Ultra Combo Finish Tournament

Alright, Faiz here to let you all know about Ultra Combo Finish's first ever tournament.
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Ultra Combo Finish is proud to hold the first UCF Tournament at South Jersey Java in Voorhees, NJ. In light of the Street Fighter 4 Gamestop Tournaments, we've met and chatted with various Street Fighter 4 players locally and decided that one tournament isn't enough to gauge how decent the players are from around here. So we decided that we'd run tournaments to better hone the skills of our fellow south jersey players.

Rules of the tournament.

1) This is an Xbox 360 tournament only. Sorry PS3 peeps. Once I find someone that is willing to lend their PS3 for the cause we should hold some PS3 tourneys too, but this first tournament is only for the Xbox.

This is also a Street Fighter 4 only tournament.

2) Single elimination.

3) The fighter that is the first to win 2 matches of 5 round matches will advance to the next round. Best of 5 rounds, best of 3 matches.

4) Both players are allowed to switch characters in between matches.

5) PLEASE bring your stick or pad or whatever it is that you play with. I don't care if you play with the 360 pad just BRING your equipment.

6) The registration fee is $15 dollars.
You can send us an email if you want to let us know that you're coming, shoot it over at ultracombofinish@gmail.com

This will make it easier for us to have an estimate on how many people are coming so we can regulate our time at the tournament faster.

Let us know if you're bringing other people to play.

7) The registration fee covers your entry AND you get free food. Yes, there is food. We got that in-house catering service for your dietary needs.

8) The registration fee shall be divided so that a portion of that will go to the first place winner and there will also be a consolation prize for the second place winner. Fuck you, third.

9) The meetup begins at 6pm on Saturday, March 21st at South Jersey Java. Directions are here if you need it. Also, just check up on the place on your free time, it's a real cozy place to just chill at.

Registration closes at 6:15pm. So get there early and maybe we can have a few casual games before the tourney begins.

9) Don't be a douchebag. We're playing Street Fighter 4, not a bro game like Gears, no need to delve into dickery. Just have fun, enjoy the day, and get some great fights in.

Alright that seems to be everything that I needed to post. Feel free to post in the comments to all of those that read this.

PS: Oh right, we'll be documenting the tourney so we'll have some promotional video to peddle around and maybe scoop some great players around as well.

Faiz out-

Berlin, NJ Gamestop Round 2 Tournament

And it's Faiz again.

I lost the second round ;_; but it was okei, because he was a great Chun Li player. I'm finally done with that tournament so time to move on to greater and better tournaments.

Anyways, I've documented the day so here are few videos that kinda summed up the day for me.

On the way to Round 2 with my friend Dizzle.


A few words from Blizzy about the tournament AND the tournament that we're doing. Keep reading for it's details.


Anyways, it was a great tourney. People brought their game and those who are moving to round 3 ARE worthy of it. Best of luck for those fighters and this is their video.


Funny thing too, Steven Chang, old school street fighter 2 tourney legend and was ranked 5th in the country, apparently lives down here. LIVES DOWN HERE IN JERSEY. Who knew? Well, he has every Street Fighter game in CABINET form at his house. Goddamn, I was really trying to push him to make his house the Jersey version of Denjin Arcade or something, haha. Speaking of which, he just dropped 14k for a SF4 cabinet. Jesus.

Anyways, this Steven Chang was talking to us kids like we don't know what we're doing....and maybe we don't but we definitely look forward to seeing him in our tournament this March 21st. Will the veteran overrun our tournament or will an unknown rookie step up to the challenge? Only way to find out is to come to our first ever tournament.

Berlin, NJ Gamestop Round 2 Tournament Pregame

Wassup everyone.

Today is the round 2 of the Gamestop Tournament so to all of those competitors, good luck and I hope you guys fight a great fight.

Also, I heard that the Winter Brawl is happening today in Philly as well. I'm quite new to the whole tourney scene around here so to all of those fighting in that too, good luck. I'm sure GVN crew throws a great tourney.

So I'm out, I'll be hitting up Blizzy and he's just gonna prep me up for the round 2.
Hope I win, haha.

In the meantime, enjoy this.




Faiz out-

Berlin, NJ Gamestop Round 1 Tournament

Faiz again, here.

This would seem to be a bit late to put up but since later today the second round of the Gamestop Tournament is happening and I might as well document what's going on in our area. I don't know what happened in other stores so any of you that come across this blog from other parts of Jersey wanna let us know what went down at your Gamestop Tournament, just drop a comment and I'll be sure to add any information on here.

Well, I happened to win our local Gamestop round 1 tourney along with someone else. I really didn't get his name nor does he talk to me on Xbox Live (;_;) but here we are cheesing it.

By the way, click the image to get the full picture, it's cutting me out of the image ;_;

I'm the Asian guy cheesing it like I was Chester.

And there's video but it's not like we had a high def look at the match gameplay. Then again, it was round 1 tourneys, nothing would be too amazing to watch.
Anyways, here are my last 2 matches before I won.




This guy had a decent Gief, but I had experience playing my friend Ant aka Wrestlemania, for a while and it helped me defeat this guy. It was still close, he had me beat 2 round to none and somehow I managed to comeback to win 3 rounds straight. Good matches, I hope he shows up to our tournament.



This dude played as a Ryu and we had a mirror match.
I don't know what it was but I clean sweeped him. I even stepped away from the controller after I threw that Ultra after I SRK'ed him. Oddly enough, this was my final match in my bracket when I had a much more difficult time with Gief. Anyways, it was fun.

Alright guys, time for me to go and any of you that are close to the Berlin Circle where the Gamestop is, stop by at 2pm and watch round 2 of the Gamestop Tournament.
Also, good luck on everyone that is fighting today.

Hope I win, I want another pad, haha.

-Faiz out.

The Cherry Popper Podcast

Wassup everyone, Faiz here.

We made our first STREAMING AUDIO FILE aka podcast to start up some content on this blog.

It's everything from what we want to accomplish with our tournaments and blog to....even current events. Enjoy.

Also, LISTEN TO PART 1 FIRST!

First post ever!

Hey everyone, welcome! We're Ultra Combo Finish, a small east coast group that believes we have some great players here that no one knows about.

With all of the hype surrounding the release of Street Fighter 4, we've heard many great names in competitive SF scene such as Ed Ma or Gootecks, but all of them are in California. Without taking anything from them, we wanted to show that there are some great east coast players that could just as well hold up with the west coast crowd.

This is not meant for an east vs west rivalry; we just want people to know that there are great players here as well, through the promotion of video game tournaments. We don't plan to become the next Evo, but if we can gain some recognition to east coast players, then we've fulfilled our mission.

So please, stay tuned!