Thursday Night Throwdown 4/29: Super Street Fighter IV

This Thursday will mark the pilot episode of THURSDAY NIGHT THROWDOWN, Giant Bomb's new live, weekly community feature. The basic idea here is to give you, the Giant Bomb community, a regular opportunity to interact with the Giant Bomb staff, with the hottest new online multiplayer games serving as the conduit. But you don't have to play to be a part of the Thursday Night Throwdown, as we'll also be offering a live video stream of the event and a chat room where we'll be taking questions from the folks at home.

For our inaugural episode, the game of choice will be SUPER STREET FIGHTER IV, which just hit the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 earlier this week. For the sake of system equality, we'll be switching between the two versions. If you already know you want a shot at the title, Jack, here are the gamertags to look out for:

Xbox 360: GBTNT
PlayStation 3: GBTNT

Please note that you shouldn't send a friend request if you don't want to play Super Street Fighter IV specifically. We'll be clearing out the friends lists on these accounts on the regular. So be here at 4PM PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (GMT -07:00) this THURSDAY, APRIL 29TH, 2010 for our first... THURSDAY NIGHT THROWDOWN! 
 
UPDATE: This week's live stream has ended! Thanks to everyone who showed up, and if you missed it, you can watch an archived version of today's fights in the window below. 
 
  

OMG HYPE

Dammit!

Yay.

Need to tune in for this.

OH?!

SC2 NEXT  >.<

Damn I don't have Super Street Fighter 4 yet.  I'm not getting it until next week :(

I wish I had Super Street Fighter 4 so bad right now. Being broke sucksssss.

THIS WILL BE AWESOME

GET HYPE BABY! I so hope I will be able to play and it won't be stupid laggy. I'm really hoping I at least get a 3 bar connection.

Sweet.

Awesome!

Thursday Night Throwdown is a nice name for the feature :D

Hopefully I'll get SSFIV tomorrow!!

I really hope you guys do this every week, I am not overly good at fighting games but would be up for some L4D2, Bad Co 2, or MW2. Here is to hoping you guys pick one of those in the future! 
 
Will be tuning in to this for sure though.

GREAT NEW FEATURE
 
this should be great. I'm guessing halo reach next week!

" GET HYPE BABY! I so hope I will be able to play and it won't be stupid laggy. I'm really hoping I at least get a 3 bar connection. "

I HAVE HYPE

This is a great idea. I can't wait to get spanked (LIVE!) by Jeff.

It's not out in europe until friday, though I'll be completely shit when I pick it up anyway. :(

OK, yeah, that's a WAY better name than Bombing Run. I'm not a fighting game player, but I love watching fights, so I'll tune in for sure.
 
For the record, your gamertags. Should people who want to fight you send invites their way, and more importantly, when you switch to other games, are you going to clear off the friends list beforehand to accept new friends/invites for the Throwdown? Just trying to determine what the best method of getting into a future Throwdown event with you will be, and if I should have sent a friend request already in anticipation of the weeks to come.

Aaaand I knew I should have bought it yesterday.

Not gonna be able to play :/ despite getting my hands on SSF I'm  heading to a baseball game tomorrow night 
 
Starts the same time you guys do lol 
 
But, I will be getting drunk, so it's like half the experience. 

Sweet! I'll be on Live playing SSFIV and look'n out for you guys. Will you be accepting friend requests for some closed matches or will you guys just be going random? Keep up the good work!

Shame it's not on friday so us Europeans can get in on the action...

Thats 01:00 CEST, right?

" @Scooper said:

" GET HYPE BABY! I so hope I will be able to play and it won't be stupid laggy. I'm really hoping I at least get a 3 bar connection. "

:( "

Sooo...what does this convert to in swatch time?

so, this is gonna be recorded right? i got class thursday night and cant come, but i want too.

I sent a friend request to GBTNT on Xbox Live.  My gamertag is ForeverFlash.

Rofl! For me the show will start at 1:00 a.m. on Friday. Damn you time...

dame i  got work

I dunno if I'm in for more Super Street Fighter 4. I've already seen a lot of it having watched the first livestream for it. Still though, look forward to future Throwdowns. Will these be uploaded to the site in high quality? Will you be talking to the community and getting their chat in the stream?

When is it on in Swatch internet time?

GENERATE HYPE !

Are friend requests kosher?

GIANT BOMB'S TNT!

I'm not a SF player but this should be entertaining to watch

"Awww, game comes out on Friday over here :( "

" OK, yeah, that's a WAY better name than Bombing Run. I'm not a fighting game player, but I love watching fights, so I'll tune in for sure.  For the record, your gamertags. Should people who want to fight you send invites their way, and more importantly, when you switch to other games, are you going to clear off the friends list beforehand to accept new friends/invites for the Throwdown? Just trying to determine what the best method of getting into a future Throwdown event with you will be, and if I should have sent a friend request already in anticipation of the weeks to come. "

Love the name! Wish I had Super Street Fighter IV and talent