{"id":542,"date":"2017-06-10T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/rage-volume-4-grand-finals\/"},"modified":"2017-06-10T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T14:42:09","slug":"rage-volume-4-grand-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/rage-volume-4-grand-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"RAGE Volume 4 grand finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend (July 10th, 2017) was the RAGE e-sports Street Fighter V grand finals.  I didn&#8217;t have a chance to go, but am watching it afterwards on <a href=\"http:\/\/openrec.tv\/\">openrec.tv<\/a>.  I thought I would keep some notes as I watch the archived video.  You can sign up for a free openrec.tv account easily enough, and a free account is able to watch archived videos once (seems strange that they only let you watch once, but that is enough for me.)<\/p>\n<p>When I checked out the live stream, they had an English and a Japanese version, but I&#8217;m watching the Japanese version just for fun.  Check the videos portion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openrec.tv\/user\/rage-esports\">the rage-esports<\/a> account if you want to watch too.<\/p>\n<p>They said this tournament (which has spanned a few weekends already) has the highest payout of all domestic Japanese tournaments.  If you assume 100yen to the dollar (close enough, but it is actually a bit more) then they are paying out over the top 8 finishers, $20,000 for 1st (plus a Tag Heuer watch),  $5000 for 2nd, $1500 for 3rd and 4th, and $500 for 5th through 8th.  <\/p>\n<p>By the way, in Japan none of the local weeklies have any sort of payout, since it would be viewed as gambling here and runs afoul of some laws.  <\/p>\n<p>I really like the production values here &#8211; very nice produced interviews before the matchups where they talk about their character, what they are doing, and a bit about their opponent.  I didn&#8217;t know much about Ponzaman or Mishie so that was cool to see. <\/p>\n<p>In Momochi&#8217;s introduction I love how he explained that he wants to be the strongest in Japan, and since Daigo uses Ryu and he wants to beat him, he thought using Ryu&#8217;s rival Ken would be a good idea.  And he thinks Ken looks cool.   <\/p>\n<p>Overall results, for those who are curious:<\/p>\n<p>1. GRPT|Fuudo (R. Mika)<br \/>\n2. AW|Nemo (Urien)<br \/>\n3. GRPT|Haitani (Necalli)<br \/>\n4. DNG|Itabashi Zangief (Zangief)<br \/>\n5. Kichipa-mu (Zangief)<br \/>\n5. Mishie (Laura)<br \/>\n7. FOX|Momochi (Ken)<br \/>\n7. Ponzaman (Rashid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend (July 10th, 2017) was the RAGE e-sports Street Fighter V grand finals. I didn&#8217;t have a chance to go, but am watching it afterwards on openrec.tv. I thought I would keep some notes as I watch the archived video. You can sign up for a free openrec.tv account easily enough, and a free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}