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Chivalry is Dead - Femme Fatales SSFIV:AE 2012 Tournament

On Saturday January 21, 2012, YRSF is proud to present: Chivalry is Dead - Femme Fatales SSFIV:AE 2012 Tournament! While this is quite a mouthful, we are proud to host one of Toronto’s first ladies only fighting game tournaments.

Date: Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Location: A&C World

Official Tournaments:
Rise of The Underdogs Redux Double Elimination SSFIV:AE 2012 Edition & UMVC3 Singles
Ladies-only Double Elimination SSFIV:AE 2012 Edition Singles

Stream: provided courtesy of TorontoTopTiers’ own Vince “RXS” Hui (@TTT_RXS)

Prize Distribution:
SSFIV: AE 2012 Edition and UMVC3 singles:
1st – 70% pot
2nd – 20% pot
3rd – 10% pot

Ladies-only SSFIV: AE 2012 singles:
1st – 60% pot
2nd -20% pot
3rd – 10% pot
4th – 10% pot

Schedule (tentative): Regardless of the final schedule, please be prompt! We will not show any tardiness immunity.

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Registration
2:00 p.m. – SSFIV AE 2012 Singles begins
3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Ladies only SSFIV: AE 2012 Singles
5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. UMVC3 Singles

Entry Fee:
All tournaments carry a $10.00 pot entry fee
Femme Fatales participants will receive a FREE GIFT with entry

Venue Fee: $5.00 (applies to both tournament participants & spectators)

Bring your own controllers/sticks/pads/gizmos.

Directors:
Hideyuki Henderson
Emily Chow
TBD

More details and updates to be provided as the date draws near.

Related Links:
Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/106602986124530/
SRK Tournament Thread: http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/jan-21st-2012-yrsf-presents-the-double-barrel-rise-of-the-underdogs-redux-chivalry-is-dead.149754/

*Bonus*
Starting Wednesday December 7th at both Heroes World in Markham and A & C World in Toronto, Ladies get in free during Wednesday night casual sessions.

Don’t be shy! We’d like to encourage everyone to come out and participate. There will be no shortage of players available willing to help out and show you the ropes, how to improve on fundamentals, and get you prepared for the tournament itself.

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As pretty much one of the few female competitors who show up to fighting game events, I’m a big advocate for building up Toronto’s community of female gamers. If you have any questions about this event, please message me here, on twitter (@Emlarr), or on Facebook! (Please reblog too!)

Learning at the HQ

So if you noticed I posted a picture of a bunch of us Toronto SF players degenning in what looked to be a wooden box. That my friends is actually TOSFHQ, a new venue we opened up in Toronto last week in order to have a place to play casuals in.
(More information on the venue can be found here: www.tinyurl.com/TOSFHQFB and here: http://shoryuken.com/f248/team-stc-presents-tosf-hq-its-here-toronto-256046/)

Even though I am one of the keyholders, I don’t go as often as the other guys as I’m rather swamped with school work and other miscellaneous things. I do try to be there at least 2-3 times a week though since that is where I get the most practice.

On Tuesday Stephen (Dark_Dragon) was there and watching me struggle trying to land Rose’s jab, jab, short, cr. strong xx spiral combo. I couldn’t land the cr. strong after the short and I think he could tell I was getting annoyed at myself for consistently failing.

Luckily for me, Stephen is a nice guy wanted to help me out so he asked if I was “plinking”. Now, I’ve heard the term used before but I never knew what it was so he spent 20 minutes with me showing me how to plink, how it works, and why it is useful. Now that I can do it, I still need to practice it in training mode so I can get the combo down 30 times in row! (Juicebox style!)

Too bad my stick is now at TOSFHQ so I can’t practice it at home. I should steal it back this weekend.