Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Richmond Review · Page 27
> Vancouver Street Battle 4 at ESpot Arcades and Billiard
Gamers meet face to face
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aking the anti-social out of videogames and putting in heated competition full of face-to-face trash talking, Vancouver Street Battle 4 brought players from all over B.C. together last Saturday. Close to 90 gamers from as far away as Victoria and Squamish came out to ESpot Arcades and Billiards on Alderbridge Around Town Way to battle each Amanda Oye other in rounds of Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition for Xbox 360, a game that is gaining notoriety all over the world. “This game is really competitive,” said Justin Law, one of the event organizers. Richmond’s Kenny Lam, who also helped organize the event, won in both the singles category, which had a double elimination set up, and the team category. Law and Jeff Wu were also on the winning team. “You just have to be mentally very strong,” said Law. “It’s like a chess game,” he said. A few of Saturday’s contestants, including Lam, had recently competed in Las Vegas at the Evo Championship Series, a major tournament that brings Super Street Fighter and other players from all over the world together. Law and Lam hope to turn Vancouver Street Battle into a qualifying tournament for Evo. Their next tournament is planned for Sept 17.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Eric Lam and Harry Law; Mike Feldman, Carlos Yu, Justin Chua, Bunsen Fan and Johnny Vo; Kenny Lam, known as “Air” and Justin Law, the organizers; Danny Craig, Jon Loubert, Michael Miller, Joe Groulx and Dylbur Younger, who all came down together from Victoria for the competition; Wilson Lo, an EVO contestant known as “meatonacone” in the gaming world; Kyle Nelson; Gabriel Vaillancourt (centre photo). Amanda Oye photos
Amanda Oye covers the social scene for The Review. Reach her at amanda.oye@telus.net. Around Town appears every Wednesday in The Richmond Review.
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