503.0) every Saturday at 10:00PM central. Then I will use a bracket software to make brackets on the fly at random, and then you will fight your matches. All your matches must be done that day, if you do not show you do not play for that mini-tournament, simple as that.

This ranbat will be single elimination, so if you lose you are done! Feel free to play with the rest of the people who lose though. If you beat a person you score 1 point. If your opponent forfeits, you score 1 point. If you lose, you score 0 points. At the end of each ranbat your points are tallied and compared with other peoples!

There will be a prize to the first place winner of the ranbat, and they will have a wide selection of choices of prizes for them to choose from. Depending on your prize and where you live it can take 2-6 weeks before you'll recieve it, however.

If you have any questions on this feel free to ask etc.

Official Times etc
For Garou:
Starting Date + Time: October 13th at 10:00PM Central, then meet every Saturday at the same time after.
Ending Date: December 23rd

For Melty Blood:
Starting Date + Time: November 4th at 7:00PM Eastern, then meet every Sunday at the same time after.
Ending Date: December 23rd
No prize at this point, just for fun.


i would like some help at this gaem
http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=1739.0 has everything you need, its pretty much a bible for garou info now yaah

more info etc to come possibly changes so keep your eyes on this topic, also if you go to #capcom you'll surely find this shit out anyways but hey we're official now  :fogetcool:

www.meltybread.com for Melty Blood info

Garou Ranbat Current Standings:
Goat: 39 points.
DarkNecrid: 23 points.
LordTyphoon: 21 points.
Raziel: 15 points.
MaD: 13 points.
Xorcist: 11 points.
DeadPhoenix: 10 points.
Toasty: 5 points.
Man-O-War: 4 points.
NinjaPirate: 3 points.
Evenshade: 2 points.
Vectorman: 2 points.
Tatsujinken: 2 points.
SimaMatty: 1 points.
Mizuki: 1 points
Dorothy: 0 points.

Melty Ranbat Current Standings:
Qaenyin: 18
Goat: 18
Harman: 18
Evenshade: 14
Raziel: 11
SimaMatty: 7
Aaron: 5
Ehrik: 5
MaD: 4
Toasty: 4
DeadPhoenix: 4
Dyne: 3
Vectorman: 3
Rayne: 2
Tatsujinken: 0
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Sarhan on October 02, 2007, 04:25:26 pm
I want to do this, but I don't know if I'll necessarily be able to start at 9. I usually work Saturdays and although I make it back home by 8:30 most of the time, they've been keeping me at work later and later the last few Saturdays.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Standard Toaster on October 02, 2007, 10:04:12 pm
I'd like to do this as well, but I have debate tournaments that run through saturday usually.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Bisse on October 02, 2007, 11:14:40 pm
I'm up for this. I feel sorry for you all guys, really. But don't worry, i've got 911 on speed dial.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on October 03, 2007, 12:24:50 am
good, you'll need it when hotaru gives you massive pelvic injuries
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 03, 2007, 01:02:57 am
I want to do this, but I don't know if I'll necessarily be able to start at 9. I usually work Saturdays and although I make it back home by 8:30 most of the time, they've been keeping me at work later and later the last few Saturdays.

Sorry to hear that, come when you can. You may not get first place but hey still can have lots of fun!

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I'd like to do this as well, but I have debate tournaments that run through saturday usually.

Same for you, bud.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on October 03, 2007, 02:34:56 am
me and twilight revenge also have a problem with 9, any chance it could be stretched to 9:30 or even 10:00?
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 03, 2007, 02:36:26 am
Soooo due to popular request, I'm changing the time to 10:00PM central, so Sarhan you can make it...maybe you too NP?
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Standard Toaster on October 03, 2007, 02:40:45 am
Uhh maybe sometimes but I will probably be REALLY TIRED.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 03, 2007, 03:46:51 am
ok well try to make it whenever you can!
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Grin Tree on October 03, 2007, 04:59:50 am
60 second timer?   :fogetshrug:
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 03, 2007, 06:01:43 am
its howard arena rules
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Grin Tree on October 03, 2007, 06:43:30 pm
Guys, complain about the timer so it can get changed to infinite. (Due to popular demand)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 03, 2007, 07:47:15 pm
not changing the timer because infinite is dumb for a tournament.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Nightmare on October 03, 2007, 11:34:55 pm
not changing the timer because infinite is dumb for a tournament.

But winning by timeout is so...gay...
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 04, 2007, 01:41:56 am
Yeah and being able to turtle for 8 minutes with your top regening you all the time is kind of gay too.

edit: for the record though if you're losing by time out in garou then you probably aren't being very aggressive or rushing down much.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on October 04, 2007, 04:52:48 am
although i too hate losing by time outs, i have to admit it makes sense
it keeps the game action going, and if you lost by time out, its because you had less life, and were less likely to win anyway

also its very exciting when the last few seconds tick down, and both of you have a smidgen of life and two full super bars
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Grin Tree on October 04, 2007, 06:35:37 pm
I've pulled through with less life than my opponent a few times, and people have managed to beat me with literally 0 health left even more times.  No lie, ask Goat.

Besides, the timer is pretty lame, if someone is winning by a margin of 1hp and the timer is running out, they will fucking run.  I actually remember Corel doing this, he even said that he wanted the timer on 60 seconds so that this option was still available to him.

I haven't played a turtling person just regenerating in TOP mode all day, because they would get punished for turtling all day, not to mention most people have their top set on the beginning of their bar, not at the end. 


I don't see a valid reason here other than "hehe howard arena rules"
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on October 04, 2007, 06:52:01 pm
how about "hehe every fighting game in history is played with timer on in competitions"?

shut the fuck up scrub and suck it up or don't join.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 04, 2007, 08:32:23 pm
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I don't see a valid reason here other than "hehe howard arena rules"
*Howard Arena Rules
*every other fighter does it
*its the standard arcade setting (yeah 3 out of 5 rounds technically isn't but you could do that with 2 out of 3 by just playing another set which possibly might only be a half set)
*not having time degenerates gameplay into a turtle fest
*having time gives you an option to run away which the low life person can use it to his advantage by attacking you as you do something stupid (like run in) which gives them a chance too (hey you never know)
*having time gives you an alternate way to lose (it doesn't matter how you win, as long as you win. (and do it legitly))
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Bisse on October 04, 2007, 09:17:38 pm
shut the fuck up scrub and suck it up or don't join.
Maybe if you were less of a twat people would actually listen to you.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 04, 2007, 09:26:13 pm
keep that crap out of dis topic, k


all i'm saying sion is its tournament standard if you don't like it you are not forced to come though i would like to think you have enough skill to overcome such a mortal policy as "a clock".
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Grin Tree on October 04, 2007, 09:32:28 pm
Hah, I see what you did there, Medieve.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Thano on October 04, 2007, 11:12:45 pm
Hmm Garou.  Does that game have Terry?  I'm in.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Dust on October 05, 2007, 12:11:45 am
I'd be willing to play as soon as I get mame to freaking work >_<.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on October 05, 2007, 12:17:51 am
whats wrong with it? some people here are pretty knowledgeable about it
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 05, 2007, 12:49:53 am
come to the channel and we can help you.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Dust on October 05, 2007, 01:53:42 am
I will tomorrow, today I was way too busy with all sorts of crap.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Xorcist on October 05, 2007, 11:42:00 pm
Well I'm in... but since we're on the topic of tournament standards... and just a heads up so no one gets surprised... I don't do that warm up crap anymore. Just like boxers don't go a few rounds then decide to start the real fight. If you want to fight me a day or two in advance, that's cool, I'm all up for it. But once it's match day, it's freakin on like Donkey Kong! (you know, I never really got that expression... I always kinda liked Mr. Do! better)

P.S. Necrid, I think you left out the CTRL+SHIFT+F10 step of setting the DIP switches under Kaillera.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 06, 2007, 10:03:15 am
Just posting to make sure people know its next week and not this one, but feel free to come to teh channel to grab some practice games today and all up til next Saturday!
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: LeeChaolan on October 06, 2007, 03:33:11 pm
I want in! My name would either be Lee Chaolan or Rock Howard, any questions? email me [email protected]
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 10, 2007, 02:58:44 am
Been practicing some new stuff. Hit me up in teh channel and if you're newish to teh channel/game (I know Sarhan is gonna join up) feel free to get practicing...coming at you HARD this Saturday.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on October 10, 2007, 07:56:54 am
can't wait, heres to a good turnout :gwa:
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 10, 2007, 08:07:09 am
Yah, here's to me winnin!!!
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Standard Toaster on October 10, 2007, 08:53:12 pm
I can make this now btw. (The debate tournament ends at like 7PM EST)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 11, 2007, 03:59:28 am
Sweet, good to hear :D
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Bisse on October 12, 2007, 05:24:23 pm
Man why the fuck did you put this at 22:00 central, over here that's like 5 o clock in the middle of the fucking night!

I'll have to sit this one out GOOD JOB GUYS 8(
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 12, 2007, 05:48:26 pm
Just thought I'd let people know its TOMORROW OH SNAPS

Also the P2P Client has been updated, make sure to get the new version (link is in the channel's topic).


Also, if I am unable to attend, I have setup goat with the stuff neccessary to get it going.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: General Robert E. Lee on October 14, 2007, 02:29:48 am
Just reminding everyone that this is in 20 minutes.  BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 14, 2007, 03:40:47 am
Alright, this went fairly well, took 40 minutes and the standings for the night were:
Goat: 3 points.
Evenshade: 2 points.
DN: 1 point.
Xorcist: 1 point.
Raz: 0 points.
NinjaPirate: 0 points.
DeadPhoenix: 0 points.
Man-O-War: 0 points.
Dorothy: 0 points.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: toasty on October 14, 2007, 04:27:11 am
great i missed it
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 18, 2007, 12:57:11 pm
Hey...coming up in 2 days.

And I have a surpriseeeeeeee.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Standard Toaster on October 18, 2007, 08:07:01 pm
I can make these ones too.

Q: why the fuck are these not round robins? (A: DN is horrible at setting up events lololololol)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 18, 2007, 08:17:33 pm
I can make these ones too.

Q: why the fuck are these not round robins? (A: DN is horrible at setting up events lololololol)

Q: whgy is ninjapirate mod (A: who knows  :fogetshrug:​)

for real though, i wanted to start it off simple, see how long it took, see how many partcipants we had (had 9, LT was afk too long, and 2 people I invited were too busy....could of had 12 ;<) etc.

When the next season (which would probably start a week or two after XMAS) rolls around, it'll be changed up quite a bit.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on October 19, 2007, 09:21:35 am
maybe we can toss in a round robin style thing after the matches, to get people to play a bit more?
then instead of only 4 rounds MAX for a person to play, its about 8-9 rounds for each person!

i regret seeing so many great players show up that wont get to play much :\
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 21, 2007, 02:43:12 am
Results:
1st: DarkNecrid (won all 8 fights)
2nd: Tie between Raziel, LordTyphoon, MaD who all won 6, lost 2.
3rd: Tie between NinjaPirate and Xorcist who both won 3, lost 5.

Updated first post with current standings of points.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on October 22, 2007, 11:51:26 pm
what happened to the points from the first ranbat?
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 23, 2007, 01:02:16 am
what do you mean

i took the points from this one and added it to the points from the first.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on October 24, 2007, 02:22:12 am
also, as a reminder to everyone : feel free to record all or some of your ranbat matches. if you think you got a particularly good one, send it to me through PM or IRC and i'll capture it and upload it on my youtube account.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Xorcist on October 24, 2007, 10:55:40 pm
Let us talk for a minute about... bail outs.

I would like to have this issue a 100% resloved by the next ranbat this Saturday. If you are unsure of the issue at hand, let me elaborate. There are times when a person will show up, and for one reason or another leaves mid tourney. Either their connection drops, or they decide the need to get to sleep for an event the next morning, or whatever. Point being they played against some people, and not others.

Where is the issue you ask? Let's take a three player scenerio (Players A, B, and C). Since these ranbats are round robin, Player A may lose to Player B, a couple minutes later Player B bails, but never got the chance to play Player C. So Player A fights Player C and loses. Player A now has two losses, and Player C has what? Exactly... that's the issue.

Now during the last ranbat, it was quickly decided that if a player bailed, any player he hadn't fought would get automatic wins (sort of like a forfeit). Which in the above example would give Player C two wins? yet he only fought one battle? Why should Player C get free points while Player A takes a double loss? Quite simply it's not balanced, it works against those people who genuinely fought and lost, while at the same time grants others freebies for doing absolutely nothing.

It's my opinion that if a player bails, we all get winning points against him reguardless of whether we fought or not. This puts a penalty squarely against the person who is bailing (so they can't just bail last minute and have nothing count against them). At the same time it doesn't take away or give advantage to any of the players who stuck around.

Post your agreements, disagreements, and suggestions; and let's decide how to handle this in the future.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 24, 2007, 11:13:24 pm
Let us talk for a minute about... bail outs.

I would like to have this issue a 100% resloved by the next ranbat this Saturday. If you are unsure of the issue at hand, let me elaborate. There are times when a person will show up, and for one reason or another leaves mid tourney. Either their connection drops, or they decide the need to get to sleep for an event the next morning, or whatever. Point being they played against some people, and not others.

Where is the issue you ask? Let's take a three player scenerio (Players A, B, and C). Since these ranbats are round robin, Player A may lose to Player B, a couple minutes later Player B bails, but never got the chance to play Player C. So Player A fights Player C and loses. Player A now has two losses, and Player C has what? Exactly... that's the issue.

Now during the last ranbat, it was quickly decided that if a player bailed, any player he hadn't fought would get automatic wins (sort of like a forfeit). Which in the above example would give Player C two wins? yet he only fought one battle? Why should Player C get free points while Player A takes a double loss? Quite simply it's not balanced, it works against those people who genuinely fought and lost, while at the same time grants others freebies for doing absolutely nothing.

It's my opinion that if a player bails, we all get winning points against him reguardless of whether we fought or not. This puts a penalty squarely against the person who is bailing (so they can't just bail last minute and have nothing count against them). At the same time it doesn't take away or give advantage to any of the players who stuck around.

Post your agreements, disagreements, and suggestions; and let's decide how to handle this in the future.

i kept it the way i had it for that ranbat simply because i was ill, and didnt want to go back and change everything i recorded previously dude, ok?

this one and all the followings will be everyone he played / will play gets wins
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on October 25, 2007, 12:21:50 am
:words:

yeah, that's what i was saying on irc on saturday night but i guess dn was sick/too much of a dick? to change it last minute.

if you bail, it's your fault. you're too tired? tough shit. your connection sucks balls that night? yeah i guess that's sort of a dick move but it's not like you could have played anyway!

since losses do not amount to -1 point, there's also no VERY BIG loss on the part of the guy who bails so i guess it's a little fair that the people who DID get a loss against him are compensated in a way for playing a deadbeat match.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Xorcist on October 25, 2007, 01:35:35 pm
The only thing I would probably add is that if you know your connection sucks up front, you can always choose not to play in that ranbat. And thus not being on the roster means no one is going to get extra points for you bailing out. But as soon as you agree to play, you're obligated to play everyone, or take a universal hit for bailing mid-tourney. So it may be wise for people to test their connections out a couple minutes before the match-ups start.

The only other option, which might be a little more fair to people to genuinely lose their connection (i.e. meaning they didn't want to bail, but did against their will) is to only count matches that take place. So in my three man example from my last post, Player A would get zero points (0/2), Player B would get one (1/1), and Player C would get one (1/1). But this of course would require some more in depth calculations, as at the end of the series people will all have different ratios based on the number of battles they actually fought. So it's probably not worth it to pursue this method for the current tourney (obviously a person with a 1/1 ratio shouldn't be able to top a person with a 99/100 ratio).

I'm just throwing this stuff out there for people to consider and think about for future tournies etc. I'm not knocking anyone for the last ranbat, but it is nice to have a clearly defined method of handling these types of situations. Because as unfortunate as it is... these things do happen.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 27, 2007, 10:12:51 pm
So I got a pad.



I'm gonna suck tonight.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Xorcist on October 27, 2007, 10:58:34 pm
Got good news... and bad news...

let's start with the bad, I'm not gonna make it tonight... (that may actually be good news for some of you)

good new is, it's for a good enough reason. Got me some Halloween Honey on deck.

Don't wait up for me. :naughty:
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on October 28, 2007, 02:37:12 am
20 minutes before ranbat and DN isn't even online

get the fuck on IRC
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on October 28, 2007, 03:57:18 am
Placings for this ranbat:
1st: Goat (Won all 5 matches)
2nd: LordTyphoon (Won 4 out of 5)
3rd: Raziel (Won 3 out of 5)
4th: DarkNecrid/DeadPhoenix/Man-O-War (Won 1 out of 5)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on November 03, 2007, 11:59:57 pm
Okay so here's the deal about ranbats right now:

Along with the Garou ranbat, I've decided to run a weekly Melty Blood: Act Cadenza for PC ranbat. The game has VERY GOOD netplay (better than Kaillera P2P imho) and is a generally very good game.

So here's the deal about this ranbat, it'll be run on Sundays starting 7 PM EST and it'll use the same format as the current one we use for Garou (single match, round robin format). Games will be arranged through IRC so be sure to connect to irc.whahay.net and get on #capcom. Since this ranbat will most likely have less entrants (MBAC is a much bigger and hard game to get [PM ][/PM]), I won't push back the end date to 2 weeks later than the Garou one. So it will also end on December 23rd.

Still, it's time to get hype! Evenshade and myself are really hoping there's a good turnout for this one as well.

If you need any info on Melty Blood, visit Melty Bread (http://www.meltybread.com). It's the best resources site about the game right now.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on November 04, 2007, 12:21:23 am
To get people hype'd for garou ranbats tonight here is some vids you just have to see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVLkeufa46Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnsWdPGRU3M

Both these matches (and the other 22 matches in the SoCal Casual listing) have high technical play and show some cool stuff in a real fight between 2 pros.

PLACEMENT:
1st: Goat (6 points)
2nd: Raziel and MaD (4 points)
3rd: DarkNecrid and DeadPhoenix (3 points)
4th: Vectorman (1 point)
5th: Evenshade (0 points)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Xorcist on November 04, 2007, 02:51:45 pm
Sorry I missed another one guys... too much going on these past two weekends. Hopefully I'll be around for the next one though. Looks like some good matches took place this round. Raz, what that you as Jae? (Nice footwork whomever that was).
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on November 04, 2007, 03:00:24 pm
Sorry I missed another one guys... too much going on these past two weekends. Hopefully I'll be around for the next one though. Looks like some good matches took place this round. Raz, what that you as Jae? (Nice footwork whomever that was).
nah, i'm not in the socal area so i couldn't play there!

my jae's still pretty scrubby but i'm working on footsies and pressure now.

edit: also, are you gonna show up for the mbac ranbat tonight at 8 EST xor?
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on November 05, 2007, 02:32:39 am
Sorry for double post but the first MBAC ranbat night went really well aside from a few technical issues with vectorman and rayne. So here's the current standing:

Current standings:
Evenshade: 7
Qaenyin: 7
Goat: 6
Raziel: 5
MaD: 4
Toasty: 4
Rayne: 2
DeadPhoenix: 1
Vectorman: 0

Some replays of the first week:
http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/23957/Replay.rar

And yes, we did have 9 players. Which is pretty amazing considering it's a LOLITASTIC DOUJIN GAME.

Here's to an even better turnout next week!

PS: Wtf tied for first??
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on November 05, 2007, 06:55:37 am
does that mean we're not allowed to change character?
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Xorcist on November 06, 2007, 05:32:24 pm
edit: also, are you gonna show up for the mbac ranbat tonight at 8 EST xor?

I'm not too  big on MB, I don't have the PC version either. I have played it though (for the PS2).
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on November 10, 2007, 08:51:52 pm
Garou ranbats tonight, hopefully I can make it. If I don't Raziel will run dem.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: headphonics on November 10, 2007, 09:14:51 pm
you know i downloaded and played a version of melty blood some time ago out of curiosity, soon after i'd first watched tsukihime.  it didn't seem like a very functional game, then!  it controlled really oddly and everything was in japanese.  has it gotten a lot better in the last three years?
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on November 10, 2007, 09:58:46 pm
you know i downloaded and played a version of melty blood some time ago out of curiosity, soon after i'd first watched tsukihime.  it didn't seem like a very functional game, then!  it controlled really oddly and everything was in japanese.  has it gotten a lot better in the last three years?

now and days everything except the menus are in japanese, it controls really fluidly, etc. I'd say its improved a lot from the description you've given me.

Today's Placement:
1st: Goat (6)
2nd: DarkNecrid/Xorcist (4)
3rd: Man-O-War (3)
4th: Raziel/DeadPhoenix (2)
5th: Tats (0)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on November 12, 2007, 02:13:09 am
So ranbat tonight went through, here's the results:

1st Harman (6 pts)
2nd Qaen (5 pts)
3rd Shade (4 pts)
4th Goat (3 pts)
5th Raziel (2 pts)
6th DeadPhoenix (1 pt)
7th Vectorman (do i even have to?)

Update first post with results when you can DN

Also I applied for a job, let's hope I can get it so I can get us a prize!
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on November 19, 2007, 08:33:05 am
Ranbats didn't seem to have happend this Saturday or Sunday.

Oh well, they'll happen this week.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on November 25, 2007, 04:44:29 am
Garou Thanksgiving Ranbats:
1st: Toasty (5 pnts)
2nd: Goat (4 pnts)
3rd: MaD (3 pnts)
4th: LordTyphoon (2 pnts)
5th: DeadPhoenix (1 pnt)
6th: DarkNecrid (0 pnts)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Xorcist on November 25, 2007, 06:34:31 am
Dudes... my machine had a melt-down last Saturday, just got it back up and running today, tough it's like 1:30am EST. Anyways, I should be back on board for next weekend. Any vids from the last session?
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on November 26, 2007, 01:55:17 am
MBAC ranbat results for this week:

Harman: 7
Qaen: 6
Aaron (new arrival): 5
Goat: 4
EvenShade: 3
Raziel: 2
DeadPhoenix: 1
Tatsujinken: 0
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 02, 2007, 05:28:03 am
Goat: 6
DarkNecrid + LordTyphoon: 4
Xorcist: 3
Tatsujinken: 2
DeadPhoenix and Vectorman: 1

On the final day (the 22nd of this month), I will run a post ranbat Low Tier only tournament. This tournament doesn't qualify for any points but the winner of the Low Tier (2nd place winner if its the same as the 1st place winner of the ranbats) tournament will recieve a special prize.

The Low Tier tournament  has the same rules as the ranbats, except only the following characters may be played:
Freeman
Hokutomaru
Rock
Tizoc
Hotaru

Give them low tiers some lovin'!
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Tatsujinken on December 02, 2007, 07:36:21 am
Sweet, Freeman.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: goat on December 02, 2007, 08:06:46 am
Freeman, indeed.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 09, 2007, 05:14:39 am
Goat: 3 pnts
LordTyphoon: 2 pnts
SimaMatty: 1 pnt
Tatsujinken: 0 pnts.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on December 10, 2007, 02:01:31 am
Goat: 5, Simamatty: 4, Dyne: 3, Vectorman: 2 Deadphoenix: 1, ehrik: 1

MBAC ranbat results for this week

Didn't play because my filming team discovered the scientific method and I was sick because of it.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 11, 2007, 10:06:20 am
Prizes:
1st Place Winner of the Garou: Mark of the Wolves Season 1 Ranbats: Recieves a prize from JACT of a point total to be determined. Will require your address. The point total will be finalized, and then the winner will be allowed to pick any number of prizes that total up to that point value, and will have those prizes shipped to them! (estimated value of ~20-60 USD)

1st Place Winner of the Garou: Mark of the Wolves Low-Tier Tournament: Will recieve an unopened copy of Street Fighter IV for the system of their choice when it is released. Will require your address. (estimated value of 60USD) (if the winner of the ranbats wins the low-tier tournament, it will be passed down to the next eligible person)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Grin Tree on December 11, 2007, 05:38:04 pm
Hmm, that sounds a like a good incentive to start playing again.  And with classes done as of today, I have ample time to charge my lasers.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: The Milkman on December 13, 2007, 03:38:25 am
Edit-Nvm.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Standard Toaster on December 13, 2007, 03:48:23 am
Oh man time to low tier that shit up.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 13, 2007, 04:08:53 am
Please NP.

You don't stand a ghost of a chance versus Tizoc, I will make an example out of you just like I did Xorcist.

(http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/52136/viiiccctawwww.JPG)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: PTizzle on December 13, 2007, 12:11:45 pm
Will this go on again next year? I'd like to get into it but my net is slowed til January. It's 9pm Sunday for me for the ranbats so it suits pretty good.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 13, 2007, 07:40:41 pm
Yep, we'll be playin' another season next year with bigger prizes (at least for the Garou one, which is Sat. at 10pm Central.) and maybe prizes for the Melty Blood one who knows???
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 16, 2007, 04:58:16 am
1st: Goat (4 pnts)
2nd: LordTyphoon (3 pnts)
3rd: DarkNecrid (2 pnts)
4th: Mizuki (1 pnts)
5th: SimaMatty (0 pnts)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on December 17, 2007, 01:44:17 am
MBAC ranbat results for this week:

1: Harman (5 pts)
2: Ehrik (4 pts)
3: SimaMatty (3 pts)
4: Raziel (2 pt)
5: VectorMAN (1 pt)
6: DeadPhoenix (0 pt)
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 22, 2007, 11:10:40 pm
Today's the final day for Garou: Mark of the Wolves season 1 ranbats + day of low tier ranbats.

May the best fighter win....
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 23, 2007, 05:51:36 am
End of Season 1 MOTW Ranbats:
1st: Goat (7 points)
2nd: Bisse (6 points)
3rd: SimaMatty / LordTyphoon (4 points)
4th: DarkNecrid / Tatsujinken (3 points)
5th: NinjaPirate (1 point)
6th: DeadPhoenix (0 points)

Total Rankings:
Goat: 46 points.
DarkNecrid: 26 points.
LordTyphoon: 25 points.
Raziel: 15 points.
MaD: 13 points.
Xorcist: 11 points.
DeadPhoenix: 10 points.
Bisse: 6 points.
Toasty: 5 points.
Tatsujinken: 5 points.
SimaMatty: 5 points.
Man-O-War: 4 points.
NinjaPirate: 4 points.
Evenshade: 2 points.
Vectorman: 2 points.
Mizuki: 1 points
Dorothy: 0 points.

Low Tier Tournament:
1st: Goat (6 points; null for winning Ranbats overall)
2nd: Bisse (5 points)
3rd: LordTyphoon/Tatsujinken/SimaMatty (3 points)
4th: DarkNecrid (1 point)
5th: DeadPhoenix (0 points)

Prizes:
Goat wins a prize of his choosing from JACT, or a copy of Street Fighter IV for the system of his choice. (note to self: chose Street Fighter IV)

Bisse wins a copy of Street Fighter IV for the system of his choice.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Grin Tree on December 24, 2007, 09:33:02 am
Ugh, Necrid, that's a nasty-ass window size you play in.  You just maximize it?
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: Paranoia Dude on December 24, 2007, 02:03:30 pm
Ugh, Necrid, that's a nasty-ass window size you play in.  You just maximize it?


going into fullscreen mode can cause the netplay to desync easily so yeah, it's better to just maximize.
Title: Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!
Post by: HL on December 24, 2007, 04:44:50 pm
Ugh, Necrid, that's a nasty-ass window size you play in.  You just maximize it?



Yap, I just keep it at its default size (hella small window) if I have other windows like AIM client etc running.