Legendary Soul: E3 2003 Soul Calibur 2 Tournament Footage

[bahn]

While it's still a few days away from a major article in the works, TNL could not hold out on presenting this highlight any longer. For those of you that somehow missed out on the news, our Senior Editor Andrew Alfonoso, aka Reno, aka Soul Calibur legend, aka Your Worst Knightmare (ok, he actually use Astaroth, but work with me here) crushed the competition (and I do use that word loosely) in the E3 Soul Calibur 2 tournament.

Andrew entered the GameCube event and breezed through his matches in a confident and expert fashion. Clearly, his opponents souls were charred, dusted and burned. Ouch.

But don't take my word for it. Enjoy this footage of our fighting extraordinaire in action. Oh, I apologize for the angle, but my stance was compromised beyond my control.

Soul Calibur 2 E3 GameCube Edition Finals

[Ren]

Ooooh, that Reno's SO dreamy! *swoon*

But seriously, nice work. You sure showed them.

[cka]

Bah, host the video yourselves!

/me looks at half his months supply of bandwidth used in past 48 hours and shakes fist

[Captain Vegetable]

Excellent.

[Ryan]

ahh I can't d/l it.. can someone host?

[taloony]

That's way too large for my 56k connection and I.

[Reno]

It's working now... or at least it should be.

[bahn]

Originally posted by cka
Bah, host the video yourselves!

* cka looks at half his months supply of bandwidth used in past 48 hours and shakes fist

[MonsterMash]

The SC2 tourney was one of the highlights of the show for me this year. I play a pretty mean Talim and I was anxious to see how I stacked up against the competition there. I made it to the final four and returned the second day for the finals at the Namco booth. There was a huge crowed there and they were displaying the matches up on a giant screen. I felt really confident going into the finals. As it turns out though I was set to play the best Voldo player in the nation, a guy named Aris. I of course did not know this at the time though. I felt like I played a really good game. I won one round against him is all and it just wasn’t enough. He didn’t dominate me, which is something I was worried about. Afterwards people told me that our fight had been the best one to watch out of the entire tournament. We had some really cool deflections and some really flashy combos. At one point we deflected back and forth about five times and I could here the crowed behind me shouting, it was quite an experience. Congratulations to everyone in the tourney, especially Aris who went on to win the whole thing. I had a great time playing everyone.

That's from Penny Arcade. So, is he (aka Gabe) just incorrect about the winner?

[bahn]

yes he is...seeing as how Reno won the Gamecube tournament event. Aris I believe played the PS2 version and was the winner. There were tournaments on all three platforms. Gabe actually looked pretty shattered about his defeat (you'd have to see the pic which is posted somewhere on Gaming Age), but the context above comes off as showing he was indeed a good sport.