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STREAM

Stream will be at the following site:

http://www.justin.tv/shadowloohq


INFO

This tournament is a part of the EVO tournament season. Along with East Coast Throwdown 3, which will run concurrently, it is the last major in the season. After that, it's only a month's wait until EVO 2011 in Las Vegas, July 29-31.

From the Shadowloo Showdown site:

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: Shadowloo Showdown is back for 2011 and if you think Shadowloo Showdown couldn't get any better, you are very mistaken. Taking place at the CQ Hotel in the heart of Melbourne, Shadowloo Showdown 2011 will play host to the best players from around Australia taking on the best the world has to offer from Japan, Taiwan, United States, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and many more in a fight for cash, prizes, glory, pride and to become heroes of their nation!

Shadowloo Showdown 2011 is a two day fighting game event unlike any seen before in Australia. The world will be watching via LIVE stream as these warriors duke it out in major titles such as; Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (360), Marvel vs Capcom 3 (360), Tekken 6 (PS3), Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Arcade) and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II. Winning is not everything though, many gamers will be there as spectators and to be a part of history in the making. Nothing beats the excitement of watching high level action to the roars of the crowd.

SPONSORS

TEC
BENQ
Mad Catz
Hori
Couch Warriors
Madman Entertainment
Tournament Legacy
The Traveling Circus
GODSGARDEN
NSB
BrokenTier
Focus Attack
Gigabyte
Nick Sticks


GAMES

Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition (singles, 3v3 teams)
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II
Tekken 6


PLAYERS

Tokido
Mago
GamerBee
Mike Ross
Gootecks
ToXY
Humanbomb
Kindevu
Momochi
Choco
Uryo
Itabashi Zangief
Poongko
Makoto
MOV
Deshiken
RF
Haitani
Umezono
Xian
GameOutttt

I'm not entirely sure what caused the change in plans, but Team Hori will not be present unfortunately. MarkMan of Mad Catz will be in attendance however.

Mad Catz will be announcing another player to add to the roster at the event.


SCHEDULE

*All times are UTC +10. For reference, this is 14 hours ahead of the US East Coast, 9 hours ahead of London, and 1 hour ahead of Japan.

SATURDAY

9:00AM Doors open to the public for registration, warm ups, etc
10:30AM Pools will be completed and posted up near registration desk. Please check which pools you are in.
11:00AM Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Singles Pool A Starts.
11:30AM Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Pool A Starts.
12:00PM Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Singles Pool B Starts.
12:30PM BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II Pool A Starts.
1:00PM Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Singles Pool C Starts.
1:30PM BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II Pool B Starts. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Pool B Starts.
2:00PM Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Singles Pool D Starts.
3:00PM Press Time - An hour for players to talk to press, do interviews, etc.
4:00PM Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Pool A Starts.
4:15PM Tekken 6 - Pool A Starts.
5:00PM Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Pool B Starts.
5:15PM Tekken 6 - Pool B Starts.
6:00PM Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Pool C Starts.
7:00PM Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Pool D Starts.
8:00PM [Finals] BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II - Top 8
9:00PM [Finals] Tekken 6 - Top 8
10:00PM Exhibitions, Money Matches, Casuals, etc
12:00AM Closing time for day one.

SUNDAY

9:00AM Doors open to the public for registration, warm ups, team sign-ups, etc
10:30AM Pools will be organized and posted up near registration desk. Please check which pools you are in.
11:00AM Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition TEAMS - Pool A Starts.
12:30PM Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition TEAMS - Pool B Starts.
1:00PM [Finals] Street Fighter III - 3rd Strike - Top 8
2:00PM Exhibitions: Melbourne vs Sydney [SSFIV:AE], Melbourne vs Queensland [MvC3], Australia vs The World [SSFIV:AE / MvC3]
4:00PM Press Time - An hour for players to talk to press, do interviews, etc.
5:00PM [Finals] Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition TEAMS - Top 8.
6:00PM [Finals] Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition SINGLES - Top 16.
7:30PM [Finals] Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Top 16.
9:00PM Presentations, Exhibitions, Money matches, Casuals, etc.
10:00PM Closing time, end of another Shadowloo Showdown!

 

[Mr Touchdown]

WOO! THREAD!

I am so hyped to try my best at Marvel 3! This shit is gonna be awesome!

I have a twitter if people want to follow my adventures:

http://twitter.com/#!/djjfill

I've entered the tourney as Mr. Touchdown. (of course lol)

Hope everyone enjoys watching Australia get bodied by the world. I'll do my best to not let that happen, but man Australia looks free in some aspects of these games.

 

[Conceited]

The lack of Bon (PlayerJun) makes me want to cry, but I'm still excited nonetheless.

Insert every FGC meme here.

 

[toastyToast]

Roster took a hit from that volcanic ash. Shame.

Ca'arn Oztraylia

Spoiler

can't go even though it's about 15 minutes away

 

[Busaiku]

I thought Daigo was gonna be at this.
What happened?

 

[USD]

Remember, this one's on eastern Australia time, so it actually starts up some 24 hours or so. For most people in the Western Hemisphere (and parts of the East), if you want to stream monster the whole thing, you'll have to pull an all-nighter.

I thought Daigo was gonna be at this.
What happened?

I've never heard confirmation that he'd be there.

 

[Solune]

Get Fucking Hyped. If there was ever a better time to use Great Tournament, Great Experience, it's gonna be this one.

 

[Mr Touchdown]

My hype levels are Le-Le-Le-MAXIMUM!

It has been a while since their last trailer, would be nice to get a final confirmation of who is actually attending.

Also, apparently there was an impropmtu pre-tournament AE tournament and Mike Ross got 5th, Itabashi told him he was on Akimo's level. He said to hold dat.

I am salty that I missed this :<

 

[Kadey]

I got confirmation from the man himself. No Daigo.

But two of Team MadCatz's member will be there. One you already know and the other, you'll have to wait and see.

 

[Conceited]

It has been a while since their last trailer, would be nice to get a final confirmation of who is actually attending.

Also, apparently there was an impropmtu pre-tournament AE tournament and Mike Ross got 5th, Itabashi told him he was on Akimo's level. He said to hold dat.

 

[USD]

It has been a while since their last trailer, would be nice to get a final confirmation of who is actually attending.

Also, apparently there was an impropmtu pre-tournament AE tournament and Mike Ross got 5th, Itabashi told him he was on Akimo's level. He said to hold dat.

Yeah, I wish we got to watch that. I'm not sure whether the Friday exhibition/money matches will be streamed either.

I won't even be able to watch that much of Shadowloo Showdown live myself anyway, that Australian time is a killer. I guess I'll just concentrate on ECT3 then watch the SS archive later.

 

[USD]

Just a heads-up, Shadowloo Showdown is only hours away. Doors open in about 3 hours, while the first pool is scheduled to start in 5. Not entirely sure when the stream will be up, but most likely some time in between the two.

Also MarkMan has been posting various pics and updates from his Twitter, so check it out:

http://twitter.com/MarkMan23

 

[Brobzoid]

lets get excite!

 

[Imm0rt4l]

I wonder who Madcatz is signing.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I wish TSRAI could have made it.

Tournament would be 100x more salty

 

[crimzonflame]

lol MK is banned

 

[black_vegeta]

I wonder who Madcatz is signing.

I thinking either Momochi or Uryo. More likely Momo

 

[USD]

oops

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

I wonder who Madcatz is signing.

Mike n Gootz

 

[gillty]

Mike n Gootz

already signed to compLexity

 

[USD]

Ah, beaten.

 

[USD]

Looking at Choco's Twitter, RF, Haitani and Umezono (3rd Strike Chun player) will also be at the tourney.

The partial results from the pre-SS AE tourney from yesterday (match winner in bold):

Winner's
Momochi vs. Tokido
Momochi vs. Poongko

Loser's
Mike Ross vs. Itabashi Zangief
GamerBee vs. Xian (Singaporean player)
Tokido vs. Mike Ross
Kindevu vs. GamerBee
Tokido vs. GamerBee
Poongko vs. Tokido

Grand Finals
Momochi vs. Tokido

1st: Momochi
2nd: Tokido
3rd: Poongko
4th: GamerBee
5th: Mike Ross, Kindevu
7th: Itabashi Zangief, Xian

 

[entremet]

Are you doing the ECT thread too, USD?

 

[Solune]

Are you doing the ECT thread too, USD?

He has a while ago.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=435139

And damn Momochi putting people to work. Do we have any idea who he was using?

 

[USD]

Momochi was using Yun.

 

[iAmMaximus]

Super hyped to watch this! Great weekend to be a stream monster.

 

[MarkMan]

I wonder who Madcatz is signing.

I wonder too!

I'm here at the event venue, I'll be taking photos/tweeting the whole time.

I'll jump on the stream and say hi when it's up!

 

[USD]

Assuming it's a player at the event, and crossing off players that are already sponsored, I'd guess Momochi. Who knows.

Also, Momochi is a ninja.

 

[Diablohead]

no MK9? I am a sad panda

 

[USD]

no MK9? I am a sad panda

Mortal Kombat is banned in Australia, so naturally no tournament for it.

 

[Diablohead]

Mortal Kombat is banned in Australia, so naturally no tournament for it.

oh snap I forgot about that, ah well SF4 for me.

 

[Hex]

Will be awesome if it is Momochi, but god damn what a line up that will be.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Can't expect it to be anybody else but Momochi. He and Choco even gave Markman a Uniqlo gift

Preview of Shadowloo Showdown grand finals: Tokido vs. Momochi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2wc0NaKjyc

 

[MarkMan]

That was really nice of them. ^.^

 

[KidA Seven]

Will be awesome if it is Momochi, but god damn what a line up that will be.

If it was Momochi, Mago, and Daigo? God damn, game over.


Rest of gaming teams, are you even trying?

 

[Skilotonn]

I guess it'll still be a while before this starts, and it's already crazy-late in my timezone...

 

[Brobzoid]

do I have time to watch a movie before this starts? 90~ish min?

 

[pieatorium]

It's 11 o'clock ya Melbourne hobos start your shit already

 

[Brobzoid]

3am ova here, you weakling

 

[pieatorium]

11 am im in Aus, stream is up now btw hit f5 gogo

 

[Skilotonn]

Finally on.

 

[Lazy vs Crazy]

It's on. The commentators seem confused.

 

[USD]

Expecting a 256-man bracket, sizable tourney.

 

[Conceited]

dat aussie internet

 

[Diablohead]

Markman on stream

 

[Brobzoid]

Singapore on blast

 

[GhostRidah]

And here we goooooo

 

[Brobzoid]

new rule: dubstep for all fighting game trailers. :|

 

[Arozay]

Markman better come back to commentate!

 

[Buzzati]

ggs