Thanks to the generosity of a good friend, we now have a Sony HDR-SR1 to record events and tournaments at 1080i. Mad thanks go out to my friend Dana for the hook up.

Now to get the tournaments rolling again.

PnT will be holding off on the next couple weeks worth of tournaments untill we can figure out a way to better publicize them. The last couple of tourneys after SF4 were low turn out, and we are going to brain storm some ways to better get the word out.

Of course this site’s goal is to be the place to get the word out. We’ll be moving ahead with placing flyers in various high visablity places including the front desk at Play N Trade. Our forums will be open soon too, which will also help.

If you have friends that game, let them know about the site. Word of mouth is a great tool.

There will be a tournament for Guitar Hero World Tour at the Davidson Student Lounge (CSU), Wed. 3/18 between 10am and 5pm. There is a $5 entry fee. The flyer states “Walk in any time”. It does not say which system will be used.

Contact Phil @ (706) 566-3969 for more info.

Next up on the PnT list of tournaments is Capcom vs. SNK 2. System will be PS2.

Tournament starts at 7pm and buy in is $5. Winner takes the pot and gets free entry into the following tournament.

Someone really needs to step up and shut down Jimmy. He has won every tournament he’s played in, in the last 2 months.

Another small turn out, but fun none the less. No one really being serious about the game, we had a good time figuring out what linked in the middle of the matches.

Match 1: Jimmy C. vs Thomas N. | Winner: Jimmy C.

Match 2: Jimmy C. vs Ryan T. | Winner: Jimmy C.

Match 3: Thomas N. vs Ryan T. | Winner: Thomas

Match 4: Thomas N. vs Jimmy C. | Winner: Jimmy C.

No, not with anything contagious.. Resident Evil is by far my favorite game series of all time. I’ve been hooked on it since the day I had to rent a PS1 from Blockbuster to play it. The original PS1 version has a special place in my heart — The live actors, bad voice overs, pre-rendered enviroments, static camera angles. It’s all just pure gold. Granted #4 and now #5 follow a different formula, I can’t help but break out the wallet when Capcom calls.

I’ll be picking up the PS3 collector’s edition on the 13th and the Xbox 360 elite [red] limited edtion bundle soon after. These LE 360 bundles are all Jasper units with the new 65nm cpu/gpu. If you’re looking for a new 360 that won’t RROD on you, this is one to get right now.

Very few companys have managed to part me with money like Capcom has done with Resident Evil. I’ve got a decent collection that I will post up soon.

Oh, and I hope everyone enjoys the new RE theme on the website.

So last night I had a couple friends over to play some Street Fighter 4. Playing with the usual guys is always good fun as it’s more of  a chess game than a spam fest. 

Except last night..

One of the guys, Chris, brought over his PS3 to use as he had some of the alternate costume packs. Everything was going smoothly until I decided to walk between the PS3/TV and joysticks…I trip over the joystick cables and yank the PS3 off the entertainment center. It comes crashing 3 feet down on to an area rug with solid concrete underneath. Pieces fly off everywhere, everyone almost dies from heart attacks, but the PS3 keeps on playing. I didn’t know what was more shocking.. The fact that the PS3 fell to the ground, or, that it was still working.

Truthfully the system is mechanically sound, it’s just cosmetically damaged. I can’t leave a friend hanging like

that so I’m off to replace the unit today. Thank god it wasn’t the impossible to replace backwards compatible 60gb.

Wed. 3/11/09, Play N Trade will be hosting a Pocket Fighter tournament at 7pm.

Game will be the PS1 version, played on a PS2. $5 buy in, winner takes the pot.

Shenanigans are almost guaranteed.

There was a really small turn out tonight. That was expected though, as the PS1 version was played.

Since there were only 3 players, we did the tourney round robin style.

Match 1: Tracy L. vs Travone B. | Winner: Tracy L.

Match 2: TracyL. vs Malik M. | Winner: Tracy L.

Match 3: Travone B. vs Malik M. | Winner: Malik M.

Match 4: Tracy L. vs Malik M. | Winner: Tracy L.

Next week’s tournament is still up in the air.

My apologies. There is no video of the tournament right now. The camera that I used to record the event created semi-corrupt .h264 files that are not tracking properly and can’t be converted to anything usable at the moment. The camera also died after the 6th round 1 match, charged through rounds 2 and 3 and caught the final match. I’ll try and not noob it up next time.

We had 14 players for this tournament. Double the previous number.

The bracket:

(Round 1)

Match 1: Shane F. vs Brian C. | Winner: Shane F.

Match 2: Malik M. vs Marquese J. | Winner:  Marquese J.

Match 3: Jimmy C. vs  Tracy L. | Winner: Jimmy C.

Match 4: Javoris F. vs Taylor S. | Winner: Javoris F.

Match 5: Tramaine T. vs Jeffery F. | Winner: Jeffrey F.

Match 6:  Justin S. vs Jarrod B. | Winner: Jarrod B.

Match 7: Ryan T. vs *Thomas N. | Winner: *Thomas N.

(Round 2)

Match 8: Shane F. vs Marquese J. | Winner: Shane P.

Match 9: Jimmy C. vs Javoris F. | Winner: Jimmy C.

Match 10: Jeffrey F. vs Jarrod B. | Winner: Jeffery F.

(Round 3)

Match 11: Shane F. vs Jimmy C. | Winner: Jimmy C.

Match 12: Jeffery F. vs Thomas N. | Winner: Thomas N.

(Final)

Match 13:  Jimmy C. vs Thomas N. | Winner: Jimmy C.

*Denotes player who got free pass to round 3 due to uneven teams.