Tekken 5 - 2 on 2 Team Tournament
Champion Team - MAD K.O
After hours of intense battling, Team MAD K.O surprised everyone by taking victory at this year's very first PS2 Tekken 5 Tournament held in Oslo. In a 2 on 2 Double Elimination Team Tournament, Team MAD K.O, consisting of members Dead Alchemist and Rising Uppercut (see picture), managed to show amazing playing capabilities by adapting to the opponent's style of play, leading the team to some astonishing comebacks. Many of Norway's most famous Tekken players were present in this Tournament, including the Nordic Tekken 5 Champion JINsama, the Nordic Tekken Tag Tournament Champion Wallace, as well as Atilla Jinov, the Runner Up to the Norwegian Tekken 5 Championships.
To best suit the conditions of a Team Tournament, two arcade monitors were hooked up so each team could concentrate fully on the screen without being distracted by the nearby player. We used a 2 Port VGA Splitter to achieve this.
Some of the players testing the arcade sticks before the tournament started. However, to also cater towards the pad players, people had the opportunity to connect their brought-along pads to available extension chords.
If you look closely at the picture, you'll notice Tekken 4 being displayed on the projector screen. This is footage from the Tekken 5 Skill Edge DVD produced by Enterbrain. The DVD follows the history between the Tekken rivalry of Japan and Korea, and starts by giving information on how it all started when Tekken Tag Tournament was launched in the Arcades in 1999. The polularity rate of the game in Korea even surpassed the Japanese, and the two countries officially met for the first time during the Tekken Tag Tournament World Championships held in San Jose, California later that year. By having top representives from the US, Mexico, Korea and Japan, Korea's Sok Donmin took 1st place followed up by MIC from the US.
This first encounter, later evolved into the two countries meeting yet again to battle it out. This time in Korea, under the 99 Pro Gamer Korea Open, were 3 of the best players from each country engaged in a 3 on 3 Team Tournament. Japan lost the challenge 1-2.
In March 2000, World Champion Sok Donmin and Chan Iksu, with the title Strongest of Korea, were invited to Japan. Their visit lasted for three days and left many scares on the pride of Japanese Tekken gamers. The first day, ends in 30-0 in matches. Second day, out of 50 matches, Sok Donmin only loses twice. On the third, at a former existing Tekken home-arcade hall called Shinjuku Playmax, the Japanese were ready for revenge. Out of 35 challengers, 5 people managed to win. However, during the Tag Battle together with Chan Iksu, out of 33 matches, NOBODY wins a single time. Chan Iksu himself, after spending three days in Tokyo, having played beyond a 100 matches, returns home without having lost a single match.
Later that year, on the 20th of August, 3 of the best Korea Tekken players, including above-mentioned Sok Donmin and Chan Iksu, are invited to Japan to attend the Tekken Tag Tournament Far East Championships. Despite the amount of Japanese spots in the tournament, ALL three top spots are taken by the Koreans, by Pak (Jin & Heihachi), Chan Iksu (Jin & Kazuya) and Sok Donmin (Lei & Heihachi) in that order.
Then, in August 2001, Tekken 4 was released. Emphasizing too much on realism, the game lost the fun and exciting gameplay elements which the series had always offered in the past. This led the game to being boicotted, and many top players, world over, retired from the game.
Though, in November 2004, the long-awaited sequel to the series was finally in operational state in the arcades. The game had returned to many of its hardcore elements, as well as including new features like the Card System and Tekken.Net. This great feature won many new gamers, and a great majority of the retired Tekken experts, once again, returned to the scene.
After this introduction, the DVD introduces the Japanese top player, Tarechichi Ganryuu (Tare). He is followed on a trip to Korea where he challenges three of the current top Korean Tekken 5 players, including Leedy (Kazuya), Holeman (Raven) and NIN (Steve), where NIN being the Tougeki Super Battle Opera 2005 Winner held in Japan in May 2005. Without having the possibility to bring along a set of Japanese sticks, Tare is having difficulties in adapting to the Korean baseball bat-looking counterparts. Although he gets close at winning, he loses 3 straight matches to Leedy, another 3 matches to Holeman, and only manages to win 1 match against NIN.
It is going to be interesting in seeing how the two countries will evolve during the current release of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, an update with two brand new characters.
Participants waiting for their Team Members to arrive. People who showed up without a team member, were put together with other people who also came single-handedly. This has even created new full-time Teams, and we hope to be seeing these same teams during our next Tekken 5 tournament on the 25th of March.
Considering the fact that we had a Double Elimination Tournament, we only had space for 16 teams. Due to as much as 18 teams arrived, we had to play a 4 team qualifiers tournament prior to the start of the main event. The two best teams were then granted their spots.
Many faces who we recognise from the start of the Tekken tournament era.
Our most anticipated match of the day was between Team UTH (JINsama & Wallace) and Team Nightmare (Attila Jinov & Omer Supo). All members from each team are at the top of the skills list within the Norwegian Tekken community. JINsama (Christie) starts the match facing Supo (Wang), and takes the first two rounds quickly. Supo adapts to JINsama's playing style and forces JINsama to initiate the attacks. Supo takes full advantage of this and turns the match around by winning 3-2. Wallace steps in as the last guardan for Team UTH. Again, a very close match, but Wallace is the one staying cool. Atilla (Paul) loses the first round, but takes the second round perfect. Both players suffer from one or two command-miss inputs, and they both take another round each. In the final round, however, Wallace takes advantage of a wall combo opportunity and delivers heavy damage. Atilla fights back, but guesses wrong in a okiseme situation (attacking opportunity while the opponent is on the ground) and is swept of his feet. Wallace takes the match and heads further down the road to victory.
Team Nightmare is, therefore, pushed into the Loser Bracket. In the Winner Bracket Final, Team MAD.KO face Team UTH. By only a fraction left on the life meter, Team UTH is again announced victorious. Team MAD K.O does an amazing job by beating Team Nightmare in the Loser Bracket Final, leading them into having a second chance to battle Team UTH. Having the necessity of winning two matches straight, Team MAD K.O had little hope among the spectators. Though, to everyone's surprise, both team members manage to play EXTREMELY well, guessing correct in many situations, something which led them into the near impossible, beating famous players JINsama and Wallace twice in a row! Again, this created huge excitement among the audience, and one thing is for sure, this win is going to be talked about for a long time to follow! MAD K.O will have to defend their title in two weeks, when they, once again, will face tough competition from Norwegian Tekken players who will do anything to, for once, place top at a big tournament in Norway.
In the middle, you have Team MAD K.O (Dead Alchemist & Rising Uppercut). On the left there, you have Team UTH (JINsama & Wallace). And, in third place, on the right, you have Team Nightmare (Omer Supo & Atilla Jinov)
To make the Team Tournament community more exciting, we will engrave the team names of each winning team on a trophy, so that shop goers and other Tekken fans can get the chance to see which teams have won the most tournaments. We will have some small prizes in our next Tekken 5 Team Tournament on the 25th of March. Although nothing big value wise, the prizes will at least be fun to have, considering they are not attainable on the Norwegian market.
EDIT: 17th of March, 2006
Some really nice prizes will be sponsored by the Norwegian Playstation Dealer, Nordic Film. 1st Place, can expect a nice value item, so make sure you pick a strong set of players for your team.
Thanks to our good friend MadCow, a few of the matches from this tournament can be downloaded from his homepage by accessing the following link:
http://blindern.mine.nu/tekken/spider2/
After hours of intense battling, Team MAD K.O surprised everyone by taking victory at this year's very first PS2 Tekken 5 Tournament held in Oslo. In a 2 on 2 Double Elimination Team Tournament, Team MAD K.O, consisting of members Dead Alchemist and Rising Uppercut (see picture), managed to show amazing playing capabilities by adapting to the opponent's style of play, leading the team to some astonishing comebacks. Many of Norway's most famous Tekken players were present in this Tournament, including the Nordic Tekken 5 Champion JINsama, the Nordic Tekken Tag Tournament Champion Wallace, as well as Atilla Jinov, the Runner Up to the Norwegian Tekken 5 Championships.
To best suit the conditions of a Team Tournament, two arcade monitors were hooked up so each team could concentrate fully on the screen without being distracted by the nearby player. We used a 2 Port VGA Splitter to achieve this.
Some of the players testing the arcade sticks before the tournament started. However, to also cater towards the pad players, people had the opportunity to connect their brought-along pads to available extension chords.
If you look closely at the picture, you'll notice Tekken 4 being displayed on the projector screen. This is footage from the Tekken 5 Skill Edge DVD produced by Enterbrain. The DVD follows the history between the Tekken rivalry of Japan and Korea, and starts by giving information on how it all started when Tekken Tag Tournament was launched in the Arcades in 1999. The polularity rate of the game in Korea even surpassed the Japanese, and the two countries officially met for the first time during the Tekken Tag Tournament World Championships held in San Jose, California later that year. By having top representives from the US, Mexico, Korea and Japan, Korea's Sok Donmin took 1st place followed up by MIC from the US.
This first encounter, later evolved into the two countries meeting yet again to battle it out. This time in Korea, under the 99 Pro Gamer Korea Open, were 3 of the best players from each country engaged in a 3 on 3 Team Tournament. Japan lost the challenge 1-2.
In March 2000, World Champion Sok Donmin and Chan Iksu, with the title Strongest of Korea, were invited to Japan. Their visit lasted for three days and left many scares on the pride of Japanese Tekken gamers. The first day, ends in 30-0 in matches. Second day, out of 50 matches, Sok Donmin only loses twice. On the third, at a former existing Tekken home-arcade hall called Shinjuku Playmax, the Japanese were ready for revenge. Out of 35 challengers, 5 people managed to win. However, during the Tag Battle together with Chan Iksu, out of 33 matches, NOBODY wins a single time. Chan Iksu himself, after spending three days in Tokyo, having played beyond a 100 matches, returns home without having lost a single match.
Later that year, on the 20th of August, 3 of the best Korea Tekken players, including above-mentioned Sok Donmin and Chan Iksu, are invited to Japan to attend the Tekken Tag Tournament Far East Championships. Despite the amount of Japanese spots in the tournament, ALL three top spots are taken by the Koreans, by Pak (Jin & Heihachi), Chan Iksu (Jin & Kazuya) and Sok Donmin (Lei & Heihachi) in that order.
Then, in August 2001, Tekken 4 was released. Emphasizing too much on realism, the game lost the fun and exciting gameplay elements which the series had always offered in the past. This led the game to being boicotted, and many top players, world over, retired from the game.
Though, in November 2004, the long-awaited sequel to the series was finally in operational state in the arcades. The game had returned to many of its hardcore elements, as well as including new features like the Card System and Tekken.Net. This great feature won many new gamers, and a great majority of the retired Tekken experts, once again, returned to the scene.
After this introduction, the DVD introduces the Japanese top player, Tarechichi Ganryuu (Tare). He is followed on a trip to Korea where he challenges three of the current top Korean Tekken 5 players, including Leedy (Kazuya), Holeman (Raven) and NIN (Steve), where NIN being the Tougeki Super Battle Opera 2005 Winner held in Japan in May 2005. Without having the possibility to bring along a set of Japanese sticks, Tare is having difficulties in adapting to the Korean baseball bat-looking counterparts. Although he gets close at winning, he loses 3 straight matches to Leedy, another 3 matches to Holeman, and only manages to win 1 match against NIN.
It is going to be interesting in seeing how the two countries will evolve during the current release of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, an update with two brand new characters.
Participants waiting for their Team Members to arrive. People who showed up without a team member, were put together with other people who also came single-handedly. This has even created new full-time Teams, and we hope to be seeing these same teams during our next Tekken 5 tournament on the 25th of March.
Considering the fact that we had a Double Elimination Tournament, we only had space for 16 teams. Due to as much as 18 teams arrived, we had to play a 4 team qualifiers tournament prior to the start of the main event. The two best teams were then granted their spots.
Many faces who we recognise from the start of the Tekken tournament era.
Our most anticipated match of the day was between Team UTH (JINsama & Wallace) and Team Nightmare (Attila Jinov & Omer Supo). All members from each team are at the top of the skills list within the Norwegian Tekken community. JINsama (Christie) starts the match facing Supo (Wang), and takes the first two rounds quickly. Supo adapts to JINsama's playing style and forces JINsama to initiate the attacks. Supo takes full advantage of this and turns the match around by winning 3-2. Wallace steps in as the last guardan for Team UTH. Again, a very close match, but Wallace is the one staying cool. Atilla (Paul) loses the first round, but takes the second round perfect. Both players suffer from one or two command-miss inputs, and they both take another round each. In the final round, however, Wallace takes advantage of a wall combo opportunity and delivers heavy damage. Atilla fights back, but guesses wrong in a okiseme situation (attacking opportunity while the opponent is on the ground) and is swept of his feet. Wallace takes the match and heads further down the road to victory.
Team Nightmare is, therefore, pushed into the Loser Bracket. In the Winner Bracket Final, Team MAD.KO face Team UTH. By only a fraction left on the life meter, Team UTH is again announced victorious. Team MAD K.O does an amazing job by beating Team Nightmare in the Loser Bracket Final, leading them into having a second chance to battle Team UTH. Having the necessity of winning two matches straight, Team MAD K.O had little hope among the spectators. Though, to everyone's surprise, both team members manage to play EXTREMELY well, guessing correct in many situations, something which led them into the near impossible, beating famous players JINsama and Wallace twice in a row! Again, this created huge excitement among the audience, and one thing is for sure, this win is going to be talked about for a long time to follow! MAD K.O will have to defend their title in two weeks, when they, once again, will face tough competition from Norwegian Tekken players who will do anything to, for once, place top at a big tournament in Norway.
In the middle, you have Team MAD K.O (Dead Alchemist & Rising Uppercut). On the left there, you have Team UTH (JINsama & Wallace). And, in third place, on the right, you have Team Nightmare (Omer Supo & Atilla Jinov)
To make the Team Tournament community more exciting, we will engrave the team names of each winning team on a trophy, so that shop goers and other Tekken fans can get the chance to see which teams have won the most tournaments. We will have some small prizes in our next Tekken 5 Team Tournament on the 25th of March. Although nothing big value wise, the prizes will at least be fun to have, considering they are not attainable on the Norwegian market.
EDIT: 17th of March, 2006
Some really nice prizes will be sponsored by the Norwegian Playstation Dealer, Nordic Film. 1st Place, can expect a nice value item, so make sure you pick a strong set of players for your team.
Thanks to our good friend MadCow, a few of the matches from this tournament can be downloaded from his homepage by accessing the following link:
http://blindern.mine.nu/tekken/spider2/
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