Well, we haven’t had an update for a while, but we are back with a vengence.  I am pleased to announce that we are going to start running ranbats for Street Fighter IV on the Xbox 360.  I personally really excited about this, as I believe this is the first time anything like this has been tried before.  I’ve got my fingers crossed that it goes off without a hitch.  You can visit the forums at www.thegladiatorroom.com/forums for more info.

Here it is folks, our first Street Fighter 4 tournament!  We have had great success with our HD Remix tournaments, so we hope to replicate those successes with Street Fighter 4.  Check out the rules below:

Date: Saturday, March 7th, 2009.

Time: 5 PM EST

Format: Single elimination, best 2/3 rounds, best 2/3 matches, except for finals, which will be best 3/5 rounds, 3/5 matches.  All players will be randomly seeded.  You are allowed to switch characters between matches.

Mode: All matches will be played in player matches, default settings.

Sign-Up: Since we are only allowing 32 players, signups will be first come, first served basis.  As soon as we have our 32 players, sign ups will be closed. To sign up, please visit:

thegladiatorroom.com

and head to the forums there.  You will find a thread in the tournament sign up forum to sign up.

Reporting: If you are signed up, you will report to the chatroom on the website 15 minutes prior to the start of the tournament.  You will post in the chat that you are ready to play. We will start the tournament promptly at 5 PM EST. We will wait until 10 minutes after the start of the tournament for any no shows. Anyone who shows up late or who doesn’t show at all will be disqualified and their opponent given a bye. If you are eliminated, feel free to hang around the chat to find out who wins, set up casuals, whatever.

I will try to answer some questions that come up often.

What about lag? Dropping? Etc?

Here is how lag will be handled. Once you have your opponent and you have exchanged Gamertags, one of the players will host a player match. Make sure you set it to only have two spots and one private. Once the match starts, you have the first round, AND ONLY THE FIRST ROUND, to determine lag. If you have lag, or feel you have lag, you will drop before the first round ends. If you do not do this, the match will count. If you do drop, the other player will host a player match. Same rules will apply. If you still find it unplayable, then you may drop and come back to board, and post in the chat about your problems and I will see about rearranging the bracket. You are only allowed to do this once, so if your second opponent still lags, you will just have to deal with it.

Dropping will not be tolerated. If a connection is lost after the first round has been completed, either the players work it out among themselves, or you may come back to board and post in the chat your grievance. I will be the sole authority on determining the consequences, if any, that will be assessed. Make sure you remember the details of the match, so an accurate assessment can be made. Also know that that Claw (Vega) has been known to cause de-synchs and disconnects. If you or your opponent are using Vega, and you get disconnected, you will start another match, and recreate, as closely as you can, the conditions before the disconnect. If either player has a problem with this, come to the board and post in the chat. as I said,I will be the sole authority on determing how disputes will be handled.

Any other problems that arise shall be brought to the board and will be dealt with then. If you have any questions about these rules, please post before the start of the tourney.

How will I know who I play? Will someone message me?
A bracket will be posted the day before the start of the tournament and will be continually updated throughout the tourney. If for some reason you can’t check it, i.e. you don’t use a router, then tell me in when you sign up and I will make sure you know who your next opponent is.

To sign up, head here:

www.thegladiatorroom.com

Just head to the forums there to sign up.

Good luck and have fun!

The “Who Needs Street Fighter 4 When You Have HD Remix” was a success.  Turn out was somewhat small, but that’s to be expected.  We did have alot of fun in the chat, which worked out well for this tournament.  The winners were:

1st Place – Sweet Poison

2nd Place – ArkofTarus

Congrats to our winners, and you can see the bracket here.

The Gladiator Room is a place where real players play and champions are crowned.  We will be hosting both free and paid tournaments for console games such as Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.  We recently had our first tournament for HD Remix on the Xbox 360.  The tournament was free to enter and offered cash prizes.  The winners of the “Go Big or Go Home” Tournament were:

First Place – iDEAL GAMiNG immortalbmw

Second Place – Real Decoy

Third Place – Mongolorobokop

You can find links to the videos from the tournament on the videos page on the main site.

Once again, welcome to The Gladiator Room.  Feel free to hang around and post in the forums and remember to keep and eye out for our next tournament.