The rules are simple...

• All characters allowed.

• Double-Elimination brackets: The losers of each round will have another opportunity to fight for a placing.

• Preliminary stages are played best of 3 rounds for a match, best of 3 matches to win.

• All finals will be best of 3 rounds for a match, best of 5 matches to win.

• Loser can change characters.
• List the results in the comments section and I will update the brackets as necessary.
• Try your best to contend with lag and d/c's. If there are any disputes that cannot be settled, we will try our best to do it here.
  

Which one of these fighters will prove the old axiom today?

Fight!

Time Over

Round 1

• January 7th
• Winners: Column 1
• Losers: Column 1

Round 2

• January 9th
  
• Winners: Column 2
  
• Losers: Columns 2 & 3

Round 3

• January 11th
• Winners: Column 3
• Losers: Columns 4 & 5

Round 4

• January 13th
• Winners: Finals
• Losers: Finals

Round 5

• January 15th
• !Grand Final!
• (Non) Prize-Giving: The Winner basks in the heart-warming knowledge that he is King of the Giantbomb PS3 Street Fighter 4 scene.
  

Honestly I don't know if the GB SF4 community on the ps3 if big enough for this sort of thing. =\

I'd be up for it...I have it for both systems so either way this gets organized, I'm in.

I'll throw another warm body into the mix. Could always use some more practice.

I can run brackets for the PS3 tourney as well if you don't feel like it. I obviously don't own the game on PS3, but if there are enough sign-ups I say go for it. Just make it deadlines for rounds instead of holding the tourney all on the same day. This makes things easier.

 
@Keeng: Likewise. Well, ish. I started playing a lot again recently after some time off. I picked up Gouken, so I'm itching to get some decent matches going with some sort of actual end result rather than just ploughing through Championship constantly.
 
@mubress: Yeah, I took part in the first one early in the year, but failed miserably - the times really didn't work out. If its as succesful as those it would be great. I don't know how January works out for everyo ne else, but whenever is fine for me. 
 
@lordofultima:
Cheers mate, that would be fantastic. Hopefully there are a decent number of people. 
 
I'll edit the first post with the names of those who are up for it. I'll put in mubress' name too, as there is no date decided yet anyway.

I'm in. I was in the first two as well. I haven't been playing the game as much as I used to but I'll try to brush up. 

That's kinda funny, since depending on my busy my personal life's schedule is in Jan, I was totally thinking of doing another tournament myself. Depending how you looked at it, my past tournaments was more like RanBats than a traditional tournament; but that was because I wanted to encourage more play time for everybody so nobody gets peaced out in two matches. Even though I was satisfied with how my past tourneys went, there was always still some nagging issues that always told me it could have been better if I modified the rules some more.  
 
Even if I do decide to do another one, I'll do it in February to not step on anyone's toes. It would be interesting to see another person's vision of an online tournament and perhaps I could learn something from that myself. I'm always down for helping out the scarce PS3 community on GB. Put me down. 

" @StaticFalconar: I enjoyed the league format before, but thought I'd see if we could get an old fashioned tournament set up. Like Loltima said, give deadlines for each round so there is time enough for each match, or something along those lines. It would be better if the PS3 SF4 GB (christ...) community was more vocal around here (if they exist). But yeah, we could try this and, whether its a success or not, I'd be up for anything you want to set up in the future. "

Hope the PS3 tourney runs smoothly.

I'd definitely be interested if another PS3 tourny were to start.

I'm in for any Street Fighter IV tournaments.

Sweet, guys. Even if there isn't enough for a considerable tournament, we could at least get some sort of round-robin esque league. At this rate, though, that shouldn't be a problem. There were some other names in a PSN thread from the other day so hopefully they drop in.

I'll join in as well. PSN is SuperSonicKirby

I'm up for a few matches here is my PSN ID DARKKNIGHT1227

I'm in.  
 
Ravioli_Sumo is my PSN.  
 
5 Rounds please? It'd be nice if people stuck to the same character, but if we don't get that many people it can be casual enough that I won't care if we switch around.

" I'm in.   Ravioli_Sumo is my PSN.   5 Rounds please? It'd be nice if people stuck to the same character, but if we don't get that many people it can be casual enough that I won't care if we switch around. "

We have 13 people now, so if we could just get 3 more we could have a 4-stage tournament (which would be awesome). 

I was thinking:
 
 3 round matches, best of 3 and (to completely rip off the other thread) having the final as 3 rounds, best of 5. 
 
Character switching shouldn't be allowed (I have a bit of a problem with it taking some sense of cohesive play away). If people have a problem with this just say; this isn't a tyranny.
 
Finally, with Christmas around the corner, I'm not sure how the next couple of weeks work out for everyone. I may set the first round deadline to the start of January, that way there isn't a massive rush to get all the fights out of the way over a busy period. Then the following rounds have a deadline of a few days each or slightly longer so the ball starts rolling more quickly at that point. 
 
Just ideas. I know mubress said specifically he wasn't open to playing before January. Would one match suit ok before then? Things to think about. If there's no disagreement I'll update the first post to reflect this.

Cool, just a couple of questions.  
 
Can the loser switch characters? 
Will this be a double elimination style (winner's bracket, loser's bracket) ?  
How will every body be seeded?

I dunno if this is open for me or not. I joined GB after seeing this. Anyway. I'm down if you'll let me. PSN: AlphaRanma

Ok I'll try to play.
 
PSN: AURON570

Awesome! We have 16 entrants now so I'll get started on setting it up and update the first post with the rules/brackets. I'll try and get it done in the next few days (or tonight since my gf is watching the x-factor) then let you all know. Cheers for everyone's input.

"Awesome! We have 16 entrants now so I'll get started on setting it up and update the first post with the rules/brackets. I'll try and get it done in the next few days (or tonight since my gf is watching the x-factor) then let you all know. Cheers for everyone's input. "

All these PS3 players comming out of the woodwork. Didn't know half you guys existed.

I'm interested in playing. Can't play until after the 18th though, then I have 2 weeks off. 
 
PSN : InifiniteState

I just want to put my name in the "allowing character change" hat... We should have some way of preventing counter-picking though...

" I just want to put my name in the "allowing character change" hat... We should have some way of preventing counter-picking though... "

looks like I should get online so I can get used to the inevitable lag all online games have.

" @StaticFalconar: yeah it's kind of getting me down, I'm 100% cool with losing to people, but I hate losing to their laggy connections.  "