Please help expand this list of surviving SoulCalibur 1 tournament videos...
I remember when SC first came to London arcades in 1998 as a beta version, with a few selectable characters, and thus far remains undumped for the MAME arcade emulation project. Performing A+B attacks resulted in the screen turning dark - hence, originally, some significance must have been placed on those types of attacks!
As I know the first Nationals tournament was held in the US in 1998 (won by Srayer using Nightmare) followed closely by a tournament in London also in 1998 (won by a Taiwanese player named Sean/Shawn/Shaun using Mitsurugi). Sadly, none of these were recorded.
The original soulcalibur.com website and forum was run by this amazingly talented dude named Jason Arney who wasn't too dissimilar from Bruce Lee - he avoided fighting in Tournaments - but showcased his skills in a number of skill projects:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817092726/http://www.soulcalibur.com:80/system.html
From Jason Arney in 2014:
"that era was well before the predominance of youtube so it was very hard to make recordings of tournaments"
"i did play many thousands of hours in the US and Japan"
"uh... i was very strong in 1, but there was strong people in japan. as for 2, i trained up the chicago scene because i couldn't enter the official events and chicago won the nationals
i won the first 19 chicago tournaments before retiring from fighting games"
"in the US it wouyld have been me, fetz, srayer
in france DTN, saitoh
in japan, fugu and dekacho"
"yea, i think fugu is the only unknown one to most people"
"i retired from fighting games in the late era of SC2"
"well, i enjoyed FPS competitive for a while, but i rarely touch games now... mostly photography"
The 2 aforementioned Japanese players can be seen in these recently surfaced 1999-2000 Beat-Tribe videos, which were most likely the earliest ones ever recorded - still using the arcade version (with the Voldo airgrab glitch) around the same time the Dreamcast version was released:
http://www.avoidingthepuddle.com/ne...nese-soul-calibur-3on3-tournament-videos.html
Incidentally, there's a nice FAQ that described the changes between SC1 arcade and SC1 Dreamcast:
https://www.gamefaqs.com/dreamcast/198705-soulcalibur/faqs/2725
Who can come up with something similar for SCIII vs. SCIIIAE...?
Anyhow, here's the only other SC1 tourny vids I could find - mostly featuring French players in 2001 and 2002 (I believe HAX might have been from the UK?):
KayaneSF channel
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Fetz(Taki) - YouTube
SC1 Kayane (Xianghua) vs Hax (Cervantes)
wolvied channel
2K2 Soulcalibur 1 DTN(Nightmare) vs Fetz(Taki) 1 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGKvaZ-nCHY
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Taki) 2 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyghgqydf0
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Taki) 4 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0nrW1iCb8
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Taki) 5 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssi0edw83jU
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Yoshimitsu) VS Fetz (Maxi) 7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcg1nbZ0tw
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Maxi) 8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAlLGB4iOtg
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Maxi) 9 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ8o5Nv7WnU
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Maxi) 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txC27029b24
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Kilik) 11
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPX08a6qOiQ
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Kilik) 1 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9NtSMqKPrY
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Kilik) 2 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIr36zQ7Ug
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Kilik) 3 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2de-4LQFA3w
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Kilik) 4 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpBNBQMGP0
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Ivy) VS Fetz (Sophitia) 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTieRbQhYuA
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Taki) 6 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHEI-ewHNt0
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Taki) 7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Wyr_pzGFg
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Taki) 8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=waVuvrnbZq4
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Maxi) 9
www.youtube.com/watch?v=urCnxYJyyog
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Kayane (Xianghua) VS Fetz (Taki) 1 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dca-3TrTP84
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x467cn_sc1-kayane-xian-vs-taki-fetz-p-01_videogames
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Kayane (Xianghua) VS Fetz (Taki) 2 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQADF9cRkc
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x46540_sc1-kayane-xian-vs-taki-fetz-p-02_videogames
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Kayane (Xianghua) VS Fetz (Taki) 3 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Mnp8CsGAU
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x467b9_sc1-kayane-xian-vs-taki-fetz-p-03_videogames
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Kayane (Xianghua) VS Fetz (Taki) 4 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr1mj7RxvYg
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x467d3_sc1-kayane-xian-vs-taki-fetz-p-04_videogames
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Mark (Mitsurugi) VS Fetz (Taki) 1 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAPuQ11Ymg
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Mark (Mitsurugi) VS Fetz (Taki) 2 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RF5wgXQg_4
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Mark (Mitsurugi) VS Fetz (Taki) 3 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1FiFl1UcA8
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Mark (Yoshimitsu) VS Fetz (Maxi) 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGGIE1f2fEM
hayatesama2012 channel
SC1 Fetz at France April 2002 Hayate(Hwang) vs Fetz(Kilik ... 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvCsz6OPAS4
SC1 Fetz at France April 2002 Hayate(Hwang) vs Fetz(Kilik ... 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QI1jGHd1Wo
Soulcalibur 1 Hayate(Hwang) vs Fetz(Kilik) 3 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxb0lcBswJI
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Fetz(Taki)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItfT3T0QxRE
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Hax(Cervantes) - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8JhIy9Xfk
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Fetz(Taki) - MeFeedia
http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/67095759
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Fetz(Taki) - Dinovideo
http://www.dinovideo.org/watch/sc1-kayane-xianghua-vs-fetz-taki
Sc1 Kayane(xianghua) Vs Fetz(taki) watch | download
http://videoixir.net/watch/7659598/sc1-kayanexianghua-vs-fetztaki.html
SC1 Dan(Yoshimitsu) vs John(Cervantes) - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPfz1irWt-k
The following year in 2003, the SCII Nationals was held in Las Vegas and the Super Battle Opera (SBO/Tougeki) featuring Fetz from the US was held in Japan, but it seems that France was actually the first to hold an SCII tournament (as early as 2002) known as the World Cyber Games (WCG) tournament.
I remember when SC first came to London arcades in 1998 as a beta version, with a few selectable characters, and thus far remains undumped for the MAME arcade emulation project. Performing A+B attacks resulted in the screen turning dark - hence, originally, some significance must have been placed on those types of attacks!
As I know the first Nationals tournament was held in the US in 1998 (won by Srayer using Nightmare) followed closely by a tournament in London also in 1998 (won by a Taiwanese player named Sean/Shawn/Shaun using Mitsurugi). Sadly, none of these were recorded.
The original soulcalibur.com website and forum was run by this amazingly talented dude named Jason Arney who wasn't too dissimilar from Bruce Lee - he avoided fighting in Tournaments - but showcased his skills in a number of skill projects:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817092726/http://www.soulcalibur.com:80/system.html
From Jason Arney in 2014:
"that era was well before the predominance of youtube so it was very hard to make recordings of tournaments"
"i did play many thousands of hours in the US and Japan"
"uh... i was very strong in 1, but there was strong people in japan. as for 2, i trained up the chicago scene because i couldn't enter the official events and chicago won the nationals
i won the first 19 chicago tournaments before retiring from fighting games"
"in the US it wouyld have been me, fetz, srayer
in france DTN, saitoh
in japan, fugu and dekacho"
"yea, i think fugu is the only unknown one to most people"
"i retired from fighting games in the late era of SC2"
"well, i enjoyed FPS competitive for a while, but i rarely touch games now... mostly photography"
The 2 aforementioned Japanese players can be seen in these recently surfaced 1999-2000 Beat-Tribe videos, which were most likely the earliest ones ever recorded - still using the arcade version (with the Voldo airgrab glitch) around the same time the Dreamcast version was released:
http://www.avoidingthepuddle.com/ne...nese-soul-calibur-3on3-tournament-videos.html
Incidentally, there's a nice FAQ that described the changes between SC1 arcade and SC1 Dreamcast:
https://www.gamefaqs.com/dreamcast/198705-soulcalibur/faqs/2725
Who can come up with something similar for SCIII vs. SCIIIAE...?
Anyhow, here's the only other SC1 tourny vids I could find - mostly featuring French players in 2001 and 2002 (I believe HAX might have been from the UK?):
KayaneSF channel
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Fetz(Taki) - YouTube
SC1 Kayane (Xianghua) vs Hax (Cervantes)
wolvied channel
2K2 Soulcalibur 1 DTN(Nightmare) vs Fetz(Taki) 1 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGKvaZ-nCHY
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Taki) 2 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyghgqydf0
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Taki) 4 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0nrW1iCb8
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Taki) 5 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssi0edw83jU
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Yoshimitsu) VS Fetz (Maxi) 7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcg1nbZ0tw
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Maxi) 8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAlLGB4iOtg
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Maxi) 9 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ8o5Nv7WnU
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Maxi) 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txC27029b24
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Dtn Dan (Nigthmare) VS Fetz (Kilik) 11
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPX08a6qOiQ
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Kilik) 1 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9NtSMqKPrY
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Kilik) 2 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIr36zQ7Ug
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Kilik) 3 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2de-4LQFA3w
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Kilik) 4 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpBNBQMGP0
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Ivy) VS Fetz (Sophitia) 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTieRbQhYuA
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Taki) 6 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHEI-ewHNt0
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Taki) 7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Wyr_pzGFg
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Taki) 8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=waVuvrnbZq4
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Asenka (Cervantes) VS Fetz (Maxi) 9
www.youtube.com/watch?v=urCnxYJyyog
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Kayane (Xianghua) VS Fetz (Taki) 1 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dca-3TrTP84
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x467cn_sc1-kayane-xian-vs-taki-fetz-p-01_videogames
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Kayane (Xianghua) VS Fetz (Taki) 2 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQADF9cRkc
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x46540_sc1-kayane-xian-vs-taki-fetz-p-02_videogames
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Kayane (Xianghua) VS Fetz (Taki) 3 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Mnp8CsGAU
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x467b9_sc1-kayane-xian-vs-taki-fetz-p-03_videogames
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Kayane (Xianghua) VS Fetz (Taki) 4 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr1mj7RxvYg
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x467d3_sc1-kayane-xian-vs-taki-fetz-p-04_videogames
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Mark (Mitsurugi) VS Fetz (Taki) 1 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAPuQ11Ymg
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Mark (Mitsurugi) VS Fetz (Taki) 2 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RF5wgXQg_4
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Mark (Mitsurugi) VS Fetz (Taki) 3 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1FiFl1UcA8
2K2 Soulcalibur1 Mark (Yoshimitsu) VS Fetz (Maxi) 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGGIE1f2fEM
hayatesama2012 channel
SC1 Fetz at France April 2002 Hayate(Hwang) vs Fetz(Kilik ... 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvCsz6OPAS4
SC1 Fetz at France April 2002 Hayate(Hwang) vs Fetz(Kilik ... 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QI1jGHd1Wo
Soulcalibur 1 Hayate(Hwang) vs Fetz(Kilik) 3 - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxb0lcBswJI
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Fetz(Taki)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItfT3T0QxRE
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Hax(Cervantes) - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8JhIy9Xfk
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Fetz(Taki) - MeFeedia
http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/67095759
SC1 Kayane(Xianghua) vs Fetz(Taki) - Dinovideo
http://www.dinovideo.org/watch/sc1-kayane-xianghua-vs-fetz-taki
Sc1 Kayane(xianghua) Vs Fetz(taki) watch | download
http://videoixir.net/watch/7659598/sc1-kayanexianghua-vs-fetztaki.html
SC1 Dan(Yoshimitsu) vs John(Cervantes) - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPfz1irWt-k
The following year in 2003, the SCII Nationals was held in Las Vegas and the Super Battle Opera (SBO/Tougeki) featuring Fetz from the US was held in Japan, but it seems that France was actually the first to hold an SCII tournament (as early as 2002) known as the World Cyber Games (WCG) tournament.
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