If you haven’t heard, West Coast Warzone 3 was definitely the way to start off your new year and the road to EVO2011. We would like to thank everyone involved in making Warzone a success and all the players and fans who came out to support the event.
Special thanks to iplaywinner for providing an amazing stream.

Without further adieu, here are the results for West Coast Warzone 3:

Super Street Fighter 4 Singles:
1st. EG. Ricky Ortiz [Rufus]
2nd. 801 Strider [Abel]
3rd. BLG Juicebox [Abel]
4th. BLG Filipino Champ [Dhalsim]
5th. EG. Marn [Dudley/C.Viper]
5th. Keno [Boxer]
7th. Ed Ma [Juri/Akuma]
7th. XSK Samurai [Ryu]
9th. Alex Valle [Ryu]
9th. Air [Ryu]
9th. Mike Ross [Honda]
9th. Latif [C.Viper]
12th. ClakeyD [Ibuki]
12th. Combofiend [Guy/Abel]
12th. FlashMetroid [C.Viper]
12th. MashdatDP [Dictator]

Super Street Fighter 4 Teams:
1st. R. Kaiai: Valle/KMada/Bryant
2nd. The 3 Studketeers: Ross/ComboFiend/Clakey D
3rd. Team Keno: Kai/Keno/VicDaSlick

Marvel vs Capcom 2:
1. Justin Wong
2. Mr. Pasadena
3. Mike Chaos

Marvel vs Capcom 2 Low Tier:
1. Justin Wong
2. Ruben
3. Combofiend

Super Street Fighter 2: HD-Remix
1. Snake Eyez
2. Hugo101
3. Alex Valle

UMK3:
1st. Online Tony
2nd. McNasty
3rd. Mr. Pasadena

MK vs DC:
1st. Tom Brady
2nd. Shoryuken
3rd. Krayzie Bone

Neo vs Clockw0rk High Stakes Grudge Match
Neo wins 15-12

We hope you join us again January/February 2012 for West Coast Warzone 4!

We’re here at finals day of West Coast Warzone 3. We’ve switched our stream over to ustream. You can get with iplaywinner for the stream at:

http://www.ustream.com/channel/iplaywinner

Today’s Agenda:

2:30pm – AfroCole’s New 5v5 League
4:00pm – HD-Remix Finals
5:00pm – Neo vs Clockw0rk High Stakes Match
6:00pm – Super Street Fighter IV Finals

Thanks for staying with us!

Stream: http://www.justin.tv/iplaywinner

For those in attendance:
The parking lot attached to the hotel is a separate entity and will charge $13 a day for parking. The Block has plenty of free parking in case you don’t want to swing that. Just move your car in the mornings.
Afterhours wristbands will be distributed throughout all of Saturday. Just come to the main desk with a copy of your room booking receipt. We will match it up with our list and get you your bands.

As the glory days of Marvel vs Capcom 2 come to its end, one final high stakes grudge match will be taking place at West Coast Warzone 3!

The Prodigy Neo – Undefeated in high stake matches, Neo is looking to go 8-0 in what is his self proclaimed, final Marvel vs Capcom 2 match. Neo is coming hot off of a win from Regency Black Juan and will put his skills to the test against a player who masterfully designed not just a trap team, but the trap team.

Clockw0rk – Inventor behind team Clockw0rk, Clock has the absolute best ninja (read Strider) in the business. Players around the globe have attempted to capture his ninja/Doom/Sentinel play but all have found themselves lacking when compared to the creator.

These two titans come together to clash at the premier fighting games tournament in California: West Coast Warzone!

Streamed by iplaywinner, be sure to glue yourself to a computer screen at 5pm! That is of course, if you’re not there in person to watch The Final Chapter in Marvel high stakes!

California’s premier fighting game tournament partners with the world’s premier open fighting game tournament to usher a tournament season for players from around the world to earn points towards being seeded at EVO2011!

From Shoryuken.com -
Starting in early January, EVO is partnering with the top grass-roots tournament organizers to form a regular season of fighting games. Our 2011 season will run from January through July, culminating in the EVO World Finals July 29-31 at the Rio Hotel and Resort, Las Vegas. At each stop of the tournament season, players will earn ranking points that will directly determine their seed in the tournament brackets at the EVO World Finals. With literally thousands of players attending the finals, you’re going to want to secure that seed if you want to advance far in the brackets.

Ranking Point Formula
Here is how ranking points will be distributed. As you can see below, we are awarding points for all the top players in the tournament, not just first through third. This means that over the course of the season we will be able to seed potentially hundreds of players!

For 2011 we will award ranking points for Super Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournaments.

Tournament Finish | Points Awarded
1st place | 64 pts
2nd place | 32 pts
3rd place | 16 pts
4th place | 8 pts
5th place | 4pts
5th place | 4pts
7th place | 2pts
7th place | 2pts
9th – 16th place* | 1 pt

*points are only awarded for 9th – 16th place when the tournament has over 128 players participating.
Note – Warzone already has more than 128 in preregistration so know that you will be getting points. =]

With even more glory to be won at West Coast Warzone, the event is sure to be the best way to start off your 2011 fighting game career. We’ll see you in less than a week!

West Coast Warzone has always been a soul powered event. By the fans, for the fans always rings true at California’s premier fighting game tournament. The fans have asked and we have come to an agreement to provide Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe at West Coast Warzone 3! To make sure that all of our players have an equallly epic tournament experience, adding these games required us to create space and time. To create this space, we unfortunately have to drop Street Fighter III: Third Strike from our line up. While we love Third Strike at Warzone, it was hard to justify hosting a game with such few entrants. Perhaps with a revival of Third Strike, the game can make an appearance at Warzone again in the future.

To welcome the addition of Mortal Kombat, West Coast Warzone is running a special discounted rate until December 19th, 2010 providing the early registration price of $20. This price will go back up to $30 after the 19th so don’t delay and sign up today!

There are still rooms available at the Doubletree Orange and we have extended our offer of double entries into Warzone Afterhours when booking a room. Warzone Afterhours will complete your tournament experience and provide you with countless hours of pure fighting game bliss.

We have even bigger news coming soon so stay tuned!

Marvel vs Capcom 2 is known for its high tier characters such as Magneto, Storm, and Sentinel. However, few know the joy of experiencing a Marvel 2 low tier tournament. In a low tier tournament, you will see more of the 56 cast member strong game and strategies and combos you may have never seen before! The Marvel low tier tournament is Warzone’s tip of the hat to a game that has provided countless hours of entertainment for over a decade.

Brush up your Omega Red, sharpen those Wolverine claws, become a member of S.T.A.R.S. and get ready for major Marvel vs Capcom 2 action the way only West Coast Warzone can bring!

Warzone Afterhours is an exclusive program for guests and players who are looking for more than just a tournament. Afterhours will bring you a centralized location to play casuals, watch high profile matches, and kick back So Cal style with your friends.

Information on how to access the Afterhours program can be found in the Afterhours page, linked at the top of the site.

Afterhours will take West Coast Warzone from a fighting game tournament to an epic fighting game community experience. Make sure you read up on how to get to Afterhours!

iPlaywinner is a leader in fighting game coverage and produces world class live streams for fighting game events. From producing the universally praised NorCal Regional stream to hosting their own tournament streams, iPlaywinner is sure to deliver an epic tournament experience to fans across the globe.

We are very excited to be working with iPlaywinner in the next chapter of California’s premier fighting game tournament. Stream address and additional information to come.