Whether or not you’ve noticed, there are some long-awaited new player rankings up on the forums. I’m sure that you guys have read the rankings, re-read the rankings, taken them to bed with you, and have come to settle in one of four schools of thought:

(a) You figured “Hey, a bunch of good players are at the top, seems pretty reasonable to me”, and went along your way.
(b) You thought “Why are there decimal places here?”, wondered whether this makes any sense, and you’re still sitting here trying to comprehend it.
(c) You noticed the decimal figures, concluded that I was just “spamming numbers”, and went to post on GameFAQs about it.
(d) You groaned and thought “Matt is nerding up the SF4 rankings…I bet there’s a…

My second column is, interestingly enough, inspired by a quick scroll through the forums. One of the first things that popped up in my mind was that the “Player Rankings” forum is…

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Part of this is because our tournaments have been somewhat few and far between in the past year or so. Dating back to November 2007, we’ve had 3 Third Strike tournaments, with one soon to come at FFTF II (and we hope to see all of you there), and even less tournaments for the other games. With some highly-anticipated releases in the near future (Street Fighter 4 and Super Turbo: HD Remix), I expect it to be somewhat of a breath of fresh air; everybody gets to start from scratch with SF4 and I…

Due to the overwhelming number of requests (ie. 1) to see my writing at work on the front page, I’ve decided to put together my inaugural post. Not really sure what direction I’m going to take this column/blog/blogumn in; I could rant, I could review more movies, I might make up reader e-mails and answer them, post tips/etc for like the one game that I’m good at; I think when all is said and done, I’ll probably end up exploring the studio space with this blogumn.

But for now, as somebody who follows baseball for about one month of the year (with moderate followings in the months prior), I’d like to say congratulations to the Tampa Bay Rays for sucking so bad so consistently that they made it to…